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Two Essays: One upon Single Vision with Two Eyes" the Other on Dew. A Letter to the Right Hon. Lloyd, Lord Kenyon and an Account of a Female of the White Race of Mankind, Part of whose Skin Resembles that of a Negro (+) An Account of a Female of the W... - [THE FIRST RECOGNIZABLE STATEMENT OF THE THEORY OF NATURAL SELECTION]
London, Archibald Constable and Co, 1818. 8vo. Bound uncut in a nice recent half calf binding with five raised bands with gilt lettering and ornamentation to spine. A very nice and clean copy. (6), (I)-LXXIV, (2), 439, (1) pp.
First appearance of Well's important work, which constitutes the first clear pioneering statement about natural selection. He applied the idea to the origin of different skin colours in human races, but from the context it seems he thought it might be applied more widely. Charles Darwin said: ""[Wells] distinctly recognises the principle of natural selection, and this is the first recognition which has been indicated"". (Darwin, Charles 1866. The origin of species by means of natural selection. 4th and subsequent editions, in the preliminary 'Historical sketch')In 1813, Wells read a paper to the Royal Society of London, occasioned by a white female patient with splotches of dark skin. In his paper, Wells speculated about the origin of skin color variations in humans. He suggested that long ago, there might have arisen in equatorial regions a variety of humans that were better able to resist diseases such as malaria, perhaps aided by darker skin, and they survived where other variations perished. Similarly, lighter-skinned humans might have been variations that were better able to survive in temperate and arctic regions.""Wells' paper was not printed in the Philosophical Transactions, but after he died in 1817, two of his treatises, ""On Single vision with Two Eyes,"" and ""On Dew"", were published posthumously, and Wells' brief ""Account of a white female, part of whose skin resembles that of a negro"" was added on at the very end. No one noticed, certainly not Charles Darwin, who was 9 years old at the time.Time went by, Darwin discovered natural selection on his own in the late 1830s, and he sprang it on the world in On the Origin of Species in 1859. During the year after publication, various readers noticed that certain aspects of Darwinian evolution had been anticipated by such naturalists as Étienne Geoffroy St. Hilaire, Patrick Matthew, and the anonymous author of the Vestiges. So in 1861, for the third edition of the Origin, Darwin added an ""Historical Sketch"" in which he discussed his precursors and to what extent they anticipated his own work (third image). Geoffroy St. Hilaire, Matthew, and the Vestiges all merited a paragraph in the ""Historical Sketch."" But there was still no mention of William Wells.Then, sometime before 1866, an American, Robert Rowley, drew the attention of an Englishman, Charles Loring Brace, to Wells' paper, and Rowley conveyed the information to Darwin. Darwin was apparently impressed. For the fifth edition of the Origin, he revised the ""Historical Sketch"", and he added a paragraph about Wells, in which he commented: ""In this paper he [Wells] distinctly recognises the principle of natural selection, and this is the first recognition which has been indicated."" Darwin also pointed out, quite correctly, that Wells used natural selection only to account for human races, not to explain the origin of species. But still, Wells was the only precursor of natural selection that Darwin took seriously.""( William B. Ashworth, Linda Hall Library)
Harris (Cyril M.), ed. - J.E. Piercy - Richard W. Waterhouse - Arnold P.G. Peterson - Richard J. Wells - William M. Lang - Robert S. Gales - Maurice H. Miller - Charles W. Nixon - Allen L. Cudworth - John C. Webster - William Burns - John A. Molino - Donald E. Broadbent - J. Tonndorf - Henning E. von Gierke - W. Dixon Ward - Eric E. Ungar - Raymond Cohen - Hale J. Sabine - Ron Moulder - Thomas D. Northwood - J.D. Quirt - Istvan L. Ver - A.C.C. Warnock - J.B. Moreland - Laymon N. Miller and alii
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Handbook of Noise Control (Second Edition, 1979)
McGraw-Hill Book Company Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1979 Book condition, Etat : Bon hardcover, editor's binding, under editor's purples dust-jacket fort et grand In-8 1 vol. - 720 pages
333 illustrations in black and white 2nd edition, 1979 Contents, Chapitres : Contents, Preface, Acknowledgments, xiii, Text, 720 pages - Introduction, terminology, abbreviations, and symbols - Sound and sound levels - Sound propagation in the open air - Sound in enclosed spaces - Noise measurements (Instruments - Methods - Standards and Test Codes) - Hearing characteristics - Hearing loss from noise exposure - Hearing testing in industry - Hearing conservation programs in industry - Hearing protective devices : Ear protectors - Hearing loss : Legal liability - Effects of noise on speech - Physiological effects of noise - Annoyance and noise - Human performance and noise - Criteria for noise and vibration exposure - Vibration control principles - Vibration control techniques - Sound absorptive materials - Airborne sound insulation - Structureborne sound insulation - Noise control in buildings - Electrical equipment - Machinery - Fans and blowers - Heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning systems - Ventilation systems for small equipment - Fluid-flow systems : Plumbing, piping, steam - Construction equipment - Motor vehicle noise - Rail transportation noise - Aircraft noise - Noise surveys, community noise - Community response to noise - Noise and the law - Aircraft, airport noise and the courts - Regulation of aircraft noise - Regulation of occupational noise exposure - Regulation of new products noise emission - Regulation of surface carrier noise - Regulation of highway planning and design - Hud policy, noise assessment of building sites - Environmental impact statements - Index - cf : Manuel de contrôle du bruit, acoustique dust-jacket lightly torn on the spine-end of the front part and repared in a nice ways inside with adhesive, else D.6. nearly complete with few folding tracks, inside is near fine, no markings, except the name of the former owner on the first page (private collection), a rather very good copy anyway
