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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Experiments to Determine the Force of Fired Gunpowder | Benjamin Count of Rumford | Taschenbuch | 84 S. | Englisch | 2017 | hansebooks | EAN 9783337184360 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Hansebooks GmbH, Trakehner Weg 52, 22844 Norderstedt, gb[at]hansebooks[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 4th Edition. largecr8vo, [x], 464; [iv], 196pp, 6 full page engraved plates by Neele at end, and a further 6 wood engraved plates containing 14 figures, with an attractive engraved view of the Military Workhouse at Munich before essay one. Nineteenth century green binder's cloth, gilt. Name cut from title Vol. 1 not affecting text, old oval stamp of Kilmarnock Infirmary on title o/w VG+ tight and clean copy containing essays I through VI as often found.…

Third Edition. Very good copy in the original pictorial-printed, stiff-card wrappers; edges very slightly dust-dulled and nicked as with age. Internally crisp and fine. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 1 pages; Description: 1 vol. (continuous paging) ; 22 cm. Subject: Poor --Germany --Early works to 1800. 1 Kg.…

Hard Cover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. 8vo. First Edition, 498 pp + ad, 7 engraved plates, and many wood engraved ills in text. This 'new edition' of Vol 3. is in fact the first and only appearance in print (London) and supplements the 2 vols of Essays (first published 1796-7). There was a fourth volume published in 1812 (essays 16-18). In these essays (10-15) Rumford turns his attention to kitchens and cooking where, along with essays on warm rooms, warm bathing etc, he demonstrates his observation and theories on heat and heating. ESTC T148699. aeg, some foxing, mainly to to foredges, marbled eps. good tight copy in full straight grained red morocco, extremities worn, boards a little scuffed, corners lightly bumped but good. Please see photos supplied. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. xxiv, 390, [2] pages plus 14 engraved plates. 8vo. Brown library buckram with library label on spine. Library bookplate and deaccession stamp on front endpapers (US Patent Office surplus) otherwise clean internally (noting minor foxing throughout). Although marked Volume I, this was the only volume published under this title. Cloth. Contains various papers including Experiments on Gunpowder, Experiments made with Cannon and some attempts to improve Field Artillery, Experiments on Production of Air from Water, Intensities of Light emitted by Luminous Bodies, Experiments on Coloured Shadows, Conjectures respecting the Principles of the Harmony of Colours, Enquiry concerning Chemical Properties attributed to Light, etc. Thompson was well known for his technological innovation, and he studied gunpowder and illumination throughout his life. (DSB) In 1798 the same publisher issued a collection of Rumford's works called "Essays Political Economical and Philosophical" but we are unclear how much overlap there is in content. Under this title, this is the only volume issued.…

8vo. xi, [16], 498, ads [2] pp. 7 engraved plates, numerous woodcuts. Original full gilt-ruled calf; spine heavily restored, extremities worn, hinges neatly mended. Bookplates of James T. Bland, and Anne Willan. Very good. This is an early text on the kitchen and all heating implements relating to equipping the room for usage. Rumford, the noted physicist and inventor, describes kitchen fire-places, the roaster, dripping-pan, heating an iron oven, construction of boilers, steam cooking, warming rooms, saucepan heaters, portable furnaces, tea-kettles (p.301), kitchen utensils for the poor, "account of a concealed kitchen," chimneys, warm bathing, management of fires, use of steam as a vehicle for transporting heat, etc. Thompson is known also as the inventor of the coffee percolator (1806/1812), published in a later volume. PROVENANCE: Anne Willan (born 1938) is a recognized authority on French cooking, with more than 35 years of experience as a cooking teacher, cookbook author and food columnist. She is the founder of the prestigious Ecole de Cuisine La Varenne, which operated in Burgundy France from 1991 until 2007.…

(London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1804). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1804 - Part I. Pp. 77-182 and 2 engraved plates (showing his experimental apparatus). First and last leaves with some faint browning and brownspots. The plates with some browspots, mainly to margins. Wide-margined. First appearance of Rumford's second large paper on the mechanical equivalent of heat, in which he owerthrows the caloric theory. Rumford's early papers were importent steps towards the conception of the principle of the "Conservation of Energy" and the thermodynamical laws."The importence of this investigation here entered into, - inasmuch as it applies to most of the operations of nature as well as art, - appears so manifest, that we shall not recapitulate what the author advances on the subject. before he proceeds to the details of his experiments for the purpose oof computing the emissions of heat from various bodies under a variety of circumstances, he finds it necessary to prmise a minute description of the principal part of the apparatus he contrived for the purpose."(Abstract).In his famous paper of 1798 "An Inquiry Concerning the Source of Heat Which is Exicited by Friction" showed that heat is a form of motion and not a substance as it was seen in the 18th century."He had been lead to the hypothesis that friction is an inexhaustable source of heat while considering the boring of a canon at Munich's military arsenal and had proceeded to experiment with brass guns at the arsenal. The experiments confirm the hypothesis, justifying his conclusion that heat is not a material substance as others had believed. He goeson to equate heat to motion."(Parkinson in "Breakthroughs" 1798 P.). …

A Geneve, Biblioth. Britannique, 1797. 8vo. Contemp. marbled boards. Paperlabel with handwritten volume- title on spine. Boards rubbed. In: "Bibliotheque Britannique", Tome cinquieme. Sciences et Arts. A name cut from titlepage, no loss of letters. Entire volume offered. 392 pp., 4 folded tables a. 3 folded engraved plates. A faint dampstain to foot of titlepage, otherwise clean, printed on good paper. Rumford's paper: pp. 97-200 a. 1 engraved folded plate. First printing of the founding paper on Oceanography, describing the experiments leading to the discovery of the convection currents in the sea. Cold water at depth in the tropics implies a meriodinal circulation transporting deep water from the polar regions towards the equator. Water cooled at the surface in high latitudes gets denser and hence descends. (Parkinson "Breakthroughs" 1797).The volume also contains the first translation of any part (into French) of JAMES HUTTON "Theory of the Earth, &c. Théorie de la Terre, avec des preuves & des éclaircissemens" en guatre parties. (1.-2. Extrait).". Pp. 53-73 a. pp. 262-273. …