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Harper’s Library of Living ThoughARTHUR HOLMESTHE AGE OF THE EARTHAnd Associated Problems.IllustratedGives us the result of the latest research into this field of enquiry. The radioactive minerals are shown to be recording their own age with the exquisite accuracy of a chronometer—their records checking physical, astronomical, and geological methods of computation.PROF. A. W. BICKERTONTHE BIRTH OF WORLDS AND SYSTEMSIllustratedPreface by Prof. Ernest Rutherford, F.R.S.A graphic account of the formation of new stars from the collision of dead suns or other celestial bodies. The theory throws light on many astronomical problems, and with its conception of an immortal cosmos, is of great philosophical importance.PROF. SVANTE ARRHENIUSTHE LIFE OF THE UNIVERSE2 Vols. Illustrated“We can thoroughly recommend these volumes. The information is accurate, useful, and most suggestive. There are many for whom the first chapters of Genesis are a subtle allegory covering the profoundest truths, and we are grateful to the author for having set out this mass of facts.”—The Globe.SIR OLIVER LODGE, F.R.S.THE ETHER OF SPACEIllustrated“This work by the great physicist will be found to possess an abiding charm and an intellectual stimulation.”-Observer.“Opens up new views into the nature of the universe. Precise and lucid, it summarises our knowledge of the substance which fills all space and penetrates all matter—the substratum of matter itself.”—Birmingham Post.Please write for announcements and descriptive list:Harper & Brothers, 45 Albemarle Street, London, W.
Harper’s Library of Living Though
ARTHUR HOLMESTHE AGE OF THE EARTHAnd Associated Problems.Illustrated
Gives us the result of the latest research into this field of enquiry. The radioactive minerals are shown to be recording their own age with the exquisite accuracy of a chronometer—their records checking physical, astronomical, and geological methods of computation.
PROF. A. W. BICKERTONTHE BIRTH OF WORLDS AND SYSTEMSIllustratedPreface by Prof. Ernest Rutherford, F.R.S.
A graphic account of the formation of new stars from the collision of dead suns or other celestial bodies. The theory throws light on many astronomical problems, and with its conception of an immortal cosmos, is of great philosophical importance.
PROF. SVANTE ARRHENIUSTHE LIFE OF THE UNIVERSE2 Vols. Illustrated
“We can thoroughly recommend these volumes. The information is accurate, useful, and most suggestive. There are many for whom the first chapters of Genesis are a subtle allegory covering the profoundest truths, and we are grateful to the author for having set out this mass of facts.”—The Globe.
SIR OLIVER LODGE, F.R.S.THE ETHER OF SPACEIllustrated
“This work by the great physicist will be found to possess an abiding charm and an intellectual stimulation.”-Observer.
“Opens up new views into the nature of the universe. Precise and lucid, it summarises our knowledge of the substance which fills all space and penetrates all matter—the substratum of matter itself.”—Birmingham Post.
Please write for announcements and descriptive list:
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Harper’s Library of Living ThoughtFoolscap 8vo, gilt tops, decorative covers, richly gilt backsPer Volume: Cloth 2s. 6d. net. Leather 3s. 6d. net.PROF. ARTHUR KEITH, M.D.(Hunterian Professor Royal College of Surgeons)ANCIENT TYPES OF MANIllustrated“The kind of book that only a master of his subject could write. It must interest every thinking person.”—British Medical Journal.PROF. FREDERICK CZAPEKCHEMICAL PHENOMENA IN LIFEDiscusses in clear, concise terms the great question—“Can life be explained by physics and chemistry?” It deals with the life-processes of plants, the molecular structure of protoplasm, organic synthesis in the cell, the nature of ferments, and the subject of inheritance.SIR A. TILDEN, F.R.S.THE ELEMENTSSpeculations as to their Nature and OriginDiagrams, &c.Points to the conclusion that the elements resulted from a change in some primal essence, and discusses “whether all may not be suffering a slow waste, which, in the long run, must lead back to the primal chaos.”SIR WILLIAM RAMSAY, F.R.S.ELEMENTS AND ELECTRONSDiagramsThe electron—“the atom of electricity”—is shown to be separable from matter, and to be capable under certain circumstances of independent existence. The book shows that the electron must be regarded as a kind of “element” itself, with much stronger claims to “elementary” or undecomposable characters than the bodies hitherto ranked as elements.
Harper’s Library of Living Thought
Foolscap 8vo, gilt tops, decorative covers, richly gilt backsPer Volume: Cloth 2s. 6d. net. Leather 3s. 6d. net.
PROF. ARTHUR KEITH, M.D.(Hunterian Professor Royal College of Surgeons)ANCIENT TYPES OF MANIllustrated
“The kind of book that only a master of his subject could write. It must interest every thinking person.”—British Medical Journal.
PROF. FREDERICK CZAPEKCHEMICAL PHENOMENA IN LIFE
Discusses in clear, concise terms the great question—“Can life be explained by physics and chemistry?” It deals with the life-processes of plants, the molecular structure of protoplasm, organic synthesis in the cell, the nature of ferments, and the subject of inheritance.
SIR A. TILDEN, F.R.S.THE ELEMENTSSpeculations as to their Nature and OriginDiagrams, &c.
Points to the conclusion that the elements resulted from a change in some primal essence, and discusses “whether all may not be suffering a slow waste, which, in the long run, must lead back to the primal chaos.”
SIR WILLIAM RAMSAY, F.R.S.ELEMENTS AND ELECTRONSDiagrams
The electron—“the atom of electricity”—is shown to be separable from matter, and to be capable under certain circumstances of independent existence. The book shows that the electron must be regarded as a kind of “element” itself, with much stronger claims to “elementary” or undecomposable characters than the bodies hitherto ranked as elements.
Footnotes:
[1]Chemical Phenomena in Life, pp. 62-3, by Dr. Frederick Czapek (Harper’s Library of Living Thought). The reader is strongly recommended to study this work in the present connection.
[2]Wonders of Life, by Ernst Haeckel, Professor at Jena University, p. 130.
[3]Wonders of Life, pp. 127-8.
[4]Chemical Phenomena in Life, p. 58.
[5]Ibid., p. 22.
[6]Other Worlds, by Garrett P. Serviss, pp. 63-4.
[7]Modern Painters, by John Ruskin.
[8]If this experiment could be carried out, it would be necessary to use a spring balance. If the object were weighed in a pair of scales or by a steelyard, the counterbalancing weights would be likewise affected in the same proportion, so that the equilibrium would be undisturbed.
[9]The movements of not a few double stars point to perturbations caused by the attraction of unseen bodies. There are also a number of instances known of “Eclipse” or “Algol-type” variable stars, in which the presence of a dark companion is indicated by the diminution of the light of the star at regular intervals.
[10]Proc. R. Soc., LXXX, 50, 1907.
[11]Nature, LXXX, 158 (April 8th, 1909).
[12]“Periodic Changes upon the Moon,”Memoirs, British Astronomical Association, Vol. XIII, p. 88.
[13]The Moon, by Philip Fauth, p. 156.
[14]Radiation in the Solar System: Its Effects on Temperature, and its Pressure on Small Bodies, by Dr. J. H. Poynting (Phil. Trans. of the Royal Society, Vol. 202 A).
[15]Publ. of the Astron. Soc. of the Pacific, Vol. II, pp. 286-8.