The Earthquake Catalogue of the British Association, With the Discussion, Curves, and Maps, Etc
Mallet, John William
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The Earthquake Catalogue of the British Association, With the Discussion, Curves, and Maps, Etc
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The Earthquake Catalogue of the British Association, with the discussion, curves, and maps, etc. [From the Transactions of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1852 to 1858.] Being Third and Fourth Reports.
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First one-volume edition of this foundation work of seismology, "the first really scientific investigation" on the topic (Davison, p. 81); inscribed from the author to William Cole, 3rd Earl of Enniskillen, an Irish palaeontologist who worked closely with Mallet. The inscription on the title page reads "To the Earl of Enniskillen with the author's respects". The Irish civil engineer and scientist Robert Mallet (1810-1881) is often referred to as the father of seismology, not least for having coined the word, alongside other key terminology like epicentre, seismic focus, angle of emergence, isoseismal line, and meizoseismal area. At the beginning of his earthquake studies "[Mallet] produced an experimental seismograph in 1846. Important elements of his model, which was never actually used, were incorporated in the seismograph that Luigi Palmieri made in 1855. Between 1850 and 1861 Mallet set off explosions in different locations to determine the rate of travel of seismic waves in sand (825 feet per second), solid granite (1,665 feet per second) and quartzite (1,162 feet per second). Mallet presented his most important seismic results in four Report[s] to the British Association (1850, 1851, 1852-54, 1858)", the organisation which funded the majority of his research (DSB). In 1857 Mallet was supported by Charles Lyell and Charles Darwin in his bid for financial assistance from the Royal Society to record first-hand the devastation of the Great Neapolitan Earthquake. Mallet's monumental Earthquake Catalogue, compiled with the assistance of his eldest son John William Mallet, records approximately 6,831 earthquakes from every known part of the world between 1606 BCE and 1858. Made with reference to earlier, incomplete catalogues, travel books, British, French, and German newspapers and scientific journals, the catalogue lists time of occurrence; area chiefly affected; direction, duration and number of shocks; accompanying sea-waves; meteorological and secondary phenomena; and the authorities for the records. The catalogue was first published across four issues of the annual journal of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (for the years 1852-4 and 1858, each journal title page dated the following year). Here the four separate parts are gathered into one volume under a separate title page, retaining the journal's pagination (pp. 1-176, 117-212, 1-326, 1-136). Included with the plates is Mallet's "Seismographic Map of the World" (1857), which "remained for nearly half a century our best representation of the distribution of earthquakes over the globe" (Davison, p. 74). In the journal the catalogue is preceded by the First (1850) and Second Reports (1851), which examine the historical narratives of earthquakes and Mallet's own experiments on the coast of Ireland. Mallet was a life member of the Royal Geological Society of Ireland and acted as its president from 1846-8, during which time William Cole, 3rd Earl of Enniskillen (1807-1886) served as vice-president. A wealthy collector and amateur geologist, Cole was renowned for his fine collection of fossil fishes at Florence Court, which eventually numbered nearly 10,000 individual specimens. The collection was visited and consulted by the major scientists of the day, including leading natural historian and founder of glaciology Louis Agassiz, who depended upon Cole's fossil cabinet for many of his specimen illustrations. The Enniskillen collection was eventually sold to the British Museum and resides now in the Natural History Museum, remaining one of the largest and most important collections of fossil fish ever assembled. Charles Davison, The Founders of Seismology, 1927. Octavo (217 x 136 mm). With 15 engraved plates at rear (plate X bis), most folding, 2 with colour, including the "Seismographic Map of the World". Contemporary green half calf, spine lettered in gilt, raised bands gilt-tooled with geometric roll and edged with gilt and blind fillets, marbled boards, edges sprinkled red. Spine sunned and extremities rubbed, few patches of wear, presenting handsomely; endleaves a little foxed, contents otherwise crisp and clean; folding maps reinforced with cloth to versos, yellow outline on "Seismographic Map" oxidised. Overall a very good copy. N° de réf. du vendeur 141615
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