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Local Fallout from Nuclear Bombing - What it is and What it Does.
by (N.a).
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os Alomos, N.M: Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory of the University of California, (March 1965). Circa 8 1/2" x 5 1/4", printed stapled wrappers, 16 pp.; illustrated. Former owners rubber-stamped name and Nigeria address on covers and first page of text. Some moderate creasing to covers, else good.. Item Price
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Adventures of a Chemist Collector.
by (GRANT, George). BADER, Alfred.
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London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, (1995). First edition. Octavo, black boards, pp. 288; profusely illustrated. Memoirs of the chemist, art collector, and benefactor to Queen's University and elsewhere. Inscribed by the author to Canadian philosopher, George Grant. Slight foxing to top page edge, else about fine in dust jacket. . Item Price
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Address Delivered Before The British Association Assembled at Belfast.
by TYNDALL, William.
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London: Longmans, Green , and Co., 1874. Seventh Thousand; With Additions. Octavo, original purple cloth, pp. xxxvi, 83; + 44 page publisher's catalogue dated November 1874. New preface (to the seventh thousand) is twenty-eight pages. With Tyndall's initialled presentation inscription to John Amory Lowell, and with Lowell's bookplate. Fading and small stain to covers, lower front corner bumped and frayed,… Read more about this item Item Price
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A Study of the Accuracy of Data from a Set of Gough-Reitzel Magnetic Variometers.
by GEIGER, Hugh Douglas.
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Kingston: Queen's Universirty, 1989. Quarto, library-style cloth, pp. xii, 198; diagrams throughout. A thesis submitted to the Department of Geological Sciences." The study recorded in this thesis is an error analysis of three geomagnetic "events" recoded at the Ottawa Geomagnetic Observatory in May 1984 by 30 Gough-Reitzel three-component variometers. Fine. May require extra postage.. Item Price
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Electric Accumulators. A Practical Guide to their Construction and Management.
by JONES, Bernard E. (Editor); Revisions by A.H. Avery.
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London: Cassell and Company, Ltd., (1922). "New and Revised Edition". Aprroximately 18 cm x 12.5 cm, illustrated wrappers, pp. 152; illustrated with 57 diagrams and renderings. A volume in Cassell's "Work" Handbooks. Cover pictures a dapper 1920's electrician examining a device. Previous owner's name on title page, neat repairs to spine ends, else very good.. Item Price
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Raphael Pumpelly. Gentleman Geologist of the Gilded Age (History of American Science & Technology Series).
by CHAMPLIN, Peggy.
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Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, (1994). First edition. Near fine in dust jacket.. Item Price
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Under Newton's Shadow. Astronomical Practices in the Seventeenth Century
by MURDIN, Lesley.
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Bristol: Adam Hilger Ltd., (1985). First English edition. 24 cm x 16.5 cm, cantaloupe coloured cloth, pp. viii, 152; illustrated. With a brief note in the hand of Arthur E. Covington, distinguished astrophysicist and the originator of solar radio astronomy in Canada. Fine in dust jacket wihich is a bit worn along the top edge of the front panel.. Item Price
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Elementary Particles. A Short History of Some Discoveries in Atomic Physics. (The Vanuxem Lectures - 1959).
by YANG, Chen Ning.
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Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1961. Second printing. 22 cm x 14.5 cm, black cloth stamped in black and silver, pp. [iii], 68, + folding table. The author was co-winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics, 1957. This copy bears the bookplate of Arthur E. Covington, distinguished astrophysicist and the originator of solar radio astronomy in Canada. Previous owner's name on… Read more about this item Item Price
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Our Sun.
by MENZEL, Donald.
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Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1959. Revised edition. 25 cm x 17 cm, black cloth, pp. [v], 350; illustrated. Canadian astrophysicist Arthur E. Covington's copy with his signature and brief notes on the front endpaper. Covington was the pioneer of solar radio astronomy in Canada. Covington has signed his name beneath one diagram, signifying that the research was his work. Near… Read more about this item Item Price
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Myths and Marvels of Astronomy.
by PROCTOR, Richard A.
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London: Chatto & Windus, Piccadilly, 1878. 21.5 cm x 14.5 cm, rebound in red cloth, pp. [vii) 363, + 36 pages of publisher's ads, dated October 1877; one plate and two diagrams in the text. With the bookplate of Canadian astrophysicist Arthur E. Covington, the pioneer of solar radio astronomy in Canada. Two old library stamps, foxing early and late,… Read more about this item Item Price
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Evolution of Sickness & Healing.
by FABREGA, Horacio, Jr.
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Berkeley: University of California Press, (1997). First edition., 1997. Octavo, green boards backed in black cloth, pp. xv, 364. Near fine in dust jacket.. Item Price
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Harrap's Book of Scientific Anecdotes.
by BERRY, Adrian. Editor.
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London: Harrap, (1989). First edition. Octavo, red boards, pp. 239; illustrated. Near fine in dust jacket.. Item Price
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Exploring the Sun. Solar Science Since Galileo (New Series in NASA History)
by HUFBAUER, Karl.
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Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, (1991). First edition. 24 cm x 16.5 cm, beige cloth, pp. xv, 370; illustrated. Canadian astrophysicist Arthur E. Covington's copy with his brief notes on the front endpaper. Covington was the pioneer of solar radio astronomy in Canada. Also with a small sheet of his notes and some paper ephemera laid in. Near fine in… Read more about this item Item Price
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Physics as a Calling. Discipline and Practice in the Konigsberg Seminar for Physics.
by OLESKO, Kathryn M.
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Ithaca: Cornell University Press, (1991). First edition. 8vo., gray cloth, pp. xviii, 488. Olesko reconstructs in fine detail the evolution, across the nineteenth century, of Franz Neumann's physics seminar at Konigsberh University in East Prussia. Fine in dust jacket.. Item Price
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Kapitza, Rutherford, and the Kremlin.
by (KAPITZA, Peter). Badash, Lawrence.
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New Haven: Yale University Press, (1985). First edition. 21.5 cm x 14.5 cm, light brown cloth, pp. xi, 129. Soviet atomic physicist, Pyotr Leonidovick Kapitsa, spent several years in Britain as a valued colleague of Ernest Rutherford. This copy with a typed slip of paper which reads: "On Permanent Loan to the library of Arthur E. Covington". Covington was a… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Bone Museum : Travels in the Lost World of Dinosaurs and Birds.
by GRADY, Wayne.
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(Toronto): Viking, (2000). First edition. 23.5 cm x 16.2 cm, slate grey boards, pp. [ix], 291. Signed by Grady. Science writer Wayne Grady accompanies paleontologist Phil Currie to major dinosaur digs. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.. Item Price
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Metamorphosis : Stages in a Life.
by SUZUKI, David.
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Toronto: Stoddart, (1987). Second printing. 23.5 cm x 16 cm, dark blue boards, pp. [304]; illustrated. Inscribed by Suzuki. Fine in dust jacket.. Item Price
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The Call of the Stars. A Popular Introduction to a Knowledge of the Starry Skies.
by KIPPAX, John R.
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New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1914. First edition. Octavo, red cloth, pp. xviii, 431; with 54 illustrations. Kippax's calling card is paper-clipped to endpaper. Signature of George Wedlake (1856-1922), mayor of the city of Brantford Ontario, Canada. Large chip to margin of one plate not affecting image, previous owner's rubber-stamp on endpaper, hinge paper a bit cracked although hinges are… Read more about this item Item Price
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Peter Kapitsa on Life and Science. Addresses and Essays.
by KAPITSA, Peter. [Peter Kapitza]. Collected, Translated, and Annotated with an Introduction by Albert Parry.
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New York: The Macmillan Company, (1968). First edition. 24 cm x 16 cm, indigo cloth, pp. xxiii, 255. Collected writings by the great Soviet atomic physicist, Pyotr Leonidovick Kapitsa. With the bookplate of Arthur E. Covington, distinguished Canadian astro-physicist, and the originator of radio astronomy in Canada. With a few brief notes in Covington's hand on the front free endpaper.… Read more about this item Item Price
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Queen's Biology. An Academic History of Innocence Lost and Fame Gained, 1858-1965.
by SMALLMAN, B.N.; Good, H.M.; West, A.S.
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Department of Biology, Queen's University at Kingston, (1991). First edition. Octavo, tan boards, pp. xiv, 215; illustrated. Near fine copy; no dust jacket - possibly so issued.. Item Price
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