TYNDALL, JOHN. - CLASSICAL PAPER ON RADIANT HEAT.

On the Absorption and Radiation of Heat by Gaseous and Liquid Matter. - Fourth Memoir. Received June 18, Read June 18, 1863.

(London, Taylor and Francis, 1864). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1864 - Vol. 154 - Part II. Pp. 201-225., textillustrations.

First printing of a pioneer work in the investigation of the manner in which different gases and liquids conduct heat, and the high absorptive and radiative power of aqueous vapor.

"In 1859, Tyndall began the importent series on "Radiant Heat...", for which he received the Rumford Medal in 1869 and produced his classic work, Heat considered as a Mode of Motion (1863). (Bibliotheca Mechanica). - See Milestones of Science No 191.

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