[N.p. N.p., ca. 1780]. A fascinating manual of astronomy, particularly as it relates to the form of the motions of the heavens, dating from the period 1780-1825, probably from the beginning of that range. It is in a single hand (with the exception of one page), though with some variations..... More
Item #5309
[Padua: 1719]. The earliest item of Stirling’s scientific correspondence recorded in private hands, and one of the earliest of his mathematical manuscripts known to survive anywhere: Bernoulli’s letter from Padua, written on 29 April 1719 to Stirling at Venice, and preserved undisturbed at the Stirling family seat of Garden, in..... More
Item #6655
Basel & London: 1729–1733. A four-document mathematical dossier, descended in the Stirling family at Garden, Stirlingshire, from the eighteenth century down to the present generation. It preserves, in a single file, the full three-way exchange between Bernoulli in Basel, James Stirling in London, and John Machin in London from December..... More
Item #6656
Vancouver: [np], 1975. A detailed draft for a talk given to the Canadian Association of Physics Students, in Vancouver, on the contemporary state of subatomic particle physics, its current difficulties and possible future developments. Although a ‘popular’ talk, it is pitched at a high level, appropriate to postgraduate students in physics..... More
Item #4859
![Item #4853 Elements of Vector Analysis. [Offered with:] Autograph letter from Gibbs to John...](https://sophiararebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4853.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1570537206)
New Haven: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, 1881. First edition, first issue (see below), of this extremely rare pamphlet which “marks the beginning of modern vector analysis” (Crowe, p. 150). “Nearly all branches of classical physics and many areas of modern physics are now presented in the language of vectors, and..... More
Item #4853
London: 1896–1915. A substantial autograph archive — 102 items, more than 350 manuscript pages, almost all in Lady Huggins’s own upright hand — chronicling across nearly twenty years the private scientific and artistic life of one of the most accomplished women in Victorian and Edwardian British astronomy, and a co-worker..... More
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London: 1738. Written in the closing weeks of one of the most consequential empirical episodes in eighteenth-century natural philosophy, the letter brings the Lapland expedition’s data to the leading British exponent of Newton’s theory of the figure of the Earth at the moment they first reached London, and urges him..... More
Item #6657
![Item #4948 L’Occhiale all’Occhio. Dioptrica Pratica […] Dove si tratta della Luce, della...](https://sophiararebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4948.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1580387599)
Bologna: per l’herede del Benacci, 1660. First and only edition of this important work on the making of lenses, spectacles, telescopes and microscopes, “the most comprehensive book on the subject” (Ilardi, p. 229). “Seventeenth-century account of dioptrics, dealing with light, refraction, the eye, vision, the invention of spectacles, the making..... More
Item #4948
Important letter from Rutherford to Charles Herman Viol requesting information about the production of radium, in preparation for a series of lectures he was to deliver at The Royal Institution. “From 1921, when he succeeded [J. J.] Thomson, until his death, Rutherford was professor of natural philosophy at the Royal..... More
Item #3663
Camp d’Auvours (Champagné, Sarthe): September, 1908–14. A remarkable archive of photographs, drawings, and other ephemera documenting Wilbur Wright’s demonstration flights of his and his brother Orville’s Model A Flyer at the Camp d’Auvours near Le Mans beginning in 1908. Although the brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright had, as early as..... More
Item #6291