‎Physics‎

‎"EULER, J. ALBERT. - THE LAW OF BILLIARD TRAJECTORIES - THE PHYSICS OF THE BILLIARD BALL.‎

‎Recherches des Mouvemens d'un Globe sur un Plan horizontal. (1.-) Seond Mémoire. (2 Papers).‎

‎(Berlin, Haude et Spener, 1765 u. 1767). 4to. No wrappers, as issued in ""Mémoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres"" 1758, tome XIV a. XVI, pp. 284-353 a. 2 folded engraved plates + pp. 261-284 a. 1 folded engraved plate.‎

‎"EULER, LEONHARD.‎

‎Essai d'une Explication physique des Couleurs engendrees sur des Surfaces extrémement minces. (Essay concerning the physical explanation of colors which are issued from extremely thin surfaces). - [EULER'S WAVE-THEORY OF LIGHT]‎

‎(Berlin, Haude et Spener, 1754). 4to. Without wrappers as extracted from ""Mémoires de L'Academie Royale des Sciences et belles Lettres"", Tome VIII, pp. 262-282.‎

‎"EULER, LEONHARD.‎

‎Ueber den Zustand des Gleichgewichts des Meers, wenn es von Sonne und Mond angezogen wird.‎

‎(Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1808). Without wrappers as extracted from ""Annalen der Physik und der Physikalischen Chemie. Hrsg. Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert"", Bd. 30, pp. 29-53 a. 1 engraved plate.‎

‎"EULER, LEONHARD. - ANALYSING RELATIVE MOTION MATHEMATICALLY.‎

‎Application de la machine hydraulique de M. Segner a toutes sortes d'ouvrages et de ses avantages sur les autres machines hydrauliques dont on se sert ordinairement. (The application of Mr. Segner's hydrological machine to all sorts of work and its ...‎

‎(Berlin, Haude et Spener, 1753). 4to. No wrappers as issued in ""Memoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles Lettres"". Tome VII, 1751. Pp. 271-304 a. 2 folded engraved plates. Clean and fine.‎

‎"EULER, LEONHARD. - FUNDAMENTAL PAPERS IN ACOUSTICS.‎

‎De la Propagation du Son (On the Propagation of Sound). (And same author:) Supplement aux Recherches sur la Propagation du Son (Supplement to the Research on the Propagation of Sound). (And same author:) Continuation des Recherches sur la Propagation ... - [THE WAVE EQUIATION FOR AERIAL ACOUSTICS DISCOVERED]‎

‎(Berlin, Haude et Spener, 1766). 4to. Without wrappers as issued in ""Mémoires de L'Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres"", tome XV, pp. 185-209 a. 1 engraved plate, pp.210-240 a. 2 engraved plates, pp. 241-264 and 1 engraved plate.‎

‎"EULER, LEONHARD. - MATHEMATICAL THEORY OF TELESCOPIC LENSES.‎

‎Méthode pour porter les verres objectifs des Lunettes a un plus haut degré de Perfection. (Methods to apply for improving the degree of perfection in the manufacture of telescopic lenses)‎

‎(Berlin, Haude et Spener, 1769). 4to. No wrappers, as issued in ""Mémoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles Lettres"", Année 1767, tome XXIII, pp. 131-164 a. 1 engraved plate.‎

‎"EULER, LEONHARD. - ON MAUPERTUIS' PRINCIPLE OF LEAST ACTION‎

‎Lettre de M. Euler a M. Merian. (+) Expose concernant L'Examen de la Lettre de M. de Leibnitz, alleguée par M. Le Prof. Koenig, dans le Mois de Mars, 1751, des Actes de Leipzig a l'Occassion du Principe de la Moindre Action.‎

‎(Berlin, Haude et Spener, 1752). 4to. No wrappers, as issued in ""Mémoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres"", 1750, tome VI, Titlepage to the section. (3), pp. 520-532 (+) pp. 52-64 (Expose).‎

‎"EULER, LEONHARD. - ON THE EFFECTIVENESS OF WATER-PUMPS.‎

‎Discussion plus particuliere de diverses Manieres d'elever de L'Eau par le moyen des Pompes avec le plus grand Avantage. (In depth explanation concerning different methods with which to raise water through pumps with the greatest effectiveness).‎

‎(Berlin, Haude et Spener, 1754) 4to. No wrappers, as issued in ""Mémoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres"", tome VIII, Année 1752. Pp. 149-184 and 1 folded engraved plates.‎

‎"EULER, LEONHARD. - OPTICAL THEORY OF LENSES.‎

‎Considerations sur les difficultes qu'on rencontre dans l'execution des verres objectifs de toute confusion. (Considerations on the difficulties that one encounters during the manufacture of objective lenses)‎

‎(Berlin, Haude et Spener, 1769). 4to. No wrappers as issued in ""Memoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles Lettres"". tome XVIII, 1762. With halftitle ""Classe de Mathematique"" (2) pp. + pp. 117-142. Clean and fine.‎

‎"EULER, LEONHARD. - REFLECTING TELESCOPES.‎

‎Recherches sur une autre Construction des Télescopes à Réflexion.‎

‎(Berlin, Haude et Spener, 1769). 4to. No wrappers as issued in ""Mémoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres"" Tome XVIII, pp. 185-194 and 1 folded engraved plate.‎

‎"EULER, LEONHARD. - TAILS OF COMETS - NORTHERN LIGHTS - ZODIACAL LIGHT.‎

‎Recherches Physiques sur la Cause de la Queüe des Cometes, de la Lumiere Boreale, et de la Lumiere Zodiacale. (Physical Investigations on the tail of comets, the northern lights, and the zodiacal light)‎

‎(Berlin, Haude et Spener, 1748). 4to. No wrappers as issued in ""Memoires de L'Academie Royale des Sciences et des Belles Lettres."", Tome II, pp. 117-140 and 2 folded engraved plates.‎

‎"EÖTVÖS. L. (LORÁND). (ROLAND V.) -‎

‎Ueber den Zusammenhang der Oberflächenspannung der Flüssigkeiten mit ihrem Molecularvolumen. - [DISCOVERING THE ""LAW OF CAPILLARITY"" - ""LAW OF SURFACE TENSION""]‎

‎(Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1886) Without wrappers as issued in ""Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von G. Wiedemann."", Neue Folge Bd. 27, Drittes Heft Heft (No 6 1886). Entire issue offered. Pp. 321-480 a. 2 folded plates. Eótvós's paper: pp. 448-459. Clean and fine.‎

‎First appearance of this important paper in which Eötvös set forth his ""Law of Capillarity"" and thereby eliminating the errors that had twarted his predecessors such as Young, Laplace, Poisson and Gauss. The principle thus established, also called ""The weak equivalence Principle"", served as a BASIS FOR EINSTEIN'S THEORY OF RELATIVITY(Capillarity: the property or exertion of capillary attraction of repulsion, a force that is the resultant of adhesion, cohesion, and surface tension in liquids which are in contact with solids, causing the liquid surface to rise or be depressed...)""The beginnings of Eötvös’ scientific career are connected with liquids. He worked out a new way to determine surface tension, which subsequently became known as the reflection method. This method made it possible to determine precisely the surface tension of various liquids. During his experiments, Eötvós found a linear relationship between the molar surface energy of liquidsand their temperature. The proportionality factor is constant for all compound liquids independently of their composition. The molar surface energy is equal to the work needed to move one molecule from the inside of the liquid to its surface. Based on this finding, Eötvös was able to state the following relationship: with increasing temperature, the surface tension of a liquid decreases until, at the critical temperature, it becomes zero. Later this rule was named the Eótvös law and the proportionality constant the Eötvós constant. In case of liquids this constant is as fundamental as the universal gas constant in case of gases.""‎

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‎"EÖTVÖS, ROLAND v. (LORÁND). - ESTABLISHING THE PROPORTIONALLITY BETWEEN GRAVITATIONAL AND INERTIAL MASS.‎

‎Untersuchungen über Gravitation und Erdmagnetismus.‎

‎(Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1896). Without wrappers as issued in ""Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von G. Wiedemann."", Neue Folge Bd. 59, Zehntes (No 10 1896). Entire issue offered. Pp. 193-416 a. 1 folded plate. Eötvös's paper: pp. 354-400 a. 15 large textillustrations, depicting his experimental apparatus. Clean and fine.‎

‎"FARADAY, MICHAEL.‎

‎Experimental Researches in Electricity. (Twenty-second Series). [Offprint: Philosophical Transactions, Part 1 for 1849]. - [INSCRIBED BY FARADAY TO LORD KELVIN]‎

‎London: Richard and John E. Taylor, 1849. Large 4to. (300x231mm). Original blank wrappers. Some small tears. Back strip proffesionally repaired with Japanese paper. With presentation-inscription by Faraday in ink on title page: ""William Thomson Esq. | St. Peters College | from the Author."" (2),41,(1:blank) pp.‎

‎First edition, rare offprint-issue, of ""one of the great classics of chemistry and physics"". With an extremely attractive presentation-inscription from Faraday to William Thomson (later Lord Kelvin), who delivered the first mathematical exposition of Faraday's researches in electricity. Thomson provided an important theoretical direction for Faraday's interpretation of his own experiments and the two colleagues motivated and inspired each other to a degree that the research and knowledge of electricity they possessed and published would not have would have been reached until many years later. The paper itself is of the utmost importance, since much of Faraday's groundbreaking research published in 1831-1839 contained many shortcomings and errors which are corrected in this publication. ""The corrected second edition of volume 1 is preferred, because the first edition (London 1839) contained many errors"". (Neville, Historical Chemical Library).""In June 1849 William Thomson wrote to Michael Faraday suggesting that the concept of a uniform magnetic field could be used to predict the motions of small magnetic and diamagnetic bodies. [...] There had been an important exchange of ideas between the two, who had a common interest in explaining voltaic, electrostatic, magnetic, optical, and thermal phenomena. They meet every year between 1845 (where they became acquainted) and 1849"". (Gooding, Faraday, Thomson, and the Concept of the Magnetic Field).In 1845 Thomson gave the first mathematical development of Faraday's idea that electric induction takes place through an intervening medium, or ""dielectric"", and not by some imprecise ""action at a distance"". He also devised a hypothesis of electrical images, which became a powerful agent in solving problems of electrostatics, or the science which deals with the forces of electricity at rest. It was partly in response to his encouragement that Faraday undertook the research in September 1845 that led to the discovery of the Faraday Effect, which established that light and magnetic (and thereby electric) phenomena were related.Faraday was also the direct cause of William Thomson's work on the transatlantic submarine telegraph cable. In 1854, Faraday had demonstrated how the construction of a cable would limit the rate at which messages could be sent, which later would be termed the bandwidth. Thomson immediately looked into the problem and published his response the same month Faraday had published his observations. Thomson expressed his results in terms of the data rate that could be achieved and the economic consequences in terms of the potential revenue of the transatlantic undertaking. In 1855, Thomson stressed the impact that the design of the cable would have on its profitability. Thomson's work on the cable consequently resulted in a complete system for operating a submarine telegraph that was capable of sending a character every 3.5 seconds. He patented the key elements of his system, the mirror galvanometer and the siphon recorder, in 1858.From 1831 to 1852, Michael Faraday published his ""Experimental Researches in Electricity"" in The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. These papers contain not only an impressive series of experimental discoveries, but also a collection of heterodox theoretical concepts on the nature of these phenomena expressed in terms of lines of forces and fields. He published 30 papers in all under this general title. They represent Faraday's most important work, are classics in both chemistry and physics, and are the experimental foundations for Maxwell's electro-magnetic theory of light, using Faraday's concepts of lines of force or tubes of magnetic and electrical forces. His many experiments on the effects of electricity and magnetism presented in these papers lead to the fundamental discoveries of 'induced electricity' (the Faraday current), the electronic state of matter, the identity of electricity from different sources, equivalents in electro-chemical decomposition, electrostatic induction, hydro-electricity, diamagnetism, relation of gravity to electricity, atmospheric magnetism, and many others.""Among experimental philosophers Faraday holds by universal consent the foremost place. The memoirs in which his discoveries are enshrined will never cease to be read with admiration and delight"" and future generation will preserve with an affection not less enduring the personal records and familiar letters, which recall the memory of his humble and unselfish spirit."" (Whittaker, A History of the Theories of Aether & Electricity, p. 197).‎

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‎"FARADAY, MICHAEL..‎

‎Experimental Researches in Electricity. - Seventh Series. 11. On Electro-chemical Decomposition, continued. iv. On some general conditions of Electro-decompositions. v. On a new Measure of Volta-electricity. vi. On the primitive or swecondary charac...‎

‎(London, Richard Taylor, 1834). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1834 - Part I. Pp. 77-122. Fine and clean.‎

‎First appearance of this milestone paper in which Faraday announces the discoveries of further laws of electrochemistry, stating the general relations of electricity to chemistry and introducing new terms with precise meanings. The first part of the paper introduces his new terminology, giving the words a limited and precise meaning. These words, devised with the assistance of William Whewell, are now familiar to all chemists, electrode, anode, cathode, ion, anion, and cation. He also introduces the ""Volta-electrometer"", and arrives at the ""Law of electro-chemical equivalents"". The paper offered is one of Farday's most famous papers.""Another section of the paper is devoted to a closer examination of the law of constant electrochemical action with respect to water and to the development of a gas electrometer to measure quantities of electricity. Faraday's ""Volta-electrometer"" provided the first practical means for the quantitative measurement of electricity."" (Source Book in Chemistry p. 280-81).From 1831 to 1852 Michael Faraday published his ""Experimental Researches in Electricity"" in The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. These papers contain not only an impressive series of experimental discoveries, but also a collection of heterodox theoretical concepts on the nature of these phenomena expressed in terms of lines of forces and fields. He published 30 papers in all under this general title.They represents Faraday's most importent work, are classics in both chemistry and physics and are the experimental foundations for Maxwell's electro-magnetic theory of light, using Faraday's concepts of lines of force or tubes of magnetic and electrical forces. His many experiments on the effects of electricity and magnetism presented in these papers lead to the fundamental discoveries of 'induced electricity' (the Farday current), the electronic state of matter, the identity of electricity from different sources, equivalents in electro-chemical decomposition, electrostatic induction, hydro-electricity, diamagnetism, relation of gravity to electricity, atmospheric magnetism and many other.""Among experimental philosophers Faraday holds by universal consent the foremost place. The memoirs in which his discoveries are enshrined will never ceaseto be read with admiration and delight"" and future generations will preserve with an affection not less enduring the personal records and familiar letters, which recall the memory of his humble and unselfish spirit.""(Edmund Whittaker in A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity).‎

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‎"FARADAY, MICHAEL. - THE MAGNECRYSTALLIC EFFECT.‎

‎Experimental Researches in Electricity. - Twenty-sixth Series. 32. Magnetic conducting power. i. Magnetic conduction. ii. Conducting polarity. iii. Magnecrystallic conduction. 33. Atmospheric magnetism. i. General principles (+) Twenty-seventh Ser...‎

‎(London, Richard Taylor, 1851). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1851 - Part I. Pp. 29-84, textillustr. and pp. 85-122, textillustr. Both papers clean and fine.‎

‎First appearance of a historical paper in physiscs in which Faraday on purely theoretical grounds predicts the magnecrystallic effect and experimentally proves this prediction to be correct.Faraday was successfull in explaining the diagmagnetic phenomena with his lines of magnetics force, and he now applies his concept of ""lines of force"" to magnecrystallic bodies. ""A magnecrystallicsubstance would then be one which in the crystallised state would conduct onwards, or permit the exrtion of the magnetic force with more facility in one direction than another"" and that direction would be the magnecrystallic axis. hence, when in the magnetic field, the magnecrystallic axis would be urged into a position coincident with the magnetic axis, by a force correspondent to that difference, just as two different bodies were taken, when one with the greater conducting power displaces that which is weaker"" The prediction was shown to be correct"" a body like bismuth became less magnetc when its axis was parallel to the magnetic axis than when it is perpendicular to it.From 1831 to 1852 Michael Faraday published his ""Experimental Researches in Electricity"" in The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. These papers contain not only an impressive series of experimental discoveries, but also a collection of heterodox theoretical concepts on the nature of these phenomena expressed in terms of lines of forces and fields. He published 30 papers in all under this general title.They represents Faraday's most importent work, are classics in both chemistry and physics and are the experimental foundations for Maxwell's electro-magnetic theory of light, using Faraday's concepts of lines of force or tubes of magnetic and electrical forces. His many experiments on the effects of electricity and magnetism presented in these papers lead to the fundamental discoveries of 'induced electricity' (the Farday current), the electronic state of matter, the identity of electricity from different sources, equivalents in electro-chemical decomposition, electrostatic induction, hydro-electricity, diamagnetism, relation of gravity to electricity, atmospheric magnetism and many other.""Among experimental philosophers Faraday holds by universal consent the foremost place. The memoirs in which his discoveries are enshrined will never ceaseto be read with admiration and delight"" and future generations will preserve with an affection not less enduring the personal records and familiar letters, which recall the memory of his humble and unselfish spirit.""(Edmund Whitta‎

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‎"FARADAY, MICHAEL.‎

‎Experimental Researches in Electricity. - Thirtieth Series. 38. Constancy of differential magnecrystallic force in different media. 39. Actuion of heat on magnecrystals. 40. Effect of heat upon absolute magnetic force of bodies. (Sections 3363--...‎

‎(London, Richard Taylor and William Francis, 1856). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" Vol. 146 - Part I. Pp. 159-180. Clean and fine.‎

‎First appearance of a historical paper in physiscs.This paper is the last of Faraday's papers in the series ""Experimental researches in electricity"". The paper is the only one of the 30 papers which was not reprinted in the 3 volume work, published 1856.From 1831 to 1852 Michael Faraday published his ""Experimental Researches in Electricity"" in The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. These papers contain not only an impressive series of experimental discoveries, but also a collection of heterodox theoretical concepts on the nature of these phenomena expressed in terms of lines of forces and fields. He published 30 papers in all under this general title.They represents Faraday's most importent work, are classics in both chemistry and physics and are the experimental foundations for Maxwell's electro-magnetic theory of light, using Faraday's concepts of lines of force or tubes of magnetic and electrical forces. His many experiments on the effects of electricity and magnetism presented in these papers lead to the fundamental discoveries of 'induced electricity' (the Farday current), the electronic state of matter, the identity of electricity from different sources, equivalents in electro-chemical decomposition, electrostatic induction, hydro-electricity, diamagnetism, relation of gravity to electricity, atmospheric magnetism and many other.""Among experimental philosophers Faraday holds by universal consent the foremost place. The memoirs in which his discoveries are enshrined will never ceaseto be read with admiration and delight"" and future generations will preserve with an affection not less enduring the personal records and familiar letters, which recall the memory of his humble and unselfish spirit.""(Edmund Whittaker in A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity).‎

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‎"FARADAY, MICHAEL.‎

‎Experimental-Untersuchungen über Elektricitát. (22., 24., 25., 26., 27., 28., 29. Reihe. - 23. Reihe published in an earlier volume)‎

‎Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1834. 8vo. Contemp. hcalf. Spine gilt and with gilt lettering. Spine slightly rubbed. In: ""Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg.von Poggendorff"", Ergänzungsband III. VIII,632 pp. a. 5 folded lithographed plates. (Entire volume offered). Faraday's paper2: pp. 1-64, 64-72, 73-108, 108-146 + 187-232, 481-534, 535-541,542-545. Stamp on htitle and titlepage. Internally fine and clean.‎

‎First appearance in German - prepared by Faraday himself for publication in Annalen, except 28. and 29. Reihe, which is translations from the ahortened papers from ""Proceedings"". Here Faraday investigates many electro-magnetic phenomena, tries to unite the different forces of nature, revises his theory of diamagnetic bodies, discovers magnetocrystallic effects, defines his key concept ""lines of force"" etc. etc.From 1831 to 1852 Michael Faraday published his ""Experimental Researches in Electricity"" in The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. These papers contain not only an impressive series of experimental discoveries, but also a collection of heterodox theoretical concepts on the nature of these phenomena expressed in terms of lines of forces and fields. He published 30 papers in all under this general title.They represents Faraday's most importent work, are classics in both chemistry and physics and are the experimental foundations for Maxwell's electro-magnetic theory of light, using Faraday's concepts of lines of force or tubes of magnetic and electrical forces. His many experiments on the effects of electricity and magnetism presented in these papers lead to the fundamental discoveries of 'induced electricity' (the Farday current), the electronic state of matter, the identity of electricity from different sources, equivalents in electro-chemical decomposition, electrostatic induction, hydro-electricity, diamagnetism, relation of gravity to electricity, atmospheric magnetism and many other.""Among experimental philosophers Faraday holds by universal consent the foremost place. The memoirs in which his discoveries are enshrined will never ceaseto be read with admiration and delight"" and future generations will preserve with an affection not less enduring the personal records and familiar letters, which recall the memory of his humble and unselfish spirit.""(Edmund Whittaker in A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity).‎

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‎"FARADAY, MICHAEL. - COINING THE WORDS ELECTRODE, ANODE, CATHODE, ION, ANION, AND CATION.‎

‎Fünfte Reihe von Experimental-Untersuchungen über Elektricität. 11. Von der elektrochemischen Zerasetzung.‎

‎Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1834. 8vo. Contemp. hcalf. Spine gilt and with gilt lettering. Spine slightly rubbed. In: ""Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg.von Poggendorff"", Bd. 32 (= 2. Reihe, Bd. 2). VIII,666 pp. a. 5 folded lithographed plates. (Entire volume offered). Faraday's paper: pp. 401-453 a. 1 lithographed plate. Stamp to verso of titlepage and verso of plates. Clean and fine, printed on good paper.‎

‎First appearance in German - prepared by Faraday himself for publication in Annalen - of an importent historical paper in chemistry and physics in which Faraday reexamines some of his earlier views on electro-chemical decomposition and critizises in detail the theories of Grotthuss, Davy, Riffault and Chompré, Biot, De la Rive and Hachette. Here Faraday's give coins the names, still in use, for several electrical phenomena.""For his next series of researches (the paper offered), Faraday reverted to subjects which had been among the first to attract him as an apprentice attending Davy's lectures"" the voltaic pile, and the relation of electricity to chemistry......To test the doctrine (of Davy and De La Rive) of the influence of terminals, Faraday moistened a piece of paper in a saline solution, and supported it in the air on wax, so as to occupy part of the interval between two needle points which were connected with an electric machine...under these circumstances it was found thet the salt underwent decomposition......Since in this case no metallic terminals of any kind were in contact with the solution it was evident that all hypotheses which attributed decomposition to the action of the terminals were untenable...many of the perplexities which had harassed the older theories were at once removed when the phenomena were regarded from Faraday's point of view.""(Whittaker).""Faraday's paper, 'on electrochemical decompositions, is mostly a review and criticism of earlier theories of electrolysis and the statement of his own theory tat: 'electr-chemical decomposition does not depend upon any direct attraction and repulsion of the poles (meaning thereby the metallic terminations either of the voltaic battery, or ordinary electrical machine arrangements).' Decomposition occurs on pieces of paper not directly connected with the poles of an electrical machine, the silent discharge passing throug the air."" (Partington IV:p. 115).From 1831 to 1852 Michael Faraday published his ""Experimental Researches in Electricity"" in The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. These papers contain not only an impressive series of experimental discoveries, but also a collection of heterodox theoretical concepts on the nature of these phenomena expressed in terms of lines of forces and fields. He published 30 papers in all under this general title.They represents Faraday's most importent work, are classics in both chemistry and physics and are the experimental foundations for Maxwell's electro-magnetic theory of light, using Faraday's concepts of lines of force or tubes of magnetic and electrical forces. His many experiments on the effects of electricity and magnetism presented in these papers lead to the fundamental discoveries of 'induced electricity' (the Farday current), the electronic state of matter, the identity of electricity from different sources, equivalents in electro-chemical decomposition, electrostatic induction, hydro-electricity, diamagnetism, relation of gravity to electricity, atmospheric magnetism and many other.""Among experimental philosophers Faraday holds by universal consent the foremost place. The memoirs in which his discoveries are enshrined will never ceaseto be read with admiration and delight"" and future generations will preserve with an affection not less enduring the personal records and familiar letters, which recall the memory of his humble and unselfish spirit.""(Edmund Whittaker in A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity).‎

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‎"FARADAY, M. (MICHAEL) - BABBAGE, C. (CHARLES).‎

‎On the existence of a limit to evaporization. Communicated May 26, 1826. Read June 15, 1826. (And Babbage:) On electrical and magnetic rotations. Communicated May 29, 1826. Read June 15, 1826. (2 papers).‎

‎(London, W.Nicol, 1826). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1826 - Part III. Pp. 484-493 a. pp. 494-528 a. 1 engraved plate. The plate dampstained in upper margin, outside image. Clean and fine.‎

‎These two important papers were presented to The Royal Academy at the same date, and stitched together from the Transactions.In his paper FARADAY observes importent relations between tension, pressure, temperature and gravitation as he proves that any kind of matter, not only air, ceases to assume the elastic form, whenever the gravitation of its particles is stronger than the elasticity of its vapour. The loss of tension necessary for effecting this object may be accomplished in two ways, either by extreme dilatation, or by cold.The paper by BBBAGE is the second of two papers on electromagnetism, the first written together with his friend J.F.W. Herschel.""The curious phenomena of electromagnetism were beginning to be discovered during this period, and inevitably Babbage took an interest. In the spring of 1825 Gay Lussac visited London and described Arago's experiments with rotating discs. Plates of copper and other substances set in rapid motion in a magnetic field and under a magnetized needle caused it to deviate from its direction, finally dragging it round with them. At this time Herschel was secretary of the Royal Society and had rooms in Devonshire Street. Babbage and he carried out some quite extensive experiments in Babbage's house. They tried the effect with discs of many different substances using Babbage's lathe: only metals and graphite showed the effect and they concluded that the conductivity of the disc was the importent point...however they did not solve the problem of electromagnetic induction: æater their friend Michael Faraday did.""(Hyman in ""Charles Babbage. Pioneer of the Computer"", p.58). - Babbage's first paper on electrical and magnetic rotation is listed by Hook & Norman :35, but not the paper offered.‎

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‎"FARADAY, (MICHAEL).‎

‎Sur les Mouvemens électro-magnétiques à la théorie du magnétisme. (Traduit par M. Anatole-Riffault). (On some New Electro-Magnetical Motions, and on the Theory of Magnetism). - [THE DISCOVERY OF ELECTROMAGNETIC ROTATION]‎

‎Paris, L'Imprimerie de Feugueray, 1821. Small8vo. Orig. printed wrappers. Totally uncut. ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique, par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago"", tome XVIII. - Decembre 1821, pp. 337-448 and 1 engraved plate. (The entire December-issue). Faraday's paper: pp. 337-370.‎

‎First appearance in French of this landmark paper in electromagnetism. The present paper is a translation into French of Faraday's seminal paper ""On some New Electro-Magnetical Motions, and on the Theory of Magnetism"", which was originally published on October 21 in ""The Quaterly Journal of Science"", between one and two months before the present French version, which was published in ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique"", in December the same year. The work contains the first published mentioning of the ""LINE AND FORCE CONCEPT"". Faraday employed a magnet and a wire with a flowing current, caused each separately to rotate round the other, and concluded that a current-carrying wire is surrounded by a circular ""line"" of magnetic force.""Ever since Hans Christian Oersted's announcement of the discovery of electromagnetism in the summer of 1820, editors of scientific journals had been inundated with articles on the phenomenon...Inspired by the editor of Philosophical Magazine, Richard Phillips, Faraday agreed to undertake a short historical survey but he did so reluctantly, since his attention was focused on problems of chemistry rather remote from electromagnetism. His entusiasm was aroused in September 1821, when he turned to the investigation of the peculiar nature of the magnetic force created by an electrical current. Oersted had spoken of the ""electric conflict"" surrounding the wire and had noted that ""this conflict performs circles"", but this imprecise description had had little impact upon Faraday. Yet as he experimented he saw precisely what was happening. Using a small magnetic needle to map the pattern of magnetic force, he noted that one of the poles of the needle turned in a circle as it was carried around the wire. He immediately realized that a single magnetic pole would rotate unceasingly around the current-carrying wire so long as the current flowed. He then set about devising an instrument to illustrate this effect...and so his experiment records the FIRST CONVERSION OF ELECTRICAL INTO MECHANICAL ENERGY. (Based on the article in DSB).- Faraday's discovery of ""the lines of magnetic force"" became the starting point for the revolutionary theories of Clark Maxwell and later of Einstein.‎

Bookseller reference : 39123

‎"FARADAY, MICHAEL‎

‎Sur les Mouvemens électro-magnétiques et la théorie du magnétisme. (Traduit par M. Anatole-Riffault). + (André-Marie Ampere et Felix Savary:) Notes relatives au Mémoire de M. Faraday. - [ THE FIRST ELECTRIC MOTOR - INTRODUCING ""LINES OF FORCE"" AND THE UNIVERSE OF ""FIELDS"" (FRENCH EDITION).]‎

‎Paris, Crochard, 1821. 8vo. In contemporary half calf. Wear to extremities and hindges weak. Weak dampstain to lower inner margin, not affecting text. In: ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago."", tome 18 (Septembre Cahier). Entire volume offered. [Faraday's paper:] pp. 337-370 and 2 folded engraved plates (showing the experimental apparatus). [Ampère & Savary's Notes:] pp. 370-379. [Entire volume: 448 pp. + 5 plates.‎

‎First French edition of Faraday's famous paper ""On some new Electro-Magnetical Motion, and on the Theory of Magnetism. By Michael Faraday, Chemical Assistant in the Royal Institution. (1821)"", recording one of the most influential discoveries in physics in the 19th Century, as Faraday here, as the very first, showed how to CONVERT THE ELECTRICAL AND MAGNETIC FORCES INTO CONTINUAL MECHANICAL MOVEMENT, thus creating the first electric motor, using the principle of electromagnetic rotation. In the first paper he introduced for the first time the concept of ""LINE OF FORCE"" and hereby deliniating ""a picture of the universe as consisting of fields of various types, one that was more subtle, flexible, and useful than the purely mechanical picture of Galileo and Newton. The FIELD UNIVERSE was to be recognized with Maxwell half a century later and with Einstein, after an interval of another halfcentury.""(Asimov).""Ever since Hans Christian oersted's announcement of the discovery of electromagnetism in the summer of 1820, editors of scientific journals had been inundated with articles on the phenomenon. Theories to explain it had multiplied, and the net effect was confusion. Were all the effects reported real ? Did the theories fit the facts ? It was to answer these questions that Phillips turned to Faraday and asked him to review the experiments and theories of the past months and separate truth from fiction,...Faraday agreed to to undertake a short historical survey...His entusiasm was aroused in September 1821, when he turned to the investigation of the peculiar nature of the magnetic force created by an electrical current. Oersted had spoken of the ""electrical conflict"" surrounding the wiree and had noted that ""this conflict performs circles"".....Yet as he experimented he saw precisely what was happening. Using a small magnetic needle to map the pattern of magnetic force, he noted that oneof the poles of the needle turned in a circle as it was carried around the wire. He immediately realized that a single magnetic pole would rotate unceasingly around a current-carrying wire so long as the current flowed. He then set about devising an instrument to illustrate this effect. His paper ""On some new Electro-Magnetical Motion, and on the Theory of Magnetism"" appeared in the 21 October 1821 issue of the ""Quarterly Journal of Science"" (The paper offered in the first French edition). It records the first conversion of electrical into mechanical energy. It also contained the first notion of the line of force.""(DSB IV, pp. 533).‎

Bookseller reference : 60097

‎"FARADAY, MICHAEL.. - FARADAY'S VISION‎

‎The Bakerian Lecture. - Experimental Researches in Electricity. - Twenty-fourth Series. 30. On the possible relation of Gravity to Electricity. (Sections 2702-2717). received August 1,- Read November 28, 1850.‎

‎(London, Richard Taylor, 1851). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1851 - Part I. Pp. 1-6.‎

‎First appearance of a historical paper in physiscs in which Faraday tries to unite all forces in nature. His experiments yielded a negative result.""The long and constant persuasion that all forces of nature are mutually dependent, having one common origin, or rather being different manifestations of one fundamental power, has made me often think upon the possibility of establishing, by experiment, a connection between gravity and electricity, and so introducing the former into the group, the chain of which, including also magnetism, chemical force and heat, binds so many and such varied exhibitions of force together by common relations. Though the researches I have made with this object in view have produced only negative results, yet I think a short statement of the matter, as it has presented itself to my mind, andof the result of the experiments, which offering at first much to encourage, were only reduced to their true value by most careful searchings after sources of error, may be useful, both as a general statement of the problem, and as awakening the minds of others to its consideration.""(Faraday section 2702).From 1831 to 1852 Michael Faraday published his ""Experimental Researches in Electricity"" in The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. These papers contain not only an impressive series of experimental discoveries, but also a collection of heterodox theoretical concepts on the nature of these phenomena expressed in terms of lines of forces and fields. He published 30 papers in all under this general title.They represents Faraday's most importent work, are classics in both chemistry and physics and are the experimental foundations for Maxwell's electro-magnetic theory of light, using Faraday's concepts of lines of force or tubes of magnetic and electrical forces. His many experiments on the effects of electricity and magnetism presented in these papers lead to the fundamental discoveries of 'induced electricity' (the Farday current), the electronic state of matter, the identity of electricity from different sources, equivalents in electro-chemical decomposition, electrostatic induction, hydro-electricity, diamagnetism, relation of gravity to electricity, atmospheric magnetism and many other.""Among experimental philosophers Faraday holds by universal consent the foremost place. The memoirs in which his discoveries are enshrined will never ceaseto be read with admiration and delight"" and future generations will preserve with an affection not less enduring the personal records and familiar letters, which recall the memory of his humble and unselfish spirit.""(Edmund Whittaker in A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity).‎

Bookseller reference : 42289

‎"FARADAY, (MICHAEL).‎

‎Sur les Mouvemens électro-magnétiques à la théorie du magnétisme. (Traduit par M. Anatole-Riffault). (On some New Electro-Magnetical Motions, and on the Theory of Magnetism). - [THE DISCOVERY OF ELECTROMAGNETIC ROTATION]‎

‎Paris, L'Imprimerie de Feugueray, 1821. Small8vo. Orig. printed wrappers. Totally uncut. ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique, par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago"", tome XVIII. - Decembre 1821, pp. 337-448 and 1 engraved plate. (The entire December-issue). Faraday's paper: pp. 337-370.‎

‎"FARADAY, (MICHAEL). - ON THE DISCOVERY OF ELECTOMAGNETIC INDUCTION.‎

‎(Lettré) A M. Gay-Lussac. Institution royale, Ier décembre 1832. (The letter ""On Magneto-electric Induction"").‎

‎(Paris, Crochard, 1832). No wrappers. In: ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique"", 2e Series, vol. 51, Cahier 4. Pp. 337-444 (Entire issue offered). Faraday's letter: pp. 404-434 a. 1 engraved plate. Some brownspots.‎