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Young, Thomas. COURSE OF LECTURES ON NATURAL PHILOSOPHY AND THE MECHANICAL ARTS, VOLS. I & II.
London. Joseph Johnson. 1807 First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.
...TWO VOLUME SET... Vol. I: [xxiv, 796pp, +43 plates]... Vol. II: [xii, 738pp, +15 plates]... Rebacked with new leather spine and endpapers... Original marbled paper boards and spine labels retrieved from the old bindings... ILLUSTRATED WITH 58 ENGRAVED PLATES, TWO OF WHICH ARE HAND-COLORED IN VOL. I... "Young (1773 - 1829) is famous for his work on light and vision. He showed that changes in curvature of the eye's lens focus light, found the cause of astigmatism, and proposed the correct three-color explanation of color vision. Young's experiments with interference of light waves and diffraction of shadows established the wave nature of light. Young was the first to recognize that light travels as transverse waves. In other areas, Young was the first to define energy in the modern sense. He improved on Hooke's law by providing a measure -- Young's modulus -- showing the constant of proportionality between force and stretching for different substances. He even helped establish the basis for translation of Egyptian hieroglyphics."... "This famous two-volume work contains the 60 lectures Young gave at the Royal Institution while he was professor of natural philosophy there (1801-1803). The first volume contains the lectures and almost 600 drawings; the second volume includes several of his papers and about 20,000 references to the literature, many annotated."... Young's lecture "ON THE THEORY OF LIGHT AND COLOURS" is listed in the"HERALDS OF SCIENCE" a reference representing landmark works in the history of science and technology. This lecture is also noted in the "PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN" a descriptive catalogue illustrating the impact of print on the evolution of western civilization... Last 160 pages of the textblock as well as the plates in rear in Volume I have moderate dampstaining. Light dampstaining to the plates in Volume II.. BUT ALL READABLE AND COMPLETE... Additional shipping and handling will apply for multiple volumes... 005874
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