Elementary treatise on physics, experimental and applied, for use of colleges and schools
 Catalogue Number: 357 Elementary treatise on physics, experimental and applied, for use of colleges and schools Category: Book Sub-Category: Book of historical note Author: Adolphe GANOT Year Of Publication/Manufacture: 1870 Edition: 4th Edition Time Period: 19th C Place Of Publication/Manufacture: London Publisher/Manufacturer: Longmans Green and Co Description Of Item: Original cloth, xii prelims, 888 pages, Colour frontispiece, 663 figures in text. Translated from the French by E Atkinson Historical Significance: This is probably the first edition published in England. The earliest edition is 1869 published in the USA by W Wood and Co. Adolphe Ganot (1804-1997) wrote very influential textbooks on physics that were widely read in the 19th and 20th C. Joseph Simon undertook a PhD dissertation in the philosophy department of Leeds University on 'Communicating Science in 19th Century Europe: The Production, Distribution and Use of Ganot's Physics Textbooks' It is reported that Joseph Stanely Mitchell FRS (1909-1987) read Ganot's Physics by the time he was eight See Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, Vol. 34, Dec., 1988 How Acquired: Donated by John Hodge, optometrist, who obtained this book from earlier Adelaide optometrist Albert Gibson Brown Date Acquired: 22/07/2004 Condition: Good Location: Archive room. East wall. Books of historical note |