‎Physique‎

‎"BORN, M. (+) V. A. FOCK.‎

‎Beweis des Adiabatensatzes.‎

‎Berlin, Springer, 1928. 8vo. Bound in full cloth with gilt lettering to spine, In ""Zeitschrift für Physik"", Band 51, 1928. Entire issue offered. Embossed stamp to title page and library label pasted on to pasted down front free end-paper, otherwise fine. Pp. 165-80. [Entire volume: VII, (1) 903 pp].‎

‎First appearance of Born and Fock's important paper in which they introduced their adiabatic theorem, a concept in quantum mechanics which they stated as follows: "" A physical system remains in its instantaneous eigenstate if a given perturbation is acting on it slowly enough and if there is a gap between the eigenvalue and the rest of the Hamiltonian's spectrum."" (From the present paper). The concept of this theorem deals with the time-dependent Hamiltonian - a subject of Quantum dynamics - where the Hamiltonian changes with time.The present issue also contain Gamow's ""Zur Quantentheorie des Atomkernes"" containing the first direct calculation of the Geiger-Nuttall law.‎

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‎"BORN, M. (+) V. A. FOCK.‎

‎Beweis des Adiabatensatzes. - [ADIABATIC THEOREM]‎

‎Berlin, Springer, 1928. 8vo. Bound in contemporary half cloth with gilt lettering, In ""Zeitschrift für Physik"", Band 51, 1928. Entire issue offered. Two stamps to title page, otherwise fine. Pp. 165-80. [Entire volume: VII, (1) 903 pp].‎

‎First appearance of Born and Fock's important paper in which they introduced their adiabatic theorem, a concept in quantum mechanics which they stated as follows: "" A physical system remains in its instantaneous eigenstate if a given perturbation is acting on it slowly enough and if there is a gap between the eigenvalue and the rest of the Hamiltonian's spectrum."" (From the present paper). The concept of this theorem deals with the time-dependent Hamiltonian - a subject of Quantum dynamics - where the Hamiltonian changes with time.The present issue also contain Gamow's ""Zur Quantentheorie des Atomkernes"" containing the first direct calculation of the Geiger-Nuttall law.‎

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‎"BORN, M. (+) W. HEISENBERG.‎

‎Über Phasenbeziehungen bei den Bohrschen Modellen von Atomen und Molekeln.‎

‎Berlin, Julius Springer, 1923. 8vo. In contemporary half cloth with gilt lettering. In ""Zeitschrift für Physik"" Bd. 14, 1923. Entire issue offered. Stamp to front free end paper and title page, otherwise a fine and clean copy. Pp. 44-55. [Entire volume: IV, 414 pp.].‎

‎First printing of Born and Heisenberg's paper on Bohr's atomic model, being a part of Heisenberg's Habilitation, which he completed under Born in 1924 in Göttingen.Cassidy 1923a.‎

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‎"BORN, M. (+). W. HEISENBERG.‎

‎Über die Einfluss der Deformierbarkeit der Ionen auf optische und chemische Konstanten. I.‎

‎Berlin, Springer, 1924. 8vo. In contemporary halv cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In ""Zeitschrift für Physik"", Bd. 23, 1924. Entire volume offered. Stamp to front free end-paper and titlepage, otherwise fine and clean. Pp. 388-410. [Entire volume: IV, 417, (1) pp.].‎

‎First printing of Born and Heisenberg's paper on the deformability of the ions on optical and chemical constants. Cassidy 1924c‎

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‎"BORN, MAX.‎

‎Der Aufbau der Materie. Drei Aufsätze über moderne Atomistik und Elektronentheorie. Zweite, verbesserte Auflage. Berlin, Springer, 1922.‎

‎Uncut in orig. printed wrappers.‎

‎Second revised edition. ""Die Form der Aufsätze verbietet wesentliche Änderungen...""(Born).‎

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‎"BORN, MAX.‎

‎Die elektronentheoretische Begründung der Elektrodynamik bewegter Körper. [In ""Jahrbuch der Radioaktivität und Elektronik"" Elfter, 11, band, 1914].‎

‎Leipzig, Hirzel, 1915. 8vo. In contemporary red half cloth. In ""Jahrbuch der Radioaktivität und Elektronik"" Elfter band, 1914. Entire issue offered. Stamp to front free end-paper. Fine and clean. Pp. 301-307. [Entire issue: IV, 545 pp]. Wrappers withbound in the back.‎

‎First edition Nelson Beebe: Bor14b.‎

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‎"BORN, MAX.‎

‎Elektronentheorie des natürlichen optischen Drehungsvermögens isotroper und anisotroper Flüssigkeiten.‎

‎(Leipzig, Ambrosius Barth, 1918). Without wrappers as extracted from ""Annalen der Physik"", Vierte Folge, Bd. 55, No.3, pp.(177)-246. Borns paper takes up the whole issue (No.3).‎

‎First printing, the periodical form.‎

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‎"BORN, MAX.‎

‎Zur Quantenmechanik der Stossvorgänge. (On the Quantum Mechanics of Collision). (Vorläufige Mittheilung). + Quantenmechanik der Stossvorgänge. (Quantum Mechanics of Collision). - [""GOD DOES NOT PLAY DICE""]‎

‎Berlin, Julius Springer, 1926. 8vo. In two contemporary half cloth bindings (not uniform). Gilt lettering to spine. In: ""Zeitschrift für Physik"", Bd. 37 & 38, 1926. Entire volumes offered. Vol. 38: Spine partly detached and with library stamp to free front and back end paper. Both volumes with a bit of soiling to extremities. Internally fine and clean.‎

‎"BORN, MAX.‎

‎Zur Quantenmechanik der Stossvorgänge. (On the Quantum Mechanics of Collision). (Vorläufige Mittheilung). + Quantenmechanik der Stossvorgänge. (Quantum Mechanics of Collision). - [""GOD DOES NOT PLAY DICE""]‎

‎Berlin, Julius Springer, 1926. 8vo. In two contemporary half cloth bindings (not uniform). Gilt lettering to spine. In: ""Zeitschrift für Physik"", Bd. 37 & 38, 1926. Entire volumes offered. Vol. 38: Spine partly detached and with library stamp to free front and back end paper. Both volumes with a bit of soiling to extremities. Internally fine and clean.‎

‎First edition of these landmark papers in which Born formulated the now-standard interpretation of the Probability Interpretation of the Wave Function or Probability Density Function for psi*psi in the Schrödinger equation, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1954. It is considered to be one of the fundamental statements of modern physics and made Einstein famously state in a letter to Born in 1926: ""Quantum mechanics is certainly imposing. But an inner voice tells me that it is not yet the real thing. The theory says a lot, but does not really bring us any closer to the secret of the 'old one'. I, at any rate, am convinced that He [god] is not playing at dice.""""Very soon after publication of Erwin Schrödinger's works on wave mechanics. Born recognized -despite Heisenherg's and Pauli's objections to its basic conceptions - that the new theory was acceptable from a mathematical point of view" and he used Schrödinger's method of treating atomic scattering processes. Applied to a standard scattering problem with known interaction-the scattering of a particle in an external field -the quantum theory permitted an exact calculation only in principle" except in special cases the basic differential equations could not be solved. With ""Quantenme-chanik der Stossvorgänge"" (1926) Born elaborated the basis of the ""Born approximation method"" for carrying out the actual computations"" the method has since grown steadily in importance. Born’s works found worldwide recognition, and gifted young researchers flocked to work under him. The ""Born school"" at Göttingen was its important to the flowering of theoretical physics as the school of Bohr at Copenhagen and of Arnold Sommerfeld at Munich."" (DSB).""Born may not have realized at once the profundity of his contribution, which helped bring the quantum revolution to an end"". (Pais, Inward Bound).‎

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‎"BOSCOVICH (BOSCOVIC), ROGER JOSEPH (RUDJER J.). - GEOMETRICAL OPTICS AND THE RAINBOW.‎

‎Extrait d'une Lettre du P. Boscovich, Jésuite, Correspondant de l'Academie, écrite à M. de Mairan.‎

‎(Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1760). 4to. Extract from ""Mémoires de Mathematique et de Physique, Présentés à l'Academie des Sciences par divers Savans"", Tome III. Pp. 321-325. A faint dampstain to inner margins.‎

‎"BOSE, [SATYENDRANATH].‎

‎Plancks Gesetz und Lichtquantenhypothese. - [THE BIRTH OF QUANTUM STATISTICS]‎

‎Berlin, Springer, 1924. 8vo. In contemporary halv cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In ""Zeitschrift für Physik"", Bd. 26, 1924. Entire volume offered. Stamp to front free end-paper and titlepage, otherwise fine and clean. Pp. 178-81. [Entire volume: IV, 401 pp.].‎

‎"BOSE, [SATYENDRANATH].‎

‎Plancks Gesetz und Lichtquantenhypothese. - [THE BIRTH OF QUANTUM STATISTICS]‎

‎Berlin, Springer, 1924. 8vo. In contemporary halv cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In ""Zeitschrift für Physik"", Bd. 26, 1924. Entire volume offered. Stamp to front free end-paper and titlepage, otherwise fine and clean. Pp. 178-81. [Entire volume: IV, 401 pp.].‎

‎First appearance of Bose's seminal paper in which he succeeded in deriving the Planck blackbody radiation law without reference to classical electrodynamics. Einstein was extremely impressed by Bose's paper and translated it into German himself. Shortly after Einstein made a generalization of Bose's method which led to the first of two systems of quantum statistical mechanics, known as the Bose-Einstein statistics. Paul Dirac coined the term ""boson"" for particles that obey these statistics and later physics historian Abraham Dirac described it as a ""confused masterpiece"", (Pais, Inward Bound, P. 283). ""With their work Bose and Einstein established the field of quantum statistics one year before the appearance of quantum mechanics"" (Brandt, The Harvest of a Century, P. 139).""In July 1924 he sent a short manuscript entitled ""Plancks Gesetz und Lichtquantenhypothese"" to Albert Einstein for criticism and possible publication. Einstein himself translated the paper into German and had it published in the Zeitschrift für Physik later that year. He added a note that stated: ""In my opinion Boses derivation of the Planck formula signifies an important advance. The method used also yields the quantum theory of the ideal gas as I will work out in detail elsewhere."" (DSB).""2 July 1924. Satyendra Nath Bose introduces a new coarse-grained statistical counting procedure which leads to Planck's radioation law. [...] Bose's discovery of a new statistics for photons and Einstein's extension to material gases - including the phenomenon of BE condensation - were made well before anyone had ever heard of a Schroedinger wave function. Bose's derivation of Planck's law is a confused masterpiece. His reasoning is correct but, as he himself once said, he had no idea that it was novel. The Paper also contains the discovery of BE condensation, an effect without application at that time."" (Pais, Inward Bound, P. 283-4).The present volume contains the following papers of interest:Fermi: Über die Wahrscheinlichkeit der Quantenzustände.Hahn & Meitner: Über die Rollen der beta-strahlen beim Atomzerfall.Heisenberg: Über den Einfluss der Deformierbarkeit der Ionen auf optische und chemische Konstanten. II.Heisenberg: Über eine Abänderung der formalen Regeln der Quantentheorie beim Problem der anomalen Zeemaneffekte.Born: Über Quantenmechanik.‎

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‎"BOTHE, W.‎

‎Eichmethoden für Emanationselektrometer (+) Über eine neue Sekundärstrahlung der Röntgenstrahlen.‎

‎[Berlin, Julius Springer, 1923]. 8vo. Extracted from ""Zeitschrift für Physik. Hrsg. von Karl Scheel. 16. Band"". No backstrip. Pp. 266-279" " pp. 319-320.‎

‎"BOTHE, W.‎

‎Kernspektren einiger leichter atome.‎

‎Berlin, Springer, 1936. 8vo. Bound in contemporary half cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In ""Zeitschrift für Physik"", Bd. 100, 1936. Entire volume offered. Library stamp to front free end paper and title page, light wear to extremities. Pp. 273-285. [Entire volume: VIII, 789 pp.].‎

‎"BOTHE, W.‎

‎Über eine neue Sekundärstrahlung der Röntgenstrahlen. II. Mitteilung.‎

‎Berlin, Julius Springer, 1923. 8vo. In contemporary half cloth with gilt lettering. In ""Zeitschrift für Physik"" Bd. 20, 1923. Entire issue offered. Stamp to front free end paper, otherwise a fine and clean copy. Pp. 237-255. [Entire volume: V, (1) 426 pp.].‎

‎"BOTHE, W.‎

‎Über eine neue Sekundärstrahlung der Röntgenstrahlen. II. Mitteilung.‎

‎Berlin, Julius Springer, 1923. 8vo. In contemporary half cloth with gilt lettering. In ""Zeitschrift für Physik"" Bd. 20, 1923. Entire issue offered. Stamp to front free end paper, otherwise a fine and clean copy. Pp. 237-255. [Entire volume: V, (1) 426 pp.].‎

‎First appearance of Bothe's early paper on the Compton effect which, together with his later paper (in Bd 32, Zeitschrift für Physik), awarded him the Nobel Prize in Physics ""for the coincidence method and his discoveries made therewith"".""Among the topics that Bothe studied in 1924 was the ejection of electrons by X rays, and it was in connection with this phenomenon that he and Geiger performed an important experiment. In an effort to reconcile the particulate and wavelike properties of radiation, Bohr, Kramers, and Slater in 1924 formulated a new quantum theory of radiation. According to their hypothesis, momentum and energy-are conserved only statistically in interactions between radiation and matter. Bothe and Geiger suggested that this could be tested experimentally by examining individual Compton collisions. Bothe introduced a modification into the Geiger counter that made it appropriate for use in coincidence experiments (a very novel procedure in 1924). Using two counters, they studied the coincidences between the scattered X ray and the recoiling electron. Correlating photons with electrons, Bothe and Geiger found a coincidence rate of one in eleven"" since the chance coincidence rate for the situation was 10?5, the experimental results contradicted the theoretical predictions and indicated small-scale conservation of energy and momentum."" (DSB)‎

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‎"BOTHE, W. (+) H. BECKER.‎

‎Künstliche Erregung von Kern-y-Strahlen. - [ANTICIPATING THE DISCOVERY OF THE NEUTRON]‎

‎Berlin, Springer, 1930. 8vo. In contemporary halv cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In ""Zeitschrift für Physik"", Bd. 66, 1930. Entire volume offered. Stamp to front free end-paper, otherwise fine and clean. Pp. 289-310. [Entire volume: VIII, 863 pp.].‎

‎"BOUGUER, (PIERRE). - THE FIRST SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITION TO SOUTH-AMERICA - NAMING EQUADOR.‎

‎Relation abrégée du Voyage fait au Perou par Messieurs de L'Academie Royale des Sciences, pour mesurer les Degrés du Méridien aux environs de l'Équateur, & en conclurre la Figure de la Terre. (2 Parts: 1. relation de notre voyage au Perou, & descri...‎

‎(Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1748). 4to. Without wrappers. Extracted from ""Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences. Année 1744."". Pp. 249-297 a. 1 folded engraved map (Triangles de la Meridiene de Quito).‎

‎"BOYLE, W. S. & G. E. SMITH.‎

‎Charge Coupled Semiconductor Devices. - [THE INVENTION OF THE DIGITAL - CAMERA - NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSICS 2009.]‎

‎New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Company, 1970. 8vo. Original full green cloth. Volume 49, 1970 of ""The Bell System Technical Journal"". Library stamp to front free end-paper. Minor bumping to extremities. A nice and clean copy. Pp. 587-593. [Entire volume: XLII, (2), 918, (1) pp.].‎

‎First edition of Boyle and Smith's seminal and exceedingly important paper on the CCD-chip, in which information could be stored as electrons in a semiconductor. The invention created the technical background for digital cameras which revolutionized astronomy. It's invention launched entirely new industries and markets and is widely used in devices as diverse as digital cameras, video cameras, bar code readers, security monitoring, medical endoscopy, modern astronomy, video conferencing, optical technology, and high capacity WDM transmission-systems have enabled pictures to travel around the world within seconds. ""In this paper we describe a new semiconductor device concept. Basically it consists of storing charge in potential wells created at the surface of a semiconductor and moving the charge (representing information) over the surface by moving the potential minima."" (From the introduction to the present article). Boyle and Smith imagined that it could be used as a device for storage of memory, an early hard disk, however, they soon discovered that as a memory device it was not very useful. By applying Einstein's photoelectric effect, they illuminated the chip, thereby creating electrons. They discovered it could be used as storing light-structures"" taking pictures. ""At the heart of all astronomical instruments is some form of detector to convert electromagnetic energy into an electrical signal. [...] the dominant detector in modern astronomy is the charged-coupled device (CCD)."" (McLean, Ian S. Electronic imaging in astronomy: detectors and instrumentation, 2008, p. 241).""The invention of the charged-coupled deviceby Boyle and Smith has had remarkable impact [...]. CCDs due to their speed and ruggedness together with adequate sensitivity and speed have replaced conventional TV Vidicon cameras [...]. As a result the technology of CCDs has advanced rapidly."" (Jha, Sudhanshu. Perspectives in optoelectronics, 1995, p. 351). In January 2006, Boyle and Smith were awarded the National Academy of Engineering Charles Stark Draper Prize, and in 2009 they were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics, for their work on the CCD.‎

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‎"BRAGG, W.H. - THE CORPUSCULAR NATURE OF X-RAYS AND GAMMA-RAYS.‎

‎The Consequences of the Corpuscular Hypothesis of the (gamma) and X-rays, and the Range of ß Rays.‎

‎(London, 1910). No wrappers. In: ""The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science"", (Sixth Series), September 1910. Pp. 385-544 a. 6 folded plates. (Entire Sept.-issue offered). Bragg's paper: pp. 385-416.‎

‎"BRANLY, ÉDOUARD. - THE INVENTION OF THE ""COHERER"" (RADIO-CONDUCTOR).‎

‎Variations de conductibilité sous diverses influences électriques.‎

‎(Paris, Gauthier-Villars), 1890. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome 111, No 21. Pp. (767-) 810. (Entire issue offered). Branly's paper: pp. 785-787.‎

‎First appearance of the paper in which Branly announced his discovery that the electrical resistance of a granular metallic conductor could drop by several orders of magnitude when excited by the electromagnetic field emitted by an electrical spark, the so-called Branly-effect.The coherer was a key enabling technology for radio, and was the first device used to detect radio signals in practical spark gap transmitter wireless telegraphy. It became the basis for radio reception around 1900, and remained in widespread use for about ten years.‎

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‎"BRANS, C. & R. H. DICKE.‎

‎Mach's Principle and a Relativistic Theory of Gravitation. - [THE BRANS-DICKE THEORY - THE FAMOUS CONTESTOR TO EINSTEIN'S GENERAL RELATIVITY]‎

‎Lancaster, American Institute of Physics, 1961. Lex8vo. Volume 124, November 1, No. 3, 1961 of ""The Physical Review"", Second Series. Entire volume offered. In the original printed blue wrappers. Minor discolouring to wrappers, and bottom corner of front wrapper slightly bent. Previous owner's name to top right corner of front wrapper. Overall a very nice and clean copy. Pp. 925-939. [Entire issue: Pp. 637-964].‎

‎"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.‎

‎"BREWSTER, DAVID - DISCOVERING A NEW PROPERTY OF HEAT BIREFRINGENCE IN GLASS‎

‎Results of some recent Experiences on the Properties impressed upon Light by the Action of Glass raised to different Temperatures, and cooled under different Circumstances. In a Letter to Joseph Banks. Read May 19, 1814.‎

‎(London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1814). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 18154 - Part II. Pp. 436-439.‎

‎First appearance of an importent paper in which Brewster reveals his discovery of a new connection between light and heat: ""glass brought to a certain temperature forms two images, and polarises them in opposite manner, like all doubly refracting crystals, the one image being coincident with the other""(p. 437). Brewster was the discoverer of the law of polarization, of biaxal crystals, of optical mineralogy, and of double refraction by compression.Independently of Seebeck, in 1814 English physicist David Brewster started investigating birefringence in glass caused by inhomogeneous heating. He also investigated the effect of sudden cooling of heated glass and discovered that in broken glass birefringence vanishes. Brewster considered his discovery so important* that he hastily published a paper, in which he only verbally described the creation of birefringence in glass by heat.With 2 other notable papers by HENRY KATER ""An improved Method of dividing Astronomical Circles and other Instruments"", pp. 419-435a. 2 folded engraved plates. And JOHN W.F. HERSCHEL ""Consideration of various Points of Analysis"", pp. 440-468.‎

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‎"BREWSTER, DAVID - FOUNDING OPTICAL MINERALOGY.‎

‎On some Properties of Light. Read January 28, 1813.‎

‎(London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1813). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1813 - Part I. Pp. 101-109‎

‎First printing of Brewsters first paper in the Transactions in which he gives a preliminary result of his testing of the transmission of light through around 200 transparent substances. In a paper issued the next year (1814) he called the different phenomena that he observed here, Biaxal and Uniaxal.‎

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