Storia Della Luce; Da Euclide A Einstein
Editori Laterza, 1983. Paperback. 20.5 x 13.5 cm. Octavo. 314pp. Italian language text. Toning to spine. Small closed tear to front cover. Biblioteca Universale Laterza 87. More
Physics
Isaac Newton und Seine Physikalischen Principien.
Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth (Arthur Meiner), 1895. First edition. Hardcover. 22.5 x 14.5 cm. Octavo. vi 536pp. 25 illustraitons. Index. German language text. Bound in green blind-stamped cloth. The corners of the boards are bumped, this also effects the bottom of some of the pages. Front gutter starting. First editions..... More
Waves Versus Corpuscles; The Revolution that Never Was
PD Publications, 1992. Paperback. 21 x 15 cm. Octavo. 406pp. Fadiong to the covers. Chapters include: Waves versus corpuscles, Newton versus Huygens?, Corpuscles versus waves, Corpuscles revised, Corpuscles or Quanta?, What happened to the Aether?, The Origins of duality. This work: "presents a reinterpretation of two concepts which the author..... More
Newton's Principia for the Common Reader.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 10" x 8":. 593pp A very nice copy in dust jacket. From the Library of Alan E.Shipiro with his bookplate on front paste-down. Light edge rubbing to jacket. More
Collected Papers on Acoustics.
New York: Dover, 1964. Reprint. Paperback. 21.5 x 13.5 cm. Octavo. 279pp. Reproduction of the 1922 Harvard edition. Some toning to back cover and page edges. More
The Microscope and the Eye; A History of Reflections 1740-1870
Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2007. First edition. Hardcover. 23.5 x 15.5 cm. Octavo. 315pp. Green cloth in dust jacket. There is some light toning to the jacket. More
An Introduction to the Theory of Optics.
London: Edward Arnold, 1909. Second Edition Revised. Hardcover. 22 x 14 cm. Octavo. 352pp. Index. Figures. Bound in dark blue cloth with title label affixed to spine. Previous owner's bookplate on front fixed endpaper. More
Experimental Optics; A Manual for the Laboratory
Cambridge University Press, 1935. Reprint with corrections. Hardcover. 22 x 14 cm. Octavo. 357pp. Bound in green cloth. Fading to spine. Bookplate and previous owner's name on front fixed endpaper. Some scattered foxing. Cambridge Physical Series. More
Goethe Contra Newton; Polemics and the Project for a new science of color
Cambridge University Press, 1988. Hardcover. 23.5 x 15.5 cm. Octavo. 222pp. Black cloth in dust jacket. Toning to the edges and spine of the jacket. Previous owner's bookplate on front fixed endpaper. Erratum taped to front free endpaper. Review copy stamp. "This book explains the background and rationale of the..... More
The Newton Wars & The Beginning of the French Enlightenment.
Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. 23.5 x 16 cm. Octavo. 571pp. Blue cloth in dust jacket. Signed by the author who also inscribed it to previous owner, Newton scholar Alan [Shapiro]. Light soiling to foredge. More
Fits, Passions and Paroxysms: Physics, Method and Chemistry and Newton's Theories of Colored Bodies and Fits of Easy Reflection.
Cambridge University Press, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. 23.5 x 15.5 cm. Octavo. 400pp. Black cloth in dust jacket. Top corner of back cover is lightly bumped. Jacket spine is faded. More
Fits, Passions and Paroxysms: Physics, Method and Chemistry and Newton's Theories of Colored Bodies and Fits of Easy Reflection.
Cambridge University Press, 2009. Paperback. 23 x 15 cm. Octavo. 400pp. There is some faint blue ink marking to the foredge which does not effect the interior. More
The Optical Papers of Isaac Newton. Volume I: The Optical Lectures, 1670-1672.
Cambridge University Press, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. 26 x 18 cm. Royal octavo. 627pp. 3 plates, figures, bibliography, index. Navy Blue cloth in dust jacket. Volume one only. Text in the original Latin on the left page with English translation on the right. "For his inaugural lectures as Lucasian Professor..... More
Archéologie de la vision : L'optique, le corps, la peinture.
Paris: Seuil, 2003. Paperback. 20.5 x 14 cm. Octavo. 291pp. Black and white plates. French language text. Some creasing to spine. Light wrinkling to the tops of the plates. More
Le regard, l'être et l'apparence dans l'optique de l'Antiquité.
Paris: Des Travaux / Seuil, 1988. Paperback. 20.5 x 13 cm. Octavo. 216pp. French language text. Some age toning to the pages and fading to spine. More
Ptolemy's Theory of Visual Perception; An English Translation of the Optics With Introduction and Commentary
Independence Square, Philadelphia: The American Philosophical Society, 1996. Paperback. 25 x 17 cm. Octavo. 300pp. Some fading to spine. Transactions of the American Philsophical Society Volume 86, Part 2. More
Matter & Gravity in Newton's Physical Philosophy.
New York: Arno Press, 1975. Reprint. Hardcover. 21 x 14 cm. Octavo. 256pp. Bound in green cloth, no jacket. Reprint of the 1926 Oxford edition. Previous owner's bookplate on front fixed endpaper, which has caused toning to the opposing page. Corners are lightly bumped. Part of the series "History, Philosophy..... More
Optics: Lectures on Theoretical Physics Volume IV.
Academic Press, 1964. Second Printing. Paperback. 21 x 14 cm. Octavo. 383pp. Figures, equations. Toning to the covers. Internally clean. More
The Principles and Methods of Geometrical Optics; Especially as Applied ot the Theory of Optical Instruments
New York: Macmillan Company, 1913. Hardcover. 23.5 x 16 cm. Octavo. 626pp. Figures and diagrams. Bound in green cloth and brown leather. The spine has completely chipped off and binder's tape has been used to reinforce it. Text block is tight and text is internally clean. Boards feel a bit..... More
Mindful Universe : Quantum Mechanics and the Participating Observer.
Springer-Verlag, 2011. Second Edition. Hardcover. 24 x 16 cm. Octavo. 212pp. Glossy boards no jacket as issued. 2nd edition. More
The Development of Newtonian Optics in England.
New York: Science History Publications/USA, 1977. First edition. Hardcover. 23.5 x 15 cm. Octavo. 190pp. Bound in blue cloth. Spine is sun toned. Previous owner's bookplat eonj front fixed endpaper, this has caused some "shadowing" to the opposite page. More
Newtons Entwurf "Über die Gravitation..."; Ein Stück Entwicklungsgeschichte seiner Mechanik
Franz Steiner Verlag Stuttgart, 1991. Paperback. 23 x 15.5 cm. Octavo. 192pp. German language text. Tan covers. Fading to spine. Boethius Texte und Abhandlungen zur Geschichte der Mathematik und der Naturwissenschaften Band XXVI. More
Gravitation and Cosmology: Principles and Applications of the General Theory of Relativity.
New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1972. Reprint. Hardcover. 23 x 17 cm. Octavo. 657 pages. Equations, index.Bound in glossyblue boards. No underlining/notations. Scuffing to the covers and "PHYS" is scrated onto the front cover. More
Burnett Lectures On Light in Three Courses; Delivered at Aberdeen in November 1883, December, 1884, and November, 1885
London: Macmillan and Co., 1892. Second edition. Hardcover. 19 x 12.5 cm. Crown octavo. 347pp (1). Indexed. Bound in green cloth. Compiles three seres of lectures which were first published seperately in 1885, 1887, and 1887. The three lectures were first published together in 1887, this copy is a second..... More
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. Burnett Lectures, Second Course. Consisting of four lectures Stokes delivered at the University of Aberdeen in 1884 on..... More