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‎The problem of evil‎

‎Oxford, Oxford University Press 1994 viii + 230pp., softcover, 20cm., VG, in the series "Oxford readings in philosophy"‎

‎The Action of Light on Selenium. Received May 18, - Read June 15, 1876. - [INVENTING THE SOLAR CELL]‎

‎(London, Harrison and Sons, 1878). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1877 - Vol. 167. Pp. 313-349.‎

‎First appearance of Adams and Day's landmark paper, in which they demonstrated that electricity could be produced from light without moving parts, eventually leading to the modern solar cell. It is here that Adams shows for the first time that the discovery of Willoughby Smith - that the conductivity of selenium is due only to the effect of light - is correct and furthermore that light has an effect on the resistance of selenium and that light generates electrical currents in selenium. Two years later Adams expanded the work and published 'Solar Heat'. Here he described his ""Power Tower Concept"", which to this day remains the basis of solar plants.William Grylls Adams (1836 - 1915), professor of Natural Philosophy at King's College, London, and brother of the famous astronomer John Couch Adams (1819-1892), was President of the Physical Society of London from 1878 to 1880. In 1872 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society and in 1875 delivered their Bakerian Lecture. He was president of the Institute of Electrical Engineers and of the mathematical and physical section of the British Association.His greatest achievement lies in demonstrating the seminal discovery that electricity could be produced from light without moving parts. The road to this discovery was begun in 1839 when Becquerel discovered that illumination of one of two metal plates in a dilute acid changed the electromotive force. Another French scientist, Auguste Mouchout, followed up on Becquerel's discovery, but it was not until 1876, when Adams and Richard Evans Day discovered that illuminating a junction between selenium and platinum has a photovoltaic effect, that the foundation for the documented use of solar thermal power was laid [with the publication of the present paper]. ""From a historical viewpoint, it is of interest to note that the first experiments on the generation of solar thermal power in India were conducted by an Englishman, William Adams, about one hundred years ago. Adams stayed in Coloba, Mumbai and performed his experiments in the compound of his bungalow. He used a sphecical reflector 12 m in diameter, made from sheets of glass mirror. The sun's rays were focussed on a boiler having a capacity of about 60 litres and the steam generated was used to drive a 2.5 HP steam pump. Adams's work is described in a book written by him entitled ""Solar Heat - A Substitute for Fuel in Tropical Countries for Heating Steam Boilers and Other Purposes"" (Education Society's Press, Byculla, Bombay, 1878)."" (Sukhatme & Neyak, ""Solar Energy. Principles of Thermal Collection and Storage"", p. 48)""William Grylls Adams was and English scientist who taught as a professor in the department of Natural Philosophy at King's College. He is notable for his contribution to the discovery of the photoelectric effect, on which all solar energy applications are based. He was inspired by Auguste Mouchout's invention of the solar steam engine. With the intent of making improvements to Mouchot's design, Adams began to experiment with different materials and designs. In 1876, working in conjunction with his student, Richard Day, he discovered that selenium produced electricity when exposed to sunlight. Using the selenium, he then added mirrors to the design to concentrate sunlight on the engine. This design came to be known as the power tower concept and is still in use today."" (Smith & Taylor, ""Renewable and Alternative Energy resources: A Reference Handbook"", 2008, pp. 1556-56).Wheeler Gift, No. 3856. - Shiers ""Early Televison"", no. 73.‎

‎The Action of Light on Selenium. Received May 18, - Read June 15, 1876. - [INVENTING THE SOLAR CELL]‎

‎(London, Harrison and Sons, 1878). 4to. In the original wrappers. Offprint from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1877 - Vol. 167. Author and title written in light pencil to front wrapper. Wrappers with a bit of soiling and part of spine is missing. Corners bended. Internally fine and clean. Pp. 313-349.‎

‎First edition, in the extremely rare offprint, of Adams and Day's landmark paper, in which they demonstrated that electricity could be produced from light without moving parts, eventually leading to the modern solar cell. It is here that Adams shows for the first time that the discovery of Willoughby Smith - that the conductivity of selenium is due only to the effect of light - is correct and furthermore that light has an effect on the resistance of selenium and that light generates electrical currents in selenium. Two years later Adams expanded the work and published 'Solar Heat'. Here he described his ""Power Tower Concept"", which to this day remains the basis of solar plants.William Grylls Adams (1836 - 1915), professor of Natural Philosophy at King's College, London, and brother of the famous astronomer John Couch Adams (1819-1892), was President of the Physical Society of London from 1878 to 1880. In 1872 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society and in 1875 delivered their Bakerian Lecture. He was president of the Institute of Electrical Engineers and of the mathematical and physical section of the British Association.His greatest achievement lies in demonstrating the seminal discovery that electricity could be produced from light without moving parts. The road to this discovery was begun in 1839 when Becquerel discovered that illumination of one of two metal plates in a dilute acid changed the electromotive force. Another French scientist, Auguste Mouchout, followed up on Becquerel's discovery, but it was not until 1876, when Adams and Richard Evans Day discovered that illuminating a junction between selenium and platinum has a photovoltaic effect, that the foundation for the documented use of solar thermal power was laid [with the publication of the present paper]. ""From a historical viewpoint, it is of interest to note that the first experiments on the generation of solar thermal power in India were conducted by an Englishman, William Adams, about one hundred years ago. Adams stayed in Coloba, Mumbai and performed his experiments in the compound of his bungalow. He used a sphecical reflector 12 m in diameter, made from sheets of glass mirror. The sun's rays were focussed on a boiler having a capacity of about 60 litres and the steam generated was used to drive a 2.5 HP steam pump. Adams's work is described in a book written by him entitled ""Solar Heat - A Substitute for Fuel in Tropical Countries for Heating Steam Boilers and Other Purposes"" (Education Society's Press, Byculla, Bombay, 1878)."" (Sukhatme & Neyak, ""Solar Energy. Principles of Thermal Collection and Storage"", p. 48)""William Grylls Adams was and English scientist who taught as a professor in the department of Natural Philosophy at King's College. He is notable for his contribution to the discovery of the photoelectric effect, on which all solar energy applications are based. He was inspired by Auguste Mouchout's invention of the solar steam engine. With the intent of making improvements to Mouchot's design, Adams began to experiment with different materials and designs. In 1876, working in conjunction with his student, Richard Day, he discovered that selenium produced electricity when exposed to sunlight. Using the selenium, he then added mirrors to the design to concentrate sunlight on the engine. This design came to be known as the power tower concept and is still in use today."" (Smith & Taylor, ""Renewable and Alternative Energy resources: A Reference Handbook"", 2008, pp. 1556-56).Wheeler Gift, No. 3856. Shiers ""Early Televison"", no. 73.‎

‎Horrendous evils and the goodness of God‎

‎Ithaca and London, Cornell University Press 2000 xi + 220pp., softcover, 23cm., very good, F58172‎

‎Predestination, God's foreknowledge, and future contingents‎

‎Indianapolis, Hackett Publishing Co. 1983 136pp., 2nd ed., softcover, 20cm., good, (contains the English translation of Ockham's "Tractatus de praedestinatione et de praescientia Dei et futuris contingentibus", with introduction, notes and appendices), F78181‎

‎Exposition and illustration in teaching‎

‎New York, Macmillan Cy. 1910 432pp., cloth, some foxing, VG‎

‎The design and construction of removable orthodontic appliances‎

‎Bristol, John Wright 1970 186pp.with 282 illustrations, cart.cover, 4th ed., 25cm., VG‎

‎The virtue of faith, and other essays in philosophical theology‎

‎Oxford, Oxford University Press 1987 270pp., softcover, 21cm.‎

‎A theory of virtue - Excellence in Being 'for' the Good‎

‎Oxford, Clarendon Press 2006 xiii + 249pp., hardback, dustwrapper, 24cm., VG‎

‎What sort of human nature ? Medieval philosophy and the systematics of christology (The Aquinas Lecture, 1999)‎

‎Milwaukee, Marquette University Press 1999 120pp., hardback (red cloth), 18cm., fine condition‎

‎Commentarius in Apocalypsin [Corpus Christianorum. Instrumenta lexicologica latina, 26A]‎

‎Turnhout, Brepols 1985 70pp.+ 7 microfiches (1313pp.), 24cm., good condition, in the series "Corpus Christianorum. Instrumenta lexicologica latina" Fasc.26 (SL 92) series A: Formae, ISBN 978-2-503-60922-5, R59437‎

‎Commentarius in Apocalypsin [Corpus Christianorum series latina XCII (92)]‎

‎Turnhout, Brepols 1985 xxxv + 365pp., publisher's hardcover in red cloth with gilt lettering, 25cm., text in latin, small stamp at titlepage, Very good, ISBN 978-2-503-00921-6, R60929‎

‎Constructing the world. A study in Paul's cosmological language‎

‎Edinburgh, T&T Clark 2000 xx + 300pp., 23cm., in the series "Studies of the New Testament and its world", signed with dedication by the author, hardcover (cloth), dustwrapper, VG‎

‎Leibniz. Determinist, theist, idealist‎

‎Oxford, Oxford University Press 1994 xi + 433pp., 24cm., previous owner's name on front endpaper, hardcover (cloth), dustwrapper, VG‎

‎Republikanismus und die ersten amerikanischen Einzelstaatsverfassungen. Zur ideengeschichtlichen und verfassungsgeschichtlichen Komponente der amerikanischen Revolution 1775-1780‎

‎Berlin, 1968 [10] + 660pp., 21cm., softcover, text in German, Doctoral Dissertation (Inaugural-Dissertation zur Erlangung des Grades eines Doktors der Philosophie der Philosophischen Fakultät der Freien Universität Berlin), stamp at verso of title page, text is clean and bright, G110577‎

‎A commentary or, exposition upon the divine second epistle generall, written by the blessed apostle St. Peter. 2 vols. - [""THE SHAKESPEARE OF THE PURITANS""]‎

‎London, Richard Badger (Vol. 1) & Felix Kyngston (Vol. 2) for Jacom Bloome, 1633. Folio (338 x 230). Two volumes uniformly bound in contemporary full calf with six raised bands. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spines. Soiling to extremities, small wormholes to boards and wear to capitals. Endpapers miscoloured and with tears but internally generally fine and clean. Text within simple lined border. (6), 764 pp."" (2), 801-1634, (28) pp. ‎

‎First edition of Adams' great commentary on the Second Epistle of Peter in which he combines exegesis with pastoral and practical applications. ""Adams published no other sermons after the appearance of his folio Workes until the appearance of Gods Anger and Mans Comfort (1652), his final two sermons. The only intervening work is his Commentary on Second Peter, a massive folio edition of 1634 pages on which Adams worked between 1620 and 1633. A learned and elegant capstone of his career, the Commentary reaches a more sophisticated level of scriptural exegesis and theological analysis than possible in the sermon form. In it, as in his sermons, he uses both the older Euphuistic style, with its sound devices or schemata, and the newer Senecan style, with its emphasis on brevity and point. It is difficult to explain Adams' abrupt disappearance from public view. Much about his ministry would have been distasteful to William Laud, Bishop of London in 1628 and Archbishop of Canterbury in 1633, whose increasingly repressive episcopacy silenced many suspected of Puritan leanings. Adams' staunch defense of the monarchy and ecclesiastical hierarchy notwithstanding, much about his career could have raised suspicions about his conformity. His strongly Calvinist doctrines, his bitter anti-papal sentiments, his wish that matters of ceremony be left ""indifferent"" rather than enforced, his criticism of the popish ""idolatry"" that threatened to creep into the Church, and his popularity as a lecturer: any one of these characteristics could have laid him open to attack by Laud and his followers."" (Dictionary of Literary Biography)Thomas Adams (1583-1653), an English clergyman and preacher - often referred to as ""The Shakespeare of the Puritans"" - known for his eloquent and vivid preaching, and his commentaries reflected his deep engagement with biblical texts. His works, including commentaries on various books of the Bible, were well-regarded in his time for their literary style and spiritual insight.‎

‎Adams D. Hitchhiking the Galaxy. In Russian /Adams D. Avtostopom po Galaktike.‎

‎Adams D. Hitchhiking the Galaxy. In Russian /Adams D. Avtostopom po Galaktike. Series: M. ACTs Golden Library of Science Fiction 2002. With a sarcastic grin and a melancholy smile, Adams reflects on the Meaning of Life, the Universe, and Everything. Content: Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Life, the Universe and Everything, All Good, and Thanks for the Fish, Mostly harmless. We have thousands of titles and often several copies of each title may be available. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUalb29ce57a64c34a0dc.‎

‎The Education of Henry Adams Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Ernest Samuels and Jayne N. Samuels‎

‎Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston , Riverside Editions Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1973 Book condition, Etat : Bon paperback, editor's dark green wrappers, illustrated by a photography of Henry Adams In-8 1 vol. - 735 pages‎

‎ "Contents, Chapitres : Introduction by Ernest Samuels, Acknowledgments, Textual notes, Editor's preface by Henry Cabot Lodge, Preface, xxx, Text, 705 pages - Henry Brooks Adams, 1838-1918, est un journaliste, historien et romancier américain conservateur qui s'est rendu célèbre par la publication de cet ouvrage, ""L'éducation d'Henry Adams"". Il a également développé une théorie de l'histoire basée sur le second principe de la thermodynamique. Dans son ""Education"", Adams voyait la Vierge Marie comme le symbole de l'ancien monde, et la dynamo comme celui de la modernité. L'ouvrage fut publié en 1907 de façon confidentielle, avant de devenir un bestseller pour lequel il obtint le prix Pullitzer en 1919." minor wear on the bottom of the spine and the borders of the wrappers, inside is clean, but there are few yellow overlinings on around 40 pages, it remains light and a very good reading copy‎

‎PUBLIC DIFFERENCE : Architecture, Shame, Photography. [Bristol calligraphié de l'artiste]‎

‎New York : Christine Burgin Gallery, 1989. Broché 18x13cm, couverture illustrée recto-verso de la même photographie en noir de la Guerre d'Algérie, 95 pages de texte (conversation entre la journaliste-cinéaste Adèle Duval et l'artiste américain Dennis Adams), photos en noir de Dennis Adams, Michel Jaget et Gérard Rondeau. Bristol calligraphié de Dennis Adams. [Traces du trombone tenant la carte au livre en premières pages]‎

‎L'artiste Dennis Adams, qui vit et travaille à New York, est mondialement reconnu pour ses interventions publiques et ses installations en musée qui abordent les processus de mémoire collective et de contrôle social dans la conception et l’usage de l’architecture et de l’espace public. Il a réalisé des projets publics dans plusieurs pays européens, au Canada, en Israël et aux États-Unis. Son travail a fait l’objet de plus de 50 expositions en solo dans des musées et des galeries. En 1994, deux rétrospectives différentes étaient consacrées à son travail, l’une au Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, l’autre au Contemporary Arts Museum de Houston. Adams faisait partie de la Biennale 2000 du Whitney. Il enseigne à la Cooper Union School of Art à New York.‎

‎On the Secular Variation of the Moon's Mean Motion. Received and Read June 16, 1853.‎

‎(London, Richard Taylor and William Francis, 1853) 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1853, Vol. 143 - Part III. Pp. 397-406. Clean and fine.‎

‎First appearance of this importent paper by Adams, - famous for his co-discovery with Le Verrier, of Neptune in 1846 - in which he introduces new mathematical methods in dealing with the pertubations of the Moon, raising a sharp scientific controversy, and correcting Laplace's great memoir of 1788.""He (Adams) was elected fellow of Pembroke College in 1853, and shortly afterwards he presented to the Royal Society a remarkable paper (the paper offered) on the secular accleration of the moon's mean motion. This quantity was thought to have been definitively investigated by Pierre Simon de Laplace in 1788, but Adams showed that Laplace's solution was incorrect. In particular, Laplace had ignored a variation in solar eccentricity that introduces into the diffrential equations for the moon's motion a series of additional terms. Adams calculated the second term of series, on which the secular acceleartion depends....This paper caused a sharp scientific controversy, marked by angry chauvinism on the part of several French astronomers. Their attack stimulated a number of independent investigations of the subject, all of which confirmed Adams' results. The matter was definitely settles in his favor by 1861, but not without hard feelings.""(DSB I, p. 54b).‎

‎On the Secular Variation of the Moon's Mean Motion. Received and Read June 16, 1853.‎

‎(London, Richard Taylor and William Francis, 1853) 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1853, Vol. 143. Pp. 397-406.‎

‎First appearance of this importent paper by Adams, - famous for his co-discovery with Le Verrier, of Neptune in 1846 - in which he introduces new mathematical methods in dealing with the pertubations of the Moon, raising a sharp scientific controversy, and correcting Laplace's great memoir of 1788.""He (Adams) was elected a fellow of Pembroke College in 1853, and shortly afterward he presented to the Royal Society a remarkable paper on the secular acceleration of the moon’s mean motion. This quantity was thought to have been definitively investigated by Pierre Simon de Laplace in 1788, but Adams showed that Laplace’s solution was incorrect. In particular, Laplace had ignored a variation in solar eccentricity that introduces into the differential equations for the moon’s motion a series of additional terms. Adams calculated the second term of the series, on which the secular acceleration depends, as 3771/64m4 the value computed from Laplace’s work was 2187/128 m4. The effect of the correction was to reduce the figure for the moon’s secular acceleration by about half, from 10?.58 to 5?.70.This paper caused a sharp scientific controversy, marked by angry chauvinism on the part of several French astronomers. Their attacks stimulated a number of independent investigations of the subject, all of which confirmed Adams’ result. The matter was definitely settled in his favor by 1861, but not without hard feelings.""(DSB).‎

‎Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the R‎

‎NOVA SCIENCE PUBLISHERS INC (6/2019)‎

‎LIVRE A L’ETAT DE NEUF. EXPEDIE SOUS 3 JOURS OUVRES. NUMERO DE SUIVI COMMUNIQUE AVANT ENVOI, EMBALLAGE RENFORCE. EAN:9781536157413‎

‎L'édication de henry Adams‎

‎ Editions de l'Imprimerie Nationale , 2007 - In-8°, br, élégante couverture souple cernée d'un encadrement et rehaussé d'une illustration bigarrée, 413 pages, index in fine, très bel exemplaire.‎

‎édition de Pierre-Yves Pétillon Bel Exemplaire - Petit choc en pied ( sans gravité ) Franco de port France jusqu'à 29 euros iclus. PAYPAL immédiat. MONDIAL RELAY pour : FRANCE, Portugal, Pologne, Espagne, Allemagne, Autriche, Pays Bas, Luxembourg, Italie, Belgique. Toutes les étapes sont accompagnées. Achat, estimations et listages (Papiers, Archives, monographies, arts et métiers, sciences humaines et bibliophilie) France / Suisse (sur rdv). ‎

‎Adams D. Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. In Russian /Adams D. Avtostopom po Ga‎

‎Adams D. Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. In Russian /Adams D. Avtostopom po Galaktike. Putevoditel tuda. Series: Coordinators of Miracles. Modern Fiction. Translation from English. Moscow, 1997. 544 p. We have thousands of titles and often several copies of each title may be available. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUalb6d1881b6859cc9a8.‎

‎Adams D. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. In Russian /Adams D. Putevoditel' dly‎

‎Short description: Adams D. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. In Russian /Adams D. Putevoditel' dlya puteshestvuyushchikh avtostopom po Galaktike.In Russian.Fortunately, the fish translates from any language and the book is called The Guide to Hitchhiking the Galaxies. Arthur Dent's house is being demolished to build a new track. Arthur tries to stop the demolition, but then finds out that his friend is an alien from another planet and the Earth is about to be destroyed to build a hyperspatial highway. We have thousands of titles and often several copies of each title may be available. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUalb83dc729cd2b00b59‎