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The Science Record for 1876: A Compendium of Scientific Progress and Discovery during the Past Year with Illustrations

By: Beach, Alfred A. (Editor)

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Munn & Company, Office of the 'Scientific American', New York: 1876

Seller ID: 2294782

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. 5 in OCLC. No jacket. Spine lightly toned, general light wear. 1876 Hard Cover. 597 pp. The last of five annual issues chronicling scientific progress. With introduction of gallium as a new element, improvements in metallurgy, photography, trade tools, etc.
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The Language of Life: An Introduction to the Science of Genetics

By: Beadle, George & Muriel

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Inc.: 1966

Seller ID: 2263983

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by both authors without attribution on half-title page ('Sincerely, George Beadle, Muriel Beadle'). Faint abrasion on front board. 1966 Full-Leather. x, [4], 242, [4] pp. 8vo. Finely rebound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in full beige morocco with gilt titles, rules, and decorations, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. The collector who had these rebound included his/her monogram on the corner of the front board: O.C.S. A description of the science of genetics by George Beadle and his wife Muriel. George Beadle won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work with Edw...
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Wave Propagation in Periodic Structures: Electric Filters and Crystal Lattices (Dover Books on Engineering and Engineering Physics)

By: Brillouin, Leon

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Dover Publications, Inc.: 1953

Seller ID: 2266485

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

Second edition. Large closed tear on rear wrapper, wrappers lightly toned, ink name and details of previous owner on half-title page (he was a member of the physics department at the University of Illinois). 1953 Trade Paperback. xii, 255, [21] pp. Classic treatment of wave propagation covers a broad variety of problems with a common mathematical background, from solid state physics to propagation along electric lines, X-rays, rest rays, certain optical reflections, electrical engineering, and wave mechanics of the spinning electron.
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Science for All [Volume V]

By: Brown, Robert; Newcomb, Simon; Ackroyd, William; Rudler, F.W.; Carnelley, Thomas; Wright, E. Perceval; Mann, Robert James; Carpenter, P. Herbert; Bell, F. Jeffrey; Duns, J.; King, C. Cooper; Lowe, F.R. Eaton; Lapworth, Charles; Hammond, Arthur; Durham, W

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London / Paris / New York, Cassell & Company, Limited: 1890

Seller ID: 2303804

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

No date, circa 1890. Volume 5 of a 6 volume set. Fore edge very faintly foxed, small sticker remnant on front endpaper. viii, 384 pp. Color frontispiece of the spectroscope, monochrome plates, and hundreds of black-and-white illustrations in text. A collection of scientific articles contributed by numerous authors, including: An Eclipse of the Moon; Colour; A Piece of Black-Lead; Hot Ice: The Boundaries of the Liquid State of Matter; A Brown Sea-Weed; Sunset, Twilight, and Halos; Stone-Lilies and Feather-Stars; Voice; Crag and Tail; The Genesis of a Sword; How to Make a Chemical Analysis; A Pi...
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Comstock's Common School Philosophy

By: Comstock, J.L.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Reed and Barber: 1839

Seller ID: 2260338

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Fair

Spine repaired, loss from head and foot, edges rubbed, lightly foxed throughout. 1839 Full-Leather. 258 pp. A look at how the world saw the science of physics in the early 1800s.
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The Atom

By: Crehore, Albert C.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, D. Van Nostrand Company: 1920

Seller ID: 1539081

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Spine faded, cover edges slightly faded. 1920 Hard Cover. xvi, 161 pp. 7 1/4 x 5. 8vo. Original blue cloth, gilt emblem in center of front cover mirrored in blind stamp on corners and center of back cover, gilt titles. An early study of the atom as it relates to electromagnetic and gravitational theory, and the structure of matter. Crehore published a number of scientific works relating to atomic physics, the force of gravitation, matter, and energy. Crehore explains in his preface that the exposition of the theory in this book led to new theoretical values for Rydberg's constan...
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The Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life, with Additions and Corrections from Sixth and Last English Edition, in Two Volumes

By: Darwin, Charles

Price: $500.00

Publisher: D. Appleton and Company: 1889

Seller ID: 2297531

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Includes fold-out chart related to natural selection opposite p. 140 of first volume. Spines slightly darkened, boards faintly soiled, minor cosmetic wear to corners, two owner bookplates on front endpaper of each volume (William Henry Rossington, Walter W. Colpitts). 1889 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xxvi, 365, [7]; v, [1], 339, [5] pp. Red-orange cloth, gilt titles and rules, black stamped borders on front boards mirrored in blind on rear boards, yellow endpapers. The first two-volume American edition adapted from the sixth (and last) English edition, preceded by...
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The Origin of Species [By Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life] (The 25th Anniversary Limited Edition of The Great Books of the Western World)

By: Darwin, Charles

Price: $40.00

Publisher: The Franklin Library: 1978

Seller ID: 2298964

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

Spine slightly faded, edges of endpapers faded. 1978 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. 610 pp. 8vo. Green full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Darwin's landmark work on evolution and natural selection, with illustrations by Walter Rane. Darwin consolidated a lifetime of work in On the Origin of Species, compiling his discoveries from the voyage of the Beagle, his experiments, research and correspondence. He argues for the transmutation of species over time by the process of natural selection. His work...
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An Introduction to Pollen Analysis (A New Series of Plant Science Books Volume XII [12])

By: Erdtman, G. [Gunnar]; Wodehouse, Roger P.; Verdoorn, Frans

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Chronica Botanica Company: 1943

Seller ID: 2266467

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First American edition. A couple minor smudges on rear board, pages lightly toned, ink name on half-title page and title page. 1943 Hard Cover. xv, [1], 239, [1] pp. The first English translation of the work that took what was previously a subject of research in just a few countires and made it an internationally recognized field, and revolutionized Quaternary vegetation and climate change research. Illustrations, diagrams, and charts throughout. Oddly, the verso of the final leaf bears an illustration of a tree playing a flute.
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Lectures on the History of Physiology during the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries (Cambridge Natural Science Manuals)

By: Foster, M.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Cambridge at the University Press: 1901

Seller ID: 2035173

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Former copy of Rochester Academy of Medicine, usual marks, including bookplate on front endpaper stating 'Acquired by the Library through the Bequest of Clarence V. Costello, M.D.' First gathering loose (easily repaired), a few small spots on boards, some pages unopened. 1901 Hard Cover. 310 pp. 8vo. A three-century history of physiology, with the following chapters: Vesalius: His Forerunners and Followers; Harvey and the Circulation of the Blood. The Lacteals and Lymphatics; Borelli and the Influence of the New Physics; Malpighi and the Physiology of Glands and Tissues; Van Helmont and the Ri...
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NASA: The Complete Illustrated History

By: Gorn, Michael; Aldrin, Buzz

Price: $500.00

Publisher: London / New York / Norwalk, Connecticut, Merrell / The Easton Press: 2005

Seller ID: 2274856

ISBN: 1858942543

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Fine

Signed by Buzz Aldrin on front flyleaf, with certificate of authenticity and blank publisher's bookplate laid in. A couple tiny imperfections to page ridges, otherwise an excellent copy. 2005 Full-Leather. 304 pp. Original full black leather, gilt titles and decorations, photographic plate mounted on front board, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in.
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Steam Generation Steps Ahead

By: Gould, G.B.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Fuel Engineering Company of New York / The Marchbanks Press: 1930

Seller ID: 2289753

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Boards lightly soiled, a few pencil marks on front endpaper and margin of a few pages. 1930 Hard Cover. 102 pp. CONTENTS: Advancing Standards in Steam Generation; RELATION OF PLANT DESIGN AND OPERATION TO THE COAL MARKET: Predicting Clinker Trouble; Equipment and Operation Limit Coal Buying; Necessity of Knowing One's Exact Requirements; Elastic Methods and Standards; IMPORTANCE OF SEPARATELY APPRAISING PLANT PERFORMANCE AND COAL VALUES: Conflicting Methods of Coal Valuation; Plant Performance -- the Concealed Influence; Heat Balance Reveals the Truth; COAL CHARACTERISTICS WHICH MAY MODIFY PLA...
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The Influence of Pasteur on Medical Science: An Address Delivered before the Medical School of Johns Hopkins University

By: Herter, Christian Archibald

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Dodd, Mead & Company / The Gilliss Press: 1904

Seller ID: 2072415

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Author's calling card and ink name & address of previous owner on front endpaper. Edges lightly rubbed. 1904 Hard Cover. 77 pp. A brief history of Louis Pasteur's contributions to medical science, the most obvious of which is of course pasteurization, but which also related to vaccination and microbial fermentation, and the prevention and curing of various diseases. Pasteur is now considered among the founders of the science of bacteriology.
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Einstein: His Life and Universe

By: Isaacson, Walter

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: 2007

Seller ID: 2271011

ISBN: 0743264738

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Book club edition. 2007 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xxii, 675, [7] pp. 8vo. By the author of the acclaimed bestsellers Benjamin Franklin and Steve Jobs, this is the definitive biography of Albert Einstein. How did his mind work? What made him a genius? Isaacson’s biography shows how his scientific imagination sprang from the rebellious nature of his personality. His fascinating story is a testament to the connection between creativity and freedom. Based on newly released personal letters of Einstein, this book explores how an imaginative, impertinent patent ...
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An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae, a Disease Discovered in Some of the Western Counties of England, Particularly Gloucestershire, and Known by the Name of the Cow Pox.

By: Jenner, Edward

Price: $125.00

Publisher: R. Lier & C., Milan: 1923

Seller ID: 1999545

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Limited edition, one of 500 copies. Includes original onion skin jacket and publisher's box. Minimal wear to board corners, a few 1/2 inch chips from fragile jacket's edges, box edges rubbed with one small tear to box closure. Bookplate of Jerome Glaser M.D. on front paste-down, tipped in on front free endpaper is a card with a lengthy gift note to Dr. Glaser from a patient, dated March 28, 1938, in which they express thanks for his help, and mention that this book may be of interest because it is 'the first book in which the phenomenon of hypersensitivity was described.' Very Good. 1923 Hard ...
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How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World

By: Johnson, Steven

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Riverhead: 2014

Seller ID: 2281897

ISBN: 1594632960

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

6th printing. Lightly rubbed. 2014 Hard Cover. In this illustrated history, Steven Johnson explores the history of innovation over centuries, tracing facets of modern life (refrigeration, clocks, and eyeglass lenses, to name a few) from their creation by hobbyists, amateurs, and entrepreneurs to their unintended historical consequences. Filled with surprising stories of accidental genius and brilliant mistakes—from the French publisher who invented the phonograph before Edison but forgot to include playback, to the Hollywood movie star who helped invent the technology behind Wi-Fi and Blueto...
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Edison

By: Josephson, Matthew

Price: $15.00

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Book Company: 1959

Seller ID: 2272177

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First edition. Edges and jacket lightly foxed, boards lightly soiled, closed tear and minor loss to spine head and foot. 1959 Hard Cover. xii, [2], 511, [3] pp. Includes an index. Numerous B&W photographs. The most comprehensive and readable biography on Edison ever published. Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize for history.
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Scientific Feuds: From Galileo to the Human Genome Project

By: Levy, Joel

Price: $6.00

Publisher: New Holland: 2010

Seller ID: 2301040

ISBN: 1847735142

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Lightly rubbed. 2010 Hard Cover. Most science chronicles present a triumphant march through time, with revolutionary thinkers and their discoveries following in orderly progression. The truth, however, is somewhat different. Scientific Feuds is a collection of the most vicious battles among the greatest minds of our time. It features such contests as Huxley and Wilberforce's debate on Darwin's theory of evolution, Franklin and Wilkins' fight over the discovery of DNA, and the “War of Currents” between Tesla and Edison (which ended with Edison electrocuting dogs and horses in...
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The Cambridge Companion to Galileo

By: Machamer, Peter

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Cambridge University Press: 1998

Seller ID: 2297812

ISBN: 0521588413

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

1st printing. Lightly rubbed, faint sticker remnant. 1998 Trade Paperback. This collection of essays is unparalleled in the depth of its coverage of all facets of Galileo's work. A particular feature of the volume is the treatment of Galileo's relationship with the Church. It will be of particular interest to philosophers, historians of science, cultural historians and those in religious studies. New readers and nonspecialists will find this the most convenient, accessible guide to Galileo available. Advanced students and specialists will find a conspectus of recent developments in the interpr...
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Bibliography of the History of Medicine of the United States and Canada, 1939-1960

By: Miller, Genevieve; McDaniel, W.B.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: The Johns Hopkins Press: 1964

Seller ID: 2077050

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Former copy of Library of Congress, stamped 'duplicate', usual library marks. 1964 Hard Cover. xvi, 428 pp. 8vo. A bibliography of over twenty years of medical history publications, arranged by topic, with a list of journals cited and an extensive index.
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Some Recently Discovered Letters of William Harvey, with Other Miscellanea, with a Bibliography of Harvey's Works (Transactions of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia)

By: Mitchell, S. [Silas] Weir; Fisher, Charles Perry

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Dornan: 1912

Seller ID: 2072809

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Edges rubbed with minor loss from corners, split along front joint professionally repaired though with some loss of titles. 1912 Trade Paperback. 149 pp. 8vo. Stiff cardstock wrappers, paper label mounted on front cover, printed titles on spine. Includes frontispiece and single plate in text. A selection of Harvey's correspondence, together with a bibliography of his works prepared by Charles Perry Fisher. William Harvey was an important contributor to medical science, credited with some of the earliest descriptions of the functioning of the circulatory system. S. Weir Mitchell was a prolific ...
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Triumphs of Enterprise, Ingenuity, and Public Spirit.

By: Parton, James

Price: $50.00

Publisher: A.S. Hale & Co.: 1871

Seller ID: 2293315

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Frontispiece and tissue guard foxed, front matter lightly soiled, spine faded. 1871 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. vi, [13]-677, [7] pp. 8vo. A collection of brief histories of various inventions, scientific advancements, and other notable firsts, including: The Cooper Institute and Its Founder; The Wonderful Growth of Chicago; Charles Dickens as a Citizen; The Founder of the Vassar College; The Beginnings of Science in the United States; Origin of the Electric Telegraph; From the Carpenter's Bench to Presidency of a College. A Sketch of the Career of ...
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Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842

By: Philbrick, Nathaniel

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Viking: 2003

Seller ID: 2202361

ISBN: 067003231X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Spine ends lightly pushed. 2003 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xxv, 452 pp. 8vo. After chronicling the sinking of the whaleship Essex in In the Heart of the Sea, Philbrick attempts to rescue from obscurity the U.S. Exploring Expedition's 1838-1842 circumnavigation of the world and its cartographic and scientific accomplishments.
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Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842

By: Philbrick, Nathaniel

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Viking: 2003

Seller ID: 2302119

ISBN: 067003231X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. A very nice copy. 2003 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xxv, 452 pp. 8vo. Traces the 1838 discovery voyage that resulted in the western world's survey of 87,000 ocean miles, 280 Pacific islands, numerous zoological discoveries, and the finding of Antarctica; a journey that was marked by tragic deaths, the losses of two ships, and controversial court martials.
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Galileo Heretic

By: Redondi, Pietro

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Princeton University Press: 1987

Seller ID: 2297813

ISBN: 0691084513

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Faintly rubbed. 1987 Hard Cover. The author's main thesis is that Galileo famous trial did not take place because he promoted a heliocentric view of the universe, but because he promoted a non-Aristotelian theory of physics at variance with the Church's doctrine of transubstantiation.
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The Art and Practice of Silver Printing

By: Robinson, H.P.; Capt. Abney

Price: $90.00

Publisher: E. and H.T. Anthony: 1881

Seller ID: 2262842

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fair

First edition. Lacks title/copyright page, a few pages repaired at binding, corners rubbed. 1881 Hard Cover. 128 pp. 29 pages of advertisements for various photographic equipment follow text. An early work on the silver gelatin process in photography, published just ten years after it was invented by Richard Leach Maddox. Illustrations in text. Contents include: Preliminary Experiments; Preparation of Albumenized Paper; The Sensitizing Bath; How to Keep the Sensitizing Bath in Order; Silvering the Paper; Washed Sensitive Paper; Cutting Paper; Printing-Frames; Preparing the Landscape Negative; ...
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Radio Wizard: Edward Samuel Rogers and the Revolution of Communications

By: Rogers, Edward Samuel

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Rogers: 2000

Seller ID: 2201240

ISBN: 0771580509

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. 2000 Hard Cover. 130 pp. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Edward Samuel Ted Rogers, Jr., OC (May 27, 1933 – December 2, 2008) was the President and CEO of Rogers Communications Inc., and the fifth richest person in Canada in terms of net worth. His father Edward S. Rogers, Sr. is regarded as the founder of the company, although the radio station that he founded, CFRB, is now owned by another Canadian company competitor Astral Media.
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Galileo in Rome: The Rise and Fall of a Troublesome Genius

By: Shea, William R.; Artigas, Mariano

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press: 2003

Seller ID: 2297814

ISBN: 0195165985

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Lightly rubbed. 2003 Hard Cover. The book offers a fascinating account of the six trips Galileo made to Rome, from his first visit at age 23, as an unemployed mathematician, to his final fateful journey to face the Inquisition. The authors reveal why the theory that the Earth revolves around the Sun, set forth in Galileo's Dialogue, stirred a hornet's nest of theological issues, and they argue that, despite these issues, the Church might have accepted Copernicus if there had been solid proof. More interesting, they show how Galileo dug his own grave. To get the imprimatur, he br...
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Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe

By: Singh, Simon

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Fourth Estate / Harper Collins: 2004

Seller ID: 2280089

ISBN: 0007162200

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Jacket faintly rubbed. 2004 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 532 pp. 8vo. We've all heard of the Big Bang, and yet few of us truly know what it is. Renowned for making difficult ideas much less difficult than they might first appear, Simon Singh is our perfect guide to explaining why cosmologists believe that the Big Bang is an accurate description of the origin and evolution of the universe. This highly readable and entertaining book tells the story of the many brilliant, often eccentric scientists who fought against the establishment idea of an eternal...
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Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe

By: Singh, Simon

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Fourth Estate / Harper Collins: 2004

Seller ID: 2286492

ISBN: 0007162200

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

2nd printing. Jacket lightly toned, 1/2 inch tear on jacket corner. 2004 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 532 pp. 8vo. We've all heard of the Big Bang, and yet few of us truly know what it is. Renowned for making difficult ideas much less difficult than they might first appear, Simon Singh is our perfect guide to explaining why cosmologists believe that the Big Bang is an accurate description of the origin and evolution of the universe. This highly readable and entertaining book tells the story of the many brilliant, often eccentric scientists who fought against the es...
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