On the Magnet

Gilbert, Robert E; translated by Silvanus P. Thompson

ISBN 10: 0465052487 / ISBN 13: 9780465052486

Edité par Basic Books, New York, 1958

Light wear; Slipcase bottom edge tear, peel to rear paste-on label, light edgewear. Solid oversize hardcover. ; Review Copy slip laid in. Facsimile reprint of the 1900 Chiswick Press limited edition of 250 copies of Silvanus P. Thompson's translation of Gilbert's 1628 second edition of De Magnete, and Thompson's 1901 privately printed Notes on the De Magnete of Dr William Gilbert, along with Editor's Introduction by Derek J de S Price. ; The Collector's Series In Science; xi, 246, iv, 67 pages. N° de réf. du vendeur 17218

Présentation de l'éditeur: This 'On The Magnet' is a new improved English translation of the widely censored or banned Latin 1600 'De Magnete' by William Gilbert which was the first real science book to be published. This version is rather easier to read than its two earlier translations, and significantly helps to clarify Gilbert's 'attraction' physics which Newton put as one of two basic valid mathematized physics options and which he is believed to have privately favoured. It is basically a novel signal-response or remote-control physics that may still have real relevance today.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : On the Magnet
Éditeur : Basic Books, New York
Date d'édition : 1958
Reliure : Hardcover
Etat : Very Good
Etat de la jaquette : Good+
Edition : Reprint; First Printing.