WEBER, Ernst Heinrich & Wilhelm Eduard.

Wellenlehre auf Experimente gegründet oder über die Wellen tropfbarer Flüssigkeiten mit Anwendung auf die Schall- und Licthwellen.

18 folding engraved plates (some dampstaining) & two folding printed tables. xxviii, 574 pp., 1 leaf of errata. 8vo, cont. half-sheep & speckled board (occasional light dampstaining), spine gilt. Leipzig: G. Fleischer, 1825. First edition. In 1821, the Weber brothers "began a long physical study of the flow and the progress of waves in fluids, particularly in elastic tubes. In their Wellenlehre (1825) they formulated the basic laws of hydrodynamics and were the first to apply that branch of physics to the circulation of the blood."­D.S.B., XIV, p. 200. Good copy. Library stamp on title and several other places. Ex Bibliotheca Mechanica. Garrison-Morton 766­"The first work to apply hydrodynamics to the circulation of the blood." Roberts & Trent, Bibliotheca Mechanica, p. 349.

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