Cornu Maxwell Ferrell (1 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. CORNU, A.M "Determination of the Velocity of Light and of the Sun s Parallax and James Clerk Maxwell, On the Dynamical Evidence of the Molecular Constitution of Bodies both (plus numerous others) in a bound volume of Nature. CORNU, A.M "Determination of the Velocity of Light and of the Sun s Parallax translated by R. M. (Nature 11 pp. 274-276, 1875) and James Clerk Maxwell, (found under "Clerk-Maxwell" in the index) On the Dynamical Evidence of the Molecular Constitution of Bodies (pp. 357-359, 374-377), both in a bound volume of Nature, London, Macmillan, 1875, volume 11 (1874/5), x, 520pp. In the very attractive and decorated publisher's cloth. The volume is tight and crisp, though there is an old vertical fold that goes all the way through the volume. Also there is an old and mostly faded corporate rubber stamp on the front pastedown as well as a card hold and date-due sticker on the rear endpaper and pastedown. Still a VG copy. [++] Marie Alfred Cornu (1841 1902) improved the Fizeau Foucault apparatus and calculated the speed of light in a vacuum to be 300,400 km. per sec, less than 0.2% high. Maxwell discovered that the specific heat of some gases differs from what is predicted by the equipartition theorem. [++] Also in this volume: an article on an electric lamp (pg 191); four articles on balloons; an article on the Crookes radiometer, p 494; a good review by Jevons on Darwin's 2nd ed of "The Descent of Man" and Galton's "English Men of Science"; Herschel on flames; a four-part bit on "muscular mechanical work done before exhaustion"; female education in science, and much else. Oh yes: William Ferrell "Constant Currents in Air and Sea" (a long letter to the editor on pp. 186-7).