Boyle Robert Et Al (8 results)

Paperback. Condition: Vg. Assumed First Edition. Book.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. None. First Edition. A number of articles here seem particularly relevant now in the 2020s, such as "The Supreme Court and the New Deal" (Mitchell Dawson), "Hitlerism Comes to America" (Johan J. Smortenko), and "Sweden: Where Capitalism Is Controlled" (Marquis W. Childs). Also includes "Life Being the Best," a short story by Kay Boyle. A clean, unmarked copy. …

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Providence: Department of English / Providence College 1991. First Edition. Softcover. First edition. This copy has been inscribed and signed by one of the book/cover designers, Robert / Bob Booth. Magazine. Pictorial wrappers about 6" x 9" 66 pages, illustrated.Very good with creasing to the bottom corner of the front cover. whb12. …

275pp. Line maps & charts. Second Printing. Jacket Subtitle: 'The First Complete Up-To-Date Authoratative Report on Known or Suspected Cancer-Causing Agents in Our Environment & How By Controlling Them We Can Control the Spread of Cancer Itself'. Small top edge stain, else NF/VG+ dj.

Paperback. 198p. + ads, poetry, essays, fiction, very good paperback literary journal in purple pictorial wraps. With this issue Antæus became a semi-annual periodical.

OBroschur. Condition: Sehr gut. Aufführung vom 16. August 2009. 101 (7) S. mit Stab, Besetzung u. zahlr. farb. Abb., OBroschur, Werbeannoncen, 8°. Vollständiger Abdruck des Librettos auf englisch u. in der deutschen Ü v. Christoph Loy u. Thomas Jonigk. Ausschließlich OBeiträge (deutsch u. englisch) zu Stück, Komponist u. Zeit, u.a. ein Gespräch mit dem Regisseur Christoph Loy. Dazu Künstlerbiografien mit Fotos. Lose beiliegen 9 Zeitungsausschnitte (Kritiken, Berichte) mit farb. Szenenfotos. Gering berieben, mont. Eintrittskarte auf vord. Innendeckel. Sehr gutes Exemplar. Broschüre. …

1665-1732. The World's Oldest Continuous Scientific Journal. First edition of the first 426 issues, an unbroken run from March 1665 to December 1732, of the world's oldest continuous scientific journal and the single most important record of the first announcement and communication of scientific discoveries and inventions. It contains groundbreaking research by Newton - the seventeen optical papers of 1672-1676 that begin with his first printed contribution to science - and by Halley, Hooke, Boyle, Flamsteed, Leeuwenhoek, Cassini, Hevelius, Huygens, and many others, in astronomy, physics, chemistry, mathematics, medicine, and natural history. The set moreover contains both issues of the celebrated number 27 for 1667 - the suppressed original announcing the first blood transfusion performed on a human being, and the replacement Oldenburg issued to supersede it - a pairing preserved in only a handful of recorded sets. Thomas Henry Huxley observed in his 1866 address On the Advisableness of Improving Natural Knowledge that if every book in the world apart from the Philosophical Transactions were destroyed, the foundations of physical science would remain secure and the intellectual progress of the last two centuries largely recoverable. Long unbroken runs of the first four-and-a-half decades are now of the greatest rarity: only two comparable sets have appeared at auction in the last three decades - the Norman set (Christie's New York, 15 June 1998, lot 716, $112,500) and the Macclesfield set (Sotheby's, 25 October 2005, lot 1782, £96,000 = $171,400) - and a seven-volume run containing Newton's papers on light realised $75,600 at Christie's in April 2022. Provenance: armorial bookplate of Sir Marcus Beresford (1694-1763), Anglo-Irish peer and politician, created Earl of Tyrone in 1746, on the front pastedowns - the plates lettered with the style he bore between 1720 and 1746, 'Lord Viscount Tyrone', and so contemporary with the uniform binding of the mid-1730s; contemporary inscription at the end of one issue (January 1692/3) noting its donation by Robert Hooke; numerous manuscript corrections on more than sixty pages, additional notes on about twenty pages, and eight pages of manuscript notes on the measurement of the Earth bound in at the end. In November 1660, following a Gresham College lecture by Christopher Wren, twelve men - John Wilkins, Robert Boyle, and Wren himself among them - agreed to form a philosophical society that would meet weekly to exchange information and to conduct experiments. The society received its charter from the newly restored Charles II in 1662, and Henry Oldenburg, a German-English diplomat and friend of Boyle, was installed as one of its two secretaries. One of the charter's terms called for the exchange of information with other learned societies, and Oldenburg almost at once began a sustained correspondence - with the Cimento Academy in Florence, the Montmor Academy in Paris, and, after its foundation in 1666, the Académie Royale des Sciences - and with hundreds of working natural philosophers in places that had no scientific society of their own. Fluent in German, Dutch, French, English, and Latin, he was able to translate most foreign correspondence himself, including Antoni van Leeuwenhoek's letters on his microscopical investigations and the communications of Johannes Hevelius of Gdansk and Marcello Malpighi of Bologna. After some years writing letters without salary, Oldenburg decided to compile a monthly newsletter summarising a month's Royal Society activities and send it out to his correspondents in a single printing. On 6 March 1665 (Old Style; 16 March by the Gregorian calendar then in use on the continent), the first issue of the Philosophical Transactions appeared: letter-excerpts, reviews and summaries of recently published books, and accounts of observations and experiments from European natural philosophers. Some of the pieces Oldenburg wrote himself, summarising the minutes of Society meetings; others he translated or adapted from printed sources; still others were composite pieces assembled from the letters of several correspondents on a common subject. After his death in 1677 the journal passed through the hands of a succession of editors, frequently also Secretaries of the Society - Edmond Halley and Hans Sloane the best-known among them - and through a succession of printers, its form and content broadly reflecting the priorities of the current editor and, to a degree, of the Society. The Royal Society assumed financial responsibility for the journal only in 1752. Until the last third of the seventeenth century most original contributions to science appeared in books, in which an author's own findings were embedded within a systematic exposition of a larger subject. The chartering of the Royal Society in 1662 and of the Académie Royale des Sciences in 1666, and the launching in 1665 of the Journal des Sçavans at Paris and the Philosophical Transactions at London, gave institutional expression to a new conception of science as a cooperative enterprise: the immediate objective of the individual scientist became the experimental contribution to an eventual system of nature rather than the construction of the system itself, and the journal article began to replace the book as the unit in which that contribution was made. Newton was the first to use the new medium to argue, from experiment, that an established theory should be torn up and replaced - and the quarrel his proposal ignited was fought out internationally in the journal's own columns, with every party shifting ground until a professional consensus took hold. Scientific advance has kept that rhythm - announce publicly, debate in print, converge - ever since (Kuhn, in Cohen, Isaac Newton's Papers and Letters on Natural Philosophy, 2nd ed. 1978, pp. 27-29). Newton's seventeen optical papers run as a single intellectual sequence across the 1670s: the seminal 1672 New Theory paper (No. 80, pp. 30.…

Condition: Very Good Plus. First Edition. First Edition. Original printed wrappers, darkening to spine, covers intact, slight chipping to edges. Very fragile, usually found in poor condition, this copy is above average plus. Contains the first appearance of "Hills Like White Elephants" by Ernest Hemingway. Also work by James Joyce (Finnigans Wake), Kay Boyle, et. al. Illustration by Pablo Picasso. Quite scarce in this nice condition. Pablo Picasso (illustrator).…