Physical Sciences
The Collapsing Universe
New American Library, 1986. First Edition. Full Leather. More
The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Korean Student Edition
Reading, Mass. Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., (1984). Illustrated with many graphs and figures. Original copyright is 1964. This edition printed in Korea for Korean Students only in 1984. Three volumes. Perfect bound 4to. Text in English. More
Astrology and Alchemy, Two Fossil Sciences
New York: Philosophical Library, (1953). 8vo. Sky blue cloth covered boards.382 pp. including index. From Astronomy and Astrology in Babylonia through the Cosmology of Ptolemy to Paracelsus, this is a penetrating history of these pre-modern sciences. More
The Way Things Work
Houghton Mifflin, 1988. Signed by the author. 3rd printing. Hardcover. More
Clocks and the Cosmos, Time in Western Life and Thought
Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 1980. First Edition. 8vo. Red cloth covered boards stamped in gold. 260 pp. including index. The horological revolution began in England in 1660, when mechanical clocks first became sufficiently accurate for the requirements of urban man. Since this time, and particularly in the ensuing 100 years..... More
Harriet Brooks, Pioneer Nuclear Scientist
Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, (1992). 0773508813. 8vo. Red cloth covered boards. 168 pp. including index. In 1904, Brooks left Canada to work as a tutor in physics at Barnard College in New York City. It was not easy for a woman graduate in the late nineteenth or early..... More
River Work, Constructional Details
London: Sir Isaac Pitman, 1935. Illustrated with many diagrams, plans and charts. 8vo. 8-5/8" x 5-11/16". Green cloth covered boards stamped in gold. 146 pp. including index. plus 26 pp. publisher's ads. How to build dams, weirs, river sluices, river walls, radial gates in a flood-prevention scheme, a dinghy slipway..... More