‎WALLER, AUGUSTUS D.‎
‎Eight Lectures on The Signs of Life from Their Electrical Aspect. - [PRESENTATION-COPY FOR BOHR]‎

‎London, John Murray, 1903. Lex8vo. Orig. gilt cloth. Front board with some scratches to the cloth. With large presentation-inscription from Waller to the Danish physiologist Prof. Christian Bohr, and with the name of his son, the famous physicist Niels Bohr, in his own hand. VIII, 175 pp. Richly illustrated.‎

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‎First edition, presentation-copy to Christian Bohr and later owned by his son Niels Bohr, of Waller's important work on the basic principles of living things based on live demonstrations of electrical phenomena.The work is a collection of eight eloquent lectures aimed at all students interested in learning about the physiology of life. Waller was the first to record a human electrocardiogram using a mercury capillary electrometer.‎