‎Discovery‎

‎"A Travers le Monde (supplément au Tour du Monde) 1895"‎

‎"1895. Paris Le Tour du Monde 1895 (1ère année) - Relié 23 5 cm x 31 cm 515 pages ills in-texte cartes tableaux guides des trajet conseil aux voyageurs- Textes anonymes - Reliure frottée sinon bon état intérieur"‎

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‎*L'Archéologue. Archéologie nouvelle , n°76, février-mars 2005‎

‎66 p., nbr. ill. n/b. et coul. Inv. 29173‎

‎Annuaire du Département de l'Ain. 1817.‎

‎Bourg, Bottier ; in-8, broché ; CLVII (157) pp., (1 bl.) ; 125, (1) pp. : Nyon : Manuel pratique ou précis de la méthode d'enseignement naturel pour les nouvelles écoles élémentaires ; Jean Nicollet de Fribourg en Suisse : Avis aux agriculteurs sur la découverte importante d'une poudre [...] préserver les grains... ; Thomas Riboud : Notes historiques et statistiques sur les travaux et la situation de la Société d'Émulation et d'Agriculture de l'Ain... (Le Duc, 115), couverture beige décorée.‎

‎Bon état.‎

Bookseller reference : 14479

‎Bibliothèque physico-économique, instructive et amusante, année 1789 ou 8e année.‎

‎Paris, Buisson, 1789 ; 2 tomes. Tome I : broché ; XXIV, 383 pp., 3 planches gravées dépliantes ; Tome II : plein veau havane marbré, dos lisse décoré et doré, pièce de titre rouge ; (4), 475 pp., 2 planches gravées dépliantes (accroc à la coiffe supérieure, mors fendu et usure aux coins).‎

‎Cette revue, complète en deux tomes pour 1789, est divisée en trois parties : Agriculture, Economie, Sciences (naturelles et physiques et instruments scientifiques) ; Parmentier, entre autres, y collaborait. PRIX POUR LES DEUX VOLUMES.‎

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‎Histoire abrégée des inventions et des découvertes importantes faites en Europe depuis l’ère chrétienne jusqu’au XIXe siècle; ouvrage couronné par la Société pour l’Instruction élémentaire. Septième édition.‎

‎Bruxelles, Ad. Wahlen et Comp. 1848, 150x95mm, 139pages, reliure toile. Tire doré au dos. Bel exemplaire.‎

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‎Klassenlesestoff für Volks-, Haupt- u. Mittelschulen. Konvolut 52 Hefte.‎

‎Wien, Österr. Bundesverlag, Verlag Jugend u. Volk u. Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky. alle Hefte OKart., mit Illustrationen, nur geringe Gebrauchsspuren. Alt- und Neu-Wien I und II/Ans Ende der Welt. Nordpol - Südpol/L.Anzengruber Erzählungen/Arbeit-Freiheit-Menschenwürde. Vom Biedrmeier zur Gegenwart. Österreich - erlebt und geschaut/Aus dem Rech der Dichtung. III u. IV/Aus Shakespeares bunter Theaterwelt/Aus vergangenen Tagen/Cervantes. Leben u. Taten d. scharfsinnigen Ritters Don Quichotte vonn der Mancha/Bilder aus dem alten Wien/Aus alten Zeiten. Sagen aus Österreich u. den Nachbarländern/Bilder aus Niederöstereich/Das goldene Haar. Sagen a. NÖ. u. dem Burgenland/Ich saß auf einem Steine. Aus der Welt d. Mittelalters/Es war einnmal. Märchen f. Größere/Rom, Das Herz der Welt. Sagen u. Lebensbilder/Unsere Nachbarländer/Tramer-Soeser, H. Alles unter einem Dach. Geschichten aus dem Fünferhaus/Du und die andern. Ein Buch von tätiger Menschenlieben Bd. IV/Aus dem Leben zweier Wiener Kinder II. Bilder aus dem Alltag/Das lesen wir alle gern 2. u. 4. Schulstufe/Das lesen wir alle gern. Gereimtes u. Nichtgereimtes für die zweite, dritte u. vierte Schulstufe/Die schönsten Geschichten aus tausendundeiner Nacht/Die Welt ist da, damit wir alle leben. Ein Buch von Krieg und Frieden/Du bist nicht allein/Du und die andern. Ein Buch von tätiger Menschenliebe. Bd. II u. III/Ein Kontinent mit vielen Gesichtern. Nordamerika - Südamerika/Eine neue Klassenlektüre. Ziel und Wege/Goethe, J.W. Götz von Berlichingen. Ein Schauspiel/Huggenberger, A. Bauernheimat. Erzählungen und Gedichte/Petzold, A. Ein bißchen Sonne jeden Tag. Gedichte u. Erzählungen/Macht die Augen auf!/London, J. Ausgewählte Erzählungen/Rätselhaftes Asien/Rosegger, P. Als ich mich auf dieser Erde fand. Ausgewählte Erzählungen/Rotkäppchen und andere Märchen/Schönherr, K. Der Judas von Tirol. Volksschauspiel in 3 Akten/ Stimmen aus Österreich. Proben neuerer Literatur seit der Gründung der Republik. Bd. I u. II/Strahlen, Steine u. Metalle. Forschen und Finden/Twain, M. Tom Sawyers Abenteuer/Vom Atlantik zum Pazifik/Von Menschen und Maschinen. Wissenschaft u. Technik verändern die Welt/Vorhang auf! Spiele für die sechste Schulstufe/Widewau. Spiele für die zweite, dritte und vierte Schulstufe/Wiener Sagen.‎

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‎Konvolut 4 Bücher "WIKINGER".‎

‎o.J. Die Wikinger. 3. Aufl. Essen, Burkhard-Vlg. 1992. Lizenzausg. 27x31 cm, 288 S., mit zahlr., tls. farb. Abb. u. Zeichn., OPp. m. OU., fast neuwertig./Oxenstierna, Eric Graf. Die Wikinger. 2., neubearb. Aufl. Stgt., Kohlhammer (1966). 270 S., mit 8 Farbtaf., 88 sw. Taf. u. zahlr. Textzeichn., OLn. m. (leicht läd.) OU./Busch, Fritz-Otto. Wikingersegel vor Amerika. Die Saga von Gudrid und Freydis. Hameln-Hann., Sponholtz-Vlg. (1966). gr.-8°, 286 S., 1 nn. S. Vlgsanz., mit 34 sw. Taf., zahlr. Zeichn. u. Karten im Text, OPp. m. ill. OU., nur unwesentl. Gebrauchsspuren./Carter, Samuel. Nordmänner und Drachenschiffe. Die Wikinger und ihre große Zeit. Wien, Gustav Swoboda (1976). Lizenzausg. 128 S., mit Abb. u. Karten, OPp. m. farb. ill. OU., geringe Gebrauchsspuren.‎

Bookseller reference : KULT0942

‎La Découverte de la Polynésie‎

‎Paris Musée de l'Homme 1972 In-4 carré Broché, couverture illustrée‎

‎Catalogue de cette importante exposition organiséed de janvier à juin. Préface de Robert Gessain. Texte de Bengt Danielson et Etienne Taillemite sur les voyages de Bougainville et Cook. Liste et description des 180 objets exposés, la plupart reproduits en noir ou en couleurs. Bibliographie in fine. >Bel exemplaire bin COMPLET du feuillet d'ERRATA, et du DISQUE souple contenu dans le rabat de la couverture, enregistrements de musique polynésienne. Très bon 0‎

Bookseller reference : 010600

‎LECTURES POUR TOUS-SEPTIEME ANNEE-N°7-AVRIL 1905‎

‎17,2 CM X 25,5 CM-COLONIES ENFANTINES UNE PROVISION DE SANTE POUR LES PETITS PARISIENS PAUVRES, 9P, 12 PHOTOS-LES DAMES DE LA HALLE NEUF CENTS PETITES FILLES DE MADAME ANGOT, 9P, 12 PHOTOS-THE SAILOR PRINCE MARCHE COMPOSEE PAR SA MAJESTE IMPERIALE GUILLAUME II, 3P-LES PETITS METIERS DU THEATRE, 8P, 12 PHOTOS-A L'ASSAUT DU POLE SUD, 8P PAR CHARLES RABOT, 10 PHOTOS, "SCOTIA", "DISCOVERY"-TOILETTES ECLOSES AU SOLEIL D'AVRIL, 6P-A TROIS MILLE DEGRES DE CHALEUR, FOUR MOISSAN, 6P, 7 PHOTOS-‎

‎COUVERTURE SOUPLE ETAT BON‎

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‎Palais de la Découverte - Courbes ornementales.‎

‎(Paris), Palais de la Découverte o. J. 49 (von 50) lithogr. Karten nach Kupferst. (ornamentale Kurven nach mathematischen Formeln), in roter, berieb. Kartonschuber, Karten mit geringf. Gebrauchsspuren. Design von El-Milick, M. R. E. Moritz, M. K. Kurokawa, M. G. Gyllström.‎

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‎Relation de Voyage en Terre Sainte. Août à octobre 1869. - Journal manuscrit original inédit d’un pélérinage entrepris par un religieux de Layrac (France).‎

‎1869, in-8vo (23 x 9.5 cm), 120 pages écrites dans une petite écriture, pas toujours de lecture facile, parfois à l'encre, parfois au crayon, brochure originale.‎

‎Départ le 26 août 1869 de Layrac, voyage jusqu’à Marseille, rencontre avec le groupe de douze pélérins. Voyage en mer, arrivée à Jérusalem le 15 septembre.‎

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‎The country of the Turkomans : an anthology of exploration from the Royal Geographical Society / with an introduction by Sir Duncan Cumming.‎

‎London, Oguz Press [for] the Society, 1977. original Pappband, original cased binding, gr.-8?, xli,3-261p.,[6]p. of plates,[2] leaves of plates(1 fold) : ill., maps, ports. ; Zustand: Einband felckig sonst gut‎

‎ISBN: 0905820010 // articles ... taken from the early Journals and Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society, London? - title page verso.‎

Bookseller reference : EC10-556

‎"BALARD, ANTOINE JÉROME. - THE DISCOVERY OF THE ELEMENT BROMINE‎

‎Mémoire sur une Substance particulière contenue dans l'eau de la mer (le brôme).‎

‎(Paris, Crochard, 1826). Without wrappers. In: ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique, par Gay-Lussac et Arago"", tome 32, Sec. Series, Cahier 4. Pp. 337-443 a. 1 fodled engraved plate. (The entire issue offerd). Balard's paper: pp. 337-84.‎

‎First printing of Balard's famous memoire in which he records his discovery of the new element Bromine (le brôme). While he was studying the flora of a salt marsh, he notized a deposit of sodium saulfate which had crystallized out in a pan containing mother liquer from common salts. ""In an attempt to find a use for the waste liquers he performed a number of experiments, and notized that when certain reagents were added, the mother liquer bacame brown. His investigation of this phenomenon,...ked to the remarkable discovery....(Weeks p. 264).""The discovery of a new chemical element by a young and obscure provincial pharmacist caused a sensation in Paris. Balard's achievemnt was recognized by the Academie des Sciences and he was awarded a medal by the Royal Society of London.""(DSB I, p. 416).""The discovery of bromine is a very importent acquisition to chemistry, and gives M. Balrad honorable rank inthe career of the sciences. We are of the opinion that this young chemist is every way worthy of the encouragement of the Academy, and we have the honour to propose that his memoir shall be printed in the ""Recueil des Savants Étrangers"" (The report from the French Academy, signed by Vaugelin, Thenard, and Gay-Lussac).‎

Bookseller reference : 43853

‎"BALARD, ANTOINE JÉROME. - THE DISCOVERY OF THE ELEMENT BROMINE‎

‎Mémoire sur une Substance particulière contenue dans l'eau de la mer (le brôme).‎

‎Paris, Crochard, 1826. Contemp. hcloth. Gilt lettering on spine. In: ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique, par Gay-Lussac et Arago"", tome 32. 448 pp., 3 folded engraved plates. Balard's paper: pp. 337-84. Entire volume offered with original memoirs by Savart, Berzelius, Humboldt, Arago, Poisson, Liebig, Dumas et al.‎

‎First printing of Balard's famous memoire in which he records his discovery of the new element Bromine (le brôme). While he was studying the flora of a salt marsh, he notized a deposit of sodium saulfate which had crystallized out in a pan containing mother liquer from common salts. ""In an attempt to find a use for the waste liquers he performed a number of experiments, and notized that when certain reagents were added, the mother liquer bacame brown. His investigation of this phenomenon,...ked to the remarkable discovery....(Weeks p. 264). ""The discovery of a new chemical element by a young and obscure provincial pharmacist caused a sensation in Paris. Balard's achievemnt was recognized by the Academie des Sciences and he was awarded a medal by the Royal Society of London.""(DSB I, p. 416). ""The discovery of bromine is a very importent acquisition to chemistry, and gives M. Balrad honorable rank inthe career of the sciences. We are of the opinion that this young chemist is every way worthy of the encouragement of the Academy, and we have the honour to propose that his memoir shall be printed in the ""Recueil des Savants Étrangers"" (The report from the French Academy, signed by Vaugelin, Thenard, and Gay-Lussac).‎

Bookseller reference : 59047

‎"BERNARD, CLAUDE. - DISCOVERY OF THE VASODILATING NERVES.‎

‎De l'influence de deux ordres de berfs qui déterminant les variations de couleur du sang veineux dans les organes glandulaires. (+) Sur la quantité d'oxygène que contient le sang veineux des organes glandulaires, à l'état de fonction et à l'éta...‎

‎Paris, Mallet-Bachelier, 1858. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome 47, No 6 a. No 10. Pp. (245-) 279 a. pp. (393-) 431 (entire issues offered). Bernard's papers: pp. (245-) 253 a. pp. (393) -400.‎

‎First appearance of these landmark papers in which Barnard explains his discovery of how the nerves controls the blood vessels. This is the ""discovery of the vascoconstrictor and vasodilator nerves and description of their function of regulating the blood supply to the different parts of the body.""(Garrison & Morton, No. 774).""In 1858 (the papers offered) Bernard demonstrated the existence of vasodilator nerves by finding an increased blood flow through the submaxillary gland, when the corda tympani is stimulated. He also observed that the venous blood became bright red. Since that time an enormous amount of research has been carried out on the vasomotor system.""(R.J.S. Mcdowall).Garrison & Morton, No. 774.‎

Bookseller reference : 47111

‎"BECQUEREL, HENRI. - THE DISCOVERY OF RADIO-ACTIVITY - THE BEGINNING OF THE NUCLEAR AGE‎

‎Sur les radiations émises par phosphorescence. (+) Sur les radiations invisibles émises par les corps phosphorescents. (+) Sur quelques propriétés nouvelles des radiations invisibles émises par divers corps phosphorescents. (+) Sur les radiation...‎

‎Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1896. 4to. Near contemp. full cloth. Spine gilt and with gilt lettering. Bookmark, ""The Chemists Club"" in gold on lower part of spine. Light wear along edges. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome 122 (Entire volume offered).1633 pp. The papers: 420-421, pp. 501-502, pp. 559-564, pp. 689-694, pp. 762-767 and pp. 1086-1088.‎

‎First appearance of the six landmark papers in which Becquerel documents his discovery of Radio-activity, PROMPTING THE NUCLEAR AGE.Becquerel was an expert in fluorescence and phosphorescence, continuing the work of his father and grandfather. Follwing the discovery of X-rays by Röntgen, Bexquerel investigated fluorescent materials to see if they also emitted X-rays. He exposed a fluorescent uranium salt, pechblende, to light and then placed it on a wrapped photographic plate.He found that a faint image was left on the plate, which he believed was due to the pichblende emitting the light it had absorbed as a more penetrating radiation.. However, by chace, he left a sample that had not been exposed to light on top of a photographic plate in a drawer. he noticed that the photographic plate also had a a faint image of the pechblende. After several chemical tests he concluded that these ""Becquerel rays"" were a property of atoms. He had, by chace, discovered radio-activity and prompted thee beginning of the nuclear age. He shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903 with Marie and Pierre Curie. The ""Becquerel Rays"" were later discovered to be a composite of three forms of emanation, distinguished by Rutherford as alpha, beta and gamma rays.Dibner: 163 (the later Mémoire from 1903) - PMM: 393 (1903- Mémoire) - Garrison & Morton: 2001 (only the first paper). - Magie ""A Sourve Book in Physics"" p. 610 ff. - Norman:157.‎

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‎"BERNARD, CLAUDE. - THE DISCOVERY OF THE GLYCOGENIC FUNCTION OF THE LIVER.‎

‎Sur une nouvelle fonction du foie chez l'homme et les animaux. (Extrait par l'auteur).‎

‎(Paris, Bachelier),1850. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome XXXI, No. 17. With titlepage to vol. 31. Pp. (561-) 592. (Entire issue offered). Bernard's paper: pp. 571-574. Titlepage with a faint stamp to top and a stamp in lower margin.‎

‎First appearance of the first exposition of the glycogenic function of the liver - one of the greatest physiological discoveries of the 19th century. Bernard showed that the liver builds up complex substances, including glycogen, from the nutriment brought to it by the blood and that these are subsequently modified for distribution to the body.Dibner ""Heralds of Science"" No 131 - Horblit ""One Hundred Books famous in Science"" No. 11a, here listing ""Nouvelle Fonction du Foie"" from 1853 but with the remark ""The work appeared earlier in abbreviated form in the ""Comptes rendus"" (the paper offered). - Exhibition of First Editions of Epochal Achievements in the History of Science, Berkeley 1934. No 107.‎

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‎"BROGLIE, LOUIS de. - DISCOVERY OF THE WAVE THEORY OF MATTER AND CREATION OF WAVE-MECHANICS.‎

‎A Tentative Theory of Light Quanta.‎

‎London, Taylor and Francis, 1924. Later full buckram, gilt lettering to spine. In: Philosophical Magazine conducted by Oliver Joseph Lodge etc."", Vol. 47. - Sixth Series. VIII,1168 pp. and 8 plates. (Entire volume offered). De Broglie's paper: pp. 446-458. Internally clean and fine.‎

‎First English version of the papers which ESTABLISHED A NEW ERA IN PHYSICS by introducing the epochal new principle that particle-wave duality should apply not only to radiation but also to matter and thus CREATING QUANTUM MECHANICS. The English paper is a translation of de Broglie's 3 ""Notes "" which he published in ""Comptes Rendus"" in September and October 1923 (Ondes et quanta. - Quanta de lumière, diffraction et interférences. - Les quanta, la théorie cinétique des gaz et le principe de Fermat). These 3 papers were extended to form his doctoral thesis of 1924 ""Recherches sur la Théorie des Quanta."" - This English edition (of the papers) was published before his thesis of 1924 as the paper is dated October 1, 1923, and published here in the Februar issue of Philosophical Magazine, months before the thesis.The English version contains furthermore an addition, a postscript, which contains a generalization of the theory which is consistent with the special theory of relativity, and NOT published in ""Comptes Rendues"" in 1923.With the three communications to the Academy of Sciences (the 3 Comptes Rendus papers) in the fall of 1923 de Broglie had presented the main ideas of his unified dynamics of light quanta and atoms. He was confident enough about his results that he submitted them also in English in the offered paper. At the end of the paper he summarized his results. De Broglie relates ""After long reflection in solitude and meditation, I suddenly had the idea, during the year 1923, that the discovery made by Einstein in 1905 should be generalized by extending it to all material particles and notably to electrons"" (Preface to his PhD thesis 1924).""He made the leap in his September 10, 1923, paper: E=hv should hold not only for photons but also for electrons, to which he assigns a 'fictitious associated wave'. In his September 24 paper, he indicated the direction in which one 'should seek experimental confirmations of our ideas': a stream of electrons traversing an aperture whose dimensions are small compared with the wavelenght of the electron waves 'should show diffraction phenomena' .""(Pais ""Subtle is the Lord"", pp. 425-436).In the third paper (October 8) he discusses ""The interplay between the propagation of the particle and of the waves could be expressed in more formal terms as an identity between the fundamental variational principles of Pierre de Fermat (rays), and Pierre Louis Maupertuis (particles) as de Broglie discussed it further in his last communication . Therein he also considered some thermodynamic consequences of his generalized wave-particle duality. He showed in particular how one could, using Lord Rayleigh’s 1900 formula for the number of stationary modes for phase waves, obtain Planck’s division of the mechanical phase space into quantum cells.Louis de Broglie achieved a worldwide reputation for his discovery of the wave theory of matter, for which he received the Nobel Prize for physics in 1929. His work was extended into a full-fledged wave mechanics by Erwin Schrödinger and thus contributed to the creation of quantum mechanics. After an early attempt to propose a deterministic interpretation of his theory, de Broglie joined the Copenhagen school’s mainstream noncausal interpretation of the quantum theory.""(DSB).""This idea [i.e. de Broglie's that matter might behave as waves] was tested and confirmed by Davisson and Germer in 1927... Thus the duality of both light and matter had been established, and physicists had to come to terms with fundamental particles which defied simple theories and demanded two sets of 'complementary' descriptions, each applicable under certain circumstances, but incompatible with one another."" (Printing and the Mind of Man, 417).This volume of Philosophical Magazine contains another importent paper in the history of Quantum Mechanics"": ""The Quantum Theory of Radiation"" by BOHR, KRAMERS AND SLATER, pp. 785-802. ""After Kramers had succeeded in extending the scope of the correspondence argument to the theory of optical dispersion ""thus rounding off a treatment of the interaction of atomic systems with radiation that accounted for all emission, absorption, and scattering processes"" Bohr ventured to propose a systematic formulation of the whole theory, in which what he called the virtual character of the classical model was emphasized. In this he was aided by Kramers and a young American visitor, J. C. Slater, and the new theory was published in 1924 under the authorship of all three. The most striking feature of this remarkable paper, ""The Quantum Theory of Radiation,"" was the renunciation of the classical form of causality in favor of a purely statistical description. Even the distribution of energy and momentum between the radiation field and the ""virtual oscillators"" constituting the atomic systems was assumed to be statistical, the conservation laws being fulfilled only on the average. This was going too far: the paper was hardly in print before A. H. Compton and A. W. Simon had established by direct experiment the strict conservation of energy and momentum in an individual process of interaction between atom and radiation. Nevertheless, this short-lived attempt exerted a profound influence on the course of events"" what remained after its failure was the conviction that the classical mode of description of the atomic processes had to be entirely relinquished."" (DSB).‎

Bookseller reference : 46950

‎"BROGLIE (DEBROGLIE), LOUIS de. - DISCOVERY OF THE WAVE THEORY OF MATTER AND CREATION OF WAVE-MECHANICS.‎

‎Ondes et quanta. Note de M. Louis de Broglie, présentée par M. Jean Perrin. (Séance du 10 Septembre 1923). (+) Quanta de lumière, diffraction et interférences. Note de M. Louis de Broglie, transmise par M. Jean Perrin. (Séance du 24 Septembre 1923). (...‎

‎Paris, Gauthier-Villars et Cie, 1923. 4to. Bound in 2 contemp. full cloth. Spines gilt and with gilt lettering. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome 177. With htitle a. titlepage. 1513 pp. (Entire volume offered). De Broglie's papers: pp. 507-510, pp. 548-551 a. pp. 630-32. Clean and fine. A stamp to verso of titlepage.‎

‎First edition of these papers which ESTABLISHED A NEW ERA IN PHYSICS by introducing the epochal new principle that particle-wave duality should apply not only to radiation but also to matter and thus CREATING QUANTUM MECHANICS. These 3 papers were extended to form his doctoral thesis of 1924 ""Recherches sur la Théorie des Quanta.""De Broglie relates ""After long reflection in solitude and meditation, I suddenly had the idea, during the year 1923, that the discovery made by Einstein in 1905 should be generalized by extending it to all material particles and notably to electrons"" (Preface to his PhD thesis 1924).""He made the leap in his September 10, 1923, paper: E=hv should hold not only for photons but also for electrons, to which he assigns a 'fictitious associated wave'. In his September 24 paper, he indicated the direction in which one 'should seek experimental confirmations of our ideas': a stream of electrons traversing an aperture whose dimensions are small compared with the wavelenght of the electron waves 'should show diffraction phenomena' .""(Pais ""Subtle is the Lord"", pp. 425-436).In the third paper (October 8) he discusses ""The interplay between the propagation of the particle and of the waves could be expressed in more formal terms as an identity between the fundamental variational principles of Pierre de Fermat (rays), and Pierre Louis Maupertuis (particles) as de Broglie discussed it further in his last communication . Therein he also considered some thermodynamic consequences of his generalized wave-particle duality. He showed in particular how one could, using Lord Rayleigh’s 1900 formula for the number of stationary modes for phase waves, obtain Planck’s division of the mechanical phase space into quantum cells.Louis de Broglie achieved a worldwide reputation for his discovery of the wave theory of matter, for which he received the Nobel Prize for physics in 1929. His work was extended into a full-fledged wave mechanics by Erwin Schrödinger and thus contributed to the creation of quantum mechanics. After an early attempt to propose a deterministic interpretation of his theory, de Broglie joined the Copenhagen school’s mainstream noncausal interpretation of the quantum theory.""(DSB).""This idea [i.e. de Broglie's that matter might behave as waves] was tested and confirmed by Davisson and Germer in 1927... Thus the duality of both light and matter had been established, and physicists had to come to terms with fundamental particles which defied simple theories and demanded two sets of 'complementary' descriptions, each applicable under certain circumstances, but incompatible with one another."" (Printing and the Mind of Man, 417).‎

Bookseller reference : 46949

‎"BRAUN, FERDINAND. - THE DISCOVERY OF SEMICONDUCTOR RECTIFIER EFFECT.‎

‎Ueber die Stromleitung durch Schwefelmetalle.‎

‎Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1874. 8vo. Contemp. hcalf. 5 raised bands, gilt spine and gilt lettering to spine. A few scratches to spine. Small stamp on verso of first -and general- titlepage. In: ""Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von J.C. Poggendorff"", Sechste Reihe Bd. 3, (= Poggendorff Bd. 153). X,636 pp., 4 plates. (Entire volume offered). Braun's paper: pp. 556-563.‎

‎First printing of Brown's importent paper in which he described his discovery of a semiconductor diode, noting that electrical currents flows freely in only one direction at the contact between a metal point and a galena crystal.""In 1874 Braun published the results of his research on mineral metal sulfides. He found that these crystals conducted electric currents in only one direction. This information was important in electrical research and in measuring another property of substances, the electrical conductivity, but Braun’s discovery did not have immediate practical application. In the early twentieth century the principle that Braun had discovered was employed in crystal radio receivers.""(DSB).The Nobel Prize in Physics 1909 was awarded jointly to Guglielmo Marconi and Karl Ferdinand Braun ""in recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy"".‎

Bookseller reference : 49327

‎"CHADWICK, J. (JAMES) & E.S. BIELER. - THE DISCOVERY OF THE STRONG NUCLEAR FORCES.‎

‎The Collisions of alpha particles with Hydrogen Nuclei.‎

‎(London, Taylor and Francis), 1921. Blank wrapper. In: ""The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science"" Sixth Series, Vol.42, No. 252, December 1921. Pp. 873-1024, textillustr. a. 1 plate. (Entire issue offered). Chadwick & Bieler's paper: pp. 923-940, textillustr.‎

‎First printingof this milestone paper in which the strong nuclear forces are mentioned for the first time.""It was only in 1921 that Chadwick had first shown that, at very small distances, the interactions of alpha particles with the atomic nucleus did not follow exactly the inverse square law predicted from the repulsion of their positive electrical scharges. Chadwick concluded that his experiments showed that these nuclear forces are of ""very great intensity"". According to Pais, this is THE FIRST PUBLISHED STATEMENT ABOUT THE EXISTENCE OF A STRONG NUCLEAR FORCE. This 'new force' interpretation was disputed untill well into 1920s.""(Hey & Walters).""In any event, Chadwick and Bieler's final conclusion avoid all reference to a possible electromagnetic cause for the deviations from the simple theory: ""The present experiments do not seem to throw any light on the nature of the law of variation of the forces at the seat of an electric charge, but merely show that the forces are of very great intensity... It is our task to find some field of force which will reproduce these effects."" I consider this statement, made in 1921, as marking the birth of the strong interaction.""(Pais in ""Inward Bound"", p. 240).‎

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‎"CURIE, JACQUES et PIERRE. - THE DISCOVERY OF PIEZOELECTRICITY.‎

‎Développement, par pression, de l'èlectricité polaire dans les cristaux hémièdres à faces inclinées. Note de MM. Jacques et Pierre Curie, présentée par M. Friedel.‎

‎Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1880. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome 91, No 5 (entire issue offered). Pp. 251-310. The Curie's paper: pp. 294-295.‎

‎First apperance of the paper in which the two brothers announced their discovery of the Piezoelectric Effect, as they observed how an electric potential appeared across crystals of quartza and of Rochelle salt when pressure was applied to them. The potential varied directly with the pressure, and they named the phenomenon Piezoelectricity, meaning ""to press"" (Greek). Crystals with piezoelectric properties form an essential portion of sound-electronics devices such as microphones and record-players.""The applications of piezoelectric crystals are innumerable"" one of the most important is their use in frequency stabilization of oscillating electromagnetic cirasciots for radio broadcasting stations. They are used in most piezometers for measuring with great precision either very strong pressure variations, such as those of a cannon at the moment of firing, or very weak ones, such as artery pulsations. These applications have led to the creation of a new industry, the manufacture of large ""mono"" such as quartz obtained hydrothermally around 500°C. under high water pressures, or crystals such as Rochelle salt, obtained from aqueous solutions. These two substances were mentioned in the Curie brothers’ report announcing the discovery of piezoelectricity."" (DSB).""The first experimental demonstration of a connection between macroscopic piezoelectric phenomena and crystallographic structure was published in 1880 by Pierre and Jacques Curie. Their experiment consisted of a conclusive measurement of surface charges appearing on specially prepared crystals (tourmaline, quartz, topaz, cane sugar and Rochelle salt among them) which were subjected to mechanical stress. These results were a credit to the Curies' imagination and perseverance, considering that they were obtained with nothing more than tinfoil, glue, wire, magnets and a jeweler's saw."" (Piezo Systems, Inc.).Magee ""A Source Book in Physics"", p. 547 ff.‎

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‎"CURIE, IRÈNE et M.F. JOLIOT. - ANNOUNCING THE DISCOVERY OF ARTIFICIAL RADIOACTIVITY - NOBEL PRIZE PAPER OF 1935.‎

‎Un nouveau type de radioactivité. (Séance du 15 Janvier 1934).‎

‎Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1934. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome 198 No 3. Titlepage to vol. 198. Pp. (213-) 292. (Entire issue offered). The joint paper: pp. 254-256 a. 1 photographic illustration in the text. Titlepage with a stamp on verso, 2 small tears and a tiny bit of upper right corner gone. Titlepage a bit browned.‎

‎First appearance of this seminal paper in which artificial radioactivity was announced for the first time. Curie and Joliot were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1935 ""in recognition of their synthesis of new radioactive elements"".""Until this date (1934), atomic nuclei emitting radiation were found in nature: it was called the natural radioactivity. It had been known since Rutherford that this natural radioactivity changed a nucleus into an other one: for instance radium becomes finally lead after many radioactive decays. We could say that lead does not become gold but gold becomes lead! But... this change of matter was not under control. It was not possible to construct the desired chemical element as the alchemist dreamed... But Irene and Frederic Joliot-Curie, made the dream become almost reality.""""Another very important development in the early 1934 by the Joliot-Curies in connection with irradiation of aluminum by alpha particles. The two French scientists detected the production of the recently discovered positrons. [...] However, they soon realized that the positron activity continued after the alpha source was removed and that they had, in fact, discovered positive beta radioactivity. The importance of the discovery of artificial radioactivity was immediately recognized and resulted in a Nobel Prize in chemistry to the Joliot-Curies in 1935. The new phenomenon immediately became widely employed in nuclear physics, chemistry, biology, and medicine."" (Kragh, Quantum Generations, p. 187)""These elegant experiments, which provided the first chemical proof of induced transmutations and showed the possibility of artificially creating radioisotopes of known stable elements, were repeated and extended in the major nuclear physics laboratories of various countries "" (DSB).Born on 12 September 1897 in Paris, Irène Curie was the daughter of Pierre and Marie Curie. ""During World War I, she worked as a nurse, helping her mother operate radiography equipment, and then studied physics and mathematics at the Sorbonne, gaining a doctorate for studying the range of alpha particles. She then went to work for her mother at the Radium Institute. There she met Frédéric Joliot whom she married in 1926. Frédéric Joliot was born on 19 March 1900 in Paris - He joined the Radium Institute in 1925 and obtained his PhD in 1930. Together the Joliot-Curies worked on radioactivity and the transmutation of the elements. Twice they just missed major discoveries: in 1932 when Chadwick beat them to the neutron, and in 1933 when Anderson discovered the positron. However, in 1934, whilst bombarding light elements with alpha particles, the Joliot-Curies noticed that, although proton production stopped when the alpha particle bombardment stopped, another form of radiation continued. The alpha particles had produced an isotope of phosphorus not found in nature. This isotope was radioactive and was decaying through beta-decay"" (DSB).‎

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‎"DAVY, HUMPHRY - THE DISCOVERY OF HYDROGEN TELLURIDE - THE RIVALRY WITH GAY-LUSSAC & THENARD.‎

‎Nouvelles Recherches électro-chimiques, principalement relatives aux substances métalliques tirées des alcalis et de terres, et à quelques combinations de l'Hydrogène. (+) Suite des Recherches... (+) Sur les Observations sur les Recherches faites p...‎

‎Paris, J. Klostermann, 1810. Contemp. hcalf. Spine gilt. Slightly rubbed. A few scratches to binding. Small stamps on verso of titlepage.In: ""Annales de Chimie, ou Recueil de Mémoires concernant la Chemie"" Tome 75. 336 pp. a. 2 folded engraved plates. Some scattered brownspots. The papers: pp. 27-77, 129-175, 256-263, 264-273, 274-289 a. 290-316.‎

‎First French version of Davy's ""The Bakerian Lecture for 1809. On some new Electrochemical Researches, on various Objects, particularly the metallic Bodies, from the Alkalies, and Earth, and on some Combinations of Hydrogene. Read November 16, 1809."", together with the controversy papers by Davy and Gay-Lussac & Thenard.""Mr. Davy having from the commencement of his electro-chemical researches, communicated the several steps of his progress to the Society (The Royal Society), takes the present opportunity of reporting the results of his further inquiries under four principal heads. First, on the nature of the metals of the fixed alkalis. Second, on the nature of Hydrogen and composition of ammonia. Thirdly, on the metals of the earth"" and Fourthly he makes a comparison between the antiphlogistic doctrine, and a modified phlogistic hypothesis.""(Abstract). He further gives arguments for considering potassium and sodium, which he discovered in 1808, as a element.""""Gay-Lussac had a slight rivalry between himself and the creation scientist Sir Humphry Davy. Davy was chemically preparing Potassium and Sodium through an electrical current, and this made Gay-Lussac and Thénard envious of his success. They too decided to perform the same task, but they had no battery at their disposal as Davy had, so they had to form another way to chemically prepare the two elements. In 1808, they used a red-hot iron fused to potash, the water-soluble form of a manufactured salt containing potassium, to perform this task, a method that Davy admitted had its advantageous qualities. Gay-Lussac and Thénard were successful in preparing Potassium, and continued to make a full analysis of its chemical properties, and began to use it for their own experiments. In 1809, Davy performed the same task, using it to reduce Boron in Boracic acid.""‎

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‎"DAVY, HUMPHREY. - THE DISCOVERY OF CHLORINE DIOXYD.‎

‎Some experiments on a solid compound of iodine and oxygene, and on its chemical agencies. Read April 20, 1815. (+) On the action of acids on the salts usually called hyperoxymuriates. Read May 4, 1815. (2 papers).‎

‎(London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1815). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1815 - Part II. Pp. 203-213 a. pp. 214-219.‎

‎First appearance of two importent papers by davy. In the second paper offered, he relates his discovery of chlorine dioxyd.""By explosion over mercury he found that 2 vols. give from 2.7 to 2.9 of gas, and this would probably be 3 vols. if no chlorine had been absorbed by the mercury. This gas contains 2 vols. of oxygen and the remainder chlorine, hence the compound consists of 'two in volume of oxygen and one of chlorine, condensed into the space of two volumes' (ClO2). He found it to explode at about 100 deg. with more viollence than euchlorine.""(Partington III, p. 57).Together with ROBERT PORRETT ""Further analytical experiments relative to the constitution of the prussic" of the ferruretted chyazic, and of the sulphuretted chyazic acids and of their salts" together with the application of the atomic theory to the analysis of these bodies."", pp. 220-230 a. 2 tables, one folding.‎

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