‎Física‎

‎"FRANCK, J. und G. HERTZ. - PROVING THE QUANTIZED MODEL OF THE BOHR ATOM AND PLANCK'S QUANTUM THEORY.‎

‎Über Zusammenstösse zwischen Elektronen und den Molekülen des Quecksilberdampfes und die Ionisierungsspannung desselben. (+) Über die Erregung der Quecksilberresonanzlinie 253,6 (u,u) durch Elektronenstösse.‎

‎Braunschweig, Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn, 1914. Lex8vo. Contemp hcloth, gilt spine. Lower spine end a bit frayed, otherwise very fine. In: ""Verhandlungen der deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft im Jahre 1914"", 16. Jahrgang. IX,1072 pp. Franck & Hertz' papers: pp. 457-467 a. 512-517, textillustr. Fine and clean.‎

‎"FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN (+) BECCARIA.‎

‎Experiments in Electricity: In a Letter from Father Beccaria, Professor of Experimental Philosophy at Turin, to Benjamin Franklin, L.L.D. F.R.S. (+) Remarks on the preceding Paper, by Benjamin Franklin, L.L.D. F.R.S‎

‎London, Lockyer Davis, 1773. 4to. Without wrappers. Extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"", vol. 51, part 2. Including title-page of volume. A fine copy. Pp. 513-530 + title-page and 1 folding plate.‎

‎"FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN (+) WM. WATSON‎

‎An Account of Mr. Benjamin Franklin's Treatise, lately published, intituled, Experiments and Observations on Electricity, made at Philadelphia in America, by Wm. Watson, F.R.S. Read June 6. 1751.‎

‎London, C. Davis, 1753. 4to. Without wrappers. Extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"", vol. 47. First leaf detached, otherwise fine. Pp. 201-212.‎

‎"FRAUNHOFER, JOSEPH.‎

‎Kurzer Bericht von den Resultanten neuerer Versuche über die Gesetze des Lichtes, und die Theorie derselben. - [SPECTROSCOPY AND THE FORMULATION OF THE GRATING EQUATION]‎

‎(Leipzig), 1823. Wrappers blank. Uncut. Extracted from ""Gilberts Annalen der Physik und der Physikalischen Chemie"", Bd. 74, Jahrg. 1823, Achtes Stück, pp. (337-) 378. First and last leaves a bit browned.‎

‎"FRESNEL, A. (AUGUSTIN). - THE ""SECOND MEMOIR"" OF 1827, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION.‎

‎Memoir on Double Refraction. (From the Mémoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences d l'Institut de France, tome vii. 1827).‎

‎London, Taylor and Francis, 1852. 8vo. Without wrappers. In: ""Scientific Memoirs, selected from Transactions of Foreign Academies of Science... Edited by Richard Taylor."", Vol. V, Part XVIII. With titlepage to Vol. V. Pp. (151-) 352 (entire part offered). Fresnel's paper: pp. 238-333. Clean and fine. Titlepage with a small faint stamp.‎

‎"FRESNEL, AUGUSTIN.‎

‎Mémoire sur la Loi des modifications que la réflexion imprime à la lumière polarisée. (Lu a l'Academie, le 7 janvier 1823). - [FORMULATING FRESNEL'S ""SINE-LAW AND"" FRESNEL'S ""TANGENT LAW""]‎

‎Paris, Crochard, 1831. 8vo. In blank wrappers. In: ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago."", tome 46, Cahier 3. Occassional brownspotting, otherwise fine. Pp. 225-264.‎

‎"FRESNEL, AUGUSTIN.‎

‎Ueber die doppelte Strahlenbrechung.‎

‎(Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1831). In ""Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg.von Poggendorff"", Bd. 23, Elftes Stück. Pp. 305-560 (entire issue offered). With halftitlepae to vol. 23. Fresnel's paper: pp. 372-434 a. pp. 494-557 a. 1 folded engraved plate.‎

‎"FRESNEL, AUGUSTIN. - EXPOUNDING THE WAVE THEORY OF LIGHT.‎

‎Mémoire Sur les couleurs développées dans des Fluides homogènes par la lumière polarisée. (Presenté à l'Academie, le 30 mars 1818) (+) Mémoire sur la Réflexion de la Lumiere. (Presenté à l'Academie, le 15 novembre 1819). (2 Memoirs).‎

‎Paris, Victor Masson, 1846. No wrappers as extracted from ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique"", Tome 17, Troisieme Série. Titlepage to tome 17. Pp. 172-199 a. 1 engraved plate + pp. 316-338, textillustr. Brownspots to titlepage and some browspots to the second memoir.‎

‎"FRESNEL, AUGUSTIN. - FORMULATING FRESNEL'S ""SINE-LAW AND"" FRESNEL'S ""TANGENT LAW"" GERMAN EDITION.‎

‎Betrachtungen über die Polarisation des Lichts. (+) Ueber die Gesetzt der Modificationen, welche die Reflexion dem polarisirten Lichte einprägt. (2 Papers).‎

‎(Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1831). Without wrappers as issued in ""Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von J.C. Poggendorff"", Bd. 22 (98) Fünftes Stück. Pp. 1-160. (The entire issue offered). Fresnel's papers: pp. 68-89 and pp. 90-125. Clean and fine.‎

‎"FRESNEL, AUGUSTIN. - FORMULATING FRESNEL'S ""SINE-LAW AND"" FRESNEL'S ""TANGENT LAW""‎

‎Mémoire sur la Loi des modifications que la réflexion imprime à la lumière polarisée. (Lu a l'Academie, le 7 janvier 1823).‎

‎Paris, Crochard, 1831. No wrappers. In: ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago."", tome 46, Cahier 3. Titlepage to vol. 46. Pp. 225-336 a. 1 folded engraved plate. (The entire issue offered). Fresnel's paper: pp. 225-264. Some scattered brownspots.‎

‎"FRESNEL, AUGUSTIN. - ON THE REFRACTION OF LIGHT.‎

‎Explication de la Réfraction dans le système des ondes. (+) Sur l'Ascension des nuages dans l'atmosphere.‎

‎Paris, Crochard, 1819. Contemp. hcalf. Spine gilt. Stamps to verso of titlepage. In ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique"", Tome XXI, 2. Series. 448 pp. a. 1 engraved plates. (Entire volume offered). Fresnel's papers. pp. 225-241, textillustr. and pp. 260-263. Clean and fine.‎

‎"FRESNEL, AUGUSTIN. - OVERTHROWING THE CORPUSCULAR THEORY OF LIGHT‎

‎Mémoire sur la Diffraction de la lumiere, où l'on examine particulierement le phènomene des franges colorées que présentent les ombres des corps éclairés par un point lumineux. (Ce Mémoire a été déposé a l'Institut le 33 octobre 1815). (+) Mémoire...‎

‎Paris, Crochard, 1816, 1819. Bound in 2 contemp. hcloth. Gilt lettering to spines. In: ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique"" Series 2, Tome 1 a. Tome 11. Entire volumes offered.(4),452 pp. a. 3 engraved folded plates. + 448 pp. a. 3 folded engraved plates. Fresnel's papers: pp. 239-281 a. pp. 246-296 a. pp. 337-378. Arago's paper: pp. 5-30. Some scattered brownspots.‎

‎"FRESNEL, AUGUSTIN. - THE ABERRATION OF LIGHT.‎

‎Lettre de M. Fresnel à M. Arago, sur l'influence du mouvement terrestre dans quelques phénomènes d'optique.‎

‎Paris, Crochard, 1818. No wrappers. In: ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago."", tome 9, Cahier 1. Titlepage to vol. 9. Pp. 5-112 a. 1 folded engraved plate. (The entire issue offered). Fresnel's paper: pp. 57-66. Small stamps on verso of titlepage.‎

‎"FRESNEL, AUGUSTIN. - THE UNDULATORY THEORY OF LIGHT ESTABLISHED.‎

‎Ueber die Diffraction des Lichts. (Mèmoires de l'acad. roy. des Scences etc. T. V. p. 339). (+) Auszug aus einer Abhandlung über die Reflexion des Lichts. (Ann. de chim. et de phys. T. XV p.379).‎

‎(Leipzig, Joh. Ambrosius Barth, 1833). Contemp. hcalf. Spine gilt. Very light wear to spine ends and edges. In: ""Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg.von Poggendorff"", Jahrgang 1833 (Bd. 30), Ergäntzungsheft. 376 pp. a. 2 folded engraved plates. 2 small stamps to p.1 and a small stamp to verso of plates. (Entire volume offered). Fresnel's papers: pp. 100-255 a. pp. 255-261. Clean and fine.‎

‎"FRIEDMAN, ALEXANDER & ALBERT EINSTEIN.‎

‎Über die Krümmung des Raumes. + Über die Möglichkeit einer Welt mit konstanter negativer Krümmung des Raumes. + (Einstein's two remarks to the first paper): Bemerkung ... + Notiz ... - [THE CURVATURE OF SPACE]‎

‎(Berlin, Julius Springer, 1922-24). 8vo. In: ""Zeitschrift für Physik"", Vol. 10 (pp. 377 ff.),Vol.11 (pp.326), vol.16 (pp.228), vol.21 (pp.326-332). The entire four volumes offered here. Contemporary half cloth bindings.‎

‎"FRIEDRICH, W., P. KNIPPING, MAX v. LAUE. - THE NATURE OF X RAYS AND THE ATOMIC STRUCTURE OF CRYSTALS.‎

‎Inteferenzerscheinungen bei Röntgenstrahlen. (+ M. Laue:) Eine quantitative Prüfung der Theorie für die Inteferenzerscheinungen bei Röntgenstrahlen. (+ M. Laue und F. Tank:) Die gestalt der Interferenzpunkte bei den Röntgenstrahlinterferenzen. (3 pape...‎

‎(Leipzig, Ambrosius Barth, 1913). Without wrappers in ""Annalen der Physik"", Vierte Folge, Bd. 41, No.10. The entire issues offered. Pp. 873-1064 a. 6 plates. Laue's papers: pp. 971-988, pp. 989-1002 a. pp. 1003-1011. With the 5 famous plates in collotype (reproductions of the photographic plates), showing the X-Ray diffraction spectrum of different salt and substances (The ""Laue diagram"").‎

‎"GABOR, D.‎

‎A New Microscopic Principle. - [THE INVENTION OF HOLOGRAPHY - THE NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSICS 1971]‎

‎(London, Macmillan & Co, 1948). Royal8vo. Bound in contemporary full cloth. In ""Nature"", Vol. 161, 1948. Entire volume offered. Bookplates and library stamp to front free end-papers. Fine and clean. Pp. 777-8. [Entire volume: Pp. 495-1028.].‎

‎First publication of this seminal paper introducing holography for which Dennis Gabor was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics in 1971.""In July 1947 Gabor, assisted by Ivor Williams, began experiments at B.T.H. to establish the principle by using a purely optical model-that is, using visible light instead of electrons-with a mercury vapor lamp as a source of coherent light, to produce the interference photographs of simple two dimensional images. Five months later he was able to show his close confidant Lawrence Bragg his first successful wavefront reconstructions: hazy im ages of simple printed words used as objects. Even when Bragg fully understood the theory, he still stated that it was a miracle it should work. The first public indication of Gabor's success came with a preliminary note to Nature, published on 15 May 1948. The following year he wrote a more complete theoretical treatment, for the Proceedings of the Royal Society, in which he introduced the word ""hologram"" and indicated possible applications in light optics. Among these was the ability, using the same method, to record the data associated with 3-D objects in one interference photograph."" (DSB)‎

Referencia librero : 47011

‎"GALTON, FRANCIS.‎

‎Co-relations and their measurement, chiefly from anthropometric data. - [THE INVENTION OF THE STATISTICAL CONCEPT OF CORRELATION]‎

‎London, Royal Society, 1888. 8vo (210 x 135 mm). In the original printed wrappers. In ""Proceedings of the Royal Society of London"", vol. 45, no. 274. New backstrip (presumably from having been extracted from a binding) The entire issue offered, internally fine and clean. Pp. 135-145. [Entire issue: 99-156].‎

‎First edition Galton’s landmark paper in which he first presented his invention of the statistical concept of correlation.‎

Referencia librero : 59852

‎"GAUSS, C.F. (CARL FRIEDRICH). - ""HIS GREATEST WORK"" ?‎

‎Dioptrische Untersuchungen.‎

‎Göttingen, Dieterischen Buchhandlung, 1841. 4to. Uncut in orig. blank stiff blue wrappers. (2),34,(2- errata leaf) pp. Wide-margined. A few mild brownspots in margins. otherwise a clean and fine copy.‎

‎First edition of the peak of ""Gaussian dioptrics"", Gauss' greatest achievement in the field of optics, which has been called ""HIS GREATEST WORK"". He gives the data on the construction of the image when the principal points and foci of the system are given, and finally formulas for a simple lens of nonvanishing thickness are given.""In the same year he finished Dioptrische Untersuchungen (1841), in which he analyzed the path of light through a system of lenses and showed, among other things, that any system is equivalent to a properly chosen single lens. Although Gauss said that he had possessed the theory forty years before and considered it too elementary to publish, it has been labeled his greatest work by one of his scientific biographers (Clemens Schäfer. in Werke, XI, pt. 2, sec. 2, 189 ff.). In any case, it was his last significant scientific contribution."" (DSB).‎

Referencia librero : 50314

‎"GAUSS, CARL FRIEDRICH and WILHELM WEBER. - TERRESTRIAL MAGNETISM.‎

‎Results of the Observations made by the Magnetic Association in the year 1836. (Being the first Annual Report of the Magnetic Association). The report having 6 papers: Introduction (Gauss) - Remmarks of the Arrangements of Nagnetical Observations, an...‎

‎(London, Richard and John E. Taylor, 1841). 8vo. No wrappers. In: ""Scientific Memoirs, selected from Transactions of Foreign Academies of Science... Edited by Richard Taylor."", Vol. II, Part I. Pp. 1-140 and 10, mostly large folded lithographed plates. Gauss a. Weber's memoir: pp. 20-97 with 9 plates (The Magnetic Observatory, Göttingen, Plan of the arrangement of instruments, Drawings of the instruments used and Tables of Observation results). ""Much care has been taken to make the plates... faithful copies of the originals. It has been thought necessary to republish the plates"" (note at end of the memoir).‎

‎First English edition of the first published papers from the famous ""Des Magnetischen Vereins im Jahre 1836"" for the study of the magnetism of the earth.""Gauss, one of the keenest and most original mathematical thinkers of all time, was joined by Weber for an intensive study of the nature and intensity of the earth's magnetism.. To enlist the observational help of others, they formed a society of international scope and published their observations annually for a dozen years. As part of their work, a telegraph line was erected in 1834 between the iron-free magnetic observatory and astronomical observatory at Göttingen.""(Dibner, Heralds of Science No. 66).""Gauss and Weber organized the Magnetische Verein (The Magnetic Association, mentioned in the title), which united a worldwide network of observatories. Its Resultate aus den Beobachtungen des magnetischen Vereins appeared in six volumes (1836-1841) and included fifteen papers by Gauss, twenty-three by Weber, and the joint Atlas des Erdmagnetismus (1840). These and other publications elsewhere dealt with problems of instrumentation (including one of several inventions of the bifilar magnetometer), reported observations of the horizontal and vertical components of magnetic force, and attempted to explain the observations in mathematical terms.""(DSB).The offered part contains another importent paper by M.H. JACOBI ""Electro-Magnetic Experiments"", pp. 1-19 and 1 plate which is the first English translation of his importent paper ""Expéeriences électromagnétiques,"" in Bulletin de l’Académie impériale des sciences de St. Pétersbourg, 2 (1837), describingone of the first practical electrical motors.‎

Referencia librero : 47035

‎"GAMOW, G.‎

‎The Evolution of the Universe. - [GAMOW'S ""HYPOTHETICAL UNIVERSE COLLAPSE""]‎

‎London, Macmillan and Co, 1948. Royal8vo. Bound in contemporary full cloth. In ""Nature"", Vol 162, October - December. Ex-libris to front free end-paper and library stamps to title page and first page of index. Fine and clean. Pp. 680-82.‎

‎First printing of Gamow's paper in which his theory of ""Hypothetical Universe Collapse"" is presented.""In 1948 he predicted that all matter in the universe is in a state of general rotation about some distant center"" at the same time he began developing his ideas on the origin and frequency distribution of the chemical elements, postulating that before the ""big bang"" there existed a primordial state of matter, (""ylem"") consisting of neutrons and their decay products, protons and electrons, mixed together in a sea of high-energy radiation-the basic ingredients necessary for the formation of deuterons and heavier, and heavier nuclei as the universe subsequently expanded. Most of the detailed theoretical calculations were carried out by R. Alpher (assisted by R. Herman), which resulted in the well-know Alpher-Bethe-Gamow letter in Physical Review of 1 April 1948-Bethe's name, in one of Gamow's more famous jokes, being added gratuitously to conform to the Greek alphabet. This work also led to the prediction of a residual blackbody radiation spectrum, the remnant from the primordial ""big bang"" corresponding to few degrees Kelvin. This radiation was first detected in early 1965 by A. A. Penzias and R. W. Wilson"" much more definite evidence was found the following year by P. G. Roll and D. T. Wilkinson (in experiments initiated by R. R. Dicke and P. J. E. Peebles) at Princeton University. Cosmological questions concerned Gamow to the end, one of his last investigations being on the possible inconstancy of the gravitational constant and the charge or the electron."" (DSB)‎

Referencia librero : 46937

‎"GAMOW, G. [GEORGE]. - GAMOW'S ATOMIC MODEL.‎

‎Zur Quantentheorie des Atomkernes. Mit 5 Abbildungen.‎

‎Berlin, Julius Springer, 1928. Without wrappers. In ""Zeifschrift für Physik, 51 Band., Dritte und Viertes Heft. Titlepage to Bd. 51. Pp. 165-308.(Entire issue offered). Gamov's paper: pp. 204-12., textillustr. A stamp on titlepage.‎

‎First printing of Gamow's first major contribution to physics, his theory of alpha-decay.By 1928, George Gamow had solved the theory of the alpha decay via tunneling. The alpha particle is trapped in a ""potential well"" by the nucleus. In classic physics, it is forbidden to escape, but according to the then newly discovered principles of quantum mechanics, it has a tiny (but non-zero) probability of ""tunneling"" through the barrier and appearing on the other side to escape the nucleus. Gamow solved a model potential for the nucleus and derived from first principles a relationship between the half-life of the decay, and the energy of the emission. Alpha particles were first described in the investigations of radioactivity by Ernest Rutherford in 1899.""One of the first applications of quantum tunneling was by the physicist George Gamow in 1928, soon after the development of quantum mechanics. Alpha particles, which consist of two protons and two neutrons, are emitted by some nuclei. For example, ordinary uranium, 238U, with a lifetime of 4.5 billion years, decays by emitting an alpha particle.For decades alpha decay had presented a problem: the emitted alpha particles seemed to have too little energy to get out of the nucleus. The Coulomb barrier arises from the combined effect of the Coulomb repulsion between the alpha particle and the nucleus (both positively charged) and the nuclear force that attracts the two particles. The energy of the emitted alpha particle is less than the top of this barrier. Classically, the particle would be unable to get out of the nucleus, but it obviously does.Gamow suggested that alpha particles tunnel through the barrier. If so, the half-life of the decay should depend on the width and height of the barrier, and it does: the lower and thinner the barrier, the greater the chance of penetrating it. As the alpha particle's energy increases, the particle sees both a lower and thinner barrier so the probability of getting through increases extremely rapidly. For example, the energies of the alphas emitted by 232Th and 212Po are 4.05 MeV and 8.95 MeV, respectively, while their respective half-lives are 14 billion years and 0.3 millionth of a second. Thus, a factor of about two in energy produces a difference in half-lives of sixteen orders of magnitude (that is, sixteen powers of ten)!"" (Rigden, Building Blocks of Matter: A Supplement to the Macmillan Encyclopedia of , p. 393).Parkinson ""Breakthroughs"", 1928 P.‎

Referencia librero : 45999

‎"GALILEI, GALILEO.‎

‎Dialog über die beiden hauptsächlichsten Weltsysteme, das Ptolemäische und das Kopernikanische. Aus dem Italienischen übersetzt und erläutert von Emil Strauss. - [FIRST GERMAN ""DIALOGUE""]‎

‎Leipzig, B.G. Teubner, 1891. Royal8vo. Contemporary half calf. Some wear to spine. Owners name in ink on title page. Else fine and clean. LXXIX,(5),586,(2) pp. Text illustrated.‎

‎"GAMOW, G.‎

‎Expanding Universe and the Origin of Galaxies.‎

‎København, Bianco Luno, 1953. 8vo. In the original printed wrappers. Offprint from ""Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab"", Vol. 27, Number 10. Small tear to front wrapper, otherwise fine and clean. 13 pp.‎

‎"GAMOW, G. [GEORGE].‎

‎Zur Quantentheorie des Atomkernes. Mit 5 Abbildungen. - [ALFA-DECAY EXPLAINED]‎

‎Berlin, Julius Springer, 1928. 8vo. Bound in contemporary half cloth with marbled boards and gilt lettering to spine. In ""Zeifschrift für Physik, 51 Band., 1928"", VII, (1), 903 pp.]. (Entire volumeoffered). Library stamp to front free end-paper. A fine and clean copy. [Gamow:] Pp. 204-212..‎