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Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2011
ISBN 10: 1108029019ISBN 13: 9781108029018
Anbieter: Prior Books Ltd, Cheltenham, Vereinigtes Königreich
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Paperback. Zustand: Like New. Reprint. Bright and clean, firm and square, just a few very minor rubs and light shelf-wear. Hence a non-text page is stamped 'damaged'. Despite such this book is actually in nearly new condition. Thus it looks and feels unread with contents that are crisp, fresh and tight. Now offered for sale at a special bargain price.
Verlag: Taylor and Francis, 1860.], London:, 1860
Anbieter: Jeff Weber Rare Books, Montreux, VAUD, Schweiz
293 x 231 mm. 4to. Pages 325-336. 4 figs., tables. Dis-bound. DSB, VII, p. 182.
Verlag: Taylor and Francis, 1877., London:, 1877
Anbieter: Jeff Weber Rare Books, Montreux, VAUD, Schweiz
306 x 235 mm. 4to. Pages 693-713. [Entire volume: [iv], [4], v, [3], 325-741, [1 blank] pp.] 2 figs., tables. Original printed wrappers; spine and extremities chipped, stitching sprung. Ex library rubber stamp of the Liverpool Observatory. Good. This is a continuation of Lord Kelvin's Bakerian Lecture first presented in 1856 in which Kelvin provides his experimental proofs for his general theory of thermo-electric phenomena. See: DNB, 1901-1911, p. 512; Whittaker, A history of the theories of aether & electricity, p. 235.
Verlag: Neill, 1889., Edinburgh:, 1889
Anbieter: Jeff Weber Rare Books, Montreux, VAUD, Schweiz
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8vo. Pages 21-33. [Entire volume: viii, 554 pp.] Fore-edge with marginal tears pages 19-64. Full brown cloth, gilt spine; inner hinge cracked. Very good. FIRST EDITION. "In his attempt to achieve an alternative to Maxwell's theory of light, Thomson could find no clear help in his vortices, and in 1888 he began to look into the reasons for the failure of the elastic-solid theory of the luminiferous ether. He had particularly in view George Green's [1793-1841] 1837 medium. Green had been obliged to assume that the ether is incompressible, in order to avoid instability and to remove longitudinal waves. On these grounds, however, he was unable to obtain Fresnel's tangent-law for the reflection and refraction of light for waves polarized normally to the plane of incidence. Encouraged by his vortex theory of the medium, Thomson at first imagined an inviscid fluid permeating the pores of an incompressible, spongelike solid, but he soon found that this structure only augmented the older difficulties. He therefore began to consider whether Green's comments on stability might not be open to doubt. . . By supposing the ether to have no resistance to compression by volume, Thomson was able to show that the hypothesis adopted makes it possible to obtain all of Fresnel's laws, while eliminating the longitudinal wave and avoiding instability. THE WORK HAD AN IMMEDIATE AND WIDESPREAD IMPACT ON THE MAXWELLIAN COMMUNITY. Within a month Richard Tetley Glazebrook had written a paper successfully applying the new conception to double refraction, dispersion, and metallic reflection." - DSB. DSB, XIII, pp. 386; Whittaker, A history of the theories of aether & electricity, I, pp. 151-152.