Darwin gh (46 Ergebnisse)
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Century Mag, 1890
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Verlag: The Century Company, NY, 1890
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Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, London, 1879
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Verlag: Leipzig, Verlag von B.G. Teubner, 1908
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In den Warenkorbwrappers, 8vo 83 pp. dynamische theorie von S.S. Hough; praktische Anwendungen; Untersuchungen; Flutreibung und spekulative Astronomie; good condition.

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Verlag: John Murray, 1911
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Verlag: Leipzig, B. G. Teubner, 1908., 1908
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Verlag: John Murray, 1911
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Verlag: Century Magazine, 1890
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Verlag: Washington, Government Printing Office, 1898
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Verlag: Macmillan & Co., London, 1893
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In den WarenkorbSoft cover. Zustand: Good. DARWIN, G.H. "Reduction of Tidal Observations", in "Nature, a Weekly Illustrated Journal of Science", vol 47 no. 1217, 23 February 1893, pp 402-3 in the complete weekly issue of pp385-408. This is the full weekly issue extracted from a larger bound volume, offered with the (detached) original wrappers and ads. GOOD copy. This comes close to Darwin's work (on Lord Kelvin's work) of an analog tide predictor, but in this case Darwin is dealing with the gathering of data and ways in which good numbers could be collected without using a numbing mountain of inputs.…
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In den WarenkorbZustand: VG. London 1883. Report prepared for the British Association for the Advancement of Science. Octavo, 70pp., rebound in later wraps. VG.

Niels Bohr And The Development Of Physics. Essays Dedicated To Niels Bohr On The Occasion Of His 70Th Birthday
Pauli, Wolfgang, With L. Rosenfeld And V. Weisskopf (Editors); C. Gh. Darwin, Werner Heisenberg, Wolfgang Pauli, L. Rosenfeld, H. B. G. Casimir; F. L. Friedman And Victor Weisskopf; John A. Wheeler; J. Lindhard
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In den WarenkorbHardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Vii, 195 Pp. Green Cloth Stamped In Silver. First American Printing, "First Published 1955" On Copyright Page. Near Fine, Slight Foxing On Edges Of Endpapers.
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In den WarenkorbHardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1889. London: Published for the Royal Society by Trubner and Co. 4to. Hardcover. 69pp. VG. Tan boards are slightly rubbed; contents clean. (L).
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Niels Bohr And The Development Of Physics. Essays Dedicated To Niels Bohr On The Occasion Of His 70Th Birthday
Pauli, Wolfgang, With L. Rosenfeld And V. (Victor) Weisskopf (Editors); C. Gh. Darwin, Werner Heisenberg, Wolfgang Pauli, L. Rosenfeld, H. B. G. Casimir; F. L. Friedman And Victor Weisskopf; John A. Wheeler; J. Lindhard
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Verlag: Leipzig Teubner, 1907
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In den Warenkorb83 S. Ohne Umschl. (Encykl. d. math. Wiss. 6/1/B). Sprache: Deutsch 0 gr.

Verlag: Royal Society of London, London, 1880
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In den WarenkorbHardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. x, 419 pp.; iv, 421-1092 pp. 51 plates. 4to. Library binding, tan leather spine with gold embossed titling. Interiors clean, ex-library stamp on title page, and occurring sporadically within. Numerous folding plates that illustrate articles. Pages were trimmed slightly when rebound. George H. Darwin's (1845-1912) "Resonance Theory" of the origin of the moon, according to which the moon might have originated from the fission of a parent earth as the result of an instability produced by resonant solar tides. Also contains William Huggins's paper on stellar spectrum photography, "On the Photographic Spectra of Stars.".…
Weitere BilderMaxwell, "On a Possible Mode of Detecting a Motion of the Solar System through the Luminiferous Ether. In a Letter to Mr. D. P. Todd," DARWIN, "On the Secular Changes in the Elements of the Orbit of a Satellite Revolving About a Tidally Distorted Planet."
MAXWELL, James Clerk; and George Howard Darwin, and others. ++Maxwell and the Michelson-Morley Experiment AND GH Darwin's "Monumental" Paper++
Verlag: London, Harrison & Sons, 1880
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In den WarenkorbHardcover. Zustand: Fine. MAXWELL, James Clerk. And George Howard Darwin. "On a Possible Mode of Detecting a Motion of the Solar System through the Luminiferous Ether. In a Letter to Mr. D. P. Todd," in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London; London, Harrison & Sons, Vol. XXX, No. 200, December 1879 July, 1880; ix, 599pp, with the Maxwell on pp 108-110. Beautifully and newly rebound in calf-backed marbled boards. There is some very occasional foxing here and there, but only for a few pages at a time (see photo). [++] The paper by (the deceased) Maxwell is actually not quite a paper by Maxwell, but a report by George Stokes on a letter that Maxwell wrote to D(avid) P(eck) Todd, so of course the content belongs to Maxwell, the resulting impact of which was providing a basis for the Michelson-Morley experiment. " Then in his article Ether for the Encyclopedia Britannica he again reviewed the problem of motion through the ether. The only possible earth-based experiment was to measure variations in the velocity of light on a double journey between two mirrors. Maxwell concluded that the time differences in different directions would be too small to detect. He proposed another method from timing the eclipses of the moons of Jupiter, which he later described in more detail in a letter to the American astronomer D. P. Todd, published after his death in the Royal Society Proceedings [the paper offered here] and in Nature. His statements there about the difficulties of the earth-based experiment served as a challenge to the young Albert Michelson, who at once invented his famous interferometer to do it."--Complete DSB online (Maxwell) [++] Also in this volume is: G.H, Darwin, "On the Analytical Expressions which give the History of a Fluid Planet of Small Viscosity, attended by a Single Satellite" on pp 255-278 AND "On the Secular Changes in the Elements of a Satellite revolving about a Tidally Distorted Planet" pp 1-10, which is Darwin's "resonance theory" on the origin of the Moon being a product of fissioning from Earth the Earth theoretically at one time spinning so rapidly that centrifugal force spun out material into orbit which would then become the Moon. This is different from the "resonance theory" of Charles Darwin, on the similarity of cross-species interpretation of rhythm. ["Another group of papers, dated from 1879 to 1880, are concerned with the tides in viscous spheroids, and still show the influence of both Kelvin and Laplace, although their scope is more general. In his paper of this series, On the Precession of a Viscous Spheroid and on the Remote History of the Earth (1879), Darwin proposed the resonance theory of the originated from the fission of a parent earth as the result of an instability produced by resonant solar tides. His monumental paper On the Secular Changes in the Elements of the Orbit of a Satellite Revolving About a Tidally Distorted Planet was published in 1880 [the paper offered here]. [++] AND: William Crookes, "On a Fourth State of Matter" pp 469-472.…

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In den Warenkorbhardcover. Zustand: very good. London, Murray 1901. Octavo publisher's gilt cloth; 20,346pp, 43 illustrations. A rather good, bright copy. Second edition with corrections, additions and revisions - not the least being Darwin's change of opinion as to the actual measurement of the moon's attraction on the earth's surface. "A masterpiece of semi-popular scientific exposition" according to James Jeans in the DNB, it is based on his 1897 Lowell Institute lectures and is, in a way, a summary of the theories and investigations that occupied most of his working life. Darwin published his first papers on tides and tidal friction in the 1870's (his method of harmonic analysis was in use for decades in many parts of the world) and over the years his focus widened to encompass the formation of the solar system and of star systems. # Customers in the EU should email first.…

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The different methods of lifting and carrying the sick and injured 1888 [LeatherBound]
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh Darwin G. H. (George Henry)
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In den Warenkorb(London, Harrison and Sons, 1890). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions", Vol. 180 - A. Pp. 1-69. 2 textillustr. Clean and fine. First printing."Darwin's most significant contribution to the history of science lies in his pioneering work in the application of detailled dynamical analysis to cosmological and geological problems. That many of his conclusions are now out of date should in no way diminish the historical interest in his experiments, nor the importent service thet he rendered cosmogony by the example he gave of putting various hypotheses to the test of actual calculations. Darwin's method remains a milestone in the development of cosmogony, and subsequent investigators have favored it over the merely qualitative arguments prevalent until that time."(DSB).…
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In den WarenkorbCambridge 1907-1916. Four (of five) volumes in four. Large 8vo (26.0 x 17.4 cm). 2240 pp., numerous figures. Original uniform dark blue buckram. Spines with gilt title. = The works of Darwin's second son, with his own evolution theory, about the origin of the moon! Sir George Howard Darwin (1845-1912) was the fifth child of Charles Darwin. After studying mathematics at Cambridge he read for the Bar, but soon returned to science and to Cambridge, where in 1883 he was appointed Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy. His work was concerned primarily with the effect of the sun and moon on tidal forces on Earth, and with the theoretical cosmogony which evolved from practical observation: he formulated the fission theory of the formation of the moon (that the moon was formed from still-molten matter pulled away from the Earth by solar tides). He also developed a theory of evolution for the Sun-Earth-Moon system based on mathematical analysis in geophysical theory. In total, five volumes were published, of which these are the first four. The fifth contains additions. They are all very scarce. Do not confuse this original edition with the inferior (size-reduced) Krauss reprint or modern soft cover reprints. Ex library with stamps, and wear to spine feet; otherwise, very good.…
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In den WarenkorbLondon, the Royal Society, 1882. 4to. iv, [vii], 357 pp., 18 lithographed plates. Original blind-stamped cloth, gilt titles on spine. = Published in the famous Transactions of the Royal Society (PMM 148). The paper by the second son of Charles Darwin, the astronomer Sir George Howard Darwin (1845-1912), occupies 45 pp., a bound in slip to correct a word therein, and a loose leaf with corrections to Darwin's paper. Other papers are by W. K. Brooks on the Lucifer, Young and Forbes on the velocity of white and coloured light, and some others. Some slight rubbing to the boards, otherwise a clean, nicely bound copy.…
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In den Warenkorb(London, Harrison and Sons, 1888). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1887 - Vol. 178 - Series A. Pp. 378-428 and 2 plates. First printing of one of Darwin's major papers on the Nebular Hypoyhesis and the evolution of celestial systems.Following his accession to the Plumian chair Darwin delved even more deeply into the problems of the origin and evolution of the solar system, making numerous investigations of the figures of equilibrium of rotating masses of fluid and, later, making extensive studies of periodic orbits in the restricted problem of three bodies, carried out with special reference to cases obtaining for the particular values of the mass ratio of the two finite bodies of 1:10 and 1:1048 (the latter approximating the mass ratio of Jupiter to that of the sun). (DSB)."Darwin's most significant contribution to the history of science lies in his pioneering work in the application of detailled dynamical analysis to cosmological and geological problems. That many of his conclusions are now out of date should in no way diminish the historical interest in his experiments, nor the importent service thet he rendered cosmogony by the example he gave of putting various hypotheses to the test of actual calculations. Darwin's method remains a milestone in the development of cosmogony, and subsequent investigators have favored it over the merely qualitative arguments prevalent until that time."(DSB).…
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In den WarenkorbSoft cover. Zustand: Very Good. DARWIN, G.H. "On the Precession of a Viscous Spheroid and on the Remote History of the Earth", offprint from Philosophical Transactions, part II, 1879, pp 437-538. Original wrappers. Some discoloration around front wrapper edges, other a VG copy. __+__ "Before Kuiper revived the double planet thesis, George Darwin, son of the famous British naturalist, had in 1878 advanced an attractive alternative. Drawing on the pronounced tidal effects exerted between the earth and moon, Darwin speculated that the moon's mass had been ejected from a fluid and rapidly spinning protoearth when centrifugal force and solar tides, acting on matter in the earth's equatorial plane, exceeded the force of gravity. In time, the moon moved out to its present orbit and attained its coincident period of rotation and revolution as a result of tidal interactions between the two bodies."--NASA History Online, "LUNAR IMPACT: A History of Project Ranger Appendix A, LUNAR THEORY BEFORE 1964".__+__ "The first modern idea about the formation of the Moon was called the fission theory, and it came from George Darwin, the son of Charles Darwin.He reasoned the Moon must have broken away from our planet, when the Earth was still a rapidly rotating ball of molten rock."--Fraser Cain, "How Did the Moon Form?" Universe Today.…