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The Bakerian Lecture, - An Account of several new Instruments and Processes for determining the Constants of a Voltaic Circuit. Received June 15, - Read June 15, 1843.
(London, Richard and John E. Taylor, 1843). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1843 - Part II. Pp. 303-327 and 2 lithographed plates.
Frst appearance of an importent paper in the history of electricity. ""In 1843 Wheatstone published an experimental verification of Ohm's law, helping to make the law (already well known in Germany) more familiar in England. In connection with the verification he developed new ways of measuring resistances and currents. In particular, he invented the rheostat and popularized the Wheatstone bridge (in the paper offered), originally invented by Samuel Christie.""(DSB).
Beiträge zur Physiologie des Gesichtssinnes. (Aus dem Englishen von dr. August Franz). Erster Theil (alles übersetzt): Ueber einige merkwürdige und bis jetzt unbeobachtete Erscheinuungen beim Sehen mit beiden Augen.
(Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1842). No wrappers. In: In ""Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von J.C. Poggendorff"", Ergänzungsband (Nach Bd. LI einzuschalten), Stück 1. With titlepage to the volume (Erg.-Bd.). Pp. 1-192 a. 3 plates. (Entire issue offered). Wheatstones paper: pp. 1-48. Brownspots to inner margin on the first page, otherwise clean. Stamp to titlepage and verso of plates.
First appearance in German of this classic paper in physiological optics in which Wheatstone discovered the stereoscopic vison of the human eye.Stereopsis was first described by Wheatstone in 1838 (published first in the Transactions). In 1840 he was awarded the Royal Medal of the Royal Society for his explanation of binocular vision, a research which led him to make stereoscopic drawings and construct the stereoscope. He showed that our impression of solidity is gained by the combination in the mind of two separate pictures of an object taken by both of our eyes from different points of view. Thus, in the stereoscope, an arrangement of lenses or mirrors, two photographs of the same object taken from different points are so combined as to make the object stand out with a solid aspect. Sir David Brewster improved the stereoscope by dispensing with the mirrors, and bringing it into its existing form with lenses.""As the inventor of the stereoscope, later developed by Brewster, Wheatstone found himself - to his own surprise - the first since Leonardo da Vinvi to discuss depth perception in terms of the different image received by the eye...""(DSB XIV, p. 290).Garrison & Morton No. 1498. Also with K.E. von baer ""ueber das Klima von Sitcha und den russischen besitzungen an der Nordwestküste von Amerika"", pp. 129-154.
Contributions to the Physiology of Vision.- Part the First. On some remarkable, and hitherto unobserved, Phenomena of Binocular Vision. Received and Read June 21, 1838. (+) The Bakerian Lecture. - Contributions to the Physiology of Vision. Part the Se...
(London, Richard and John E. Taylor, 1838 a. 1852). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1838 - Part II. Pp. 371-394 and 2 engraved plates. Light browning to plates. + 1852- Part I. pp. 1-17 and 1 engraved plate. A dampstain to plate.
First appearance of these classic paper in physiological optics in which Wheatstone discovered the stereoscopic vison of the human eye.Stereopsis was first described by Wheatstone in 1838 (in the paper offered). In 1840 he was awarded the Royal Medal of the Royal Society for his explanation of binocular vision, a research which led him to make stereoscopic drawings and construct the stereoscope. He showed that our impression of solidity is gained by the combination in the mind of two separate pictures of an object taken by both of our eyes from different points of view. Thus, in the stereoscope, an arrangement of lenses or mirrors, two photographs of the same object taken from different points are so combined as to make the object stand out with a solid aspect. Sir David Brewster improved the stereoscope by dispensing with the mirrors, and bringing it into its existing form with lenses.""As the inventor of the stereoscope, later developed by Brewster, Wheatstone found himself - to his own surprise - the first since Leonardo da Vinvi to discuss depth perception in terms of the different image received by the eye...""(DSB XIV, p. 290).Garrison & Morton No. 1498.
On the Figures obtained by strewing Sand on Vibrating Surfaces, commonly called Acoustic Figures. Received February 12, - Read March 14, 1833.
(London, Richard Taylor, 1833). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1833 - Part II. Pp. 593-633 and many tables with vibrating figs. Clean and fine.
First printing of this classic paper on acoustics.""Wheatstones interest in acoustics was basically inspired by his desire to understand properties of a tone, such as timbre, interms of vibration. During the fifteen years he worked on acoustics, he investigated the mechanical transmission of sound, visible demonstrations of vibrations, and properties of the vibrating air column...""(DSB XIV, p. 289).
