Published by Ginn, Boston, 1907
Seller: Robin Bledsoe, Bookseller (ABAA), Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very good. First edition. 162p, no ills. Covers lightly rubbed, paper label browned. From the library of a professor Cross, with his pencil name and with a gift card laid in. Perhaps a later printing? (copyright line reads 66.12). No jacket (as issued?). Originally published in the scientific supplement of the Munchener allgemeine Zeitung. Non-technical explanation of the chemical and physical properties of various drawing and painting media (pencil, crayon, pastel, fresco, oils, watercolor, tempera), and how artists can benefit from understanding their interrelationships with the optics of color, pgments, supports, etc. "In art also unconscious inspiration must give way to conscious understanding." Small but very informative. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate.
Condition: new. Pages: 416 Language: Russian. Kak uznat buduschego velikogo cheloveka s detstva i junosti - otvet na etot vopros pytaetsja najti avtor nastojaschej knigi, laureat Nobelevskoj premii po khimii Vilgelm Ostvald. V knige izlozheny biografii velikikh uchenykh, khimikov i fizikov, okazavshikh ogromnoe vlijanie na razvitie progressa nauki i tsivilizatsii. Avtor zatragivaet samye razlichnye storony dejatelnosti krupnejshikh issledovatelej, v chisle kotorykh - osnovatel elektrokhimii Gemfri Devi, osnovopolozhnik uchenija ob elektromagnitnom pole Majkl Faradej, odin iz velichajshikh uchenykh XIX veka German Gelmgolts. Izuchajutsja uslovija zhizni, vospitanija i obrazovanija, pri kotorykh chelovek, potentsialno obladajuschij vydajuschimsja darovaniem, mozhet raskryt svoj potentsial.Kniga rekomenduetsja uchenym i prepodavateljam estestvenno-nauchnykh i gumanitarnykh spetsialnostej, v tom chisle fizikam, khimikam, istorikam i metodologam nauki, pedagogam i psikhologam, a takzhe shirokomu krugu chitatelej, interesujuschikhsja zhiznju i nauchnym tvorchestvom velikikh uchenykh. 9785971071365.
Dissertation. Uppsala 1923. XXII,(1),436 pages + plates and maps. Soft covers.[#193129].