Sale 2461 - Autographs, November 7, 2017

BOHR’S ANNOTATED COPY 72 c   (SCIENTISTS.) BOHR, NEILS. James Hopwood Jeans. An Elementary Treatise on Theoretical Mechanics. Signed on front blank, with a 16-line holograph annotation including diagram on page 58, and small holograph annotations in pencil or ink on pages 92, 93, 309, and 336.The 16-line annotation, a neatly written solution to one of the exercises at the end of a chapter about forces acting on a single particle, written in the blank space at bottom of page. 8vo, publisher’s cloth, some darkening to spine, minor rubbing to edges; Bohr’s owner ink stamp on front free endpaper. Boston, Ginn & Co., (1907); inscriptions: Np, circa 1911 [4,000/6,000] In 1911, while atTrinity College, Cambridge, Bohr attended the lectures of James H. Jeans.The present book is likely one of the textbooks Bohr used at the time.