SCIENTISTS AND THINKERS -- 19th & 20th CENTURY. A collection of autograph letters of English, French and Italian scientists, economists and mathematicians, including
SCIENTISTS AND THINKERS -- 19th & 20th CENTURY. A collection of autograph letters of English, French and Italian scientists, economists and mathematicians, including: William Thompson 1st Baron KELVIN of Largs (1824-1907). Autograph letter signed to Mr Clark, Glasgow University, 5 March [18]89, expressing his pleasure at Professor Stokes's praise of his earlier mathematical work on tides, 3 pages, 8vo ; and a letter signed, 1900, 'overloaded with work'; with a letter to Kelvin by Henri BECQUEREL, 23 December 1906, thanking him for his latest work on waves in deep water, 'Quelle l umière vos résultats jettent sur tous les phénomènes étudie aes par les Physiciens'; together with letters and manuscripts by Charles DARWIN (autograph envelope addressed to [Robert] Lawson Tait in Birmingham, stamped 'Beckenham JY 17 [18]75'); Gustave LE BON (to a friend, 'Il n'y a en France que les Bretons et les Auvergnats qui sont brahycéphales. C'est la partie la moins intelligente de la population'), John Maynard KEYNES (correspondence card, torn across, laid down), Vilfredo PARETO (manuscript, 'Un bel tacere non fu mai scritto', [c.1909], a detailed discussion of mathematical methods and the recently published work of Charles Gide and Charles Rist, 11 pages, 4to ); Bertrand RUSSELL (1923), Louis, Duc de Broglie, Alfred North Whitehead and Francis Galton (on 'instances of Numerals visuallised in Forms or Patterns'). (11)
SCIENTISTS AND THINKERS -- 19th & 20th CENTURY. A collection of autograph letters of English, French and Italian scientists, economists and mathematicians, including
SCIENTISTS AND THINKERS -- 19th & 20th CENTURY. A collection of autograph letters of English, French and Italian scientists, economists and mathematicians, including: William Thompson 1st Baron KELVIN of Largs (1824-1907). Autograph letter signed to Mr Clark, Glasgow University, 5 March [18]89, expressing his pleasure at Professor Stokes's praise of his earlier mathematical work on tides, 3 pages, 8vo ; and a letter signed, 1900, 'overloaded with work'; with a letter to Kelvin by Henri BECQUEREL, 23 December 1906, thanking him for his latest work on waves in deep water, 'Quelle l umière vos résultats jettent sur tous les phénomènes étudie aes par les Physiciens'; together with letters and manuscripts by Charles DARWIN (autograph envelope addressed to [Robert] Lawson Tait in Birmingham, stamped 'Beckenham JY 17 [18]75'); Gustave LE BON (to a friend, 'Il n'y a en France que les Bretons et les Auvergnats qui sont brahycéphales. C'est la partie la moins intelligente de la population'), John Maynard KEYNES (correspondence card, torn across, laid down), Vilfredo PARETO (manuscript, 'Un bel tacere non fu mai scritto', [c.1909], a detailed discussion of mathematical methods and the recently published work of Charles Gide and Charles Rist, 11 pages, 4to ); Bertrand RUSSELL (1923), Louis, Duc de Broglie, Alfred North Whitehead and Francis Galton (on 'instances of Numerals visuallised in Forms or Patterns'). (11)
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