New York: Basic Books, 1966. Hard Cover.
Near fine copies in a very good publisher slipcase. Edges of slipcase lightly rubbed, top panel of slipcase toned. Spines lightly faded.
xxvi, 859; xx, 863-1873 pp. Two volume set in publisher slipcase. 240 illustrations. The landmark documents of atomic physics, seen through.....
New York: E. Steiger, 1871. Reissue. Hard Cover.
1871 reissue of 1855 original. Front joint weakening, stain on top corner, ink name and date on front endpaper.
xii, 228 pp., 16-page publisher's ad follows text. German text. Author's magnum opus, advocating scientific materialism and attempting to prove the indestructibility of.....
New York: Greenwich House, 1982. Reissue. Hard Cover.
Reissue. Faint edge wear.
This brilliantly written book unlocks the astounding implications of Einstein's revolutionary theories on the nature of science, time and motion. It far surpasses any previous explanation of Relativity for laymen.
New York: D. Van Nostrand Company, 1920. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Spine faded, cover edges slightly faded.
xvi, 161 pp. 7 1/4 x 5. 8vo. Original blue cloth, gilt emblem in center of front cover mirrored in blind stamp on corners and center of back cover, gilt titles.....
New York: Exposition Press, 1955. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Former library copy - usual marks. Minor tear on top edge of front jacket panel.
xi, 479 pp. "Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (30 April 1777 – 23 February 1855) was a German mathematician and physicist who made significant contributions.....
London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1785. First Edition. Full-Leather.
First edition (ESTC T105929). Collated and complete. Rebound in full leather with new end sheets and significant paper restoration to front matter. Ink gift note and owner information on front flyleaf, light stains to some pages (mostly margins), a couple minor.....
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1966. 4th Printing. Hard Cover.
4th printing. Lightly rubbed.
Includes comprehensive surveys of Invariance Principles and Quantam Numbers, Pion-Nucleon Scattering, and much more!
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Hard Cover.
Fully revised and updated. Light general wear.
xv, 357 pp. The principles of quantum mechanics are the basis of everything in the physical world--from atoms to stars, from nuclei to lasers. Quantum paradoxes and the eventful life of Schroedinger's Cat are explained.....
New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1939. Second Edition. Hard Cover.
Second edition. No jacket. Bookplate on front paste-down endpaper, ink name on front free endpaper, some pencil marginalia.
vii, 436 pp. CONTENTS: Physical Properties of Air; Effects of Deflecting Air Streams; Air Flow; Airfoils; Induced Drag of Monoplanes;.....
New York: Plenum Press, 1991. Hard Cover.
Ink stamp on top page ridge.
xvii, 454 pp. "...focuses on adhesion with or without the use of an adhesive and the mechanisms of bond formation."
New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1967. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover.
Second printing. No jacket. A few smudges on front board, top page ridge lightly foxed.
xiv, 311 pp. CONTENTS: Historical Introduction; Laser Literature and Bibliography; Background Material on Radiation and Atomic Physics; General Description and Theory of Lasers; Solid-State.....
New York: Academic Press, 1973. Hard Cover.
No jacket, ink name on front endpaper.
xii, 268 pp. CONTENTS: Preface; Introduction; Relativity and Kinematics; Relativistic Wave Equations; Quantum Mechanics and Scattering; Quantum Field Theory; Quantum Electrodynamics; Pions; Pion-Nucleon Scattering; Pion Resonances; Strange Particles; SU(3); Weak Interactions; Hadron Dynamics; Appendix: Tables of.....
New York: The Ronald Press Company, 1933. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover.
Second printing. No jacket. Board edges lightly rubbed, ink name and ink stamp on front free endpapers, ink stamp on rear paste-down endpaper.
xii, 420 pp. CONTENTS: Occupations in the Aeronautical Industry; Balloons and Airships; Principles of Flight: Airplanes.....
Homewood, Illinois: American Technical Publishers, Inc., 1974. Second Edition. Trade Paperback.
Second edition. A fine copy.
137 pp. CONTENTS: Atomic Energy at Work; The Atomic Age Begins; Nature's Engine--The Atom; Harnessing Atomic Power; Radioactivity and Radiation; Measuring Radiation; Radiation Measuring Instruments; The Effects of Radiation; Protection from Radiation; Answers; Index
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Cambridge: Cambridge at the University Press, 1939. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Half inch tear along top edge of rear jacket panel.
viii, 134 pp. "Millikan won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1923 for his work on measuring the charge of electrons and also did important work on.....
Parisiis [Paris]: Apud Georgium Iosse, 1659. Second Edition. Full-Leather.
Boards heavily worn with large chip from spine head and most of gilt lost, drying and loss from panels, lacks front blank, stains on binding edge margins, ink notes on rear blanks.
[x], 666 pp. Full leather, gilt decorations on spine.....
London: Hazell, Watson, and Viney, Limited, 1901. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Former copy of Eastman Kodak's Business Library, with their stamp on a few pages. Light stain on edge of first and last few pages, binding repaired, front and end matter toned.
170 pp. 8vo. A fairly early.....
New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, Inc., 1927. First American Edition. Hard Cover.
First American edition. No jacket. Light stain on front board, hinges starting.
viii, 408 pp. "'The Analysis of Matter' is one of the earliest and best philosophical studies of the new physics of relativity and quantum mechanics.....
New York: W.H. Freeman & Co., 1984. Trade Paperback.
Front wrapper crease, foxing to ridge.
Takes us from Galileo to the end of the nineteenth century with the statistical mechanics of Boltzmann, Maxwell, Gibbs and van der Wals.
New York: Penguin, 2004. 7th Printing. Trade Paperback.
7th printing. An exceptional copy.
Humankind has grappled for millennia with the fundamental questions of the origin and end of the universe--it was a focus of ancient religions and myths and of the inquiries of Aristotle, Galileo, Copernicus, Kepler, and Newton. Today.....
New York: Fourth Estate / Harper Collins, 2004. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover.
2nd printing. Jacket lightly toned, 1/2 inch tear on jacket corner.
532 pp. 8vo. "We've all heard of the Big Bang, and yet few of us truly know what it is. Renowned for making difficult ideas much less.....
Berkeley/Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1966. Trade Paperback.
1966 6th printing of this edition, and the first paperback printing. Both volumes: Covers rubbed.
xxxiii, 396; 398-680 pp. Two volume set. Volume 1 contains the prefaces of the first three editions, Definitions, Axioms, or Laws of Motion, and Books I......
London: Henry S. King & Co., 1875. First Edition. Hard Cover.
Edges and front and end matter lightly foxed, pencil name and address on verso of front free endpaper.
xv, [1], 562, 36 pp. 8vo. Brown cloth, gilt titles, blind-stamped decorations. A philosophical examination of the relationship between mental and.....