PERCEPTION OF SOUND: "On the Amplitude of Sound-waves" (Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 26 No. 181, pp. 248-249) by Rayleigh, Lord [John William Strutt] - 1877

Dover Publications. 1945. Hardcover. UsedGood. Hardcover; first American edition, which includes Volumes 1 and 1 of the 18 94 2nd edition, revised and enlarged, bound into one volume; with a histori cal introduction by Robert Bruce Lindsay; fading and edge wear to exterior; former owner's reference label taped to spine; stamping inside front cover ; fading to pages; otherwise in good condition with clean text, firm bindin g. ASIN: B001DO9T2C .

1896. 1st Edition. John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh (1842-1919), was an English theoretical and experimental physicist who "made seminal contributions to theoretically defining the resolving power of gratings, prisms, telescopes and microscopes" (Lord Rayleigh: A Scientific Life, The Optical Society, June 2009). He was also head of the Royal Society, winning the 1904 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his investigations of the densities of the most important gases and for his discovery of argon in connection with these studies" (Nobel Prize Committee). In the paper offered here, his 1896 publication on the theory of optical images as applied to microscopes, Rayleigh "discusses extensively the resolution of microscopes. He is the first to deal with illuminated objects as well as with self-luminous objects. He also distinguishes between different phase relationships of the illuminated objects. Lord Rayleigh extends his investigations to different objects (points, lines, gratings) and different… Read More

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Photo Frontispiece. Association copy, presented to Carolyn Grosvenor by Lady Evelyn Rayleigh, Lord Rayleigh's wife, with her signature dated 1931.

London: Taylor & Francis, 1900. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF RAYLEIGH'S FORMULA TO DESCRIBE THE INTENSITY DISTRIBUTION OF BLACKBODY RADIATION. Also included: two papers in which Rutherford 1st described the phenomenon of half-life as well as a 2nd in which he further describes those experiments, one of which provided the first indication that the emanation might be a gas by determining that the emanation could be dispersed by a flow of air. RAYLEIGH "The claim that black-body radiation should conform to the distribution law that has since been variously attributed to Rayleigh and Jeans was not made until 1905. But the main conceptual foundations for that claim can be found in a two-page note published by Rayleigh in the June 1900 issue of the Phil Mag [this paper]" (Kuhn, Black-Body Theory, 144). Here Rayleigh argued "that, at least for long wavelengths, the spectral energy density should rise linearly with temperature for fixed wavelengths" (Brandt, Harvest of the Century, 31). At the end of… Read More

Vanity Fair, Dec 21, 1899. Drawn by FTD. Original chromolithograph. Page size approx. 38 x 26.5cm. Image size approx. 35 x 19cm. Library stamp to verso, image unaffected. With original leaf of biographical text.

London: Longmans, Green, And Co, 1908. Reprint . Hardcover. Good. A Few Illustrations In Text. Xiv, 348 Pp. Green Cloth. "Text-Books Of Science" Series, 1908 Date On Title Page. Good: Light Wear, Points Of Fraying At Tips, Front Spine Edge; Hinges Tight; Gilt Brilliant; Inked Owner's Information Dated 1917

New York: Dover, 1964. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good. 3 volumes, large 8vo, cloth in dust jacket, books about fine, jackets very good with light wear. Collects the papers of the Nobel Winner of 1904, for his discovery of Argon and studies of the densities of gases.

City of Washington: Published by the Smithsonian Institution, 1896. First Printing. Original Cloth. Fine. First separate appearance of this scientific paper reporting discovery of the first inert gas, for which Rayleigh and Ramsay were awarded the Nobel prize. Royal 8vo (322 x 242mm): [4],43,[1]pp, with tables and five text woodcut illustrations. Original forest green publisher's cloth, covers framed in blind, upper cover lettered in gilt, yellow coated end papers. Publisher catalog slip laid-in. Wanting the plain-paper dust jacket. A Fine, bright copy, pristine inside and out. Dibner 50 (for original periodical appearance). Originally published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, in 1895. Both Rayleigh and Ramsay claimed priority for the discovery of argon; they eventually agreed to submit a jointly authored paper. Both later won the Nobel prize (Rayleigh for Physics, Ramsay for Chemistry), and their discovery was a major factor in both awards. "Rayleigh and Ramsay had noted… Read More

Dover Publications, 1964. Very Good-/Very Good-. Hardcover Hardover. Six volumes bound into a three volume set. Cloth bindings with title in silver on spines. Bindings slighty foxed and soiled. Foredge soil.These scientific investigations of Lord Rayleigh brought him the Nobel Prize. Important studies in Gases - Hydronamics-capillarity - thermodynamics and much much more. Illustrated and diagrammed. Nice tight bindings. Matching dust jackets show light edgewear chipping and soil. Price clipped. Chip missing in upper corner of volume I. Small closed tears. Spines sunfaded. Desirable copies in protective mylar. .

London: J. M. Dent & Company. 1907. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. Good in wrappers. Hinge is starting. Tearing to edges. Includes several scarce works: "The Study of Mathematics" by Bertrand Russell, "The Fire" by Max Beerbohm, "How Do We Perceive the Direction of Sound?" by Nobel Prize winner Lord Rayleigh, "Can We Detect Our Drift Through Space" by R. J. Strutt, Part I of "The Note-books of Samuel Butler." ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .