On Light as a Means of Investigation Second Course, Delivered at Aberdeen in December, 1884.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1885. First edition. Hardcover. 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. Very Good. Item #66980
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.
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