The Autobiography of Robert A. Millikan
New York: Prentice-Hall Inc., 1950. Illustrated in black and white. 311 pages, 8vo, black cloth, edgeworn. New York: Prentice-Hall Inc., 1950. A very good(-) copy. More
New York: Prentice-Hall Inc., 1950. Illustrated in black and white. 311 pages, 8vo, black cloth, edgeworn. New York: Prentice-Hall Inc., 1950. A very good(-) copy. More
Boston: Ginn, 1903. Many text illustrations. 242 pages, thin 8vo, green cloth; extremities lightly worn, ownership inscriptions inside front cover, pencil notes rear free endpaper. Boston: Ginn and Company, (1903). A very good copy. More
Wolfeboro: Alan Sutton, 1989. Illustrated. ix + 182 pages, 8vo, black cloth, d.w. Wolfeboro: Alan Sutton, (1989). Top edge a bit spotty, still a very good(+) copy in a very good(+) dust wrapper. More
Mit drei Abbildungen. 94p., printed wrappers (detached); ownership name on title page. Braunschweig: Vieweg & Sohn, 1922. Scarce monograph. More
San Francisco: Freeman, 1982. Illustrated. 194pp. 8vo, fabricoid, d.w. San Francisco: W. H. Freeman and Company, (1982). Near fine. More
12 pages. Slim 8vo, original drab printed wrappers. St. Louis, 1900. Transactions of the Academy of Sciences of St. Louis, Vol X, No. 10. More
Paris: Durand, 1770. 56 fine folding copperplates with several instruments depicted on each. 3 volumes.2 leaves in volume 3 repaired. 12mo, full mottled contemporary mottled calf, gilt spines, red leather labels, rubricated edges. Paris: P.E.G. Durand, 1770. Very good (+). Jean Antoine Nollet was a physicist and scientific instrument maker. He supplied instruments to Voltaire. This work, the author's last, "...offers the `amateur of physics' the distillation of forty years of attention to the `choice, construction and use of instruments.'"..... More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1955. 146 pages. 8vo, cloth-backed boards, d.w. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1955. First edition. Eight lectures on atomic weapons and the relationship between science and the wider culture of our times by the Father of the Atomic Bomb. The top of the cloth spine is chipped, as is the top edge of the dust wrapper, but the book is in very good, clean condition, with the original $2.75 price on the dust wrapper... More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997. Illustrated. xvi + 511pp., 8vo, black cloth, d.w. Princeton: Princeton University Press, (1997). A near fine copy in a near fine dust wrapper. More
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1947. A few illustrations. 205 pages. Slim 8vo, dark green cloth. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1947. First edition. Fine. More
London: Macdonald, 1974. Many black & white text illustrations. 413 pages, tall 8vo, green cloth, d.w. chipped. London: Macdonald, (1974). First Edition. A fine copy in a very good dust jacket. More
Paris: Gautier-Villars, 1889. 2 volumes. 8 folding diagrams, numerous text diagrams. Small 4to, 1/2 brown morocco. decoratively gilt spines, blind stamped pattern on covers. Paris: Gautier-Villars, 1891- 1889, 1891. Near Fine. Comprises vols. IV & V of the collection of memoirs. Includes an extensive bibliography. More
New York: Scientific American Library, 1983. Illustrated in black & white. 242pp. square 8vo, maroon cloth, dust wrapper, spine sun-darkened. New York: Scientific American Library, (1983). A fine copy in a near fine dust wrapper, complete with 45rpm photograph record in a sleeve on back cover. More
6 pages (pp. 136-141) IN: Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft, Jahrg. 8, No. 7. Modern wrappers. Whole number offered entire. Braunschweig, 1906. Planck's third major interest, relativity, developed in the winter of 1905-06. It is characteristic of him that, in 1907, he connected the "principle of relativity" with his quantum of action h. More
Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn, 1908. 5 pages (pp. 728-732) IN: Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft, nos. 18/20. 8vo, modern wrappers. Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn, 1908. Whole number 18/20 offered entire. More
Leipzig: Barth, 1929. Slim 8vo, 52pp. Original printed wrappers, spine chipped. Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1929. First Edition. Very good. More
15 pages (pp. 418-32) IN: Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft, vol. 8, no. 20. 8vo, modern wrappers. Braunschweig, 1906. Whole number offered entire. More
32 pages (pp. 599-630) IN: Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft, vol. 8, no. 23. Slim 8vo, modern wrappers. Braunschweig, 1906. No. 23 offered entire. More
7 pages (pp. 72-78) EXTRACTED FROM: Annalen der Physik und Chemie, new series, vol. 57. Modern wrappers. Leipzig, 1896. More
5 pages (pp. 301-305) FROM: Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft, vol.9 , no. 14. Slim 8vo, modern wrappers. Braunschweig, 1907. No. 14 offered entire. More
Leipzig: Barth, 1895. 3pp. IN: Annalen der Physik und Chemie, new series, vol. 55. pp. 220-22. 8vo, rust cloth. Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius BArth, 1895. Fine. More
Paris: Librairie Scientifique A. Herman et Fils, 1913. Tall 8vo, 1/2 contemporary brown morocco, marbled boards (lightly rubbed at the edges), original printed wrappers bound-in. Paris: Librairie Scientifique A. Herman et Fils, 1913. First Edition, Very good(+). More
New Delhi: National Book Trust India, 1960. 198 pages, 8vo, decorative printed wrappers (pages warped; corners rubbed). New Delhi: National Book Trust India, 1960. A very good(-) readable copy with a clean interior. More
Addison-Wessley, 1987. Illustrated. 316pp. 8vo, cloth, d.w. Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc, 1987. Fine. Fine copy in a very good dust wrapper. More
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