Atoms.
PERRIN (Jean Baptiste).

Atoms.

Authorised translation by D. Ll. Hammick. First edition in English. 8vo. xiv, [2], 211, [1] pp. Original brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, front cover lettered in blind within double blind fillet border (offsetting to endpapers, neat contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper, contents otherwise generally unmarked; light wear to extremities, a very good copy indeed). London, Constable & Company Ltd, 1916.

£200.00

The first English translation of this important work by the Nobel Prize winning French physicist Jean Baptiste Perrin (1870-1942), best-known for demonstrating the existence of atoms by careful measurements of Brownian motion, thereby validating Einstein’s earlier theoretical explanation.

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