Lot 317
Young, Thomas
Books, Maps, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: 26 May 2010 at 12:00 BST
Description
A syllabus of a course of lectures on natural and experimental philosophy. London: Press of the Royal Institution, 1802. First edition, 8vo, [vi], 162, 32, 4 parts in one volume, diagrams, nineteenth century half calf with cloth sides, Northern Light Board gilt stamp at head of spine
Footnote
Note: Scarce. 'Young was the last of the natural philosophers who could know all that was to be known. He was the perfector of the wave theory of light, he expounded the mechanism of vision, stated the laws of blood circulation, introduced the modern conceptions of 'energy' and 'work done'' evolved a sound theory of tides, and helped decipher the hieroglyphics of the Rosette Stone' (PMM 259 note).
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