‎Physique‎

‎"RUTHERFORD, ERNEST‎

‎Radio-Activity. - [""THE FIRST TEXTBOOK ON RADIOACTIVITY""]‎

‎Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1904. 8vo. In the original green full coth with gilt lettering to spine and boards. Capitals with slight wear, and inner front hinge a bit weak, otherwise a very nice and fresh copy. Small stamp to title-page. VIII, (2), 399 pp.‎

‎"RUTHERFORD, ERNEST - PREDICTION OF THE NEUTRON.‎

‎Über die Kernstruktur der Atome. Baker-Vorlesung. (Erschienen in den Proceedings of the Royal Society, A., 97). Autorisierte Übersetzung von Else Norst.‎

‎Leipzig, S. Hirzel, 1921. Cont. hcalf. Titlelabel gilt on back. Small stamp on title. (4),35 pp.‎

‎"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.‎

‎"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. Some small nicks to edges of wrappers. 30 pp., 2 large folded tables (the periodic system).‎

‎First edition of Rydberg's important revison of the periodic system. ""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).‎

‎Untersuchungen über das System der Grundstoffe.‎

‎Lund & Leipzig, Gleerup & Harrassowitz, 1913. 4to. In the original printed wrappers. With author's presentation inscription to top of front wrapper: ""Från vännen forf."" Fine and clean. 41 pp.‎

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

‎Elektron der erste Grundstoff.‎

‎Lund, Håkan Olssons Buckdruckerei, 1906. Lex8vo. Orig. printed wrappers. Some small nicks to edges of wrappers. 30 pp., 2 large folded tables (the periodic system).‎

‎"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.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.‎

‎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.‎

‎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. 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, 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.‎

‎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. (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.‎

‎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.].‎

‎"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.‎

‎"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.‎

‎"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.‎

‎"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"".‎

‎"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.‎

‎"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.‎

‎"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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‎"SAGNAC, GEORGES.‎

‎L'ether lumineux demontré par l'effet du vent relatif d'éther dans un interfèromètre en rotation uniforme (+) Sur la preuve de la réalité de l´éther lumineux par l'epérience de l´interférograph tournant. - [THE SAGNAC EFFECT]‎

‎(Paris: Gauthier-Villars), 1913. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Seances de l'Academie des Sciences"", Vol 157, No 17 & 25.. Entire issues offered. Pp. 708-714" Pp. 1410-13. [Entire issue: Pp. 665-736" pp. 1357-1492].‎

‎First appearance of Sagnac two seminal papers which together constitutes the first interferometry experiment aimed at observing the correlation of angular velocity and phase showing that if a beam of light is split and sent in two opposite directions around a closed path on a revolving platform with mirrors on its perimeter, and then the beams are recombined, they will exhibit interference effects. From this result Sagnac concluded that light propagates at a speed independent of the speed of the source. The motion of the earth through space had no apparent effect on the speed of the light beam, no matter how the platform was turned.""Sagnac interpreted the shift in the position of the interference fringes in terms of an ""ether wind"" that gave the light beams traveling in opposite directions different velocities. He was convinced that the phenomenon observed with the rotating interferometer demonstrated the existence of an immobile ether. Sagnac later tried to develop a theory of electrodynamics that would retain classical ideas of space, time, and ether by analyzing the propagation of energy statistically and separately from the propagation of motion. He retained a lifelong dislike for relativity, and in 1923 he interpreted some observations of stellar color shift as being due to an ether wind, rather than as supporting the general theory of relativity.The results of Sagnac's interferometer experiments were used by some scientists in France as an argument against the theory of relativity. As late as 1937 Dufour and Prunier repeated the experiment in a modified form for that purpose. The experiment does not contradict relativity theory in any way, however, and in 1921 and 1937 Langevin responded with an explanation of how it should be interpreted."" (DSB)‎

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