‎Physique‎

‎"PLANCK, MAX. - LAST STEPS TOWARDS QUANTUM THEORY.‎

‎Ueber irreversible Strahlungsvorgänge. (+) Nachtrag. (Beide:) (Für die Annalen bearbeitet vom Verfasser). (+) Bemerkungen zu einer Abhandlung über Thermodynamik des Hrn. K. Wesendonck.‎

‎Berlin, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1900. Contemp. hcloth. over marbled boards, gilt title to spine. Housed in a fine black morocco slicase, gilt borders on sides, spine with raised bands and gilt lettering. In: ""Annalen der Physik"", Vierte Folge, Band 1. VIII, 792 pp. + 3 folded engraved plates.(Entire volume offered). Planck's papers: pp. 69-122" 621-624"719-737. A very fine and clean copy. With the bookplate of Andras Gedeon on inside frontcover.‎

‎First edition of these fundamental and highly influential Planck-papers in which he defines his concept of entropy and heat radiation and hereby ANTICIPATES HIS FAMOUS SEMINAL PAPER OF 1900 which redefined physics and took it to the 20th century. - The first two papers ""Ueber irreversible Strahlungsvorgänge"" were rewritten for the ""Annalen"" and was first introduced in ""Sitzungsberichte d.k. Akad. Wissensch. zu Berlin"".""By invoking the hypothesis of natural radiation Planck not only succeeded in obtaining a relation between the energy of the resonator and the intensity of radiation for a given wavelength or frequency, but also in defining the entropy of radiation by a proper expression such that the change of the total entropy was always a positive quantity"". (Mehra, Jagdish. The historical development of quantum theory, 2001, p. 36). These results found in the period 1894-00 culminated in the present paper ""Ueber irreversible Strahlungsvorgänge"" and for the first time incorporates the concept of natural radiation and made a purely electromagnetic definition of entropy and of temperature.‎

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‎"PLANCK, MAX.‎

‎Ueber die Erregung von Electricität und Wärme in Elektrolyten.‎

‎Leipzig, Barth, 1910. 8vo. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine with gilt lettering. Spine slightly rubbed. A stamp to htitle and titlepage. In: ""Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von G. Wiedemann"", Vierte Folge, Bd. 39.. VIII,648 pp. (Entire volume offered). Planck's paper: pp. 161-187. Clean and fine.‎

‎First printing. - Akademie No. 17.Also with Röntgen ""Electrische Eigenschaften des Quarzes"", pp. 16-24, papers by Paschen, Ångström, Elster & Geitel. Drude ""Bestimmung der optischen Constanten der Metalle, pp. 481-554, Lenard etc.‎

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‎"PLANCK, MAX.‎

‎Ueber die Natur des weissen Lichtes.‎

‎Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1902. 8vo. In contemporary half calf with gilt lettering and red title label to spine. In ""Annalen der Physik, Vierte Volge"", Band. 7. Entire volume offered. Spine lacking the upper 1 cm of spine. Pp. 390-400. [Entire volume: VIII, 948, (1) pp. + 3 plates].‎

‎First printing of Planck's paper on the nature of white light.‎

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‎"PLANCK, MAX. - LAST STEPS TOWARDS QUANTUM THEORY.‎

‎Ueber irreversible Strahlungsvorgänge. (+) Nachtrag. (Beide:) (Für die Annalen bearbeitet vom Verfasser). (+) Bemerkungen zu einer Abhandlung über Thermodynamik des Hrn. K. Wesendonck.‎

‎Berlin, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1900. Later full buckram. Stamp on verso of titlepage. Narrow inner margins (binding style with cords in margin). In: ""Annalen der Physik"", Vierte Folge, Band 1. VIII, 792 pp. + 3 folded engraved plates.(Entire volume offered). Planck's papers: pp. 69-122" 621-624"719-737. Internally fine and clean.‎

‎First edition of these fundamental and highly influential Planck-papers in which he defines his concept of entropy and heat radiation and hereby ANTICIPATES HIS FAMOUS SEMINAL PAPER OF 1900 which redefined physics and took it to the 20th century. - The first two papers ""Ueber irreversible Strahlungsvorgänge"" were rewritten for the ""Annalen"" and was first introduced in ""Sitzungsberichte d.k. Akad. Wissensch. zu Berlin"".""By invoking the hypothesis of natural radiation Planck not only succeeded in obtaining a relation between the energy of the resonator and the intensity of radiation for a given wavelength or frequency, but also in defining the entropy of radiation by a proper expression such that the change of the total entropy was always a positive quantity"". (Mehra, Jagdish. The historical development of quantum theory, 2001, p. 36). These results found in the period 1894-00 culminated in the present paper ""Ueber irreversible Strahlungsvorgänge"" and for the first time incorporates the concept of natural radiation and made a purely electromagnetic definition of entropy and of temperature.‎

Référence libraire : 49800

‎"PLANCK, MAX.‎

‎Ueber die Natur des weissen Lichtes.‎

‎Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1902. 8vo. In contemporary half calf with gilt lettering and red title label to spine. In ""Annalen der Physik, Vierte Volge"", Band. 7. Entire volume offered. Stamp to title page. Pp. 390-400. [Entire volume: VIII, 948, (1) pp. + 3 plates].‎

‎First printing of Planck's paper on the nature of white light.‎

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‎"PLANCK, MAX.‎

‎Zur Theorie der Wärmestrahlung.‎

‎Leipzig, Barth, 1910. 8vo. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine, titlelabel with gilt lettering. Spine a bit rubbed and lower part of hinge weakening. In: ""Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von G. Wiedemann"", Vierte Folge, Bd. 31.. VIII,1064 pp. and 6 plates. (Entire volume offered). Planck's paper: pp. 758-768. Internally clean and fine.‎

‎First printing of an importent paper in which Planck tries to ecplains some of the difficulties with the quantum theory by pointing to the central exchange of energy between matter and radient energy and criticising Jean's theory.""Planck explained his point of view in some detail in an article which he submitted (the paper offered) in January 1910... There he reviewed the main progress in radiation theory that had taken place since 1900, and also indicated his own attitude towards it. Two extreme points of view, he said, could be assumed. The most conservative way was raken by Jans, who had derived from the equations of classical mechanics and electrodynamics the classical radiation equation. Since the equation obviously disagreed with experiments, the necessity arose to find a way of modifying the equations of dynamics so as to include the existence of the quantum of action 'h'."" (Mehra & Rechenberg Vol. I:1, pp. 123 ff.).‎

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‎"PLANCK, MAX.‎

‎Über die Natur der Wärmestrahlung.‎

‎Leipzig, Barth, 1924. 8vo. In full black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In ""Annalen der Physik"", Vol. 73, 1924. Entire volume offered. Library labels pasted on to front free end papers, small stamp to first page of contents. Otherwise fine and clean. Pp. 272-288. [Entire volume: VIII, 650 pp. + 4 plates.].‎

‎First appearance of Planck's paper on the Nature of thermal radiation.‎

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‎"PLANCK, MAX -‎

‎Max Planck zur Feier seines 60. Geburtstages.‎

‎Berlin, Julius Springer, 1918. 4to. Original printed yellow wrappers. In: ""Die Naturwissenschaften"", Sechster Jahrgang. Heft 17. 26. April 1918.Portrait of Max Planck. Small piece of paper lacking (2 cm2) of left margin of front wrapper and first 3 leaves, not affecting text. Pp. (193-) 263. The complete issue offered.‎

‎"PLANCK, MAX.‎

‎Ueber das Princip der Vermehrung der Entropie. - [""PLANCK'S FIRST GREAT SCIENTIFIC ACCOMPLISHMENT"" (EINSTEIN)]‎

‎Leipzig, Barth, 1887. 8vo. Bound in contemporary half cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In ""Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von G. Wiedemann"", Neue Folge, Bd. XXXII"". Entire volume offered. Title page and first leaf of content page detached and with marginal tears. Otherwise a fine copy. Pp. 462-503. [Entire volume: VIII, 704 pp. + 5 folded plates].‎

‎"PLANCK, MAX.‎

‎Ueber die Natur des weissen Lichtes.‎

‎Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1902. 8vo. In contemporary half calf with gilt lettering and red title label to spine. In ""Annalen der Physik, Vierte Volge"", Band. 7. Entire volume offered. Spine lacking the upper 1 cm of spine. Pp. 390-400. [Entire volume: VIII, 948, (1) pp. + 3 plates].‎

‎"PLANCK, MAX.‎

‎Ueber die Natur des weissen Lichtes.‎

‎Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1902. 8vo. In contemporary half calf with gilt lettering and red title label to spine. In ""Annalen der Physik, Vierte Volge"", Band. 7. Entire volume offered. Stamp to title page. Pp. 390-400. [Entire volume: VIII, 948, (1) pp. + 3 plates].‎

‎"PLANCK, MAX.‎

‎Zur Theorie der Wärmestrahlung.‎

‎Leipzig, Barth, 1910. 8vo. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine, titlelabel with gilt lettering. Spine a bit rubbed and lower part of hinge weakening. In: ""Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von G. Wiedemann"", Vierte Folge, Bd. 31.. VIII,1064 pp. and 6 plates. (Entire volume offered). Planck's paper: pp. 758-768. Internally clean and fine.‎

‎"PLANCK, MAX.‎

‎Über die Natur der Wärmestrahlung.‎

‎Leipzig, Barth, 1924. 8vo. In full black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In ""Annalen der Physik"", Vol. 73, 1924. Entire volume offered. Library labels pasted on to front free end papers, small stamp to first page of contents. Otherwise fine and clean. Pp. 272-288. [Entire volume: VIII, 650 pp. + 4 plates.].‎

‎"PLANCK, MAX. - HIS FIRST SCIENTIFIC PAPER.‎

‎Die Theorie des Sättigungsgesetzes.‎

‎Leipzig, Barth, 1881. 8vo. No wrappers. In: ""Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von G. Wiedemann"", Neue Folge, Bd. XIII. No. 7. With titlepage to Bd. XIII. Pp. (385-) 544 a. 1 plate. (Entire issue offered). Planck's paper: pp. 535-543. Stamp to titlepage and verso of. Clean and fine.‎

‎"PLANCK, MAX. - HIS THIRD SCIENTIFIC PAPER.‎

‎Ueber das thermodynamische Gleichgewicht von Gasmengen.‎

‎Leipzig, Barth, 1883. 8vo. Contemp. hcalf. Raised bands gilt spine with gilt lettering. Spine a bit rubbed. In: ""Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von G. Wiedemann"", Neue Folge, Bd. XIX. VIII,956 pp. and 10 plates. (Entire volume offered). Planck's paper: pp. 358-378. Internally clean and fine. Stamp to titlepage and verso of.‎

‎"PLANCK, MAX. - LAST STEPS TOWARDS QUANTUM THEORY.‎

‎Ueber irreversible Strahlungsvorgänge. (+) Nachtrag. (Beide:) (Für die Annalen bearbeitet vom Verfasser). (+) Bemerkungen zu einer Abhandlung über Thermodynamik des Hrn. K. Wesendonck.‎

‎Berlin, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1900. Contemp. hcloth. over marbled boards, gilt title to spine. Housed in a fine black morocco slicase, gilt borders on sides, spine with raised bands and gilt lettering. In: ""Annalen der Physik"", Vierte Folge, Band 1. VIII, 792 pp. + 3 folded engraved plates.(Entire volume offered). Planck's papers: pp. 69-122" 621-624 "719-737. A very fine and clean copy. With the bookplate of Andras Gedeon on inside frontcover.‎

‎"PLÜCKER, (JULIUS). - THE DISCOVERY OF CATHODE RAYS.‎

‎Ueber die Constitution der elektrischen Spectra der verschiedenen Gase und Dämpfe. (+) Nachtrag zu der Abhandlung über die Consstitution der elektrischen Spectra der verschiedenen Gase und Dämpfe. (2 papers).‎

‎Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1859. Without wrappers as issued in ""Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg.von Poggendorff"", Bd. 107, Viertes Stück.(= Heft No. 8 of 1859). (The entire issue offered (Heft 4 of vol. 107 with titlepage to vol. 107). Pp. 497-660. - Plücker's papers: pp. 497-539 a. 638-643. Clean and fine.‎

‎"PLÜCKER, JULIUS.‎

‎On the Magnetic Induction of Crystals. Received arch 20, - Read April 23, 1857.‎

‎(London, Richard Taylor and William Francis, 1859). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" Vol. 149 - Part I. Pp.‎

‎"POULSEN, VALDEMAR. - THE INVENTION OF THE SOUND RECORDER.‎

‎Das Telegraphon.‎

‎(Berlin, J.A. Barth, 1900). No wrappers. In ""Annalen der Physik"", Vierte Folge. Band 3, No 12. Pp. 545-766. (Entire issue offered, No. 12). Poulsen's paper: pp. 754-760, textillustrations. Clean and fine, but punched in inner margins after cords, no loss of text.‎

‎First printing of this paper in which Poulsen describes his invention of the ""TELEGRAPHON"", THE FIRST magnetic sound recorder. The Telegraphone was shown, but not operated at the Paris Exposition in 1900 and obtained a Grand Prix.""The magnetic recording was demonstrated in principle as early as 1898 by Valdemar Poulsen in his telegraphone. Magnetic wire recording, and its successor, magnetic tape recording, involve the use of a magnetizable medium which moves past a recording head. An electrical signal, which is analogous to the sound that is to be recorded, is fed to the recording head, inducing a pattern of magnetization similar to the signal. A playback head (which may be the same as the recording head) can then pick up the changes in the magnetic field from the tape and convert them into an electrical signal.""(Wikepedia).The issue contains further Max Planck's paper ""Kritik zweier Sätze des Hrn. W. Wien"", pp. 764-766, and Ångstrøm ""Ueber die Bedeutung des Wasserdampfes und der Kohlensäure bei Absorption der Erdatmosphäre."", pp. 720-732.Shiers ""Early Television"" no 289.‎

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‎"PONCELET, (JEAN VICTOR).‎

‎Lecons préparatoires au lever d'usines. Formant les 6e et 7e Sections du cours de mécanique appliquée aux machines d. Mr. le Colonel du Génie Poncelet avec des Additions contenant les matières introduites dans l'enseignement depuis la dernière édi...‎

‎(Metz, Lithog. de l'Ecole d'Application de l'Artillerie et du Génie), 1844. 4to. Original lithographed wrappers. Uncut. 291 pp., 35 + 38 lithographed textillustrations. Clean and fine. Throughout in lithographed handwriting.‎

‎""Beginning in 1824 Poncelet had essentially shifted his attention from geometry to applied mechanics. Although he had previously studied certain machines and ways of improving them, it was during the summer of 1824 that he achieved his first important innovation: the design and realization of an undershot waterwheel with curved paddles, which possessed a much increased efficiency. The paper he wrote on this subject gained him a prize in mechanics from the Académie des Sciences in 1825. After new trials conducted on full-scale models, he presented a revised version of his study in 1827. Yet, most of his activity at this period was devoted to elaborating and continually updating the course in mechanics applied to machines that he gave from 1825 to 1834."" (DSB).‎

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‎"POISSON, (SIMÉON-DENIS). - CO-FOUNDING THE ""MATHEMATICAL THEORY OF ELASTICITY"".‎

‎Mémoire sur l'Équilibre et le Mouvement des Corps élastiques. (Lu à l'Academie des Sciences, le 14 avril 1828).‎

‎(Paris, Crochard, 1828). 8vo. Without wrappers. In 'Annales de Chimie et de Physique', Series 2 - Volume 37, Cahier 4. Pp. 337-444 (entire issue offered). Poisson's paper:pp. 337-355.‎

‎First appearance of one of the founding papers in ""The mathematical Theory of Elasticity"" and Poisson's first on the subject. ""The theory of elasticity based on the idea of a molecular structure attracted Poisson's interest, and he did much to lay the foundations of that science.""(Timoshenko p. 111 ff.).""In the preface to the long ""Mémoire sur I’équilibre et le movement des corps élastiques"" (14 April 1828), the hints yield to explicit declaration. In applying mathematics to physics, Poisson stated, it was necessary at first to employ abstraction and ""in this regard, Lagrange has gone as far as possible in replacing physical ties by equations between coordinates."" Now, however, ""along with this admirable conception,"" it is necessary to ""construct physical mechanics, the principle of which is to reduce everything to molecular actions."" In other words, the death of Laplace the previous year enabled Poisson to move boldly ahead with his long range plans and to present himself as Laplace’s successor.""(DSB)The issue offered contains notable papers by Berzelius, Gay-Lussac and others.‎

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‎"POISSON, (SIMÉON-DENIS).‎

‎Mémoire sur les températures de la partie solide du globe, de l'atmosphère, et du lieu de l'espace où la terre se trouve actuellement.‎

‎(Paris, Bachelier), 1837. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome IV, No 5. Pp. (137-) 188. (Entire issue offered). Poisson's paper: pp. (137-) 166.‎

‎First apperance of this importent appendix to his famous ""Theorie mathématique de la chaleur"". (1835).""In Théorie mathématique de la chaleur (1835), reprinted in 1837 with an important supplement, he offered evidence of his own originality in his treatment of the integration of the auxiliary differential equation"".‎

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‎"POWELL, CECIL FRANK.‎

‎Selected Papers of Cecil Frank Powell.‎

‎Amsterdam & London, North-Holland Publishing Company, 1972. 4to. Publishers full cloth with dust jacket. Jacket with a closed tear. A fine copy. XIII,(1),456 pp.‎

‎Cecil Frank Powell was awarded the 1950 Nobel Prize in Physics ""for his development of the photographic method of studying nuclear processes and his discoveries regarding mesons made with this method"".‎

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‎"POINCARÉ, HENRI. - THE POINCARÉ RELATIVITY PRINCIPLE.‎

‎Sur la dynamique de l'electron. (Séance du Lundi 5 Juin 1905).‎

‎Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1905. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome 140, No 23. Titlepage to vol. 140. Pp. (1497-) 1572. (Entire issue offered). Poincaré's paper: pp. 1504-1508. Titlepage with a stamp on verso. A bit of upper right corner gone. Leaves a bit fragile, caused by the poor paperquality. Clean.‎

‎First printing of this famous paper delivered to the Academy of Paris on its session of June 1905, as the first Poincaré relativistic text ""On the dynamic of electron"", where Poincaré set forth the essential element of relativity and the ""Lorentz Transformation"". Poincaré concludes ""It seems that this impossibility of demonstrating absolute motion is a general law of nature"" !! and that Newton's law need modification and that there should exist gravitational waves which propagate with the velocity of light !! - This famous paper gave rice to the controversy about priority around the discovery of special relativity as Poincaré's paper is from June 5 and Einstein's first paper on relativity was received by the ""Annalen"" on June 30, both 1905.""The official history tells us that Einstein, without having read the works of Lorentz and Poincaré past 1895 and without any prior publication on the subject, had written alone in Bern the ""founder paper"" of the Relativity in the last days of June 1905. For that reason, and a few other of less importance, the biographers of Einstein have called that year 1905 ""Annus mirabilis"" and its centenial is celebrated in 2005. However on June 5, 1905, after many other papers on this subject, Poincaré had presenteda note at the French Academy of Science, a text that contains the essential elements of Einstein paper: the relativity principle and the ""Lorentz transformation"". This coincidence involves the suspicion of a possible plagiarism of Poincaré by Einstein."" (C. Marchal ""Poincaré, Einstein and the Relativity: the Surprising Secret.""‎

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‎"POINCARÉ, HENRI. - THE POINCARÉ RELATIVITY PRINCIPLE.‎

‎Sur la dynamique de l'electron. (Séance du Lundi 5 Juin 1905).‎

‎Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1905. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome 140, No 23. Titlepage to vol. 140. Pp. (1497-) 1572. (Entire issue offered). Poincaré's paper: pp. 1504-1508. Titlepage with a stamp on verso. A bit of upper right corner gone. Leaves a bit fragile, caused by the poor paperquality. Clean.‎