The Mysterious Universe

Sir James Jeans, Walter Murch decorations + eps.

Verlag: The MacMillan Company, 1930

Beschreibung

Very Good Hardcover First Ed. 3rd printing from 1930 with exquisite Walter Murch Endpapers and decorations throughout. Rare celestial photo frontis takedn with the Mount Wilson telescope(the largest in the world at the time). Collectible cond ition with one stamp"Gift" 163 pp. Black boards with orange decoration and lettering. B&W illus. Binding is tight and square. Pages are clean and unmarked, Author James Jeans (1877-1946) was a respected Cambridge mathematician and astronomer, best known for his work on rotating, gravitational bodies, "a problem of fundamental importance that had already been tackled by some of the leading mathematicians" (ODNB), and the motions, structures, and life-cycles of stars and stellar clusters. "In 1928 Jeans's academic work Astronomy and Cosmogony came to the attention of S. C. Roberts, the secretary of Cambridge University Press, who appreciated the general interest of its subject matter and the attraction of Jeans's writing style. He persuaded Jeans to write a popular account, The Universe Around Us, which was published by the press in 1929" (ODNB). Jeans's popularity as a writer "depended partly on his topic-new, thought provoking views of the universe-and partly on his style, which combined an authoritative knowledge of the subject with a vivid turn of phrase" (ODNB). The present volume was the second of Jeans's works for a general readership, and is an expanded version of the Rede Lecture he gave at Cambridge in 1930. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 701

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Mysterious Universe

Verlag: The MacMillan Company

Erscheinungsdatum: 1930

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket

Auflage: 1st Edition.