On Light as a Means of Investigation Second Course, Delivered at Aberdeen in December, 1884
Stokes, George Gabriel (1819-1903)
Verlag: Macmillan and Co., London, 1885
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18.5 x 13 cm. 12mo. 107pp. Bound in green cloth. Some fading to spine. Foxing to endpapers. Previous owner's bookplate on front fixed endpaper. Burnett Lectures, Second Course. Consisting of four lectures Stokes delivered at the University of Aberdeen in 1884 on optics, the second course of 3 published. Stoke's earliest work on light centered on the nature of the ether and the wave theory of light. His explanation of fluorescence from studying the blue color exhibited at the surface of an otherwise colorless solution of sulfate of quinine when viewed by transmitted light awarded him the Rumford Medal. Stokes also made contributions to pure mathematics relating to real world physical problems, hydrodynamics and the relationship of science to religion. Uncommon work. DSB XIII. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 66980
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Titel: On Light as a Means of Investigation Second ...
Verlag: Macmillan and Co., London
Erscheinungsdatum: 1885
Einband: Hardcover
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On light. Second Course, on light as a means of investigation. Delivered at Aberdeen in December, 1884.
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Series: Burnett Lectures. 8vo. (187 x 128 mm) vi, 107 pp. Original black-stamped green cloth; spine darkened, covers lightly soiled. Ownership signature of W.N. Stocker and gift bookplate of "The Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford, from the bequest of W. N. Stocker, Esq., M.A., Brasenose College / 1949." Very good. FIRST EDITION. George Stokes made most of his original contributions to science in his early years; afterwards, administrative duties occupied more and more of his time. Stokes was a leading authority on the subject of light, but he never fulfilled the expectations of his contemporaries by publishing a treatise on optics. For this reason, Stokes's lectures On light were highly anticipated. "In 1883 Stokes was appointed, under a new scheme, Burnett lecturer at Aberdeen, and delivered three courses of lectures on 'Light' (1883-85), which were published in three small volumes (1884-87). . . The theme in all these courses was treated from the point of view of natural theology, as the terms of the foundations required." [DNB]. Sir George Stokes was the Lucasian Professor of mathematics at Cambridge University; in 1854 Stokes became secretary of the Royal Society; in 1885 he was elected President of the Royal Society. Stokes was the first to hold all three offices since Sir Isaac Newton. DNB, 1901-1911, pp. 421-24; DSB Vol. XIII, pp. 64-79. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers S9679
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