The History Of The Barometer by Middleton, W. E. Knowles - 1968

Johns Hopkins Press, 1964. hardcover. Good. . Ex-library copy with usual markings. Cover and edges shows wear. Pages are clean and intact.

Baltimore MD: The John Hopkins Press, 1964. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Ex library copy spine label removed with a little white underpaper showing, pocket on last page, stamped on top edge of pages & title page also stamped withdrawn. Old tape spots where tape had been on inside front and rear covers and first and last pages. ; Shipping will be extra for this heavy book, please inquire; Ex-Library; 7 x 9 3/4"; 489 pages.

(Wiltshire, England): Baros Books, (1994) . xx, 489, (1) pp. b/w halftone and line ills. Reprint of the 1964 first edition. As new in dust jacket.

Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002 Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Minor shelf wear. Otherwise a square, tight, unmarked book. Index. xx, 489 pp..

Baltimoree: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1964. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 25 x 17.5 cm. Octavo. 489pp. Figures, appendix, index. Teal cloth in dust jacket. Toning to jacket spine, rubbing and shelf wear to jacket. Previous owner's bookplate on front fixed endpaper. Light toning to page edges.

Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1968. (1968), 489pp, illus., usual lib. markings, slight shelfwear to cover, slight soiling to pg edges, tape marks to eps, card pocket removed from rear ep.. Cloth. Very Good -/No Jacket. Ex-Library.

Johns Hopkins University Press. Used - Very Good. 1964. Hardcover. Cloth, dj. Scuffing and edgewear to dj, including chipping at spine ends; sunning to spine. Jacket now protected in acetate wrapper. Slight shelf wear to boards. Former owner's bookplate on front paste-down. Expected age-toning to text block edges. Else a bright, clean copy. Very Good. (Subject: History of Science).

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1964. xx, 489p., b/w illus., dj, ex libris.

Baltimore:: The John Hopkins Press, 1964., 1964. 8vo. xx, 489 pp. Illus., appendix, index. Blue-stamped green cloth, dust jacket; corners dented, jacket extremities frayed, spine sunned. Very good. "For two centuries the barometer has been an indispensable laboratory instrument. Yet, despite its revolutionary influence on science, W. E. Knowles Middleton here offers the first complete history of the barometer as a scientific tool. / Middleton relies on research from Western European documents and manuscripts of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He begins his story with a pre-history of the barometer, the Torricellian experiment, the subsequent experiments and controversies in the 1640s, and the barometric experiments during the remainder of the century. / Later chapters are concerned with the mercury barometer as a scientific instrument, discussing the efforts to expand the scale to render the instrument portable, and to attain greater accuracy. These chapters follow accounts of mercury… Read More

Paperback / softback. New. Nearly 200 figures and diagrams depict the wide variety of barometers studied by the author over his long career at the Smithsonian Institution.