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Herschel, William. On The Quantity and Velocity Of Solar Motion. London, W. Bulmer and Co. From Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 1806. Thin 4to, size approx 220mm x 280mm. Recent brown cloth hardcover with label to front. Pp 32, 6 plates, 2. [pages 205- 237, plates IV-IX as referenced within text]. All pages bright and clean, plates have light foxing. Paper read on February 27, 1806 to the Royal Society estimating the speed of the Suns travel through space.
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On The Quantity and Velocity Of Solar Motion,: From Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London
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A Beginner's Guide to True BASIC to Accompany Exploring Macintosh: Concepts in Visually Oriented Computing
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The Sky and the Forest
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Rouen: Chez Raphael du Petit Val, 1588. Boards. Good. 32mo. [approximately 4.5 (tall) x 3 inches]; pp. 911, [81]; old calf rubbed and lightly worn at tips, recently rebacked in morocco retaining earlier boards; contemporary endpapers spotted and stained; title page with wood engraved device; some text leaves shave at top edge with slight loss of lettering at headers; worming to margins and text with scattered loss of letters, though not entire words, in portions of the text; else generally clean throughout; a good, sound copy overall. Boards. Revised, corrected and enlarged edition. (There were more than one hundred editions of this book in at least six languages to the late eighteenth century.) Illustrated with six woodcuts in the text (from pp. 850-863) showing an alchemist's workshop with various instruments, including the "Balneum Marie" or "Mary's Bath" a type of double boiler used by alchemists. The engraved device at the title page is of interest for the Hermetic legend "Deo Duce" ("God as my…
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A Beginner's Guide to True BASIC to Accompany Exploring Macintosh: Concepts in Visually Oriented Computing
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Lectures on Natural and Experimental Philosophy, Considered in its Present State of Improvement; Describing in a familiar and easy manner the Principal Phenomena of Nature; and showing that they all co-operate in displaying the Goodness, Wisdom, and Power of God by the late George Adams, mathematical instrument maker to His Majesty, &c. [vol. 2, only]
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Philadelphia: William W. Woodward, 1806. Hardcover. Very Good -. This American Edition, printed from the last London edition, edited by William James, mathematical instrument maker, is carefully revised and corrected, by Robert Patterson, Professor of Mathematicks, and Teacher of Natural Philosophy, in the University of Pennsylvania." 508 p., 10 folded leaves of engraved plates; 22 cm. Contemporary full calf with modern tissue joint repair; gilt-tooled decoration on spine. This volume includes lectures on optics, vision, telescopies and miscroscopes, areas of the author's specialization. The 10 plates all illustrate aspects of optics. In Very Good- Condition: lacking original spine label; tissue repair of joints and hinges; faint dampstain along lower edge of a few plates; plate IV has a separation of 2 cm. from upper edge along a fold, and plate X one of 3 cm.; some foxing on plates; otherwise, clean and tight.
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The American Journal of Science and Arts: Conducted by Benjamin Silliman... Vol. X. February 1826
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New-Haven: Printed and Published by S. Converse. Hard Cover. vi, [1], 404 p., 6 plates (4 folding), 1 folding map; 21.5 cm. Errata leaf after p. vi. Four sections: 1, Geology, Minerology, Topography, etc.; 2, Botany; 3, Zoology; 4, Chemistry, Physics, Mechanics, and Miscellaneous. Then follows (pp. 170-400) Intelligence and Miscellanies: Foreign; Domestic. Bound in 3/4 leather by Hope Bindery; shadow of engravied frontispiece on title-page; very good. Stock#OB610.
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Argon, a New Constituent of the Atmosphere.
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Washington D.C.: The Smithsonian Institution, 1896. Hardcover. Excellent. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Large octavo. Original green cloth, titles to upper board gilt, yellow coated endpapers. Corners and tail of spine bumped slightly affecting leaves, else a very fresh copy in excellent condition. First separate edition, first printing of the first publication on the discovery of argon, which led to Nobel Prizes for its co-discoverers. "Few discoveries have been as dramatic as the discovery of argon in the atmosphere by Lord Rayleigh and William Ramsay, professor of chemistry at University College, London. The discovery of argon involved a bitter public dispute concerning the legitimacy of a chemical element whose most important characteristic was its inertness, and which forced the chemists to reassess the very notion of a chemical element." Rayleigh had begun work to determine the densities of atmospheric gases in 1882. In 1892 he uncovered a strange discrepancy between the atomic weight of…
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Caxton and the Art of Printing, with James Watt & the Steam Engine
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Bicentenary of the James Watt Patent for a Separate Condenser for the Steam Engine: Proceedings of a Two Day Symposium, September 1 and 2, 1969
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The Life and Legend of James Watt : Collaboration, Natural Philosophy, and the Improvement of the Steam Engine
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James Watt: Inventor and Engineer Whose Improvements to The Steam Engine Were Fundamental to The Changes Wrought by the Industrial Revolution
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The Treasure Of Sierra Madre
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The Sky and the Forest
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LUNAR IMPACT: A HISTORY OF PROJECT RANGER
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Lucky You, What Science Has Done For Us
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Advanced Materials III, Proceedings of the Special Symposium on Advanced Materials, High Tech Materials, 1991, Nagoya Japan
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