Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2011
ISBN 10: 1108032214 ISBN 13: 9781108032216
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: The University Press, Cambridge, 1943
Anbieter: Hoffman Books, ABAA, IOBA, Columbus, OH, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 299 pages, tan cloth with gilt printing to the spine. This is an ex-library copy with usual markings both inside and out, including the card envelope at the rear. The covers are soiled with rubbed and scuffed spine ends and corners, the photo frontispiece is loose but laid-in. Contents are bright. Good for reading or reference.
Verlag: The University press, 1942
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Zustand: Good. 1942. 299 pages. Blue pictorial dust jacket over red cloth. Inscription to front endpaper. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean. The unclipped dust jacket has heavy edge wear, with tears, chips and areas of loss. Light tanning to spine and edges.
Verlag: London, 1895
Anbieter: Antiquariat Manfred Velden, Düsseldorf, Deutschland
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Softcover. Zustand: Sehr gut. Ohne Schutzumschlag. 1. Auflage. Lord Rayleigh. Argon. S.159-164 mit 1 Abbildung (1 fig.) in: Nature.No.1337.Vol.52.Thursday, June 13, 1895. Original-Broschur. Sehr gut erhalten. Enthält noch:The Cambridge Natural History - The Sun's Place in Nature - A Spectroscopic Proofof the Meteoric Constitution of Saturn's Rings.
Verlag: John Murray, 1887
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Zustand: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. In the original cloth binding. Blind stamped boards. Dull gilt title on the spine. Discoloured and dusty. Pages browning but otherwise clean.
Verlag: London, 1883
Anbieter: Antiquariat Manfred Velden, Düsseldorf, Deutschland
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Softcover. Zustand: Sehr gut. Ohne Schutzumschlag. 1. Auflage. Lord Rayleigh. On the Dark Plane which is Formed over a Heated Wire in Dusty Air pp.136-139 with illustrations in: Nature. 710. 1883. - With: Thompson, Silvanus P. Historical Notes in Physics. pp.130-132 with illustrations. - with: Galton, Francis. Local Scientific Societies. pp.135,136. Original wrappers. Very good condition. Very rare!.
Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2012
ISBN 10: 1107655420 ISBN 13: 9781107655423
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Originally published in 1942, this book provides a well-researched biography of the British physicist Sir Joseph John Thomson.
Verlag: Vanity Fair. London, 1899
Anbieter: Patrick Pollak Rare Books ABA ILAB, SOUTH BRENT, DEVON, Vereinigtes Königreich
- PHYSICS - ARGON - *An original coloured lithograph from the journal 'Vanity Fair' drawn by FTD [F. T. Dalton].
Verlag: The Smithsonian Institution, Washington, 1896
Anbieter: Graphem. Kunst- und Buchantiquariat, Berlin, Deutschland
gr 4°, Brosch., 43 S. - Rücken schadhaft, Bindung jedoch fest, Randbereiche bestoßen, leichte Kncikspuren, unaufgeschnitten, innen sauberes Exemplar / spine damaged, binding firm, lightly creased. Buch.
Anbieter: Herman H. J. Lynge & Søn ILAB-ABF, Copenhagen, Dänemark
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(London, Harrison and Sons, 1883). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" Year 1883, Volume 174. Pp. 173-185, textillustration. Clean and fine. First printing of one of the importent papers by Rayleigh in the search for determining the value of the Ohm."Rayleigh's grasp of such widely diversed fields as optics and hydrodynamics, acoustics and electromagnetic theory, was phenomenal" and only Maxwell, Kelvin, and Helmholtz came near him in this aspect of his genius."(DSB XIII, p.102).
Verlag: Vanity Fair Dec 21, 1899
Anbieter: Robert Frew Ltd. ABA ILAB, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
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Drawn by FTD. Original chromolithograph. Page size approx. 38 x 26.5cm. Image size approx. 35 x 19cm. Library stamp to verso, image unaffected. With original leaf of biographical text.
Anbieter: Herman H. J. Lynge & Søn ILAB-ABF, Copenhagen, Dänemark
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(London, Harrison and Sons, 1886). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" Year 1885, Volume 176 - Part II. - Pp. 781-800. Clean and fine. First printing of Rayleigh's investigation of the Clark Cell that became known as the Board of Trade Cell of 1894. "Rayleigh's grasp of such widely diversed fields as optics and hydrodynamics, acoustics and electromagnetic theory, was phenomenal" and only Maxwell, Kelvin, and Helmholtz came near him in this aspect of his genius."(DSB XIII, p.102).
Anbieter: Herman H. J. Lynge & Søn ILAB-ABF, Copenhagen, Dänemark
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(London, Harrison and Sons, 1886). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" Year 1885, Volume 176 - Part II. - Pp. 343-366, textillustrations. Clean and ine. First printing.In this paper Rayleigh describes that in certain arrangements of 2 Nicol prism when light passing one way it is completely stopped by the second icl, but light passing the other way is completely transmitted. "Rayleigh's grasp of such widely diversed fields as optics and hydrodynamics, acoustics and electromagnetic theory, was phenomenal" and only Maxwell, Kelvin, and Helmholtz came near him in this aspect of his genius."(DSB XIII, p.102).
Anbieter: Herman H. J. Lynge & Søn ILAB-ABF, Copenhagen, Dänemark
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(London, Harrison and Sons, 1884). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" Year 1883, Volume 174. - Pp. 295-322. Textillustr. Clean and fine. First printing of an importent paper in the search for determining the value of the Ohm."In the third phase (in the standardization of electrical units), ayleigh employed a method for determining the value of the Ohm introduced by L. Lorentz in 1873. This method, Rayleigh found, possessed the importent advantage of producing results that weree free of the influence of terrestrial magnetism and of thermoelectrical effects. Rayleigh modified Lorentz' method to make it more efficient, but without altering its essential character."(Dong-Won Kim).
Anbieter: Herman H. J. Lynge & Søn ILAB-ABF, Copenhagen, Dänemark
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(London, Harrison and Sons, 1883). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" Year 1882, Volume 173 - Part II. Pp. 661-697 a.1 lithographed plate (showing apparatus). A few brownspots to margins of plate. Fine and clean. First printing of one of the main papers relating to the determination of the standard electrical unit, the relations between the ohm, the unit of resistance and the electromagnetic unit of resistance."It is a tribute to Rayleigh's great experimental care that his final results have not been appreciably altered by more modern work. He appeared to possess the uncanny power to make the simplest of equipment produce the utmost precision."(Robert Bruce Lindsay).
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10. Washington, Smithsonian Institution, 1896, in-4°, 32 cm, (6)nn pp + 43 pp + (1)nn pp(blanc), some illustrations in the text. Publisher's green coloured cloth with gilt lettering and some blind fillets on the front cover. Fine copy, with stamp on title stating that this copy was sold by the Brooklyn Public Library. First American - and first separate - edition of the report on the discovery of the noble gas argon. (It first appeared as an article in the Transactions of the Royal Society, London, 1895). The authors were awarded the Noble Prize for their discovery in 1904.
Verlag: London Taylor & Francis, 1901
Anbieter: Zentralantiquariat Leipzig GmbH, Leipzig, Deutschland
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In: The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science. Series 6 Vol. 1 = January-June 1901, No. 1, pp. 98-100. Bound in half leather with gilt-stamped label on spine. Edges rubbed and bumped. Plate 5-6 very stained, endpapers and title page a bit stained. The complete volume contains 6 plates, VI, 676 pp. and: Lord RAYLEIGH, Spectroscopic Notes concerning the Gases of the Atmosphere. No. 1, pp. 100-105; On the Stresses in Solid Bodies due to Unequal Heating, and on the Double Refraction resulting therefrom. No. 2, pp. 169-178: On a Problem relating to the Propagation of Sound between Parallel Walls. No. 3, pp. 301-311. Poggendorff IV, 1219. THOMSON, J.J., On a kind of easily Absorbed Radiation produced by the Impact of slowly moving Cathode Rays; together with a Theory of the Negative Glow, the Dark Space, and the Positive Column. No. 4, pp. 361-376. Poggendorff IV, 1499. Sprache: Englisch.
Verlag: London Taylor & Francis, 1891
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In: The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science. Series 5 Vol. 30 = July-December 1890, No. 182, pp. 30-32. Bound in half leather. Spine is missing. Edges rubbed and bumped. A few pages are slightly stained. Lord RAYLEIGH, On the Theory of Surface Forces. No. 185, pp. 285-298. On the Tension of Water Surfaces, Clean and Contaminated, investigated by the Method of Ripples. No. 186, pp. 386-400. Poggendorff IV, 1219. The Complete Volume includes 12 plates, VII, 512 pp. Also included in this volume for example: THOMSON, J.J., On some Experiments on the Velocity of Transmission of Electric Disturbances, and their Application to the Theory of the Striated Discharge through Gases. No. 183, pp. 129-140. Poggendorff IV, 1499. MICHELSON, A.A., On the Application of Interference Methods to Astronomical Measurements. No. 182, pp. 1-21. etc. Sprache: Englisch.
Verlag: London Taylor & Francis, 1891
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In: The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science. Series 5 Vol. 32 = July-December 1891, No. 198, pp. 424-445. Bound in half leather with guilted spine. Edges rubbed and bumped. A few pages are slightly stained. Poggendorff IV, 1219. The Complete Volume includes 5 plates, VII, 568 pp. Also included in this volume for example: THOMSON, J.J., On the Discharge of Electricity through Exhausted Tubes without Electrodes. No. 197, pp. 321-336; No. 198, pp. 445-464. Poggendorff IV, 1499. THOMSON, W., On a Theorem in Plane Kinetic Trigonometry suggested by Gauss's Theorem of Curvatura Integra. No. 198, pp. 471-473; On Periodic Motion of a Finite Conservative System. No. 197, pp. 375-383; On Instability of periodic Motion, being a continuation of Article on Periodic Motion of a finite Conservative System. No. 199, pp. 555-560. Poggendorff IV, 1497. Sprache: Englisch.
Verlag: London Taylor & Francis, 1891
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In: The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science. Series 5 Vol. 31 = January-June 1891, No. 189, pp. 87-99. Bound in half leather. Spine missing. Edges rubbed and bumped. A few pages are slightly stained. Poggendorff IV, 1219. The Complete Volume includes 8 plates, VIII, 524 pp. Also included in this volume for example: THOMSON, J.J., Conductivity of Hot Gases. No. 189, pp. 135-136. On the Illustration of the Properties of the Electric Field by Means of Tubes of Electrostatic Induction. No. 190, pp. 149-171. Poggendorff IV, 1499. MICHELSON, A., On the Visibility of Interference-Fringes in the Focus of a Telescope. No. 190, pp. 256-259. Poggendorff IV, 1008. Sprache: Englisch.
Anbieter: Herman H. J. Lynge & Søn ILAB-ABF, Copenhagen, Dänemark
(London, Taylor and Francis, 1872). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions", 1871. Vol. 161- Part I. Pp. 77-118. Clean and fine. First appearance of an a milestone paper in the theory of accoustics - Lord Rayleigh's first paper on the theory of sounds.Certain references in Helmholtz's treatise "Lehre von der Tonempfindungen" "to the properties of acoustic resonators attracted his attention and led to his first elaborate research, reported in a long paper in the Philosophical Transactions (the paper offered). This article furnishes a clear indication of the method of thinking about problems that remained characteristic of all Rayleigh's later work. He endeavored to develop the mathematical theory of the subject in a form related as closely as possible to experimentally realizable situations, and then followed up the results by the attempt at direct experimental verification.In thsi paper Rayleigh first introduced the the useful concept of the 'Acoustic Conductivity' of an orifice. It has remained a standard acoustical quantity ever since, even if rather difficult to estimate theoretically for all sort of openings."(Robert Bruce Lindsay in his introduction to Rayleigh's Theory of Sound).
Verlag: London Taylor & Francis, 1892
Anbieter: Zentralantiquariat Leipzig GmbH, Leipzig, Deutschland
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In: The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science. Series 5 Vol. 33 = January-June 1892, No. 200 pp. 1-18. Bound in half leather with gilt-stamped label on spine. Edges rubbed and bumped. Spine a bit damaged. A few pages are slightly stained. Library-Stamp from Werner Siemens on title page. Poggendorff IV, 1219. The Complete Volume includes 8 plates, VII, 548 pp. Also included in this volume for example: Lord RAYLEIGH, Remarks on Maxwell's Investigation respecting Boltzmann's Theorem. No. 203, pp. 356-359. Lord RAYLEIGH, Experiments upon Surface-Films. No. 203, pp. 363-373. Lord RAYLEIGH, On the Theory of Surface Forces.-III. Effect of Slight Contaminations. No. 204, pp. 468-471. Lord KELVIN, On a Decisive Test-case disproving the Maxwell-Boltzmann Doctrine regarding Distribution of Kinetic Energy. No.204, pp. 466-467. Sprache: Englisch.
Verlag: London Taylor & Francis, 1892
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In: The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science. Series 5 Vol. 34 = July-December 1892, No. 206, pp. 59-70. Bound in half leather with gilt-stamped label on spine. Edges rubbed and bumped. Spine a bit damaged. A few pages are slightly stained. Library-Stamp from Werner Siemens on title page. Poggendorff IV, 1219. The Complete Volume includes 10 plates, VII, 536 pp. Also included in this volume for example: Lord RAYLEIGH, On the Instability of a Cylinder of Viscous Liquid under Capillary Force. No. 207, pp. 145-154. Lord RAYLEIGH, On the Instability of Cylindrical Fluid Surfaces. No. 207, pp. 177-180. DEWAR, J. and LIVEING, On the Spectrum of Liquid Oxygen, and on the Refractive Indices of Liquid Oxygen, Nitrous Oxide, and Ethylene. No. 207, pp. 205-209. Poggendorff IV, 326. MICHELSON, A.A., On the Application of Interference Methods to Spectroscopic Measurements. Part II. No. 208, pp. 280-299. Poggendorff IV, 1008. Lord RAYLEIGH, On the Intensity of Light reflected from Water and Mercury at nearly Perpendicular Incidence. No. 209, pp. 309-319. DEWAR, J. and J.A. FLEMING, On the Electrical Resistance of Pure Metals, Alloys, and Non-metals at the Boiling-point of Oxygen. No. 209, pp. 326-336. Poggendorff IV, 326. Sprache: Englisch.
Verlag: London Taylor & Francis, 1899
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In: The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science. Series 5 Vol. 48 = July-December 1899, No. 290, pp. 151-152. Bound in half leather with gilt-stamped label on spine. Edges rubbed and bumped. Spine a bit damaged. Endpapers and title page a bit stained. The Complete Volume includes 8 plates, VII, 576 pp. Also included in this volume are: Lord RAYLEIGH, Investigations in Capillarity: The Size of Drops; The Liberation of Gas from Supersaturated Solutions; Colliding Jets; The Tension of Contaminated Water. No. 293, pp. 321-337. Poggendorff IV, 1219. THOMSON, J.J., On the Masses of the Ions in Gases at Low Pressures. No. 295, pp. 547-567. Poggendorff IV, 1499. Lord KELVIN (W. Thomson), On the Application of Force within a Limited Space, required to produce Spherical Solitary Waves, or Trains of Periodic Waves, of both Species, Equivoluminal and Irrotational, in an Elastic Solid. No. 291pp. 227-236; Magnetism and Molecular Rotation. No. 291 pp. 236-239. Poggendorff IV, 1498. Sprache: Englisch.
Verlag: London Taylor & Francis, 1900
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In: The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science. Series 5 Vol. 49 = January-June 1900, No. 296, pp. 98-118. Bound in half leather with gilt-stamped label on spine. Edges rubbed and bumped. Spine a bit damaged. Endpapers and title page a bit stained. The Complete Volume includes VII, 576 pp. Also included in this volume are: Lord RAYLEIGH, On the Passage of Argon through thin Films of India-rubber, No. 297, pp. 220-221; On the Law of Reciprocity in Diffuse Reflexion, No. 298, pp. 324-325; Remarks upon the Law of Complete Radiation, No. 301, pp. 539-541. Poggendorff IV, 1219 and THOMSON, J.J., On Mr. Morris-Airey's Paper on Electrolytic Conduction in Gases, No. 299, pp. 404. Poggendorff IV, 1499. Sprache: Englisch.
Verlag: London Taylor & Francis, 1886
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In: The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science. Series 5 Vol. 22 = July-December 1886, No. 135, pp. 175-183. Bound in half leather with gilt-stamped label on spine. Edges rubbed and bumped. Spine rubbed and damaged. Plate 7 brown-spotted. Title page stained. Poggendorff VI, 1218. The Complete Volume includes 8 plates. VII, 544 pp. Also included in this volume are the following first editions: Lord Rayleigh, Notes on Electricity and Magnetism.- II. The Selfinduction and Resistance of Compound Conductors. No. 139, pp. 469-500. Poggendorff IV, 1218; BUNSEN, R.W., Decomposition of Glass by Carbon Dioxide held in Solution in Capillary Films of Water. No. 139, pp. 530-532. Poggendorff IV, 205; TOMLINSON, Ch., Further Remarks on Mr. Aitken's Theory of Dew. No. 136, pp. 270-272. Poggendorff IV, 1514: THOMPSON, S.Ph., Note on a Mode of maintaining Tuning Forks by Electricity. No. 135, pp. 216-219; Further Notes on the Formulae of the Electromagnet and the Equations of the Dynamo. No. 136, pp. 288-298. Poggendorff IV, 1494. Sprache: Englisch.
Verlag: London Taylor & Francis, 1890
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In: The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science. Series 5 Vol. 29 = January-June 1890, No. 176, pp. 1-17. Bound in half leather with gilt-stamped label on spine. Edges rubbed and bumped. Spine rubbed and damaged. Endpapers and some plates (on the edge) are a bit brown-spotted. Binding a bit loosened. Poggendorff VI, 1218. The Complete Volume includes 10 plates. VII, 524 pp. Also included in this volume are the following first editions: THOMSON, J.J., On the Passage of Electricity through Hot Gases. No. 179, pp. 358-366; No. 180, pp. 441-449. Poggendorff IV, 1499; TOMLINSON, H., The Effect of repeated Heating and Cooling on the Electrical Resistance of Iron. No. 176, pp. 77-83; The Villari Critical Points of Nickel and Iron. No. 180, pp. 394-400. Poggendorff IV, 1514; THOMSON, Sir W. (Lord Kelvin), On the Time-integral of a Transient Electromagnetically Induced Current. No. 178, pp. 276-280. Poggendorff IV, 1497. Also included in this Volume: The FIRST ENGLISH EDITION of RYDBERG, J., On the Structure of Line-Spectra of the Chemical Elements. No. 179, pp. 331-337. Sprache: Englisch.
Verlag: London Taylor & Francis, 1883
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In: The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science. Series 5 Vol. 16 = July-December 1883, No. 97, pp. 50-58. Bound in half leather with gilt-stamped title on spine. Edges rubbed and bumped. Spine damaged. Title page and some plates are brown-spotted. Lord Rayleigh, On Porous Bodies in relation to Sound. No. 99, pp. 181-186; On Laplace's Theory of Capillarity. No. 100, pp. 309-315. Poggendorff III, 1095. The complete Volume includes 8 plates. VII, 468 pp. Sprache: Englisch.
Verlag: London Taylor & Francis, 1874
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In: The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science. Series 4 Vol. 47 = January-June 1874, No. 310, pp. 81-93. Bound in half leather with gilt-stamped label on spine. Edges rubbed and bumped. Spine rubbed and with missing part. Endpapers and plates are stained. With very few underlining in the texts. The complete volume includes 4 plates. VIII, 472 pp. Also included in this volume is: Lord Rayleigh, On the Manufacture and Theory of Diffraction-gratings (concluded). No. 311, pp. 193-205. Poggendorff III, 1095. Sprache: Englisch.
Verlag: London Taylor & Francis, 1874
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In: The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science. Series 4 Vol. 48 = July-December 1874, No. 318, pp. 258-262. Bound in half leather with gilt-stamped label on spine. Edges rubbed and bumped. Spine damaged and with missing part. Endpapers, title page and plates are a bit stained. The complete volume includes 5 plates. VIII, 552 pp. Also included in this volume are the first editions of: LORD RAYLEIGH, On a Statistical Theorem (Part 1). No. 320, pp. 452-456. Poggendorff III, 1095. MILLS, E.J., On Gladstone's Experiments relating to Chemical Mass. No. 318, pp. 318-247. Poggendorff III, 916. WATTS, W.M., On the Spectrum of Carbon. No. 319, pp. 369-370; On Carbon Spectra. No. 320, pp. 456-457. Poggendorff III, 1420. THOMSON, W., On the Perturbations of the Compass produced by the rolling of the Ship. No. 319, pp. 363-369. Poggendorff III, 1343. Sprache: Englisch.