signed Sammelband, bound pamphlets
by [Science, Mathematics, Engineering]. DUCLOUT, Jorge.
Sammelband, bound pamphlets.
Collection of separately published pamphlets, folding plates, & extracts from periodicals bound in a 4to half black morocco album. A manuscript note in ink on the ffep (translated from the French) describes the contents as "individual works collected as a souvenir of Buenos Aires for our friend Pierre Michel-Levy, 10/11/1904." Signed by Duclout.
Binding worn: rubbed, upper cover hanging by a cord, contents generally very good, one plate with long closed tear.
Contents include:
Conferencia final del curso de Teoria de la elasticidad dictado en le Fac de Ciencias Fisico-Matemaáticas de le Universidad de la Capital Buenos Aires: G Kraft, 1888 8vo, original wraps; 33 pp.
Republica Argentina: Deuda publica exterior y capitales Europeos empleados por sociedades anonimas Buenos Aires: Felix Lajouane, 8vo, original wraps; 24 pp.
Estudio sobre las hipotesis mecanicas que sirven de base a la teoria electro-magnetica de la luz [de] Maxwell Buenos Aires: Pablo E Coni, 1892 8vo, reprinted from los Anales de la Sociedad Cientifica Argentina, 26 pp.
Los fundamentos de la geometria y el conocimiento del espacio Buenos Aires: Pablo E Coni, 1893 Tall 8vo, original wraps; 118 pp, plus 13 folding plates.
Théorie du flambage des pièces élastiques comprimées: Extrait du cours d'élasticité de la faculté des sciences exactes, physiques et mathématiques de Buenos-Ayres Paris: np (Imprimerie Chaix), 1896 8vo, original wraps, an extract from the 1896 Memoires de la Societe des Ingenieurs Civils de France; 45 pp.
Various tipped-in extracts from Argentine periodicals, including "La Biblioteca" and "La Ingeniera," from 1897 and 1898 on subjects as diverse as wireless telegraphy, the filling and dredging of canals, the testing of various South American woods (with numerous microscopic cross-section photographs), and numerous folding plates
The collection concludes with a tipped in biographical article in Spanish which is translated and provided in part below:
"Referred to as the "Champion of Relativity," Jorge (born Georges) Duclout (1854 – 1927) was the first to lecture on relativity in Argentina In 1922 the University of Buenos Aires Council approved his motion to send an invitation to fellow Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule alumnus Albert Einstein to visit Argentina and give a course of lectures on his theory of relativity The visit took place three years later, in March – April 1925 Although by then Duclout was aging and in ill health, a memorable visit took place between the two men The visit also produced the "Unpublished Opening Lecture for Einstein's Course on Relativity Theory in Argentina, 1925" (Inventory #: 0000414)
Collection of separately published pamphlets, folding plates, & extracts from periodicals bound in a 4to half black morocco album. A manuscript note in ink on the ffep (translated from the French) describes the contents as "individual works collected as a souvenir of Buenos Aires for our friend Pierre Michel-Levy, 10/11/1904." Signed by Duclout.
Binding worn: rubbed, upper cover hanging by a cord, contents generally very good, one plate with long closed tear.
Contents include:
Conferencia final del curso de Teoria de la elasticidad dictado en le Fac de Ciencias Fisico-Matemaáticas de le Universidad de la Capital Buenos Aires: G Kraft, 1888 8vo, original wraps; 33 pp.
Republica Argentina: Deuda publica exterior y capitales Europeos empleados por sociedades anonimas Buenos Aires: Felix Lajouane, 8vo, original wraps; 24 pp.
Estudio sobre las hipotesis mecanicas que sirven de base a la teoria electro-magnetica de la luz [de] Maxwell Buenos Aires: Pablo E Coni, 1892 8vo, reprinted from los Anales de la Sociedad Cientifica Argentina, 26 pp.
Los fundamentos de la geometria y el conocimiento del espacio Buenos Aires: Pablo E Coni, 1893 Tall 8vo, original wraps; 118 pp, plus 13 folding plates.
Théorie du flambage des pièces élastiques comprimées: Extrait du cours d'élasticité de la faculté des sciences exactes, physiques et mathématiques de Buenos-Ayres Paris: np (Imprimerie Chaix), 1896 8vo, original wraps, an extract from the 1896 Memoires de la Societe des Ingenieurs Civils de France; 45 pp.
Various tipped-in extracts from Argentine periodicals, including "La Biblioteca" and "La Ingeniera," from 1897 and 1898 on subjects as diverse as wireless telegraphy, the filling and dredging of canals, the testing of various South American woods (with numerous microscopic cross-section photographs), and numerous folding plates
The collection concludes with a tipped in biographical article in Spanish which is translated and provided in part below:
"Referred to as the "Champion of Relativity," Jorge (born Georges) Duclout (1854 – 1927) was the first to lecture on relativity in Argentina In 1922 the University of Buenos Aires Council approved his motion to send an invitation to fellow Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule alumnus Albert Einstein to visit Argentina and give a course of lectures on his theory of relativity The visit took place three years later, in March – April 1925 Although by then Duclout was aging and in ill health, a memorable visit took place between the two men The visit also produced the "Unpublished Opening Lecture for Einstein's Course on Relativity Theory in Argentina, 1925" (Inventory #: 0000414)