Tyndall john e (15 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. New York : D. Appleton January 1896 Binding: Trade Paperback.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Later edition. 12mo; x, 473 pages, half leather, marbled boards, head of spine chipped "In the Introduction, [Youmans] has attempted to show that a course of study, mainly scientific, not only meets the full requirements of mental training, but also affords the kind of culture or mental discipline which is especially needed in this country at the present time. . The organization of a scheme of study adapted to American wants is the educational problem, immediately before us, and the present volume, it is hoped, will contribute valuable suggestions toward its solution." - Preface.…

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Zustand: Sehr gut. Zustand: Sehr gut | Seiten: 496 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | The Culture demanded by Modern Life is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1870.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.…

Zustand: Hervorragend. Zustand: Hervorragend | Seiten: 496 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | The Culture demanded by Modern Life is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1870.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.…

(London, Taylor and Francis, 1874). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1874. Vol. 164. Pp. 183-244. Clean and fine. First printing of a classic paper on the theory of sound propagation, containing the famous fog signal experiments aiming at establishing fog-signals on the Coast of England. The investigations started from South Foreland near Dover at the signal-station.…

(London, Taylor and Francis, 1866). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions", Vol. 156 - Part I, pp. 1-24, textillustr. a. 1 lithographed plate. Plate with minot brownspots. First appearance of this mpirtent paper in which Tyndall shows that infrared radiant energy absorbed by matter emissed visible radiant energy. This transformation had not previously been observed. He also coined the word "Calorescence".These new effects had noting to do with fluorescence.…

(London, Taylor and Francis, 1859). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1859 - Vol. 149 - Part I. Pp. 261-278 a. 2 lithographed plates. some small brownspots to plates. + pp. 279-307, textillustrations. First printing of two classical papers on Glaciers.Tyndall's investigations on glacier actions is based on his work on the influence of mechanical pressure upon manifestations of magnetic force."Generalizing from the effects of pressure on slate led him to the sudy of glacial movement." in turn, glaciers fostered a passion for mountaineering and a fascination for what was to beome his major work - the effects of solar and, later jeat radfiation on atmospheric gases."(DSB XIII, p. 522).…

(London, Taylor and Francis, 1878). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1877, Vol. 167 - Part I. Pp. 149-206. Illustrations in the text. Clean and fine. First appearnace of this important paper in which Tyndall announced his discovery of fractional sterilization "Tyndallization"."In my last paper I made some remarks upon this subject" and in relation to our present experiments, the influence of drying and hardening was brought home to me by the fact that in all the foregoing cases the infusions which five minutes boiling proved sufficient to sterilize were, without exception, derived from fresh hay mowen in 1876, while the infusions which five minutes' boiling failed to sterilize were derived, without exception, from old hay mown either in 1875 or some previous year."(p. 159 in the paper)."Tyndall interested himself in atmospheric germs and dust. His experiments on sterilization by heat lead him to the discovery in 1877 (the paper offered) of fractional sterilization (Tyndallization).The reseraches of Tyndall, even more than those of Pasteur, dealt the final blow to the doctrine of spontaneous generation" they were fundamental for the progress of bacteriology."(Garrison & Morton 2495, listing his later book from 1881 "Essays on the floating-matter of the air.").During the 1870s Pasteur and Tyndall were in frequent communication.…