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2012 November

Museu del Cinema, Girona

• THIS MONTH'S BLOG ENTRIES:
  • 2012 Nov. 26: The Victorian War between Physics and Biology, Part 3: Go It, Charlie!
  • 2012 Nov. 19: Pritchett the Progressive
  • 2012 Nov. 12: Fossils from Space!
  • 2012 Nov. 05: Solar Energy: Plus ça change ...

• INTERESTING ITEMS ELSEWHERE:
  • The worldwide impact of Donati's comet on art and society in the mid-19th century by Antonella Gasperini et al. [2011] The Great Comet of 1858 impressed the King of Siam (yes, that one), David Livingstone, Thomas Hardy, Jules Verne, and almost everyone else who saw it. This article could be much longer, but it provides an introduction to the subject.
  • Oliver Heaviside: A first-rate oddity by Bruce Hunt [Physics Today 65, No. 11, 48 (2012 November)] Sympathetic portrait of the isolated Victorian genius who set electromagnetic theory on the course it would take (for better or worse) in the Twentieth Century.
  • Mistaken Identity and Mirror Images: Albert and Carl Einstein by Jeroen van Dongen [2012/11] Not to mention Alfred. A wonderful article about the strange world of 1920, three Einsteins, the "Red Countess" Agathe von Hagen, cubism, Dada, anarchy ...
  • Émile Reynaud's Théâtre Optique [at Voyages Extraordinaires, 2012 Nov. 14] About praxinoscopy, a Nineteenth-Century technique for producing animated moving-pictures, with examples of the technology from the Museu del Cinema in Girona.

• NEW ADDITIONS: PHYSICS:
  • Cours de Mécanique by J. M. C. Duhamel Volume I --- Volume II [Paris: Mallet-Bachelier, 1853-63]
  • Electricity and Magnetism by Fleeming Jenkin [London: Longmans, Green, 1887]
  • Notes to Assist the Memory in Various Sciences by Walter Hamilton [London: John Murray, 1827]
  • Sound and its Relation to Music by Clarence G. Hamilton [Boston: Ditson, 1912]
  • Elements of Applied Electricity by H. H. Bliss [San Francisco: Journal of Electricity Publishing, 1920]
  • An Elementary Textbook of Dynamics and Hydrostatics by R. H. Pinkerton [London: Blackie, no date, perhaps 1890s]

• NEW ADDITIONS: MATHEMATICS:
  • Cours d'Analyse de l'École Polytechnique by M. Duhamel Volume I --- Volume II [Paris: Bachelier, 1847]
  • An Elementary Text-Book on the Differential and Integral Calculus by Wm. H. Echols [New York: Holt, 1902]
  • Éléments de calcul infinitésimal by M. Duhamel Volume I --- Volume II [Paris: Mallet-Bachelier, 1874 and Gauthier-Villars, 1876]
  • A Primer of the Calculus by E. Sherman Gould [New York: Van Nostrand, 1896]
  • Mathematical Tables; containing Logarithms of Numbers, Logarithmic Sines, Tangents, and Secants, Natural Sines, Traverse Table, Table of Meridional Parts, Table for Double Altitudes; and Various Other Tables Useful in Navigation and Practical Geometry. ALSO, Tables of Compound Interest, Probabilities of Life, and Annuities for Years and Lives edited by Robert Hamilton [Edinburgh: Wm. Creech, 1790]
  • Notes to Assist the Memory in Various Sciences by W. Hamilton [London: John Murray, 1827]
  • The Logic of Sir William Hamilton, Bart. reduced and prepared for use in schools by Henry N. Day [Cincinnati: Moore, Wilstach, and Keys, 1863]
  • Elementary and Constructional Geometry by Edgar Hamilton Nichols [New York: Longmans, Green, 1896]
  • Lectures on Quaternions: Containing a Systematic Statement of a New Mathematical Method by Sir William Rowan Hamilton [Dublin: Hodges and Smith, 1853]
  • Elements of Quaternions by (the late) Sir William Rowan Hamilton (2nd edition) Volume I --- Volume II [London: Longmans, Green, 1899-1901]
  • Grundriss der Differential- und Integral-Rechnung by Ludwig Kiepert Volume I --- Volume II [Hanover: Helwing, 1900-1901]

• NEW ADDITIONS: ENGINEERING:
  • The Designing and Construction of Storage Reservoirs by Arthur Jacob [New York: Van Nostrand, 1873]
  • The Elements of Water Supply Engineering by E. Sherman Gould [New York: Engineering News, 1899]
  • High Masonry Dams by E. Sherman Gould [New York: Van Nostrand, 1897]
  • Practical Designing of Retaining Walls by Wm. Cain [New York: Van Nostrand, 1914]
  • Practical Hydraulic Formulæ for the Distribution of Water Through Long Pipes by E. Sherman Gould [New York: Engineering News, 1889]
  • Submarine Telegraphy by Fleeming Jenkin [1866/12]
  • Telpherage by Fleeming Jenkin [1884/05]
  • An Essay on the Art of Flying, with an Indication of the Materials Best Adapted for Wings by Charles Claude Hamilton [London: privately published, 1841]

• NEW ADDITIONS: EDUCATION:
  • On Science Education in Laboratories by Fleeming Jenkin [1884]
  • Technical Education by Fleeming Jenkin [1869/01]

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