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‎On the Origin of Force. - [PRESENTATION-COPY - INSCRIBED FOR TYNDALL]‎

‎(London: Alexander Strahan and Company, 1868). 8vo. Without wrappers (as issued). Offprint, seperatly paginated, from ""Fortnightly Review 1"", Pp. 435-42. Author's presentation inscription to top of front wrapper: ""Prof Tyndall / With the author's / kind Compliments"". Soiling to front wrappers and nicks throughout, not affecting text. Internally clean. Pp. 8.‎

‎First edition, offprint, with the author's presentation inscription to Professor John Tyndall - the father of the Greenhouse Effect, heat radiation and global climate research - of this important paper, in which Herschel promotes the role of the devine in the natural order. Herschel, now famous for originating the use of the Julian day system in astronomy, naming seven moons of Saturn and four moons of Uranus, his investigation in colour blindness and the chemical power of ultraviolet rays, did much to promote the public understanding of science . The present paper constitutes one of his most widely read and popular works. ""During his life John was immensely celebrated, his name epitomizing science to the public, much as that of Einstein did in the next century."" (DSB)Though intended for a popular audience ""On the Origin of Force"" is one of the most important sources for understanding Herschel's general approach to science. A contemporary review of the paper states: ""The article is well worth reading for those who wish to realise the enormous benefit which has been rendered to science by banishing the indefinite uee of the word force and by introducing the term energy, restricting the use of force to the meaning attached to it by Newton. Sir John Herschel still speaks of the ""conservation of force"" (as did likewise Helmholtz, who, however, very early introduces the term Arheitskraft, power to do work, thus removing all ambiguity).Herschel and Tyndall corresponded throughout their mature lives and they shared an overall view on God's place in science. ""In the only case in which we are admitted into any personal knowledge of the origin of force, we find it connected (possibly by intermediate links untraceable by our faculties, but yet indubitably connected) with volition, and by inevitable consequence with motive, with intellect, and with all the attributes of mind in which-and not in the possession of arms, legs, brains, and viscera-personality consists."" (Herschel, rrom the present paper). Tyndall agreed in stating that: ""An inscrutable power of which we know no more than job did, when he said, 'Can man by searching find this power out?'. (Tyndall's ""Belfast Address"").‎

‎On the Chemical Action of the Rays of the Solar Spectrum on Preparations of Silver and other Substances, both metallic and non-metallic, and on some Photographic Processes. Received and Read Febrauray 20, 1840. (+) Note I- (III).- On the Distribution ...‎

‎(London, Richard and John E., Taylor, 1840. 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1840 - Part I. Pp. 1-59. (Note I- III pp. 51-59) and 2 plates. (one showing Herschel's telescope, lithographed"" the other showing the heat spectrum of the sun in stipple engraving).‎

‎First appearance of an important pioneer-paper in the history of early photography, in which subject John Herschel was one of the main contributors. The paper deals with the dynamical interplay between photochemistry and photography and is of the greatest importence in applied photography. The later sections of the paper deals with the spectrum of the sun, Herschel's so-called thermographical representation of the spectrum of the sun (with description of the Actinograph, invented by him), rendering the heat radiation visible in the spectrum. This first importent spectrum is reproduced here on one of the plates (in stipple engraving). In this paper he introduces the photographical concepts 'positive' and 'negative' to express, respectively, pictures in which the lights and shades are the same as in nature, or as in the original model, and in which they are opposite. For this large paper John Herschel was awarded the Copley archives winners Prize for 1840.""The object which the author has in view in this memoir is to place on record a number of insulated facts and observations respecting the relations bothof white light, and of the differently refrangible rays, to various chemical agents whic have offered themselves to his notice in the course of his photographical experiments, suggested by the announcement of M. Daguerre's discovery.....The terms ""direct"" and ""reverse"" are also used to express pictures in which objects appear, as regards right and left, the same as in the original, and the contrary....The principal objects of inquiry in the present paper...are the following. First, the means of fixing photographs, the comparative merits of different chemical agents...The means of taking photographic copies and transfers.....The preparation of photographic paper....The chemical analysis of the solar spectrum forms the subjects of the next section in the paper...""(Abstract).‎

‎On the Chemical Action of the Rays of the Solar Spectrum on Preparations of Silver and other Substances, both metallic and non-metallic, and on some Photographic Processes. Received and Read Febrauray 20, 1840. (+) Note I- (III).- On the Distribution ... - [INTRODUCING 'POSITIVE' AND 'NEGATIVE' IN PHOTOGRAPHY]‎

‎(London, Richard and John E., Taylor, 1840. 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1840 - Part I. Pp. XII [including title-page of Philosophical Transactions"" 1840 - Part I), 59 pp. (Note I- III pp. 51-59) and 2 plates. (one showing Herschel's telescope, lithographed"" the other showing the heat spectrum of the sun in stipple engraving).‎

‎First appearance of an important pioneer-paper in the history of early photography, in which subject John Herschel was one of the main contributors. The paper deals with the dynamical interplay between photochemistry and photography and is of the greatest importence in applied photography. The later sections of the paper deals with the spectrum of the sun, Herschel's so-called thermographical representation of the spectrum of the sun (with description of the Actinograph, invented by him), rendering the heat radiation visible in the spectrum. This first importent spectrum is reproduced here on one of the plates (in stipple engraving). In this paper he introduces the photographical concepts 'positive' and 'negative' to express, respectively, pictures in which the lights and shades are the same as in nature, or as in the original model, and in which they are opposite.For this large paper John Herschel was awarded the Copley archives winners Prize for 1840.""The object which the author has in view in this memoir is to place on record a number of insulated facts and observations respecting the relations bothof white light, and of the differently refrangible rays, to various chemical agents whic have offered themselves to his notice in the course of his photographical experiments, suggested by the announcement of M. Daguerre's discovery.....The terms ""direct"" and ""reverse"" are also used to express pictures in which objects appear, as regards right and left, the same as in the original, and the contrary....The principal objects of inquiry in the present paper...are the following. First, the means of fixing photographs, the comparative merits of different chemical agents...The means of taking photographic copies and transfers.....The preparation of photographic paper....The chemical analysis of the solar spectrum forms the subjects of the next section in the paper...""(Abstract).‎

‎On the Action of the Rays of the Solar Spectrum on Vegetable Colours, and on some new Photographic Processes. Received June 15, - Read June 16, 1842.‎

‎(London, Richard and John E., Taylor, 1842.). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1842 - Part II. Pp. 181-214 and one double-page folded engraved plate.‎

‎First appearance of a pioneer-paper in the history of early photography in which Herschel announced some of his importent discoveries of the photographic printing processes, the process of photographic contact-printing in Prussian blue, brought to light just three years after Louis Daguerre and Henry Talbot had announced their independent inventions of photography in silver, using metal and paper substrates, respectively. and the photographic properties of red ferro sesquicyanuret of potassium.""This is the first recorded observation of Prussian blue being formed for a photographic purpose by the action of light on potassium ferricyanide, so it represents the moment of discovery of the first cyanotype process, although this name still lay in the future. The significance of this observation impressed Herschel sufficiently to mention it also in his general diary entry for 23 April 1842....""(Mike Ware in ""John Herschel's Cyanotype. Invention or discovery ?"").‎

‎Amorfota (Greek), No. I-II.- On a Case of Superficial Colour presented by homogenous liquid internally colourless. Received January 28, 1845, - Read February 13, 1845. - II. Onthe Epipolic Dispersion of Light, being a Supplement to a paper entitled, ""...‎

‎(London, Richard and John E. Taylor, 1845). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1845 - Part I. Pp 143-145 . pp. 147-153. Clean and fine.‎

‎First appearance of these highly influential papers as Herschel here reported the first observation of the fluorescence of a quinine solution in sunlight. - In a footnote to the report Herschel points out that he was writing from memory, having carried out the experiment more than twenty years before. Nevertheless, his reminiscence was enough to spark further exploration, eventually resulting in the modern understanding of fluorescence. In fact, even today, quinine is one of the most commonly utilized fluorophores for spectroscopy, enjoyed by many for the strange, but beautiful fluorescence that was first observed, but unable to be unexplained, by Herschel.‎

‎Traité de la lumière‎

‎Malher & Cie, Paris 1829 - 1833, In-8 (13x21,5cm), 508pp. et 620pp., relié.‎

‎Edition originale française de cet importante étude. Traduction de l'anglais avec notes par MM. Verhulst et A. Quetelet. Le second volume est de 1833. L'important délais d'édition entre le premier et le second volume a permis certaines additions remarquables : Supplément au traité de la lumière par Quetelet, p. 336-602 du tome 2, dans lequel ce dernier expose les récentes recherches en optique. L'illustration comporte 15 planches dépliantes. Le traité de la lumière avait seulement paru sous forme d'articles dans lesPhilosophical transactions, et il s'agit de sa première édition en volume à laquelle Herschel a contribué par ses corrections. Reliures en pleine basane vert olive légèrement postérieures ca 1840. Dos lisse ornés d'arabesques géométriques en long. Plats frappés à froid d'une grande plaque florale, médaillon central sur le plat supérieur du Collège royal d'Orléan avec couronne de laurier. Dos insolés et devenus brun clair avec des traces de décoloration et de frottement. Coins et bordures frottés. Sur le contreplat, étiquette de prix à la date de 1845. Brunissures éparses sauf sur les planches, bien fraîches. Sir William Herschel était un astronome britannique.Herschel a mis en évidence l'existence du rayonnement infrarougeen analysant la lumière du Soleil à l'aide d'un prisme et d'un thermomètre.Il a également trouvé les premières preuves que la lumière et l'infrarouge sont deux aspects d'un même phénomène, nommé aujourd'hui rayonnement électromagnétique. Le terme infrarouge n'est apparu que vers 1880, Herschel employait celui de "Chaleur radiante". - Photos sur www.Edition-originale.com - ‎

‎Publication complète des nouvelles découvertes de Sir John Herschel dans le ciel austral et dans la lune. - Découvertes dans la lune, faites au Cap de Bonne-Espérance par Herschel fils, astronome anglais‎

‎Masson & Duprey & Louis Babeuf & Ainé, Paris & Lyon 1836, 12,5x19,5cm, 2 volumes reliés en 1.‎

‎Edition originale de la traduction française pour le premier volume, deuxième édition de la traduction française pour le second. Reliure à la bradel en plein papier marbré, dos lisse, pièce de titre de marqouin mauve, plats de papier marbré, reliure signée de Thomas Boichot. Quelques rousseurs. Rare réunion. - Photos sur www.Edition-originale.com - ‎

‎On certain Improvements on Photographic Processes described in a former Communication, and on the Parathermic Rays of the Solar Spectrum. Received November 17, - Read November 17, 1842.‎

‎(London, Richard and John E., Taylor, 1843. 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1843 - Part I. Pp. 1-6.‎

‎First appearance of a pioneer-paper in the history of early photography, as Herschel here for the first time describes his discovery of the iron printing process with ammonio-citrate of iron by both methods, namely with blue lines on a white background and white lines on a blue ground.‎

‎A treatise on astronomy by Sir John F.W. Herschel, Bart. K.H.... New edition. 1851.‎

‎2. London, printed for Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1851, in-8°, 17 x 10,5 cm, engraved title + (4) pp (numbered vi-viii) + 418 pp + 3 lithographic plates, bound in brown grey publisher's cloth, gilt title on spine, binding with some use but a good/fine copy.‎

‎Traité de la lumière‎

‎Paris, Mahler & L. Hachette, 1829-1833, in-8, 2 volumes, [8]-508 + [4]-620 pp, 15 pl, Reliure postérieure, dos anciens, ornés de fleurons rocaille, appliqués sur le dos de demi-toile, Première édition française, rare. Bien complet des 15 planches dépliantes gravées sur cuivre (la n° 9 est reliée dans le t. 2). Cet important ouvrage fut traduit par Werhulst et Quetelet qui était le directeur de l'Observatoire de Bruxelles. Ce dernier l'a augmenté d'un supplément rédigé avec la collaboration de plusieurs physiciens dont son compatriote Joseph Plateau qui dernier décrit ici (T.2, pp. 471 à 489) son "phénakistiscope" dans un chapitre intitulé "Sur la persistance des impressions de la rétine". Cet appareil est à l'origine des spectacles animés et du cinématographe. Ex-libris manuscrits et cachet du Dr Alphonse Desmarres (1810-1882), ophtalmologue français. Cachets de l'Institut catholique de Paris. Plats frottés, étiquettes d'inventaire contrecollées sur les premiers plats. Rousseurs. Poggendorff I, 1089. Couverture rigide‎

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‎Bon 2 volumes, [8]-508 + [4]-620‎

‎Traite D'astronomie‎

‎A Compte D'auteur Broché D'occasion très bon état 01/01/1834 150 pages‎

‎A Catalogue of 9766 stars in the Southern hemisphere, for the beginning of the year 1750, from the observations of the abbé de Lacaille, made at the cape of Good Hope in the years 1751 and 1752, reduced... under the immediate superintendence of the late professor Henderson,... and printed... under the direction of the late Francis Baily,... with a preface by Sir J. F. W. Herschel,... ‎

‎London ,,R.&J.E. Taylor, 1847 , in-8 (220x145) , X-299 p. , relié demi cuir , charnière faible , manque au dos , cachet.‎

‎Édition originale ,Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille (1713-1762) est l'un des principaux astronomes français du XVIIIe siècle. Au cours d'une mission dans l'hémisphère sud de 1750 à 1754, il a établi un observatoire au cap de Bonne-Espérance à partir duquel il a observé et mesuré les positions d'environ 10 000 étoiles australes. Près d'un siècle plus tard , l'ensemble des observations de Lacaille est entreprise sous la direction de Francis Baily. Le résultat a été publié en 1847 sous le titre Un catalogue de 9766 étoiles dans l'hémisphère sud.P2-1A‎

‎Britischer Astronom.‎

‎O.O., (um 1850). Lithographie. Blattgrösse: 22 x 18 cm.‎

‎Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars. Received October 16, - Read November 19, 1863.‎

‎London, Taylor and Francis, 1864. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Philosophical Transactions"" Vol. 154, Part I. With titlepage to vol. 154. Pp. 1-137. Stamps to verso of titlepage.‎

‎First edition of this importent atlas of Nebulae. The atlas contains 5.079 nebulae and clusters. It was later revised by Johann Dreyer to the widely used ""A New general Catalogue"" or NGG, 1888.‎

‎Discours sur l'étude de la philosophie naturelle.‎

‎ In-12, demi-veau glacé violine de l'époque, dos lisse orné d'un décor romantique de jeux de filets en place des nerfs, 3 fers spéciaux à froid, titre doré, palettes en tête et pied, tranches mouchetées, vii, 374 p., qqs rousseurs. Paris, Paulin, 1834.‎

‎Première édition française de "A Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy". Le traducteur est demeuré anonyme.L'auteur a l'ambition de jeter les bases de la méthode inductive en science. Selon Kathleen Krull ("Charles Darwin", p. 24): "ce livre enflamma Charles Darwin d'un zèle brûlant".Importante "table raisonnée".Bel exemplaire, dans une fine reliure romantique. ‎

‎TRAITE D'ASTRONOMIE‎

‎A COMPTE D'AUTEUR. 1834. In-8. Relié demi-cuir. Etat d'usage, Coins frottés, Dos frotté, Intérieur frais. 224 pages + 15 planches en noir et blanc - plats et contre-plats jaspés - 1 etiquette collée au dos - 1 tampon sur la page de titre et au dos.. . . . Classification Dewey : 520-Astronomie et sciences connexes‎

‎TRADUIT DE L'ANGLAIS PAR M. PEYROT - Sommaire: forme et grandeur de la Terre, de la nature des instruments astronomiques et des observations en general, de la geographie, de la figure de la terre, de l'Uranographie, du mouvement du soleil, de la lune, sa periode siderale, de la gravité terrestre.. Classification Dewey : 520-Astronomie et sciences connexes‎

‎Traité d'astronomie. Traduit de l'Anglais et suivi d'une addition sur la distribution des orbites cométaires dans l'espace.‎

‎ Bruxelles, Louis Hauman, 1835, small in-8°, 15 x 10 cm, iv + 599 pp, numerous text illustrations and 1 folding illustration (called plate 1-3), contemporary halfleather, joints split at the top (ca. 3 cm).a few pages sligthly foxed, but still a reasonably good copy..‎

‎MEMOIR OF FRANCIS BAILY‎

‎From the monthly notices of the royal astronomical society, vol.VI, November 1844. In 8° carton, 48 pp ‎

‎On the aberration of compound lenses and object-glasses. Read March 22, 1821.‎

‎London, W. Bulmer and W. Nicol, 1821. 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1821 - Part I. With titlepage to Part I. Pp. 222-267 a. 1 engraved plate. Verso of titlepage with 2 stamps.‎

‎First appearance of this importent paper in optical theory in which Herschel described how to free lenses from the aberration for two axis points, one of which is infinitely distant. It is known as Herschel's condition. ""Sir John Herschel gave the condition which must be satisfied in order that a symmetrical optical system, free from spherical aberration for two conjugate axial points, may also be free from spherical aberration for two neighbouring and conjugate points upon the axis of the system" but Herschel's condition applies only to first order aberration, i.e. to aberration depending upon the cube of the inclination of the ray to the axis. Abbe shewed, later, that this condition could be included in a wider result, viz. that the spherical aberration, supposed zero, is stationary for axial variations provided that the incident and emergent rays for two conjugate axial points, associated with modified magnification m, satisfy the relation. (G.C. Stewart)‎

‎The Herschel Album.‎

‎London, National Portrait Gallery, 1975, pet. in-4, agrafé, non paginé, 26 planches de photos. (SS104C) ‎

‎Un album de photographies par Julia Margaret CAMERON présentés par Sir John Herschel. Texte en anglais. ‎

‎Traité d'Astronomie. Traduit de l'Anglais et Suivi d'une Addition sur la Distribution des Orbites Cométaires dans l'Espace par Augustin Cournot.‎

‎ 1834 Paris, Paulin, 1834. in-12.reliure demi veau,dos lisse orné, 4ff. 529pp. , Première Edition Française donnée par le mathématicien Augustin Cournot. Un chapitre important (pp. 74 à 124) est consacré à la description des Instruments Astronomiques (Télescopes, Pendules, Chronomètres, Niveaux etc.). 3 planches hors-texte et nombreuses figures dans le texte (10 pour le chapitre sur les Instruments). Cette édition contient à la fin un travail mathématique original de Cournot. Sous le titre de "Sur la Distribution des Orbites Cométaires dans l'Espace" c'est une application de la théorie des probabilités et du concept de "valeur moyenne" aux phénomènes de l'Astronomie. C'est sans doute un des premiers travaux de Cournot sur les probabilités. Rousseurs. ‎

‎defraichi,manque a la coiffe sup.dos frotté,galerie de ver en travers d'une planche et de qques feuillets,exemplaire de travail,dans l'etat ‎

‎On the action of crystallized bodies on homogenous light, and on the causes of the derivation from newton's scale in the tints which many of them develope on exposure to a polarized ray. Read december 23, 1819.‎

‎London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1820. 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1820 - Part I. Pp. 45-100 a. 1 engraved plate.‎

‎First printing of one of herschel's importent investigations on polarization and the wave theory of light. He designed a new instrument to project the colored rings onto a screen about three inches behind the analyzer. This method allowed Herschel to examine the details of the tints.‎

‎Notice ( biographique) sur Sir John Fréd. Will. Herschel (1792-1871), associé de l'Académie Royale de Belgique.‎

‎0. Bruxelles, Académie Royale, 1872, in-8°, Annuaire 1872, 38e année, sewn, original green stiff wrapper. (uncut, unopened copy). Article of ca. 39 pp published in the Academy's yearbook, the article contains some letters exchanged between Herschel and Quetelet. Here the complete yearbook is on offer. (With also an article on the painter Henri Leys).‎

‎Essays from the Edinburgh and Quarterly reviews, with addresses and other pieces.‎

‎London, Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Brothers, 1857, gr. in-8vo, IV + 750 p., reliure en toile originale, léger manque au haut du dos.‎

‎Traité d'Astronomie.‎

‎P. Chez l'Auteur 1834. In-8° demi basane, dos lisse orné de motifs dorés, 224 pages (charnière du premier plat ouverte sur 2 cm).‎

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‎Traduit de l'anglais par M. PEYROT. Edition originale illustrée de 14 planches dépliantes gravées‎