‎Physics‎

‎"EINSTEIN, ALBERT.‎

‎Zur allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie.‎

‎Berlin, Gruyter & Co., 1923. 4to. Orig. orange printed wrappers. Offprint/Sonderabdruck aus Sitzungsberichten...pp. 32-38. Fine fresh copy.‎

‎"EINSTEIN, ALBERT.‎

‎Zur Elektrodynamik bewegter Körper (+) Über einem die Erzeugung und Verwandlung des Lichtes betreffenden heuristischen Gesischtspunkt (+) Über die von der molekularkinetischen Theorie der Wärme geforderte Bewegung von in ruhenden Flüssigkeiten suspend... - [A NEW VIEW OF THE UNIVERSE]‎

‎Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1905. 8vo. All three papers extracted and with marbled paper strip. In ""Annalen der Physik, Vierte Folge, Band 17"". Housed in a beautiful half calf box with blue goat skin to spine and walnut wood veneer to boards. A fine and clean set. [Zur Elektrodynamik bewegter Körper:] Pp. 891-921" [Über einem die Erzeugung... :] Pp. 132-148 " [Über die von der molekularkinetischen Theorie... :] Pp. 549-571.‎

‎"EINSTEIN, ALBERT.‎

‎Zur Theorie der Lichtfortpflanzung in dispergierenden Medien.‎

‎Berlin, Gruyter & Co., 1922. 4to. Orig.printed orange wrappers. Offprint/Sonderabdruck aus Sitzungsberichten... pp. 18-22. Fine fresh copy.‎

‎"EINSTEIN, ALBERT.‎

‎Über die Möglichkeit einer neuen Prüfung des Relativitätsprinzips.‎

‎(Leipzig, Barth, 1907). 8vo. Extract from ""Annalen der Physik IV,23"", pp.197-198.‎

‎"EINSTEIN, ALBERT.‎

‎Über die vom Relativitätsprincip geforderte Trägheit der Energie. - [THE FIRST EXPLICIT STATEMENT OF THE ENERGY-MASS EQUATION]‎

‎Leibzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1907. 8vo. In contemporary full cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In ""Annalen der Physik"", Vierte Folge, Band 23. Entire volume offered. Ex-libris pasted on to top right corner of pasted down front free end-paper. Light rubbing to extremities, a very fine and clean copy (not an ex-library copy). Pp.371-384. [Entire volume: VIII, 1000 pp. + 4 plates].‎

‎"EINSTEIN, ALBERT.‎

‎Über Friedrich Kottlers Abhandlung ""Über Ensteins Äquivalenzhypothese und die Gravitation""" "‎

‎Leipzig, J.A. Barth, 1916. Orig. printed wrappers. Frontwrapper lacking lower left coener. ""Annalenn der Physik. Vierte Folge. Band 51. 6. Heft."" (=1916 No. 22), pp. 577-684 and 3 plates. Einstein's paper: pp. 639-42. Internally clean and fine.‎

‎"EINSTEIN, ALBERT. - INTRODUCING ""PROBABILITY"" IN QUANTUM PHYSICS.‎

‎Die Plancksche Theorie der Strahlung und die Theorie der spezifischen Wärme. (+) Berichtigung zu meiner Arbeit: ""Die Plancksche Theorie der Strahlung etc.""" "‎

‎Berlin, J.A. Barth, 1907. 8vo. 2 issues, to both the original printed yellow wrappers. No backstrip. Wrappers loose. In: ""Annalen der Physik. Vierte Folge. Band 22"", No. 1. and No. 4. Pp. 1-208, 1 fold. plate a. 1 portrait (P. Curie) a. pp. 609-800, 1 plate. (Entire issues offered). Einsteins paper: pp. 180-190 and p. 800. Astamp to verso of plates and a few leaves. THE PRINTED WRAPPERS LOOSE.‎

‎"EINSTEIN, ALBERT. - THE FIRST EXPLICIT STATEMENT OF THE ENERGY-MASS EQUATION !!‎

‎Über die vom Relativitätsprincip geforderte Trägheit der Energie. (On the Inertia of Energy Required by the Relativity Principle).‎

‎Leibzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1907. 8vo. Contemp. hcalf. Spine gilt. Title-and tomelabels with gilt lettering. Slightly rubbed. In ""Annalen der Physik"", Vierte Folge, Band 23. VIII,1000 pp. a. 4 plates. (The entire volume offered). Einstein's paper: pp.371-384. A small stamp on titlepage (Gmelin.Institut.). Internally clean and fine.‎

‎"EINSTEIN, ALBERT. - THE NOBEL LECTURE.‎

‎Grundgedanken und Probleme der Relativitätstheorie. (Fundamental ideas and problems of the theory of relativity). Vortrag gehalten an der Nordischen Naturforscherversammlung in Gotenburg den 11 Juli 1923. (Basic ideas and problems of the theory of rel...‎

‎Stockholm, Nordstedt & Fils, 1923. Orig. printed wrappers. Offprint from ""Les Prix Nobel en 1921-1922"". Pp. 1-10. Fine and clean.‎

‎"ELSASSER, WALTER M.‎

‎Hydromagnetic Dynamo Theory.‎

‎Lancaster, American Physical Society, 1956. Lex8vo. Volume 28, April, No. 2, 1955 of ""Reviews of Modern Physics"". Entire volume in the original printed orange wrappers. Previous owner's name to upper margin of front wrapper. A 2 cm long tear to upper left corner of front wrapper. Otherwise a very nice and clean copy. [Elasser:] Pp. 135-163. [Entire issue: Pp. 103-170].‎

‎First printing of Elsasser's paper on the Hydromagnetic Dynamo Theory. Elsasser, considered the father of the presently accepted dynamo theory as an explanation of the Earth's magnetism, proposed that this magnetic field resulted from electric currents induced in the fluid outer core of the Earth. He revealed the history of the Earth's magnetic field through pioneering the study of the magnetic orientation of minerals in rocks.""His [Elsasser] main attention became focused on a research field he had been cultivating almost as a diversion alongside his official duties since the late 1930s: geomagnetism. Discounting a hypothesis popularized by Einstein and Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett that Earth's magnetic field is a property of its rotation per se, he thought instead of a self-sustaining dynamo in the molten metallic core. A key clue for Elsasser in his approach to the problem was a similarity between maps of the long-term variations in Earth's magnetic field and the maps of atmospheric flows familiar from his work in meteorology. Elsasser theorized that Coriolis forces and convection currents in the conductive liquid combined to produce poloidal magnetic and toroidal electric fields (the former extending beyond Earth's surface, the latter interior to it) that had a feedback effect on each other. Though some details were unclear, he argued that the dynamo theory gave the right order of magnitude for the magnetic field's strength and potentially accounted for its secular variations. By the mid-1950s, Elsasser's junior colleague at Utah, Eugene Newman Parker, and the British physicists Edward Crisp Bullard and the Australian-born George Keith Batchelor had explored alternative dynamo models and elaborated the mathematics showing that the field was self-sustaining. The dynamo theory ultimately received wide acceptance. It subsequently also became a key element of Hannes Alfvén's Nobel Prize-winning work on plasma electrodynamics. In the 1960s, Elsasser's geophysical interests moved into modeling seismic deformation in the context of the burgeoning theory of plate tectonics."" (DSB)‎

Bookseller reference : 45136

‎"ELSTER, JULIUS & HANS GEITEL.- THE FINAL PROOF OF THE EXISTENCE OF ELECTRONS AS CONSTITUENTS OF MATTER.‎

‎Ueber die Electrisirung der Gase durch glühende Körper.‎

‎Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1887. Without wrappers as issued in ""Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von G. Wiedemann."", Neue Folge Bd. 31, 5. Heft. Pp. 1-144 a. 1 folded plate.(entire issue offered ""Heft"" 5). The Elster-Geitel-paper: pp. 109-126. Clean and fine.‎

‎"EPSTEIN, PAUL.‎

‎Zur Theorie des Starkeffektes. - [FIRST EQUATION ON THE STARK EFFECT IN HYDROGEN]‎

‎Leipzig, Ambrosius, 1916. 8vo. In full black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In ""Annalen der Physik"", Fourth series, No. 50, 1916. Entire issue offered. Library labels pasted on to front end-papers and stamps to title page, otherwise fine. Pp. 489-520. [Entire volume: VIII, 972 pp + 5 folded plates].‎

‎First printing of Epstein's seminal paper in which he was able to derive equations for the linear and quadratic Stark effect in hydrogen.""In his classic paper on the theory of the Stark effect [The present], the splitting of the spectral lines in a hydrogen atom by a strong electric field, he worked out the quantization rules in an invariant form and then used them to calculate the splitting of the hydrogen lines. The splitting effect, first observed by Johannes Stark in 1913, could not be explained along classical lines. Showing that Niels Bohr's Quantum description of the hydrogen atom could solve the problem made Epstein's reputation as a theoretical physicist. The match between his theoretical predictions and Stark's data furnished striking support for the RutherfordBohr atomic theory.Working independently, the German astronomer Karl Schwarzschild publicly announced the solution to the same problem one day after Epstein's paper appeared. (As Epstein relates it, Schwarzchild initially had the wrong formula. He corrected it after seeing an announcement of the development of Epstein's result.) Epstein's other contributions to the development of the quantum theory of atomic structure between 1916 and 1921 ranged from his extension of Bohr's theory to nonperiodic motions, including beta decay and the photoelectric effect, to the interference of spectral lines."" (DSB).‎

Bookseller reference : 50922

‎"ESNAULT-PELTERIE, ROBERT.‎

‎L'astronautique + L'exploration par fusées de la très haute atmosphère et la possibilité des voyages interplanétaires. Conférence faite à l'Assemblée générale de la Société Astronomique de France le 8 Juin 1927. - [FIRST TEXTBOOK ON ROCKETRY - PRESENTATION-COPY]‎

‎Paris, 1930 + 1928. Two 8vo-volumes. In a nice custommade leather-backed cloth-box with gilt lettering to front: ""Space Travel/ Robert Esnault-Pelterie"". L'astronautique: Uncut and unopened in original red printed wrappers (mounted with thick paper on inside of wrappers), spine restored, no loss of lettering. (4), 248, (2) pp. (in between pages 4 and 8, which are both numbered are actually 2 leaves, i.e. 4 pp. that are unnumbered""one is only printed on recto and one only on verso (errata) + 9 large folded plated. L'exploration de la très haute atmosphère et la possibilité des voyages interplanétaires: Uncut and unopened in the original printed wrappers (L'Astronomie, Revue mensuelle d'astronomie...). A few closed tears to spine and restoration to lower margin of front wrapper, far from affecting text. A fine copy. VII, (1), 96 pp.‎

‎First edition, presentation-copy, of the first text-book on rocketry and space-craft, together with the first edition of the important text of Esnault-Pelterie's 1927-symposium on the possibility of interplanetary travel. L'Astronautique with signed presentation-inscription to page 9: ""With compliments / Esnault / Oct 1932"". ""Robert Albert Charles Esnault-Pelterie (1881 - 1957) was a pioneering French spaceflight theorist and aircraft designer. He combined a mixture of theoretical and practical work and is well known for being the inventor of the control stick of the aeroplane. He was furthermore the fourth man in France to obtain the pilot's license.""L'Astronautique outlined the key steps involved in the launching of an Earth satellite, interplanetary travel and rockettrajectories. Esnault-Pelterie began building his own rocket engine early the following year [1931]. In 1932 a rocket engine experiment went horribly wrong when the tetranitromethane fuel with which he was working exploded and he lost four fingers."" (Harvey, Brian. Europe's Space Programme: To Ariane and Beyond, Springer, 2003, 3 pp.)Besides being remembered as a spaceflight-pioneer, Esnault-Pelteries has given name to the Esnault-Pelterie-crater on the Moon. ""In the 1937 universal exhibition he stages an 'Astronautics Hall' and his moon rocket became the basis of Tin Tin's cartoon moon rocket."" (Ibid., 4 pp.) L'Astronautique: Norman 715 (""Esnault-Pelterie's most important contribution to rocketry"")""L'exploration par fusées de la très haute atmosphère et la possibilité des voyages interplanétaires"" is based on a symposium given by Esnault-Pelterie to the french Astronautics Society on June 8, 1927. - issued as the ""Supplément au Bulletin de Mars 1928"" of ""L'Astronomie. Revue mensuelle d'astronomie de Météorologie et de Physique du Globe et Bulletin de la Société Astronomique de France.Richard Green 105.‎

Bookseller reference : 41456

‎"EULER Le Fils, (JOHANN ALBRECHT). - THE ELECTRICAL THEORY.‎

‎Recherches sur la Cause physiques de L'Electricité.‎

‎(Berlin, Haude et Spener, 1759). 4to. No wrappers, as issued in ""Mémoires de L'Academie Royale des Sciences et belles-Lettres"", tome XIII, 1757. With titlepage to the year 1757 with engraved titlevignette and pp. 125-159 and 1 folded engraved plate. A Stamp to titlepage.‎

‎First appearance of this paper which expands his prize-winning memoir from the Petersbourg Academy. He is now convinced by Aepinus of the importence of Franklin's distinction between positive and negative electricity. He elaborates his theory of the identity of the electrical fluid with the ether.‎

Bookseller reference : 46432

‎"EULER, (JOHANN ALBRECHT).‎

‎Premier (- Cinquieme) Mémoire de L'Influence de la Chaleur sur la Réfraction. (5 Parts).‎

‎(Berlin, Haude et Spener, 1769). 4to. No wrappers, as issued in ""Mémoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres"", 1762, tome XVIII. Pp. 279-342 a. 1 folded engraved plate.‎

‎"EULER, (JOHANN ALBRECHT).‎

‎Théorie de L'Inclination de LÉguille magnetique confirmé par des Expériences. Traduit du Latin.‎

‎(Berlin, Haude et Spener, 1757). 4to. No wrappers, as issued in ""Mémoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres"", tome XI, Année 1755, pp. 117-201 and 2 folded engraved plates.‎

‎First printing of Johann Euler's large memoir on earth magnetism.""Johann Albrecht Euler (27 November 1734 in St. Petersburg - 17 September 1800 in St. Petersburg) was an astronomer and mathematician. He was the first child of Leonhard Euler himself. In 1754 he became a member of the Berlin Academy. On Euler's return to St. Petersburg in 1765, he was appointed as the chair of physics at the St. Petersburg Academy. In St. Petersburg, he lived in his father's house"" Johann Albrecht's family occupied the ground floor. He won a total of 7 international academy prizes.""‎

Bookseller reference : 42772

‎"EULER, LEONHARD - DIOPTICAL THEORY.‎

‎Construction des Objectifs composés de deux différentes Sortes de verre qui ne produisent aucune Confusion, ni par leur Ouverture, ni par la Différente Réfrangibilité des Rayons, avec la Maniere la plus Avantageuse d'en faire des Lunettes. (+) Const...‎

‎(Berlin, Haude et Spener, 1768) 4to. No wrappers, as issued in ""Mémoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres"", tome XXII, Année 1766. Pp. 119-170 , pp. 171-201 and 2 folded engraved plates., pp. 202-212 and 1 folded engraved plate.‎

‎"EULER, LEONHARD.‎

‎Essai d'une Explication physique des Couleurs engendrees sur des Surfaces extrémement minces. (Essay concerning the physical explanation of colors which are issued from extremely thin surfaces). - [EULER'S WAVE-THEORY OF LIGHT]‎

‎(Berlin, Haude et Spener, 1754). 4to. Without wrappers as extracted from ""Mémoires de L'Academie Royale des Sciences et belles Lettres"", Tome VIII, pp. 262-282.‎

‎"EULER, LEONHARD.‎

‎Mémoire sur la plus grande Équation des Planetes, Par Mr. Euler.‎

‎(Berlin, Haude et Spener, 1748). 4to. No wrappers as issued in ""Memoires des L'Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles Lettres"", tome II, pp. 225-248.‎

‎"EULER, LEONHARD.‎

‎Ueber den Zustand des Gleichgewichts des Meers, wenn es von Sonne und Mond angezogen wird.‎

‎(Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1808). Without wrappers as extracted from ""Annalen der Physik und der Physikalischen Chemie. Hrsg. Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert"", Bd. 30, pp. 29-53 a. 1 engraved plate.‎

‎"EULER, LEONHARD. - A FOUNDING WORK IN WIND-MILL TECHNOLOGY.‎

‎Recherches plus exactes sur L'Effet des Moulins à Vent. (Refined studies into the effect of windmills)‎

‎(Berlin, Haude et Spener, 1758). 4to. No wrappers as issued in ""Memoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles Lettres"". tome XII, 1756. Pp. (2), 165-234 a. 1 folded engraved plate. Clean and fine. Having the Section-titlepage ""Mémoires.... Classe de mathématique""‎

‎"EULER, LEONHARD. - ANALYSING RELATIVE MOTION MATHEMATICALLY.‎

‎Application de la machine hydraulique de M. Segner a toutes sortes d'ouvrages et de ses avantages sur les autres machines hydrauliques dont on se sert ordinairement. (The application of Mr. Segner's hydrological machine to all sorts of work and its ...‎

‎(Berlin, Haude et Spener, 1753). 4to. No wrappers as issued in ""Memoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles Lettres"". Tome VII, 1751. Pp. 271-304 a. 2 folded engraved plates. Clean and fine.‎

‎First apperance of an importent paper in the theory of hydraulic analysis, exemplifying an early example of the theory of relative motion. The work is a more detailed analysis of an idea set forth in an earlier paper.Enestroem: E 202.‎

Bookseller reference : 48879

‎"EULER, LEONHARD. - DIOPTICAL THEORY.‎

‎Sur la Confusion que cause dans les Instrumens dioptriques la diverse Réfrangibilité des Rayons. (+) Considerations sur les nouvelles Lunettes D'Angleterre de mr. Dollond, et sur le Principe qui en est le Fondement. (2 Mémoirs).‎

‎(Berlin, Haude et Spener, 1769) 4to. No wrappers, as issued in ""Mémoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres"", tome XVIII, Année 1762. Pp. 195-225 and 1 folded engraved plate. + Pp. 226-248.‎

‎First printing of two importent Euler-papers on the mathematical theory of dioptrics, and how to avoid the confusions of lenses. - Eneström E 379 a. 380.‎

Bookseller reference : 44803

‎"EULER, LEONHARD. - FUNDAMENTAL PAPERS IN ACOUSTICS.‎

‎De la Propagation du Son (On the Propagation of Sound). (And same author:) Supplement aux Recherches sur la Propagation du Son (Supplement to the Research on the Propagation of Sound). (And same author:) Continuation des Recherches sur la Propagation ... - [THE WAVE EQUIATION FOR AERIAL ACOUSTICS DISCOVERED]‎

‎(Berlin, Haude et Spener, 1766). 4to. Without wrappers as issued in ""Mémoires de L'Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres"", tome XV, pp. 185-209 a. 1 engraved plate, pp.210-240 a. 2 engraved plates, pp. 241-264 and 1 engraved plate.‎

‎First editions of Eulers three main papers on the theory of sounds in which he formulated the WAVE EQUATION for the propagation of sounds in the air. In the first paper Euler analyzes the forces that act on a slice of air that is in a disturbed state at y but was initially at x. The analysis is customary in the modern elementary works. In the second paper Euler gets a result that is equivalent to the general formula ofinversion for partial differentiations, noting in addition that cylindrical and spherical waves also follow it.""Euler, Lagrange, and others worked on the propagation of sound in air. Euler wrote on the subject of sound frequently from the time he was twenty years old (1727) and established this field as a branch of mathematical physics...Three fine and definitive papers were read to the Berlin Academy in 1759 (the papers offered here). (Morris Kline). - Eneroth: E 305, E 306, E 307.‎

Bookseller reference : 39046

‎"EULER, LEONHARD. - MATHEMATICAL THEORY OF TELESCOPIC LENSES.‎

‎Méthode pour porter les verres objectifs des Lunettes a un plus haut degré de Perfection. (Methods to apply for improving the degree of perfection in the manufacture of telescopic lenses)‎

‎(Berlin, Haude et Spener, 1769). 4to. No wrappers, as issued in ""Mémoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles Lettres"", Année 1767, tome XXIII, pp. 131-164 a. 1 engraved plate.‎