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THOMSON, Joseph John (1856-1940). Notes on Recent Researches in Electricity and Magnetism intended as a Sequel to Professor Clerk-Maxwell's Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1893.
8o (218 x 138 mm). Half-tone and line text illustrations. Interleaved throughout. Contemporary black buckram, gilt-lettered spine (minor wear to joints and extremities). Provenance: The author's copy, with his interleaved manuscript annotations.
FIRST EDITION, THE AUTHOR'S COPY WITH HIS ANNOTATIONS. 30 of the leaves contain manuscript notes, calculations and diagrams in Thomson's hand. Thomson never issued a second edition of this work; thus all of these changes remain apparently unpublished. The work was intended to supplement Maxwell's Treatise on electricity and magnetism. Thomson had edited the third edition of this, in 1891. Notes on recent researches "deals largely with the solution of various electrical problems of great mathematical difficulty, but also includes the first comprehensive account in the English language of the discharge of electricity through gas. It was this phenomenon that led Thomson to the discovery of the electron (announced in his Discharge of electricity through gases, 1898)" (Norman), for which he received the Nobel Prize for physics in 1906. Norman 2075.
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FIRST EDITION, THE AUTHOR'S COPY WITH HIS ANNOTATIONS. 30 of the leaves contain manuscript notes, calculations and diagrams in Thomson's hand. Thomson never issued a second edition of this work; thus all of these changes remain apparently unpublished. The work was intended to supplement Maxwell's Treatise on electricity and magnetism. Thomson had edited the third edition of this, in 1891. Notes on recent researches "deals largely with the solution of various electrical problems of great mathematical difficulty, but also includes the first comprehensive account in the English language of the discharge of electricity through gas. It was this phenomenon that led Thomson to the discovery of the electron (announced in his Discharge of electricity through gases, 1898)" (Norman), for which he received the Nobel Prize for physics in 1906. Norman 2075.
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