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On Some Properties of the Earth
On Some Properties of the Earth
On Some Properties of the Earth
On Some Properties of the Earth
On Some Properties of the Earth
On Some Properties of the Earth
On Some Properties of the Earth
On Some Properties of the Earth
On Some Properties of the Earth
On Some Properties of the Earth
On Some Properties of the Earth
On Some Properties of the Earth
Reichenbach, O[skar] (1815-1893)

On Some Properties of the Earth


London: Wertheimer, Lea & Co., 1880.

Hardcover cloth 8vo, 376pp. Folding map frontis. Errata tipped-in. About Very Good with rubbing to extremities, shallow chipping at the spine head. Rear joint starting, small scuff to cover. Neatly housed in mylar; several gatherings uncut. Contents: I. Configuration; II. Atmosphere and Sea; III. Terrestrian Magnetism; IV. Land and Interior; V. Past and Future. The Moon. Various. 

An uncommon consideration of geology and space, expressed in mathematics and poetry. Reichenbach was a German politician exiled to London after the Revolutions of 1848. He became a scientific writer influenced by studying Philosophy in Paris and London. He moved to the United States from 1853-1862, operating a farm outside Philadelphia before returning to London.

"Mere space, vacuum, has no temperature... It is matter in space which imparts to matter the motion constituting temperature; be that matter atoms or stellar masses or a thermometer wandering through the infinite." (p.177) 



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