xiv, 230pp, with occasional black and white illustrations in text. Bound in full leather, five raised bands to spine, Repton School arms gilded on front panel, titles gilt stamped on spine. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. 12mo. Boards a little worn, leather rubbed at edges in places and around spine, a few mild marks and scratches. Text block edges a little toned. Repton School prize presentation plate, indicating the book was awarded to H L Cronk as the Alexander Science Prize in 1908, on front paste down; some spotting on first and last few leaves else internally neat, clean, bright and tight.
Svante Arrhenius was a Swedish physicist and chemistist, receiving the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1905. He was the first to conclude that increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide would increase the Earth's surface temperature through the Greenhouse Effect and that human-caused CO2 emissions would result in global warming. In this, his last publication, he describes for the first time, the hot-house theory of the atmosphere.
