Peirce benjamin 1809 1880 (9 risultati)

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Paperback. Condizione: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days.

Paperback. Condizione: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days.

Open Court pub. bound copies and added 4 portraits and additional notes. 8vo. iv, 30, [2] pp. Illus. Original gray boards, brown printed dust-jacket; modest wear or tearing to extremities, but a very good copy. Science Biography.

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Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 1st Edition. xii+334 pages with 27 folding charts, plates, tables, appendixes and index. Royal quarto (11¼ x 8¼") bound in original publisher's brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine. All maps and plates present, numbered 1-28, lacking no. 19, as published. First edition. The Report of the Superintendent of the United States Coast Survey, Showing the Progress of the Survey During the Year 1867 is a historical document detailing the U.S. Coast Survey's activities and findings in 1867, originally published in 1869 by the Government Printing Office. It was prepared under the supervision of Superintendent Benjamin Pierce and likely contains information on coastal mapping, soundings, lighthouse locations, and tidal observations, with some versions including various maps and charts. In this important volume of the Coast Survey, covering surveys the year of the Alaska purchase by the United States, and containing, as Appendix No. 18, "Report of Assistant George Davidson Relative to the Resources and the Coast Features of Alaska Territory," forming what may be considered the first Alaska Coast Pilot issued by the Survey. Four of the charts relate to Alaska: Alaska; Sitka Harbor; St. Paul, Kadiak Island; and Illiouliouk and Captain's Harbors, Unalaska Island. Condition: Rubbing and fading to boards with fraying at spine and discoloration to top of panels, corners bumped and rubbed; starting at hinges with toning and spotting to endpapers and light spotting throughout, slight tears and fraying to maps though all complete else good to very good.…

Printer: Allen and Farnham, Printers, Cambridge. (20 x 25.8 cm). 4to. xxxix, [1], 496 pp. Subscribers list (showing 200 copies subscribed for). Folding engraved plate, errata, index; short marginal tear to front blank professionally repaired. Original brown blind-stamped cloth, gilt spine, rebacked with dark brown morocco, original cloth spine mounted; gilt spine lettering partially lacking, original endleaves preserved with the rear e.p. reinforced along margins. Very good. FIRST EDITION, EARLY ISSUE (probably a second issue) with the date on the title-page; additionally, Peirce's name is miss-spelled on both the title-page and the spine. WITH THE AUTHOR'S NAME MISSPELLED TWICE: "PIERCE" Dedicated to Nathaniel Bowditch, this work is a masterpiece of 19th century American mathematics. / "In A System of Analytic Mechanics (1855) Peirce again set forth the principles and methods of the science as a branch of mathematical theory, a subject he developed from the idea of the 'potential.' The book has been described as the most important mathematical treatise that had been produced in the United States up to that time. Peirce's treatment of mechanics has also been said, by Victor Lenzen, to be 'on the highest level of any work in the field in English until the appearance of Whittaker's Analytical Dynamics' in 1904." [DSB]. / Peirce "was a disciple of Laplace. Peirce's teacher when he was a schoolboy in Salem, Nathaniel Bowditch, was the author of the standard English translation of Laplace's Traite de mechanique celeste; Peirce helped to check the proof sheets while he was a student at Harvard College . . . Peirce thought that 'no grander conception of the physical universe has ever been presented to philosophical discussion' than the nebular hypothesis" â" Menand, p. 2. / There are two publishers who issued this work in 1855: Boston: Little, Brown, and New York: D. van Nostrand (as above). Of the NY issue, the Verne Roberts' copy (see below) does not have the date of issue on the title, but the pagination and content are the same. Both issues are made up of sheets printed by Allen and Farnham, Printers, Cambridge. The Boston Little, Brown issue also is seen with an alternative added title, Physical and Celestial Mechanics Developed in four systems of Analytic Mechanics, Celestial Mechanics, Potential Physics, and Analytic Morphology, 1855. Additionally, it is important to note that the Little, Brown copies have a larger version of the original sheets, measuring 21 x 27.4 cm. I suspect the Van Nostrand issue is trimmed down from the original sheets. The Peirce Editions Project, headed by Nathan R. Houser, is at the time of this description, looking into the history of the relationship of these various issues. According to Houser, Van Nostrand also made later issues of the book in 1865 and 1872. All are scarce on the market. REFERENCES: DSB Vol. X, p. 480; Roberts, Bibliotheca Mechanica, p. 248 (2nd issue). Not in Norman.…

Softcover. Condizione: New. Reprint. Language: English. Approximately 93 pages. English: Print-on-demand reprint. Original edition : 1858. Text in English. This work presents a defense of Dr. Benjamin Gould, a prominent astronomer, by the Scientific Council of the Dudley Observatory. The text addresses scientific controversies of the time and provides insights into the astronomical debates of the mid-19th century. It is a valuable resource for historians of science and astronomy. Book images are non-contractual. This item is printed on demand and ships from our printing partners' facility nearest the destination. These facilities are located mainly in the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada.…

Softcover. Condizione: New. Reprint. Language: English. Approximately 232 pages. English: Print-on-demand reprint. Original edition : 1881. Text in English. This work explores the concept of ideality in the physical sciences, edited by James Mills Peirce. It presents a philosophical and scientific examination of ideal principles and their application in the study of natural phenomena. The text reflects the intellectual contributions of Benjamin Peirce, a prominent figure in 19th-century American mathematics and astronomy. Book images are non-contractual. This item is printed on demand and ships from our printing partners' facility nearest the destination. These facilities are located mainly in the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada.…