[Rarebooks] FS: THE INTERPRETATION OF THE ATOM, 1932. 1st in DJ.

[Michael John Thompson]

Offering:


SODDY, Frederick. THE INTERPRETATION OF THE ATOM. London: John Murray 
[1932]. First Edition, First Printing. First Edition. octavo, 
original brown cloth titled and ruled in gilt on spine panel, front 
panel with borders in blind. 355 pp, Index, numerous inserted plates 
and line drawings within the text, two folding tables at rear. A 
fine, bright copy in a fine dust jacket, price corner intact. A 
remarkably sharp copy of a very scarce book. The author was awarded 
the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1921.


"This book is written to replace the author's earlier "Interpretation 
of Radium." It deals fully with radio activity as the manifestation 
of spontaneous disintegration of the atom, with isotopes, the 
chemically identical varieties of atoms of the same element first 
revealed by radio-active changes, and with the general application of 
these discoveries and the theoretical conceptions of, quanta and 
relativity to the interpretation of the atom. Like the earlier work, 
it is intended primarily for the general reader, seeking to 
understand the world in which he lives, and as a guide to the 
scientific student interested in the relation between the new 
discoveries and theories and the older body of knowledge, and in the 
synthesis of scientific ideas." - Bernard Quaritch, Catalogue No. 489 
[1934].

$550.00 Cdn

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