‎Physics‎

‎"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.‎

‎"POISEUILLE, (JEAN LÉONARD MARIE). - THE ""POISEUILLE-LAW"" GENERALIZED.‎

‎Recherches expérimentales sur la mouvement des liquides de nature différente dans les tubes de très-petits diamètres.‎

‎Paris, Victor Masson, 1847. Contemp. hcalf, raised bands, gilt spine. Light wear along edges.Three small stamps on verso of titlepage. In ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique"", 3ieme Series, tome 21. 512 pp. a. 6 plates. (Entire volume offered). Poiseuille's paper: pp. 76-110. 3 small stamps on verso of titlepage. A small stamp on verso of plates.‎

‎"POISSON, (SIMÉON-DENIS).‎

‎Mémoire Sur la variation des constantes arbitraires, dans les questions de mécanique. Lu à l'Academie, le 2 septembre 1816.‎

‎(Paris, Didot, 1818). 4to. Uncut, no wrappers as ectracted from ""Mémoires de L'Academie Royale des Sciences de L'Institut de France"" Année 1816 - Tome Ier. Pp. 1-70. Clean and fine.‎

‎"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.‎

‎"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.‎

‎"POISSON, (SIMÉON-DENIS). - THE MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS OF HEAT - POISSON'S ISENTROPE.‎

‎Sur la Chaleur des Gaz et des vapeurs.‎

‎(Paris, Crochard, 1823). 8vo. Without wrappers. In 'Annales de Chimie et de Physique', Series 2 - Volume 23, Cahier 4. With halftitle to vol. 23. Pp. 337-444 (entire issue offered). Poisson's paper: pp. 337-352.‎

‎First appearance of Poisson's importent paper on the mathematical treatment of ""specific heats"".""In ""Sur la chaleur des gaz et des vapeurs,"" published in August 1823 in Annales de chimie et de physique, Poisson developed ideas published four months before by Laplace in Book XII of Mécanique céleste. Poisson introduced all the precautions needed to render the confused notion of quantity of heat susceptible to mathematical analysis. He called quantity of heat the magnitude that characterizes the transition of a given mass of gas from an arbitrary initial state of temperature and pressure to another state. This definition makes more abstract the quantitative aspect that naturally follows from the concept of heat as a caloric fluid. Poisson could thus deal comfortably with this magnitude, since for him it is simply a function q of p, p, and ø (pressure, density, and temperature). The equation of state p= ap(1+aø) was already classic, and the growing acceptance of the notions of specific heats, at constant pressure and constant volume, allowed him to write the simple partial differential equation of which should be the integral. He also showed that independently of any additional hypothesis, and whatever the arbitray function used in the integration, the adiabatic transformations (the term did not yet exist) correspond to the formulas p · py = constant and (?+266.67)·p1y= constant, y being the ratio of the specific heats, assumed constant.""(DSB).‎

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‎"POISSON, (SIMÉON-DENIS). - THE SUPPLEMENT TO ""THEORIE MATHÉMATIQUE DE LA CHALEUR""‎

‎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. (Lu à l'Academie des Sciences le 30 janvier 1837).‎

‎Paris, Crochard et Comp., 1837. Orig. printed wrappers. No backstrip. In: ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago."", tome 64, Cahier 4 (Avril 1837). Pp. 337-447. (Entire issue offered with printed wrappers.). Poisson's paper: pp. 337-385.‎

‎"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.‎

‎"POUILLET, CLAUDE-SERVAIS-MATHIAS. -‎

‎Mémoire sur la Pile de Volta et sur la loi générale de l'intensité que prennant les courants, soit qu'ils proviennent d'un seul élément, soit qu'ils proviennent d'une pile à grande ou à petite tension.‎

‎(Paris, Bachelier), 1837. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome IV, No. 8. Pp. 259-) 300. (Entire issue offered). Pouillet's paper: pp. 267-279.‎

‎Firstprinting of an interesting paper in the history of electricity in which Pouillet confirmed Ohm's Law. In fact, some authors have wrongly attributed the law itself to Pouillet. It is true, however, that he helped considerably to make known first in England and in France.‎

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‎"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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‎"POUND, R. V. & REBKA JR. G. A.‎

‎Gravitational Red-Shift in Nuclear Resonance. - [THE POUND-REBKA EXPERIMENT - THE TEST THAT PROVED TIME IS RELATIVE]‎

‎(New York), American physical Society, 1959. Lex8vo. Volume 3, No. 9, November 1, 1959 of ""Physical Review Letters"", In the original printed blue wrappers. A very nice and clean copy externally as well as internally, near mint. Pp. 439-441. [Entire issue: 411-457].‎

‎First publication of the Pound-Rebka experiment which is regarded as being the last of the classical test of general relativity proposed by Albert Einstein to be verified. It is a test of the general relativity prediction that clocks should run at different rates at different places in a gravitational field and is considered to be the experiment that ushered in an era of precision test of general relativity. Today the so called gravitational redshift is essential for understanding the cosmos and operating the Global Positioning System (GPS).""Before he worked out the general theory of relativity, Einstein had already deduced that gravity must affect a light wave's frequency and wavelength. Light moving upwards from Earth's surface, for example, shifts to longer wavelength and lower frequency, as gravity saps it of some energy. But the effect is tiny in earth's modest gravity. In 1959 Robert Pound and Glen Rebka of Harvard University finally succeed in testing this crucial prediction, and they reported their results in [The present paper]."" (Physical Review Focus, 12 July 2005). Although the Global Positioning System (GPS) is not designed as a test of physics, it must account for the gravitational redshift in its timing system. When the first satellite was launched, some engineers neglected to predict that a noticeable gravitational time discrepancy would occur. So the first satellite was launched without the clock adjustment that was later built into satellites. It had a predicted time difference of 38 microseconds per day which, if not accounted for, could lead to hours of discrepancy.‎

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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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‎"POYNTING, J.H.‎

‎An Experiment in Search of a Directive Action of one Quartz Crystal on another. Received September 27, - Read November 17, 1898.‎

‎(London, Harrison and Sons, 1892). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"", 1891, Vol. 192 - Series A. Pp. 245-256, textillustr.‎

‎First printing of these experiments in oder to measutre the gravitational constant.""Closely related to his investigations on the constant of gravitation is the experiments in search of a directive action of one quartz crystal on another, which, though leading to a negative result is a model of the application of refined methods to physical researc of great delicacy.""(From the motivation for receivind the Royal Medal).‎

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‎"POYNTING, J.H. - THE MAN WHO WEIGHED THE EARTH.‎

‎On a Determination of the Mean Density of the Earth and the Gravitation Constant by means of the Common Balance. Received May 13, - Read June 4, 1891.‎

‎(London, Harrison and Sons, 1892). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"", 1891, Vol. 182 - Series A. Pp. 565-656 a. 7 lithographed plates.‎

‎"PREECE, WILLIAM HENRY - THE EDISON EFFECT.‎

‎On a Peculiar Behaviour of Glow-Lamps raised to High Incandescence. (Received March 14, 1885).‎

‎London, Harrison and Sons, 1885. Later full buckram. Gilt lettering to spine. IX,506,XL pp., 1 plate, textillustr. (Entire volume offered). Preece's paper: pp. 219-230 with 6 large textillustrations. Internally clean and fine.‎

‎"PREISACH, F.‎

‎Über die magnetische Nachwirkung. - [THE PREISACH MODEL OF HYSTERESIS]‎

‎Berlin, Springer, 1935. 8vo. In contemporary halv cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In ""Zeitschrift für Physik"", Bd. 94, 1935. Entire volume offered. Stamp to front free end-paper. Fine and clean. Pp. 277-302. [Entire volume: VIII, 818 pp.].‎

‎"RAETHER, H.‎

‎Die Entwicklung der Elektronenlawine in den Funkenkanal. - [THE RAETHER LIMIT]‎

‎Berlin, Springer, 1939. 8vo. In contemporary halv cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In ""Zeitschrift für Physik"", Bd. 112, 1939. Entire volume offered. Stamp to front free end-paper. Fine and clean. Pp. 464-489. [Entire volume: VIII, 772 pp.].‎

‎First appearance of Raether's paper in which he presented his theory of discharge - the first based on experimental observation - including what later was to be known as the Raether limit" the physical limiting value of the multiplication factor (M) or gas gain in an ionization avalanche process.‎

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‎"RAMSAY, WILLIAM & PER THEODOR CLEVE. - THE INDEPENDENTLY DISCOVERY OF HELIUM ON EARTH‎

‎On a Gas showing the Spectrum of Helium, the reputed cause of D3, one of the Lines in the Coronal Spectrum. preliminary Note. (Received March 26, 1895). (+) Helium, a Gaseous Constituent of certain Minerals. Part I. And (P.E. CLEVE:) Sur la présence d...‎

‎London, arrison and Sons, 1895. - (Paris, Gauthier-Villars), 1895. 8vo. and 4to. Later full cloth, gilt lettering to spine (Ramsay) and without wrappers (Cleve). In ""Proceedings of the Royal Society"" (Ramsay), Vol. 58. (Entire vol. offered). And in ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"" (Cleve), Tome 120, No 15. Pp. (797-) 850. (Entire issue offered). Ramsay's papers: pp. 65-67 and pp. 81-89. - Cleve's paper: p. 834. Stamps tp edges and a few corners a bit bumped on vol. 58, otherwise clean and fine.‎

‎"RAYLEIGH, LORD (J.W. STRUTT).‎

‎Experiments, by the Method of Lorentz, for the further Determination of the Absolute Value of the British Association Unit Resistance, with an Appendix on the Determination of the pitch of a Standard Tuning-Fork. Received December 8, 1882, - Read Janu...‎

‎(London, Harrison and Sons, 1884). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" Year 1883, Volume 174. - Pp. 295-322. Textillustr. Clean and fine.‎

‎First printing of an importent paper in the search for determining the value of the Ohm.""In the third phase (in the standardization of electrical units), ayleigh employed a method for determining the value of the Ohm introduced by L. Lorentz in 1873. This method, Rayleigh found, possessed the importent advantage of producing results that weree free of the influence of terrestrial magnetism and of thermoelectrical effects. Rayleigh modified Lorentz' method to make it more efficient, but without altering its essential character.""(Dong-Won Kim).‎

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‎"RAYLEIGH, LORD (J.W. STRUTT).‎

‎On the Clark Cell as a Standard of Electro-motive Force. Received Jan. 7, - Read Jan. 21, 1886.‎

‎(London, Harrison and Sons, 1886). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" Year 1885, Volume 176 - Part II. - Pp. 781-800. Clean and fine.‎

‎First printing of Rayleigh's investigation of the Clark Cell that became known as the Board of Trade Cell of 1894. ""Rayleigh's grasp of such widely diversed fields as optics and hydrodynamics, acoustics and electromagnetic theory, was phenomenal"" and only Maxwell, Kelvin, and Helmholtz came near him in this aspect of his genius.""(DSB XIII, p.102).‎

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‎"RAYLEIGH, LORD (J.W. STRUTT).‎

‎On the Constant of Magnetic Rotation of Light in Bisulphide of Carbon Received December29, 1884 - Read January 15, 1885.‎

‎(London, Harrison and Sons, 1886). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" Year 1885, Volume 176 - Part II. - Pp. 343-366, textillustrations. Clean and ine.‎

‎First printing.In this paper Rayleigh describes that in certain arrangements of 2 Nicol prism when light passing one way it is completely stopped by the second icl, but light passing the other way is completely transmitted. ""Rayleigh's grasp of such widely diversed fields as optics and hydrodynamics, acoustics and electromagnetic theory, was phenomenal"" and only Maxwell, Kelvin, and Helmholtz came near him in this aspect of his genius.""(DSB XIII, p.102).‎

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‎"RAYLEIGH, LORD (J.W. STRUTT).‎

‎On the Specific Resistance of Mercury. Received April 24 - Read May 4, 1881.‎

‎(London, Harrison and Sons, 1883). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" Year 1883, Volume 174. Pp. 173-185, textillustration. Clean and fine.‎

‎First printing of one of the importent papers by Rayleigh in the search for determining the value of the Ohm.""Rayleigh's grasp of such widely diversed fields as optics and hydrodynamics, acoustics and electromagnetic theory, was phenomenal"" and only Maxwell, Kelvin, and Helmholtz came near him in this aspect of his genius.""(DSB XIII, p.102).‎

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‎"RECKNAGEL, A.‎

‎Theorie des elektrischen Elektronenmikroskops für Selbststrahler‎

‎Berlin, Springer, 1941. 8vo. In contemporary halv cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In ""Zeitschrift für Physik"", Bd. 117, 1941. Entire volume offered. Stamp to front free end-paper. Fine and clean. Pp. 689-708. [Entire volume: VIII, 818 pp.].‎

‎First printing of Recknagel's paper in which he showed that the immersion objective lens, which is a crucial part of a Emission Electron Microscope that accelerates the electrons emitted at quite low energy E0 to some final energy E and forms the first image of the emitting surface, has surprisingly good properties. Its basic aberration coefficients are proportional to the ratio E0/E so that they keep decreasing down to lowest emission energies.Here he concluded that there were no reason in principle to prevent the emission microscope from attaining the resolution of the light microscope.‎

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‎"REDERN, LE COMTE (SIGISMUND EHRENREICH). - HISTORY OF OPTICS.‎

‎Observations sur L'État présent de la Dioptrique, sur les moins de perfectionner les Lunettes a Réfraction, et sur la Découverte qu'on annoce d'un nouveau Genre d'Objectifs qui les porte au plus haut Degré de perfection.‎

‎(Berlin, Haude et Spener, 1766). 4to. No wrappers as issued in ""Mémoires de L'Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres"", tome XV, pp. 89-184 and 1 folded engraved plate.‎

‎"REGNAULT, V. (HENRI VICTOR) - THE VAPOUR PRESSURE OF STEAM.‎

‎Mémoire sur les Forces élastiques dela vapeur d'eau.‎

‎Paris, Victor Masson, 1844. No wrappers. Extracted from ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique"", 3me Series - Tome 11. Pp. 273-335 and 1 large folded engraved plate (apparatus). With the halftitlepage to volume 11.‎

‎First printing of an importent paper in which Regnault found the connection between vapour pressure of steam at different temperatures.Henri Victor Regnault improved the method of Dalton to measure the elastic force of vapours at saturation. At the boiling point of a liquid, the elastic force of its vapour is equal to the supported pressure. Thus, if one boils water in an enclosure under increasing pressure conditions, water will reach increasing boiling temperatures at the same time. For each case, the elastic force of vapour will be equal to the imposed pressure.‎

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