On Some Properties of the Earth
by Reichenbach, O[skar] (1815-1893)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
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About This Item
London: Wertheimer, Lea & Co., 1880. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London: Wertheimer, Lea & Co., 1880. First edition. Very Good. Hardcover cloth 8vo, 376pp. Folding map frontis. Errata tipped-in. Generally VG+ but for some rubbing/fraying at the spine and chipping at the spine ends. A technical and speculative survey of the Earth's geologic state: "Mere space, vacuum, has no temperature... It is matter in space which imparts to matter the motion constituting temperature; be that matter atoms or stellar masses or a thermometer wandering through the infinite." (p.177)
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- Bookseller
- Haec City / Also Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- Q015
- Title
- On Some Properties of the Earth
- Author
- Reichenbach, O[skar] (1815-1893)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Wertheimer, Lea & Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1880
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science;
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