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Frederic Joliot, Nuclear Physics Papers, 1931-1939 27 Aug 2013 | 09:43 am
Joliot, Frederic. "Sur la phenomene de recul et la conservations de la quantite de mouvement", in Comptes Rendus, 4 May 1931, volume 192, pp 1105-1107. In the original wrappers, removed from larger ...
Bibliography of James Clerk Maxwell 27 Aug 2013 | 06:47 am
JF Ptak Science Books Reference Tool series I found this fantastic list at the James Clerk Maxwell Foundation and wanted to include this with a list of other Maxwell items but simplycould not get a...
James Clerk Maxwell's Library 27 Aug 2013 | 03:49 am
JF Ptak Science Books Reference Tool series I found this fantastic list at the James Clerk Maxwell Foundation and wanted to include this with a list of other Maxwell items but simplycould not get a...
On Using the Pocket Spectroscope to Foretell Weather, 1884 26 Aug 2013 | 06:40 am
JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post I was working my way through an edition of Nature for 1884 (23 October, page 606) when I found a review of F.W. Cory's How to Foretell the Weather with the Pocket ...
A Composite Photo of Mistakes, 1885 (Or: Imaginativeness vs. Comb-overs?) 25 Aug 2013 | 06:47 pm
JF Ptak Science Books Post 2097 Building on some reaching and questionable physical identification work of Sir Francis Galton, Raphael Pumpelly tried to make photographs of what scientists looked.....
The Camera Obscura at War, 1885 25 Aug 2013 | 07:40 am
JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post I'm fairly well certain that I have never seen an image of a camera obscura being used for military purposes--until today. I found "The Camera Obscura in Torpedo Wo...
The Faces--and Hats--of Texas Poker, 1930 25 Aug 2013 | 06:02 am
JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post I found a wonderful bit from 1930, a less-than-pocket-sized book on winning and losing in poker1--it has a fair amount of what might be either good or bad informati...
Q: When is a Stringed Instrument a Trumpet? 24 Aug 2013 | 05:48 am
JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post A: When it is a triangularly-based monochord called the "Trumpet of Marigni". It was designed 500 years ago to sound like a trumpet by virtue of the single string ...
What a Fascist Really, Really, Is: on Defining Things 24 Aug 2013 | 05:06 am
JF Ptak Science Books Post 2096 In the history of words and the history of writing them, the history of writing down what words mean came relatively late in the word game. The first dictionary for...
On Freedom of the Press and Attacking Censorship, 1812 23 Aug 2013 | 07:56 am
JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post This is really very good: on distinguishing the free press with what it is and what it isn't. The article appeared a few months before the official declaration of ...
