MAXWELL, JAMES CLERK.

On Double Refraction in a Viscous Fluid in Motion.

(London, Taylor and Francis, 1873). 8vo. Uncut in the original printed wrappers. In "Proceedings of the Royal Society", Vol. XXII [22], No. 148. Entire issue offered. Wrappers with light soiling, spine lacking upper and lower part of paper, otherwise fine and clean. Pp. 46-47. [Entire issue: 51 pp.].

First printing of this important paper in which Maxwell describes an attempt to establish the relaxation time: "In 1866 I made some attempts to ascertain whether the state of strain in a viscous fluid in motion could be detected by its action on polarized light" (from the present paper.)

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