The Flash of Genius
by Garrett, Alfred B
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
-
Beloit, Wisconsin, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Princeton: D. Van Nostrand Company, 1963. Stories, mostly in the discoverers' own words, of discoveries in chemistry & physics, including teflon, freon, penicillin, insulin, rayon, oxygen, ring structure of benzene, helium, safety glass; atomic models, radioactivity, isotopes, quantum theory, cathode rays, positron, argon, fission, et cetera; discoverers quoted include Goodyear, Fleming, Nobel, Roentgen, Becquerel, Dalton, Priestley, Lavoisier, Daguerre, Kekule, Mendel, Rutherford, Bohr, Curie, Urey, Gay-Lussac, Avagadro, Planck, Mendeleev, Affhenius, Pauli, Rayleigh, Soddy, Meitner. Hardcover. Light wear to book; jacket shows light rubbing & creasing, tiny stains, minor cockling & heavier rubbing to spine. Text clean; x, 249 pages; index, appendixes including list of Nobel Prize winners, ages of scientists at time of discovery, dates & nationalities; references for each article, a few figures & equations.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookworks MWABA, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- t0709
- Title
- The Flash of Genius
- Author
- Garrett, Alfred B
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- D. Van Nostrand Company
- Place of Publication
- Princeton
- Date Published
- 1963
- Keywords
- Creativity, Invention, Chemistry, Physics, Ideas, Research
- Bookseller catalogs
- Chemistry;
- Size
- Octavo
Terms of Sale
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
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About the Seller
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
Biblio member since 2006
Beloit, Wisconsin
About Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
Most of our stock is on-line only, though we have many books in three booths at Angela's Attic Antique Mall, 1020 Gardner Street in South Beloit, Illinois; a booth across the street at the Best of Beloit; and a large booth at the Lake Geneva Antique Mall, 829 Williams Street, Lake Geneva, WI. You may request to see any of our on-line inventory at any location with a few days' notice.
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- Octavo
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- First Edition
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- Rubbing
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- Jacket
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- Spine
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