‎Physique‎

‎"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).‎

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‎"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.‎

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‎"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).‎

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‎"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).‎

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‎"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.‎

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‎"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.‎

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‎"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.‎

‎"ØRSTED (OERSTED), H.C.‎

‎Das Luftschiff. Ein gedicht. Aus dem Dänischen von J.E.G. Johannsen. (The Air-Ship, a Poem).‎

‎Kopenhagen, Reitzel, 1837. 12mo. Original pictorial printed boards depicting air-balloons. Fine condition.‎

‎First German edition of the poem entitled ""The Airship"" (1836) by the world-famous Danish scientist, Ørsted (Oersted, Örsted), who is renowned for the discovery of electro-magnetism.‎

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‎"ØRSTED (OERSTED), H.C.‎

‎Versuche über die Wirkung des electrischen Conflicts auf die Magnetnadel. (Experimenta circa Effectum, etc. Expériences sur l'effet du conflict électrique sur l'aiguille animantée). - [THE DISCOVERY OF ELECTROMAGNETISM]‎

‎Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1820. Contemporary half calf. Raised bands, gilt spine. Spine slightly rubbed. ""Annalen der Physik. Hrsg. von Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert"", Bd. 66. Small stamps on verso of title-pages (2) and verso of plates. (12), 426 pp., 1 folded table a. 3 engraved plates. The entire volume offered. Oersted's paper: pp. 295-304. Internally clean and fine.‎

‎First edition of the first German translation (by Gilbert) of Oersted's epoch-making announcement of his discovery of electromagnetism, printed in the same year as the Latin original. The work originally appeared in Latin as ""Experimenta circa effectum conflictus electrici in acun magneticam. Hafniæ, 1820"""" this Latin pamphlet is impossibly scarce and only a few copies are known, as it was privately printed in a very small number and was only distributed to colleagues in Europe. This discovery and confirmation of the connection between 2 forces, electricity and magnetism, must be considered one of the happiest events in the history of science, both with regard to scientific and practical results.""From the moment that Ørsted's discovery became known it created an enormous sensation. The results communicated were so astounding that they were received with a certain distrust, but they were stated with such accuracy that it could hardly be permitted to entertain any doubts. In the course of a short time the treatise was translated into all the chief languages."" (Kirstine Meyer). In a note Gilbert says, that it is a word by word translation of Oersted's small Latin pamphlet, ""Eine fast wörtliche Uebersetzung des einzeln gedruckten, lateinischen, de 21 Juli 1820 geschriebenen Viertel-Bogens, de von Hrn. Oersted mehreren zugeschicht worden ist...""When Oersted's discovery became known to European physicists they became busy with testing Oersted's results"" thus, this volume of ""Annalen"" contains some important papers on electromagnetism in German: Gilbert: Untersuchungen über die Einwirkung des geschlossenen galvanisch-electrischen Kreises uaf die Magnetnadel. pp. 331-391" Biot & Savart: Von einer Abhandlung über die Magnetismus der Voltaischen Sáule (The Law of Biot & Savart), pp. 392-394 (German extract) Yelin: Ueber den Zusammenhang der Electricität mit dem Magnetismus...mit einigen Zusätzen von Gilbert. Muncke: Einiges die Polarisierung des Lichtes und die Oersted'schen Versuche betreffend... The volume also contains first German editions of papers by Biot, Gay-Lussac, G.G. Schmidt, Humphrey Davy, etc.Dibner:61 - PMM: 282 - Horblitt: 3 b. - Sparrow: 152.‎

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‎"ØRSTED (OERSTED), H.C.‎

‎Das Luftschiff. Ein gedicht. Aus dem Dänischen von J.E.G. Johannsen. (The Air-Ship, a Poem).‎

‎Kopenhagen, Reitzel, 1837. 12mo. Original pictorial printed boards depicting air-balloons. Fine condition.‎

‎"ØRSTED (OERSTED), H.C.‎

‎Forsög over Klangfigurerne.‎

‎(Copenhagen, 1810). 4to. Without wrappers. In ""Videnskabernes Selskabs Skrifter"" Pp. (31)-64 + 4 folded plates.‎