Rumford, Benjamin Thompson - Brown, Sanborn Conner: Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford. Cambridge, Massachusetts , London. M.I.T. Press 1979. Gr-8vo. 361 S. OLn. Einband leicht berieben, wenige Anstreichungen, sonst gut erhalten. , Sir Benjamin Thompson, Graf Rumford (1753 in North Woburn, Massachusetts - 1814 in Auteuil bei Paris) war ein britischer Offizier, Politiker, Experimentalphysiker und Erfinder. Er hatte bedeutenden Anteil an der Weiterentwicklung der Wärmelehre.
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped. Published by the MIT Press, 1979. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is very good. Dust jacket is very good with shelf/edgewear and tear on spine.100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 420218
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dark brown embossed cloth hardbound 8vo. dustwrapper in protective plastic. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. few faint age spots on top edge. erasure spot on front flyleaf, otherwise contents free of all markings. price clipped dustwrapper in near fine cond. few spots & smudges, teenytiny tear top rear corner. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking , underlining, remainder markings etc ~ first edition. first printing (nap). xii+361p. 2 appendices. notes. index. biography. world history. american history. natural philosophy. history of science. american revolution. espionage. cryptography. british empire. loyalists. politics. ~ Benjamin Thompson, later Count Rumford, was one of the most fascinating and complex men of his period (1753~1814). Soldier of fortune, spy, womanizer, brilliant scientist, intriguer, autocrat, inventor, adventurer, an American expatriated to England who did his most productive scientific work in Munich and who died in France, a man devoted to relieving the suffering of the poor~Rumford was all this and more, and Sanborn Brown's new biography makes clear that all these aspects merge into a whole human being. The man who conducted experiments on the caloric theory of heat and the ladies' man are one and the same, not different faces of a fractured personality. The book traces Rumford's life from his birth in a farmhouse near Boston through his education, his marriage to the richest widow in New Hampshire (at age 19), his espionage work for the Tories during the American Revolution, his understandable move to the European Continent after that revolution. Rumford was knighted by George III, and applied himself to reorganizing the Bavarian army. He later settled in England, founded the Royal Institution, and dallied with the high~born Lady Palmerston. The book closes with Rumford's move to Paris, his marriage to one of France's richest women, Mme. Lavoisier, widow of the famous chemist, and his subsequent death. Through all these years and events, Rumford also pursued his work in Natural Philosophy~science. Sanborn Brown, himself a physicist, lucidly explains Rumford's contributions to science. He points out that although Rumford's contributions to the physics of heat and light were important to "pure" science, Rumford himself was more interested in their applications to producing better kitchen stoves, for feeding the poor, and for making better lamps. In the same way, his studies on the mechanisms of heat flow had important theoretical implications, but they were presented to the public by Rumford~who, like Franklin, was one of the original popularizers of science~in terms of fireplace construction, making a better cup of coffee, and producing warmer clothes. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 3221101
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Zustand: Gut. Gr-8vo. 361 S. OLn. Einband leicht berieben, wenige Anstreichungen, sonst gut erhalten. / Sir Benjamin Thompson, Graf Rumford (1753 in North Woburn, Massachusetts - 1814 in Auteuil bei Paris) war ein britischer Offizier, Politiker, Experimentalphysiker und Erfinder. Er hatte bedeutenden Anteil an der Weiterentwicklung der Wärmelehre. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 15015FB
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. First Edition. 361 pages. Index. Reference notes. Black and white illustrations. Subject was "One of the most fascinating and complex men of his period (1753-1814). Soldier of fortune, spy, womanizer, autocrat, inventor, adventurer, an American expatriated to England who did his most productive scientific work in Munich and who died in France, a man devoted to relieving the suffering of the poor." - from dust jacket. Average wear. Usual library markings. Front free endpaper removed. Binding sound. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 815a1557
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