english chemist (10 risultati)

Condizione: Good. 16mo. Single Sheet with ink scibbled notes. Good with marginal tears.

Condizione: Near Fine. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original green paper covered boards, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 9'' x 6''. ISBN 0333247663. Contains 349 printed pages of text. Small fox splash to the fore edge, small bookplate on front paste down of the noted collector Peter Apap Bologna. Near Fine condition book, in near Fine condition illustrated dust wrapper with minimal creasing to the tips, not price clipped £5.95. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, this protects and prolongs the life of the paper, it is not adhered to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0333247663 MODERN FIRST EDITIONS.

Carbon print, mounted, from "Cabinet Portrait Gallery",

12mo, 3 pp. Very good on lightly aged paper. Asking whether Gladstone would consent to the placing of his name on the list of the Institute's Council, 'to fill one of the vacancies'. 'You would be of great service to us in so doing - and the calls on your time would not be numerous - about a dozen times a year'. Six lines in shorthand (by Gladstone?) on the reverse of the second leaf of the bifolium.

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. 1p, 12mo. In good condition, lightl aged. Folded once for postage. The recipient is not named, but the letter has at its head the date stamp of the Royal Society of Arts, London, and is docketed by Wood. Signed 'H. Brereton Baker'. He agrees to give 'the three Cantor lectures as you suggest, provided they can begin after the 3rd. week in February'. He gives the subject as 'Catalysis in its scientific and industrial aspects'. A pencil note at the foot gives dates for the lectures as 'Mch 16, 23, 30'.

Pas de couverture. Condizione: Bon. Rare - Autograph card signed in 1988. + Photo (15x15 cm) Size : 8x13 cm. Condition : see scans please. Provenance : Jason & Judy Stahl family collection. Certificate of Authenticity and lifetime guarantee. Signé par l'auteur.

Pas de couverture. Condizione: Bon. Authentic card signed in 1999. + Photo 17.5x17.5 cm (recent print). Size : 7.5x12.5 cm. Condition : see scans please. Certificate of Authenticity and lifetime guarantee. Signé par l'auteur.

8vo. 2 pp. on bifolium. With autograph address. To the engineer J. Thorne with thanks for his letter of condolence: "I am grateful to you for your friendly expressions of sympathy with reference to the recent most distressing calamity. Colonel Lyre [.] especially was a very very old Friend & Colleague, & all these Officers were endeared to us all. With many thanks I remain [.]". - Abel, in collaboration with Sir James Dewar, invented cordite (1889), which was adopted as the standard explosive of the British Army. He also carried out studies relating to dust explosions in coal mines and in the process developed a device for testing the flashpoint of petroleum. Abel also found a way to prevent the spontaneous explosion of gun cotton. From 1854 to 1888 he served as Ordnance Chemist at the Chemical Establishment of the Royal Arsenal, where he established himself as the leading British authority on explosives. - On stationery with blindstamped arms. Small cut from breaking the seal; small tear in the upper centerfold. Somewhat toned.

99 x 159 mm. 1 p. Ink on blue paper, mounted in mat. Clipped signature of Michael Faraday, from an envelope addressed in Faraday's hand to "John Murray, Esq.". - Faraday is considered one of the most influential scientists ever and perhaps the best experimenter in the history of physics. He had several scientific contemporaries by the name John Murray, including a Scottish geologist and fellow chemist, and a well-known British science lecturer, with either of whom Faraday would have found reason to strike up a correspondance. - Well preserved.

8vo. 1 p. Mounted on larger backing paper. The influential English natural scientist John Dalton is best known today for his work on atomic theory and his contribution to the ideal gas laws. A native of Cumbria, Dalton was also, however, an avid fellwalker who is estimated to have ascended the peak Helvellyn in excess of 40 times over the course of his life. The present autograph is a testimony to Dalton's pleasure in bringing together his passions for science and the great outdoors. It records the "Heights of Mountains in Cumberland, Westmorland, Lancashire and Yorkshire above the level of the sea, taken by barometrical observations" in a list of thirteen peaks and their altitude in feet: "Sca Fell [!] -- 3240; Helvellyn -- 3225; Skiddaw -- 3195; Rydal Head -- 3096; Grasmere [!] (NE. Crummock) -- 2865; Coniston (Old Man) -- 2571; Bow fell (Langdale) -- 3084 ."). Dalton's work on the heights of the Lakeland fells would be standard until the late-19th century efforts of the Ordnance Survey. - After moving to the city of Manchester to take up a life of teaching and research from the age of 27, Dalton returned regularly to the Lake District during the holidays when he took the opportunity to measure the heights of the mountains as he walked. Earlier in his life, the scientist had perfected to this end the construction of a barometer, which he carried with him to record readings as he went. The best results were obtained from simultaneous pressure readings from a pair of inter-calibrated and temperature-corrected barometers. It was while climbing Skiddaw with his barometer in July 1812 that Dalton first made the acquaintance of the Lake District geologist and guide Jonathan Otley. Otley later accompanied Dalton as a companion and paid guide on many of his climbs between 1812 and 1836. - The well-preserved inventory of fells and altitude measurements is on a single-sided piece of note paper with absolutely minimal damage or marking. The title and list are in Dalton's hand. Two further hands (one in dark ink, a second in pencil) add six words of commentary on the object and its author. The small 8vo page is affixed to a larger sheet. Overall, a splendid piece of evidence for the ongoing scientific interest in the Lake District, which went hand-in-hand with contemporary Romantic idealisation of its landscapes. - Cf. D. Howe, Rocks and Rain, Reason and Romance: The Landscape, History and People of the Lake District (Glasgow , 2019). S. Ross, "John Dalton's Lakeland Excursions". Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, 53.1 (1999), pp. 79-94. A. L. Smyth, John Dalton: 1766-1844; a Bibliography of Works by and about Him. (Manchester, 1966).