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By: Bezout, Etienne
Price: $74.94
Publisher: New York, Samuel S. Wood: 1825
Edition: First American Edition
Seller ID: 39056
Condition: Very Good-
236 pages; Translated from the French, improved and adapted to the currency of the United States by Noble Heath. Quarter black leather over grey-green boards. Old pencil notes on endpapers, former owner's names, light rubbing. Mathematician Etienne Bezout (1739-1783) spent many years as a teacher and examiner of young naval officers; his published works include practical handbooks on the elementary mechanics and mathematics necessary for ballistics or navigation as well as more theoretical works of pure algebra and the theory of equations. This work was adapted by Peyrard for the use of stoc... View more info
Price: $4.94
Publisher: Journal of Educational Psychology: 1935
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 36939
Condition: Very Good
5 pages; Clean and secure in original self wrappers.; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings. View more info
Price: $24.94
Publisher: Paris, Dunod: 1958
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 38856
Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket
An interesting publication on early French computers and electronic computations. Le Computeur Djinn, Le Computeur OME-P2, La Computeur OME-L2, Calculating Machines, etc. Contents, Chapitres : Avant-propos, Table, xiv, Texte, 257 pages - Le calcul mécanique (Méthodes - Calcul électrique analogique) - Principes du computage électrique (Opérateurs élémentaires - Circuit de calcul) - Organes et précision du computeur (L'amplificateur - La tension fonctionnelle - Les éléments passifs - L'instrument de mesure et d'enregistrement) - Résolution des systèmes algébriques linéaires - S... View more info
By: Hirsch, Meier
Price: $49.94
Publisher: Berlin, Duncker und Humblot: 1816
Edition: Third Edition
Seller ID: 39817
Condition: Very Good
iv, 324 pages; Contemporary marbled paper-covered boards, green paper label on spine. Moderate rubbing and wear to the binding, text tight and complete, with light scattered flecks of foxing scattered. This algebra textbook was first published in Berlin by Froehlich in 1804, and this was followed by a second edition in 1811 (Berlin: Braunes). This third edition from 1816 is described in OCLC Number: 257545932 (9 locations, none in the USA). Pages 321-4 are publisher's ads for other mathematical texts; this may explain why the OCLC collation states VIII & 320 pp. The author, Meier Hirsc... View more info
Price: $274.94
Publisher: London, Macmillan: 1880
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Seller ID: 39153
Condition: Very Good+
xxviii, 304, (4), 33, (3) pages; Former owner's name neatly on halftitle and on recto (blank back) of frontispiece (A.S. Nash), otherwise clean and tigjt in original brick cloth binding with gilt lettering at spine, minor rubbing at extremities. Quite scarce, especially in this condition. Frontispiece of Ancient Logical Diagrams; publisher's catalogues (36pp) at rear dated December, 1879. First edition, first issue of this seminal work on logic. Quite scarce, especially in this condition. William Stanley Jevons was a noted logician, economist and statistician. Jevons' earlier books General M... View more info
Price: $1,449.99
Publisher: London, Macmillan and Co, New York: 1874
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Seller ID: 39170
Condition: Very Good
First Edition of this classic work on Logic and Scientific Method. Two octavo volumes in original brick cloth bindings with gilt lettering at spines. xvi, 463, (1); vii, (1), 480 pp. Engraved frontispiece illustration of The Logical Machine in Volume 1. Clean and tight with some light foxing to verso of endpapers, cloth rubbed at lower corners and spine ends, short tear to cloth at lower spine of Volume 2. Pages of Volume 2 unopened. Quite scarce in this First Edition, especially in the original cloth bindings. William Stanley Jevons was a noted logician, economist and statistician. J... View more info
Price: $299.94
Publisher: Zittau, Verlegts Joh. Jacob Schöpss: 1730
Edition: Second Edition
Seller ID: 39481
Condition: Very Good-
568 pages; Contemporary pattern-printed paper-covered boards, portions of a paper spine label titled in ink MS survive, edges stained red. Engraved frontispiece, title page in red and black. Collation: [-]8 A-Z8 Aa-Mm8 Nn4. Frontispiece, 7 p.l., 568 pp. Second edition, [Andere Auflage] of one of the three great mathematical texts by Christian Pescheck (1676 in Hradec Kralove - 1744 in Zittau ) -- a mathematics teacher, astronomer and writer. He was one of the greatest human calculators of his time, and an influential teacher of mathematical sciences at the high school in Zittau from 1... View more info
By: Stark, Dr.Johannes ; [1874-1957]
Price: $34.94
Publisher: Berlin, Polytechnische Buchhandlung A.Seydel: 1927
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Seller ID: 38889
Condition: Very Good
xii, 124 & 11 ff. plates pages; Publisher's yellow printed wrappers. Very slight toning to the wrappers, particularly along the spine. In 1919, Johannes Stark won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his "discovery of the Doppler effect in canal rays and the splitting of spectral lines in electric fields." This splitting of spectral lines in electric fields is known today as the Stark effect. There is an early connection between Stark and the winner of the Nobel prize in Physics for two years after his award -- Albert Einstein. Stark, relatively well established in 1907, as founder and e... View more info
