‎Physique‎

‎"DIRAC, P.A.M.‎

‎A Theory of Electrons and Protons. - [THE THEORY OF HOLES.]‎

‎London, Royal Society, 1930. Royal 8vo. Recent marbled boards. Extracted from ""Proceedings of the Royal Society in London, Series A, Vol. 126"". pp. 360-365.‎

‎"DIRAC, P.A.M. (PAUL ADRIEN MAURICE). - THE RADIATION THEORY, THE BIRTH OF QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS‎

‎The Quantum Theory of Emission and Absorption of Radiation. (+) The Quantum Theory of Dispersion. (2 Papers).‎

‎London, Harrison And Sons, Ltd., 1927. Royal8vo. Contemp. full cloth. A small stamp on verso of titlepage. In: ""Proceedings of the Royal Society of London"", Series A, Vol. 114. VI,IX,748 pp. (entire volume offered). Dirac's papers: pp. 243-265 a. pp. 710-728. Clean and fine.‎

‎First appearance of these milestone papers in Quantum Physics, constituting the first step in Quantum Field Theory and the invention of the Second Quantifization Method. By these papers Dirac ""gave the foundation for that theory, quantum electrodynamics""(Pais).""A New Radiation Theory. Dirac liked his transformation theory because it was the outcome of a planned line of research and not a fortuitous discovery. He forced his future investigations to fit it. The first results of this strategy were almost miraculous. First came his new radiation theory, in February 1927, which quantized for the first time James Clerk Maxwell’s radiation in interaction with atoms. Previous quantum-mechanical studies of radiation problems, except for Jordan’s unpopular attempt, retained purely classical fields. In late 1925 Jordan had applied Heisenberg’s rules of quantization to continuous free fields and obtained a light-quantum structure with the expected statistics (Bose Einstein) and dual fluctuation properties. Dirac further demonstrated that spontaneous emission and its characteristics—previously taken into account only by special postulates—followed from the interaction between atoms and the quantum field. Essential to this success was the fact that Dirac’s transformation theory eliminated from the interpretation of the quantum formalism every reference to classical emitted radiation, contrary to Heisenberg’s original point of view and also to Schrödinger’s concept of ? as a classical source of field.This work was done during Dirac’s visit to Copenhagen in the winter of 1927. Presumably to please Bohr, who insisted on wave-particle duality and equality, Dirac opposed the ""corpuscular point of view"" to the quantized electromagnetic ""wave point of view."" He started with a set of massless Bose particles described by symmetric ? waves in configuration space. As he discovered by’ playing with the equations, ’ this description was equivalent to a quantized Schrödinger equation in the space of one particle"" this’ second quantization’ was already known to Jordan, who during 1927 extended it into the basic modern quantum field representation of matter. Dirac limited his use of second quantization electromagnetic to radiation: to establish that the corpuscular point of view, once brought into this form, was equivalent to the wave point of view.""(DSB).‎

书商的参考编号 : 47023

‎"DIRAC, PAUL.‎

‎Energy of the Gravitational Field.‎

‎(New York), American physical Society, 1959. Lex8vo. Volume 2, No. 8, April 15, 1959 of ""Physical Review Letters"", entire volume offered. In the original printed blue wrappers. Previous owner's name to top right corner of front wrapper written with a soft pencil. A very nice and clean copy externally as well as internally. Pp. 368-71. [Entire issue: Pp. 329-381].‎

‎"DIRAC, PAUL.‎

‎The Quantum Theory of the Electron - [FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE DIRAC EQUATION]‎

‎London, Harrison and Sons, 1928. Royal8vo. In the original printed wrappers. In ""Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series A, Vol. 117, No. 778"". Black cloth backstrip pasted on to spine, otherwise a fine copy (without institutional stamps). [Dirac's paper:]Pp 610-624. [Entire issue:] Pp. 541-730, (2), XXXVI, X + 6 plates.‎

‎"Docteur Gustave Le Bon"‎

‎"La Naissance et l'Evanouissement de la Matière"‎

‎"1919. Paris Éditions du Mercure de France 1919 e.o. - Broché 11 5 cm x 18 cm 78 pages - Texte du Docteur Gustave Le Bon - Non coupé couv. et premières pages tachées sinon bon état"‎

书商的参考编号 : 17290

‎"DOLLOND, JOHN. - MEASURING SMALL ANGLES.‎

‎Explanatio novae rationis, Angulos, sub quibus obiecta in telescopiis spectantur, metiendi. Excerpta ex Transact. Philosop. Vol. XLVIII...ex Anglio sermonte translata.‎

‎Leipzig, Gleditsch & Lanckisiii, 1756. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Nova Acta Eruditorum"", Anno 1756, No. X (September issue). Pp. 481-528 (entire issue offered). Dollonds paper: pp. 496-505 and 1 engraved plate. Wide-margined. Some browning and brownspots.‎

‎First Latin edition of Dollond's importent paper ""An Explanation of an Instrument for measuring Small Angles,"" pawing the way for his invention of the Acromatic Telescope. The paper was first printed in The Philosophical Transactions, 1754. The plate shows the combination of two lenses of crown glass and flint glass correcting the errors arising from the different refrangibility of the rays of light.‎

书商的参考编号 : 45593

‎"DOLLOND, PETER.‎

‎An Account of an Apparatus applied to the equatorial Instrument for correcting the Errors arising from the Refraction in Altitude. Read March 4, 1779.‎

‎(London, J. Nichols, 1779). 4to. Extract from ""Philosophical Transactions, of the Royal Society of London."" Vol. 69, Year 1779 - Part II. Pp. 332-336 and 1 engraved plate showing apparatus.‎

书商的参考编号 : 44513

‎"DU FAY, CHARLES FRANCOIS de CISTERNAY.‎

‎Premier- (Quatrième) Mémoire sur L'Électricitè. (1. Histoire de L'Électricité. 2. Quels sont les Corps qui sont susceptibles d'Électricité. 3. Des Corps qui sont le plus vivement attirés par les matiéres électriques, & de ceux qui sont les plus p... - [THE DISCOVERY OF POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE CHARGE OF ELECTRICITY]‎

‎(Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1735). 4to. Without wrappers. Extracted from ""Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences. Année 1733"". Pp. 23-39, pp. 73-84, pp. 233-254 a. 1 engraved plate, pp. 457-476. With titlepage to the volume (1733/1735).‎

‎"DUFAY (DU FAY), CHARLES FRANCOIS DE CISTERNAY. - THE DISCOVERY OF POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE CHARGE OF ELECTRICITY.‎

‎Premier- (Quatrième) Mémoire sur L'Électricitè. (1. Histoire de L'Électricité. 2. Quels sont les Corps qui sont susceptibles d'Électricité. 3. Des Corps qui sont le plus vivement attirés par les matiéres électriques, & de ceux qui sont les plus p...‎

‎(Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1735). 4to. Without wrappers. Extracted from ""Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences. Année 1733"". Pp. 23-39, pp. 73-84, pp. 233-254 a. 1 engraved plate, pp. 457-476. With titlepage to the volume (1733/1735). Margins of titlepage with a few brownspots.‎

‎"DULONG, (PIERRE) & (ALEXIS) PETIT.‎

‎Recherches sur les lois de dilation des solides, des liquides et des fluides élastiques, et sur la mesure exacte des températures.‎

‎Paris, Crochard, 1816. Without wrappers. In ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique"", Tome II, 2. Series, Cahier 3 (Juillet 1816). Pp. (217-) 328. (Entire issue offered with titlepage to tome II). Dulong & Petit's paper: pp. 240-263. Some brownspots to title-page and a stamp on verso. A few scattered brownspots.‎

‎First apperance of this (their first) joint paper, which initiated the recheches leading, the year after, to the ""Law of Dulong and Petit"", the connection between atomic weight and atomic heat.""In 1815 Dulong’s famous collaboration with the mathematical physicist Alexis Thérèse Petit began"" it produced three important memoirs on heat (of which this is the first). The best-known part of this work is the statement of the law of constant atomic heats that bears their names, .... They began with the fundamental problem of measuring quantities of heat, which involved a critical analysis of thermometric scales. In 1804-1805 Gay-Lussac had carried out a comparison of mercury and air thermometers between 0°C. and 100°C. Dulong and Petit extended the range of comparison up to 300°C. and found an increasing discrepancy between the two scales at higher temperatures."" (DSB).‎

书商的参考编号 : 49609

‎"DULONG, (PIERRE) & (ALEXIS) PETIT. - MEASURING QUANTITIES OF HEAT.‎

‎Untersuchungen über die gesetze der Ausdehnung fester, tropfbarer und elastisch-flüssiger Körper durch die Wärme, und über das wahre Maass der temperaturen.‎

‎(Leipzig, Barth), 1818. No wrappers. In: ""Annalen der Physik. Neue Folge. Herausgegeben von L.W. Gilbert"", Bd. 28, Drittes Stück. Pp. 233-344,(2) pp. a. 1 engraved plate. (Entire issue offered). The paper of Dulong & Petit: pp. 254-280.‎

‎First appearance in German (edited by Gilbert) of this, their (first) joint paper, which initiated the recheches leading to the the ""Law of Dulong and Petit"", the connection between atomic weight and atomic heat. The original Frensh having the title: Recherches sur les lois de dilation des solides, des liquides et des fluides élastiques, et sur la mesure exacte des temperatures.""""In 1815 Dulong’s famous collaboration with the mathematical physicist Alexis Thérèse Petit began"" it produced three important memoirs on heat (of which this is the first). The best-known part of this work is the statement of the law of constant atomic heats that bears their names, .... They began with the fundamental problem of measuring quantities of heat, which involved a critical analysis of thermometric scales. In 1804-1805 Gay-Lussac had carried out a comparison of mercury and air thermometers between 0°C. and 100°C. Dulong and Petit extended the range of comparison up to 300°C. and found an increasing discrepancy between the two scales at higher temperatures."" (DSB).‎

书商的参考编号 : 49062

‎"DULONG, (PIERRE) & (ALEXIS) PETIT. - THE ""LAW OF DULONG AND PETIT""‎

‎Researches on the Measure of Temperature, and on the Laws of the Communication of Heat.‎

‎London, Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1819. 8vo. Contemp. hcalf. Marbled boards. Spine lacks and boards loose. In: ""Annals of Philosophy" " or Magazine of Chemistry, Mineralogy, Mechanics... By Thomas Thomson"". Vol. XIII. XCII,486 pp. a. 6 engraved plates. (Entire volume offered). Some brownspots to the plates. Iternally clean. A small stamp in upper right corner of two leaves. Dulong & Petit's paper: pp. 112-124, 161-182, 241-251, 321-339 a. 1 engraved plate.‎

‎"DUPRÉ, ATHANASE.‎

‎Theorie Mécanique de La Chaleur. (Partie experimentale en commune avec M. Paul Dupré).‎

‎Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1869. Later full cloth. VIII,484 pp. Textillustrations. A faint waterstain at htitle and titlepage. A few scattered brownspots. This copy has belonged to James Dewar, Jacksonian professor of natural philosophy, Cambridge, 1875-1923 and Fullerian professor of Chemistry, Royal Institution - he invented cordite and the work bears his name.‎

‎First edition of Dupré's importent textbook. - ""He made importent contributions to the dissemination in France of the newly discovered principles of thermodynamics in nearly forty communications to the Academy...and in a successful advanced textbook ""Theorie mécanique de la chaleur"" (Robert Fox in DSB IV:258).‎

书商的参考编号 : 29462

‎"DUTOUR, (ETIENNE FRANCOIS).‎

‎De la Diffraction de la Lumiere. Premier Mémoire.‎

‎(Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1768). 4to. Extract from ""Mémoires de Mathematique et de Physique, Présentés à l'Academie des Sciences par divers Savans"", Tome V. Pp. 635-678 and 4 folded engraved plates.‎

‎Dutour did importent work on electricity and optics.‎

书商的参考编号 : 45699

‎"DUTOUR, (ETIENNE FRANCOIS).‎

‎Recherches sur le Phénoméne des Anneaux colorés.‎

‎(Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1763). 4to. No wrappers.Extract from ""Mémoires de Mathematique et de Physique, Présentés à l'Academie des Sciences par divers Savans"", Tome IV. Pp. 285-312 a. 1 folded engraved plate.‎

‎First printing of Dutour's experiments on Newton's Rings, critizising l'Abbe Mazéas' experiments and obtaining new results by his own experiments.‎

书商的参考编号 : 45502

‎"EATON, PETER.‎

‎The Eaton-Richardson Library on the Atom. - [ ""A PIONEER CATALOGUE"" ON ATOMIC PHYSICS]‎

‎(London), 1960. Folio. Loose leaves in original cloth portfolio and slipcase. Gilt lettering to spine. Mimeographed typescript, printed on one side only. Ca. 400 unnumbered leaves.‎

‎"EDDINGTON, A.S.‎

‎Stellar Movements and the Structure of the Universe.‎

‎London, Macmillian, 1914. 8vo. Publishers blind stamped cloth with gilt spine lettering. Extremeties lightly bumped and rubbed. Internally fine and clean - no markings at all. XII,266,(2) pp. and four plates (one loose).‎

‎First edition of Eddington's first monograph.""In his first book, Stellar movements and the structure of the universe (1914), Eddington brought together all the material of some fifteen papers, most of which had been published in the Monthly notices of the Royal astronomical Society between 1906 and 1914. The cosmological knowledge of the period was summarized and the most challenging problems were delineated, and he clearly declared his preference for the speculation that the spiral nebulae were other galaxies beyond our Milky Way, which was itself a spiral galaxy"". (DSB IV p. 279).‎

书商的参考编号 : 33641

‎"EDLÉN, BENGT.‎

‎Mg I-Ähnliche Spektren der Elemente Titan bis Cobalt, Ti XI, V XII, Cr XIII, Mn XIV, Fe XV und Co XVI. - [IDENTIFICATION OF FE XV LINES]‎

‎Berlin, Springer, 1936. 8vo. In contemporary halv cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In ""Zeitschrift für Physik"", Bd. 103, 1936. Entire volume offered. Stamp to front free end-paper. Fine and clean. Pp. 536-41. [Entire volume: VIII, 770 pp.].‎

‎"EDLÉN, BENGT.‎

‎Mg I-Ähnliche Spektren der Elemente Titan bis Cobalt, Ti XI, V XII, Cr XIII, Mn XIV, Fe XV und Co XVI. - [IDENTIFICATION OF FE XV LINES]‎

‎Berlin, Springer, 1936. 8vo. In contemporary halv cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In ""Zeitschrift für Physik"", Bd. 103, 1936. Entire volume offered. Stamp to front free end-paper. Fine and clean. Pp. 536-41. [Entire volume: VIII, 770 pp.].‎

‎First printing of Edlén's important paper which includes the first identification of Fe xv lines.‎

书商的参考编号 : 49304

‎"EHMER, RICHARD H.‎

‎Masking by Tones vs Noise Bands. - [THE ANTICIPATION OF THE MP3]‎

‎Pennsylvania, The American Institute of Physics for the Acoustical Society of America, 1959. 4to. In the original yellow printed wrappers. In ""The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America"", Vol. 31, No. 9, September, 1959. Pp. 1253-56. [Entire volume: xii, 1161-1296 pp]. A fine and clean copy.‎

‎First edition of the important paper in which Ehmer described a complete set of auditory curves, which are regarded as the earliest contribution to the later development of digital audio files, MP3, today used in all iPods and digital music players. The MP3 algorithm takes advantage of a perceptual limitation of human hearing called auditory masking, as introduced in the present paper.Moving Picture Experts Group (hence the names: MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Audio Layer 3 (or III), more commenly referred to as MP3), began development of the digital audio system ""1 Audio Layer 3"" in 1959, when Richard Ehmer first came up with the idea of auditory masking. It was, however, not until 1989, when Oscar Borello at the University of Buenos Aires, developed the first fully working device to play digital audio files, that it became a reality. The first personal MP3 player was released in September 1995 and when Nullsoft's audio player Winamp came in 1997 its popularity increased tenfold. The MP3-file is probably the most disputed and infamous - in the eyes of large record labels - computer related development ever released. The MP3 made it easy to exchange music, legal as well as illegal" major record companies started arguing that free sharing of music caused fewer sales, and they initiated lawsuits, the most famous being Napster.To this day the MP3-file is probably the most used and exchanged file in the entire history of the electronic computer.‎

书商的参考编号 : 43219

‎"EHRENFEST, P. (+) H. K. ONNES.‎

‎Vereinfachte Ableitung der kombinatorischen Formel, welche der Planckschen Strahlungstheorie zugrunde liegt.‎

‎Leipzig, Barth, 1915. 8vo. In full cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In ""Annalen der Physik"", Vierte Folge, Band 46. Entire volume offered. Library labels pasted on the pasted down front free end paper. Traces after a label to lower part of spine. Stamp to title page. Internally fine and clean. Pp. 1021-24. [Entire volume: VIII, 1152 pp.].‎

‎First appearance of Ehrenfest and Onnes' important paper in which they explained ""with ultimate clarity"" (Balashov, Einstein Studies in Russia) Planck's law and combinatorics.‎

书商的参考编号 : 50329

‎"EHRENFEST, PAUL. - THE ULTRAVIOLET CATASTROPHE.‎

‎Welche Züge der Lichtquantenhypothese spielen in der Theorie der Wärmestrahlung eine wesentlich Rolle ? (Which Features of the Quantum Hypothesis Play an Essential Role in the Theory of Heat Radiation).‎

‎Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1911. Later full cloth. Stamps on title-page. In ""Annalen der Physik"", Vierte Folge, Band 36. - VIII,1088 pp. and 4 plates. (Entire volume offered). Ehrenfest's paper: pp. 91-118.‎

‎First edition of the paper in which the term ""Ultraviolet Catastrophe"" appeared for the first time. ""Ehrenfest was one of the first to try to understand the significance of the strange new concept of energy quanta that Max Planck had introduced into physics in 1900 in his theory of blackbody radiation. In a series of papers culminating in his major study of 1911 (the paper offered), ""Which Features of the Quantum Hypothesis Play an Essential Role in the Theory of Heat Radiation?,"" Ehrenfest picked out the essentials of the early quantum theory and showed how they fit together. He proved rigorously that the energy of electromagnetic vibrations cannot take on all values - cannot vary continuously - if the total energy of the blackbody radiation in an enclosure is to be finite: Planck’s assumption that energy is a discrete variable was, therefore, logically necessary and not just sufficient. Ehrenfest also showed, by an analysis of Wien’s displacement law, that the ratio of energy to frequency was the only variable that could be quantized for a harmonic oscillator, if one wanted to maintain the statistical interpretation of entropy.""(DSB).‎

书商的参考编号 : 53367

‎"EINSTEIN, A.‎

‎Bietet die Feldtheorie Möglichkeiten für die Lösung des Quantenproblems?‎

‎Berlin, 1923. Orig. printed orange wrappers. Back strengthend with matching paper. Fresh copy. Offprint/Sonerabdr. aus ""Sitzungsberichte"". pp. 369-364.‎

‎"EINSTEIN, A.‎

‎Neue Möglichkeit für eine einheitliche Feldtheorie von Gravitation und Elektrizität.‎

‎Berlin, 1928. Orig. printed wrappers. Spine strengthend with matching paper. Fresh copy. Offprint/Sonderabdr. aus ""Sitzungsberichte"". pp. 1-6.‎

‎"EINSTEIN, A.‎

‎Zu Kaluzas Theorie des Zusammenhanges von Gravitation und Elektrizität. Erste und zweite Mitteilung.‎

‎Berlin, 1927. Orig. printed orange wrappers. Back strengthend with matching paper. Fresh copy. Offprint/Sonderabdr. aus ""Sitzungsberichte"". pp. 23-30.‎