HERSCHEL, Sir John F. Popular Lectures On Scientific Subjects, 1877
TITLE
Popular Lectures On Scientific Subjects
AUTHOR
HERSCHEL, Sir John F
ILLUSTRATOR
PUBLISHER
LONDON: Daldy, Isbister & Co.
YEAR
1877
FORMAT
Hardcover / Leather
EDITION
Not stated
DESCRIPTION
Brighton College presentation binding [bound by H.C. Treacher, Brighton] in full maroon leather with five ridged spine. Bevelled edges with gilt crest to front and rear and gilt titles to spine. Gilt all edges. Marbled endpapers. Pages: xii, 507 Size: 16mo 17.5cm by 12cm
SIGNED
LANGUAGE
English
PROVENANCE
BOOKPLATE: David F.T. Cromie. PRESENTATION PLATE: Charles Bigg [Principal].
SUMMARY
Popular Lectures On Scientific Subjects
1877
PROVENANCE
BOOKPLATE: David F.T. Cromie.
PRESENTATION PLATE: Charles Bigg [Principal].
DAVID F.T. CROMIE: No details found.
CHARLES BIGG (1840–1908); Church of England clergyman, theologian and church historian.
Born Higher Broughton, near Manchester, educated at Manchester Grammar School and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he was a brilliant student, winning the Hertford Prize for Latin, the Ireland Scholarship, and the Gaisford Prize for Greek Prose. He took Holy Orders (Deacon 1863, Priest 1864), but so enjoyed teaching in a school that he became an assistant master at Cheltenham College (1865-71) and Principal of Brighton College. Appointed Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History at the University of Oxford in 1901, holding the post until his death.
RESUME
Contents: 1) About Earthquakes and Volcanoes. 2) The Sun. 3) On Comets. 4) The Weather and Weather Prophets. 5) Celestial Measurings and Weighings. 6) On Light. Part I. Reflexion, Refraction, Dispersion, Colour, Abscription. 7) On Light. Part II. Theories of Light, Interferences, Diffraction. 8) On Light. Part III. Double Refraction, Polarization. 9) On Sensorial Vision. 10) The Yard, Pendulum, and the Metre. 11) On Atoms. A Dialogue. 12) On the Origin of Force. 13) On the Absorption of Light by Coloured Media viewed in connexion with the Undulatory Theory. 14) On the Estimation of Skill in Target-Shooting.
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CONDITION
BOOK
Wear to corners, edges and spine ends. Clean boards. Rubbed spine ridges. Tightly bound with strong hinges. Presentation plate dated 1879 to front paste down and bookplate [David Cromie] to ffep. Spotting to prelims. Lightly toned pages with minor spotting to extreme page margins from minor spots to text block edges.
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