‎Physique‎

‎"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 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). - THE FIRST OF ITS KIND, MOVING REFERENCE FRAMES AND ACCELERATION.‎

‎Extrait de la premiere partie d'un Mémoire sur la Mouvement des projectiles dans l'air, en ayent égard à leur rotation et à l'influence du mouvement diurne de la Terre.‎

‎(Paris, Bachelier), 1837. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome 5, No. 20. Pp. (659-) 710. (Entire issue offerd). Poisson's paper: pp. 660-667.‎

‎"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.‎

‎"POUILLET, (CLAUDE-SERVAIS-MATHIAS). - THE SOLAR CONSTANT DETERMINED.‎

‎Mémoire sur la chaleur solaire, sur les pouvoirs rayonnants et absorbants de l'air atmosphérique, et sur la témperature de l'espace.‎

‎(Paris, Bachelier), 1838. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome VII, No 2. Pp. (23-) 92. (Entire issue offered). Pouillet's paper: pp. 24-65. In the text illustrations of the Pyrheliometer, constructed by Pouillet in this connection. Clean and fine.‎

‎"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.‎

‎"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.‎

‎"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.‎

‎"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.].‎

‎First printing of Preisach seminal paper in which generalizes hysteresis loops as the parallel connection of independent relay hysterons - today known as the Preisach model of hysteresis. Hysteresis is the dependence of a system not only on its current environment but also on its past environment. This dependence arises because the system can be in more than one internal state. The Preisach Model is being used in such different branches of science as engineering, mechanics, biology and economics.‎

书商的参考编号 : 49303

‎"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.].‎

‎"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).‎

书商的参考编号 : 43006

‎"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).‎

书商的参考编号 : 43007

‎"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.].‎

‎"RAYLEIGH, LORD (J.W. STRUTT) and WILLIAM RAMSAY. - THE DISCOVERY OF ARGON.‎

‎Argon, a New Constituent of the Atmosphere. Received and Read January 31, 1895.‎

‎(London, Harrison and Sons, 1895). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"", Vol. 186 - I, Series A. Pp. 187-241 a. 8 textillustrations (apparatus). Fine and clean.‎

‎"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.‎

‎"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.‎

‎"REYNOLDS, OSBORNE & W.H. MOORBY - DETERMINING A PHYSICAL CONSTANT.‎

‎Bakerian Lecture. - On the Mechanical Equivalent of Heat. Received March 10, - Read May 20, 1897.‎

‎(London, Harrison and Sons, 1898). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1897 - Vol. 190 - Series A.. Pp. 301-422, 6 plates and textillustr. Clean and fine.‎

‎First printing of a classic paper in thermodynamics. In this paper Reynolds describes his construction of laboratory apparatus for better measurement of Joule's mechanical equivalent of heat""Reynolds' most extensive experimental work concerned the mechanical equivalent of heat"" specifically, he found the mean specific heat of water (in terms of work) between the freezing and boiling points. The results rank among the classic determinations of physical constants."" (In the paper offered).(DSB XI, p. 393)‎

书商的参考编号 : 42659

‎"REYNOLDS, OSBORNE - THERMAL OSMOSIS & THERMAL TRANSPIRATION.‎

‎On certain Dimensional Properties of Matter in the Gaseous State. Part I. Experimental Reseraches on Thermal Transpiration of Gases through Porous Plates and on the Laws of Transpiration and Impulsion, including an Experimental Proof that Gas is not a...‎

‎(London, Harrison and Sons, 1879). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1879 - Vol. 170 - Part II. Pp. 727-845 and 3 plates. The plates slightly brownspotted, otehrwise fine and clean.‎

‎First printing of this classic paper on ""thermal respiration"" in which Reynolds explains how some of the movements of the vanes in Crookes' Radiometer can be accounted for. ""The correct solution to the problem (the problem of finding the cause of the movement of the vanes in Crooke's radiometer) was provided qualitatively by Osborne Reynolds, better remembered for the ""Reynolds number"". Early in 1879 Reynolds submitted a paper to the Royal Society in which he considered what he called ""thermal transpiration"", and also discussed the theory of the radiometer. By ""thermal transpiration"", Reynolds meant the flow of gas through porous plates caused by a temperature difference on the two sides of the plates. If the gas is initially at the same pressure on the two sides, it flows from the colder to the hotter side, resulting in a higher pressure on the hotter side if the plates cannot move. Equilibrium is reached when the ratio of pressures on either side is the square root of the ratio of absolute temperatures. This counterintuitive result is due to tangential forces between the gas molecules and the sides of the narrow pores in the plates. The effect of these thermomolecular forces is very similar to the thermomechanical effects of superfluid liquid helium. This liquid, which lacks all viscosity, will climb the sides of its container towards a warmer region. In fact, this form of liquid helium climbs so quickly up the sides of a thin capillary tube dipped into it, that a fountain is produced at the tube's other end.""(Philip Gibbs).‎

书商的参考编号 : 42660

‎"REGNAULT, V. (HENRI VICTOR) - THE CONSERVATION OF ENERGY.‎

‎Recherches sur les chaleurs spécifiques des fluides élastiques (3).‎

‎(Paris, Bachelier), 1853. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome 36, No 16. Pp. (669-) 707. (Entire issue offered). Regnault's paper: pp. 676-687. A few marginal brownspots.‎

‎First apperance of this very importent paper where Regnault declared his acceptance of the conservation of energy.""Speculation and discussions of theory are noticeably absent from Regnault’s published work, as they are from his surviving notebooks. But in 1853 he declared his acceptance of the principle of the conservation of energy"" and later he measured the mechanical equivalent of heat, although with only moderate success. In declaring his support for the principle, Regnault stated that he had subscribed to the mechanical theory of heat “for a long time” and that he had been led to it independently through his own experiments ""Comptes rendus... de AcademiE des sciences..."" (The paper offered). ""(DSB).Roberts & Trent ""Bibliotheca Mechanica"", p. 275.‎

书商的参考编号 : 47829

‎"RENNER, R.‎

‎Zur Theorie der Wechselwirkung zwischen Elektronen- und Kernbewegung bei dreiatomigen, stabförmigen Molekülen. - [THE RENNER-TELLER EFFECT]‎

‎Berlin, Springer, 1934. 8vo. In contemporary halv cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In ""Zeitschrift für Physik"", Bd. 92, 1934. Entire volume offered. Stamp to front free end-paper and titlepage, otherwise fine and clean. Pp. 172-93. [Entire volume: VIII, 830 pp.].‎

‎First appearance of Renner's seminal paper containing what was to become known first as the Renner effect, later the Renner-teller effect. It was the first work to study the dynamic effects that go beyond the Born-Oppenheimer approximation, in which the nuclear and electronic motions in a molecule are uncoupled.Because Renner is the only author of the 1934 paper that first described the effect, it was long called the Renner effect. However, as Herzberg's prestigious books refer to it as the Renner-Teller effect (after Edward Teller), it is now more common to use both names.‎

书商的参考编号 : 49164

‎"REICHE, F. (+) A. SMEKAL.‎

‎Zur Theorie der Röntgenspektren.‎

‎Leipzig, Ambrosius Barth, 1918. 8vo. In full black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In ""Annalen der Physik"", Vierte Folge, Band 57. Entire volume offered. Library labels to front end papers and stamp to title page, otherwise fine and clean. Pp. 124-144. [Entire volume: (1), 632, VIII pp.].‎

‎First printing of Reiche and Smekal's important paper in which they presented their theory of the x-ray spectra""The year and a half in Berlin (1917-1919) was extremely important for Smekal's scientific development and subsequent research. There he took up the quantum, the Bohr theory, and the problem of X-ray spectra. After delivering a crushing blow to the faltering Sommerfeld-Debye theory, which deduced X-ray spectra from hypothetical intra-atomic mechanisms, Smekal, in competition with Dirk Coster and Gregor Wentzel, induced from the experimental data the number, arrangement, and allowed transitions between the atomic energy levels resulting in X-ray spectral lines."" (DSB)‎

书商的参考编号 : 50372

‎"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 LAW OF DULONG AND PETIT CONFIRMED.‎

‎Recherches sur la chaleur spécifique des corps simples et des corps composés.‎

‎(Paris, Bachelier), 1840. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome 10, No 16. Pp. (671-) 670. (Entire issue offered). Regnault's paper: pp. 658-663. A few small inkspots on first page.‎

‎"REICHE, F. (+) A. SMEKAL.‎

‎Zur Theorie der Röntgenspektren.‎

‎Leipzig, Ambrosius Barth, 1918. 8vo. In full black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In ""Annalen der Physik"", Vierte Folge, Band 57. Entire volume offered. Library labels to front end papers and stamp to title page, otherwise fine and clean. Pp. 124-144. [Entire volume: (1), 632, VIII pp.].‎

‎"REINOLD, A.W.‎

‎On the Relation between the Thickness and the Surface Tension of Liquid Fluids. received May 15, - Read May 27, 1886.‎

‎(London, Harrison and Sons, 1887). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1886 - Vol. 177 - Part II. Pp. 627-684 a. 1 engraved plate (apparatus).‎