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"GOMPERTZ, BENJAMIN. - PIONEER-WORKS ON LIFE CONTINGENCIES - ""GOMPERTZ'S LAW OF MORTALITY""
Reference : 46095
(1820)
A Sketch of an Analysis and Notation applicable to the estimation of the value of Life Contingencies. Read June 29, 1820. (+) On the nature of the function expressive of the law of human mortality, and on a new mode of determining the value of Life Co...
London, W. Bulmer and W. Nicol, 1820, 1825 a. 1862. 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1820 - Part II. Pp. 214-294. With titlepage to Part II. + 1825 - Part II. With titlepage to Part II. Pp. 513-585. + Vol. 152 - Part I. Pp. 511-559. All three papers clean and fine.
First appearance of these pioneer-works on life contingencies and insurance mathematics, named by Gompertz himself as ""the science connected with Human Mortality"". He here described how he applied the method of fluxions (first paper) and the mathematical tables for life expectancy (second paper). His model is a refinement of a demographic model of Robert Malthus. It was used by insurance companies to calculate the cost of life insurance. The equation, known as a Gompertz curve, is now used in many areas to model a time series where growth is slowest at the start and end of a period. The model has been extended to the Gompertz-Makeham law of mortality.""In 1820, in a paper to the Royal Society (the first paper offered), he applied the method of fluxions to the investigation of various life contingencies. In 1824 he was appointed actuary and head clerk of the newly founded Alliance Assurance Company. A year later he published (the second paper offered) what is now called Gompertz’s law of mortality, which states "".... the average exhaustion of man’s power to avoid death to be such that at the end of equal infinitely small intervals of time he lost equal portions of his remaining power to oppose destruction which he had at the commencement of these intervals"". His rigid adherence to Newton’s fluxional notation prevented wide recognition of this accomplishment, but he must be rated as a pioneer in actuarial science and one of the great amateur scholars of his day. Augustus De Morgan called Gompertz ""the link between the old and new"" when he mourned ""the passing of the last of the learned Newtonians."" (DSB).
BECQUEREL, (ANTOINE CÉSAR). - PIONEER-INVESTIGATION ON PIEZOELECTRICITY.
Reference : 45992
(1823)
Expériences sur le Développement de l'électricité par la pression" Lois de ce développement.
(Paris, Crochard, 1823). No wrappers. In: ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago."", tome 23 (Premier Cahier), With halftitlepage to vol. 23. Pp. 5-112. (Entire issue offered). Becquerel's paper: pp. 5-43 and 1 engraved plates showing apparatus. Slightly brownspotted.
First appearance of a pioneer-paper on Piezoelectricity in which Becquerel for the first time treats the phenomena - creation of electricity by pressure - in a quantitative way.
Nova bibliotheca auctorum ecclesiasticorum, eorum Vitae Historiam, Operum Catalogum, Criticen, Et Chronologiam Complectens, Ac Eorum, Qvæ Continent Compendium Super Eorum Cum Stylo, Tum Doctrina Judicium, Nec Non Variarum Operum Editionum Enumeratione...
Paris, Societatis, 1692 (Tome I), Köln, Huguetanorum, 1692-93 (Tomus II-III). 4to. 3 contemp. full vellum. 3 engraved frontispieces. Ca 1750 pp. A few margins with brownspots, otherwise internally clean and fine.
About 1684 Dupin conceived the idea of his Nouvelle bibliothèque des auteurs ecclésiastiques (the French edition of the work offered) , the first volume of which appeared in 1686. In it he treated simultaneously biography, literary criticism, and the history of dogma in this he was a pioneer leaving far behind him all previous efforts, Catholic or Protestant, which were still under the influence of the Scholastic method. He was also the first to publish such a collection in a modern language. - Graesse II, 448.
On the Composition of Sea-Water in the different parts of the Ocean. Received July 28, - Read November 17, 1864.
(London, Taylor & Francis, 1865) Large 4to. Without wrappers. Extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London."", 1865, Vol. 155. Pp. 203-262. Clean and fine.
First printing of Forchhammer's - the father of Danish geology - pioneer-work in oceanography and hydrography, as it is the first scientific investigation in this field of research. This large paper grew out of the Danish publication ""Om Søvandets Bestanddele og deres Fordeling i Havet."" (1859), but is much enlarged, augmented with new facts acquired by many new samples of sea-water from all ower the world. ""It contains a determination as complete as possible of the distribution of the saline substances at the surfaces of the different parts of the sea, and in different depths at the same place.""(Forchhammer).""Forchhammer's fundamental researches on the composition of seawater brought him international acclaim. He began this work in 1843, more as a geologist than as a chemist, to explain the phenomena that give rise to the deposits on the sea floor...He carried out analyses of over 160 samples collected for him over a twenty-year period by the Danish and British navies. He measures chlorine, sulfur, magnesium, calcium, and potassium gravimetrically with 100-pound samples, obtaining sodium from the differences....Forchhammer also posed in an elegant form the ""geochemical balance problem"" arising from the major sedimentary cycle: ""Thus the quantity of the different elements in seawater is not proportional to the quantity of the elements which the river waters put into the sea, but inversely proportional to the facility with which the elements are made insoluble by general or organo-chemical action in the sea"""" (DSB V: p. 72). The work was translated into English as ""On the Components of Sea Water"" (1865) in Phil. Transactions.
"WHEWELL, WILLIAM - A PIONEER-WORK ON TIDES WITH THE FIRST COTIDAL WORLD-MAP.
Reference : 42692
(1833)
Essay towards a First Approximation to a Map of Cotidal Lines. Read May 2, 1833.
(London, Richard Taylor, 1833). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1833 - Part I. Pp. 147-236, a few textillustr.,1 engraved plate and 2 large folded engraved maps (a general, representing the greater part of the world (42x93 cm) and Chart of the British Isles, drawn and engraved by J.& C. Walker.). A small tear to world map. Clean and fine.
First appearance of this classic, pioneering paper on the investigation of tidal phenomena. It is the first in a series of 16 papers Whewell made for the Royal Society. It contains the first printed cotidal world-map.""Whewell took over the subject of mapping cotidal lines from Lubbock with entusiasm....He exercised the pioneer's privilege of coining new words and phrases appropriate to his subject. Many failed to stick, some phrases of Whewell's origin still occasionally used are: 'age of the tides', 'luni-tidal interval', 'semi-menstrual inequality' etc, etc....Whewell's initial cotidal map for the world ocean was presented in his first paper of 1833 (the paper offered). By his own admission, it was entirely preliminary and tentative, what nowadays might be called a ""strawman"", to stimulate discussionm. He later (1836) suggested smll modifications, especially near the coast of North America"" these were incorporated in an 'improved' world map by G.B. Airy in his celebrated tratise on ""Tides and wave"", (Cartwright in ""Tides. A Scientific History"", pp.110-112.)
"STODART, J. (JAMES) and FARADAY, M. (MICHAEL). - A PIONEER WORK IN CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY.
Reference : 43118
(1922)
On the Alloys of steel. Read March 21, 1822.
(London, W. Nicol, 1922). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1822 - Part II. Pp. 273-270. Clean and fine.
First appearance of a founding paper in the science of alloys.""Beyond his work in analytical and pure chemistry, Faraday showed himself to be a pioneer in the application of chemistry to problems of technology. In 1818, together with James Stodart, a cutler, he began a series of experiments on the alloys of steel. Although he was able to produce alloys of superior quality, they were not capable of commercial production because they required the use of such rare metals as platinum, rhodium, and silver. Nevertheless, Faraday demonstrated that the increasingly urgent problem of producing higher-grade steel could be attacked by science. The later work on steel of Henry Sorby, Henry Bessemer, and Robert A. Hadfield was based directly on Faraday's work in the early part of the century.""(DSB IV, p. 531-532).
Theorie der Zungenpfeifen.
(Leipzig, Joh. Ambrosius Barth, 1829) Without wrappers. In ""Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg.von Poggendorff"", Bd. 17, Zehntes Stück. Pp. 193-304. (The entire issue offered). Weber's paper: pp. 193-246. Clean and fine.
First appearance of this pioneer-paper which helped establishing the foundation of the acoustic theory of this group of musical instruments which depends on coupling of the tongue and the air cavity in the instruments. One of the subjects treated was the use of this coupling to maintain constancy of pitch of a pipe under different intensities of blowing, and the possibility that this might provide an improved standard of pitch.
"BAYER, THEOPHILUS SIEGFRIED. - A PIONEER PAPER IN SINOLOGY.
Reference : 50855
(1735)
Elementa Brahmica, Tangutana, Mungalica. T.S.B. (Theophilus Siegfried Bayer).
(Petropoli, St. Petersburg, Typis Academiae, 1735). 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Classes Tertia continens Historica. Commentarii Academiae Scientiarum Imperialis Petropolitanae"", Tomus IV ad Annum 1729. The whole section of ""Historica""offered. (2) pp. (title to the section),(100)pp. Baye's paper: (23) pp. (wrongly paginated) and 10 engraved plates with numerous, characters, letters etc.
First printing of a pioneer work in Sinology, the Chinese dialects etc.
DU MONCEL (DUMONCEL), TH. et CORNELIUS HERZ (EDTS.). - PIONEER JOURNAL ON ELECTRICAL APPARATUS.
Reference : 43501
(1879)
La Lumière Électrique. Journal Universel D'Électricité. Revue Scientifique Illustré. Applications de LÉlectricité - Lumiere Électrique - Télégraphie et Téléphonie - Science Électrique, etc. Vol. 1-30 (lacks vol. 5).
Paris, Aux Bureau du Journal, 1879-88. 4to. Bound in 29 uniform contemp. hcalf. Spines gilt and with gilt lettering.Top of spine on 3 vols. with wear. A nick to spine on 2 vols. 4 vols. with some wear to spines. A few vols. slightly rubbed. Internally fine. More than 14000 pp. Profusely illustrated with fine woodcuts in the text. The work is known for its fine executed illustrations of machinary and apparatus.
This is the first journal entirely devoted to theory of light and electricity in its practical applications, documenting the early history of Telegraphy and Telephony. It describes and depicts the new inventions of electrical apparatus used in industries and communications. It describes the installments of telegraphy in Amerika as well as in Europe. It describes arch-lamps, Eddison-lamps, the Telephoneworks of Gray, Edison, Bell and others, the introduction of electric lightening in houses and towns, applications of electricity to railways, electro-motors and dynamoes, electromagnetism, microphones etc. etc. It contains importent papers on the theory of electricity and magnetism as well.- Weaver, Cat.of the Wheeler Gift, No. 5919.
Mémoire sur la Météorologie, qui contient l'extrait des Observations Météorologiques, faites à Paris pendent dix ans, depuis le i. er Janvier 1763.jusu'au 31 Décembre 1772, par M. Messier de l'Academie..., avec une Méthode pour analyser ces sortes...
(Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1776). 4to. Extracts from ""Mémoires de Mathematique et de Physique, Présentés à l'Academie des Sciences par divers Savans"", Année 1773. Pp. 427-502, 16 tables in the text. Clean and fine.
First printing of an early work by one of the pioneers in meteorology, Louis Cotte.
"WÖHLER, F. und J. LIEBIG. - PIONEER WORK IN ORGANIC CHEMISTRY.
Reference : 48918
(1838)
Recherches sur la Nature de l'Acide Urique.
Paris, Crochard, 1838. Contemp. hcalf. Raised bands, spine gilt. In: ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago."", 2e Series, Tome 68. 448 pp. (entire volume offered). Wöhler & Liebig's paper: pp. 225-336. Clean and fine. small stamps to verso of titlepage.
First French edition of this importent paper in the development of organic chemistry. It is the last joint paper of importence from ""these two men, ...pioneers in the development of organic chemistry, form a twin constellation in the chemical firmament""(Alexander Findley in ""A Hundred Years of Chemistry"", p. 23). The paper is a translation of ""Untersuchungen über die Natur der Harnsäure"", published at the same time in Justus Liebigs Annalen der Chemie (1838), Wöhler and Liebig collaborated on one more major piece of work, a study of uric acid. (The paper offered). Wöhler suggested the subject, and the idea seems to have come from his medical interests. Uric acid was not easily obtainable–snake excrement was the only substantial source–and relationships with urea and allantoin were suspected by Wöhler. As a student he had won a prize in 1828 for an essay on the conversion in the human body of chemicals taken orally and excreted in urine. The technique adopted by Liebig and Wöhler was to subject uric acid, ad the derivatives they prepared, to oxidation and reduction by reagents of different concentrations and strengths. Wöhler seems to have been the first to heat reagents together in sealed glass tubes, but after an explosion he thought metal ones safer.Their 100-page paper described fourteen new compounds and their preparation and analysis.7 An attempt to establish a new radical called ""uril"" (C8N4O4) was less successful. Perhaps even more significant than the sophisticated, practical and theoretical organic chemistry was the new spirit revealed. Writing to Berzelius in 1828, Wöhler was doubtful whether animal substances could be prepared in the laboratory. In 1832 he began the paper on the benzoyl radical with a description of organic chemistry as ""the dark region of organic nature."" But in 1838 his work with Liebig led him to write (at Liebig’s suggestion): ""The philosophy of chemistry will conclude from this work that it must be held not only as probable but [as] certain that all organic substances, insofar as they no longer belong to the organism, will be prepared in the laboratory. Sugar, salicin, morphine will be produced artificially. It is true that the route to these and products is not yet clear to us, because the intermediaries from which these materials develop are still unknown, but we shall learn to know them.""(DSB).
Experimental Researches on the Transmission of Electric Signals through Submarine Cables. - Part I. Laws of Transmission through various lenghts of one Cable. Received May 20,- Read June 19, 1862. (Incl.) Appendix. Received January 14, 1863.
(London, Taylor and Francis, 1863). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1862 - Vol. 152 - Part II. Pp. 987-1017. Clean and fine.
First appearance of a main paper in the electrical theory of submarine cables.""An important paper of thirty quarto pages published in the ‘Transactions of the Royal Society’ for June 19, 1862, under the title ‘Experimental Researches on the Transmission of Electric Signals through submarine cables, Part I. Laws of Transmission through various lengths of one cable, by Fleeming Jenkin, Esq., communicated by C. Wheatstone, Esq., F.R.S.,’ contains an account of a large part of Jenkin’s experimental work in the Birkenhead factory during the years 1859 and 1860. This paper is called Part I. Part II. alas never appeared, but something that it would have included we can see from the following ominous statement which I find near the end of Part I.: ‘From this value, the electrostatical capacity per unit of length and the specific inductive capacity of the dielectric, could be determined. These points will, however, be more fully treated of in the second part of this paper.’ Jenkin had in fact made a determination at Birkenhead of the specific inductive capacity of gutta-percha, or of the gutta-percha and Chatterton’s compound constituting the insulation of the cable, on which he experimented. This was the very first true measurement of the specific inductive capacity of a dielectric which had been made after the discovery by Faraday of the existence of the property, and his primitive measurement of it for the three substances, glass, shellac, and sulphur"" and at the time when Jenkin made his measurements the existence of specific inductive capacity was either unknown, or ignored, or denied, by almost all the scientific authorities of the day."" (William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) in ""Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin"" by Robert Louis Stevenson).Jenkin, a British engineer, served as secretary of the British Association's Electric Standards Committee (formed in 1861), which was responsible for setting and naming the standard units of electrical quantity and resistance.
"HODKINSON, EATON. - A PIONEER WORK ON THE STRENGHT OF MATERIALS.
Reference : 42912
(1840)
Experimental Researches on the Strenght of Pillars of Cast Iron, and other Materials. received April 22, - Read May 14, 1840.
(London, Richard and John E. Taylor, 1840). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1840 - Part II. Pp. 385-456 a. 3 lithographed plates (one folding). Clean and fine.
First printing of an influential paper in structural mechanics.""In 1840, Hodkinson presented his investigation on buckling of columns to the Royal Society (the paper offered). His purpose was to verify the theoretical formula of Euler...Cylindrical, solid and hollow specimens with rounded and flat ends were tested. Foer slender, solid struts, good accord was found with Euler's formula...It was also found that a strut with flat ends has the same strenght as a shorter strut og half its lenght which has rounded ends.""""Hodkinson baceme the professor of mechanical principles of engineering in University College, London, in 1847, and, during his tenure of the chair, he participated as a member of teh Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the application of iron to railway structures. In 1841 Hodgkinson was awarded a Royal Medal for his work on strenght of pillars and, in the same year he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.""(Timoshenko ""History of Strenght of Materials"", p. 128-29). - Darmsatedter, 1840 H.
1 LASERDISC - SPELLBOUND - D'ALFRED HITCHCOCK - AVEC INGRID BERGMAN ET GREGORY PECK
Non Renseigné. 1994. In-12. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 1 laserdisc - en noir et blanc - 108 min. environ - PAL - digital audio - version en anglais avec sous titres en anglais / français / allemand / italien / espagnol + 1 fascicule in 4 de 5 pages augmentées de quelques photos en noir et blanc dans le texte. . . . Classification : 400-Diplomes / Prix
copyright 1994 Classification : 400-Diplomes / Prix
1 DOUBLE LASERDISC - NOTORIOUS - D'ALFRED HITCHCOCK - AVEC CARY GRANT, INGRID BERGMAN ET CLAUDE RAINS
Non Renseigné. 1994. In-12. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 1 double laserdisc (2 disques inclus) - en noir et blanc - 100 min. environ - PAL - digital audio - version en anglais avec sous titres en anglais / français / allemand / italien / espagnol. . . . Classification : 400-Diplomes / Prix
copyright 1994 Classification : 400-Diplomes / Prix
1 LASERDISC - BASIC INSTINCT - UN FILM DE PAUL VERHOVEN - AVEC MICHAEL DOUGLAS ET SHARON STONE
. 1993. In-12. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 1 laserdisc - couleur - version française - PAL - stéréo - digital audio - 123 min. - interdit aux mineurs de moins de 16 ans. . . . Classification : 400-Diplomes / Prix
Classification : 400-Diplomes / Prix
1 LASERDISC - JURASSIC PARK - UN FILM DE STEVEN SPIELBERG - avec Sam Neil / Laura Dern / Jeff Goldblum..
. 1992. In-12. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 1 laserdisc - couleur - version française - dolby surround - digital stereo - 121 min. environ - PAL - une étiquette contre collée sur la pochette. . . . Classification : 400-Diplomes / Prix
copyright 1992 Classification : 400-Diplomes / Prix
1 DOUBLE LASERDISC - LES HUGUENOTS - THE AUSTRALIAN OPERA - GIACOMO MEYERBEER - OPERA EN 5 ACTES - LIVRET : Augustin Eugène Scribe - Joan Sutherland - Gala Farewell - Maitre du choeur : Graham Abbott...
. 1990. In-12. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 1 double laserdisc (2 disques inclus) - couleur - digital audio - stereo - 200 min. environ - PAL - déchirure sur la face de la pochette. . . . Classification : 400-Diplomes / Prix
copyright 1990 Classification : 400-Diplomes / Prix
1 DOUBLE LASERDISC - DANGER IMMEDIAT (clear and present danger) - ADAPTE DU BEST SELLER DE TOM CLANCY - AVEC HARRISON FORD ET WILLEM DAFOE
. 1995. In-12. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 1 double laserdisc (2 disques inclus) - couleur - version française - digital audio - 137 min. environ - PAL - pochette abimée. . . . Classification : 400-Diplomes / Prix
copyright 1995 Classification : 400-Diplomes / Prix
