‎Physique‎

‎"RUTHERFORD, ERNEST.‎

‎Scattering of alpha Particles by Gases (In collaboration with J.M. Nuttall). (+) The Analysis of the beta Rays from Radium B and Radium C. (In collaboration with H. Robinson). 2 Papers.‎

‎London, 1913. Without wrappers, but stitched. In ""Philosophical Magazine and Journalof Science"", Vol. 26, No. 154. Oct. 1913. Pp. 549-800 and 2 plates (the whole issue No. 154). Rutherford's papers: pp. 702-712 a. pp. 717-729 and 1 folded plate.‎

‎Both papers first editions. Basic works on the spectra of alfa and beta particles constituting an experimental proof of Rutherford's atomic nucleus theory.In this issue is also found importent papers by J.J. Thomson: On the Structure of the atom.. Pp. 792-799 and Rayleigh: On the Motion of a Viscous Fluid. Pp. 776-86.‎

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‎"RUTHERFORD, ERNEST. - THE NATURE OF X-RAYS FINALLY SETTLED.‎

‎The Wave-lenght of the soft gamma Rays from Radium B (In collaboration with E.N. da C. Andrade).‎

‎London, 1914. Without wrappers, but stitched. In ""Philosophical Magazine and Journalof Science"", Vol. 27, No. 161. May 1914. Pp. 757-916 a. 6 plates.(= the whole issue No 161). Rutherford's paper: pp. 854-860 a. 1 plate.‎

‎First edition, finally establishing the nature of Röntgen's X-Rays.In 1900 ""Villardhad discovered gamma gamma-rays. He noted at once that these rays are not deflected by magnetic fields. Two years later Rutherford suggested that gamma-rays might be very hard form of beta-rays. This view became less and less tenable...(and) slowly the evidence grew that gamma-rays and X-rays were akin, but a lately as 1912 Rutherford still wrote with a touch of caution: ""There is at present nodefinite evidence to belive that X-rays and gamma-rays are funamentally different kindsof radiation"". he matter was finally settled fourteent years after the first observatiob of gamma-radioactivity, when Rutherford and Andrade observed reflexion of gamma-rays from crystal force (in the paper offered here)."" (Pais. Inward Bound p. 62.).The issue contains further importent papers in first editions. W.H. BRAGG. The Intensity of Reflexion of X Rays by Crystals. Pp. 881-99. This is an account of his famous work on X-ray spectroscopy.E. MARSDEN: The Passage of alpha Particles through Hydrogen. Pp. 824-830. Here he discovered that when alpha-particles were projected into hydrogen, so that the heavy projectiles struck lighter atoms, a few of the hydrogen atoms were driven forward far beyond the range of the alpha particles.J.J.THOMSON: The Forces between Atoms and Chemical Affinity. Pp. 757-789.‎

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‎"RUTHERFORD, ERNEST. - THE NUCLEAR NATURE OF THE ATOM.‎

‎Radio-Activity.‎

‎Cambridge University Press, 1904. Fine hcalf, raised bands, gilt lettering. Probably with renewed spine. On both covers a large gilt crowned coat of arms. Corners professionally repaired. (2),VIII,(2),399,(1) pp. Textfigs. and 1 plate facing p. 169. Halftitle and a few leaves with small brownspots in upper margin, otherwise a fine clean copy.‎

‎"RUTHERFORD, ERNST. - THE MAGNETIC DETECTOR INVENTED - WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY MADE POSSIBLE.‎

‎The Magnetic Detector of Electrical Waves and some of its Applications. Communicated by J.J. Thomson. Received June 11, - Read June 18, 1896.‎

‎(London, Harrison and Sons, 1897). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" Year 1897, Vol. 189 - A. Pp. 1-24., texfigs.‎

‎"RYDBERG, J.R. (JOHANNES ROBERT). - REVISION OF THE PERIODIC SYSTEM.‎

‎Elektron der erste Grundstoff.‎

‎Lund, Håkan Olssons Buckdruckerei, 1906. Lex8vo. Orig. printed wrappers. One of Rydberg's own copies with ""Ueberreicht vom Verfasser"" printed on frontwrapper. 30 pp., 2 large folded tables (the periodic system).‎

‎First edition of important revison of the periodic system in one the author's presentation copies (""Ueberreicht vom verfasser).""Rydberg’s study of the periodic properties of the elements led him in 1897 to suggest that certain characteristics of the elements could be more simply organized by using an atomic number instead of the atomic weights. This atomic number was to be identified with the ordinal index of the element in the periodic table. In 1906 Rydberg stated for the first time (the paper offered) that 2, 8, and 18 (that is, 2n2, where n= 1,2,3) represented the number of elements in the early periods of the system. In 1913 he went further, correcting an earlier error about the number of rare earths from 36 to 32, thus allowing the n = 4 group to be included in the pattern."" (DSB).‎

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‎"RYDBERG, J.R. (JOHANNES ROBERT). - REVISION OF THE PERIODIC SYSTEM.‎

‎Elektron der erste Grundstoff.‎

‎Lund, Håkan Olssons Buckdruckerei, 1906. Lex8vo. Orig. printed wrappers. One of Rydberg's own copies with ""Ueberreicht vom Verfasser"" printed on frontwrapper. 30 pp., 2 large folded tables (the periodic system).‎

‎"RYDBERG, J.R. - ANNOUNCING ""RYDBERG'S CONSTANT"".‎

‎Sur la constitution des spectres linéaires des éléments chimiques.‎

‎(Paris, Gauthier-Villars), 1890. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome 110, No 8. Pp. (369-) 428. (Entire issue offered). Rydberg's paper: pp. 394-97.‎

‎In this paper Rydberg announced his formula, later termed ""Rydberg's Constant - the paper being a shortened version of the larger paper, published at the same time in Kungliga Vetenskaps Akademiens Handlinger with the title ""Recherches sur la constitution des spectres d’émission des éléments chimiques"" - in which he stated as a fundamental principle that ""in the spectra of all the elements analyzed and so far thjere are series of rays whose wavelenghts or wave numbers are functions of consecutive integral numbers"". The equation became an importent inspiration for the development of quantum theory and for the formulation of quantum states by Niels Bohr. Bohr’s view provided an immediate interpretation of the combination principle by identifying each Rydberg spectral term multiplied by hc (Planck’s constant times the speed of light) with the energy of an allowable stationary state of the atom. The difference between two such states equaled the energy in the light quantum emitted in the transition from a higher allowable atomic-energy state to a lower one.""His major spectral work, ""Recherches sur la constitution des spectres d’émission des éléments chimiques"", published in 1890, mapped out Rydberg’s total approach with remarkable clarity. He conceived of the spectrum of an element as composed of the superposition of three different types of series - one in which the lines were comparatively sharp, one in which the lines were more diffuse, and a third that he called principal series even though they consisted mostly of lines in the ultraviolet. The first lines were located in the visible spectrum and were usually the most intense. The members of each series might be single, double, triple, or of higher multiplicity. Any particular elementary spectrum might contain any number (even zero) of series of each of the basic types.""(DSB).‎

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‎"RÉAUMUR, (RENÉ-ANTOINE FERCHAULT DE). - THE RÉAUMUR TEMPERATURE SCALE.‎

‎Regles pour construire des Thermometres dont les Degres soient comparables, et qui donnent des idées d'un Chaud ou d'un Froid qui puissant être rapportés à desmsures connües.‎

‎Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1732. 4to. Without wrappers. Extracted from ""Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences. Année 1730"". Pp. 452-507 a. 1 folded engraved plate. With titlepage to Année 1730/1732. Titlepage with small tears to margins. Clean and fine.‎

‎First appearance of this importent paper in which Reaumur reveled how he constructed his invention of the thermometer scale, the scale which bears his name. The construction of the thermometer was based on alchohol, and the scaling bases on 0 degree for the freezing point of water and 80 degree for the boiling point of water.""The one serious drawback to Réaumur’s thermometer was that different strengths of alcohol have different coefficients of dilation, so that while one type of alcohol might expand one degree after the application of a certain amount of heat, another might expand two degrees under the same conditions. It was vital that all thermometers scaled according to his system have the same grade of alcohol. Réaumur suggested that the alcohol used in his thermometers be of a type that would dilate 80 degrees - that is, 8 parts in 100 - between the temperature of ice and the temperature at which the alcohol began to boil in an open thermometer tube. Owing to an unfortunate confusion of language in his article on the thermometer, however, nearly everyone believed that 80° on his scale was the temperature of boiling water"" and as a result, when so-called Reaumer thermometers began to be made by the artisans of Paris, they were nearly all scaled linearly with respect to two fiducial points, 0° for ice and 80° for boiling water."" (DSB).Parkinson ""Breakthroughs"" 1730 P.‎

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‎"RÉAUMUR, (RENÉ-ANTOINE FERCHAULT DE). - THE RÉAUMUR TEMPERATURE SCALE.‎

‎Regles pour construire des Thermometres dont les Degres soient comparables, et qui donnent des idées d'un Chaud ou d'un Froid qui puissant être rapportés à desmsures connües.‎

‎Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1732. 4to. Without wrappers. Extracted from ""Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences. Année 1730"". Pp. 452-507 a. 1 folded engraved plate. With titlepage to Année 1730/1732. Titlepage with small tears to margins. Clean and fine.‎

‎"RÖNTGEN, W.‎

‎On a New Kind of Rays. - [THE DISCOVERY OF X-RAYS]‎

‎London, Macmillan and Co., 1895-96. Royal8vo. Bound in contemporary half calf with five raised bands and two black leather title labels with gilt lettering to spine. In ""Nature"", November - April, 1895-96, Vol. LIII [53]. Pp. 274-6. [Entire volume: XL, 624 pp.].‎

‎First printing of the English translation (translated by Arthur Stanton) of Göntgen's seminal paper in which he presented his groundbreaking discovery of X-rays"" the foundation of roentgenology and thereby unveiling a new form of matter and offering a new revolutionary method for medical diagnosis.""Translations of Rontgen's paper soon started to appear, beginning with an English translation in Nature on 23 January. By 20 Febrary Nature was commenting that ""so numerous are the communications being made to scientific societies that it is difficult to keep pace with them, and the limits of our space would be exceeded if we attempted to describe the whole of the contributions to the subject, even at this early stage."" (Bakker, p. 319)""Their [X-rays] importance in surgery, medicine and metallurgy is well known. Incomparable the most important aspect of Röntgen's experiments, however, is his discovery of matter in a new form, which has completely revolutionized the study of chemistry and physics. Laue and the Braggs have used X-rays to show us the atomic structure of crystals. Moseley has reconstructed the periodic table of the elements. Becquerel was directly inspired by Röntgen's results to the investigation that discovered radio-activity. Finally J. J. Thomson enunciated the electron theory as a result of investigating the nature of the X-rays."" (DSB).""On Friday, 8 November 1895, Röntgen first suspected the existence of a new phenomenon when he observed that crystals of barium platinocyanide fluoresced at some distance from a Crookes tube with which he was experimenting. Hertz and Lenard had published on the penetrating powers of cathode rays (electrons), and Röntgen thought that there were unsolved problems worth investigation. He found time to begin his repetition of their experiments in October 1895. Although others had operated Crookes tubes in laboratories for over thirty years, it was Röntgen who found that X rays are emitted by the part of the glass wall of the tube that is opposite the cathode and that receives the beam of cathode rays. He soon discovered the penetrating properties of the rays, and was able to produce photographs of balance-weights in a closed box, the chamber of a shotgun, and a piece of nonhomogeneous metal. The apparent magical nature of the new rays was something of a shock even to Röntgen, and he, naturally, wished to be absolutely sure of the repeatability of the effects before publishing. The first communication on the rays, on 28 December, was to the editors of the Physical and Medical Society of Würzburg, and by 1 January 1896 Röntgen was able to send reprints and, in some cases, photographs to his friends and colleagues. Emil Warburg displayed some of the photographs at a meeting of the Berlin Physical Society on 4 January. The Wiener Presse carried the story of the discovery on 5 January, and on the following day the news broke around the world. The world's response was remarkably swift, both the general public and the scientific community reacting in their characteristic ways. For the former, the apparent magic caught the imagination, and for the latter, Crookes tubes and generators were promptly sold in great numbers.After a royal summons, Röntgen demonstrated the effects of X rays to the Kaiser and the court on 13 January. He was immediately awarded the Prussian Order of the Crown, Second Class.In March 1896, a second paper on X rays was published, and there followed a third in 1897, after which Röntgen returned to the study of the physics of solids. "" (DSB)""Aside from its obvious applications, Roentgen's discovery galvanized the world of physics and led to a rash of further discoveries that so completely overturned the old concepts of the science, that the discovery of X-rays is sometimes considered the first stroke of the Second Scientific Revolution. (The First Scientific Revolution is, of course that which included Galileo and his experiments on falling bodies). Within a matter of months, investigations of X rays led to the discovery of radioactivity by Becquerel....The importence of the discovery was well recognized in its own time. In 1896 Roentgen shared the Rumford Medal with Lenard and in 1901, when Nobel Prizes were set up.the first to be honoured with a Nobel Prize in Physics was Roentgen."" (Asimov).‎

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‎"RÖNTGEN, W.C.‎

‎Bestimmungen des thermischen linearen Ausdehnungskoeffizienten von Cuprit und Diamant.‎

‎(München, 1912). From ""Sitzungsberichte d. K. Bayer. Akad. d. Wissenschaften.."" pp. 381-387.‎

‎First edition.‎

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‎"RÖNTGEN, W.C.‎

‎Ueber die Compressibilität von Schwefelkohlenstoff, Benzol, Aethyläther und einigen Alkoholen.‎

‎Leipzig, Barth, 1891. Orig. printed wrappers. Offprint from ""Annalen der Physik und Chemie"" pp. 1-23 and 1 plate.‎

‎First edition in the scarce offprint and with ""Ueberreicht vom Verfasser"" printed on frontcover.‎

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‎"RÖNTGEN, W.C.‎

‎Ueber die Dicke von cohärenten Oelschichten auf der Oberfläche des Wassers.‎

‎Leipzig, Barth, 1890. Orig. printed wrappers. Offprint from ""Annalen der Physik und Chemie"" pp. 321-329.‎

‎First edition in the scarce offprint with ""Ueberreicht vom Verfasser"" printed on frontwrapper.‎

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‎"RÖNTGEN, W.C.‎

‎Ueber die durch Electricität bewirkten Form-und Volumenänderungen von dielectrischen Körpern.‎

‎Leipzig, Barth, 1880. Orig. printed wrappers. Offprint from ""Annalen der Physik und Chemie..."" pp. 771-786 and 1 plate.‎

‎First edition in the scarce offprint.‎

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‎"RÖNTGEN, W.C.‎

‎Ueber die von Herrn Kerr gefundene neue Beziehung zwischen Licht und Elektricität.‎

‎(Giessen, 1880). Offprint from ""Berich der Oberhess. Gesellschaft f. Natur-u. Heilkunde"" pp. 1-16 and 1 lithographed plate. From the library of H. Becquerel with his small paperlabel pasted on front with the booknumber ""B 1919"".‎

‎First edition in the scarce offprint.‎

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‎"RÖNTGEN, W.C. (WILHELM CONRAD ROENTGEN). - THE SECOND SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION BEGINS.‎

‎Ueber eine neue Art von Strahlen. (Erste- Zweite Mittheilung) + Weitere Betrachtungen über die Eigenschaften der X-Strahlen. (Dritte Mittheilung). 3 Papers (all).‎

‎Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1898. Contemp. hcloth, A small nick to boards on frontcover. Light wear to spine ends. Gilt lettering to spine. A stamp to verso of title-page. In Annalen der Physik und Chemie, Neue Folge, Band 64. VIII,(2),812 a. 2 plates. Röntgen's papers: 1. pp. 1-11, pp. 12-17 a. pp. 18-37. Internally clean and fine.‎

‎First full exposition of Röntgen's discovery of X-rays, the foundation stones of roentgenology, unveiling a new form of matter and offering a new revolutionary method for medical diagnosis.In order to ensure priority for his discovery, Röntgen first published the two first papers (Erste-Zweite Mittheilung) as offprints from ""Sitzungsberichte der Physikalisch-medicinischen Gesellschaft zu Würtzburg"" in 1895-96, but his discovery only finds its full form in the offered papers, as ""Dritte Mittheilung"" appears here.""Aside from its obvious applications, Roentgen's discovery galvanized the world of physics and led to a rash of further discoveries that so completely overturned the old concepts of the science, that the discovery of X-rays is sometimes considered the first stroke of the Second Scientific Revolution. (The First Scientific Revolution is, of course that which included Galileo and his experiments on falling bodies). Within a matter of months, investigations of X rays led to the discovery of radioactivity by Becquerel....The importence of the discovery was well recognized in its own time. In 1896 Roentgen shared the Rumford Medal with Lenard and in 1901, when Nobel Prizes were set up.the first to be honoured with a Nobel Prize in Physics was Roentgen."" (Asimov).Garrison & Morton No 2683 (only listing 1. paper) - PMM No 380 (listing only 2 parts) - Dibner: 162 (listing only 2 parts).‎

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‎"RÖNTGEN, W.C. (WILHELM CONRAD). - THE SECOND SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION BEGINS.‎

‎Ueber eine neue Art von Strahlen. (Erste- Zweite Mittheilung) + Weitere Betrachtungen über die Eigenschaften der X-Strahlen. (Dritte Mittheilung). 3 Papers (all).‎

‎Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1898. Contemp. hcalf, spine gilt and with gilt lettering. Some scratches to spine and corners bumped and with wear. Some scratching to boards.Stamps to titlepage and one leaf. In: ""Annalen der Physik und Chemie"", Neue Folge, Band 64. VIII,(2),812 a. 2 plates. (Entire volume offered). Röntgen's papers: 1. pp. 1-11, pp. 12-17 a. pp. 18-37. Internally clean.‎

‎First full exposition of Röntgen's discovery of X-rays, the foundation stones of roentgenology, unveiling a new form of matter and offering a new revolutionary method for medical diagnosis.In order to ensure priority for his discovery, Röntgen first published the two first papers (Erste-Zweite Mittheilung) as offprints from ""Sitzungsberichte der Physikalisch-medicinischen Gesellschaft zu Würtzburg"" in 1895-96, but his discovery only finds its full form in the offered papers, as ""Dritte Mittheilung"" appears here.""Aside from its obvious applications, Roentgen's discovery galvanized the world of physics and led to a rash of further discoveries that so completely overturned the old concepts of the science, that the discovery of X-rays is sometimes considered the first stroke of the Second Scientific Revolution. (The First Scientific Revolution is, of course that which included Galileo and his experiments on falling bodies). Within a matter of months, investigations of X rays led to the discovery of radioactivity by Becquerel....The importence of the discovery was well recognized in its own time. In 1896 Roentgen shared the Rumford Medal with Lenard and in 1901, when Nobel Prizes were set up.the first to be honoured with a Nobel Prize in Physics was Roentgen."" (Asimov).Garrison & Morton No 2683 (only listing 1. paper) - PMM No 380 (listing only 2 parts) - Dibner: 162 (listing only 2 parts).‎

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‎"RÖNTGEN, W.C. und A. KUNDT.‎

‎""Nachweis der elektromagnetischen Drehung der Polarisationsebene des Lichtes im Schwefelkohlenstoffdampf"".‎

‎(Leipzig, 1879). From ""Annalen der Physik und Chemie."" pp. 541- 544 and 1 lithographed plate. From the library of H. Becquerel with his small paperlabel pasted on front with the booknumber ""B 1916"".‎

‎First edition.‎

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‎"RÖNTGEN, W.C. und A. KUNDT.‎

‎""Ueber die elektromagnetische Drehung der Polarisationsebene des Lichtes in den Gasen"".‎

‎(München, 1879). From ""Sitzungsberichte...München"" pp. 147-170 and 2 folded lithographed plates. From the library of H. Becquerel with his small paperlabel pasted on front with the booknumber ""B 1917""‎

‎First edition.‎

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‎"RÖNTGEN, W.C. und F. EXNER.‎

‎Über die Anwendung des Eiscalorimeters zur Bestimmung der Intensität der Sonnenstrahlung.‎

‎(Wien, 1874). Lex8vo. Orig. printed wrappers, uncut. Offprint from ""Sitzungsberichte der k. Akad. d. Wissensch."" pp. 1-11 and 1 lithographed plate.‎

‎First edition in the scarce offprint.‎

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‎"RÖNTGEN, W.C. und J. SCHNEIDER.‎

‎Ueber die Compressibilität des Sylvins, des Steinsalzes und der wässerigen Chlorkaliumlösungen.‎

‎Leipzig, Barth, 1888. Orig. printed wrappers. Offprint from ""Annalen der Physik und Chemie..."" pp. 531-551.‎

‎First edition in the scarce offprint.‎

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‎"RÖNTGEN, W.C. und L. ZEHNDER.‎

‎Ueber die Einfluss des Druckes auf die Brechungsexponenten von Wasser, Schwefelkohlenstoff, Benzol, Aethyläther und einigen Alkoholen.‎

‎Leipzig, Barth, (1891). Orig. printed wrappers. Offprint from ""Annalen der Physik und Chemie"" pp. 24-51 and 1 folded plate.‎

‎First edition in the scarce offprint and with ""Von den Verfasser überreicht"" printed on frontwrapper.‎

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‎"RÖNTGEN, WILHELM CONRAD & HEINRICH HERTZ. - HERTZ'S PRINCIPLE OF THE UNITY OF ELECTRIC FORCE.‎

‎Neue Versuche über die Absorption von Wärme durch Wasserdampf. 2 Parts. (+ Hertz:) Ueber die Beziehungen zwischen den Maxwellschen electrodynamischen Grundgleichungen und den Grundgleichungen der gegnerischen Electrodynamik.‎

‎Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1884. Contemp.hcalf. Raised bands, gilt spine. Spine very slightly rubbed. Small stamp on htitle, title and verso of titlepage.""Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von G. Wiedemann"". Neue Folge Bd. 23. VIII,696 pp. and 8 folded plates. Röntgen's paper: pp. 1-40 a. 259-298, 2 folded plates. - Hertz's paper: pp. 84-103. Clean and fine.‎

‎First printing of Röntgen's early paper on the heat absorption in vapor. ""Having constructed a very sensitive air thermometer, he was able to measure the absorption of heat in water vapor, and his flair for experiment was also shown by his work on the compressibility of liquids and solids.""(DSB XI, p.530).An. HERTZ'S paper: This is a major paper by Hertz in which he gives simple proofs of Maxwell's fundamental equations. ""In 1884, at Kiel, Hertz had already carried out a study of Maxwell's theory. It was a theoretical response to Helmholtz' general problem of deciding between the electrodynamical theories. Whereas Helmholtz had shown that the experimental decision lay with unclosed currents, Hertz showed that a theoretical decision could be made on the basis of predictions for closed currents. Hertz proved that Maxwell's equations were compatible with the physical assumptions shared by all electrodynamical theories and that the equations of the contending theories were not. He concluded that if the choice lay solely between Maxwell's equations and the equations of the other type of theory, then Maxwell's were clearly preferable."" (DSB VI, pp. 344-45).The volume contains also an importent paper by OTTO RICHARD LUMMER his Inauguraldissertation: ""Über eine neue Inteferenzerscheinung an Planparallelen Glasplatten und eine Methode, die Planparallelität solcher Gläser zu prüfen"". Pp. 40-84 a. 1 plate. and ""Ueber eine neue Inteferenzerscheinung."" pp. 513-548. - Also papers by Kundt, Kohlrausch, Weber and others.‎

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‎"SABINE, EDWARD.‎

‎On Irregularities observed in the direction of the Compass Needles of H.M.S. Isabella and Alexander, in their late Voyage of Discovery, and caused by the attraction of the Iron contained in the Ships. Read February 18, 1819.‎

‎(London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1819). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1819 - Part I. Pp. 112-122 and 1 engraved plate.‎

‎First printing. The observations were performed on the Discovery-Expedition to the North-West Passage.‎

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‎"SABINE, EDWARD. - THE ARCTIC EXPEDITIONS.‎

‎An account of experiments to determine the acceleration of the Pendulum in different Latitudes. Read March 8, 1821.‎

‎(London, W.Bulmer and W. Nicol, 1821). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1821 - Part I. Pp. 164-190 a. 5 folded tables.‎

‎First appearance of the paper in which Sabine relates his discoveries with the pendulum on his 2 voyages, the first on John Ross' expedition in 1818 - relating observations from Island of Brassa, Shetland, Hare Island, London - and from the second voyage with William Parry on the arctic expedition - relating observations from Melville Island. From these observations he estimated the figure of the earth.""An artillery officer, Sabine was a graduate of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. While retaining his commission - Sabine eventually reached the rank of general - the started scientific work at the close of the Napoleonic Wars. On the recommendation of the Royal Society, he accompanied John Ross on an expedition to seek the Northwest Passage in 1818 and was with William Edward Parry on his 1819-1820 Arctic expedition. From the latter voyage. he said, came the idea of a great ship-borne expedition of “physical discovery” to the southern hemisphere.""(DSB).‎

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