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HERTZ, Heinrich Rudolf (1957-1894). Electric Waves being Researches on the Propagation of Electric Action with Finite Velocity through Space. Translated by David Evan Jones. Preface by William Thomson, Lord Kelvin (1824-1907). London and New York: R. & R. Clark (Edinburgh) for Macmillan and Co., 1893.
8o (221 x 139 mm). Half-title, line block text illustrations. Original blue cloth (very slight wear to corners and extremities of spine). Provenance: William Henry Bragg (1862-1942) and his son William Lawrence Bragg (1890-1971), physicists, fellow Nobel Laureates, the founders of X-ray crystallography (the father's signature on title, the son's bookplate). IMPORTANT ASSOCIATION COPY of the first English edition of Hertz's collected papers on electromagnetic waves. The Norman collection includes several important physics books from the Braggs' library (see lots ***). Norman 1063.
8o (221 x 139 mm). Half-title, line block text illustrations. Original blue cloth (very slight wear to corners and extremities of spine). Provenance: William Henry Bragg (1862-1942) and his son William Lawrence Bragg (1890-1971), physicists, fellow Nobel Laureates, the founders of X-ray crystallography (the father's signature on title, the son's bookplate). IMPORTANT ASSOCIATION COPY of the first English edition of Hertz's collected papers on electromagnetic waves. The Norman collection includes several important physics books from the Braggs' library (see lots ***). Norman 1063.