JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post The following images relating to chemistry were found in the illustration volumes of Abraham Rees' (1743-1825) great work, Cyclopædia; or, Universal Dictionary of Arts ...

Looking through a (massive, 20-pound!) volume of Electrical World 1 I found that it contains some of the earliest work published in the United States on Wilhelm Roentgen's seminal discovery of the ...

JF Ptak Science Books Post 100 [See also my latest post on fat: Fat Redux, 1920's Fat Quack Cures]. In the world of found-book-objects, few I think are as deeply removed and as deeply obscure as the ...

Rare, scarce, interesting, and unusual books for sale, mostly in the history of physics, math, and technology. The bookstore site is part of a larger daily blog for the History of Holes, Dots, Lines, ...

JF Ptak Science Books LLC Post 798 Blog Bookstore Sometimes, there are simply too many rectangles. But this sentiment is just a function of its time—for example, in this glorious manufacturer’s ...

JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post I found this patent for a rather extraordinary bicycle--a unicycle, actually, and a massively-wheeled one, at that. Looks to me as though the wheel of the unicycle ...

JF Ptak Science Books LLC Post 689 Blog Bookstore This post--image only, really--is part of a series in this blog relating to the empty, and the blank, and the missing. "Bogus Supports for Artillery ...

JF Ptak Science Books LLC Post 392 A quickly-found pamphlet offers a rejoinder to yesterday's post on making fistsfull of dollars selling poetry: selling prose. The idea is obvious, but the cover ...

JF Ptak Science Books Oppenheimer, J.R. "Note on the Theory of the Interaction of Field and Matter". Offprint: Physical Review, pp461-477, Volume 35, No. 5, March 1, 1930. Original wrappers. VG copy.

JF Ptak Science Books LLC Post 417 One of my interests over the years has been the found art in electrical lines on telephone poles. But there's really much more to appreciate in these simple utility ...

Alfred Tarski, “Über den Begriff der logischen Folgerung”, in Actes du Congrès International de Philosophie Scientifique, fasc. 7 (Actualités Scientifiques et Industrielles, vol. 394), Paris: Hermann ...

I found this delightful article while browsing volume 11 of Nature (1874)--J.D. Everett's On Mirage. It actually appears in parts over two issues (November 19 and 26) and I've got to admit that I was ...