john r taylor (13 results)

Softcover. Condition: Good. 2nd. This best-selling text by John Taylor, now released in its second edition, introduces the study of uncertainties to lower division science students. Assuming no prior knowledge, the author introduces error analysis through the use of familiar examples ranging from carpentry to well-known historic experiments. Pertinent worked examples, simple exercises throughout the text, and numerous chapter-ending problems combine to make the book ideal for use in physics, chemistry, and engineering lab courses. The first edition of this book has been translated into six languages.

Softcover. Condition: Good. This graduate-level text is intended for any student of physics who requires a thorough grounding in the quantum theory of nonrelativistic scattering. It is designed for readers who are already familiar with the general principles of quantum mechanics and who have some small acquaintance with scattering theory. Study of this text will allow students of atomic or nuclear physics to begin reading the literature and tackling real problems, with a complete grasp of the underlying principles. For students of high-energy physics, it provides the necessary background for later study of relativistic problems.Topics are presented in terms of the simplest relevant example, so that scattering theory can be learned by becoming familiar with all of the basic concepts - the S operator, cross sections, the T matrix, and so forth - in their simplest context. The time-dependent approach to the subject is emphasized, starting with the use of time-dependent formalism to define all of the basic concepts and the subsequent introduction of the time-independent theory as a tool for computation and for establishing certain general properties. Problems at the end of each chapter improve and supplement readers' grasp of the material.

IN-4° pp. 830 con foto, disegni e dati tecnici dei velivoli di tutto il mondo. Legatura edit. con sovracopertra. Ben conservato.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. VOLUME ONE ONLY of two volumes. Large folio. Boards are quarter calf leather, a third vellum, and a third exposed board. Cover is plain. Spine is semi-hubbed and also plain. Dual columned. Some section headings include The History of the Ancient Abbies, Monasteries: The Preliminary Dissertation Concerning the Original and the Antiquity of the Monastical Life; Order of St. Benedict; Oxford Monastery of Franciscans; Monasteries of Benedictins. 524 pp. OCLC #229413183.CONDITION: In fair condition only, this copy has seen better days. Missing the title page as well as Preface (i-viii), and the Contents (2 pages). Also missing pages 183, 184, 237, 238, 525-538 and the unpaginated table of contents (2 pages). Also MISSING ALL 20 engravings including the 4 foldout plates. Cover is significantly worn with missing covering on a third of the front and back along with soiling and other general wear. Many leaves are loose and some with dampstain, yet unmarked and surprisingly bright with very little foxing. Even with its flaws, this over 300 year-old-copy is quite legible and exudes the feeling of ages-old wisdom and history. Due to this copy's size and weight, an additional shipping charge may apply. Even with its flaws, this Full refund if not satisfied.

Paper Back. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 3rd Ed. 113pp.; SC blue comb-binding; lt.blue w/blk.-pic.cover; some rub w/some pencil; sun on edges; clean,tight pgs. includes signed card & letter.

Full-Leather. Condition: Very Good. volume 1 only, 3rd edition, revised, corrected and improv'd, unpaginated, (ii) [432pp]: A-I K-U,X-Z Aa-Dd, two engraved plate (one folding), overall title page (printed red and black) and separate volume title page, contemporary speckled panelled calf (worn, corners lightly bumped with one showing boards, front joint cracked, rear rubbed), gilt ruled spine (discoloured) with raised bands and morocco label, minor worm track at start and end with a single marginal hole from A1 to Z5, light stain to the fore-corner of 16 leaves, modern woodcut bookplate by Andy English on front free endpaper, 8vo (20.5x12.5cm).

8vo. (216x135mm), pp: [iii]+4-49,[1],4, the final 2 leaves (4pp) constitute a discussion on the merits of a flotilla, quarter red cloth, grey boards, lettered horizontally in gilt to spine, title page a little browned, otherwise sound, tight and very good. Uncommon. A speech by the Earl of Selkirk examining the possibility of an invasion by a French flotilla and measures to be taken. A very real threat during the Napoleonic era.

FIRST EDITION 1699. 4to, approximately 245 x 185 mm, 9½ x 7½ inches, LACKS FRONTISPIECE, VERY GOOD FACSIMILE INSERTED hard to tell from the original, 2 folding plates, engraved device to title, 2 pictorial headpieces and 1 tailpiece, pages: xxviii, [1], 1-128, with imprimatur on verso title, and errata and advertisement leaf at end of prelims, error in signatures omitting quire "B" jumping from A-C, as in all copies, retaining correct pagination, the Table has been inserted after page xviii, the catchword "Fruit" matches first word on page1, all text complete. Bound in full contemporary calf, rebacked keeping original covers, gilt lettered title label, rules and date to spine, William Morehead Esq. bookplate to first pastedown. William Morehead of Herbertshire FRSE (17371793) was an 18th century Scottish landowner and forefather of the Morehead dynasty of prominent persons in Scotland and India. In 1783 he was a joint founder of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (see Wikipedia). Pale age-browning to both folding plates, pale staining at top of pages, running into text, all text legible, a few leaves have a pale tidemark, pale stain to lower margins throughout, not affecting text, heavy browning to edges of pastedowns and free endpapers, occasional fox spot, otherwise a very good copy. Nicolas Fatio de Duillier was a Swiss mathematician known for his work on the Zodiacal light problem and for his close working relationship with Sir Isaac Newton. In 1699 he suggested increasing fruit-tree and vine productivity by using sloping walls and later a tracking mechanism which could pivot to follow the sun. Fatio's interest in the physical processes by which the sun's heat could be transmitted was linked to his earlier explanations of zodiacal light, to his ongoing work on the cause of gravity, and to his later investigations, in the years around 1705, of the paths of comets and the nature and prophetic interpretation of the aurora borealis'' (ODNB). See: Fussell, Old English Farming Books, 1523 to 1730, page 63; H. Frederic Janson, Pomona's Harvest, pages 213-214; Mary S. Aslin, Rothamsted Experimental Station Library, Catalogue of Books on Agriculture, page 46, under Faccio; Sandra Raphael; An Oak Spring Pomona, pages 35-37; ESTC 5191. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

Second edition thus. Folio. (viii), xxii, (ii), xii, 42, 45-131, (1) pp. Later period style full calf with blindstamped decoration to both boards, spine with raised bands, twin gilt lettered red labels, marbled endpapers, late 20th century ownership inscription to the original front flyleaf. Engraved title and dedication and 6 plates plus numerous head and tail piece vignettes, historiated initials and other diagrams in the text by John Sturt. Spine a little sunned, very good overall. First published in France in 1683, the first English edition appeared in 1708. Pages 43/44 are not called for.

Second (i.e. first available) edition, 3 volumes, 8vo, pp. xxi, [3], 360; [6], 399, [1]; [8], 416; original blue paper-covered boards, brown paper shelfback, printed paper labels on spine; light cracking and wear but generally very good and sound. Ownership signature of "Cambusmore" on the title pages. This is the first edition to reach the public of Madame de Staël's most important work which introduced German literature, especially the Romantic poets, to French readers, and greatly influenced French writers throughout the 19th century. The book was first printed in Paris in 1810, but the entire edition, except for three proof copies ending with page 240 of the third volume was seized and destroyed on the orders of Napoleon who misunderstood it as a political work. In her preface to this London edition - the "de facto" first edition - De Staël wrote about the fate of her book and her expulsion from France. She explains the circumstances of the suppression: although the text had already been submitted and passed after certain excisions, the minister of police had all 10,000 copies destroyed on the grounds that the book was "un-French." Her impressions are based on two journeys through Germany in 1803-04 to Weimar and Berlin, and in 1807-08 to Munich and Vienna. The most important second part offers an almost complete literary history of the time of Goethe and Schiller, but the young romantic poets were especially close to her heart. No doubt she was influenced there by her travel companion August Wilhelm von Schlegel.