‎Physique‎

‎"VARIGNON, (PIERRE). - FOLLOWING THE ADVISE OF LEIBNITZ.‎

‎Methode pour trouver des Courbes le Long desquelles un corps tombant, s'approche ou s'éloigne de l'horizon en telle raison des terms qu'on voudra, & dans quelque hypothese de vitesses que ce soit, &c.‎

‎(Paris, Jean Boudot, 1702). 4to. Without wrappers. Extracted from ""Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences. Année 1699"". Pp. 1-13 and 1 folded engravedplate.‎

‎First printing of a major paper in mathematical physics by Varignon which describes falling bodies by help of the new calculus. ""Nevertheless, he (Leibnitz) encouraged Varignon to ceae de bating principles and to start developing mechanical applications of the new mathematics. The questions that Varignon subsequently treated show how faithfully he followed Leibniz's advice.""(DSB XIII, p. 586).""In working with the model of falling bodies, Varignon encountered difficulties in obtaining acceleration as a second derivative. This problem had the advantage, however, of obliging him to reassess the importance of the new differential and integral calculus. His acceptance of the new procedures occurred between 1692 and 1695, and he was among those who gave the most favorable reception to the publication of L’Hospital’s Analyse des infiniment petits in 1696.""(DSB).‎

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‎"VAN VLECK, J.H. - TOWARDS QUANTUM MECHANICS, THE CORRESPONDENCE PRINCIPLE.‎

‎The Absorption of Radiation by multiply periodic Orbits, and its relation to the Correspondence Principle and the Rayleigh-Jeans Law. Part I- (II). (I. Some Extensions of the Correspondence Principle. - II. Calculation of Absorption by multiply period...‎

‎Corning, N.Y., and Menasha, Wisc., The Physical Review, 1924. Royal8vo. Full buckram. Gilt lettering to spine. A stamp to top of titlepage and to front free endpaper. In: ""The Physical Review. A Journal of Experimental and theoretical Physics"", Vol. 24, Second Series. V,704 pp., textillustr. Van Vleck's papers: pp. 330-346 a. pp. 347-365. Internally clean and fine.‎

‎"VARIGNON, (PIERRE).‎

‎Des Mouvemens primitivement variés dans des milieux résistans en raison des sommes faites des vitesses effectives de ces mouvemens, & des quarrés de ces mêmes vitesses.‎

‎(Paris, Jean Boudot, 1712). 4to. Without wrappers. Extracted from ""Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences. Année 1710"". Pp.(343)-374. and 1 engraved plate.‎

‎"VARIGNON, (PIERRE). - FOLLOWING THE ADVISE OF LEIBNITZ.‎

‎Methode pour trouver des Courbes le Long desquelles un corps tombant, s'approche ou s'éloigne de l'horizon en telle raison des terms qu'on voudra, & dans quelque hypothese de vitesses que ce soit, &c.‎

‎(Paris, Jean Boudot, 1702). 4to. Without wrappers. Extracted from ""Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences. Année 1699"". Pp. 1-13 and 1 folded engravedplate.‎

‎"VARIOUS AUTHORS -‎

‎Jahrbuch der Radioaktivität und Elektronik"" Dreizehnter band, 13, band, 1916.‎

‎Leipzig, Hirzel, 1916. 8vo. In contemporary red half cloth. Stamp to front free end-paper. Wrappers bound in the back. Fine and clean. IV, 463 pp.‎

‎"VARIOUS AUTHORS -‎

‎Jahrbuch der Radioaktivität und Elektronik"" Zwölfter band, 12, band, 1915‎

‎Leipzig, Hirzel, 1915. 8vo. In contemporary red half cloth. Stamp to front free end-paper. Wrappers bound in the back. Fine and clean. IV, 460 pp.‎

‎"VEGARD, L.‎

‎Die Konstitution der Mischkristalle und die Raumfüllung der Atome. - [VEGARD'S LAW]‎

‎Berlin, Julius Springer, 1921. 8vo. Bound in contemporary half cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In ""Zeitschrift für Physik, 5. Band. 1921"". Small library label to lower and library stamp to front free end paper. P. 17-26. [Entire issue: IV, 449 pp.].‎

‎First printing of Vegard's paper in which Vegard's Law was first introduced.Vegard's law is an approximate empirical rule which holds that a linear relation exists, at constant temperature, between the crystal lattice parameter of an alloy and the concentrations of the constituent elements.‎

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‎"VIOLLE, J. (JULES).‎

‎Sur un calormétre par refroidissement.‎

‎(Paris, Gauthier-Villars), 1882. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome 94, No 23. Pp. (1487-) 1545 (entire issue offered). Violle's paper: pp. 1510-1545.‎

‎First printing of the paper in which Violle records his method for keeping a liquefied gas sufficiently cool to remain in the liquid state, thus introducing the quiding principle of the thermos bottle.""Using the fact that a vacuum does not transmit heat, Violle stores the liquid gas in glass containers with double walls separated by a vacuum and with silvering on the exterior wall to reduce radiant impact"" (Parkinson ""Breakthroughs 1882 C).‎

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‎"VILLARD, P. (PAUL ULRICH). - THE DISCOVERY OF GAMMA RAYS AND GAMMA RADIATION.‎

‎Sur la réflexion et la réfraction des rayons cathodiques et des rayons déviables du radium. (+) Sur le rayonnement du radium.‎

‎(Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1900). 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome 130, No 15 a. No 18. Pp. (962-) 1044 a. pp. (1145-) 1220. Entire issues offered. Villard's papers: pp. 1010-1012 a. 1178-1182, textillustrations. Clean and fine.‎

‎"VON NEUMANN, JOHANN.‎

‎Beweis des Ergodensatzes und des H-Theorems in der neuen Mechanik.‎

‎Berlin, Springer, 1929. 8vo. In contemporary half cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In ""Zeitschrift für Physik"", bd. 57, 1929. Entire issue offered. Library stamp to front free end-paper, otherwise fine and clean. Pp. 30-70. [Entire volume:VII, (1), 872 pp.].‎

‎First printing of Neumann's important formulation and proof of an ergodic theorem for quantum systems.""The basic principle of this work is to define quantum analogues of cells in phase space by considering sets of quantum states for which all macroscopic quantities have given values within a certain inaccuracy. One further considers the unitary transformation u relating these quantum states to the eigenstates of the hamiltonian. The ergodicity is then established for ""almost every"" value of the transformation u. Although the latter restriction is a rather unsatisfactory one from the physical standpoint, one must consider von Neumann's ergodic theorem as one of the very few important contributions to a most difficult subject which even now is far from complete clarification."" (Hove, Von Neumann's Contributions to Quantum Theory, p. 98).‎

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‎"VOLTA, ALEXANDER.‎

‎Del Modo di Render Sensibilissima la piu Debole Elettricita sia Naturale, sia Artificiale.‎

‎London, Royal Society of London, 1782. 4to. In recent marbled wrappers. In ""Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Vol. LXXII (72) for the Year 1782, Part I"". A few leaves reinforced in margin, otherwise fine and clean. VII, (1), 237-280.‎

‎First edition of Volta's peper in which he announced the invention of the ""condensatore"" for measuring small amounts of atmospheric electricity, otherwise too weak for detection.‎

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‎"VOLTA, (ALEXANDRO). - ESTABLISHING THE ""ELECTRIC CURRENT"" - THE PRECURSOR OF THE VOLTAIC CELL.‎

‎Extrait D'une lettre de M. Volta à M. Gren, sur l'électricité dite animale. Par Van Mons"" Traduit de L'Allemand. (+) Seconde lettre. (+) Addition a la Lettre précédente.‎

‎Paris, Guillaume/Fuchs, An VI, ou 1797, AN VII (1799). Without wrappers..In: ""Annales de Chimie, ou Recueil de Mémoires concernant la Chemie"" Tome 23, 4. Cahier. Titlepage to vol. 23. + Tome 29, Cahier 1, Titlepage to tome 29. Stamp to verso of titlepages. Pp. (225-) 336 + pp. (1-) 112. (2 entire issues offered). Volta's letters: pp. 276-315, 1 folded engraved plate with 22 figs. + pp. 91-93.‎

‎First French edition of these 3 letters to Gren in which Volta described his last steps towards his groundbreaking construction of his famous ""Pile"". In the letters he established the first law governing an electrical fluid and he anticipated both Davy and Faraday.""In 1796 Volta wrote three letters to Gren (published in German in Gren's N.J. der Physik). In THE FIRST he describes 'a very remarkable experiment'. A tin cup filled with soapy water, milk of lime, or better fairly strong alkaline ley, was held with one or both hands moistened witn ater, and the tip of the tongue dipped into the liquid. A sour taste was at once perceived by the tongue in contact with the alkaline liquid, which soon, changed into a salty and finally into a sharp alkaline taste. The acid taste was 'produced by the current of the electric fluid passing from the tin to thee alkaline liquer, from there to the tongue, then through the body to the layer of water and from there to the tin in a continous current..... In his SECOND LETTER Volta repeats this 'law' of the combination of three conductors. The mutual contact of silver and tin, for example, produces 'an action, a force, by means of which the first gives the electric fluid and the second receives it. If the circuit is completed by a humid concustor, a current or continous circulation of this fluid is set up in the direction indicated in the table (depicted on the attached plate)... In his THIRD LETTER Volta describes experiments in which plates of silver and zinc so smooth that they adhered on contact, polished, dry, and insulated, were brought in close contact, and separated by pulling them perpendicularly apart. They gave small deflections when applied directly to the electrometer...."" (Partington ""A History of Chemistry"", Vol. IV, pp. 10-12).‎

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‎"VOLTERRA, VITO.‎

‎Sur la Théorie des Variations des Latitudes.‎

‎Berlin, Stockholm, Paris, Beijer, 1899. 4to. Without wrappers as extracted from ""Acta Mathematica. Hrdg. von G. Mittag-Leffler."", Bd. 22, pp. 201-357.‎

‎First edition. As the north and south poles, instead of being fixed points on the earth's surface, wander round within a circle of ab. 5o ft. in diameter, the result is a variability of terrestial latitudes generally. Volterra gives an elaborate mathematical analysis of these yearly fluxtuations.‎

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‎"VOLTA, ALESSANDRO.‎

‎On the Electricity Excited by the Mere Contact of Conducting Substances of Different Kinds. - [""A NEW ERA IN ELECTRICITY"" - PMM 225]‎

‎London, W. Bulmer & Co. for Peter Elmsley, 1800. 4to. In recent marbled paper wrappers. Extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"", volume 90, part II. Including title-page of volume. Leaves reinforced in margin. Light offsetting from folding plate as usual. Plate trimmed with loss of right margin. (4), 403-431 pp. + folded plate.‎

‎"VOLTA, ALEXANDRO. - VOLTA'S LAW OF CONTACT ELECTRICITY.‎

‎Ueber die sogenannte galvanische Electricität. (+) Uber die sogenannte.... Zweite Abhandlung.‎

‎Halle, Rengerschen Buchhandlung, 1802-(1803). Without wrappers as published in ""Annalen der Physik. Herausgegeben von Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert"", Bd. 10, Viertes Stück. (The entire issue offered (= Stück 4). Titlepage to vol. 10. Pp. 389-512 a. 1 engraved plate. + Extract from Ergänzungsheft zum Jahre 1802. (=Zweite Abhandlung). Volta's papers: pp. 421-449 a. pp. 497-520. Very light browning to 2. Abhandlung.‎

‎"VON NEUMANN, JOHANN (JOHN). - THE MATHEMATICAL FOUNDATION OF QUANTUM MECHANICS.‎

‎Mathematische Grundlagen der Quantenmechanik. (+) Wahrscheinlichkeitstheoretischer Aufbau der Quantenmechanik. (+) Thermodynamik quantenmechanischer Gesamtheiten. (3 Papers).‎

‎Berlin, Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, 1928. 8vo. Full cloth, but spine gone. In: ""Nachrichten von der Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen aus dem Jahre 1927"". (4),469 pp. Von Neumann's papers: pp. 1-57, pp. 245-272 a. pp. 273-291. Internally clean and fine.‎

‎"VON NEUMANN, JOHANN. [JOHN].‎

‎Beweis des Ergodensatzes und des H-Theorems in der neuen Mechanik.‎

‎Berlin, Springer, 1929. 8vo. In contemporary half cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In ""Zeitschrift für Physik"", bd. 57, 1929. Entire issue offered. Library stamp to front free end-paper and light wear to spine, otherwise fine and clean. Pp. 30-70. [Entire volume:VII, (1), 872 pp.].‎

‎"WALLNER, HELMUT.‎

‎Linienstrukturen an Bruchflächen. - [MODERN FORENSIC SCIENCE - WALLNER LINES]‎

‎Berlin, Springer, 1939. 8vo. In contemporary halv cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In ""Zeitschrift für Physik"", Bd. 114, 1939. Entire volume offered. Stamp to front free end-paper and titlepage, otherwise fine and clean. Pp. 368-78. [Entire volume: VIII, 749 pp.].‎

‎First printing of Wallner's important paper on microscopic lines - Wallner Lines - in various materials. Wallner lines are microscopic fractures that propagate on a rigid surface. Using the Wallner lines, it is possible to determine the speed at which a surface is cracked. The method works for example on glass, epoxy, tungsten and carbon-filled rubber. The measurement of Wallner lines are a standard method of modern forensic science.‎

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‎"WATERSTON, J.J.‎

‎On a General Law of Density in Saturated Vapours. Received June 19, 1851, - Read June 19, 1851.‎

‎(London, Richard Taylor and William Francis, 1852). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1852 - Part I. Pp. 83-85 a. 1 engraved plate‎

‎First printing. Waterston was one of the pioneers on the kinetic theory of gases although his importent work was looked down on by the Royal Society at the time.‎

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‎"WAALS, J.D.VAN DER.‎

‎Die Zustandsgleichung. Rede gehalten am 12. Dez. 1910 in Stockholm bei Empfang des Nobelpreises für Physik.‎

‎Leipzig, Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft, 1911. Uncut in orig. printed wrappers. 24 pp.‎

‎"WALLNER, HELMUT.‎

‎Linienstrukturen an Bruchflächen. - [MODERN FORENSIC SCIENCE - WALLNER LINES]‎

‎Berlin, Springer, 1939. 8vo. In contemporary halv cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In ""Zeitschrift für Physik"", Bd. 114, 1939. Entire volume offered. Stamp to front free end-paper and titlepage, otherwise fine and clean. Pp. 368-78. [Entire volume: VIII, 749 pp.].‎

‎"WANG, KAN CHANG. [or WANG GANCHANG].‎

‎Uber die ß-Spektren von ThB+C+C. - [WANG GANCHANG'S PH.D. THESIS]‎

‎Berlin, Springer, 1934. 8vo. In contemporary halv cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In ""Zeitschrift für Physik"", Bd. 87, 1934. Entire volume offered. Stamp to front free end-paper and titlepage, otherwise fine and clean. Pp. 633-46. [Entire volume: VIII, 822 pp.].‎

‎"WEISSKOPF, V. (+) E. WIGNER.‎

‎Berechnung der naturelichen linienbreite auf Grund der diracschen lichttheorie. - [THE THEORY OF SPONTANEOUS EMISSION]‎

‎Berlin, Julius Springer, 1930. 8vo. Entire volume 63 of ""Zeitschrift für Physik"" bound in a contemporary half cloth with gilt title to spine. Library stamp to title-page. Capitals a bit. An overall fine and clean copy. Pp. 54-73. [Entire volume: VII, (1), 868 pp.].‎

‎First printing of Weisskopf and Wigner's landmark paper in which the introduced their seminal theory of spontaneous emission under QED. ""In a consecutive paper, Dirac applied second-order perturbation theory to the atom-field interaction and re-derived the kramers-Heisenberg formula for the scattering of light by atomic systems. Fner aspects of radiative processes, like line widths due to damping, required a more elaborate mathematical treatment [presented in the present paper]."" Fierz, Theoretical Physics in the Twentieth Century.).‎

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‎"WEYL, HERMANN.‎

‎Das Kontinuum. Kritische Untersuchungen über die Grundlagen der Analysis.‎

‎Leipzig, Veit & Comp., 1918. Uncut and unopened in orig. printed wrappers. A very small nick to upper part of endwrapper. IV,(1),83 pp. Fine and clean.‎

‎Scarce first edition. ""In his 1818 monograph ""Ds Kontinuum"" Hermann Weyl initiated a program for the arithmetical foundations of mathematics. In the years following, this was overshadowed by the foundational scemes of Hilbert's nitary consistency program and Brouwer's intuitionistic redevelopment of mathematics. In fact, nor long after his own venture, Weyl became a convert to Brouwerian intuitionism and critized his old teachers program. Over the years, though, he became more and more pessimistic about the practical possibilities of reworking mathematics along intuitionistic lines, and pointed to the value of his own early foundational works. Weyl's work ""Das Kontinuum"" has come to be recognized for its importence as the opening chapter in the actual development of predicative mathematics, whose extent has been plumbed both mathematically and logically since the 1960'ties."" (Salomon feferman)‎

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‎"WEYL, HERMANN (+) ROLAND EÖTVÖS.‎

‎Eine Neue Erweiterung der Relativitätstheorie [Weyl] (+) Experimenteller Nachweis der Schwereänderung, die ein auf normal geformter Erdoberfläche in östlicher oder westlicker Richtung bewegter Körper durch diese Bewegung erleidet [Eötvös].‎

‎Leipzig, Ambrosius Barth, 1919. 8vo. In contemporary half cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In ""Annalen der Physik"", Vierte Folge, Band 59. Entire volume offered. Hinges weak a library labels pasted on the pasted down front free end paper. Stamp to title page, othrewise a fine copy. Pp. 101-133"" Pp. 743-752. [Entire volume: VII, (1), 760 pp.].‎

‎First printing of WEYL ambitious paper in which he used the Stoney units, named after the Irish physicist George Johnstone Stoney, to unify quantum processes and gravity thereby seeking to create a ""Unified Field Theory"". The paper appears to have inspired Dirac's fascination with the large number hypothesis.Also contain in this volume is the first appearance of EÖTVÖS' important paper in which he explains the eastward deflection of falling objects. In the paper, he also describes a device with which the effect can be demonstrated experimentally.The Eötvös effect is the change in perceived gravitational force caused by the change in centrifugal acceleration resulting from eastbound or westbound velocity. When moving eastbound, the object's angular velocity is increased (in addition to the earth's rotation), and thus the centrifugal force also increases, causing a perceived reduction in gravitational force. This phenomenon had been observed in the early 20th century on research ships on which gravity was measured" they noticed that measurements of g yielded smaller values when the ship went eastward, and larger ones when they went westward. These observations are mentioned by Eötvös in a paper in which he provides the explanation of the effect.‎

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