Morley Edward W (24 results)

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 159 pp. NAP. Contents divided into 23 chapters and 4 Parts: PART I : "The Origins of the Special Theory of Relativity" [Contributors: Sir Isaac Newton, Ernst Mach, Albert A. Michelson and Edward M. Morley, H.A. Lorentz, Jules Henri Poincare, Albert Einstein]; PART II : "The Nature of Relativity Theory" [Albert Einstein]; PART III : "How Was Relativity Theory Born?" [Albert Einstein, Sir Edmund Whittaker, Gerald Holton, Adolf Grunbaum]; PART IV : [1] "The Scientific Reaction to Einstein" [William F. Magie, Louis Trenchard More, Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington]; [2] "The Lay Reaction" [The New York Times Editorial, "A Mystic Universe" (January 28, 1928), H. Wildon Carr, Hugh Elliot, Thomas Jewell Craven, Pau; Chatham Squires, Jose Ortega yGasset]. Shiny black wrappers with Title lettering at top center front cover above abstract art object, an arc composed of many adjacent sets of parallel curved lines; Editor name lettering in light gray across middle front cover; Series name lettering in smaller white letters across bottom front cover. Rubbing wear down spine edges and at spine and cover corners; 1" soft creases at front cover corners; many white mini-creases and some white speckles on front cover (NOT in evidence on inside covers), just general useage signs; 21 pp. (of 159 pp.) have small amounts of ink underlining or margin lines; 4 pp. were once dog-eared; previous owner phone number and extension at top right half-title page/ffep: describes worse than it is, but there you have it. For a paperback 55 years old, it is still in good shape: the way to read a Science and Society Classic collection of essays.…

Condition: New. In English.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Fair. Fair, 117-page paperback that has been detached from binding with accompanying articles, hence wraps are missing and small holes and book thread are present along spine. Text is unmarked, and only library marking is library stamp on final page of Index.

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Hard cover. 864 p. Contents include: THe Jew and the Club by X, Little Dark Man by Ernest Poole, Meditations of a Wage-Earning Wife, by Jane Littel, The Fifth Estate and Physics and Civilization by Arthur D. Little, And in the Hanging Gardens, by Conrad Aiken, A Day with Mahatma Gandhi by C. F. Andrews, The Holy One of Benares by Dhan Gopal Mukerji, and much more. Black fabric binding with gold lettering on spine. Ex-library with usual indications but otherwise unmarked. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. …

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Original paper wraps with black lettering to the front. This copy is VG. Exterior is modestly toned/soiled with one small number "4" in ink. Bottom 1 1/2 " of spine chipped away. Modest chipped to the edges, as the wrappers are slightly over sized. Inside is unmarked, firmly bound. Morley's most important work as a chemist , according to many.…

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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. X, 159 Pp Including Short Bibliography At End. Orange Cloth, Hardcover. Second Printing. Fine.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Spines a bit faded with some weakening of gilt titles, boards lightly soiled, ink stamp on front endpaper of fourth volume. Bindings tight and square, text clean, bright, and unmarked. 1931 Hard Cover. Complete in four volumes. viii, [2], 403, [1]; viii, [2], 431, [1]; vi, [2], 419, [1]; viii, [2], 483, [3] pp. 8vo. Essays and articles celebrating one hundred years of Rochester, New York, including contributions by various authors. The first three volumes include poems about Rochester, and the fourth the music for the Centennial Hymn composed for the occasion. Includes Volume 1: Beginnings, Volume 2: Home Builders, Volume 3: Expansion, and Volume 4: Jubilee. …

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Spines a bit faded with some weakening of gilt titles, boards lightly soiled, endpapers of volume three a bit foxed with top corner of front free endpaper clipped, ink stamp on front endpaper of volume four with small spot on fore edge. 1931 Hard Cover. Complete in four volumes. viii, [2], 403, [1]; viii, [2], 431, [1]; vi, [2], 419, [1]; viii, [2], 483, [3] pp. 8vo. Essays and articles celebrating one hundred years of Rochester, New York, including contributions by various authors. The first three volumes include poems about Rochester, and the fourth the music for the Centennial Hymn composed for the occasion. Includes Volume 1: Beginnings, Volume 2: Home Builders, Volume 3: Expansion, and Volume 4: Jubilee. …

Wraps. Condition: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. Diagrams and line illustrations; tables; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Oversize 4to softcover in original title lettered cardstock wraps. 1st printing of Morley's very important chemistry monograph. In the original wraps, never bound together with the other monographs published for Smithsonian's Contributions to Knowledge Vol XXiX. Expected light to moderate toning of covers which are ruffled and lightly chipped at front edge. Most pages unopened at top or front edge. Illustrated with numerous diagrams and line drawing; numerous tables. Solid and neat original issue. VG or better. . Oversize book may require additional charges for expedited or international shipping.…

Wraps. Condition: Fair. Soiled wrappers, with fraying at fore-edges. Several stains to covers, scuffing and staining to rear panel. Spine panel lacks bottom inch of paper, and a further 2 inches are loose. Internally clean and bright, noting an embossed stamp on the front "Advertisement" page. Corners worn, no loss of text. Also laid in is an announcement from Smithsonian which is labelled "Library Catalogue Slips", with publication information. A number of pages in the rear have large corner creases. Wraps. "In the later years of his life Morley was honored with the Davy Medal of the Royal Society, the Elliot Cresson Medal of the Franklin Institute, and the Willard Gibbs Medal of the Chicago section of the American Chemical Society, principally for his careful atomic weight determinations." (DSB). …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. A Determination of the Ratio. . . . Experiments with Ionized Air. The Structure of the Nucleus. . . . On the Absorption and Emission of Air. . . .Rebound in sturdy green library buckram with gilt title and volume number and dewey decimal number on white label on spine. Ex-library with due date slip and library stamps on top, bottom, and fore-edges. No other library markings such as cardholder, etc. As is often the case, the Smithsonian advertisement has chips, tears, and tape mends. Original front wrappers bound in. Slight edge tanning to leaves, single tape mend to the edge of the Morley and Schumann front wrappers and a Schumann plate, else Very Good. Large quarto (nearly folio). xi + xii + 117 + iii + 81 + 43 + 48 + v + 29 + x + 95 + xiv + 176 + iv + 30 pp. All 5 plates called for in these monographs are present. The Table of Contents calls for a Michelson article entitled "On the Application of Interference Methods to Spectroscopic Measurements" that is not bound in this volume. Includes some important monographs. Bound in are the library catalog slips that go with each monograph.…

First Edition. xi, 117 pp; 40 figs. Contemporary cloth, with original wrappers bound in. Very Good. "The great research achievement in Morley's life, that upon which his fame as a chemist so securely rests, was the determination of the densities of hydrogen and oxygen, the weights of each that combine with the other to form water, and the volumes of the two gases that combine to form water. The importance of his results lies in the fact that the weight of the oxygen atom is the basis or standard upon which the relative weights of all the other atoms are founded. It is, therefore, not overworking the truth to say that the work so painstakingly completed by Morley. assures the correctness of the fundamental ratio of the weight of an atom of oxygen to the weight of a hydrogen atom" (Williams, Edward Williams Morley, p. 204, with extensive discussion through p. 214). D. S. B. 9: 531. Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge 980 (Vol. XXIX).…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition. xi, 117 pp; 40 figs. Original wrappers. Very Good+. "The great research achievement in Morley's life, that upon which his fame as a chemist so securely rests, was the determination of the densities of hydrogen and oxygen, the weights of each that combine with the other to form water, and the volumes of the two gases that combine to form water. The importance of his results lies in the fact that the weight of the oxygen atom is the basis or standard upon which the relative weights of all the other atoms are founded. It is, therefore, not overworking the truth to say that the work so painstakingly completed by Morley. assures the correctness of the fundamental ratio of the weight of an atom of oxygen to the weight of a hydrogen atom" (Williams, Edward Williams Morley, p. 204, with extensive discussion through p. 214). D. S. B. 9: 531. Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge 980 (Vol. XXIX).…

Pp. [181]-186. Original wrappers. Upper corners of wrappers and pages bumped. Very Good. First Edition. "Michelson accepted an offer in 1889 to move to the new Clark University at Worcester, Massachusetts. Concurrently he began to carry out a monumental metrological project that he and Morley had envisioned to determine the length of the international meter bar at Sèvres in terms of wave-lengths of cadmium light. . . . So elegant were the success and precision of this project that Michelson became internationally famous" (D.S.B. 9: 373-73). Michelson was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1907 "for his optical precision instruments and the spectroscopic and metrological investigations carried out with their aid.".…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. A beautiful illustrated ten volume collection of works from the Our Beautiful Homeland Series. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth bindings.These copies are undated. Dated here using Jisc, from copies held at the National Library of Scotland and the University of Birmingham Libraries.This is a eight-volume set of this charming early 20th-century travel series showcasing the historic towns, rural landscapes, and iconic landmarks of Britain.Each copy of Our Beautiful Homeland features 48 full-page colour plates of watercolours, painted by Ernest W. Haslehust, R.B.A.This set includes volumes exploring: Norwich: Shakespeare Land: The Peak District: The Dukeries, described by Walter Jerrold & R. Murray Gilchrist Exeter: Heart of Wessex: Dartmoor: Bath and Wells, described by Sidney Heath & Arthur L. Salmon Hereford: Chester: Oxford: Warwick & Leamington, described by Charles Edwards, F. D. How & George Morley Canterbury: Winchester: The Isle of Wight: Swanage, described by Edward Thomas, Sidney Heath & Canon Danks York: Ripon and Harrogate: The English Lakes: Scarborough, described by George Benson, A. G. Bradley & R. Murray Gilchrist The Thames: Windsor Castle: Hampton Court: Dickens Land, described by G. E. Mitton, Edward Thomas, Walter Jerrold & J. A. Nicklin Edinburgh: The Scott Country: The Shores of Fife: Loch Lomond: Loch Katrine & The Trossachs, described by John Geddie & George Eyre Todd The Heart of London: Through London"s Highways: In London"s By-Ways: Rambles in Greater London, described by Walter Jerrold In original publisher's cloth bindings. Externally, smart. Slight rubbing and bumping to extremities. Slight age toning to cloth, more so to spines, particularly "Norwich". The odd minor handling mark to boards. slight soiling to cloth. The odd hinge strained, but firm. Internally, generally firmly bound, aside from pages 13-16 in "Oxford", which are fully disbound. Pages bright and clean, if slightly age toned. The odd spot, heavier to first and last few leaves and fore edge. Very Good. Ernest W. Haslehust (illustrator). book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. MICHELSON, Albert A. and Edward W. Morley. "On the Relative Motion of the Earth and the Luminiferous Aether", in the whole volume of "The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science," London, Taylor & Francis, 1887, vol 24 (5th series), July-December, vii, (1), 524pp, with the Michelson-Morley appearing on pp449-463 (with text illustrations) in the December issue. (The great paper was followed immediately by their paper "On a Method of making the Wave-length of Sodium Light the actual and practical Standard of Length,") pp 463-466. The volume is newly rebound in half-calf and marbled boards, with raised bands and discrete spine decorations, with red and black labels. Very fresh and crisp text. Lovely copy, though there are some occasional brown spots here and there, and the title page itself is fairly well browned. [++] First printing outside of the U.S. of one of the most important scientific efforts of the 19th century it had appeared a month earlier, in November, in Silliman's American Journal oif Science, the null results of the experiment puncturing the ether theories and leading to the speed of light being a universal constant. "What is now known as the most famous experimental null result in physics was reconciled in 1905 when Albert Einstein, in his formulation of special relativity, postulated that the speed of light is the same in all reference frames; i.e., the measured speed of light is independent of the relative motion of the observer and the light source. The hypothetical ether, with its preferred reference frame, was eventually abandoned as an unnecessary construct."--Britannica. [++] "The failure of this experiment was a serious blow to classical scientific theories because it cast doubts on the existence of the universal ether which had been a basic principle of, for example, the Newtonian theories of the universe."--Printing and the Mind of Man, 401. [++] "Michelson and Morley next redesigned the 1881 ether-drift experiment to increase the path length almost tenfold and to reduce friction of rotation by floating a sandstone slab on a mercury bearing. During five days in July 1887 Michelson and Morley performed their test for the relative motion of the earth in orbit against a stationary ether. Their results were null and so discouraging that they abandoned any effort to continue with the tests they intended in the following autumn, winter, and spring. The sensitivity they had achieved with this new interferometer, about one-fourth part in one billion, was its own reward, however; and both innovators began to think of other uses for such instruments. Although the experimenters quickly forgot their disappointment, theorists, and notably FitzGerald, Larmor, Lorentz, and Poincaré, made much of their failure to find fringe shifts and to corroborate Fresnel and Stokes s wave theory of light."--Complete DSB online (Michelson) [++] Michelson by the way was the first US citizen to win Nobel Prize in physics, 1907, for his precision optical instruments and the spectroscopic and metrological investigations conducted therewith.   He is also the only Nobelist to be a featured character in any U.S. Western tv drama series ("Bonanza" believe it or not, episode 92, "Look to the Stars", 1962). …

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1915 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set and contains approximately 20 pages. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English.…

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1896 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set and contains approximately 16 pages. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English.…

In: The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science. Series 5 Vol. 24 = July-December 1887, No. 151, pp. 449-463. Bound in half leather with gilt-stamped label on spine. Edges rubbed and bumped. Spine rubbed and damaged. Endpaper and title page are brown-spotted. Front cover loosened. This is the FIRST EUROPEAN PRINTING of the famous Michelson-Morley Experiment. The Complete Volume includes 9 plates. VII, 524 pp. Also included in this volume are the following first editions of: Rayleigh, Lord (d.i. J.W. Strutt), On the Maintenance of Vibrations by Forces of Double Frequency, and on the Propagation of Waves through a Medium endowed with a Periodic Structure. Poggendorff VI, 1218; TOMLINSON, H., The Effect of Change of Temperature in Twisting or Untwisting Wires which have suffered Permanent Torsion. No. 148, pp. 253-256; Remarkable Effect on raising Iron when Temporary Stress or Permanent Strain to a Bright-red Heat. No. 148, pp. 256-267. Poggendorff IV, 1514; THOMPSON, S.P., Twin Prisms for Polarimeters. No. 150, pp. 397-401. Poggendorff IV, 1494; HEAVISIDE, O., On Resistance and Conductance Operators, and their Derivatives, Inductance and Permittance, especially in Connection with Electric and Magnetic Energy. No. 151, pp. 479-502. Poggendorff IV, 602. Sprache: Englisch. …

London, Taylor and Francis, 1887. 8vo. In recent full blue cloth. In: "The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science" Fifth Series, Vol. 24. VIII,524 pp., textillustr. and 9 plates. (Entire volume offered). Michelson & Morley's paper: pp. 449-463, textillustr. (depicting experimental apparatus etc.). Title-page with light soiling and lower 2 cm loose and traces from previous binding in inner maring. Otherwise a good copy. First European publication of this classic paper which announced one of the most celebrated experiments in the history of physics and eventually led Einstein to his Relativity Theory (see PMM 378,410,408). The paper appeared first in the "American Journal of Science" just one month before in November, not in August as stated in PMM. The offered paper appeared in the December issue 1887 and in a slightly modified form.Michelson was the first American to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics, in 1907, for the measurement of the speed of light through the design and application of precise optical instruments such as the interferometer, which was used in this experiment."Michelson, trained at the U.S. Naval Academy, and Morley, minister turned chemist, began a series of experiments to determine the relation of ether drift and the velocity of light, effects of extremely minute values. They used a slightly silvered glass set angular to a ray of sunlight so that a part ofthe ray was transmitted, a part reflected out and again returned, thereby providing two paths, one perpendicular to the other. If drift existed, the superimposed rays would produce interference. None was observed, showing that the earth's motion did not affect the light's speed. The negative result held revolutionary implications which led directly thru Lorentz and Einstein to the acceptance of new standards of reference of time and space from geometry and cosmometry."(Dibner).Dibner No 161 (listing the offered paper from Philosophical Magazine). - Norman 1505.- Magee "A Source Book in Physics", pp. 369 ff. (the offered paper).The volume contains another paper by Michelson and Morley "On a method of Making the Wave-lenght of Sodium Light the actual and practical Standard of Lenght", pp. 463-466. …

New Haven, Conn., J.D. & E.S. Dana, 1887. 8vo. Contemporary half calf. Gilt lettering to spine. A small stamp to top of title-page. In: "The American Journal of Science. Editors James D. and Edward S. Dana", Third series Vol. XXXIV (July to December, 1887). VIII,500 pp., textillustr. and 10 plates. (Entire volume offered). The joint paper: pp. 333-345 and textillustr. (Apparatus). A few faint brownspots to titlepage, otherwise clean and fine. First appearance of this classic paper which announced one of the most celebrated experiments in the history of physics and eventually led Einstein to his Relativity Theory.The experiment was expected to show the rate of the earth's movement through the ether" they looked in vain for a difference between the speed of light in the direction of the earth's motion around the sun and the direction perpendicular to it. The failure of this experiment was a serious blow to classical scientific theories because it cast doubts on the existance of the universal ether which had been a basic principleof, for example, the Newtonian theories of the universe. (Vide PMM: 378, 401, 408).The paper appeared first in the "American Journal of Science" in November (as offered here), and was published a month later in "Philosophical Magazine" in a slightly modified form."Michelson, trained at the U.S. Naval Academy, and Morley, minister turned chemist, began a series of experiments to determine the relation of ether drift and the velocity of light, effects of extremely minute values. They used a slightly silvered glass set angular to a ray of sunlight so that a part ofthe ray was transmitted, a part reflected out and again returned, thereby providing two paths, one perpendicular to the other. If drift existed, the superimposed rays would produce interference. None was observed, showing that the earth's motion did not affect the light's speed. The negative result held revolutionary implications which led directly thru Lorentz and Einstein to the acceptance of new standards of reference of time and space from geometry and cosmometry."(Dibner)In 1919 Einstein met Michelson in California. At a dinner given in honor of them both, Einstein said in a speech "You (Michelson) uncovered an insidious defect in the ether theory of light, as it existed, and stimulated the ideas of H.A. Lorentz and Fitzgerald, out of which the Special Theory of Relativity developed. Without your work this theory would today be scarcely more than an interesting speculation." In an interview in 1842 Einstein said: "It is no doubt that Michelson's experiment was of considerably influence upon my work insofar as it strengthened my conviction concerning the validity of the Principle of relativity.On the other side I was pretty much convinced of the validity of the principle before I did know this experiment and its result. In any case, Michelson's experiment removed practically any doubt about the validity of the principle in optics and showed that a profound change of the basic concepts of physics was inevitable."Michelson was awarded the 1907 Nobel Prize "for his optical precision instrument (the inteferometer) and the spectroscopic and metrological investigations he has carried on."Dibner: Heralds of Science: 161 (lising the later version from "Philosophical Magazine") - Norman 1505.- Magee "A Source Book in Physics", pp. 369 ff. (the later paper).The volume contains another paper by Michelson and Morley "On a method of Making the Wave-lenght of Sodium Light the actual and practical Standard of Lenght", pp. 427-430. …