"Relativity and the Aether" AND "Prof. Eddington's Romanes Lectures"

Lodge, Eddington, Raman, Shapley, Richardson, Fleming Bragg, and numerous others in NATURE.

Published by Macmillan & Co., London, 1922

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Oliver Lodge, "Relativity and the Aether", p 486; "Prof. Eddington's Romanes Lectures" (reviewing five titles on relativity); Alfred A. Robb, "Relativity and Physical reality", and many others. In: Nature, London, 1922, volume 110 (July-December 1922). liv, 896, (35pp). Beautifully rebound in a rich half-calf, with raised bands, and decorative spine labels in black and red. Beautiful copy. The binding is new, and the text is fine. [++] Offered is the entire volume, including (but not limited to) the following papers: Oliver Lodge, "Relativity and the Aether", p 486; "Prof. Eddington's Romanes Lectures" (reviewing five titles on relativity); Alfred A. Robb, "Relativity and Physical reality"; "X-Ray Electrons", pp 681-2; "Quantum Mechanics of the Atom" 23; H.T.F. Piaggio, "Summary of the Theory of Relativity", pp 412-434; "The Time-Triangle and Time-Triad in Special Relativity", pp 698-9 Also: S. Brodetsky, "Motorless or Wind Flight", pp 483-5; Eddington, "The Measurement of Intervals", pp 697-8. Sir William Bragg, " The Structure of Organic Materials", p 115; C.V. Raman, "Transparency of Liquids and Colour of the Sea", p. 280. and "Molecular Diffraction of Light", p 503; J. Joly, "Comical Theory and Radioactivity", p. 112. ALSO: Harlow Shapley, "The Galactic System", on pp 545-547 and 578-581. And our old friend (from 1945) H.D. Smyth, "A New Method for Studying Ionizing Potentials", p. 654. And a very interesting and illustrated "Photography of Bullets in Flight", Philip Quayle, p 514-515. [++} Not to be overlooked here are two book reviews of works by the great Lewis Fry Richardson in a paper entitled "Meteorological Theory in Practice", pp 762-4. His work "Weather Prediction by Numerical Process"--reviewed in this article by Napier Shaw was a work for the future, as the sound reasoning and principles of the work were overtaken by the insufficient computing power of the time that was necessary to implement the calculations. Richardson's work would come into its own when the dozens of thousands of human computers necessary for the calculations would be replaced by computing machines. That said the re view of the work is very favorable, and referred to as L's "magnum opus". ALSO: short note on pg 686 by Alexander Fleming on the discovery of an antibacterial protein found in saliva: lysozyme. There are three contributions on wireless communications/telephony by another Fleming (J.A.) also in this volume. Seller Inventory # ABE-1641231963773

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Title: "Relativity and the Aether" AND "Prof. ...

Publisher: Macmillan & Co., London

Publication Date: 1922

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine