John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, [ (12 November 1842 – 30 June 1919), Nobel in physics, 1904, and author of a still-standard work in acoustics, The Theory of Sound.]
"On Waves". In: The Philosophical Magazine, April 1876. Pp 257-279, in the issue comprising pp 257-336. $200
Offered in the original, never-bound, unopened quires for this issue--scarce in this state. In this paper Raleigh provides mathematical proof for the experimentally elegant but not-yet-accepted hypotheses of John Scott Russell's w (1808–1882) work on solitons.
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