Tait, P(eter) G(uthrie). "Scientific Worthies--G.G. Stokes." With: PORTRAIT: steel engraving from Nature Magazine of 1875. London: Nature Magazine, 1875. Engraving by C.H. Jeans, and "presented to the subscribers of Nature". Fine image. We offer the scarce weekly issue of Nature comprising pp 201-224, compete with the fine steel engraving of G.G. Stokes, in which the Stokes article occupies pp 201-203, and which runs about 3000 words. There were few portraits indeed published with Nature--this is an unusual occurrence. The article of course is by the great mathematician (and perhaps greater teacher) Peter Guthrie Tait. This issue is removed from a larger bound volume of the weeklies, showing some evidence of this along the spine--but for that this is a fine copy. $125.
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