This 1546 publication remains a landmark in geology due to its unprecedented classifications by physical property and locality, its simple standardized naming system, its meticulous summaries of earlier studies, and its employment of observation and personal experience.
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A series of hardcover reprints of major works in mathematics, science and engineering. All editions are 5
× 8½ unless otherwise noted.
Mathematics
Theory of Approximation, N. I Achieser. Unabridged republication of the 1956 edition. 320pp.
49543-4
The Origins of the Infinitesimal Calculus, Margaret E. Baron. Unabridged republication of the 1969 edition. 320pp.
49544-2
A Treatise on the Calculus of Finite Differences, George Boole. Unabridged republication of the 2nd and last revised edition. 352pp.
49523-X
Space and Time, Emile Borel. Unabridged republication of the 1926 edition. 15 figures. 256pp.
49545-0
An Elementary Treatise on Fourier’s Series, William Elwood Byerly. Unabridged republication of the 1893 edition. 304pp.
49546-9
Substance and Function & Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, Ernst Cassirer. Unabridged republication of the 1923 double volume. 480pp. 4
9547-7
A History of Geometrical Methods, Julian Lowell Coolidge. Unabridged republication of the 1940 first edition. 13 figures. 480pp.
49524-8
Linear Groups with an Exposition of Galois Field Theory, Leonard Eugene Dickson. Unabridged republication of the 1901 edition. 336pp.
49548-5
Continuous Groups of Transformations, Luther Pfahler Eisenhart. Unabridged republication of the 1933 first edition. 320pp.
49525-6
Transcendental and Algebraic Numbers, A. O. Gelfond. Unabridged republication of the 1960 edition. 208pp.
49526-4
Lectures on Cauchy’s Problem in Linear Partial Differential Equations, Jacques Hadamard. Unabridged reprint of the 1923 edition. 320pp.
49549-3
The Theory of Branching Processes, Theodore E. Harris. Unabridged, corrected republication of the 1963 edition. xiv+230pp.
49508-6
The Continuum, Edward V. Huntington. Unabridged republication of the 1917 edition. 4 figures. 96pp.
49550-7
Lectures on Ordinary Differential Equations, Witold Hurewicz. Unabridged republication of the 1958 edition. xvii+122pp.
49510-8
Mathematical Methods and Theory in Games, Programming, and Economics: Two Volumes Bound as One, Samuel Karlin. Unabridged republication of the 1959 edition. 848pp.
49527-2
Famous Problems of Elementary Geometry, Felix Klein. Unabridged reprint of the 1930 second edition, revised and enlarged. 112pp.
49551-5
Lectures on the Icosahedron, Felix Klein. Unabridged republication of the 2nd revised edition, 1913. 304pp.
49528-0
On Riemann’s Theory of Algebraic Functions, Felix Klein. Unabridged republication of the 1893 edition. 43 figures. 96pp.
49552-3
A Treatise on the Theory of Determinants, Thomas Muir. Unabridged republication of the revised 1933 edition. 784pp.
49553-1
A Survey of Minimal Surfaces, Robert Osserman. Corrected and enlarged republication of the work first published in 1969. 224pp.
49514-0
The Variational Theory of Geodesics, M. M. Postnikov. Unabridged republication of the 1967 edition. 208pp.
49529-9
An Introduction to the Approximation of Functions, Theodore J. Rivlin. Unabridged republication of the 1969 edition. 160pp.
49554-X
An Essay on the Foundations of Geometry, Bertrand Russell. Unabridged republication of the 1897 edition. 224pp.
49555-8
Elements of Number Theory, I. M. Vinogradov. Unabridged republication of the first edition, 1954. 240pp.
49530-2
Asymptotic Expansions for Ordinary Differential Equations, Wolfgang Wasow. Unabridged republication of the 1976 corrected, slightly enlarged reprint of the original 1965 edition. 384pp.
49518-3
Physics
Semiconductor Statistics, J. S. Blakemore. Unabridged, corrected, and slightly enlarged republication of the 1962 edition. 141 illustrations. xviii+318pp.
49502-7
Wave Propagation in Periodic Structures, L. Brillouin. Unabridged republication of the 1946 edition. 131 illustrations. 272pp.
49556-6
The Conceptual Foundations of the Statistical Approach in Mechanics, Paul and Tatiana Ehrenfest. Unabridged republication of the 1959 edition. 128pp. 49504-3
The Analytical Theory of Heat, Joseph Fourier. Unabridged republication of the 1878 edition. 20 figures. 496pp.
49531-0
States of Matter, David L. Goodstein. Unabridged republication of the 1975 edition. 154 figures. 4 tables. 512pp.
49506-X
The Principles of Mechanics, Heinrich Hertz. Unabridged republication of the 1900 edition. 320pp.
49557-4
Thermodynamics of Small Systems, Terrell L. Hill. Unabridged and corrected republication in one volume of the two-volume edition published in 1963—1964. 32 illustrations. 408pp. 6½ × 9¼.
49509-4
Theoretical Physics, A. S. Kompaneyets. Unabridged republication of the 1961 edition. 56 figures. 592pp.
49532-9
Quantum Mechanics, H. A. Kramers. Unabridged republication of the 1957 edition. 14 figures. 512pp.
49533-7
The Theory of Electrons, H. A. Lorentz. Unabridged reproduction of the 1915 edition. 9 figures. 352pp.
49558-2
The Principles of Physical Optics, Ernst Mach. Unabridged republication of the 1926 edition. 279 figures. 10 portraits. 336pp.
49559-0
The Scientific Papers of James Clerk Maxwell, James Clerk Maxwell. Unabridged republication of the 1890 edition. 197 figures. 39 tables. Total of 1,456pp.
Volume I (640pp.) 49560-4;
Volume II (816pp.) 49561-2
Vectors and Tensors in Crystallography, Donald E. Sands. Unabridged and corrected republication of the 1982 edition. xviii+228pp.
49516-7
Principles of Mechanics and Dynamics, Sir William (Lord Kelvin) Thompson and Peter Guthrie Tait. Unabridged republication of the 1912 edition. 168 diagrams. Total of 1,088pp.
Volume I (528pp.) 49562-0;
Volume II (560pp.) 49563-9
Treatise on Irreversible and Statistical Thermophysics: An Introduction to Nonclassical Thermodynamics, Wolfgang Yourgrau, Alwyn van der Merwe, and Gough Raw. Unabridged, corrected republication of the 1966 edition. xx+268pp.
49519-1
Engineering
Principles of Aeroelasticity, Raymond L. Bisplin...
Table of contents
Title Page
Copyright Page
FOREWORD
GEORGIUS AGRICOLA
TRANSLATORS’ PREFACE
Table of Contents
TO THE ILLUSTRIOUS DUKE OF SAXONY AND OF THURINGIA AND MISENA PRINCE MAURICE
