1882 · Stuttgart:
by HELLER, August [Ágost] (1843-1902).
Stuttgart:: Ferdinand Enke, 1882-4., 1882. 2 volumes. XII, 411, [1]; XV, [1], 753, [1] pp. Index; minor pen marginalia in volume II (occasional underlining to table of contents and small note on p. 278). Quarter gilt-stamped dark green cloth, cloth tips, marbled boards. Very good. Heller was a Hungarian physicist and historian of science. This masterpiece work on the history of physics, has been the finest work of its kind ever written. It is fact-filled and contains numerous biographies of all the leading figures from Plato & Aristotle, Copernicus, Galileo Galilei, and Descartes through Ohm, Faraday, Fresnel, Gay-Lusac, Julius Robert-Mayer, von Humboldt, and many more. (Inventory #: RW1473)