[Rarebooks] fa: CAMBRIDGE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY - Volume I 1821 - Herschel, Galvanism, Geology, Anatomy, Physics &c.

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Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. Vol. I. Part I [and] Part II. Cambridge: Printed at the University Press, 1821-22. First edition. Two parts bound in one. Tall 4to (28 cm) in modern buckram; xxiii, [1], 62, [77]-177, [193]-470 pp. With nineteen engraved plates (three double-page, four hand-colored) and in-text tables and diagrams.

The first collection of scientific papers/lectures delivered at the Cambridge Philosophical Society, founded in 1819. An imperfect volume: two of the papers have been rather ruthlessly excised, leaving the text block neatly divided into two parts, with the first part detached from the binding and both parts separated from the spine, a few leaves loose; intermittent moisture damage, resulting in varying degrees of rippling to the leaves but relatively little staining or discoloration (only really pronounced on three of the plates and five or six text leaves), some foxing to the preliminaries; otherwise complete and surprisingly clean and bright in a sharp modern binding, and with a complete complement of the plates.

Included in this volume are four papers by the mathematician, chemist, inventor and astronomer JOHN HERSCHEL: (1) On certain remarkable Instances of deviation from Newton's Scale in the Tints developed by Crystals, with one Axis of Double Refraction, on exposure to Polarized Light; (2) On the Rotation impressed by Plates of Rock Crystal on the Planes of Polarization of the Rays of Light, as connected with certain peculiarities in its Crystallization (accompanied by a PLATE); (3) On the Reduction of certain Classes of Functional Equations to of Finite Differences; (4) On the Application of Hydrogen Gas to produce a moving Power in Machinery; with a Description of an Engine which is moved by the Pressure of the Atmosphere upon a Vacuum caused by Explosions of Hydrogen Gas and Atmospheric Air.

With other significant papers on...

ANATOMY & MEDICINE:
Notice of a large Human Calculus in the Library of Trinity College by Rev. J. Cumming. With a COLORED PLATE.
On a Dilation of the Ureters, supposed to have been caused by a malformation of their Vesical Extremities by John Okes. With a PLATE.

ASTRONOMY:
Notice of the Astronomical Tables of Mohammed Abibeker Al Farsi, two copies of which are preserved in the Public Library of the University of Cambridge by Samuel Lee.

GEOLOGY:
On the Physical Structure of those Formations which are immediately associated with the Primitive Ridge of Devonshire and Cornwall. pp. 89-146 + 2 pp. of errata.
On the Physical Structure of the Lizard District in the County of Cornwall by Rev. A. Sedgwick. pp. 291-330.
n the Double Crystals of the Fluor Spar by William Whewell. With a PLATE.
Geological Description of Anglesea by M. A. Henslow. pp. 359-457; with 7 PLATES, including 3 double-page and COLORED.

NATURAL HISTORY:
An Account of some Fossil remains of the Beaver, found in Cambridgeshire by John Okes. With 2 PLATES.
Upon the regular Crystallization of Water, and upon the form of its primary Crystals; as they were naturally developed in Cambridge, January 3, 1821, and were seen during the two following days by Edward Daniel Clarke. With a PLATE.

PHYSICS:
On the Laws according to which Masses of Iron influence Magnetic Needles by S. H. Christie. With a PLATE.
On the Connexion of Galvanism and Magnetism by Rev. J. Cumming. With a PLATE of a galvanometer.

TECHNOLOGY & INVENTIONS:
On Isometrical Perspective by William Farish. With 3 PLATES, including perspective views of machinery and a furnace.
On the Application of Hydrogen Gas to produce a moving Power in Machinery; with a Description of an Engine which is moved by the Pressure of the Atmosphere upon a Vacuum caused by Explosions of Hydrogen Gas and Atmospheric Air by Rev. W. Cecil. With a PLATE.

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