1937-1939 (reprint 1965) 108 p., several figures and plates, dark green cloth. This is a collected reedition of the first five issues of The Falconer. We added The Falconer 1987 (1988), paperbound. (64 p., illustrations).
Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences - Barton J. Bernstein - Isobel Falconer on J.J. Thomson - Naomi Oreskes - Pierre Quédec on Weiss - Alexander Rüger on Erwin Schrodinger
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(1988)
University of California Press, History of Science and Technology , Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1988 Book condition, Etat : Bon paperback, editor's white wrappers, title in blue grand In-8 1 vol. - 183 pages
few black and white illustrations and text-figures 1st edition, 1988 Contents, Chapitres : Barton J. Bernstein : Four physicists and the bomb : The early years - Isobel Falconer : J.J. Thomson's work on positive rays, 1906 - 1914 - Naomi Oreskes : The rejection of continental drift - Pierre Quédec : Weiss' magneton : The sin of pride or a venial mistake - Alexander Rüger : Atomism from cosmology : Erwin Shrödinger's work on wave mechanics and space-time structure plastified wrappers, transparent, else near fine, no markings - pages 232 to 414