‎Brissaud (Sophie)‎
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‎Sootnoshenie svoistv s atomnym vesom elementov [i.e. On the Relation of the Properties to the Atomic Weights of the Elements]. In: Zhurnal Russkogo khimicheskogo obshchestva [i.e. Journal of the Russian Chemical Society], vol.1, parts II-III. - [THE PERIODIC TABLE OF THE ELEMENTS]‎

‎St. Petersburg, 1869. 8vo. Extract in contemporary or slightly later blank blue paper wrappers. Wrappers with neat professional restorations from verso, barely noticeable. A very fine and clean copy. Pp. 60-77. ‎

‎Exceedingly scarce first printing of Mendeleev’s seminal Russian Chemical Society-paper of March 1869, presenting for the first time the periodical table of the elements. “His newly formulated law was announced before the Russian Chemical Society in March 1869 with the statement “elements arranged according to the value of their atomic weights present a clear periodicity of properties.” Mendeleev’s law allowed him to build up a systematic table of all the 70 elements then known.” (Encycl. Britt.) “Early in 1869, Russian chemist Dmitrii Mendeleev was in a predicament many people are familiar with—he was facing a deadline. He had delivered the first volume of his inorganic chemistry textbook to his publisher but was struggling with how to organize the second volume. This struggle would culminate in a remarkable discovery, a system that classified all of the chemical elements. In March 1869, Mendeleev delivered a full paper to the Russian Chemical Society spelling out the most significant aspect of his system, that characteristics of the elements recur at a periodic interval as a function of their atomic weight. This was the first iteration of the periodic law.” (OSU) Mendeleev’s system was not yet perfect when it appeared in 1869, but it would prove to be one of the most fundamental of scientific laws, one that would hold true through new discoveries and against all challenges. Mendeleev not only recognized that what seemed to be a randomness of the elements fitted into a system, he also suggested that the gaps in his system would later be filled with elements yet unknown to the scientific world. The discovery of new elements in the 1870s fulfilled several of Mendeleev’s predictions and brought increased interest to the periodic system, making it an invaluable tool for research. “He had such faith in the validity of the periodic law that he proposed changes to the generally accepted values for the atomic weight of a few elements and predicted the locations within the table of unknown elements together with their properties. At first the periodic system did not raise interest among chemists. However, with the discovery of the predicted elements, notably gallium in 1875, scandium in 1879, and germanium in 1886, it began to win wide acceptance. Gradually the periodic law and table became the framework for a great part of chemical theory. By the time Mendeleev died in 1907, he enjoyed international recognition and had received distinctions and awards from many countries.” (Encycl. Britt.) Horblit 74 Barchas 1412 [Dibner 48 - citing the German translation of 1891]‎

‎On the Construction of Life-Tables, illustrated by a New Life-Table of the Healthy Districts of England. Received March 17, - Read April 7, 1859.‎

‎(London, Taylor and Francis, 1859). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1859 - Vol. 149 - Part II. With the titlepage to Part II. Pp. 837-878, 1 folded engraved plate, tables in the text. The plate slightly browned. It includes 1 typeset by the Scheutz calculator.Clean and fine.‎

‎First appearance of a pioneer paper in statistical calculations of life-expectations., containing THE VERY FIRST APPLICATION OF A DIFFERENCE ENGINE TO MEDICAL STATISTICS.""Farr's preliminary report (the paper offered), describing the use of the Scheutz Engine no. 3 to prepare life tables, was published 5 years before his ""English Life Table"". Farr, a pioneer in the quantitative study of morbidity and mortality, was chief statistician of the General Register Office, Englands central statistical office. Influenced by Babbage, he had long been interested in the use of a calculating machine, such as Babbage's Difference Engine to compute life tables"" see page 854 of the present report, in which Farr refers to his 1843 letter on the subject to the registrar-general. Farr had seen and tested the machine's predecessor, the Scheutz Engine No. 2, when it was on display in London. It was at Farr's recommandation that the British government authorized in 1857 the sum of Pound 1200 for the Scheutz Engine no. 3 to be constructed by the firm Bryan Donkin, a manufacturer of machines for the color printing of bank notes and stamps....Farr's printing report, received by the Royal Society on March 17 of that year, was written while Scheutz Engine no. 3 was still ""in the course of construction by Messr. Donkin"" (p. 854). The reports table B1, ""Life-Table of Healthy English Districts"", made from stereotype plates produced by the calculator, represents the very first application of a difference engine to medical studies.""(Hook and Norman, Origins of Cyperspace, No. 77.). - Garrison & Morton: 1700.1.‎

‎Voltaire G. of the Ancient and New Century people or the toilet table of the Ma‎

‎Voltaire G. of the Ancient and New Century people or the toilet table of the Marquess of Pompadour. Vadims tales of white and black Jeannotte and Colin and of French holidays. In Russian (ask us if in doubt)/Volter G. Drevnego i novogo veka lyudi ili ubornyy stol gospozhi markizshi Pompadur. Vadiny skazki beloy i chernoy Zhannot i Kolin i o prazdnikakh frantsuzskikh. Short description: In Russian (ask us if in doubt).1. Taken from the third part of his book Nouv. Melange hift. philof. et crit. published in 1765. Translated and attributed from the Translator to his friend O.P.K. S-Pb 1777 from the owners of the Weitbrecht and Schnoor printing houses. The initials of the future Minister of Internal Affairs Osip Petrovich Kozodavlev. We have thousands of titles and often several copies of each title may be available. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUalb33f8374be62585df‎

‎NEW COMPLETE POCKET-DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH AND GERMAN LANGUAGES CONTAINING ALL WORDS AND PHRASES OF GENERAL USE, THE TERMS OF SCIENCE AND ARTS OF BOTH LANGUAGES ETC. TO WHICH IS ADDED THE MARKING OF THE PRONUNCIATION AND ACCENTUATION ACCORDING TO WALKER AND A COMPLETE TABLE OF THE IRREGULAR VERBS OF THE TWO LANGUAGES / NEUES VOLLSTANDIGES TASCHENWORTERBUCH DER...,‎

‎, Leipsick / Leipzig, Charles Tauchnitz, 1832, Bound in plain brown leather, decorated inner platters, double title page, 115 x 170mm., (VII)315pp.‎

‎Bilingual edition. Stereotype edition. Zweite, verbesserte und vermehrte Stereotypausgabe. Binding is worn, first pages loose, stains.‎

‎Gagarin G. G. Brief chronological table in the manual of the history of Byzantin‎

‎Gagarin G. G. Brief chronological table in the manual of the history of Byzantine art. In Russian (ask us if in doubt)/Gagarin G. G. Kratkaya khronologicheskaya tablitsa v posobie istorii vizantiyskogo iskusstva. G.G.G. Tiflis B type. Chancellery of the Deputy of the Caucasus. 1856. 87 p. We have thousands of titles and often several copies of each title may be available. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUalb7b8a9f56db20a541‎