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Braunschweig: Druck und Verlag von Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn, 1921. First Edition. Pamphlet. Very good. A notable paper on the impact origin of moon craters. Wegener considers the three leading explanations at the time-the bubble or explosion hypothesis, the tidal hypothesis, and the volcanic hypothesis-and finds them inadequate. He then elaborates his own theory of projectile hypothesis, which he simulated by impacting cement projectiles into cement dust and comparing the results to known data about moon crater shape and proportions (several plates are based on photographs of the results). Wegener is most well-known today for his pioneering work on continental drift but he made important contributions to a number of fields, including this work on astrophysics. A crater on the dark side of the moon is named for him. 48 pages, plus three black-and-white photographic plates. Published as no. 55 in the Sammlung Vieweg Tagesfragen aus Naturwissenschaften und Technik series. For more information, see…
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Die Entstehung der Mondkrater [The Formation of Lunar Craters]
by Wegener, Alfred
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Dr. Nikola Tesla: Complete Patents [Gray Gold Cover]
by Tesla, Nikola (Ratzlaff, John. T., compiler)
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(N.-pl.): Tesla Book Company, 1993. Hardcover. Very good. New edition. A facsimile reprint of Tesla's patents. 500 pages. 9 by 11-1/4 inches. Bound in gray cloth with gold-colored stamping. Large ownership name on the front pastedown. Covers a bit grubby; text block slightly musty smelling. Covers a bit splayed (bowed out).
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Mechanics [A Treatise on Mechanics] [The Cabinet of Natural Philosophy]
by Kater, Henry and Dionysius Lardner
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London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green and John Taylor, 1830. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. An introduction to the topic issued in Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopedia series. ix, 342 pages, and ca. 20 plates. 4 by 6-3/4 inches. First edition (first printing, with 1830 date on the title page and on the second, decorative title page). Bound in half-calf over marbled paper-covered boards. Paper worn; edges showing wear.
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Newton, His Friends and His Foes
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Aldershot, England: Variorum, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. xii, 320 pages. Facsimile reprints of Hall's publications on Newton, including the long essay, Correcting the Principia. First edition (first printing). A fine hardcover copy. No dust jacket.
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Robert Hooke's Contributions to Mechanics: A Study in Seventeenth Century Natural Philosophy
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The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1790. First Edition. Trade paperback. Near fine. 135 pages. First edition (first printing). Near fine in wrappers (paperback).
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Time Reborn: From the Crisis in Physics to the Future of the Universe
by Smolin, Lee
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. An argument for a reconceptualization of time in physics. 319 pages. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Smolin, and scarce thus. This copy belonged to Edmund H. Fischer, winner of the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine in 1992. It has an unsigned gift inscription written in two hands with two pens. It is at least possible that Fischer wrote his own name in the book.
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