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‎On an Integrating Machine having a New Kinematic Principle. (James Thomson). (+) On an Instrument for calculating (.........), the Integral of the Product of two given Functions. (+) Mechanical Integration of the Linear Differential Equations of the S...‎

‎London, Taylor and Francis, 1876-79. Witout wrappers as three issues from ""Proceedings of the Royal Society of London"", Vol. 24, No. 167+ Vol. 27, No.187+ Vol. 28, No. 191. Pp. 250-344, pp. 284-408 a. pp. 103-232. Papers: In No. 167:pp. 262-265 (James Thomson), pp. 266-68, pp. 269-271, pp. 271-275. In No. 187: pp. 371-373. In No. 191: pp. 111-113 (W. Thomson). Titlepages to vols. 24, 27 a. 28 present. 2 papers with textillustrations.‎

‎First appearance of all the 6 founding papers around the invention of the ""Harmonic Analyzer"" and with the mathematical theory for the differential analyzor, containing both the mathematical theories and the practical descriptions of the analyzer and further also having the paper by Lord Kelvin's brother (the first paper offered) in which the machinery is shown for the first time.""A ball and disk integrator was the vital invention needed to build the FIRST AUTOMATIC ANALOG COMPUTING MACHINES. Lord kelvin used this integrator -devised for a planimeter in the 1860s by his brother, James Thomson - on two new kinds of analog computers: a harmonic analyzer and a tide predictor. he later specified a more general machine - a differential analyzer.""(Eames in ""A Computer Perspective"").""The harmonic analyzer was used in conjunction with Thomson's tide predictor...The present paper (""Harmonic Analyzer"") contains the first full description of the harmoniz analyzer, which was ""designed rudimentally"" (p. 371) in Thomson's ""On an integrating machine having a new kinematic principle""(also offered here),,,,James Thomson's integrator - ""one of the first really workable integrating devices"" (Williams 1985, 207) - served as the basis for other analog machines designed by William Thomson for solving simultaneous linear equations and integrating differential equations. Thomson first described such a machine, composed of several Thomson integrators connedted together, in his paper on ""Mechanical integration of the linear differentialequations of the decond order...."" (also offred here)"" however the ""idea could then hardly be carried out, forone reason because an integrator, which is simply a variable- speed drive, could not then be buitl both accurate and capable of carrying sufficient load to move numerous mechanical parts"" (Bush 193, 450). The full realization of Thomson's idea did not come until fifty years later, when Vannevar Bush invented the torque amplifier for use in his differential analyzer.""(Hook and Norman).‎

‎The Tordenskjold-expedition. 71 albumen prints from the 1860'ies to 1873. - [FINE COLLECTION OF EARLY PHOTOGRAPHS FROM EAST-ASIA DOCUMENTING THE LAYDOWN OF THE FIRST TELEGRAPH CABLES IN EAST-ASIA]‎

‎1870-1872. Folio-oblong (395 x 320 mm). Original brown half calf, recased - the original cloth (with gilt lettering to the front) has been expertly mounted on to the new boards, and most of the original gilt leather spine has been preserved over a perfectly matching new lovely brown half calf. ""Tordenskjold / 1870 - 1873"" in gilt lettering, partly worn of, to front board. End-papers renewed. 71 albumen print in various sizes and by various photographers (see below) mounted on 59 contemporary white cardboard leaves (measuring 370 x 310 mm), all re-hinged. The album was water-damaged at some point, but has been expertly and neatly retored and appears in overall very good condition with good tones. 1, Oval photo of Tordenskjold (205 x 60mm) 2, Photo of Tordenskjold (190 x 143 mm) 3, Crew aboard Tordenskjold (200 x 14 mm) 4, Crew aboard Tordenskjold (157 x 128 mm) 5, Crew and equipment aboard Tordenskjold (228 x 176 mm) 6, Naval officers about Tordenskjold (167 x 130 mm). 7, 8 small photos of various places on one plate (274 x 190 mm) 8, The harbor of Port Said. By Hippolyte Arnoux (247 x 190mm) 9, Muddigging machines in the channel of Port Said. By Hippolyte Arnoux. (245 x 190mm) 10, Port Said. By Hippolyte Arnoux. 11, Malta (262 x 207 mm) 12, Two photos of Malta (each measuring 134 x 120 mm) 13, Two photos of Gibraltar (Each measuring 148 x 114) 14, Deep Water Bay, Hong Kong (194 x 130 mm). 15, Two photos depicting telegraph-house and ships in Deep Water Bay (each measuring 150 x 112) 16, Boat with people. By Felice Beato, coloured (294 x 235 mm) 17, House next to river. By John Thomson, December 1870 (278 x 225 mm) 17, Seamen’s hospital in Hong Kong. (261 x 190 mm) 18, Hong Kong. (270 x 195 mm) 19, Hong Kong, by Floyd (270 x 192 mm) 20, Hong Kong, by Floyd (240 x 190 mm) 21, Two photos of sites in Hong Kong (each measuring 165 x 127 mm) 22, Five Persians in Hong Kong (215 x 244 mm) 23, Group of women in Hong Kong, (326 x 215 mm) 24, Two photos of Hong Kong harbour, one photo depicting “Cella” (182 x 105" 130 x 98 mm) 25, Villa at Canton. (264 x 190 mm) 26, Pagode in Xuexiu Park, Guangdong. By William Pryor Floyd. (195 x 246 mm) 27, Boats in Canton. William Pryor Floyd,(270 x 223 mm) 28, Pou-Ting-Qua’s Garden, Canton. By John Thomson. (289 x 230 mm) 29, Fields in Canton. (205 x 155 mm) 30, Houses in Canton. (267 x 210 mm) 31, Canton harbor. By John Thomson. (245 x 202 mm) 32, Boat on the Canton river. (274 x 204 mm) 33, Wall around Canton. (260 x 200 mm). 34, Boats in Canton (293 x 225) 35, Telegraphstation in Woosung. (150 x 110 mm) 36, Boats in Foochow. (287 x 232 mm) 37, Temple in Foochow. By John Thomson (190 x 237 mm) 38, Pagode in Foochow. Presumably by John Thomson. (287 x 220 mm). 39, Tomb of Fou Tcheou. By John Thomson. (290 x 225 mm). 40, Temple in Shanghai. (237 x 188 mm). 41, Shanghai. (232 x 176 mm) 42, Chaochow bridge, Kwangtung. By John Thomson. (266 x 204 mm). 43. Panorama of Nagasaki consisting of two photos. (371 x142 mm) 44, Two photos of Nagasaki. Felice Beato. (Each measuring 169 x 119 mm). 45, Two photos from Nagasaki. Presumably by Felice Beato. (Each measuring 165 x 118 mm) 46, Two photos from Nagasaki. Presumably by Felice Beato. (Each measuring 165 x 118 mm) 47, Temple in Nagasaki. Presumably by Felice Beato. (169 x 118 mm). 48, Photo of Japanese woman in kimono. By Felice Beato. (205 x 255 mm). 49, Two photos of officers in house in Yokohama. (162 x 125 mm). 50, The Abbot and Monks of Kushan Monastery. By John Thomson. (287 x 204 mm). 51, Wooden structure, presumably Nagasaki. Presumably by Felice Beato. (270 x 208 mm) 52, Pagode, presumably Nagasaki. Presumably by Felice Beato. (234 x 185 mm) 53, Cityscape with lake, presumably Nagasaki. Presumably by Felice Beato.. (280 x 228 mm). 54, Two photos, cemetery and stairs to temple. By Felice Beato. (Each measuring 168 x 118 mm). 55, People standing outside house, presumably Hong Kong. By John Thomson. (185 x 155 mm) 56, Guangzhou Great Norh Gate, Canton. By John Thomson (245 x 156 mm). 57, Two photos, one of the building of a telegraph station (presumably in Wladivostok) and a view of Wladivostok from the sea (154 x 123 130 x 99 mm). 58, Seascape of two ships. (130 x 140 mm). 59, Ship laying for anchor. (170 x 123 mm)‎

‎Exceedingly rare photo-album documenting the Danish vessel Tordenskjold’s mission in laying the very first telegraph cables in East Asia thereby connecting China and Japan to the global telegraph system. The album consists of photos taken aboard the vessel Tordenskjold, of Tordenskjold itself along with its crew, by an unknown photographer, and of photographs of the visited cities and surrounding areas by some of the finest photographers operating in East Asia at the time, such as John Thomson, William Floyd, Felice Beato and, in Egypt, Hippolyte Arnoux - all photographs presumably brought home by William Lund, Captain on board Tordenskjold. The present album depicts a pivotal moment in international relations and communications and does so through some of the earliest photos taken in China, Japan, and of the excavation of the Suez Canal. Submarine telegraph cables were first brought to China by Danish magnate Carl Fredrick Tietgen (1829-1901), a Dane who in 1870 set up the Great Northern China and Japan Extension Company. The company was created to build and operate a telegraph cable linking Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Japan with each other, and on to Vladivostok on Russia's east coast. From Vladivostok, a cable ran along the Trans-Siberian Railway, linking Hong Kong to telegraph networks in Britain, Europe, and America. Tietgen fought off strong, primarily English, competition and eventually won the concession to lay and operate new telegraph cables connecting Russia, China and Japan. It was a grand and risky project Tietgen and his partners were embarking on. Undersea cables would need to be laid in waters that had not been sounded, and cables were to be brought ashore on coasts where the prevailing conditions were not known and it was uncertain whether the respective governments would grant permission. Everything – cables, stations, wire, and apparatus – was to be brought from Europe and had to function as a coherent system. Two chartered English steamships ‘Cella’ and ‘Great Northern’ were to transport and lay the cables, and the propeller-driven Danish frigate ‘Tordenskjold’ was to sound the waters near Nagasaki and Vladivostok and also carry a relative small amount of cables and keep uninvited guests - which the South China Sea had plenty of – away. “As a small nation with negligible military resources, Denmark could provide a useful – politically neutral – centre for telegraph links to major European powers such as Britain, Russia and the emerging new power of Prussia. The Danes were able to utilize the technical know-how which had been accumulated with great difficulty, and occasionally heavy economic losses, in the preceding decades by British and American entrepreneurs. The competition between the Danish and British groups of telegraph entrepreneurs for first access to the Chinese market was preliminarily resolved when the directors of the two companies negotiated a secret agreement in May 1870. The Danish group had acquired an advantage in terms of timing by winning the Russian concession in 1869, and had to cover shorter distances by sea cables from Vladivostok to Nagasaki and Shanghai. But the British group had the advantage of better access to capital and a more extensive technical experience with submarine cable manufacture and operation. The essence of the agreement was that the line between Hong Kong and Shanghai should be established and operated by the Great Northern the companies would share the income for telegrams which passed this section of the line and they would run offices in Hong Kong and Shanghai jointly. The agreement provided the Danes with assured landing rights in Hong Kong and with British diplomatic support for attempts to secure landing rights in China. Permission to bring submarine telegraph cables into Chinese treaty ports was obtained in 1870 from the Chinese Government (i.e., the office of foreign affairs, known as the Zongli Yamen) by the British Minister in Peking, Thomas Wade. At the same time, the Danish government had dispatched a diplomatic envoy, Chamberlain Julius Sick, at the Great Northern’s expense to China and Japan to obtain the necessary concessions. The cable between Hong Kong and Shanghai was laid in 1870–1871 with the assistance of the frigate Tordenskjold, which the Danish government had generously allocated to the task. The Great Northern had a great deal of technical problems with the cables they had bought from the British manufacturer since the quality of the insulation was not as good as expected. Therefore, the official opening of the line between Shanghai and Hong Kong was delayed until April 1871. During the remainder of that year the company struggled to finish cable sections from Shanghai to Nagasaki, and from Nagasaki to Vladivostok. Communication between Shanghai and Europe via these cables and the Russian Siberian lines was officially inaugurated on 1 January 1872.” (Erik Baark: Wires, Codes and People The Great Northern Telegraph Company in China 1870–90) The album covers and illustrates one on the most fascinating periods in the process of internationalization in the late modern period: The Suez Canal had just opened and ‘Tordenskjold’ was the first Danish ship to sail through it. The submarine cables linked the major hubs in East Asia to the Western world and helped facilitate an unprecedented growth in the region. Overall, the laying of the submarine cable in 1870-71 was a transformative event for East Asia in general. It played a critical role in the area's economic and social development, helping to make it the global commercial center it is today. ‎

‎On the Thermal Effects of Fluids in Motion. Received June 15, - Read June 16, 1853.‎

‎(London, Richard Taylor and William Francis, 1853) 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1853, Vol. 143 - Part III. Pp. 357-365. Textillustrations. Clean and fine.‎

‎First appearance of this highly importent paper in the development of thermodynamics, describing the experiments leading to the discovery of the cooling effect when a gas is allowed to expand freely. This is the founding theory, later used in refrigeration.""The only substantial contribution to thermodynamics to which the joint names of Joule and Thomson are attached belongs to an idea conceived by Thomson, who saw the possibility of analyzing the deviations of gas properties from the ideal behavior. In particular a non-ideal gas, made to expand slowly through a porous plug so as to approximate a specified mathematical condition - constant enthalpy), would in general undergo cooling (essentially a transformation of atomic motion into work spent against the interatomic attractions)....But the appliocation of the Joule-Thomson effect to technology of refrigeration belongs to a later stage in the development of thermodynamics.""(DSB VII, p. 182).The Joule-Thomson effect or Joule-Kelvin effect describes the increase or decrease in the temperature of a real gas (as differentiated from an ideal gas) or a liquid when allowed to expand freely through a valve or other throttling device while kept insulated so that no heat is transferred to or from the fluid, and no external mechanical work is extracted from the fluid. The Joule-Thomson effect is an isenthalpic process, meaning that the enthalpy of the fluid is constant (i.e., does not change) during the process. It is named for James Prescott Joule and William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin who established the effect in 1852, following earlier work by Joule on Joule expansion in which a gas expands at constant internal energy. The Joule-Thomson effect is sometimes referred to as the Joule-Kelvin effect. Engineers often refer to it as simply the J-T effect. ‎

‎On the Mathematical Theory of Electricity in Equilibrium, On the Elementary Laws of Statical Electricity. - [ANTICIPATION OF THE QUADRANT ELECTROMETER THE PORTABLE ELECTROMETER, AND THE ABSOLUTE ELECTROMETER]‎

‎Cambridge, Macmillan and Co., 1846. 8vo. Bound with the original front wrapper in contemporary half calf with black and red title labels to spine with gilt lettering. In ""The Cambridge and Dublin Mathematical Journal"", Vol. I [1], (Being Vol. V [5], of the Cambridge Mathematical Journal), 1846. Bookplate pasted on to pasted down front free end-paper and library code written in hand to lower part of spine. Library cards in the back. A fine and clean copy. Pp. 75-96. [Entire volume: IV, 288, VIII pp.].‎

‎First English translation (and first translation in general) with 'considerable additions' (as stated on p. 75) of Thomson's highly influential paper in which he for the very first time occupies himself with - and anticipates the invention of - the quadrant electrometer, the portable electrometer, and the absolute electrometer. ""When resident in Paris he published in Lionville's Journal a paper [first publication of the present], in which he examined the experiments and deductions of Sir. W. Snow-Harris. This investigator had made an experimental examination of the fundamental laws of Coulomb. Thomson showed by pointing out the defects of Harris' electrometer that the results, instead of disproving these laws, actually confirmed them, so far as they went, from this examination dates Thomson's interest in electrometers, which led to the invention of the quadrant electrometer, the portable electrometer, and the absolute electrometer. "" (Lectures on Ten British Physicists of the Nineteenth Century, P. 57).""Thomson's extensive contact with Liouville led him to think more deeply about electrical theory. Liouville had heard of Faraday's work in electrostatics, or at least of the aspects in which Faraday claimed to have found that electrical induction occurs in ""curved lines."" The conception seemed to conflict with the action-at-a-distance approach, and Liouville asked Thomson to write a paper clarifying the differences between Faraday on the one hand and Coulomb and Poisson on the other. This request prompted Thomson to bring together ideas he had been turning over in his mind during the previous three years.From Thomson's new point of view, both the French approach to electrical theory and that of Faraday should consist only of sets of mathematical propositions about the ""distribution of electricity"" on conducting bodies. Of Coulomb, who had never written like Poisson of the ""thickness"" of the electrical layer, Thomson said that he had ""expressed his theory in such a manner that it can only be attacked in the way of proving his experimental results to be inaccurate."" He did not, therefore, believe that Coulomb's approach would stand or fall with the fate of the electrical fluid.Of course, it may be wondered how Thomson could have employed the phrase ""distribution of electricity"" without believing that some hypothetical entity is implicated. He did not think so, however. Instead, by 1845 he was drawing a distinction between a ""physical hypothesis"" and an elementary mathematical law."" By a physical hypothesis he meant an assumption concerning the physical existence of an unobservable entity like the electrical fluid or Faraday's contiguous dielectric particles. By an elementary mathematical law he meant a statement that can be directly applied in experiments because its referents are phenomenal entities and mathematical propositions about them. For example, when it is a question of the ""distribution of electricity"" a phrase that might appear in an ""elementary mathematical law,"" the actual subject concerns the effects produced when a proof-plane is applied to a point of an electrified conductor. The measure of those effects is the twist given to the torsion-bearing thread of an electrometer. Coulomb's laws, therefore, and also those aspects of Poisson's mathematical development of them that do not depend upon the conception of electricity as a physical fluid, were thus actually concise, mathematical laws applicable to the results of such experiments. They were not hypotheses concerning the nature of electricity."" (DSB)‎

‎DIX ANS DE VOYAGES DANS LA CHINE ET L’INDO-CHINE, traduit de l’anglais avec l’autorisation de l’auteur par MM. A. Talandier et H. Vattemare, et illustré de 128 gravures sur bois.‎

‎Librairie Hachette et Cie, Paris, 1877Un volume fort in-8°, demi-reliure cuir rouge, dos lisse avec 5 faux caissons dorés (titre et auteur dans lun d’eux en lettres dorées). L’ouvrage fait 492 pages dont un Appendice linguistique en fin et une table des matières (14 chapitres). Le texte, comme le dit le titre, est illustré de nombreuses gravures sur bois dont les sujets et les cadrages sont pour la plupart d’un grand intérêt. La gravure sur bois était encor le seul moyen utilisé à cette époque pour reproduire des images en quantité (on ne maitrisait pas encore l’impression des photos dans les livres et les journaux). Ce qu’il faut savoir, c’est que ce J.THOMSON, écossais (1837-1921), avant d’écrire ce livre, était déjà un reporter photographe connu (nombreuses photographies sur la vie quotidienne des Ecossais de tous milieux). Membre de la Royal scottish Society of arts, il quitte l’Angleterre en 1862 pour rejoindre son frère à SINGAPOUR. Après des clichés en INDE et à ANGKOR qui le rendent célèbre il s’installe à HONG-KONG en 1868 où il fonde son entreprise photographique et où il se livre, entre autres activités, à l’exploration de nombreuses régions chinoises, malgré les difficultés et les risques de telles explorations à cette époque (mais, comme il le dit dans son livre, il se sentait sous la protection des Traités obtenus à la fin de la guerre de l’opium entre l’ANGLETERRE et la CHINE - Traité de PÉKIN en 1960).Et malgré l’hostilité de nombre de CHINOIS devant ce “barbare d’étranger” il accumula un grand nombre de photographies de haute valeur artistique et ethnographique. En 1875, THOMSON fit enfin paraître l’ouvrage qui nous intéresse: “TEN YEARS TRAVELS etc, dont l’éditeur HACHETTE fit une édition française en 1877 sous le titre DIX ANS DE VOYAGES DANS LA CHINE ET L’INDO-CHINE.C’est l’ouvrage que nous proposons ici. On y trouve évidemment les illustrations réalisées pour l’édition anglaise de TEN YEARS AFTER (c’est à dire des gravures dessinées d’après les photos de THOMSON). Et l’on trouve y aussi son texte d’accompagnement.Or, tout comme le sont ses photos, ce texte est du plus grand intérêt . Impossible d’en dire plus ici mais ce qui frappe dans les commentaires de ce photographe c’est à la fois un immense intérêt pour le monde asiatique et ses aspects inimaginables, quelquefois barbares, dit-il . En lisant son texte on ressent bien souvent une certaine suffisance de sa part pour ce peuple que l’ANGLETERRE a vaincu. Mais on sent aussi, dans ses gravurescomme dans son texte, une réelle sensibilité devant certains aspects de la réalité souvent pitoyable qu’il est amené à observer tout au long de ses voyages. Il termine son ouvrage par les mots suivants: “Pour conclure j’espère; grâce à de longs voyages et à une étude attentive, avoir convenablement exposé la condition actuelle des habitants du vaste empire chinois. La peinture est triste et le rayon de soleil qui l’éclaire ça et là ne fait que rendre plus sombres et plus palpables les ténèbres répandues sur tout le pays. Certes nous avons chez nous, en Angleterre, de la misère et de l’ignorance, mais pas de misère si atroce, pas d’ignorance si profonde que celle que l’on rencontre chez tant de millions de Chinois” Notre exemplaire présente un ex-dono sur sa première page de garde et quelques rares soulignages et rousseurs mais il est globalement en ETAT TRES SATISFAISANT.AT‎

‎Un volume fort in-8°, demi-reliure cuir rouge, dos lisse avec 5 faux caissons dorés (titre et auteur dans lun d’eux en lettres dorées). L’ouvrage fait 492 pages dont un Appendice linguistique en fin et une table des matières (14 chapitres). Le texte, comme le dit le titre, est illustré de nombreuses gravures sur bois dont les sujets et les cadrages sont pour la plupart d’un grand intérêt. La gravure sur bois était encore le seul moyen utilisé à cette époque pour reproduire des images en quantité (on ne maîtrisait pas encore l’impression des photos dans les livres et les journaux). Ce qu’il faut savoir, c’est que ce J. THOMSON, écossais (1837-1921), avant d’écrire ce livre, était déjà un reporter photographe connu (nombreuses photographies sur la vie quotidienne des Ecossais de tous milieux). Membre de la Royal scottish Society of Arts, il quitte l’Angleterre en 1862 pour rejoindre son frère à SINGAPOUR. Après des clichés en INDE et à ANGKOR qui le rendent célèbre il s’installe à HONG-KONG en 1868 où il fonde son entreprise photographique et où il se livre, entre autres activités, à l’exploration de nombreuses régions chinoises, malgré les difficultés et les risques de telles explorations à cette époque (mais, comme il le dit dans son livre, il se sentait sous la protection des Traités obtenus à la fin de la guerre de l’opium entre l’ANGLETERRE et la CHINE - Traité de PÉKIN en 1960).Et malgré l’hostilité de nombre de CHINOIS devant ce “barbare d’étranger” il accumula un grand nombre de photographies de haute valeur artistique et ethnographique. En 1875, THOMSON fit enfin paraître l’ouvrage qui nous intéresse: “TEN YEARS TRAVELS etc, dont l’éditeur HACHETTE fit une édition française en 1877 sous le titre DIX ANS DE VOYAGES DANS LA CHINE ET L’INDO-CHINE.C’est l’ouvrage que nous proposons ici. On y trouve évidemment les illustrations réalisées pour l’édition anglaise de TEN YEARS AFTER (c’est à dire des gravures dessinées d’après les photos de THOMSON). Et l’on y trouve aussi son texte d’accompagnement lequel , de même que ses gravures d’après photo sont du plus grand intérêt . Car ce qui frappe dans les commentaires de ce photographe c’est à la fois un immense intérêt pour le monde asiatique et certains de ses aspects qu’il dit inimaginables et quelquefois même barbares...En lisant son texte on ressent souvent une certaine suffisance de sa part pour ce peuple que l’ANGLETERRE a vaincu. Mais on sent aussi, dans ses gravures comme dans son texte, une réelle sensibilité devant certains aspects de la réalité souvent pitoyable qu’il est amené à observer tout au long de ses voyages. Il termine son ouvrage par les mots suivants: “Pour conclure j’espère; grâce à de longs voyages et à une étude attentive, avoir convenablement exposé la condition actuelle des habitants du vaste empire chinois. La peinture est triste et le rayon de soleil qui l’éclaire ça et là ne fait que rendre plus sombres et plus palpables les ténèbres répandues sur tout le pays. Certes nous avons chez nous, en Angleterre, de la misère et de l’ignorance, mais pas de misère si atroce, pas d’ignorance si profonde que celle que l’on rencontre chez tant de millions de Chinois” Notre exemplaire présente un ex-dono sur sa première page de garde et quelques rares soulignages et rousseurs mais il est globalement en BON ETAT [50351].‎

‎On the Thermal Effects of Fluids in Motion. Part I-II (2 Papers).‎

‎London, Richard taylor and William Francis, 1853-54. 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1853, Vol. 143 and 1854, Vol. 144. With titlepages to vol. 143 a. 144. The papers: pp. 357-365 a. pp. 321-364, textillustrations. The first titlepage bears the name of P.G. Tait.‎

‎First printing of these importent papers in which the authors found the so-called Joule-Thomson effect which should be the founding technology in refrigeration. They showed that a gas expanding into vacuum without addition of external work undergo a change in temperature, in spite of the theoretical speculations. The temperature change occurs due to the internal work required to overcome the attractive forces between molecules.""The only substantial contribution to thermodnamics to which the joint names of Joule and Thomson, are attached belongs to an idea conceived by Thomson, who saw the possibility of analyzing the deviations of gas properties from the ideal behavior. In particular, a non-ideal gas, made to expand slowly through a porous plug (so as to approximate a specified mathematical condition—constant enthalpy), would in general undergo a cooling (essentially a transformation of atomic motion into work spent against the interatomic attractions). For the delicate test of this effect Thomson required Joule’s unsurpassed skill (1852). But the application of the Joule- Thomson effect to the technology of refrigeration belongs to a later stage in the development of thermodynamics.""(DSB).Peter Guthrie Tait (1831 - 1901) was a Scottish mathematical physicist, best known for the seminal energy physics textbook Treatise on Natural Philosophy, which he co-wrote with Kelvin, and his early investigations into knot theory, which contributed to the eventual formation of topology as a mathematical discipline. His name is known in graph theory mainly for Tait's conjecture. (His name on the first titlepage).Parkinson ""Breakthroughs"" 1852 C.‎

‎Electricité et matière , traduit de l'anglais par Maurice Solovine, préface de Paul Langevin (Conférences données à Yale en 1903-1904)‎

‎Gauthier-Villars et Cie, à Paris , Science et Civilisation, Exposés Scientifiques du Savoir Humain Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1922 Book condition, Etat : Bon broché, sous couverture imprimée éditeur crème In-8 1 vol. - 142 pages‎

‎19 figures dans le texte en noir, et 1 planche hors-txte en frontispice, portrait de Sir J.-J. Thomson 1ere traduction en français, 1922 "Contents, Chapitres : Préface de Paul Langevin (4 pages), avant-propos de J.-J. Thomson, ix, Texte, 133 pages - Représentation du champ électrique par des lignes de force - Masse électrique et masse liée - Effets produits par l'accélération des tubes de Faraday - La structure atomique de l'électricité - La constitution de l'atome - La radioactivité et les substances radioactives - Joseph John Thomson, né le 18 décembre 1856 et mort le 30 août 1940, est un physicien britannique. Il a découvert l'électron ainsi que les isotopes et a inventé la spectrométrie de masse ; il a analysé la propagation d'ondes guidées. Il a reçu le prix Nobel de physique de 1906 pour « ses recherches théoriques et expérimentales sur la conductivité électrique dans les gaz ». Ces recherches ont fourni les preuves de l'existence de l'électron. - NB : Il s'agit de conférences données à l'Université de Yale en mai 1903 - (A series of four lectures, given by Thomson on a visit to Princeton University in 1896, were subsequently published as Discharge of electricity through gases (1897). Thomson also presented a series of six lectures at Yale University in 1904 - cf : Wikipedia)." couverture propre et en très bon état, avec quelques rousseurs discrètes, intérieur sinon frais et propre, papier à peine jauni, cela reste un bel exemplaire, bien complet du portrait de Thomson en frontispice‎

‎J.J. Thomson and the Discovery of the Electron‎

‎Taylor and Francis, London Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1997 Book condition, Etat : Bon paperback, editor's brown wrappers, illustrated by a portrait of J.J. Thomson, full page grand In-8 1 vol. - 270 pages‎

‎2 plates in frontispiece (Thomson in the 1920's and a page of Cathode Ray manuscript), and several other black and white illustrations 1st paperback, 1997 "Contents, Chapitres : Contents, Foreword by David Thomson (14 pages), Preface, xxvii, Text, 243 pages - Formative years - Early research - Cavendish professorships: First years - Gaseous discharges, further developments, 1891-1895 - X-rays and cathode rays, 1895-1900 - Later years - Subsequent developments - Index - Joseph John Thomson, né le 18 décembre 1856 et mort le 30 août 1940, est un physicien britannique. Il a découvert l'électron ainsi que les isotopes et a inventé la spectrométrie de masse ; il a analysé la propagation d'ondes guidées. Il a reçu le prix Nobel de physique de 1906 pour « ses recherches théoriques et expérimentales sur la conductivité électrique dans les gaz ». Ces recherches ont fourni les preuves de l'existence de l'électron. - En 1897, Thomson prouve expérimentalement l'existence des électrons, qui avait été prédite par George Johnstone Stoney en 1874. Cette découverte est le résultat d'une série d'expériences sur les rayons cathodiques. La même année, il énonce son modèle de l'atome, le modèle de plum pudding. (source : Wikipedia)" infime trace de pliure au coin supérieur droit du plat supérieur, sinon bel exemplaire, intérieur frais et propre‎

‎A History of the Cavendish Laboratory 1871-1900 , (The building of the laboratory - The Clerk Maxwell period - The Rayleigh period - Survey of the last 20 years - The development of the teaching of physics - List of memoirs containing accounts of research performed in the Cavendish Laboratory - List of thoses who have worked in the Laboratory)‎

‎Longmans, Green and Co, London Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1910 Book condition, Etat : Bon hardcover, editor's binding, full green clothes, no dust-jacket grand In-8 1 vol. - 353 pages‎

‎1 plate in frontispiece, 3 collotype plates (portraits of James Clerk Maxwell, Lord Rayleigh and Joseph John Thomson) and 7 other plates of the laboratory (complete of the 11 plates) 1st edition, 1910 Contents, Chapitres : Preface, Contents, List of Illustrations, xi, Text, 342 pages, catalogue Longmans, ii - T.C. Fitzpatrick : The building of the laboratory - Arthur Schuster : The Clerk Maxwell period - R.T. Glazebrook : The Rayleigh period - Sir Joseph John Thomson : Survey of the last 20 years - H.F. Newall : 1885-1894 - Ernest Rutherford : 1895-1898 - Charles Thomson Rees Wilson : 1899-1902 - N.R. Campbell : 1903-1909 - L. R. Wilberforce : The development of the teaching of physics - List of memoirs containing accounts of research performed in the Cavendish Laboratory - List of thoses who have worked in the Laboratory - Index - Le laboratoire Cavendish (Cavendish Laboratory) est le département de physique de l'université de Cambridge. Il fait partie de l'école de sciences physiques. Il a ouvert en 1874 comme l'un des premiers laboratoires d'enseignement en Angleterre. Son nom honore Henry Cavendish, fameux physicien anglais de la fin du xviiie siècle. - The Cavendish Laboratory is the Department of Physics at the University of Cambridge, and is part of the School of Physical Sciences. The laboratory was opened in 1874 on the New Museums Site as a laboratory for experimental physics and is named after the British chemist and physicist Henry Cavendish. The laboratory has had a huge influence on research in the disciplines of physics and biology. As of 2019, 30 Cavendish researchers have won Nobel Prizes. Notable discoveries to have occurred at the Cavendish Laboratory include the discovery of the electron, neutron, and structure of DNA. - Professor James Clerk Maxwell, the developer of electromagnetic theory, was a founder of the laboratory and the first Cavendish Professor of Physics. The Duke of Devonshire had given to Maxwell, as head of the laboratory, the manuscripts of Henry Cavendish's unpublished Electrical Works. The editing and publishing of these was Maxwell's main scientific work while he was at the laboratory. Cavendish's work aroused Maxwell's intense admiration and he decided to call the Laboratory (formerly known as the Devonshire Laboratory) the Cavendish Laboratory and thus to commemorate both the Duke and Henry Cavendish. Several important early physics discoveries were made here, including the discovery of the electron by J.J. Thomson (1897) the Townsend discharge by John Sealy Townsend, and the development of the cloud chamber by C.T.R. Wilson. Ernest Rutherford became Director of the Cavendish Laboratory in 1919. near fine copy, the binding is rather fine, without dust-jacket, supposingly as issued, the binding is nice and unmarked, a very small spot on the bottom part, the title on the spine is mainly erased, inside is fine, no markings, paper is fine, name of the former owner on the first page, complete of the 11 plates, with 3 wonderful portraits of Clerk Maxwell, Rayleigh and Thomson, 2 studies were written by J.J. Thomson (discovery of the electron, 1897) and Ernest Rutheford, both were nobelized after .Rutherford was in Manchester when he got the Nobel in 1911 but, under his leadership the neutron was discovered by James Chadwick in 1932‎

‎A Mathematical Theory of Magnetism. Received June 21, - Read Juni 21, 1849. (+) A Mathematical Theory of Magnetism. Continuation of Part I. Received June 20, - Read June 20, 1850. (2 Papers).‎

‎(London, Richard Taylor, 1851). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1851 - Part I. Pp. 247-268 a. pp. 269-285.‎

‎First appearance of Lord Kelvin's most importent paper on magnetism.""In Paris, Joseph Liouville (1809-1882) encouraged Thomson's professional interest in Michael Faraday, whom Thomson knew and interacted with in London, by suggesting that the reconciliation of Faraday's electrostatic experimental results and the views of the French mathematicians, Ampère, Coulomb, Poisson, etc., could be a fertile field of mathematical endeavor. Intrigued by Liouville's suggestion Thomson wrote several papers over the next few years based on Faraday's experimental results, including: On a Mechanical Representation of Electric, Magnetic and Galvanic Forces (1847). On the Mathematical Theory of Electricity (1848). On the Mathematical Theory of Magnetism (1851). (The paper offered).After receiving Maxwell's request for guidance, Thomson shared with him the challenge presented by interpreting Faraday's written experimental results using mathematical formalism. Faraday's work on electricity and magnetism intrigued Maxwell and he began his research by reading Thomson's papers on the subject.""(Alan T. Williams). ‎

‎Les rayons d'électricité positive et leur application aux analyses chimiques traduit d'après la deuxième édition anglaise par R. Fric et A. Corvisy -- PREMIERE EDITION FRANCAISE‎

‎P., Hermann, 1923, un volume in 8, broché, couverture imprimée, 10pp., 223pp., 9 PLANCHES‎

‎---- PREMIERE EDITION FRANCAISE ---- BON EXEMPLAIRE ---- "J.J. Thomson gives an account of the experiments on positive rays at the Cavendish laboratory during the years 1907 to 1913. The isotopes that Soddy had recognized could be distinguished from one another by their radiation and by the past and future history of the atoms which constituted them. It was J.J. Thomson who, in 1913, took the first steps to accomplish that task. He discovered how to sort positive ions in an electric discharge tube, and in that year he found that when neon was present, he obtained two new varieties with atomic weights of 20 and 22. They might possibly represent isotopes and F.W. Aston of the same laboratory and closely associated research assistant of Thomson, continued research on the subject for many years. In 1913 concepts of isotopes had only begun to be fruitful". (DSB XIII pp. 362/36/72) ---- "In 1913, J.J. Thomson produced a massive work on Positive rays of electricity from which important contributions to chemical analysis by others besides Aston followed". (Printing and the Mind of Man N° 386"**8842/M3‎

‎Les joyeuses commères de Windsor par William Shakespeare, illustré par Hugh Thomson.‎

‎Librairie Hachette et cie, 1912. In-4 relié de pleine percaline estampée (26 x 19 cm), décor et ritre doré sur le dos et au premier plat, VIII-190 (2) pages, Illustré de quarante illustrations en couleurs à pleine page contrecollées et sous serpentes, de Hugh Thomson : (1860-1920) est un aquarelliste et illustrateur anglais particulièrement connu pour ses dessins de style XVIIIe. Outre des publications dans la presse, Hugh Tomson illustra plusieurs romans d'auteurs classiques comme Jane Austen, Fanny Burney, Gaskell, ou de contemporains comme Austin Dobson et J. M. Barrie.- 1,4kg.- Très bon état.‎

‎Au delà de l'électron , traduit par R. Fric avec une préface de M. A. Cotton, dans la série des Actualités Scientifiques et Industrielles n° 211, Exposés de Physique Théorique, volume XIV, publiés sous la direction de Louis de Broglie (Au-delà de l'électron)‎

‎Hermann et Cie , Actualités Scientifiques et Industrielles Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1935 Book condition, Etat : Très Bon broché, sous couverture imprimée éditeur marron, titre en rouge et noir grand In-8 1 vol. - 30 pages‎

‎1 planche hors-texte avec 2 figures (photographies) et 2 autres figures dans le texte (graphiques), complet 1ere traduction en français, 1935 "Contents, Chapitres : Préface, 4 pages - avec 2 appendices : Propagation des ondes dans un milieu supra-dispersif - Trajectoire d'un électron sous l'action d'une force extérieure - Joseph John Thomson, né le 18 décembre 1856 et mort le 30 août 1940, est un physicien britannique. Il a découvert l'électron ainsi que les isotopes et a inventé la spectrométrie de masse ; il a analysé la propagation d'ondes guidées. Il a reçu le prix Nobel de physique de 1906 pour « ses recherches théoriques et expérimentales sur la conductivité électrique dans les gaz ». Ces recherches ont fourni les preuves de l'existence de l'électron. - En 1897, Thomson prouve expérimentalement l'existence des électrons, qui avait été prédite par George Johnstone Stoney en 1874. Cette découverte est le résultat d'une série d'expériences sur les rayons cathodiques. La même année, il énonce son modèle de l'atome, le modèle de plum pudding. - En 1906, Thomson montre que l'atome d'hydrogène ne contient qu'un électron. À cette époque certaines théories ont envisagé divers nombres d'électrons. En 1912, il étudie la composition des mélanges des ions positifs dits « ions anodiques ». Au cours de cette recherche, il mesure la déflexion d'un faisceau de néon ionisé (Ne+) qui passe à travers un champ magnétique ainsi qu'un champ électrique. Sur la plaque photographique qui lui sert comme détecteur, il observe deux taches (voir image) qui correspondent aux atomes de masses 20 et 22. Il conclut que le néon est constitué d'atomes de deux masses différentes ou isotopes. Cette séparation des atomes par leur masse est le premier exemple de la spectrométrie de masse, méthode qui est subséquemment mise au point par Francis William Aston (étudiant de Thomson) et par Arthur Jeffrey Dempster (source : Wikipedia)" 1 ligne de la préface de Cotton soulignée en rouge, sinon bel exemplaire, frais et propre‎

‎On Oxalic Acid. Read January 14th, 1808. (Thomson) (+) On Super-acid and Sub-acid Salts. Read January 28, 1808. (Wollaston). 2 Papers.‎

‎(London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1808). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1808 - Part I. Pp. 63-95 (Thomson) and pp. 96-102 (Wollaston:). Clean and fine.‎

‎First appearance of these two historical papers in chemistry in which Thomson and Wollaston, independently, presents experimental proofs of John Dalton's ""Law of Multiple Proportions"", and thereby laying the foundations of the Atomic Theory. - These demonstrations went far to influence chemists favorably toward Dalton's atomic theory. ""In January 1808 Thomson was the first to submit an experimental illustration of the law of multiple proportions, doing so at least four months before the publication of Dalton's ""New System of Chemistry Philosophy"" (1808). This paper, ""On Oxalic Acid"" also established a usefull method of determining empirical formulas.""(DSB XIII, p. 373).""This paper is also importent as he here introduces quantified chemical symbolism for compounds, a compound with, for instance, two parts oxygen (w) and one part carbon (c) being denoted by 2w + c."" (Parkinson in ""Breakthroughs"", 1808 C).""In 1808 he (Wollaston) described his experiments on carbonates, sulfates, and oxalates, which proved that the composition of these substances was regulated by the law of multiple proportions. These additional instances of the law were easely verifiable and were often mentioned as standard examples. Wollaston accepted that his findings were merely particular instances of Dalton's assertion that the atoms of elements united one to one, or by simple multiple relation.""(DSB XIV, p.488).‎

‎On Oxalic Acid. Read January 14th, 1808. (Thomson) (+) On Super-acid and Sub-acid Salts. Read January 28, 1808. (Wollaston). 2 Papers.‎

‎London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1808. 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1808 - Part I. Pp. 63-95 (Thomson) and pp. 96-102 (Wollaston:). Clean and fine. With titlepage to 1808, Part I.‎

‎First appearance of these two historical papers in chemistry in which Thomson and Wollaston, independently, presents experimental proofs of John Dalton's ""Law of Multiple Proportions"", and thereby laying the foundations of the Atomic Theory. - These demonstrations went far to influence chemists favorably toward Dalton's atomic theory. ""In January 1808 Thomson was the first to submit an experimental illustration of the law of multiple proportions, doing so at least four months before the publication of Dalton's ""New System of Chemistry Philosophy"" (1808). This paper, ""On Oxalic Acid"" also established a usefull method of determining empirical formulas.""(DSB XIII, p. 373).""This paper is also importent as he here introduces quantified chemical symbolism for compounds, a compound with, for instance, two parts oxygen (w) and one part carbon (c) being denoted by 2w + c."" (Parkinson in ""Breakthroughs"", 1808 C).""In 1808 he (Wollaston) described his experiments on carbonates, sulfates, and oxalates, which proved that the composition of these substances was regulated by the law of multiple proportions. These additional instances of the law were easely verifiable and were often mentioned as standard examples. Wollaston accepted that his findings were merely particular instances of Dalton's assertion that the atoms of elements united one to one, or by simple multiple relation.""(DSB XIV, p.488).‎

‎Les Joyeuses Commères de Windsor, par William Shakespeare. Illustré par Hugh Thomson. 1912. ‎

‎Librairie Hachette et Cie à Paris. Imprimerie Ballantyne and Co. LTD. Londres, 1912. Cartonnage relié de pleine percaline bleu-turquoise estampé, ornements et titre dorés, tête dorée, orné de quarante illustrations en couleurs hors-texte par Hugh THOMSON, sous serpentes légendées.- (1860-1920) est un aquarelliste et illustrateur anglais particulièrement connu pour ses dessins de style XVIIIe. Outre des publications dans la presse, Hugh Tomson illustra plusieurs romans d'auteurs classiques comme Jane Austen, Fanny Burney, Gaskell, ou de contemporains comme Austin Dobson et J. M. Barrie.-1330g.C. - Très jolies illustrations : Le dessinateur, Contemporain des frères Brock, partage leur goût pour la ligne, le détail et l'atmosphère d'époque. Il crée des séries de personnages qui participent à la création de l'Englishness et à la nostalgie d'une Angleterre rurale plus ou moins mythique. Peu de rousseurs, couverture en très bon état, bel exemplaire.‎

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‎La structure de la lumière - Traduit par R. Fric, préface d'Aimé Cotton , dans la collection de Monographies Scientifiques Etrangères, dirigée par G. Juvet, n° XII (Structure of Light - Fison Memorial Lecture, 1925)‎

‎Librairie Scientifique Albert Blanchard , Monographies Scientifiques Etrangères Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1929 Book condition, Etat : Bon broché, sous couverture imprimée éditeur jaune grand In-8 1 vol. - 62 pages‎

‎quelques figures dans le texte en noir, 1 planche hors-texte en frontispice, portrait photographique de J.-J. Thomson, 2 planches hors-texte totalisant 6 figures (complet des 3 planches) 1ere traduction en français, 1929 "Contents, Chapitres : Préface, note du traducteur, xi, Texte, 51 pages - 3 conférences : 1. La structure de la lumière (The Fison Memorial Lecture, 1925) : Diffraction et interférence - Loi de Planck- 2. Une suggestion relative à la structure de la lumière (Philosophical Magazine, Octobre 1924, page 737) : Energie d'un anneau ou tore - Ondes entourant le tore - Loi de Planck - Absorption de la lumière - Résonance - 3. La structure de la lumière (Phil. Mag. 1925, volume 50, page 1181) : Relation entre l'énergie d'un quantum et celle des ondes de Maxwell - Méthode de production des quanta - Effets dus aux collisions entre quanta et électrons - Diffusion des quanta par les électrons au repos - Collisions multiples - Joseph John Thomson, né le 18 décembre 1856 et mort le 30 août 1940, est un physicien britannique. Il a découvert l'électron ainsi que les isotopes et a inventé la spectrométrie de masse ; il a analysé la propagation d'ondes guidées. Il a reçu le prix Nobel de physique de 1906 pour « ses recherches théoriques et expérimentales sur la conductivité électrique dans les gaz ». Ces recherches ont fourni les preuves de l'existence de l'électron." couverture propre avec d'infimes traces de pliures aux coins des plats, sans aucune gravité, sinon bel exemplaire, intérieur frais et propre, papier à peine jauni, bien complet des 3 planches hors-texte dont le portrait de Thomson‎

‎L'Empire de Chine. Premiers voyages, premières images (1868-1872),introduction par Chantal Edel, traduit et présenté par H. Vattemare,‎

‎ 1990 Albin Michel, 1990. in-4 rel. cart. (22,5 x 28,5), 143 p.- Cartonné avec jaquette, nombr. photos, jaquette, très bon état. Guerre de lOpium, sac du Palais dÉté, la Chine, dans les années 1860, sort peu à peu de lisolement où elle se tenait depuis lexpulsion des jésuites au début du XVIIIe siècle. Une aubaine pour le photographe anglais John Thomson qui, fasciné depuis longtemps par les chinois installés un peu partout en Asie du Sud-Est, rêve de les connaître chez eux. Pendant plusieurs années, accompagné de huit à dix porteurs chargés dun équipement énorme sur quelque huit mille kilomètres; il va sillonner le vaste Empire du Milieu jusque dans ses contrées les plus reculées, où aucun européen ne s'était aventuré. John Thomson fut un pionnier du grand reportage, dont le témoignage sur la Chine demeure exceptionnel.‎

‎Les Abîmes De La Mer. Récit Des Expéditions De Draguage Des Vaisseaux De S. M. Le Procupine & Le Lightaning Pendant Les Étés De 1868, 1869 & 1870 Sous La Direction Scientifique Du Dr. Carpenter, De M. J. Gwyn Jeffreys & Du Dr. Wyville Thomson.‎

‎ 1875 Paris Librairie Hachette 1875 Grand in-8, XXVII-[1]-454 pp. , demi-chagrin rouge de l'époque, dos orné à 4 nerfs, tranches dorées ( rousseurs plus ou moins fortes par endroits, ). Ouvrage traduit avec l'autorisation de l'auteur par le dr. Lortet et contenant 94 gravures sur bois et 8 cartes.,reliure bon état, ‎

‎84 figures sur bois (et non pas 94 comme annoncé), nombreux tableaux, VIII cartes en couleurs sur double page, montées sur onglets, table : la question d'une limite à la vie à certaines profondeurs - rapports de la doctrine de l'évolution avec l'idée de l'espèce - etc - chapitr. 2 : croisière du lightning - chapitr. 3 et 4 : croisière du porcupine - chapitr. 5 : sondages profonds - chapitr. 6 : draguages profonds - chapitr. 7 : températures des grandes profondeurs - chapitr. 8 : le guf-stream - chapitr. : la faune des grandes profondeurs - chapitr. : de la formation actuelle de la craie - ‎

‎Conférences scientifiques et allocutions. Traduites et annotées sur la deuxième édition par P. Lugol, avec des extraits de Mémoires récents de Sir W. Thomson et quelques notes par M. Brillouin. Constitution de la matière.‎

‎ 1893 Paris, Gauthier-Villars et fils, 1893. In-8, demi-chagrin lie de vin , dos lisse, orné de faux nerfs, titre auteur entre des filets dorés, ix, 379 p., diagrammes et illustrations in et hors texte. Première et unique traduction française de "Popular lectures and addresses" du célèbre physicien britannique, mieux connu en tant que Lord Kelvin‎

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‎Les Abîmes De La Mer. Récit Des Expéditions De Draguage Des Vaisseaux De S. M. Le Procupine & Le Lightaning Pendant Les Étés De 1868, 1869 & 1870 Sous La Direction Scientifique Du Dr. Carpenter, De M. J. Gwyn Jeffreys & Du Dr. Wyville Thomson.Ouvrage traduit avec l'autorisation de l'auteur, par le Dr. Lortet, Professeur à la Faculté des Sciences de Lyon, Directeur du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle.‎

‎ 1875 Paris Librairie Hachette 1875 Grand in-8, XXVII-[1]-454 pp. , relié. demi-chagrin chocolat, dos à quatre fins nerfs ornés de triples caissons dorés agrémentés en angles de motifs typographiques dorés, de l'époque, tranches dorées ( rousseurs plus ou moins fortes par endroits, ). Ouvrage traduit avec l'autorisation de l'auteur par le dr. Lortet et contenant 94 gravures sur bois et 8 cartes.,reliure bon état, - Edition originale de la traduction française. coins légèrement émoussés, toutes tranches dorées. Ouvrage illustré de 94 gravures sur bois ainsi que de 8 cartes. Rares rousseurs, agréable exemplaire. ‎

‎84 figures sur bois (et non pas 94 comme annoncé), nombreux tableaux, VIII cartes en couleurs sur double page, montées sur onglets, table : la question d'une limite à la vie à certaines profondeurs - rapports de la doctrine de l'évolution avec l'idée de l'espèce - etc - chapitr. 2 : croisière du lightning - chapitr. 3 et 4 : croisière du porcupine - chapitr. 5 : sondages profonds - chapitr. 6 : draguages profonds - chapitr. 7 : températures des grandes profondeurs - chapitr. 8 : le guf-stream - chapitr. : la faune des grandes profondeurs - chapitr. : de la formation actuelle de la craie - ‎

‎Botanique du Droguiste, et du Ngociant en Substances Exotiques. Traduit de l'Anglais de Thomson par M. E. Pelouze, traducteur de "La Pharmacie" de Duncan [vignet]...‎

‎Paris, Mahler et Cie, Librarie Scientifique, 1827. [iv], xii, 380 pp. 12mo (11 x 18 cm.). Original printed publisher's boards (partly slightly worn and scattered staining), uncut.‎

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‎ In 1828 Thomson became the first professor of materia medica and therapeutics at London University (now University College London), but was already known as the author of 'the London Dispensatory' (first ed. 1815, 11th ed. 1852). We could not find an English edition of this text, so probably the translator E. Pelouze has made a compilation of Thomson's various texts. Very rare, especially in the original printed boards.-- (Bibliothque Industrielle, ou Collection de Traits spars des Sciences et des Arts et Mtiers).‎

‎Heredity.‎

‎ New York & London G.P. Putnam's Son & John Murray 19098vo. [vi].-vii-xvi, [ii], 605, 6 pp with 49 coloured illustrations With 49 coloured illustrations. Original cloth, gilt design on cover and lettering on spine; first issue, ‎

‎Thomson, professor of natural history at the University of Aberdeen, provides a well-organized and comprehensive introduction to heredity. According to the preface, he was a follower of Weismann, convinced of the inability to transmit acquired characteristics. Of particular interest is the last chapter on the social aspects of heredity. Thomson includes an extensive bibliography. ‎

‎The melodies of Scotland : with symphonies and accompaniments for the piano forte ,violin by Pleyl, Haydn Beethoven, Weber, Hummel the poetry chiefly by Burns ; the whole collected by G. Thomson.Select collection of original Scottish airs.Tome 1 seul,VOLUME 1 only‎

‎ London : T. Preston ; Edinburgh : G. Thomson, 1831.IN FOLIO Engraved music interleaved with letterpress song texts with duplicate numbering. Each volume includes different frontispiece, illustrations and index of songs therein; ill., port. ; 39 cm.‎

‎bon etat ,couverture imprimee et illustree collée sur le premier plat,frontispice et titre graves,petit accident au dos lisse muet,50 parties a numeration double ou triple,texte frais,Photo et description sur demande.Picture and description upon request. ‎

‎Medieval Stories and Storytelling. Multimedia and Multi-Temporal perspectives‎

‎, Brepols, 2021 Hardback, 319 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:19 b/w, 3 col., Language: English. ISBN 9782503590509.‎

‎Summary The shaping and sharing of narrative has always been key to the negotiation and recreation of reality for individuals and cultural groups. Some stories, indeed, seem to possess a life of their own: claiming a peculiar agency and taking on distinct voices which speak across time and space. How, for example, do objects, manuscripts, and other artefacts communicate alternative or complementary narratives that transcend textual and linguistic boundaries? How are stories created, reshaped, and re-experienced, and how do these shifting contexts and media change meaning? This volume of essays explores these questions about meaning and identity in a range of ways. As a collection, it demonstrates the importance of interdisciplinary and context-focused enquiry when approaching key issues of activity and identity in the medieval period. Ultimately, the process of making meaning through shaping narrative is shown to be as vital and varied in the medieval world as it is today. With a wide range of different disciplinary approaches from leading scholars in their respective fields, chapters include considerations of art, architecture, metalwork, linguistics, and literature. Alongside examinations of medieval cultural productions are explorations of the representation and adaptation of medieval storytelling in graphic novels, classroom teaching, and computer gaming. This volume thus offers an interdisciplinary exploration of how stories from across the medieval world were shaped, transformed, and transmitted. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction: Stories and their Tellers S. C. Thomson Beowulf Goes to School: Adaptations and transformations for the Secondary Classroom Janes Coles, Theo Bryer, and Daniel Ferreira 'Retelling Old Stories for New Audiences': Shaping and Visualizing Beowulf through Gareth Hinds' Graphic Novels [The Collected Beowulf (2003) & Beowulf (2007)] Jorge Luis Bueno Alonso Being Numerous: Communal Storytelling in Li smannaflokkr Erin Michelle Goeres Performance and Emotions in Four Epic Works about Roland Evelyn Birge Vitz Towards a Poetics of Storytelling, or, why could Early Medieval English Writers not stop telling the Story of Judith? S. C. Thomson Mosaics, Marbles, and Medievalisms: Displaying the Foundation Narrative of the English Church in Westminster Cathedral Meg Boulton A Storied Cathedral: Space and Audacious Women in Early Medieval Durham Euan McCartney Robson Dynamic Material Aspects of Writing in Wolfram of Eschenbach's Titurel Christoph Witt Iceland's Alexander: Gunnarr and Pale Corn in Nj ls Saga Richard North Sensing Stories: Iconography, Pattern, and Abstraction in Metalwork from Early Medieval England Melissa Herman A Telling Tradition: Preliminary Comments on the Epic of Manas, 1856-2018 James Plumtree Index‎