Condition Continued: I didn't see any conspicuous creasing, no placeholder creases, no dogeared corners. There is a very tiny (1/16th of an inch) loss at the top edge of the first blank front end paper, not much larger than a speck. There's also two very tiny tears (and a little crease between them) off the top edge of page 7-8, obviously very far from the print. I didn't see any other page imperfections. The only markings in the book are the three referenced (below) stampings of Professor Kennelly's name. The only attachment is his bookplate. Professor Kennelly penciled nine straight parenthetical lines at the margin beside their paragraphs in Part I. Those, and a few penciled letters (mysterious to me) above the bookplate, represent the only writing in the book..
There are many diagrams throughout the book. They are all in excellent condition.
McGraw Publishing Company, New York, 1904. Hardcover. Part One written by H. Poincaré. Part Two by Frederick K. Vreeland. Both Parts translated by Vreeland. First Edition (SD).
This book was previously owned by the electrical engineer Arthur Edwin Kennelly. His bookplate is neatly affixed to the front inside cover (see photo). He also stamped, in small letters, 'A.E. Kennelly' just off the top edge of both blank front end papers and the following title page (see photo).
Kennelly received many awards from many nations. You can take a look at his Wikipedia profile to learn more about him. Briefly, 'he joined Thomas Edison's West Orange laboratory in December 1887, staying until March 1894. While there, Harold P. Brown and he developed an alternating current driven method of execution, better known as the electric chair, to demonstrate that alternating current was more dangerous than the direct-current transmission system that Edison preferred. Kennelly then formed a consulting firm in electrical engineering with Edwin Houston. Together they wrote Alternating Electric Currents, Electrical Engineering Leaflets, and Electric Arc Lighting. He was a professor of electrical engineering at Harvard University from 1902 to 1930 and jointly at the Massachusetts Institute Of Technology from 1913 to 1924.'
Professor Kennelly also 'advanced applied mathematics by communicating the theory of the hyperbolic angle and hyperbolic functions, first in a course at the University of London and then in a published book.'
'Jules Henri Poincaré was a French mathematician, theoretical physicist, engineer, and philosopher of science. He is often described as a polymath, and in mathematics as 'The Last Universalist', since he excelled in all fields of the discipline as it existed during his lifetime.'
'James Clerk Maxwell is most famous for his theory of electromagnetism, which showed that light was electromagnetic radiation. His theory is considered to have paved the way for both quantum mechanics and Einstein's theory of special relativity.'
'Frederick K. Vreeland 'invented the first magnetrons almost 20 years before Albert Hull, who is usually credited with inventing the (cavity) magnetron.'