Inquiries Concerning Medium Light Form by Macvicar John (2 results)

Leatherbound. Condition: NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. 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. Pages: 150. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1833 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. 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 Pages: 150.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. MACVICAR, JOHN G. (1800-84). Inquiries concerning the medium of light and the form of its molecules. Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1833. FIRST EDITION. 8 vo. Orig. blue boards, rebacked and repaired. Uncut. vii, (1, errata), 132 pp. Engraved folding frontisplate containing 42 figs. PRESENTATION COPY to the first professor of chemistry at King's College, London and friend of Faraday, John Frederic Daniell (1790-1845), inventor of a new hygrometer and pyrometer and the Daniell cell. The cell maintained a continuous and even current without liberating hydrogen at the copper electrode. Macvicar's two-line holograph inscription is on the front flyleaf. A very good copy. Macvicar was educated at St. Andrews and Edinburgh. This is an early work among his many books in science, philosophy, and religion. Sotheran/Zeitlinger, vol. 2, no. 11261 notes: "In order to explain the optical phenomena which were difficult or impossible to account for on the corpuscular theory, the author assumes light to consist of molecules with a crystalline structure emitted from the luminous body and travel in groups." Not in Brit. Opt. Assoc. Cat. or Lomb Lib. Cat. …