‎Physique‎

‎"TYNDALL, JOHN. - CLASSICAL PAPER ON RADIANT HEAT.‎

‎Sixth Memoir on Radiation and Absorption. - Influence of Colour and Mechanical Condition on Radiant Heat. Received December 21, 1865 - Read January 18, 1866.‎

‎(London, Taylor and Francis, 1866). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1866 - Vol. 156 - Part I. Pp. 83-96. Clean and fine.‎

‎"TYNDALL, JOHN. - COINING THE WORD 'CALORESCENCE'.‎

‎On Calorescence. Received October 20, - Read November 23, 1865.‎

‎(London, Taylor and Francis, 1866). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"", Vol. 156 - Part I, pp. 1-24, textillustr. a. 1 lithographed plate. Plate with minot brownspots.‎

‎"UHLENBECK, G. E. (+) GOUDSMIT, S.‎

‎Ersetzung der Hypothese vom unmechanishen Zwang durch eine Forderung bezüglich des inneren Verhaltens jades einzelnen Elektrons. - [DISCOVERY OF ELECTRON SPIN]‎

‎Berlin, Springer, 1925. Royal8vo. Bound in contemporary half cloth with paper label with handwritten title to spine. In ""Die Naturwissenschaften"", Vol. 30, 1925. Library stamp to title page, otherwise fine and clean. Pp. 953-954. [Entire volume: XXIII, (1), 1092, 44 pp.].‎

‎First printing of this landmark paper in which electron spin was first announced. ""Ehrenfest had suggested that he work with a fellow student, Goudsmit, who already was an expert on atomic spectra. The two of them wrote a paper on the spectrum of hydrogen, giving an improved interpretation involving half-integer quantum numbers. Then came their great discovery: electron spin. The quantum numbers they had assigned implied that the electron must have another degree of freedom"" it must be rotating. With this idea everything fell into place. They published first a short note and then, at the encouragement of Niels Bohr, who visited Leiden shortly after their discovery, a longer paper that appeared in Nature. The origin of the spin-orbit interaction was apparently suggested by Albert Einstein, who also visited Leiden at the time and pointed out that in its rest frame, the electron sees an orbiting nucleus and hence a magnetic field. There remained an awkward factor of two in the spin precession rate. This was soon explained as a relativistic effect in an elegant paper by Llewellen H. Thomas. In their third and final paper on electron spin, Goudsmit and Uhlenbeck summarized these results and gave what has become the accepted interpretation of electron spin and atomic spectra."" (DSB)The discovery of electron spin was proposed as an explanation for the Stern-Gerlach experiment. In this experiment a beam of silver atoms was allowed to pass through an inhomogeneous magnetic field. When the magnetic field was on, the beam of silver atoms split into two parts, one deflected up and the other deflected down. In 1925, Uhlenbeck and Goudsmit, both graduate students at the time, proposed an explanation for the Stern-Gerlach experiment by postulating that the electron possesses an intrinsic angular momentum, referred to as ""spin"".This intrinsic angular momentum gives rise to a magnetic moment in the electron that interacts with magnetic fields. The electron spin and the related magnetic moment are quantized such that there are only two possible discrete values. This quantization of the magnetic moment is what leads to the deflection of the beam of silver atoms either up or down in the inhomogeneous magnetic field. Their insight furnished a missing link leading to the final triumph of the then-struggling birth of quantum mechanics.‎

书商的参考编号 : 47059

‎"VAN ALLEN , J. A. (+) A. V. GANGNES.‎

‎Cosmic-ray intensity above the atmosphere at the geomagnetic equator.‎

‎Lancaster, American Institute of Physics, 1950. Lex8vo. Entire volume offered in the original blue wrappers with previous owner´s stamps [C. Møller, Danish physician] to front wrapper. In ""The Physical Review"" Volume 78, April 1, No. 1, 1950. A fine and clean copy. Pp. 50-51. [Entire volume: Pp. (2), 94].‎

‎First printing. Much of the data for the present paper was obtained by the famous Aerobee-rocket launched from New Mexico.‎

书商的参考编号 : 46707

‎"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.‎

‎First appearance of one of Varignon's memoirs in mathematical physics dealing with accelerations treated with the calculus.‎

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‎"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.‎

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‎"VARIOUS AUTHORS -‎

‎Jahrbuch der Radioaktivität und Elektronik"" Vierzehnter band, 14, band, 1917.‎

‎Leipzig, Hirzel, 1917. 8vo. In contemporary red half cloth. Stamp to front free end-paper. Wrappers bound in the back. Fine and clean. IV, 499 pp.‎

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‎"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).‎

书商的参考编号 : 44384

‎"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.‎

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‎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.‎

书商的参考编号 : 45482

‎"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).‎

书商的参考编号 : 49091

‎"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).‎

书商的参考编号 : 49013

‎"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.‎

书商的参考编号 : 59890

‎"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.‎

‎First edition of ""the first announcement of the voltaic 'pile,' or electric battery"" (Grolier/Horblit). It was a breakthrough in physics, and led to the development of electrotechnology and is today regarded as being one of the major milestones in the history of science. ""The voltaic pile revolutionized the theory and practice of electricity, so that within one hundred years of Volta's invention, more progress was made than in the two thousand four hundred years between the tentative experience of Thales and the publication of Volta's letter addressed to Sir Joseph Banks, President of the Royal Society ... The indispensability and ubiquity of electricity, in one form or another, in western civilization today emphasize sharply the fact that before 1800 human environment and existence were closer to life in ancient Egypt than to our own. Volta's invention is one of the earliest and most important causes of the change"" (PMM).""The paper, in French, was sent by Volta to his friend Cavallo in London for communication to the Royal Society. In it Volta describes the pile of alternating dissimilar metals (silver and zinc) which, when moist, generated a flow of constant-current electricity. With this new force water was decomposed, metal was electro-deposited, the electro-magnet was created and the electrical age was begun.""(Dibner Heralds of Science, no. 60).Horblit 37b Norman 2164 PMM 255Sparrow 168Dibner 60Barchas 2092‎

书商的参考编号 : 57068

‎"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.‎

‎"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.‎

‎"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.‎

‎"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.].‎

‎"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.‎

‎First edition. Waals was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1910 for his equation, linking pressure, absolute temperature and volume, ""The van der Waals-equation"".‎

书商的参考编号 : 38589

‎"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. 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.‎

书商的参考编号 : 49265