RAYLEIGH, LORD (J.W. STRUTT).

On the Specific Resistance of Mercury. Received April 24 - Read May 4, 1881.

(London, Harrison and Sons, 1883). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" Year 1883, Volume 174. Pp. 173-185, textillustration. Clean and fine.

First printing of one of the importent papers by Rayleigh in the search for determining the value of the Ohm.

"Rayleigh's grasp of such widely diversed fields as optics and hydrodynamics, acoustics and electromagnetic theory, was phenomenal; and only Maxwell, Kelvin, and Helmholtz came near him in this aspect of his genius."(DSB XIII, p.102).

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