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Kayser, Heinrich Johannes Gustav (1853 - 1940)
HANDBUCH DER SPECTROSCOPIE. 1-2 only [of 8].
Leipzig, Verlag von S. Hirzel, 1900 - 1902.
8vo. XXIV, 782; XII, 696 pp. + 4 plates. 308 text illustrations.

Publisher's gilt-lettered half calf.
From the library of Nils Harald Rasmuson [1883-1934], Swedish astronomer, with is signature and book-plate.

$ 500

First edition. Includes extensive bibliographical references in the footnotes, and indices. Volumes 3-8 appeared between 1905 and 1932 (vols. 7 & 8 together with Heinrich Konen). "From the vantage of today, the work of Rydberg and of Kayser and Runge was indispensable to the atomic theory brought fourth twenty-five years later by Rutherford and Bohr" ... "Nevertheless, Kayser and Runge's lists of the exact frequencies of many spectral lines guarantee their place in the history of science"(H.C. Freiesleben).

* DSB, 7, pp. 267-8.

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