‎Physics‎

‎"WILSON, C.T.R. - THE MOST ORIGINAL AND WONDERFUL INSTRUMENT IN SCIENTIFIC HISTORY - WILSON'S CLOUD CHAMBER.‎

‎Über die Expansionsapparat zur Sichtsbarmachung der Bahnen ionisierender Teilchen in Gasen, und über einige mittels dieses Apparats gewonnene Ergebnisse. Mit 23 Figuren im Text und auf 5 Tafeln. (Eingegangen 6. Oktober 1912). (On an Expansion Apparatu...‎

‎Leipzig, S. Hirzel, 1913. 8vo. Orig. printed wrappers, no backstrip. Wrappers loose. In ""Jahrbuch der Radioaktivität und Elektronik"", 10. bd., Heft 1. Pp. 1-138 (entire issue offered). Wilson's paper: pp. 34-54, textillustrations, showing apparatus and 5 photographic plates, showing ionizing by Alpha-, Beta- and Röntgen- radiation).‎

‎Together with the English version - published 1912 in the Proceedings of the Royal Society - this is Wilson's main paper relating ""that the track of an ionizing particle might be made visible and photographed by condensing water of the ions which is liberated"". The first trails were obtained in 1911 where he submitted a short note of this to the Proceedings. In the offered paper he published the first tracks made by the ionizing particles of alpha, beta and Röntgen-rays. This, Wilson Cloud-Chamber, became an extremely valuable instrument of fundamental research, the discovery of the positron in 1932 and the kaon in 1963 were made by using cloud chambers as detectors.""But the whole course of the particle appears infinitely more clearly by the method invented by C.T.R. Wilson in 1911 and named after him. The radiation is allowed to enter an expansion-chamber, containing a gas saturated with water vapour. A sudden expansion of the chamber cools the gas, and cloud-drops are then formed instantly around the ions produced along the tracks of the particles. By suitable illumination these tracks can be made to stand out clearly as if they had been described by luminous projectiles. The ""Altmeister"" of modern nuclear physics, Lord Rutherford, once called the Wilson chamber ""the most original and wonderful instrument in scientific history"".""Thomson Rees Wilson (1869-1959), a Scottish physicist, is credited with inventing the cloud chamber. Inspired by sightings of the Brocken spectre while working on the summit of Ben Nevis in 1894, he began to develop expansion chambers for studying cloud formation and optical phenomena in moist air. Very rapidly he discovered that ions could act as centers for water droplet formation in such chambers. He pursued the application of this discovery and perfected the first cloud chamber in 1911. In Wilson's original chamber the air inside the sealed device was saturated with water vapor, then a diaphragm is used to expand the air inside the chamber (adiabatic expansion). This cools the air and water vapor starts to condense. When an ionizing particle passes through the chamber, water vapor condenses on the resulting ions and the trail of the particle is visible in the vapor cloud. Wilson, along with Arthur Compton, received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1927 for his work on the cloud chamber. (Wikipedia).‎

Bookseller reference : 45816

‎"WIEN, WILHELM.‎

‎Über die Differentialgleichungen der Elektrodynamik für bewegte Körper. I-II.‎

‎Leipzig, Ambrosius Barth, 1904. 8vo. In full black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In ""Annalen der Physik"", Vierte Folge, Band 13. Entire volume offered. Library labels to front end papers and stamp to title page, otherwise fine and clean. Pp. 641-662" Pp. 663-668. [Entire volume: 1079, VIII pp. + 8 plates.].‎

‎First appearance of Wien's two papers on differential equations on the electrodynamics of moving bodies.‎

Bookseller reference : 50367

‎"WIEN, WILHELM.‎

‎Über die Differentialgleichungen der Elektrodynamik für bewegte Körper. I-II.‎

‎Leipzig, Ambrosius Barth, 1904. 8vo. In contemporary half calf with four raised bands and gilt lettering to spine. In ""Annalen der Physik"", Vierte Folge, Band 13. Entire volume offered. Stamp to title page. Wear to extremities. Internally fine and clean. Pp. 641-662" Pp. 663-668. [Entire volume: 1079, VIII pp. + 8 plates.].‎

‎"WIEN, WILHELM.‎

‎Über die Energie der Kathodenstrahlen im Verhaltnis zur Energie der Rontgen- und Sekundarstrahlen.‎

‎(Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1905). 8vo. No wrappers. Extracted from ""Annalen der Physik"" Vierte Folge. Bd. 18. Entire issue no. 15 offered. Pp. 991-1007. [Entire issue: Pp. 869-1084 + 6 folded plates.].‎

‎"WIEN, WILLY. [WILHELM]. - A FUNDAMENTAL PAPER OF MODERN PHYSICS.‎

‎Ueber die Energievertheilung im Emissionsspectrum eines schwarzen Körpers. - [WIEN'S DISPLACEMENT LAW]‎

‎Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1896. 8vo. Contemporary half cloth with gilt title to spine. Band 58 of ""Annalen der Physik und Chemie"". Library stamp to verso of title-page. Light wear to edges and capitals and a damp-stain to the lower part of the last three leaves. Otherwise a clean and well preserved copy. The entire volume offered. Pp. 662-669. [Entire volume: VIII, 776 pp. + 6 folded plates].‎

‎"WILDE, HENRY.‎

‎On the Evidence afforded by Bode's Law of a permanent Contraction of the Radii Vectores of the Planetary Orbits.‎

‎Manchester, 1895. 8vo. In the original printed wrappers. Offprint from: ""Memoirs and Proceedings of the manchester Literary and Philosophical Society"", Volume Nine, Fourth series. With the authors presentation inscription to top of first page: ""With the Author's Compliments"". Lacking backwrapper. Internally fine and clean. Pp. 95-107.‎

‎"WILDE, HENRY.‎

‎On the Influence of the Configuration and Direction of Coast Lines upon the Rate and Range of the Secular Magnetic Declination‎

‎Manchester, The Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, 1894. 8vo. In the original printed wrappers. Offprint from ""Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society"", Ninth [9] volume, Fourth series. With author's presentation inscription to top of front wrapper: ""With the Author's Compliments."". Light soiling to extremities. Very fine and clean. Pp. 181-186 + 1 folded plate.‎

‎"WILDE, HENRY.‎

‎On the Origin of Elementary Substances, and on some New Relations of their Atomic Weights. - [WILDE ON THE ORIGIN OF ELEMENTS]‎

‎Manchester, T. Sowler and Co., 1878. 8vo. In the original printed wrappers. Offprint from ""The Proceedings of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society"", April 30. Author's presentation inscription to front wrapper ""Edmund J Mills / with the Author's Compliments"". Miscolouring to lower part of front wrapper. Internally fine and clean. 25 pp. + 1 folded plate.‎

‎"WILSON, C.T.R. - THE IMPROVED VERSION OF ""WILSONS CLOUD-CHAMBER"".‎

‎On a Method of making Visible the Paths of Ionising Particles through a Gas.‎

‎London, Harrison and Sons, 1911. Small 4to. Contemp. full cloth. Spine gilt and with gilt lettering. A stamp to verso of titlepage and a few other leaves. In: ""Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A."", Vol. LXXXV. XXIII,605,XXIV pp. and 11 plates. (Entire volume offered). Wilson's paper: pp. 285-288 a. 1 plate. Clean and fine.‎

‎"WILSON, C.T.R. - THE MOST ORIGINAL AND WONDERFUL INSTRUMENT IN SCIENTIFIC HISTORY - WILSON'S CLOUD CHAMBER.‎

‎Über die Expansionsapparat zur Sichtsbarmachung der Bahnen ionisierender Teilchen in Gasen, und über einige mittels dieses Apparats gewonnene Ergebnisse. Mit 23 Figuren im Text und auf 5 Tafeln. (Eingegangen 6. Oktober 1912). (On an Expansion Apparatu...‎

‎Leipzig, S. Hirzel, 1913. 8vo. Orig. printed wrappers, no backstrip. Wrappers loose. In ""Jahrbuch der Radioaktivität und Elektronik"", 10. bd., Heft 1. Pp. 1-138 (entire issue offered). Wilson's paper: pp. 34-54, textillustrations, showing apparatus and 5 photographic plates, showing ionizing by Alpha-, Beta- and Röntgen- radiation).‎

‎"WILSON, HAROLD A. - FORERUNNER OF THE OIL-DROP EXPERIMENT.‎

‎On the Electrical Conductivity of Flames Conatining Salt Vapours. Communicated by J.J. Thomson. Received March 19,- Read April 27, 1899.‎

‎(London, Harrison and Sons, 1899). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" Year 1899, Volume 192 - Series A. - Pp. 499-528, textillustr. Clean and fine.‎

‎"WINKLER, JOHANN EINRICH. - KRATZENSTEIN, CHRISTIAN GOTTLIEB.‎

‎Gedanken von den Eigenschaften, Wirkungen und Ursachen der Electricität, nebst einer Beschreibung zwo neuer Electrischen Maschinen. (+ Winkler:) Die Eigenschaften der Electrischen Materie und des Electrischen Feuers aus verschiedenen neuen versuchen e...‎

‎Leipzig, Breitkop, 1744. (+) Leipzig, Breitkop, 1745. (+) Halle, Hemmerde, 1745. 8vo. Bound in one contemp. hcalf. raised bands. A paperlabel pasted on top of spine. Stamps on the first title-page. An old name erased from title-page leaving a small hole, no loss of letters. (32),168 pp. - (28),164 pp. and 7 (numb. I-VII, the first 3 belongs to the first work, 4 to the second) folded engraved plates, referring to both works !) - 62 pp. a. 1 engraved plate. Internally clean, printed on good paper.‎

‎"WOLLASTON, WILLIAM HYDE. - THE INVENTION OF THE FIRST PHOTOGRAPHIC CAMERA LENS.‎

‎On a Periscopic Camera Obscura and Microscope. Read June 11, 1812.‎

‎London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1812. 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1812. With titlepage to the year 1812 - Part I. Pp. 370-377. Light yellowing to titlepage.‎

‎First appearance of the paper in which Wollaston explains his invention and function of photography's first lens, the Wollaston Meniscus, invented more than 25 years before the first photography appeared.""Wollaston developed the first lens specifically for camera lens called Wollaston's meniscus lens, or just meniscus lens, in 1812. The lens was designed to improve the image projected by the camera obscura. By changing the shape of the lens, Wollaston was able to project a flatter image, eliminating much of the distortion that was a problem with many of that day's biconvex lenses"" (DSB).‎

Bookseller reference : 46063

‎"WOLLAN, E. O.‎

‎X-ray scattering and Atomic Structure.‎

‎(Menasha, George Banta Publishing, 1932). Royal8vo. In the original orange printed wrappers. In ""Reviews of Modern Physics"", Volume 4, April, Number 2. Entire issue offered. Previous owner's name to top of front wrapper, otherwise fine and clean. Pp. 205-259. [Entire volume: Pp. 205-470].‎

‎First printing of Wollan's paper - the first since Compton's ""X-rays and Electrons - on X-ray scattering.‎

Bookseller reference : 50977

‎"WOLLASTON, WILLIAM HYDE. - AN EARLY STATEMENT OF ""CONSERVATION OF ENERGY""‎

‎The Bakerian Lecture on the Force of Percussion. Read November 14, 1805.‎

‎(London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1806). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1806 - Part I. Pp. 13-22.‎

‎"YOUNG, THOMAS. - THE DISCOVERIES OF THE INTERFERENCE OF LIGHT - GERMAN EDITIONS.‎

‎Ueber die Theorie des Lichts. Frei übersetzt vom Professor Lüdicke. (+) Nachricht von einigen Fällen einer bisher noch nicht beschriebenen Entstehung der Farben. (+) Beschreibung einer Vorrichtung, um mittelst des Sonnen-Mikroskops die Farben dünner F...‎

‎Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1811. Without wrappers. In: ""Annalen der Physik. Hrsg. Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert"", Bd. 39 (der Reihe), Eilftes u. Zwölftes Stück. Titlepage to vol. 39. Pp. 129-244 a. 2 engraved plates. (The entire issue offered). Young's papers: pp. 156-205 a. pp. 206-220. And pp. 245-360 a. 2 engraved plates. (The entire issue offered). Young's papers: pp. 255-261 a. pp. 262-290.‎

‎"ZEEMAN, PIETER.‎

‎Lignes doubles et triples dans le spectre, produites sous l'influence d'un champ magnetique exterieur.‎

‎(Paris, Gauthier-Villars), 1897. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome 124, No 25. Pp. (1407-) 1486. (Entire issue offered). Zeeman's paper: pp. 1444-1445.‎

‎First French version of this importent paper in which Zeeman observed for the first time the splitting of the spectral lines into doublets and triplets. Here we have the first appearance of a charged particle much lighter than an atom, the first glimpse at the electron.""In the spring of 1897, after his move to the University of Amsterdam, Zeeman resolved a magnetically ""broadened"" spectral line into the triplet of distinct polarized components that the Lorentz theory predicted for a sufficiently intense magnetic field. This in a very real sense was the peak of the Zeeman-Lorentz investigation of the Zeeman effect.""(DSB).‎

Bookseller reference : 49449

‎"ZEEMAN, P.‎

‎The Effect of Magnetization on the Nature of light Emitted by a Substance. - [THE ZEEMAN-EFFECT - NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSICS 1902]‎

‎London, Macmillan & Co, 1896-97. Royal8vo. Bound in contemporary half calf with gilt lettering to spine. In ""Nature"", Vol. 55, November 1896 - April 1897. Bookplates to front free end-papers and library stamp to title page. Minor wear to extremities, otherwise very fine and clean. P. 347. [Entire volume: XL, 624 pp.].‎

‎First English edition of this landmark paper in which the Zeeman-effect was first announced. It is one of the most important and influential discoveries made in the later half of the 19th century. ""The Zeemann effect not only opened a new world of facts which interest the physicist, the chemist, and even the astronomer, but the study also contributed - to an extent much greater than the study of the Stark effect - to the conceptual development of quantum theory"" (Jammer). Together with Lorenz, Zeeman was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for ""the extraordinary service they rendered by their researches into the influence of magnetism upon radiation phenomena"". ""The last experiment performed by Michael Faraday was an unsuccessful attempt to observe the influence of a magnetic field on the spectral lines of sodium. More than 30 years later, Pieter Zeeman took up the challenge and observed a broadening of the lines, which was soon recognized to be the splitting that we know as the Zeeman effect. Zeeman's account of the discovery, translated for Nature from the Proceedings of the Physical Society of Berlin, includes an interpretation based on Hendrik Lorentz's idea of ""small molecular elements charged with electricity"", and a rough calculation of the charge to mass ratio of these ""ions""."" (Nature Physics Portal).""Zeeman is best remembered for his observations in 1896 of the mageto-optic phenomenon that almost immediately was named the Zeeman effect. His experimental discovery was not fortuitous, but the fruition of theoretical views that had motivated attempts over a span of thirty-five years to detect some such interaction between magnetism and light. Zeeman's initial observations were beautifully comprehended by H.A.Lorentz' electromagnetic theory, which also served to guide Zeeman in the very early refinement and extension of his discovery. As a result Zeeman and Lorentz shared the 1902 Nobel Prize for physics in recognition of their accomplishment and of the promise, since overwhelmingly fulfilled, of the Zeeman effect for contributing to the understanding of spectra and the particulate structure of matter."" (DSB).‎

Bookseller reference : 46978

‎"ZEEMAN, P.‎

‎The Effect of Magnetization on the Nature of light Emitted by a Substance. - [THE ZEEMAN-EFFECT - NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSICS 1902]‎

‎London, Macmillan & Co, 1896-97. Royal8vo. Bound in contemporary half calf with gilt lettering to spine. In ""Nature"", Vol. 55, November 1896 - April 1897. Bookplates to front free end-papers and library stamp to title page. Minor wear to extremities, otherwise very fine and clean. P. 347. [Entire volume: XL, 624 pp.].‎

‎"ZEEMAN, PIETER (+) R. SISSINGH. - THE KERR-EFFECT INVESTIGATED, THE PHD THESIS.‎

‎Mesures relatives au Phénomène de Kerr, dans la Réflexion polaire sur le Fer, le Cobalt et le Nickel se rapportant en particulier à la Différence de Phase Magnéto-Optique de Sissingh. (Mémoire couronné par la Société Hollandaise des Sciences à Harlem)...‎

‎Harlem, Les Heritieres Loosjes, 1894. Lex8vo. Orig. printed wrappers. Wrapper frayed at edges loosing some small pieces. A faint stamp on frontwrapper. In ""Archives Néerlandaises des Science Exactes et Naturelles. Redigée par J. Bosscha"", Tome XXVII. (Entire volume offered). VIII,438 pp. and 7 lithographed plates. Zeeman's paper: pp. 252-302. Sissingh's paper: pp. 173-251. Uncut and unopened.‎

‎"ÅNGSTRÖM, A.J. - ÅNGSTRÖM'S HEAT BAR.‎

‎Mémoire sur la propagation de la Chaleur dans les Corps.‎

‎Upsal, C.A. Leffler, 1860. 4to. Uncut and unopened. Offprint from ""Actes de la Soc. Roy. des Sciences d'Upsala"", Series 3ieme. T. III. (2),22 pp.‎

‎First edition of Ångström's importent paper on the transformation of heat through materials. Angstrom determined the conductivity of the material of a bar by periodically heating and cooling it. The bar was heated and cooled periodically by passing steam and water at regular intervals through a chamber at one end of the bar ... In this way, the temperature at points along the bar fluctuate periodically and on account of surface radiation the temperature amplitude diminishes as the distance from the region of supply increases.In 1868, Ångström created a spectrum chart of solar radiation that expresses the wavelength of electromagnetic radiation in the electromagnetic spectrum in multiples of one ten-millionth of a millimetre, or 1×10-10 metres. This unit of length later became known as the ångström, Å.‎

Bookseller reference : 49234

‎"ÅNGSTRÖM, ANDERS JONAS.‎

‎Om de monoklinoedriska kristallernas molekulära konstanter. Inlemnad d. 7 Mars 1851.‎

‎Stockholm, (1851). Uncut in orig. blue blank wrappers. Wrappers a bit frayed.Offprint from ""Kungl. Svenska Vetenskaps Akademiens handlingar"". 1850. II. Pp. (425-)461 a. 2 plates. Wrappers and plates loose.‎

‎First editon. Importent pioneer work in crystallography. The papers topic is the exact nature of the relation between the various axes of a crystal, the axes of figure, of elasticity, of electrical conductivity, the thermal, the optic, and the magnetic axes.‎

Bookseller reference : 45867

‎"ÅNGSTRÖM, A.J.‎

‎Mémoire sur la propagation de la Chaleur dans les Corps.‎

‎(Upsal, C.A. Leffler, 1860). 4to. Orig. printed wrappers. Extracted from ""Actes de la Soc. Roy. des Sciences d'Upsala"", Series 3ieme. T. III. Pp. (51-) 72. This extract has the orig. printed wrappers from Tome III.‎

‎"ÅNGSTRÖM, A.J. - ÅNGSTRÖM'S HEAT BAR.‎

‎Mémoire sur la propagation de la Chaleur dans les Corps.‎

‎Upsal, C.A. Leffler, 1860. 4to. Uncut and unopened. Offprint from ""Actes de la Soc. Roy. des Sciences d'Upsala"", Series 3ieme. T. III. (2),22 pp.‎

‎"ÅNGSTRÖM, ANDERS JONAS.‎

‎Om de monoklinoedriska kristallernas molekulära konstanter. Inlemnad d. 7 Mars 1851.‎

‎Stockholm, (1851). Uncut in orig. blue blank wrappers. Wrappers a bit frayed.Offprint from ""Kungl. Svenska Vetenskaps Akademiens handlingar"". 1850. II. Pp. (425-)461 a. 2 plates. Wrappers and plates loose.‎