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  • In Search for Man’s Ancestors – Prof Grafton Elliot Smith – 1931

    In Search for Man’s Ancestors – Prof Grafton Elliot Smith – 1931

    Published by Watts & Co, London, 1951 first edition, 56 pages part of the Forum Series. Very good condition in a complete dust jacket. Inscription to paste down.

    Grafton NSW born Elliot Smith has risen to Professor of Anatomy at University College, London by the time this book was published.He was involved in the Piltdown hoax, which features (pre-exposure) here along with Pithecanthropus, Heidelberg Man and Peking Man. His view on the “Cradle of Mankind” in which the Australian “Talgai” skull from near Warwick gets a reference.

    Grafton born Professor Searches for the beginning of Man

    $60.00

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  • The Total Solar Eclipse of May 1900 – Walter Maunder FRAS

    The Total Solar Eclipse of May 1900 – Walter Maunder FRAS

    A series of expeditions was organised by the British Astronomical Society to observe the total solar eclipse of 28th May 1900. This book printed by the “Knowledge” Office, London was published the following year.

    It is a remarkable record of a substantial effort in logistics for such a momentary event. The best position forecast by the Smithsonian Institute was expected to be Wadensborough, North Carilona. The British attended but also went to Portugal, Mid-Spain, Manzandes, Elche and Algiers. The photography of the “set-ups” at each location are a treasure … and it is good to see lady scientists in all their finery and the odd social event. The scientific content is immeasurable and the photographs of corona etc at various locations comprehensive and priceless.

    As well as corona we have … dark markings, coronal extensions, the shadow bands, Baily’s Beads … and a good summary of results. The highlight for Voyager is the period images of the astronomers going about their business.

    The 1900 eclipse was part of the Saros cycle which repeats itself every 18 years and 11 days but with a limit, a total of 71 events, from 1179 to the final one in 2044 … so not long to go.

    Unique work and more than you would expect for such a brief event … special

    $90.00

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  • A Treatise on the Differential Calculus – William Walton – 1845 – Viscount Cross to be Home Secretary’s Copy

    A Treatise on the Differential Calculus – William Walton – 1845 – Viscount Cross to be Home Secretary’s Copy

    An advanced work published in 1845 by Deightons, Cambridge. The author was a Fellow of Trinity College. Original blind stamped cloth binding.

    A very good copy with the normal progression … Fundamental Principles; Successive Differentiation; Elimination of Constant Functions; Evaluation of Indeterminate Functions; Maxima and Minima; Tangency; Asymptotes; Multiple Point, Conjugates, Cusps etc; Concavity and Convexity of Curves and Points of Inflexion … Centre of Curvature etc; Theory of Evolutes and Involutes; envelops; Polar Co-ordinates etc.

    Distinguished First Owner Viscount R.A. Cross

    Carries the bookplate and Signature, College and Ownership Date of Richard Asshetn Cross (1823-1914). Cross also went to Trinity and was then called to the Bar, Inner temple in 1849. He entered Parliament first in 1857 and then a second stint in 1868. He was elevated to the peerage, Viscount Cross of Broughton-in-Furness, in 1886. He was Home Secretary under Disraeli and also under Lord Salisbury. For a time, he was in the India Office and in eventually given the sinecure post Lord Privy Seal

    $120.00

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  • French Ebullioscope used in the Wine Industry for Measuring the Alcohol Content of Wine and Champagne – L Levesque -19th Century

    French Ebullioscope used in the Wine Industry for Measuring the Alcohol Content of Wine and Champagne – L Levesque -19th Century

    An ebullioscope is an instrument for measuring the alcohol content of wine. This superb example was made by L. Levesque. It is complete in its original case with rather tired but original leaflet of instructions.

    The scientific principle was invented in 1838 by Honore Brossard-Vidal. The advantage of this method is that the boiling point of wine is insensitive to sugar content whilst the previous method using specific gravity is not. The boiling point of water is 100 degC whilst pure alcohol is 78.4 degC. Alcohol content will therefore increase proportionately as the boiling point of wine moves lower.

    The ebullioscope consists of a conical boiler fixed on a circular foot, which carries a thermos siphon heated by an alcohol lamp. The boiler is closed by a screw cap with two holes; in one a cooling column is placed which facilitates the condensation of the vapours of the liquids brought to the boil, in the other a bent thermometer is placed with a graduated scale. Zeroing the instrument is done by boiling water (100 degC) every day to allow for changes in atmospheric pressure0. Having emptied the boiler of water then introduce the wine or champagne that requires investigating.

    The instrument is about 60 cm high assembled and weighs just less than 4.0 kgs in its case.

    See www.museedesconfluences.fr for an identical item dated 1860 – 1864

    19th Century French Ebullioscope – Do not rely on labels test your wine this evening!

    $260.00

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  • The Antiquity of Man – Arthur Keith – 2 Volumes (Piltdown Man)

    The Antiquity of Man – Arthur Keith – 2 Volumes (Piltdown Man)

    1928 edition by Sir Arthur Keith’s first published 1925 as a single volume. Reviewed and enhanced.

    A famous work in that it includes several chapters on the greatest scientific hoax ever … The Piltdown Man … there should be a BBC mini-series on this crime. Charles Dawson discovered the skull fragments that were to provide the “missing link” between apes and man. He was then assisted by the distinguished Dr Smith Woodward. In this book Keith is not sure at all and his chapter headed “The difficulties of reconstruction” alludes to error and alternative interpretations and perhaps even the reality. The reality was exposed in1953 when the bones were found to have consisted of the mandible and some teeth of an orangutan combined with the cranium of a small brained modern human. Grafton Elliot Smith a fellow anthropologist sided with Dawson and Woodward at the Royal Society claiming that Keith’s views were motivated by ambition. Keith later recalled “Such was the end of our long friendship”.

    Whilst Piltdown makes the book special there are other excellent anthropological finds well written up, not the least being the Pleistocene skull found at Talgai (near Warwick Queensland) in 1884 but brought out of a cupboard in 1914 and properly categorised by Sir T.W. Edgeworth David …. Robert Etheridge also had a hand.

    Much could be said about the author Sir Arthur Keith whose interest in the origins of man stemmed from being put in charge of the Museum of the Royal Society of Surgeons at an early age.

    We have included an image of the painting of key players investigating the skull of Piltdown Man … Arthur Keith is seated in the middle with Dawson and Smith Woodward standing behind him to the right …. note a painting of Charles Darwin on the wall behind the group.

    Early Man and Piltdown examined but not exposed

    $90.00

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  • The Whole Course of Chirurgerie – Peter Lowe (Originally 1597)

    The Whole Course of Chirurgerie – Peter Lowe (Originally 1597)

    Leather bound and beautifully gilt embossed all edges richly gilt from the Classics of Medicine Library 1981.

    Originally published in 1597 an edition from which this fine facsimile is produced along with engravings taken from the second edition of 1612. Peter Lowe of Scottish decent practiced in Paris at the time of writing this monumental work being appointed to the King of France. His dedication is to James the VI of Scotland.

    The engravings are enlightening – instruments for cutting off fingers and toes, siring or squirt for the care of hollow wounds, instruments to cut and knit the fistula in the fundament, portraiture of a man Rim-burst (ouch!)

    Chirurgerie in the 16th Century advanced by Lowe

    $50.00

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