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"Some results of a study of the spectra of Sirius, Procyon, and Arcturus with high dispersion."

By: ADAMS, Walter Sydney (1876-1956).

Price: $28.00

Publisher: Offprint from:, Astrophysical Journal, Vol. XXXIII, 1911.: 1911

Seller ID: S3622

Series: Contributions from the Mount Wilson Solar Observatory, No. 50. 256 x 173 mm. 8vo. 8 pp. 2 tables. Printed wrappers. Fine. FIRST SEPARATE EDITION. Walter Adams turned from studies of the sun to other, larger stars. He later wrote "The study attained its primary objectives, but in addition it provided in the field of physics the first clues to the analysis of complex spectra according to energy levels in the atom, in solar physics the discovery of magnetism in the sun, and in astro-physics a new and fundamental method for determining the distances of the stars." Adams, Cooperati...
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Memento, ou, tableau general et resume des formules servant a la resolution des problemes de physique.

By: AUVRAY, N.-H.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Paris:, Mallet-Bachelier, 1862.: 1862

Seller ID: S5894

213 x 136 mm. 8vo. 13, [3 blank] pp. Printed wrappers; covers loose, ms. notations on top cover. Very good.
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"Standard solar wave lengths (5805-1742A)."

By: BURNS, Keivin & C. C. KIESS.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Extract from:, Publications of the Allegheny Observatory of the University of Pittsburgh, Vol. VI, No. 8.:

Seller ID: S5840

4to. 125-139 pp. 1 plate, 4 figs., 2 tables. Dis-bound. Good.
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"Wave lengths in the spectra of the vacuum copper arc." WITH: "Wave lengths in the spectra of the vacuum copper arc."

By: BURNS, Keivin & Francis M. WALTERS, Jr.

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Extract from:, Publications of the Allegheny Observatory of the University of Pittsburgh, Vol. VIII, No. 3.:

Seller ID: S5841

4to. 27-35; 37-38 pp. Tables. Self-wraps. Good.
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"Wave lengths in the spectra of the vacuum iron arc."

By: BURNS, Keivin & Francis M. WALTERS, Jr.

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Extract from:, Publications of the Allegheny Observatory of the University of Pittsburgh, Vol. VIII, No. 4.:

Seller ID: S5842

4to. 39-64 pp. 5 tables. Self-wraps. Good.
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"Are Black Holes in Brans-Dicke Theory Precisely the Same as in General Relativity?" In: International Journal of Modern Physics D, Vol. 2, No. 4, 1993, pp. 451-462.

By: CAMPANELLI, M. & C.O. LOUSTO.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Singapore, et al.:, World Scientific, 1993.: 1993

Seller ID: S10104

FIRST EDITION. 8vo. 381-510 pp. Figs., index. Printed wrappers. Library rubber stamp on front cover and title. Very good. First Edition.
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The theory of axisymmetric turbulence.

By: CHANDRASEKHAR, Subrhmanyan (1910-1995).

Price: $200.00

Publisher: In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series A, Volume 242, Mathematical a, Published for the Royal Society by the Cambridge University Press, 1950.: 1950

Seller ID: S4133

In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series A, Volume 242, Mathematical and Physical Sciences, 1949-1950. London & New York:: Published for the Royal Society by the Cambridge University Press, 1950., 1950. 296 x 237 mm. 4to. Pages 557-577. [Entire volume: vii, 609 pp.] 3 figs. Blind-stamped maroon cloth, gilt spine; rubbed. Very good. FIRST EDITION. "The present paper completes the theory of axisymmetric tensors and forms to the extent that is needed for the development of a theory of turbulence in which symmetry about a certain preferred direction is assumed to...
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On turbulence caused by thermal instability.

By: CHANDRASEKHAR, Subrhmanyan (1910-1995).

Price: $175.00

Publisher: In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series A, Volume 244, Mathematical a, Published for the Royal Society by the Cambridge University Press, 1952.: 1952

Seller ID: S4134

In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series A, Volume 244, Mathematical and Physical Sciences, 1951-1952. London & New York:: Published for the Royal Society by the Cambridge University Press, 1952., 1952. 297 x 239 mm. 4to. Pages 357-384. [Entire volume: vii, [1 blank], 596 pp.] 3 tables, bibliog. Blind-stamped maroon cloth, gilt spine. Fine. FIRST EDITION. "In this paper a statistical theory of turbulence in an incompressible fluid caused by the joint effects of gravity, and thermal instability, is developed." From the preface. First Edition.
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Space and time in the modern universe.

By: DAVIES, P. C. W.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Cambridge:, Cambridge University Press, (1977).: 1977

Seller ID: S5082

Reprinted. 8vo. 232 pp. Figs., index. Cloth, dust-jacket; jacket spine faded. Very good.
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The History of Modern Astronomy and Astrophysics: A Selected, Annotated Bibliography.

By: DEVORKIN, David H.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York:, Garland 1982.: 1982

Seller ID: S12485

ISBN: 082409283X

Series: Bibliographies of the History of Science and Technology, volume 1. 8vo. xxvii, 434 pp. Gilt-stamped green cloth. Fine. ISBN: 082409283X
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On the analytical theory of the attraction of solids bounded by surfaces of a hypothetical class including the ellipsoid. Extract from: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. For the year MDCCCLX, Volume 150.

By: DONKIN, William Fishburn (1814-1869).

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London:, Taylor and Francis, 1860.: 1860

Seller ID: S4149

293 x 231 mm. 4to. Pages (1)-11. Dis-bound. William Donkin, British astronomer, received the M.A. in 1839 and became Savilian professor of astronomy at Oxford in 1842. "Between 1850 and 1860 Donkin contributed several important papers to the Philosophical Transactions. . .." DNB, V, p. 1125.
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"The Influence of the Inertial Dragging Effect on Gravitational Radiation Emitted from a Particle Moving in Equatorial Geodesic Circular Orbit about a Kerr's Black Hole." In: International Journal of Modern Physics D, Vol. 2, No. 2, 1993, pp. 149-161.

By: GONG, Biping.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Singapore, et al.:, World Scientific, 1993.: 1993

Seller ID: S10112

FIRST EDITION. 8vo. 135-256, ads. [1] pp. Figs. Printed wrappers. Library rubber stamp on front cover and title. Very good. First Edition.
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Masks of the Universe; Changing Ideas on the Nature of the Cosmos.

By: HARRISON, Edward (1919-2007).

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Cambridge:, Cambridge University Press, 2002.: 2002

Seller ID: S11988

ISBN: 0521773512

8vo. ix, 331 pp. Figs., index. Black gilt-stamped cloth. Near fine. Second edition. The author is a former distinguished professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Massachusetts, then the University of Arizona. ISBN: 0521773512 / 0-521-77351-2
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Impact of Modern Dynamics in Astronomy. Proceedings of the IAU Colloquium 172 held in Namur, Belgium, July 1998.

By: HENRARD, J.; S. FERRAZ-MELLO (editors).

Price: $27.00

Publisher: Dordrecht,, Kluwer Academic, 1999.: 1999

Seller ID: S12200

8vo. x, 466 pp. Hardcover. Fine. Contents [numbers represent pages]: G. CONTOPOULOS, N. VOGLIS and C. EFTHYMIOPOULOS / Chaos in Relativity and Cosmology A. MACIEJEWSKI and M. SZYDLOWSKI / Bianchi Cosmologies as Dynamical Systems; S. FERRAZ-MELLO / Slow and Fast Diffusion in Asteroid-Belt Resonances: A Review A. MORBIDELLI / Origin and Evolution of Near Earth Asteroids B. G. MARSDEN / Small Bodies in the Outer Solar System Cl. FROESCHLE, T. 1. JOPEK and G. B. VALSECCHI /The Use of Geocentric Variables to Search for Meteroid Streams and Their Parents 1. D. HADJIDEMETRIOU / A Symplectic Mapping ...
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"The anomalous behavior of aluminum oxide bands in mira variables."

By: KEENAN, P. C., A. J. Deutsch & R. F. GARRISON.

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Offprint:, The Astrophysical Journal, 1969.: 1969

Seller ID: S5877

Series: The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 158, October 1969. 8vo. 261-268 pp. 8 figs., 5 plates. Self-wraps. Fine.
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"A study of the relation of arc and spark lines by means of the tube-arc."

By: KING, Arthur S.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Offprint from:, Astrophysical Journal, Vol. XXXVIII, 1913.: 1913

Seller ID: S3734

Series: Contributions from the Mount Wilson Solar Observatory, No. 73. 254 x 170 mm. 8vo. 26 pp. 2 figs., 2 plates. Printed wrappers. Fine.
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"On the occurrence of the enhanced lines of titanium in electric furnace spectra."

By: KING, Arthur S.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Offprint from:, Astrophysical Journal, Vol. XXXVII, 1913.: 1913

Seller ID: S3735

Series: Contributions from the Mount Wilson Solar Observatory, No. 65. 255 x 173 mm. 8vo. 11 pp. 3 plates; finger prints in margins of page 4. Printed wrappers. Very good.
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