1851 1913 macfarlane (2 resultados)

Series: Mathematical Monographs, no. 20. 8vo. [ii], 144 pp. Frontispiece, index. Original full blind-stamped green cloth, gilt stamped spine title; upper edges of the book damaged with dent marks (as when one ties cord too tightly and crushes the top edge of this book thus), paper sticker removed from spine. Embossed stamp of the Carnegie Institution, Mount Wilson Observatory, spine label removed. Good+. With biographies for: James Clerk Maxwell â" William John Macquorn Rankine â" Peter Guthrie Tait â" Sir William Thomson, first Lord Kelvin â" Charles Babbage â" William Whewell â" Sir George Gabriel Stokes â" Sir George Biddell Airy â" John Couch Adams â" Sir John Frederick William Herschel.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition. Frontispiece, 144 pp, 1 leaf (ads). Original cloth. Top of spine slightly worn. Spine lettering rubbed. Else Very Good. Mathematical Monographs No. 20. Contents: James Clerk Maxwell -- William John Macquorn Rankine -- Peter Guthrie Tait -- Sir William Thomson, first Lord Kelvin -- Charles Babbage -- William Whewell -- Sir George Gabriel Stokes -- Sir George Biddell Airy -- John Couch Adams -- Sir John Frederick William Herschel. No. 17 in this series is MacFarlane's Lectures on Ten British Mathematicians of the Nineteenth Century (shouldn't Babbage have been in there instead?).