Author: Lorentz, H. A.
Title: Three important papers by Nobel Prize winner Lorentz [and one by Eugène Dubois].
Description: Haarlem, Les héritiers Loosjes, 1912. 8vo (23.3 x 15.8 cm). xiii, 149 pp. Contemporary burgundy half cloth over marbled boards. Printed title on the spine. Original printed front wrapper with title bound in. = A rare copy of the complete volume of the Archives du Musée Teyler. Série III, volume I, with Hendrik Lorentz' contributions as follows: Sur la théorie de l'effet Zeeman observé dans un direction quelconque (24 pp.); Nouveaux résultats dans la domaine des théories moléculaires (32 pp.); and Quelques remarques sur la théorie du magnétisme (12 pp.). In the rear is a paper (eight pp.) by Eugène Dubois, discoverer of Homo erectus, titled Over de plaats van Pithecanthropus in het zoölogisch systeem [on the position of Pithecanthropus in the zoological system]. Stamp over blind stamp on the title page; title page and last page verso (blank) age-toned, small defect, affecting one character (§) in Lorentz's first contribution, otherwise a very good, clean and complete copy.

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