New Fragments.
by TYNDALL, John (1820-1893)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Montreux, Switzerland
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About This Item
London:: Longmans, Green, 1892., 1892. 8vo. [vi], 500, [2], 12 pp. Ads. Original blind- and gilt-stamped maroon cloth; some light fraying to spine ends, spine fading, paper label affixed to spine. Embossed stamp of Carnegie Institution [HALE]. Very good. First edition of this second collection of Tyndall's essays (the first issued in 1871): The sabbath – Goethe's 'Farbenlehre' – Atoms, molecules, and ether waves – Count Rumford – Louis Pasteur – The Rainbow and its congeners – Address delivered at the Birkbeck Institution – Thomas Young – Life in the Alps – About common water – Personal recollections of Thomas Carlyle—On unveiling the statue of Carlyle – On the origin, propagation, and prevention of phthisis – Old Alpine jottings – A morning on Alp Lusgen.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Jeff Weber Rare Books (CH)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- S13958
- Title
- New Fragments.
- Author
- TYNDALL, John (1820-1893)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Longmans, Green, 1892.
- Place of Publication
- London:
- Date Published
- 1892
- Keywords
- Science History
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