‎Bainville (Jacques)‎
‎Lectures‎

‎Statistical Thermodynamics. Course of Seminar Lectures. Delivered in January - March 1944, at the School of Theoretical Physics. - [A UNIFIED STANDARD METHOD OF DEALING WITH STATISTICAL THERMODYNAMICS]‎

‎Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1944. 4to. Original pre-publication typescript, hectographt print, printed on rectos only. In original red printed wrappers with black cloth spine. Paley Johanson's copy, with his owner's name and inscription to top of front wrapper: Paley Johnson/ Dept. of Colloid Science/ Free School Lane/ Cambridge"". A few smaller nicks and creases to front wrapper, otherwise a fine clean copy. (2), 135 ff.‎

‎Scarce pre-publication typescript, with an excellent provenance, of Schrödinger's important attempt at developing a simple, unified standard method of dealing with all cases of statistical thermodynamics, developed in his seminar lectures of the Dublin institute for advanced studies in January - March 1944. A very small edition of the lectures was published in hectograph form by the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies [offered item]. In 1952 the first public printing, differing a bit from the hectograph printing, of the lectures appeared - in a book of the same title. That highly popular book was printed in large numbers. ""The idea of this seminar is to develop briefly one simple, unified standard method, capable of dealing, without changing the fundamental attitude, with ALL cases (classical, quantum, Bose-Einstein, Fermi-Dirac, etc.) and with every new problem that may turn up. The interest is focused on the general procedure, and examples are dealt with as illustrations thereof. Not a first introduction for new-comers to the subject is intended, rather a 'repetitorium'. The wording is extremely shortened about well-known stories to be found in every one of a hundred text-books, but more extended on some vital points, usually passed over in all but large monographs (as Fowler's and Tolman's)There is, essentially, only one problem in statistical thermodynamics: the distribution of a given amount of energy E over N identical systems..."" (From the General Introduction by Schrödinger, f. 1).It is in the course of the present lectures that Schrödinger explains why he thought the Boltzmann counting method not be appropriate. Furthermore, Schrödinger here distinguishes himself from his 1925-6 publications on the same subject by presenting (1) the complete relinquishment of the concept of wave packets, and (2) the exclusive stress put on the field quantization formalism which, for all statistical purposes, is equivalent to Schrödinger's initial quantized matter wave model. ""A very small edition of these lectures was published in hectograph by the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. It is hoped that the present edition, for which the text has been slightly revised, may reach a wider circle of readers. (Initiating Note in the second edition of the book). PALEY JOHNSON (1917-2011) was a famous colloid scientist, in the field of which he became a world authority, focusing on the physical properties of biological macromolecules in solution. Having won a place at Trinity College Cambridge and gone on to make a PhD there, he went on to the Royal Institution in London, where, along with Albert Alexander, he produced a comprehensive two-volume Oxford University Press monograph on Colloid Science, which, for nearly half a century, remained the authoritative text in the field, and is still a valuable reference source, even today. Primarily in recognition of this, along with other achievements, the University subsequently awarded Paley the distinction of an ScD degree. In 1950, he returned to Free School Lane to take up an academic post at the Colloid Science Laboratory.""Paley was first and foremost an experimentalist, one of the best, and his attention turned to physical techniques for solving biological problems - to two techniques in particular, of which he became the master and a world authority. One was the analytical Utracentrifuge. [...] Paley found a completely new application for this technique in the characterization of gels, gelatin and other jelly-like materials. One of the present world leaders in colloid science, Professor Helmut Colfen at the University of Konstanz in Germany, comments on this work on gel analysis in the analytical ultracentrifuge: ""Paley did the first systematic analyses of gel systems in the centrifuge which was highly pioneering work since up to then, only solutions or dispersions of particles had been investigated. He found that the behaviour of a gel in the centrifuge was fundamentally different from a solution or dispersion and established the theory describing this. He was thus the first one to accurately describe the behaviour of gels in the centrifugal field and laid the foundations for the analysis and understanding of the important class of materials known as hydrogels, crucial for their application in food and biopharmaceuticals.""The other technique which became Paley's trademark was light scattering of macromolecular dispersions - a technique requiring meticulous attention to detail. Without that attention, as Paley would say, ""experiments were not useful"". In his own research and publications, he did a lot to establish good practice, giving detailed procedures for achieving this, and was very critical of other studies where this attention to detail was not followed or shortcuts had been taken. [...] Colloid science at Cambridge and Paley Johnson were almost synonymous."" (Steve Harding, Obituary in The Biochemical society, december 2011).Colloid Science, with its study of large molecules, is a bridge building subject lying at the boundary of a number of disciplines, physical chemistry, biology and mathematics. It's results are important and beneficiel in a large number of fields. During the War Paley worked in the colloid laboratory collaborating with others on various projects: the development of incendiary mixtures and the use of cellulose nitrate in making cordite for rockets" the use of detergents in lubrication the use of synthetic polymers in warfare. He also had a wartime research Fellowship sponsored by ICI looking at an interest, which remained a serious study, the use of the protein in peanut butter. ‎

‎On Translating Homer. Three Lectures given at Oxford. - [THE MOST IMPORTANT WORK ON TRANSLATING HOMER]‎

‎London, 1861. Small 8vo. Original green full cloth with blondstamped boards and gilt lettering to spine. Corners bumped, upper capital worn, and gilding on spine very faded. Binding slightly dusty, but overall a very nice copy, fine and clean. (4), 104 pp. + publisher'scatalogue, 24 pp.‎

‎The uncommon first printing of Arnold's groundbreaking work on translating Homer, which constitutes the most important work in the history of translation-theory of the Homeric corpus. The work revolutionized the understanding of Homer in general, of the Homeric language and all following efforts to translate the Odyssey and the Iliad. ""The best-known commentary on how the Homeric text should be translated was written by the Victorian poet and literary and social critic Matthew Arnold in 1861, with many subsequent editions and reprintings. ""His lectures on translating Homer were the first adequate estimate, at least in English, of the literary qualities of the ""Iliad"" and ""Odyssey"" and did much to destroy the notion of a native genius or inspired folk-poet. Homer was now seen to be a conscious artist and took his place once and for all as the chief poet of antiquity, as Dante was of the Middle Ages and Shakespeare of modern times."" In his book Arnold reviewed most of the existing English translations … From this review and his own observations he extrapolated several rules for translating Homer. First, a translator should be ""faithful"" to the original, an ideal Arnold noted requires the translator to choose between producing a text so smooth that the reader does not realize it is a translation versus reproducing certain oddities of the original language to remind the reader of its origin. Second, a translator should seek to reproduce Homer's style and effect on the reader."" (Young, The Printed Homer, 2008, p. 88). Matthew Arnold (1822 -1888) was a famous English poet and cultural critic, who worked as an inspector of schools. In 1857, he was elected Professor of Poetry at Oxford and was the first in this position to deliver his lectures in English rather than in Latin. His first major achievement as Oxford-professor was his three lectures ""On Translating Homer"" that were published as they are here, in 1861. ""[T]he most substantial fruits of his professorship were the three lectures ""On Translating Homer"" (1861)-in which he recommended Homer's plainness and nobility as medicine for the modern world, with its ""sick hurry and divided aims"" and condemned Francis Newman's recent translation as ignoble and eccentric..."" (Encycl. Britt.). The work had an enormous effect on Homer studies and on classical scholarship, translation-practice, and literary theory in general.‎

‎Menneskehedens Repræsentanter. Syv Forelæsninger. Paa Dansk udgivet af E.M.Thorson. (Representative Men. Seven Lectures. Issued in Danish by E.M. Thorsen.) - [FIRST DANISH EDITION OF ""REPRESENTATIVE MEN""]‎

‎Kjøbenhavn (Copenhagen), 1857. 8vo. Cont. hcalf. Some brownspotting. Engr. portrait. 199 pp.‎

‎Rare first Danish edition of one of the main works of the famous American philosopher, one of America's most influential and important authors, lecturers, thinkers and philosophers, Ralph Waldo Emerson.Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in 1803 in Boston, Massachusetts and died in 1882. He is regarded as one of the founders of American transcendentalism and the intellectual centre of the American Renaissance. He is considered a thinker of bold originality, and his essays and lectures offer models of clarity, style, and thought, which made him a formidable presence in 19th century American life.""For an abstract thinker he was strangely in love with the concrete facts of life. From the pages of his teeming notebooks he took the materials for his lectures, arranging and rearranging it [...]. When the lectures had served their purpose he rearranged the material in essays and published them."" (Encycl. Br.). His important work ""Representative Men"", originally published in Boston in 1850, is the second of these collections. In it he deals with ""The Uses of Great Men"", and thereby treats the highly important question at the time: The differences between the genious and the ""ordinary"" man. He firmly believed that ""There is one mind common to all individual men, and that ""in every work of genious we recognize our own rejected thoughts."" The work was published in Danish in the late Golden Age of this country, and might very well have influenced intellectual life at the time immediately after Kierkegaard. Emerson was a close friend of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry David Thoreau, and he often took walks with them in Concord. It was Emerson who encouraged Thoreau's talent and early career, and the land on which Thoreau built his cabin on Walden Pond belonged to Emerson. He was a great supporter of abolitionism, and his anti-slavery statements caused him many problems. In 1856 he said: ""I think we must get rid of slavery, or we must get rid of freedom."" ‎

‎Species and Varieties. Their Origin by Mutation. Lectures delivered at the University of California. Edited by Daniel Trembly MacDougal.‎

‎Chicago, London, Open Court Publ. Company, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1905. Orig. full cloth. Titlelabel in leather with gilt lettering. A few faint spots to frontcover. XVIII,847 pp.´+ Publisher's Cat. (6) pp. Clean and fine.‎

‎First edition of the English version of De Vries "" Theory of mutation"" given as 28 lectures at the University of California in 1904. ""A perusal of the Lectures will show that the subject matter of ""Die Mutationstheorie"" (this work was translated in full into English in 1909-10) has been presented in a somewhat condensed form, and that the time which has elapsed since the original was prepared has given the oppurtunity for the acquisition of additional facts, and a re-examination of some of the more importent conclusions with the result that a notable gain has been made in the treatment of some complicated problems."" (Editors Foreword). - ""New experiments and observations have been added, and a wider choice of the material offered by the more recent current literature has been made in the interest of a clear representation of the leading ideas...""(Author's Preface).‎

‎The Peoples University. Popular lectures in science history philosophy earth‎

‎The Peoples University. Popular lectures in science history philosophy earth . Edited by V.V. Bitner. S-Petersburg. Edition of the Vestnik of Knowledge (V.V. Bitner). 1908. The revolution included: 1. Lecture on Political Economy - A.A. Nikolaev. The Power of the Future. 2. Lectures on the History of Culture - Prof. Laungardt. Miracles of the Ancient and New Worlds. History of Humankinds Cultural Conquest. Four lectures. 3. Lecture on World History - T. Khitro. A Century of Revolutions in England. 4. Lectures on Russian History - Essays of the History of the Russian People. 5. Lectures on History and Literature - B. Brezolenko. Russian Woman in Life and Literature. Three lectures. 6. Lecture on Astronomy - Prof. Leo Brenner. SKUalbc391c0ee9de1e938.‎