inscribed presentation offprint
FARADAY, Michael.
Experimental Researches in Electricity. Twenty-second Series. On the crystalline polarity of bismuth and other bodies, and on its relation to the magnetic form of force... and on its relation to the magnetic and electric form of force... From the Philosophical Transactions. Part I for 1849.
London, by Richard and John E. Taylor, 1849.
'From 1831 to 1852, Michael Faraday published his "Experimental Researches in Electricity" in The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. These papers contain not only an impressive series of experimental discoveries, but also a collection of heterodox theoretical concepts on the nature of these phenomena expressed in terms of lines of forces and fields. He published 30 papers in all under this general title. They represent Faraday's most important work, are classics in both chemistry and physics, and are the experimental foundations for Maxwell's electro-magnetic theory of light, using Faraday's concepts of lines of force or tubes of magnetic and electrical forces' (Whittaker, A History of the Theories of Aether & Electricity, p. 197).
The recipient of this copy, astronomer the Rev. Thomas Romney Robinson (1793-1882) was a child prodigy who enrolled in Trinity College, Dublin at age twelve, becoming a fellow in 1814. In 1823 he was appointed astronomy at Armagh Observatory, where he established a rigourous routine of positional observations' with 'a determination unusual in observatories of the time, and quite exceptional in one so small, isolated, and poorly situated for observing'. He 'published a great many papers on a wide range of topics across physics and astronomy. He was in great demand as an erudite and entertaining public speaker on scientific subjects, having made his name at the early meetings of the BAAS' (Oxford Dictionary of National Biography). Robinson was president of the Royal Irish Academy, a fellow of the Royal Society, and received honorary degrees from Dublin, Oxford, and Cambridge.
41-page offprint, author's presentation inscription to the title, ownership inscription to the upper wrapper, contents partially unopened, horizontal crease from folding throughout, contents faintly toned in the margins; original pink wrappers which are dulled, rubbed, and lightly spotted, some loss from the backstrip which has been reattached, very good condition.
Norman Library of Science and Medicine 760.
Stock code 121320
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Experimental Researches in Electricity. Twenty-second Series.
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First edition of the first conventionally published book on the Berkeleye cyclotron, by Wilfrid B. Mann, a student of Ernest O. Lawrence.
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Emanational Physics.
1988.
The second edition of Emanational Physics, a rare and unusual self-published text by Stephen Harrison proposing to correct the field of physics by reframing it metaphysically.
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'The Production of Soft Secondaries by Mesotrons'
January 15, 1940.
First edition of production of Soft Secondaries by Mesotrons by Robert Oppenheimer, a significant early work in particle physics and the path to the discovery of the pion and muon.
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