‎Physics‎

‎"HELMHOLTZ, HERMANN von. - FURTHER PROOF OF THE ""CONSERVATION OF ENERGY-PRINCIPLE""‎

‎Ueber galvanische Ströme, verursacht durch Concentrationsunterschiede" " Folgerungen aus der mechanischen Wärmetheorie. (On galvanic Currents caused by Differences in Concentration: Deductions from the Mechanical Theory of Heat).‎

‎Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1878. Without wrappers as issued in ""Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von G. Wiedemann."", Neue Folge Bd. 3, 2. Heft. Pp. 161-320 a. 1 folded plate. (entire issue offered). Helmholtz' paper: pp. 201-216. With titlepage to volume 3.‎

‎"HELMHOLTZ, HERMANN von. - RECORDING THE FIRST PRESENTATION OF THE LAW OF CONSERVATION OF ENERGY.‎

‎Physiologische Wärmeerscheinungen. Bericht über ""Der Inhalt der Schrift ""Ueber die Erhaltung der Kraft"""".‎

‎Berlin, G. Reimer, 1850. Contemp. hcalf, profusely gilt spine. XXXII,622 pp. In: ""Fortschritte der Physik im Jahre 1847. Dargestellt von der physikalischen Gesellschaft zu Berlin"". III. Jahrgang. Redigirt von G. Karsten. XLIV,703 pp. Stamp on titlepage. Helmholtz's paper: pp. 232-245. Clean and fine.‎

‎"HELMHOLTZ, HERMANN von. - THE PRELUDE TO ""ÜBER DIE ERHALTUNG DER KRAFT"" AND HIS FIRST PAPER ON FORCE CONSERVATION‎

‎Physiologische Wärmeerscheinungen. Bericht ""über die Theorie der physiologischen Wärmeerscheinungen für 1845"" (Report on the Work done on the Theory of Animal Heat in 1845).‎

‎Berlin, G. Reimer, 1847. Contemp. hcalf, profusely gilt spine. Light wear along edges. XXXII,622 pp. In: ""Fortschritte der Physik im Jahre 1845. Dargestellt von der physikalischen Gesellschaft zu Berlin"". I. Jahrgang. Redigirt von G. Karsten. XXXII,622 pp. A stamp on titlepage. Helmholtz's paper: pp. 346-355. Clean and fine.‎

‎"HENLY (HENLEY), WILLIAM.‎

‎Experiments and Observations in Electricity. Part I -(II).‎

‎London, W. Bowyer and J. Nichols, 1777. 4to. Extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"", Year 1777. Vol. 67 - Part I. Pp. 85-143 a. 1 folded engraved plate. Clean and fine, wide-margined.‎

‎"HENRY, JOSEPH - THE DISCOVERY OF SELF-INDUCTION - GERMAN VERSION.‎

‎Ueber elektro-dynamische Induction.‎

‎(Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1842). Without wrappers. In ""Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von J.C. Poggendorff"", Ergänzungsband 1, Stück 2. Pp. 193-384 a. 1 folded engraved plate. (The entire issue offered). Henry's paper: pp. 282-312.‎

‎"HENRY, JOSEPH.‎

‎Contributions to Electricity and Magnetism. No. III (and) IV. On Electro-magnetic Induction.‎

‎London, Richard and John E.Taylor, 1840-41. 8vo. 2 contemp. hmorocco. Tears to spines. Frontcovers on both volumes loose. Stamp to foot of titlepages. In: ""The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science. Conducted by David Brewster et al."". Vol. XVI a. vol. XVIII. VIII,607,(1) pp. a. 5 plates. + VIII,616 pp., 2 plates. (Entire volumes offered). Henry's papers: pp. 200-210, 254-265, 551-562, textillustr. (in vol. XVI) a. pp. 482-514, textillustr. (in vol. XVIII).‎

‎"HENRY, JOSEPH. - DISCOVERY OF SELF-INDUCTION.‎

‎Facts in reference to the Spark, &c from along conductor uniting the poles of a Galvanic Battery.‎

‎Philadelphia, Fraklin Institute, 1835. 8vo. Later full green cloth. Tome-and titlelabels in leather with gilt lettering on spine. In: ""Journal of the Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania... Edited by Thomas P. Jones"", Vol. XV. New series. Engraved frontisp. (2),446 pp., 2 folded engraved plates and 2 folded engraved maps. (Entire volume offered). Henry's announcement: pp. 169-70. A stamp to verso of frontispiece (Library of Congress duplicate stamp).‎

‎"HEOU-FEO TSEOU.‎

‎A New Electronic Theory of Organic Reactions - [PRESENTATION-COPY FOR NIELS BOHR]‎

‎[No place, no printer], 1937. 8vo. In the original red full cloth with gilt lettering to spine. With author's presentation inscription to Danish physicist Niels Bohr of front free end-paper: ""To Professor Dr. Niels Bohr / With the compliments of the author / Heou-Feo Tseou"". IV, 223 pp.‎

‎"HERAPATH, JOHN - THE KINETIC THEORY OF GASES.‎

‎On the Physical Properties of Gases. (To Dr. Thomsen) (+) A Mathematical Inquiry into the Causes, Laws, and principal Phaenomena of heat, Gases, Gravitation, &c. (3 Parts).‎

‎London, Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1816 a. 1821. Bound in 2 uniform contemp. moiré boards. Light wear along edges and a fes smaller scratches. In: ""Annals of Philosophy" " or, Magazine of Chemistry, Mineralogy, Mechanics, Natural History... By Thomas Thomson."", Vol. VIII and New series Vol. I. VIII,479 pp. a. 9 engraved plates, VIII,479 pp. a. 7 engraved plates. (Entire volumes offered). Herapath's papers: pp. 56-60 (1816) a. pp. 273-293, 340-351 a. 401-416.‎

‎"HERMANN, GRETE.‎

‎Über die Grundlagen physikalischer Aussagen in den älteren und den modernen Theorien.‎

‎Berlin, Offentliches Leben, 1937. 8vo. Offprint in the original wrappers. Wrappers with minor miscolouring and top left corner of front wrapper slightly bended, otherwise a very nice and clean copy. 90 pp.‎

‎"HERSCHEL, J. F. W.‎

‎On certain remarkable Instances of deviation from Newton's Scale in the Tints developed by Crystals, with one Axis of Double Refraction, on exposure to Polarized Light.‎

‎London, Taylor and Francis, 1833. 4to. As extracted, in ""Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society"", volume 4. Fine and clean. Pp. (21)-87.‎

‎"HERSCHEL, J.F.W. (JOHN FREDERICK WILLIAM). - THE ""HERSCHEL CONDITION"" INTRODUCED.‎

‎On the aberration of compound lenses and object-glasses. Read March 22, 1821.‎

‎London, W. Bulmer and W. Nicol, 1821. 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1821 - Part I. With titlepage to Part I. Pp. 222-267 a. 1 engraved plate. Verso of titlepage with 2 stamps.‎

‎"HERSCHEL, WILLIAM.‎

‎On the Proper Motion of the Sun and Solar System. - [DISCOVERY OF THE MOVEMENT OF THE SUN - PMM 227]‎

‎London, Lockyer Davis and Peter Elmsly, 1783. 4to. In recent marbled paper wrappers. Extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"", vol. 73. Including title-page of volume. A few leaves reinforced in margin. (3), iv, (247)-284 pp. + three folded plates.‎

‎"HERSCHEL, WILLIAM. - THE BASIS OF INTERFEROMETRIC IMAGING IN ASTRONOMY.‎

‎Experiments for ascertaining how far Telescopes will enable us to determine very small Angles, and to distinguish the real from the spurious Diameters of celestial and terrestrial Objects: with an Application of the Result ofthese Experiments to a ser...‎

‎(London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1805). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1805 - Part I. Pp. 31-64 and 1 engraved plate. Clean and fine.‎

‎"HERTZ, H. (HEINRICH RUDOLF).‎

‎Ueber Strahlen electrischer Kraft. (Aus den Sitzungsberichte der Berliner Acad....Mitgeteilt von Hrn. Verfasser).‎

‎Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1889. Without wrappers as issued in ""Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von G. Wiedemann."", Neue Folge Bd. 36, 4. Heft. Pp.669-936 a. 2 folded plates. (Entire issue offered). Hertz's paper: pp. 669-783. The last leaves loose.‎

‎"HERTZ, H. (HEINRICH RUDOLF). - CONFIRMING THE ANALOGY BETWEEN ELECTRIC - AND LIGHTWAVES.‎

‎Ueber die Einwirkung einer geradlinigen Schwingung auf eine benachbarte Strombahn. (+) Ueber Inductionserschneinungen, hervorgerufen durch die electrischen Vorgänge in Isolatoren. (Aus den Sitzungsber. der Berl. Acad. vom 10. Nov. 1887, mit einem Zusa...‎

‎Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1888. Conemp. 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 and small stamps to verso of plates. ""Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von G. Wiedemann."", Neue Folge Bd. 34,. VIII,1048 pp. a. 8 folded engraved plates. (Entire volume offered). Hertz' papers: pp. 155-170, pp. 273-285, pp. 551-569, pp. 609-623.‎

‎"HERTZ, HEINRICH.‎

‎Ueber die Gleichgewicht schwimmender elastischer Platten.‎

‎Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1884. Without wrappers as issued in ""Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg.von G. Wiedemann."", Neue Folge Band XXII, No 7. With halftitle to vol. 24. (Entire issue 7) Pp. 305-464 a. 3 folded lithographed plates. Hertz's paper: pp. 449-455. Clean and fine. Halftitle with a small stamp.‎

‎"HERTZ, HEINRICH. - HERTZ'S DOCTORAL DISSERTATION.‎

‎Ueber die Vertheilung der Elektricität auf der Oberfläche bewegter Leiter.‎

‎Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1880. Without wrappers as issued in ""Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von G. Wiedemann."", Neue Folge Bd. 13, 6. Heft. Pp. 209-384 a. 1 folded plate, (entire issue offered ""Heft"" 6). Hertz's paper: pp. 266-275.‎

‎"HERZOG, R. O. (+) WILLI JANCKE.‎

‎Roentgenspektrographische Beobactungen an Zellulose.‎

‎Berlin, Springer, 1920. 8vo. In comtemporary half cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In ""Zeitschrift für Physik"", Band 3. Entire volume offered. Stamp to title page. Otherwise a fine and clean copy. Pp. 196-99. [Entire volume: IV, 476 pp.].‎

‎"HILBERT, DAVID.‎

‎Die Grundlagen der Physik.‎

‎Julius Springer, Berlin 1924. 8vo. Bound with the original front wrapper in contemporary dark blue full cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In ""Mathematische Annalen, 92 Band, 1924."" Light writing in pencil to title page, other fine and clean throughout. [Hilbert:] 1-32 pp. [Entire volume: (2), 316 pp.].‎

‎First printing of Hilbert's important contribution to the unification of gravitational theory and electrodynamics. Hilbert stated that the present paper essentially was a reprint with insignificant alterations. This is, however, not entirely true as several Hilbert biographers have pointed out, that this version contain ""major conceptual adjustments and a recognition of its deductive structure"" (Renn, The Genesis of General Relativity, p.930). ""...it was Hilbert's aim to give not just a theory of gravitation but an axiomatic theory of the world. This lends an exalted quality to his paper, from the title, 'Die Grundlagen der Physik', The Foundations of Physics, to the concluding paragraph, in which he expressed his conviction that his fundamental equations would eventually solve the riddles of atomic structure"" (Pais: Subtle is the Lord, pp. 257-258). In Hilbert's 1915-paper he falsly believed that electromagnetism was essentially a gravitational phenomenon. ""These and other errors are expurgated in an article Hilbert wrote in 1924 [the present paper]. It is again entitled 'Die Grundlagen der Physik' and contains a synopsis of his 1915 paper and a sequel to it written a year later. Hilbert's collected works, each volume of which contains a preface by Hilbert himself, does not include these two early papers, but only the one of 1924"" (Pais, Subtle is the Lord…, p. 258)‎

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‎"HITTORF, JOHANN WILHELM. - INTRODUCING THE NOTION OF ""TRANSPORT NUMBERS"" OF IONS.‎

‎Ueber die Wanderungen der Ionen während der Elektrolyse. Erste-Zweite und Dritte Mittheilung (+) Rechtfertigung seiner Mittheilungen ""Ueber Wanderungen der Ionen"". Elektrolyse einer lösung zweier Salze. (4 papers).‎

‎Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1853, 1856, 1858, 1859. Without wrappers in ""Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von J.C. Poggendorff"", Dritte und Vierte Reihe, Bd. 89 No. 6 u. 7, Bd. 98 No 5, Bd. 103 No 1, Bd. 106 No. 3. The 5 entire issues offered. Hittorf's papers pp. 177-211 (Bd. 89), pp. 1-33 (Bd.98), pp. 1-56 (Bd.103), pp.337-411 a. 513-586 (Bd. 106). In all 7 engraved plates. All issues fine and clean.‎

‎First printing of all 4 fundamental papers on electrochemistry, where Hittorf states his concepts of ionic migration and transport numbers, concepts that should be the foundation stones of the later evolved theory of ionization, culminating in Svante Arrhenius's famous discovery of electrolytic dissociation.""After Faraday's experimental investigations in 1834, it was accepted that the electricity passing through an electrolytic cell was carried by the movement of charged ions produced from the decomposition of the compounds making up the solution. Daniell had extended these ideas in 1839 and showed that salts were compounds not of acid anhydrides and metallic oxides as had been thought, but of metallic cations and elemental or compound acid anions. Believing that the conductivity of solutions was due to these ions, he began a study of their transference. In 1853 Hittorf took up the problem. He extended the ideas of Daneill by reasoning inthe following manner: Cations and anions exist in solutions and migrate under the influence of current through the solution. The migration of the cation toward the cathode and away from the anode, and the deposition of the anode on the positive electrode, together result in a decrease of teh salt in the neighborhood of the anode. A similar analysis shows that there is also a decrease in the concemtration of the salt in the neighborhood of the cathode. If the motion of the two dissimilar ions were the same, the decrease in the concentration of the salt would be the same at the two electrodes.....Hwe concluded that the speeds of migration...were different and he characterized this fact by defining ""transport numbers"", which specified the portion of the transport of electricity carried by each ion. (DSB VI, p. 439). - Leicester & Klickstein ""A Source Book of Chemistry"", p. 400-406.In the 2 issues of 1853 are contained 2 papers by Helmholtz of fundamental cjharacter, both in physiology and on the theory on the conservation of energy. HERMAN HELMHOLTZ: ""Ueber einige Gesetze der Vertheilung elektrischer Ströme in körperlichen Leitern mit Anwendung auf die thierisch-elektrischen Versuche (+) Ueber einige Gesetze....(Schluss). 2 papers. 1853. (Bd. 89 No.6 a. 7). Pp. 211-233 a. pp. 353-377.""In this work (the papers offered) Helmholtz for the first time enters the field of mathematical physics and physiology, with the full equipment of the higher mathematical analysis, of which he was the only master in its application to the latter science.....This very interesting and fundamental work on the distribution of electrical currents in material conductors is purely mathematical in character, owing to Helmholtz's method of proving the theorems, which are intelligible enough from the physical point of view, It is essentially connected with the treatise on the CONSERVATION OF ENERGY, since helmholtz merely substitutes for the expression 'free tension' there employed, the identical concept of Gauss's potentia, or Green's potential function.""(Koenigsberger in ""Hermann von helmholtz"", p. 99-103.).‎

Bookseller reference : 43082

‎"HILSCH, R. (+) R. W. POHL.‎

‎Steuerung von Elektronenströmen mit einem Dreielektrodenkristall und ein Modell einer Sperrschicht.‎

‎Berlin, Springer, 1938 & 1939. 8vo. In contemporary halv cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In ""Zeitschrift für Physik"", Bd. 111, 1938 & 1939.. Entire volume offered. Stamp to front free end-paper and titlepage, otherwise fine and clean. Pp. 399-408. [Entire volume: IV, 794 pp.].‎

‎"HITTORF, W. (JOHANN WILHELM). - CATHODE RAYS - EARLY TELEVISION.‎

‎Ueber die Elektricitätsleitung der Gase. Erste- Dritte Mittheilung. (3 papers in 4 parts).‎

‎Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1869, 1874, 1879. Contemp. hcalf, raised bands, gilt spine with gilt lettering. A few scratches to binding. In ""Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg.von Poggendorff"", Bd. 136. X,644 pp. and 8 folded engraved plates. (The entire volume offered). Hittorf's paper: pp. 1-31 a. 197-234. With 2 engraved plates showing apparatus. + (2. Mitth.) Jubelband (Poggendorff) pp. 430-445. (Extracted) + (3. Mitth.) Annalen, Neue Folge Bd. VII, No 8. Pp. 497-680 a. 1 plate (entire issue offered). Hittorf's paper: pp. 558-631.‎

‎"HOHENBERG, P. & W. KOHN.‎

‎Inhomogeneous Electron Gas. - [THE DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY (DFT)]‎

‎Lancaster and New York, American Institute of Physics, 1964. Lex8vo. Volume 136, 9 November, No. 3B, 1964 of ""The Physical Review"", Second Series. In the original printed blue wrappers. A bit of fading to spine. Previous owner's stamp to front wrapper (C. Møller). A very fresh and clean copy. Pp. 1492-1505. [Entire issue: Pp. B577-B912].‎

‎First edition of Kohn and Hohnberg's seminal and groundbreaking paper, in which they developed the Density Functional Theory (DFT)"" a theory used in physics and chemistry based on quantum mechanics to investigate the electronic structure many-body systems, in particular atoms and molecules. The theory is also known as The Hohenberg-Kohn theorem. For his work on the DFT, Kohn was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1998. ""Since its birth in the 1960's (Hohenberg and Kohn, 1964) and especially with the developments in recent years, density functional theory (DFT) has been enormously successful for calculating the electronic structure and properties of ground-state systems. Modern DFT is in principles an exact theory, built on the firm foundation of the Hohenberg-Kohn theorem (1964)."" (Gonis, Electron correlations and materials properties 2, 2003, p. 285).A study in 2004 of all citations to the Physical Review journals from 1893 until 2003, found Kohn to be the author of five of the 100 papers with the ""highest citation impact"", including the present.‎

Bookseller reference : 43434

‎"HOLTSMARK, J.‎

‎Über die Verbreiterung von Spektrallinien. - [THE HOLTSMARK DISTRIBUTION]‎

‎Leipzig, Ambrosius Barth, 1919. 8vo. In full black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In ""Annalen der Physik"", Vierte Folge, Band 58. Entire volume offered. Library labels to front end papers and stamp to title page, otherwise fine and clean. Pp. 577-630. [Entire volume: 760, VIII pp.].‎

‎First appearance of Holtsmark's important paper in which he for the first time introduced his ""Holtsmark Distribution"". The Holtsmark distribution has applications in plasma physics and astrophysicsJ. Holtsmark proposed the distribution as a model for the fluctuating fields in plasma due to chaoticmotion of charged particles. It is also applicable to other types of Coulomb forces, in particular to modeling of gravitating bodies, and thus is important in astrophysics.‎

Bookseller reference : 50375