benjamin workman (18 Ergebnisse)

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paperback. Zustand: Fair. AS IS covers are detached text block intact 191 unmarked but faded and foxed pages. Cover edges worn, spine worn at bottom edge. SAVE ME!!

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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Zustand: Hervorragend. Zustand: Hervorragend | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | Keine Beschreibung verfügbar.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. 2nd Edition. Viii, 13-396 Pp. Full Sheep. Second Edition Stated, Apparently Expanded. Worn, Leather Discolored And Frayed; Lacking Front Free Endpapers; Rear Board Detached But Present. No Pages Between Viii And 13 But Nothing Appears Missing And According To Table Of Contents Book Begins With That P. 13. Extensive Writing And Ownership Signatures On Endpapers, Pastedowns And Title, None Clear To Me. Per Wikipedia, John Gough (1757 -1825) Was A Blind English Natural And Experimental Philosopher Who Is Known For His Own Investigations As Well As The Influence He Had On Both John Dalton And William Whewell. His Family Belonged To The Society Of Friends. Before He Was Three Years Old, Gough Was Attacked By Smallpox And Lost His Sight. In 1778 At The Age Of Twenty-One, Gough Became A Resident Pupil Of John Slee, A Mathematical Master At Mungrisdale, Cumberland. From Around 1782 To 1790 He Enjoyed The Acquaintance Of John Dalton, A Cousin Of George Bewley And Also A Lakeland Quaker, Who Had Come To Kendal To Take Up A Position In Bewley's School. Dalton Assisted Gough By Reading, Writing, And Making Calculations And Diagrams On His Behalf. In Return Dalton, Who Later Became One Of The Most Eminent Figures In Nineteenth-Century Science, Was Tutored By Gough In Latin And Greek. Dalton Later Referred To Gough As A "Prodigy In Scientific Attainments." He Began To Act As A Private Tutor Of Mathematics To A Select Group Of Pupils From Northern England, Whom He Prepared For University. The Subsequent Fame Of His Students Superseded His Own Celebrity. A Number Of Them Went On To Achieve High Distinction In The Mathematical Tripos, And Subsequently In The Hierarchies Of University And Church. One Of Gough's First Students Was William Whewell, Who Was With Him In 1812 And Later Described Gough As "A Very Extraordinary Person." Gough Had Wide-Ranging Scientific Interests. He Published Papers In Natural History, Mechanics, Mathematics, Chemistry, And Experimental Physics. One Of His Most Interesting Pieces Of Work Was An Investigation Into The Properties Of Natural Rubber Or Caoutchouc. He Was The First To Describe The Heat Released When A Rubber Band Is Quickly Stretched, The Heat Being Detected By The Lips To Which The Band Is Pressed. When Stretched Rubber Is Heated, It Contracts, A Reversal Of The Normal Behaviour Of Materials When Heated. Gough Published These Results, And Others, In A Letter To The Manchester Literary And Philosophical Society In 1804. King Has Written That Through Dalton, Gough Exerted An Indirect Influence Years Later On James Joule, Who Undertook His Own Investigations Into Rubber, Elasticity, And Energy Changes, And Specifically Referred To Gough's Earlier Studies.[5] The Effect Eventually Became Known As The Gough-Joule Effect. Gough's Most Substantive Enquiry Was "An Investigation Of The Method Whereby Men Judge By The Ear Of The Position Of Sonorous Bodies Relative To Their Own Persons", Which Appeared In 1802 During An Ongoing Controversy With Another Former Quaker, The Noted Natural Philosopher Thomas Young, Over The Nature Of Compound Sounds. Among His Works In The Natural Sciences, He Carried Out Experiments With Plants. He Had Developed The Skill Of Using His Upper Lip To Identify Plants By Touch, And Reported The Hydrosere Succession As Freshwater Lakes Dry Out And Become Land. He Also Described Seed Banks In Soils.

Hardcover. Zustand: Poor. Book condition: poor, very scarce, wonderful early geography with eight maps, the lower 2/3 of the United States is missing, all others intact including the solar system with the outermost planet depicted as "Georgian planet and his two moons", other maps include a map of the world, North America, South America, Africa, Asia and Europe, both boards are missing, leather spine cracked but largely intact, endpapers stained with some chips off edges and corners, some writing in pencil to front endpapers, water stains to first 30 pages, some minor foxing throughout with all text quite legible, the list of remarkable events list the creation of the earth as 4004 BC, 180 pages, 3.5 X 5.5 inches. Postage for oversized and international shipping will be calculated by size and weight. AbeBooks shipping quotes are ESTIMATES only. If actual shipping cost is less than the AbeBooks estimate, it is our practice to REFUND the difference to the buyer.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Philadelphia. Printed and sold by W. Young at the corner of Chestnut and Second Streets. 1788. Hardcover. 120 pages including more than 50 pages of tables. Bound with original boards, but a new spine stamped with gold lettering. Endpapers were replaced at the same time as the spine repair. The binding is tight and the pages are good and clean, with only normal fading from age. This book is printed on unusually thick paper. Gauging is the activity of determining the volume of the contents of a barrel or cask. Its most common practical purpose, especially in the 18th century when this book was published, was for determining taxes or import/export duties. This book is one of the first American books on the subject, and among the first to deal with this sort of scientific measurement. Please email with questions or to request photos. If you see a photo beside this listing, please be aware that it s an ABE Stock Photo (whatever that is) and not a photo of this book.

Seventh edition. Seventh edition. Eight engraved maps and plates (one folding) 180pp. 12mo. All pre-1800 editions of Workman's Georgraphy complete with all maps are rare. The present edition includes the third state of the map of the United States (Wheat & Brun 140), with "Tennassee" appearing west of North Carolina. The double-hemispheric world map (Wheat & Brun 10) includes Owhyhee. Evans 36740; ESTC W25318 Contemporary calf, rubbed. Foxing and creasing to the map of the U.S., short tear Eight engraved maps and plates (one folding) 180pp. 12mo.