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Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1905, 2 tomos, 25,5 x 17 cm., rústica editorial con un tomo a falta de parte del lomo, numerosas figuras intercaladas, XVI + 512 págs. + 2 láminas en papel couché = pag. 513 a 1.138. (El objetivo de esta obra, en la que contribuyen Becquerel, Rutherford, Pierre y Marie Curie, Townsend y Eddison, fue proporcionar un relato preciso de las nuevas teorías de la electricidad y la radiactividad y servir de guía para los investigadores). [The aim of this collection with contributions by Becquerel, Rutherford, Pierre and Marie Curie, Townsend, Eddison, was to provide a precise account of new theories in electricity and radioactivity and serve as a guide to researchers. It was published in a period when the atmosphere in the Paris laboratories was one of intense excitement and Langevin was "the leading . . . practitioner and expositor of modern mathematical physics in France " (DSB)]. |