Atom by Thomson (23 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. Pages slightly tanned otherwise Good. NOT A FORMER LIBRARY BOOK.

paperback. Condition: Good. Pages are crisp and clean, no marking. Cover has some wears. Binding is tight/good.

Condition: Good. 1957. Fifth Edition. 206 pages. Plain jacket over cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Clipped jacket has light edge-wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and marking.…

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Very good in wrappers. Shelf rubbing. Creases along spine.

Condition: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study 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,300grams, ISBN.…

Condition: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In fair condition, suitable as a study 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,300grams, ISBN.…

Condition: Good. 1947. 196 pages. Orange pictorial dust jacket over orange cloth. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. The unclipped dust jacket has heavy edge wear, with tears, chips and areas of loss. Light tanning to spine and edges.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Third Revised Edition. A good 1947 3rd Revised and Enlarged edition hardcover in a poor dustwrapper. The book is in clean brown boards bumped/rubbed to the spine ends/corners, no writing or stamps, ivory pages. The unclipped dustwrapper is creased to the edges with several closed tears and losses to the spine head and upper panel/spine heel supplied in a new removable archival sleeve. Carefully packaged and despatched within 48 hours from our wee bookshop in Scotland.; 196 pages.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good: NO markings/writings on text. All pages are clean and intact. Dust jacket in very good condition; has been preserved by plastic cover via previous owner--library. **WILL SHIP WITHIN 24-48 HOURS WITH TRACKING**. Introduced by Sir George Thomson (illustrator).…

Condition: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Library sticker on front cover. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,300grams, ISBN.…

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. Limited. A near fine copy. Inscribed by the publisher to George Locke. Some tanning to the wrappers.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Xxxi, 654 Pp. Blue Cloth. Second Printing Stated. Fine, No Wear, No Marks.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. SECOND EDITION of Thomson's popular book on the atom, first published in 1930, now updated to include a chapter on two newly discovered subatomic particles: the neutron (1930) and the positron (1932). Some spotting to text block, light creasing to corners of the final few pages. Otherwise a pleasing copy. George Paget Thomson, only son of J.J. Thomson who discovered of the electron, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1937 for his work on electron diffraction.…

Wissenschaftlicher, Göttingen, um 1952, Nachdruck, 160, Softcover (kartoniert), 8°, ohne Schutzumschlag, , Einband: etwas bestoßen, etwas verknickt, etwas gebräunt, beschabt, Vorsatzblaetter: leicht verknickt, Titelblatt: leicht verknickt, Seiten: leicht verknickt, Buchrücken: leicht eingerissen, etwas bestoßen. …

Cloth. 252pp+adv. Small 8vo. Covers with pencil notes. Names on Endpaper. Fair.

Stapled blue covers. Condition: Fine copy. First edition (& 1st printing). Collection of cartoons and drawing of sf fan artist Arthur Thomson, otherwise known as ''Atom''. Edited and published by Vincent Clarke. LIMITED EDITION: 100 numbered copies printed. This is no 31.

Stapled pictorial covers. Condition: Fine (as new) copy. First edition thus (& 1st printing). Collection of cartoons and drawing of sf fan artist Arthur Thomson, otherwise known as ''Atom''. 100 pages: edited and published by Ken Cheslin, introduction by John Berry. LIMITED EDITION: 30 numbered copies printed. This is no 13.…

Fanzine. First edition (& 1st printing). The first collection of cartoons and drawing of sf fan artist Arthur Thomson, otherwise known as ''Atom''. 108 page mimeographed fanzine, : edited and published by Ken Cheslin. THIS COPY INSCRIBED BY BOTH THE EDITOR AND ARTHUR THOMSON TO UK AUTHOR (and fan) E. C. TUBB. Numbered no 36 (through the print-run not given). Very uncommon sf fanzine. VG+ copy, a little occasional spotting to front cover. Signed. …

Volume 26, No. 154 for October 1913. Original blue printed wrappers, pp. 549-800. A fine, unopened copy. Sir Joseph John Thomson (1865-1940) was a British physicist and Nobel Laureate in physics, credited with the discovery of the electron. He was awarded the 1906 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the conduction of electricity in gases. (Wikipedia).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. J.J. Thomson, James Dewar, William Sutherland, and others. "The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science", printed in London, Richard and John E.Taylor, fifth series, volume XL, July-December, 1895. 8vo, viii, 552pp, 7 engraved plates. Bound in half calf with decorated boards, calf tips, with raised bands. Condition: there is some small amount of scuffing to the spine and along the joints and tips, though not overly so; this is a tight, crisp, sturdy copy. Very Good. There are a number of interesting articles in this volume of the Philosophical Magazine, including the significant entry by J.J. Thomson: "On the Relation between the Atom and the Charge of Electricity Carried by it", pp 511-544 " "that Paper and the deductions which Prof THOMSON has drawn therefrom mark one of the most important stages in the history of chemical theory. A careful perusal of that Paper can hardly fail to carry conviction in regard to the main propositions as to the dependence of chemical reaction upon the actual electrification and the normal electro-chemical properties of the atoms concerned."--The Electrician, Feb 7, 1896. Other papers in this volume include William Sutherland (1859-1911, and expert in molecular physics), "On the Fundamental Atomic Laws of Thermochemistry," another very long article by him, pp 1-56, and a good point of reference for this scientist whose long association with the Phil Mag began just a few years before; James Dewar and J.A. Fleming, "On the Thermoelectric Powers of Metals and Alloys.", pp 95-119; Myer Wildermann, "Experimental Proof of Van't Hoff's Constant, of Arrenhius' Generalization, and Ostwald's Law of Dilution", pp 119-144; John Trowbridge and William Duane, "On the Velocity of Electric Waves", pp 211-225 (I should point out that the less-known Duane's obituary was written in 1935 for the National Academy of Science by P.W. Bridgman); Liveing and Dewar, "On the refraction and Dispersion of Liquid Oxygen, and the Absorption Spectrum of Liquid Air", pp 268-272; James Dewar and J.A. Fleming, "On the Variation in the Electrical resistance of Bismuth, when collected to the temperature of Solid Air", pp 303-311; George Johnstone Stoney, "On the Kinetic Theory of Gas, regarding as illustrating Nature", pp 362-383.…

Stapled pictorial covers. Condition: Fine (as new) copy. First edition (& 1st printing). Collection of cartoons and drawing of sf fan artist Arthur Thomson, otherwise known as ''Atom''. 114 pages: edited and published by Ken Cheslin. LIMITED EDITION: 80 numbered copies printed. This is no 23. INSCRIBED BY EDITOR CHESLIN TO SF AUTHOR TED TUBB, WITH A SHORT TYPED SIGNED LETTER FROM TUBB TO THE EDITOR CHESLIN LAID IN (with Cheslin's 40-word handwritten reply added). Signed. …

In: The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science. Series 5 Vol. 40 = July-December 1895, No. 247, pp. 511-544. Bound in half leather with gilt-stamped label on spine. Edges rubbed and bumped. Spine a bit damaged. A few pages are slightly stained. Poggendorff IV, 1499. The Complete Volume includes 8 plates, VII, 552 pp. Also included in this volume are: DEWAR, J. a. Liveing, On the Refraction and Dispersion of Liquid Oxygen, and the Absorptopn Spectrum of Liquid Air. No. 244, pp. 268-272. Dewar, J. a. J.A. FLEMING, On the variation in the Electrical Resistance of Bismuth, when cooled to the Temperature of Solid Air. No. 244, pp. 303-311. Dewar, J. a. J.A. Fleming, On the Thermo-electric Powers of Metals and Alloys between the Temperatures of the Bioling-Point of Water and the Boiling-Point of Liquid Air. No. 242, pp. 95-119. Poggendorff IV, 326. SUTHERLAND, W., On the Fundamental Atomic Laws of Thermochemistry. No. 242, pp. 1-56; On Molecular Force and the Surface-Tension of Solutions. No. 247, pp. 477-494; The Viscosity of Mixed Gases. No. 246, pp. 421-431. Poggendorff IV, 1467. Sprache: Englisch. …

1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF THE BRACE EXPERIMENT, "THE FIRST OPTICAL EXPERIMENT MEASURING THE RELATIVE MOTION OF EARTH AND THE LUMINIFEROUS AETHER WHICH WERE SUFFICIENTLY PRECISE TO DETECT MAGNITUDES OF SECOND ORDER TO V/C" (Wikipedia). Brace's results were negative, "which was of gret importance for the development of the Lorentz transformation and consequently of the theory of relativity" (ibid). The American physicist and specialist in optics "examined the question [of] whether the Earth's motion may cause a body to become doubly refracting," something which as first sight might be expected (PRNAAS, 1904, 6, 809). Earlier in his career, Brace developed "extremely sensitive optical techniques" to one of the critical problems of the time (Dictionary of Scientific Biography, II, 382). "Two years earlier, Lord Rayleigh had proposed that the Lorentz-Fitzgerald contraction, if it existed, might produce an observable double refraction in a moving transparent medium. Rayleigh made experiments in which he failed to find the predicted effect, but his work was not quite accurate enough to be conclusive. Brace pointed this out and reconducted the investigation in his own laboratory, establishing beyond a doubt the absence of double refraction caused by movement of the refracting medium through the ether" (ibid). ALSO INCLUDED IN THIS VOLUME: J. J. Thomson's 'Plum Pudding Model': "The most widely accepted theory of atomic structure up to about 1913" (Peacock, The Quantum Revolution, 34). CONDITION & DETAILS: London: Taylor and Francis. Entire volume. Ex-libris and bearing occasional light stamp within. New end papers. No marks at the spine whatsoever. Octavo (8.5 x 5.5 inches; 213 x 138mm). [viii], 720, [6]. 27 plates. Handsomely rebound in three quarter calf over gilt-ruled maroon paper boards. Four gilt-ruled raised bands at the spine. Gilt devices in the spine compartments. Gilt-lettered red and black spine labels. Tightly and very solidly bound. An occasional spot within, quite minor. Very good condition in every way.…