‎Physique‎

‎"COOLIDGE, WILLIAM.‎

‎A Powerful Röntgen Ray Tube with a Pure Electron Discharge. - [""THE SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT EVENT IN THE PROGRESS OF RADIOLOGY""]‎

‎Lancaster, PA and Ithaca, NY, The American Physical Society, 1913. 8vo. In the original printed wrappers. In: ""The Physical Review, Vol II, Second Series, No. 6"". With new paper back-strip and white paper label (""Alle Zeit Wach 1842"") pasted on to upper outer corner of front wrappers. Light wear to extremities, internally fine and clean. Pp. 409-430. [Entire volume: Pp. 409-536].‎

‎"COULOMB, (CHARLES AUGUSTIN) - THE PRIZE-WINNING PAPER ON MAGNETIC COMPASSES INTRODUCING THE TORSION BALANCE‎

‎Recherches sur la meilleure Manière de fabriquer les Aiguilles Aimantées, de les suspendre, de s'assurer qu`elles sont dans le véritable Méridian magnétique: enfin de rendre raison de leurs Variations diurnes régulières: Pièce qui a partae le Prix p... - [THE PRIZE-WINNING PAPER ON MAGNETIC COMPASSES INTRODUCING THE TORSION BALANCE]‎

‎Paris, Moutard, Panckoucke, 1780. 4to. Extract from ""Mémoires fe Mathematique et de Physique, Présentés à l'Academie des Sciences par divers Savans"", Tome IX. With titlepage to vol. IX. Pp. (2), (167-) 264 and 4 folded engraved plates. The memoir has also its own titlepage. Fine and clean. Wide-margined.‎

‎"COULOMB, (CHARLES).‎

‎Nouvelle Méthode de déterminer L'Inclinaison d'une Aiguille Aimantée. Lu le 26 fructidor an 7 (1799).‎

‎(Paris, Baudouin, AN XI (1803)). 4to. Without wrappers. Uncut. Extracted from ""Mémoires de L'Institut National des Sciences et Arts"", Tome Quatrieme. Pp. 565-584. A few faint brownspots to the first leaves. Fine and clean.‎

‎"CROOKES, WILLIAM.‎

‎On the Repulsion resulting from Radiation. - Part IV. Received June 27, - Read November 21, 1878‎

‎(London, Harrison and Sons, 1879). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1879 - Vol. 170 - Part I. Pp. 87-134, textillustrations. Clean and fine.‎

‎This paper, recording a series of further experiments with ""The Crook Tube"" and ""the lines of pressure"" under radiation, is an importent paper in the history of vacuum physics.Sir William Crookes (1832-1919) studied at the Royal College of Chemistry , London, and served there as an assistant to Hoffmann. In 1859 he founded the Chemical News and remained its proprietor and editor until his death. He early attracted attention by his discovery of the element thallium by spectroscopic methods. He was an active investigator in many fields of physics and contributed greatly to the advance of knowledge by his study of the radiometer and of the electric discharge in rarefied gases.‎

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‎"CROOKES, WILLIAM.‎

‎On the Supposed ""New Force"" of M.J. Thore. Received May 5, - Read May 26, 1887.‎

‎(London, Harrison and Sons, 1888). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1887 - Vol. 169 - Series A. Pp. 451-469, textillustrations. Clean and fine.‎

‎First appearance of a paper in which Crookes with his wide variety of apparatus tests Thores ""New Force"".""On february 15 last M.J. Thore communicated to a scientific society at Dax a short paper describing some results he had obtained on the rotation of a delicately suspended cylinder of ivory. So remarkable were these results that in a private letter to myself, accompanying a printed copy of his paper, Mr. Thore said ""they seem to demonstrate the existance of a new force inherent in the human organism."" (Crookes).Sir William Crookes (1832-1919) studied at the Royal College of Chemistry , London, and served there as an assistant to Hoffmann. In 1859 he founded the Chemical News and remained its proprietor and editor until his death. he early attracted attentuion by his discovery of the element thallium by spectroscopic methods. he was an active investigator in many fields of physics and contributed greatly to the advance of knowledge by his study of the radiometer and of the electric discharge in rarefied gases. -(PMM: 386 describing J.J. Thomson's Cathode Rays). - Magee, Source Book in Physics p. 564 ff.‎

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‎"CROOKES, WILLIAM.‎

‎On Attraction and Repulsion resulting from Radiation. Received August 12, - Read December 11, 1873. This paper was read before the Royal Society, and the abstract was published in the ""Proceedings"" under the title ""On the Action of Heat on Gravitating...‎

‎(London, Taylor and Francis, 1874-76). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" Year 1874, Vol. 164 - Part II. Pp. 501-527, textillustrations, showing his experimental equipment. And 1875 - II. Vol. 165. Pp. 519-547 and textillustr. showing experimental equipment.‎

‎First appearance of an importent historical paper in the investigations of radiation from cathode rays. This is Crookes first 2 papers on attraction and repulsion. In the same year he invented the ""light-mill"".""While working with his balance in a vacuum, Crookes noticed another ""anomaly"": the equilibrium of the balance was disturbed by slight differences in temperature of his samples. Inparticular he noticed that warmer bodies appeared to be lighter than colder ones:....At first Crookes believed this was a signpost pointing to a link between heat and gravitation....Since the attraction or repulsion was heighned by a decrease in pressure, Crookes was led s to suppose in 1873 that ""the movement is due to a repulsive action of radiation"" Repulsion was produced not only by heat radiation but also by light, and Crookes concluded - erraneously, as it turned out - that he had found a genuine case of ""the pressure of light"" postulated by the unfashionable corpuscular theory of light and Maxwell's as yet unaccepted electromagnetic theory.""(DSB III:477).Sir William Crookes (1832-1919) studied at the Royal College of Chemistry , London, and served there as an assistant to Hoffmann. In 1859 he founded the Chemical News and remained its proprietor and editor until his death. he early attracted attentuion by his discovery of the element thallium by spectroscopic methods. he was an active investigator in many fields of physics and contributed greatly to the advance of knowledge by his study of the radiometer and of the electric discharge in rarefied gases. -(PMM: 386 describing J.J. Thomson's Cathode Rays). - Magee, Source Book in Physics p. 564 ff.‎

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‎"CROOKES, WILLIAM.‎

‎Sur la Matière Radiante. Conférence faite a Sheffield, le 22 Aout 1879, devant L'Association Britannique pour L'Avancement des Sciences.‎

‎Paris, G. Masson, 1880. 8vo. Contemp. hcalf, raised bands, gilt spine. Light wear along edges. Small stamps on verso of titlepage. In: ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique"", 5e Series, Tome 19. 576 pp. and 1 folded engraved plate. (Entire volume offered). Crooke's paper: pp. 195-231 with 21 fine textillustrations of his apparatus.‎

‎First apperance - simutaneously with an English version - of the paper in which Crookes is summing up his importent investigations on cathode-rays, describing the ""Crooke Tube"", the ""Lines of pressure"", his ""Light-Mill"", his Radiometer and the electric discharge in rarified gases etc., investigations leading to the discovery of the electron by J.J. Thomson in 1897.""With his thorough grounding in the experimentally difficult art of vacuum physics, Crookes laid the foundation for the fuller investigation by J. J. Thomson of the behavior of radiant matter in the discharge tube, showing, for example, that it induced phosphorescence in minerals like the diamond" that it caused the glass of the discharge tube to phosphoresce that its stream could be deflected by a magnet" and, most important of all, that since it cast a shadow of an opaque object (for example, a Maltese cross), it traveled in straight lines and was corpuscular in nature...""(DSB).The volume contains further notable papers E.H. AMAGAT: ""Mémoire sur la Compressabilité des Gaz à des Pressions élevees"", pp. 345-385. LOUIS CAILLETET: ""Sur la mesure des hautes Pressions"", pp. 386-389.‎

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‎"CROOKES, WILLIAM.‎

‎The Bakerian Lecture. On the Repulsion resulting from Radiation. - Part V. Received December 3, 1877, - Read January 17, 1878.‎

‎(London, Harrison and Sons, 1878). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1878 - Vol. 169 - Part I. Pp. 243-318. Textillustrations showing experimental apparatus.‎

‎This paper, recording a series of further experiments with ""The Crook Tube"", the Radiometer and ""the lines of pressure"" under radiation, is an importent paper in the history of vacuum physics.Sir William Crookes (1832-1919) studied at the Royal College of Chemistry , London, and served there as an assistant to Hoffmann. In 1859 he founded the Chemical News and remained its proprietor and editor until his death. He early attracted attention by his discovery of the element thallium by spectroscopic methods. He was an active investigator in many fields of physics and contributed greatly to the advance of knowledge by his study of the radiometer and of the electric discharge in rarefied gases.‎

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‎"CRISSON, GEORGE.‎

‎The Limitation of the Gain of Two-Way Telephone Repeaters by Impendance Irregularities.‎

‎New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Company, 1925. 8vo. Volume IV, January, No. 1, 1925 of ""The Bell System Technical Journal"". Original printed blue front wrapper, back wrapper missing, spine worn. Tight and internally fine and clean. Pp. 15-25. [Entire issue: Pp. 529-185].‎

‎"CROOKES, WILLIAM.‎

‎On Attraction and Repulsion resulting from Radiation. Received August 12, - Read December 11, 1873. This paper was read before the Royal Society, and the abstract was published in the ""Proceedings"" under the title ""On the Action of Heat on Gravitating...‎

‎(London, Taylor and Francis, 1874-76). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" Year 1874, Vol. 164 - Part II. Pp. 501-527, textillustrations, showing his experimental equipment. And 1875 - II. Vol. 165. Pp. 519-547 and textillustr. showing experimental equipment.‎

‎"CROOKES, WILLIAM.‎

‎On the Supposed ""New Force"" of M.J. Thore. Received May 5, - Read May 26, 1887.‎

‎(London, Harrison and Sons, 1888). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1887 - Vol. 169 - Series A. Pp. 451-469, textillustrations. Clean and fine.‎

‎"CROOKES, WILLIAM.‎

‎Sur la Matière Radiante. Conférence faite a Sheffield, le 22 Aout 1879, devant L'Association Britannique pour L'Avancement des Sciences.‎

‎Paris, G. Masson, 1880. 8vo. Contemp. hcalf, raised bands, gilt spine. Light wear along edges. Small stamps on verso of titlepage. In: ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique"", 5e Series, Tome 19. 576 pp. and 1 folded engraved plate. (Entire volume offered). Crooke's paper: pp. 195-231 with 21 fine textillustrations of his apparatus.‎

‎"CROOKES, WILLIAM. - ARGON - THE FIRST OF THE INERT GASES.‎

‎On the Spectra of Argon. Received January 26, - Read January 31, 1895.‎

‎(London, Harrison and Sons, 1895). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1895 - Vol. 186 - Series A, Part I. Pp. 243-251 and 1 plate (The Spectra of Argon). Clean and fine.‎

‎"CROOKES, WILLIAM. - THE FOURTH STATE OF MATTER.‎

‎The Bakerian Lecture. - On Radiant Matter Spectroscopy: The Detection and wide Distributium of Yttrium. Received May 24, - Read May 11, 1883. (+) On Radiant Matter Spectroscopy.- Part II. Samarium. Received May 21, - Read June 18, 1885. (2 Papers).‎

‎(London, Harrison and Sons, 1884 a. 1886). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1883. Vol. 179 - Part II. Pp. 891-918 and 1885. Vol. 176 - Part II. Pp. 691-723 and 1 plate (chromolithographed spectra), many textillustr. of spectra. The plate with small spots in margins.‎

‎"CURIE, IRÈNE et F. JOLIOT.‎

‎Recherches sur le Rayonnement ultrapénétrant a la Station Scientifique du Jungfraujoch.‎

‎(Paris), Journal de Physique et le Radium, 1933. Royal8vo. Orig. printed wrappers. A small closed tear to frontwrapper, no loss. Offprint/ Extrait from ""Le Journal de Physique et le Radium"", Aout 1933, Série VII, T. IV, No 8. - 4 pp. (incl. titlepage). This copy has belonged to the Swedish physicist J. Tandberg with his name in ink in top of frontwrapper ""J. Tandberg/ Paris 28/4 34""‎

‎First edition in the scarce offprint issue. In this short paper they investigated cosmic rays, and it was published a year before their famous paper on the Artificial Production of Radioactive Elements.""Iréne Joliot-Curie’s fame stems principally from the discoveries she made with her husband, Frédéric Joliot, particularly that of artificial radioactivity, for which they shared the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1935. Yet her own investigations on the radioelements produced by the irradiation of uranium with neutrons were sufficiently important to secure her a position among the great modern scientists.""(DSB).‎

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‎"CURIE, P. (PIERRE) et A. DEBIERNE. - MEASURING ABSOLUTE TIME FOR THE FIRST TIME‎

‎Sur la radio-activité des sels de radium. (+) Sur la radio-activité provoquée par des sels de radium. (These 2 with Debierne). (+) Sur la constante de temps caractéristique de la disparition de la radioactivité induite par leradium dansune enceinte fe...‎

‎(Paris, Gauthier-Villars), 1901. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome 133, No 5 and No 23. Pp. (969-) 1044 and pp. (909-) 966. The papers: pp. 276-279 + pp. 931-934 (both from vol. 133, and entire issues offered) + Tome 135, No 20. Pp. (821-) 880. (Entire issue offered). The paper: pp. 857-59. + Tome 136, No 4. Pp. (181-) 262. (Entire issue offered). The paper: pp. 223-226.‎

‎First printing of these four papers, constituting a revolution in time measuring, as Pierre Curie here defined a STANDARD FOR THE ABSOLUTE MEASURING OF TIME ON THE BASIS OF RADIOACTIVITY, and hereby departing from the relative measurements in geology and archaeology.After the discovery of Polonium and Actinium (1898 a. 1899 ) further discoveries followed. ""First came the announcement in 1899 by Marie Curie of induced radioactivity, brought about by the action of polonium or radium on inactive substances. The induced radioactivity persisted over a considerable period of time, a phenomenon of great concern to Pierre Curie. He took up the question with Debierne, with whom he published two papers in 1901(the first two papers offered)"" their experiments could be explained by Rutherford’s theory of emanation (radon), a radioactive gas emitted by radium. With J. Danne, Curie measured the diffusion coefficient of radium emanation in the air and proved, as Rutherford had done, that it liquefies at - 150°C. In order to clarify the nature of the emanation he studied the law of diminution of the activity of a solid after having removed it from a chamber in which a radium salt was present. In two notes presented to the Academy on 17 November 1902 and 26 January 1903 (the third and fourth papers offered), Curie showed that this activity diminishes according to an exponential law characterized by a time constant that, for the emanation, is equal to 5,752 days, regardless of the conditions of the experiment. The importance of this discovery, which marks the point of departure for all modern measurements of archaeological and geological dating, did not escape his, for at a meeting of the Société Française de Physidque in 1902 he defined a standard for the absolute measurement of time on the basis of radioactivity. Almost immediately Rutherford and Soddy showed that the exponential diminution was caused by the transmutation of radioactive elements."" (DSB. Pierre Curie).‎

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‎"CURIE, PIERRE & MARIE SKLODOWSKA CURIE, EUGÈNE DEMARCAY.‎

‎Sur la radioactivité provoquée par les rayons de Becquerel. (Note de P. Curie et de Mme M.-P. Curie) + Sur la spectre du radium. Note de Eug. demarcay. (+) Sur les poids atomique du métal dans le chlorure de baryum radifère. Note de Mme Sklodowska Cur...‎

‎Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1899. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome 129, No 19, 20 a. 21). Pp. (687-) 853. (3 entire issues offered). The papers: pp. 714-716, 716-717, 760-762 a. 823-825. All three issues clean and fine.‎

‎First apperance of 4 importent papers on the newly discovered phenomena of radioactivity.‎

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‎"CURIE, IRÈNE & F. JOLIOT (AND P. SAVEL). - ""THE NEUTRON IDENTIFIED""‎

‎Émission de protons de grande vitesse par la substances hydrogénées sous l'influence des rayons gamma très pénétrants. (+) Effet d'absorption de rayons gamma de très haute fréquence par projection de noyaux légers. (+) Projections d'atomes par rayo...‎

‎Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1932-33. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome 194 and tome 197. - Tome 194: Nos 3,8,10,15 a. 25. - Tome 197: No 3. (6 entire issues offered). With titlepages to both volumes. The papers: pp. 273-275, 708-711, 876-877 a. 1 plate, 1229-1232, 2208-2211 a. 237-38 (tome 197). The issue no 25: pp. 2181-2248 lacks the first leaf, no affecting the paper. Titlepages with a faint stamp.‎

‎First printing of these papers of seminal importance to the evolution of particle physics - the results of these investigations immediately lead the way to the discovery of the neutron.They found that the 'Beryllium radiation', discovered by Bothe and Becker, ejected protons from a paraffin target. This discovery was amazing because photons have no mass. However, the Joliot-Curies interpreted the results as the action of photons on the hydrogen atoms in paraffin. They used the analogy of the Compton Effect, in which photons impinging on a metal surface eject electrons. The trouble was that the electron was 1,836 times lighter than the proton and, therefore, recoiled much more easily than the heavier proton after a collision with a gamma photon. When James Chadwick reported to Lord Rutherford on the Joliot-Curies’ results, Lord Rutherford exclaimed, ""I do not believe it!"" Chadwick immediately repeated the experiments at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, England. He not only bombarded the hydrogen atoms in paraffin with the beryllium emissions, but also used helium, nitrogen, and other elements as targets. By comparing the energies of recoiling charged particles from different targets, he proved that the beryllium emissions contained a neutral component with a mass approximately equal to that of the proton. He called it the neutron.‎

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‎"CURIE, (MARIE) SKLODOWSKA. - THE DISCOVERY OF THE RADIOACTIVITY OF THORIUM - COINING THE TERM 'RADIOACTIVITY'‎

‎Rayons émis par les composés de l'uranium et de thorium. Presentée par M. Lippmann. Séance du Mardi 12 Avril 1898).‎

‎Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1898. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome 126, No 15). Entire issue offered. With htitle and titlepage to vol. 126. Pp. 1059-1110. Curie's paper: pp. 1101-1103.‎

‎"CURIE, IRÈNE et F. JOLIOT.‎

‎Recherches sur le Rayonnement ultrapénétrant a la Station Scientifique du Jungfraujoch.‎

‎(Paris), Journal de Physique et le Radium, 1933. Royal8vo. Orig. printed wrappers. A small closed tear to frontwrapper, no loss. Offprint/ Extrait from ""Le Journal de Physique et le Radium"", Aout 1933, Série VII, T. IV, No 8. - 4 pp. (incl. titlepage). This copy has belonged to the Swedish physicist J. Tandberg with his name in ink in top of frontwrapper ""J. Tandberg/ Paris 28/4 34""‎

‎"CURIE, JACQUES et PIERRE. - THE DISCOVERY OF PIEZOELECTRICITY.‎

‎Développement, par pression, de l'èlectricité polaire dans les cristaux hémièdres à faces inclinées. Note de MM. Jacques et Pierre Curie, présentée par M. Friedel.‎

‎Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1880. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome 91, No 5 (entire issue offered). Pp. 251-310. The Curie's paper: pp. 294-295.‎

‎"CURIE, M. (MARIE) (MADAME SKLODOWSKA).‎

‎Untersuchungen über die Radioaktiven Substanzen. Übersetzt und mit Litteratur-Ergänzungen versehen von W. Kaufmann.‎

‎Braunschweig, Vieweg und Sohn, 1904. 8vo. Recent boards. Gilt lettering on spine. (4),132 pp., 14 textfigs. Clean and fine. (Die Wissenschaft. Sammlung naturwissenschaftlicher und mathematischer Monographien. Erstes Heft).‎

‎"CURIE, P. (PIERRE) et Mme S. CURIE. - RADIOACTIVITY IS AN INTRINSIC ATOMIC PROPERTY.‎

‎Sur les Corps radioactifs, présentée par M. H. Becquerel.‎

‎Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1902. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", tome 134, No 2. Pp. (69-) 132. With titlepage to volume 134. (Entire issue offered). The Curie's paper: pp. 85-87. A stamp to titlepage. Sewing loosening.‎

‎"CURIE, PIERRE & MARIE SKLODOWSKA CURIE, EUGÈNE DEMARCAY.‎

‎Sur la radioactivité provoquée par les rayons de Becquerel. (Note de P. Curie et de Mme M.-P. Curie) + Sur la spectre du radium. Note de Eug. demarcay. (+) Sur les poids atomique du métal dans le chlorure de baryum radifère. Note de Mme Sklodowska Cur...‎

‎Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1899. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome 129, No 19, 20 a. 21). Pp. (687-) 853. (3 entire issues offered). The papers: pp. 714-716, 716-717, 760-762 a. 823-825. All three issues clean and fine.‎

‎"D'ALEMBERT (ALEMBERT), (JEAN le ROND).‎

‎Extrait d'une Lettre de M. D'Alembert à M. De La Grange.‎

‎(Berlin, Haude et Spener, 1771). 4to. No wrappers as issued in ""Memoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles Lettres"". tome XXV, pp. 265.-284.‎