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To ÒDear Christie' [Samuel Hunter Christie, 1784-1865, mathematician, researcher into magnetism, and secretary of the Royal Society], returning papers, suggesting that the figures might be wood cuts worked in with the letter press, with the description as notes at the foot of the page...you think fit for it matters nothing to the figureÉ.Ó Signed, ÒM. Faraday.Ó

Autograph Letter Signed, ÒR [oyal] I [nstitution]Ó, 8vo, R.I. n.p., n.d.
FARADAY, MICHAEL (1791-1867) English chemist and physicist; contributed to the fields of electromagnetism and electrochemistry
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Photograph Signed, 8vo horizontal, n.p., n.d.
SPOCK BENJAMIN, DR. (1903-98) American pediatrician whose book "Baby and Child Care", published in 1946, is one of the biggest best-sellers of all time.
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Autograph Document Signed, in French, 4to, on 3pp. "The Role of Optics and Spectroscopy in the Physical Sciences", Paris, 1978.
KASTLER, ALFRED (1902-84) German-French physicist. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1966 for the discovery and development of optical methods for studying Hertzian resonances in atoms.
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Autograph Letter Signed, 8vo, on blind embossed address stationery,3pp, Mariemont Edgbaston, England, March 4, 1919.
LODGE, OLIVER, SIR (1851-1940) English physicist and writer involved in the development of the wireless telegraph. Lodge, in his Royal Institution lectures, "The Work of Hertz and Some of His Successors", coined the term "coherer". He gained the "syntonic" (or tuning) patent from the United States Patent Office in 1898.
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He begins asking his female correspondent, "How are you, dear lady. This interminable winter is truly hard to bear. From here, Spring's hair looks powdered with frost and its nose is red. My life is rather calm and rather silly, but it fits me perfectly. A few retarded Judex films barely pull me out of my torpor, but I no longer like Musidora very much. Her cheeks sag, and she rolls her haggard eyes...I am thinking of going back in a few days and I will be happy to show you my new...rings, of course, but with more colors than the witch's that shine with all the fires of the Sabbath... ancient, opulent...." He signs this intriguing letter, "Georges Barbier."

Autograph Letter Signed, in French, on a picture postcard showing an 18th century house in Nantes, Nantes, Tuesday, n.d.
BARBIER, GEORGES (1882-1932). French artist, considered one of the great illustrators of the early 20th century.
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