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Language: English
Published by Century Mag, 1890
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Add to basketPamphlet. Condition: Very Good. October, 1890, pp. 858-865, Illus, Extracted from orig vol, begins with title page, trimmed & stapled, thus iit s like a pamphlet, VG.
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Published by The Century Company, NY, 1890
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: VG. 8pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with a drawing of the Nebula in Andromeda, salvaged from a damaged issue of The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume XL, #6, October, 1890. A lecture delivered at the Royal Institution of London on January 25, 1889. Housed in protective mylar…report cover.
Language: English
Published by Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, London, 1879
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Add to basketPaper Covers. Condition: Very Good. Original Edition. Part I, 1879. Extract from Philosophical Transactions, Part I, 1879 with original printed covers. Slight crease down the middle; small faint spot on front cover. 35 pp. Sir George Howard Darwin, FRS (1845 -1912) English astronomer and mathematician, the second son of Charles…Darwin. Studied tidal forces involving the Sun, Moon, and Earth, and formulated the fission theory of Moon formation. Known as the "Father of Geophysics.".
Published by Leipzig, Verlag von B.G. Teubner, 1908
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Add to basketwrappers, 8vo 83 pp. dynamische theorie von S.S. Hough; praktische Anwendungen; Untersuchungen; Flutreibung und spekulative Astronomie; good condition.
Language: English
Published by John Murray, 1911
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. 3rd edition, light browning on inside boards and end pages.
Published by John Murray, 1911
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Add to basketCondition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,850grams, ISBN.
Published by Leipzig, B. G. Teubner, 1908., 1908
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Add to basket83 S. Brauner Halbleinenband der Zeit mit goldgeprägtem Rückentitel, in den die vormalige Broschur komplett eingebunden wurde. Unterer Buchrücken mit Fragmenten eines Rückenschildes; Vorsatz mit Exlibris. Sonst sehr gutes Exemplar des soliden Festeinbandes.
Published by Century Magazine, 1890
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Add to basketMagazine. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Good condition, discoloration due to age, but pages are intact and legible. See photo; This is an article/advertisement only from a vintage journal and is not the full journal ; ; 6 x 9; 7 pages; This is an article/advertisement only from a vintage journal and is not the full journ…al.
Published by John Murray, 1911
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Add to basketCondition: Poor. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. With owner's name inside cover. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,…800grams, ISBN.
Published by Washington, Government Printing Office, 1898
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Very Good. Original wrappers. Provenance: Massachusetts State Library, with two stamps on the front cover. GOOD copy.
Published by Macmillan & Co., London, 1893
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Good. DARWIN, G.H. "Reduction of Tidal Observations", in "Nature, a Weekly Illustrated Journal of Science", vol 47 no. 1217, 23 February 1893, pp 402-3 in the complete weekly issue of pp385-408. This is the full weekly issue extracted from a larger bound volume, offered with the (detached) original wrapper…s and ads. GOOD copy. This comes close to Darwin's work (on Lord Kelvin's work) of an analog tide predictor, but in this case Darwin is dealing with the gathering of data and ways in which good numbers could be collected without using a numbing mountain of inputs.
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Add to basketHardcover. , 52 figs, cloth 0.0.
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1889. London: Published for the Royal Society by Trubner and Co. 4to. Hardcover. 69pp. VG. Tan boards are slightly rubbed; contents clean. (L).
Niels Bohr And The Development Of Physics. Essays Dedicated To Niels Bohr On The Occasion Of His 70Th Birthday
Pauli, Wolfgang, With L. Rosenfeld And V. Weisskopf (Editors); C. Gh. Darwin, Werner Heisenberg, Wolfgang Pauli, L. Rosenfeld, H. B. G. Casimir; F. L. Friedman And Victor Weisskopf; John A. Wheeler; J. Lindhard
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Published by Mcgraw-Hill, New York, 1955
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Vii, 195 Pp. Green Cloth Stamped In Silver. First American Printing, "First Published 1955" On Copyright Page. Near Fine, Slight Foxing On Edges Of Endpapers.
Published by John Murray, London, 1901
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. (Ref.EE3 ) Blue cloth boards with gilt titles to front and spine. Boards a little scuffed, small section of front right edge of board is worn else minimal edgewear. Corners slightly nudged. Greyed top edge. Slightly flecked foredge. Yellowed endpaper and prelims lighlty foxed.…Some occasional foxing to some page edges throughout else contents are generally good and unmarked.
Niels Bohr And The Development Of Physics. Essays Dedicated To Niels Bohr On The Occasion Of His 70Th Birthday
Pauli, Wolfgang, With L. Rosenfeld And V. (Victor) Weisskopf (Editors); C. Gh. Darwin, Werner Heisenberg, Wolfgang Pauli, L. Rosenfeld, H. B. G. Casimir; F. L. Friedman And Victor Weisskopf; John A. Wheeler; J. Lindhard
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Published by Pergamon Press, London, 1955
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Vii, 195 Pp. Green Cloth Stamped In Silver. First Printing, 1955, Stated On Copyright Page; "Published In Great Britain"; Publisher's Label Showing New York/London/ Paris On Title Page. . Very Slight Usage, Lettering Brilliant. In The Gray Card Dust…Jacket With Author, Short Title, And Publisher's Information Printed On Spine Panel, Slight Wear But Lettering Weak.
Published by John Heywood, Manchester, 1890
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Original Cloth. Condition: Good Plus. Third Edition. With choice Victorian illustrations of stretchers, modes of carrying the unconscious, improvised military stretchers, etc. Inscribed by the author on the title-page. Inscribed by the Author.
Published by Leipzig Teubner, 1907
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Add to basket83 S. Ohne Umschl. (Encykl. d. math. Wiss. 6/1/B). Sprache: Deutsch 0 gr.
Published by Royal Society of London, London, 1880
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. x, 419 pp.; iv, 421-1092 pp. 51 plates. 4to. Library binding, tan leather spine with gold embossed titling. Interiors clean, ex-library stamp on title page, and occurring sporadically within. Numerous folding plates that illustrate articles. Pages were trimmed slightly when rebound…. George H. Darwin's (1845-1912) "Resonance Theory" of the origin of the moon, according to which the moon might have originated from the fission of a parent earth as the result of an instability produced by resonant solar tides. Also contains William Huggins's paper on stellar spectrum photography, "On the Photographic Spectra of Stars.".
More imagesMaxwell, "On a Possible Mode of Detecting a Motion of the Solar System through the Luminiferous Ether. In a Letter to Mr. D. P. Todd," DARWIN, "On the Secular Changes in the Elements of the Orbit of a Satellite Revolving About a Tidally Distorted Planet."
MAXWELL, James Clerk; and George Howard Darwin, and others. ++Maxwell and the Michelson-Morley Experiment AND GH Darwin's "Monumental" Paper++
Published by London, Harrison & Sons, 1880
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Fine. MAXWELL, James Clerk. And George Howard Darwin. "On a Possible Mode of Detecting a Motion of the Solar System through the Luminiferous Ether. In a Letter to Mr. D. P. Todd," in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London; London, Harrison & Sons, Vol. XXX, No. 200, December 1879 July, 1880; ix, 599pp,…with the Maxwell on pp 108-110. Beautifully and newly rebound in calf-backed marbled boards. There is some very occasional foxing here and there, but only for a few pages at a time (see photo). [++] The paper by (the deceased) Maxwell is actually not quite a paper by Maxwell, but a report by George Stokes on a letter that Maxwell wrote to D(avid) P(eck) Todd, so of course the content belongs to Maxwell, the resulting impact of which was providing a basis for the Michelson-Morley experiment. " Then in his article Ether for the Encyclopedia Britannica he again reviewed the problem of motion through the ether. The only possible earth-based experiment was to measure variations in the velocity of light on a double journey between two mirrors. Maxwell concluded that the time differences in different directions would be too small to detect. He proposed another method from timing the eclipses of the moons of Jupiter, which he later described in more detail in a letter to the American astronomer D. P. Todd, published after his death in the Royal Society Proceedings [the paper offered here] and in Nature. His statements there about the difficulties of the earth-based experiment served as a challenge to the young Albert Michelson, who at once invented his famous interferometer to do it."--Complete DSB online (Maxwell) [++] Also in this volume is: G.H, Darwin, "On the Analytical Expressions which give the History of a Fluid Planet of Small Viscosity, attended by a Single Satellite" on pp 255-278 AND "On the Secular Changes in the Elements of a Satellite revolving about a Tidally Distorted Planet" pp 1-10, which is Darwin's "resonance theory" on the origin of the Moon being a product of fissioning from Earth the Earth theoretically at one time spinning so rapidly that centrifugal force spun out material into orbit which would then become the Moon. This is different from the "resonance theory" of Charles Darwin, on the similarity of cross-species interpretation of rhythm. ["Another group of papers, dated from 1879 to 1880, are concerned with the tides in viscous spheroids, and still show the influence of both Kelvin and Laplace, although their scope is more general. In his paper of this series, On the Precession of a Viscous Spheroid and on the Remote History of the Earth (1879), Darwin proposed the resonance theory of the originated from the fission of a parent earth as the result of an instability produced by resonant solar tides. His monumental paper On the Secular Changes in the Elements of the Orbit of a Satellite Revolving About a Tidally Distorted Planet was published in 1880 [the paper offered here]. [++] AND: William Crookes, "On a Fourth State of Matter" pp 469-472.
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Add to baskethardcover. Condition: very good. London, Murray 1901. Octavo publisher's gilt cloth; 20,346pp, 43 illustrations. A rather good, bright copy. Second edition with corrections, additions and revisions - not the least being Darwin's change of opinion as to the actual measurement of the moon's attraction on the earth's surface. "A ma…sterpiece of semi-popular scientific exposition" according to James Jeans in the DNB, it is based on his 1897 Lowell Institute lectures and is, in a way, a summary of the theories and investigations that occupied most of his working life. Darwin published his first papers on tides and tidal friction in the 1870's (his method of harmonic analysis was in use for decades in many parts of the world) and over the years his focus widened to encompass the formation of the solar system and of star systems.
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The different methods of lifting and carrying the sick and injured 1888 [LeatherBound]
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh Darwin G. H. (George Henry)
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Add to basket(London, Harrison and Sons, 1890). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions", Vol. 180 - A. Pp. 1-69. 2 textillustr. Clean and fine. First printing."Darwin's most significant contribution to the history of science lies in his pioneering work in the application of detailled dynamical analysis to cosmological… and geological problems. That many of his conclusions are now out of date should in no way diminish the historical interest in his experiments, nor the importent service thet he rendered cosmogony by the example he gave of putting various hypotheses to the test of actual calculations. Darwin's method remains a milestone in the development of cosmogony, and subsequent investigators have favored it over the merely qualitative arguments prevalent until that time."(DSB).
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Add to basketLondon, the Royal Society, 1882. 4to. iv, [vii], 357 pp., 18 lithographed plates. Original blind-stamped cloth, gilt titles on spine. = Published in the famous Transactions of the Royal Society (PMM 148). The paper by the second son of Charles Darwin, the astronomer Sir George Howard Darwin (1845-1912), occupies 45 pp., a bound…in slip to correct a word therein, and a loose leaf with corrections to Darwin's paper. Other papers are by W. K. Brooks on the Lucifer, Young and Forbes on the velocity of white and coloured light, and some others. Some slight rubbing to the boards, otherwise a clean, nicely bound copy.
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Add to basket(London, Harrison and Sons, 1888). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1887 - Vol. 178 - Series A. Pp. 378-428 and 2 plates. First printing of one of Darwin's major papers on the Nebular Hypoyhesis and the evolution of celestial systems.Following his accession to the Plumian chair Darwin delved even m…ore deeply into the problems of the origin and evolution of the solar system, making numerous investigations of the figures of equilibrium of rotating masses of fluid and, later, making extensive studies of periodic orbits in the restricted problem of three bodies, carried out with special reference to cases obtaining for the particular values of the mass ratio of the two finite bodies of 1:10 and 1:1048 (the latter approximating the mass ratio of Jupiter to that of the sun). (DSB)."Darwin's most significant contribution to the history of science lies in his pioneering work in the application of detailled dynamical analysis to cosmological and geological problems. That many of his conclusions are now out of date should in no way diminish the historical interest in his experiments, nor the importent service thet he rendered cosmogony by the example he gave of putting various hypotheses to the test of actual calculations. Darwin's method remains a milestone in the development of cosmogony, and subsequent investigators have favored it over the merely qualitative arguments prevalent until that time."(DSB).
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Add to basket(London, Harrison and Sons, 1892). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions", 1891, Vol. 182 - Series A. Pp. 159-229. Clean and fine. First appearance of a classic paper on the mathematics of tidal phenomena.
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Very Good. DARWIN, G.H. "On the Precession of a Viscous Spheroid and on the Remote History of the Earth", offprint from Philosophical Transactions, part II, 1879, pp 437-538. Original wrappers. Some discoloration around front wrapper edges, other a VG copy. __+__ "Before Kuiper revived the double planet th…esis, George Darwin, son of the famous British naturalist, had in 1878 advanced an attractive alternative. Drawing on the pronounced tidal effects exerted between the earth and moon, Darwin speculated that the moon's mass had been ejected from a fluid and rapidly spinning protoearth when centrifugal force and solar tides, acting on matter in the earth's equatorial plane, exceeded the force of gravity. In time, the moon moved out to its present orbit and attained its coincident period of rotation and revolution as a result of tidal interactions between the two bodies."--NASA History Online, "LUNAR IMPACT: A History of Project Ranger Appendix A, LUNAR THEORY BEFORE 1964".__+__ "The first modern idea about the formation of the Moon was called the fission theory, and it came from George Darwin, the son of Charles Darwin.He reasoned the Moon must have broken away from our planet, when the Earth was still a rapidly rotating ball of molten rock."--Fraser Cain, "How Did the Moon Form?" Universe Today.
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Add to basket(London, Harrison and Sons, 1881). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1881, Vol. 172 - Part II. Pp. 491-535 a. 3 plates. First appearance of a classic paper on "cosmological" tidal friction and effects."Following his accession to the Plumian chair Darwin delved even more deeply into the problems of t…he origin and evolution of the solar system, making numerous investigations of the figures of equilibrium of rotating masses of fluid and, later, making extensive studies of periodic orbits in the restricted problem of three bodies, carried out with special reference to cases obtaining for the particular values of mass ratio of the twofinite bodies of 1:10 and 1:1048 (the later approximating the mass ration of Jupiter to that of the sun)."(DSB III, p. 583)."Darwin's most significant contribution to the history of science lies in his pioneering work in the application of detailled dynamical analysis to cosmological and geological problems. That many of his conclusions are now out of date should in no way diminish the historical interest in his experiments, nor the importent service thet he rendered cosmogony by the example he gave of putting various hypotheses to the test of actual calculations. Darwin's method remains a milestone in the development of cosmogony, and subsequent investigators have favored it over the merely qualitative arguments prevalent until that time."(DSB III, p. 583).
