Item 27573SPEED OF LIGHT: "Experimental Determination of the Velocity of White and of Coloured Light" (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 173 for the Year 1883, Part I & II, pp. 231-289)
London: Royal Society of London, 1883. First Edition. Hardcover. iv, [2], viii, [1]-749 pp. 4to. Library binding, tan leather spine with gold embossed titling. Interiors clean, ex-library stamp on title page, and occurring sporadically within. Numerous folding plates that illustrate articles. Pages were trimmed slightly when rebound. Another determination of.....