Soap Bubbles and the Forces Which Mould Them

Doubleday Anchor Books, 1959. Hardcover. Very Good. Petite hard cover in very good condition. Size approximately 7 3/8"" tall x 4 3/8"" wide x 1/2"" thick. 156 numbered pages. Drawings and illustrations throughout. Boards and papers show mellow age toning; no writing, no markings noted. Top text block stained red. * A volume from the Science Study Series and published as a part of a fresh approach to the teaching and study of physics by the Physical Science Study Committee at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology which began during 1956. From the Introduction, ""...a classic of science literature, and its author was one of the most colorful of British scientists. Three lectures that he delivered before a juvenile audience at the London Institution on December 30, 1889, and on January 1 and 3, 1890, compose the book."" Was first published ""in this form in 1902 and in a revised edition in 1916, but [until this edition] has been long out of print].""