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Published by Nabu Press, 2010
ISBN 10: 1177705524 ISBN 13: 9781177705523
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Published by Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1931., London:, 1931
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Small 8vo. xi, [1], 13-190, [2] pp. Color frontispiece, 82 figures, 1 color plate (p. 149). Original brown blind- and gilt-stamped cloth; rubbed. Bookseller's ticket. Very good. Fourteenth-thousand, enlarged edition. A classic work on the topic of soap-bubbles. / WITH AN AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED from the author, 3 pages, addressed to "Miss Callender" 66 Victoria Street, London, S.W.1, 4th April, [19]34. The first page of the letter is browned. With a hand-drawn figure. Boys writes, "The best mixture for large bubbles is that given in my book. The trouble is that what is called Oleate of Soda may be anything. The only good stuff I have had from Kahlbourn of Berlin which can be got at any chemical dealers. Here again I have found that supplied by them since the war not so good as pre-war. / I have blown very large bubbles successfully but the difficulty is to blow enough air. I have got over this difficulty by making (first experimentally in paper) + then in this plate an injector blower like this. The mouth [see figure] was about 3 inches in diameter and a strip of an old handkerchief was tied round it to form a soft attachment for the bubble . . ." / "Boys conducted public lectures on the properties of soap films, which were gathered into the book Soap Bubbles: Their Colours and the Forces Which Mould Them, a classic of scientific popularization. The first edition of Soap Bubbles appeared in 1890 and the second in 1911; it has remained in print to this day. The book deeply impressed French writer Alfred Jarry, who in 1898 wrote the absurdist novel Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphysician, in which the title character, who was born at the age of 63 and sails in a sieve, is described as a friend of C.V. Boys (see also Pataphysics). The book was also a favorite of American poet Elizabeth Bishop." âÂÂ" Wikip. / Sir Charles Vernon Boys FRS, was a British physicist, was assistant professor of physics, Royal College of Science, South Kensington. He was "known for his careful and innovative experimental work in the fields of thermodynamics and high-speed photography, and as a popular science communicator through his books, inventions, and his public lectures for children.".
4 lettres autographes signées 6 In-8 1892-1900 En-tête du Royal College of Science, à Londres. assez bon Sur la publication d'articles dans la Revue Générale des Sciences, et l'envoi d'épreuves. "The figures are very beautiful reproductions and have been justly admired". De séjour à Paris, il le remercie pour son hospitalité. "You were so kind & so hospitable that you have left us very much in your debt ; we can only hope that we shall have the pleasure at some future time in some small measure repaying your kindness in London". Physicien britannique, membre de la Royal Society, il fit d'importants travaux expérimentaux et calcula la constante gravitationnelle avec une grande précision.