‎Physics‎

‎"MEITNER, L. (+) FRISCH (+) H. VON HALBAN (+) F. JOLIOT (+) L. KOWARSKI.‎

‎Disintegration of Uranium by neutrons: a new type of nuclear reaction (+) Products of the fission of the Uranium nucleus [L. Meitner & Frisch] (+) Liberation of neutrons in the nuclear explosion of Uranium [H. Von Halban, F. Joliot & L. Kowarski] (+) ... - [NUCLEAR FISSION DISCOVERED - PMM 422 B,C,D.]‎

‎London, Macmillian and Co, 1939. Royal8vo. In contemporary half cloth with white paper title-label pasted on to spine. Entire issue of ""Nature"", January - June, 1939, Vol. 143. Stamp to front free end-paper and title-page, otherwise fine and clean copy. [Meitner & Frisch:] Pp. 239-40"" Pp. 471-2. [H. Von Halban & F. Joliot & L. Kowarski:] Pp. 470-1. [Frisch:] P. 276. [Entire volume: LIV, 1080 pp.].‎

‎First printing of these seminal papers in which nuclear fission is first described. ""In the famous paper by Meitner and Frisch [Disintegration of Uranium by neutrons], accordingly, the term nuclear fission is introduced."" ( Brandt, The Harvest of a Century). ""Experiments conducted in 1938 at Berlin by Hahn and Strassman were reported to Lise Meitner, an Austrian scientist who had fled to Copenhagen to escape religious persecution. She and her nephew, O.R. Frisch, working in Niels Bohr's laboratory, found the true explanation of this phenomenon. The interpolation of a neutron into the the nucleus of a uranium atom caused it to divide into two parts and to release energy amounting to about 200,000,000 electron volts. This process bore such a close similarity to the division of a living cell that Frisch suggested the use of the term 'fission' to describe it."" (Printing and the Mind of Man 422b, 422c). In the third article in the collection, Halban, Joliot and Kowarski established the theoretical possibility of a self-perpetuating reaction chain"" (PMM 422d).PMM 422b, c, d.‎

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‎"MEISSNER, W. & OCHSENFELD, R.‎

‎Ein neuer Effekt bei Eintritt der Supraleitfältigkeit. - [THE DISCOVERY OF THE MEISSNER EFFECT]‎

‎Berlin, Julius Springer, 1933. Royal8vo. Bound in contemporary half calf with gilt lettering to spine. In ""Die Naturwissenschaften"", Vol. 21, 1933. A library stamp to title page, otherwise a very fine and clean. Pp. 787-788.‎

‎First printing of the influential Meissner effect which lead to the discovery of the phenomenological theory of superconductivity by Fritz and Heinz London in 1935"" The Meissner effect is an expulsion of a magnetic field from a superconductor during its transition to the superconducting state and it allowed the first theoretical predictions for superconductivity to be made""In the spring of 1933, in the course of these measurements Meissner and his colleague Robert Ochsenfeld observed a new phenomenon that contributed greatly to the understanding of superconductivity. The magnitude of the magnetic field measured between conductors was a function of the direction of the current, which could be explained by the role played by the earth's magnetic field. Therefore, Meissner and Ochsenfeld carried out the measurements of changes in the magnetic field close to the conductors when these were subject only to the earth's field, that is, without any current running through them. Before superconductivity set in, the magnetic lines of force penetrated the crystals with almost no resistance because of their low susceptibility. From what was known about superconductivity at that time, it was expected that the distribution of the lines of force would remain unchanged if the temperature were lowered below the threshold level. However, Meissner and Ochsenfeld observed an increase in the lines of force in close proximity to the superconductors. Meissner interpreted this result as follows: the magnetic field flux was displaced from the crystals when superconductivity set in the magnetic field flux that previously flowed inside the conductors was now flowing between the crystals."" (DSB)‎

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‎"MENDELEEV, DIMITRI IVANOVITCH. (MENDELEYEV MENDELEV MENDELEJEFF) et V. HEMILIAN.‎

‎Sur la compressabilité des Gaz soumis aux faibles Pressions.‎

‎Paris, G. Masson, 1883. 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 IX. 576 pp. and 3 folded engraved plates. (Entire volume offered). Mendeleev's paper: pp. 111-119.‎

‎First printing of this paper in which Mendeleev, in connection with his aerobautical researches, investigated the compressability and elasticity of gases.The volume contains other importent papers DES CLOIZEAU'S ""Mémoire sur L'Existence, les propriétes optique et christallographiques, et la Composition chimique du Microline,nouvelle Espèce de feldspath..."", pp. 433-499 and illustrated with 12 ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHIC textillustrations. Also with original contributions by Berthelot, Raoult, and CLAUDE BERNARD ""Critique experimentale sur la ormation du Sucre dans le Sang ou sur la Fonction de la Glycémie physiologique"", pp. 207-265.‎

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‎"MEISSNER, W. & OCHSENFELD, R.‎

‎Ein neuer Effekt bei Eintritt der Supraleitfältigkeit. - [THE DISCOVERY OF THE MEISSNER EFFECT]‎

‎Berlin, Julius Springer, 1933. Royal8vo. Bound in contemporary half calf with gilt lettering to spine. In ""Die Naturwissenschaften"", Vol. 21, 1933. A library stamp to title page, otherwise a very fine and clean. Pp. 787-788.‎

‎"MEITNER, L. (+) FRISCH (+) H. VON HALBAN (+) F. JOLIOT (+) L. KOWARSKI.‎

‎Disintegration of Uranium by neutrons: a new type of nuclear reaction (+) Products of the fission of the Uranium nucleus [L. Meitner & Frisch] (+) Liberation of neutrons in the nuclear explosion of Uranium [H. Von Halban, F. Joliot & L. Kowarski] (+) ... - [NUCLEAR FISSION DISCOVERED - PMM 422 B,C,D.]‎

‎London, Macmillian and Co, 1939. Royal8vo. In contemporary half cloth with white paper title-label pasted on to spine. Entire issue of ""Nature"", January - June, 1939, Vol. 143. Stamp to front free end-paper and title-page, otherwise fine and clean copy. [Meitner & Frisch:] Pp. 239-40" " Pp. 471-2. [H. Von Halban & F. Joliot & L. Kowarski:] Pp. 470-1. [Frisch:] P. 276. [Entire volume: LIV, 1080 pp.].‎

‎"MENDEL, GREGOR.‎

‎Meteorologische Beobachtungen aus Mähren und Schlesien für das Jahr 1866. [In: Verhandlungen des naturforschenden Vereins in Brünn. V. Band. 1866]. - [GREGOR MENDEL - A LEADING METEOROLOGIST]‎

‎Brünn, 1867. 8vo. Entire volume present. Uncut and unopened in the original printed wrappers. A few tears and lacks of paper to extremities. Paper spine (entirely present) kept together by tape. Internally completely fresh. Pp. (160) - 172. [Entire volume: XXII, (2), 87, (1), 236, (2) pp.].‎

‎"MENDELÉEFF, D. (MENDELÉEV, MENDELEYEV, MENDELÉEFF).‎

‎Des écarts dans les lois relatives aux gaz. Note de D. Mendéléeff. (Extrait).‎

‎Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1876. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome 82, No 7. Pp. (397-) 428. Mendelejeff's paper: pp. 412-415. Clean and fine.‎

‎"MENDELÉEFF, D. (MENDELÉEV, MENDELEYEV, MENDELÉEFF).‎

‎Sur la température des couches élevées de l'atmosphère. (Premiere-) Deuxième Note. (2 papers).‎

‎(Paris, Gauthier-Villars), 1875. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome 81, No 23 a. 24. Pp. (1065-) 1222. (2 entire issues offered). Mendeleev's paper: pp. 1094-1096 a. 1182-1186. Clean and fine.‎

‎"MICHELSON, ALBERT.‎

‎A Theory of the X-Rays.‎

‎London, Macmillan & Co., 1896. Royal8vo. In the publisher's pictorial cloth. Gilt lettering and Nature's logo to spines and front board. In ""Nature"", May - October, 1896, Vol. 54. Entire volume offered. Slight wear to extremities and front hinge loose. Two stamps to titel page, otherwise a fine and clean copy. Rare in the publisher's binding. Pp. 66-7 [Entire volume: XXXVI, 640, CLX, 4, CLXII-CCVIII pp.].‎

‎First appearance of Michelson's paper on Röntgen's famous discovery of X-Rays. Within six months of Wilhelm Röntgen's announcement of his discovery several proposals were put forth about the physical nature of the rays. The present suggests that X-rays is coused by vortices in the aether.Michelson famously known for the Michelson-Morley Experiment or The Ether Drag, an experiment that would ultimately lead to the special theory of relativity.‎

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‎"MINKOWSKI, HERMANN.‎

‎Raum und Zeit. (Space and Time) - [THE FOURTH DIMENSION. (PMM 401)]‎

‎Leipzig, F.C.W. Vogel, 1909. Lex8vo. Contemp. Hcloth. Gilt spine. Edges slightly rubbed. Clean and fine. in ""Verhandlungen der Gesellschaft deutscher Naturforscher und Ärzte. 80. Vesammlung zu Cöln 20.- 26. September 1908. Herausgegeben...Albert Wangerin. Zweiter Theil. 1. Hälfte. Naturwissenschaftliche Abteilungen"". pp. 4-9. The whole volume offered with part I-II: (4),245,X,(2),598,124,(2) pp.‎

‎First appearance of this milestone paper in the development of the theory of Special relativity. The paper offered is the first edition, first printing of the text from Minkowski's famous address held at the 80th meeting of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Naturforscher und Ärzte, in Köln the 21st September 1908. There exists three other printings of this address from the same year:1. Physikalische Zeitschrift, volume 10, number 3 (1. February, 1909.), pp.104-111" 2. Jahresbericht der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung, volume 18, number 2 (issued monthly - so February), pp.75-88"3. (Seperate edition by Teubner).""The views of space and time which I wish to lay before you have sprung from the soil of experimental physics, and therein lies their strenght. They are radical. Henceforth space by itself, and time by itself, are doomed to fade away into mere shadows, and only a inf of union of the two will preserve an independent reality"" He ended as follows: 'the validitywothout exception of the world postulate (i.e., relativity postulates), I like to think, is the thrue nucleus of an electromagnetic image of the world, which, discovered by Lorentz, and further developed by Einstein, now lies open in the full light of the day'""(Pais in ""Subtle is the Lord"", p. 152).Here (in the paper offered) ""he introduced the notion that made possible the expansion of the Relativity Theory of Einstein from its specific to its general form. The technical description of Minkowski's hypothesis is the four-dimensional Space-time continuum....Minkowski's space-time hypothesis was in effect a restatement of Einstein's basic principle in a form that greatly enchanced its plausability and also introduced importent new developments. Hitherto natural phenomena had been thought to occur in a space of three dimensions and to flow uniformly through time. Minkowski maintained that the separation of space and time is a false conception"" thet time is itself a dimension, comparable to lenght, breadth and height: and that therefore the true conception of reality was constituted by a space-time continuum possessing these four dimensions. This strongly reinforced Einstein's objections to absolute concepts and supported his view of the relativity of events in nature."" (PMM No. 401, only listing the print from ""Jahresberichte der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung. Leipzig 1909."").‎

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‎"MICHELSON, ALBERT. - PREPARING THE MICHELSON-MORLEY EXPERIMENT.‎

‎Sur le mouvement relatif de la terre et de l'éther.‎

‎(Paris, Gauthier-Villars), 1882. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome 94, No 8. Pp. (473-) 548 (entire issue offered). Michelson's paper: pp. 520-523, 1 textillustr.‎

‎First printing of this importent paper in which Michelson corrected an effect on his inteferometer which he had neglected in his first experiment on the ether drag of 1881.""Michelson himself, on presenting in 1882 (the paper offered) an account of his first esperiment to the Academie des Sciences, acknowledged that he had made an error in his earler report of 1881 and had neglected the effect of the earth's motion on the path of light in the inteferometer arm at right angles to the motion"" (Holton ""Thematic origins of Scientific Thought"", p. 265).""‎

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‎"MINKOWSKI, R. (+) H. SPONER.‎

‎Über die freie Weglänge langsamer Elektronen in Gasen.‎

‎[Berlin, Julius Springer, 1923]. 8vo. Extracted from ""Zeitschrift für Physik. Hrsg. von Karl Scheel. 16. Band"". No backstrip. Pp. 399-416.‎

‎First printing of this important paper on electrons in gases.‎

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‎"MICHELSON, ALBERT A. & EDWARD W. MORLEY - THE MICHELSON-MORLEY EXPERIMENT, THE ETHER DRAG.‎

‎On the Relative Motion of the Earth and the Luminiferous Ether.‎

‎New Haven, Conn., J.D. & E.S. Dana, 1887. 8vo. Contemporary half calf. Gilt lettering to spine. A small stamp to top of title-page. In: ""The American Journal of Science. Editors James D. and Edward S. Dana"", Third series Vol. XXXIV (July to December, 1887). VIII,500 pp., textillustr. and 10 plates. (Entire volume offered). The joint paper: pp. 333-345 and textillustr. (Apparatus). A few faint brownspots to titlepage, otherwise clean and fine.‎

‎"MICHELSON, ALBERT. - PREPARING THE MICHELSON-MORLEY EXPERIMENT.‎

‎Sur le mouvement relatif de la terre et de l'éther.‎

‎(Paris, Gauthier-Villars), 1882. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome 94, No 8. Pp. (473-) 548 (entire issue offered). Michelson's paper: pp. 520-523, 1 textillustr.‎

‎"MILLIKAN, R. A.‎

‎A New Modification of the Cloud Method of Determining the Elementary Electrical Charge and the Most Probable Value of that Charge. - [THE OIL DROP EXPERIMENT]‎

‎London, Taylor & Francis, 1910. 8vo. Bound with the original wrappers in recent full blue cloth with black lettering to spine. In ""The Philosophical Magazine"" for February 1910, vol 19, no. 110. The entire issue offered. Wrappers reinforced in margin, otherwise a fine copy. Pp. 209-228 [Entire issue: pp. 209-336].‎

‎"MINKOWSKI, HERMANN.‎

‎Raum und Zeit. (Space and Time) - [THE FOURTH DIMENSION. (PMM 401)]‎

‎Leipzig, F.C.W. Vogel, 1909. Lex8vo. Contemp. Hcloth. Gilt spine. Edges slightly rubbed. Clean and fine. in ""Verhandlungen der Gesellschaft deutscher Naturforscher und Ärzte. 80. Vesammlung zu Cöln 20.- 26. September 1908. Herausgegeben...Albert Wangerin. Zweiter Theil. 1. Hälfte. Naturwissenschaftliche Abteilungen"". pp. 4-9. The whole volume offered with part I-II: (4),245,X,(2),598,124,(2) pp.‎

‎"MOLINA, EDWARD C.‎

‎Application of the Theory of Probability To Telephone Trunking Problems. - [SEMINAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO TELEPHONE TRAFFIC THEORY]‎

‎New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Company, 1927. Lex8vo. Volume VI, July, No. 3, 1927 of ""The Bell System Technical Journal"". In the original printed blue wrappers. A bit of browning to spine and extremities, but overall fine. Internally very nice and clean. Pp. 461-494. [Entire issue: Pp. 375-550].‎

‎First publication of Molina's fundamental discussion on the problems concerning telephone trunking problems. ""If telephone plants were provided in such quantities that when a subscriber makes a call there would be immediately available such switching arrangements and such trunks or paths to the desired point as may be necessary to establish the connection instantly, it would require that path and switching facilities be provided to meet the maximum demand occurring at any time, with the result that there would be a large amount of plant not in use most of the time."" (From the introduction to the present paper).""Edward C. Molina, a self-taught researcher, made seminal contributions to telephone traffic theory. [...] There were early attempts to use probability theory for the analysis of exchange"" (Gass, An annotated timeline of operations research, 2005, p. 35.). His 1928 book on congestion theory became the classic text on the subject. The present paper anticipates many of the themes and problems presented in that book.Other papers of interest contained in the present issue:1. Ferguson, J.G. Measurement of Inductance by the Shielded Owen Bridge. Pp. 375-386.2. Gilbert, J.J. Determination of Electrical Characteristics of Loaded Telegraph Cables. Pp. 387-401.3. Clokey, A.A. Automatic Printing Equipment for Long Loaded Submarine Telegraph Cables. Pp. 402-424.4. Curtis, Austen M. The Application of Vacuum Tube Amplifiers to Submarine Telegraph Cables. Pp. 425-441.5. Peterson, Eugene" Evans, Herbert P.Modulation in Vacuum Tubes Used As Amplifiers. Pp. 442-460.6. Carson, John R. Hoyt, Ray S.Propagation of Periodic Currents Over a System Of Parallel Wires. Pp. 495-545.‎

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‎"MOUCHOT, A.‎

‎La Chaleur solaire et ses applications industrielles. 35 Gravures intercalées dans le texte. - [FOUNDING THE SCIENCE OF SOLAR ENERGY]‎

‎Paris, 1869. 8vo. Uncut in the original printed wrappers. Wrappers frayed at edges, a bit soiled, and with some stains. A bit of brownspotting. Last leaves with a, mostly marginal, damp stain. First few leaves a bit frayed at edges. VII, (1), 238 pp. Illustrated.‎

‎Scarce first edition of the first book explicitly devoted to solar energy, ""Solar Energy and its Industrial Applications"", which coincided with the unveiling of Mouchot's largest solar steam engine, the so-called ""Sun Engine"", in 1869, which caused a revolution in the development of solar thermal power. His 1869 work constitutes a milestone of what we now call ""green energy"", as it laid the foundation for our understanding of the conversion of solar radiation into mechanical power driven by steam.Auguste Mouchot was a French mathematics teacher, who in the 1860'ies became famous as the designer (and patent-taker) of the first machine that generated electricity with solar thermal energy electricity by the exposure of the sun. Mouchot began his work with solar energy in 1860 after expressing grave concerns about his country's dependence on coal. His work on solar energy and on the development of his sun machine forms the basis for the later developments on solar energy. ""The work of Adams, Ericsson, and Shuman had been directly influenced by the solar conceptions of Augustin Mouchot, a man who arrived on the scene in nineteenth century France at precisely that moment when his ideas were likely to attract the most attention. It was a time when French industrial might was at a peak and her leaders open to new ideas, none more so than her emperor. In 1867, to commemorate the explosion of technology that had accompanied the industrial and artistic carnival over which he had presided for 15 years, France's Napoleon III decided to invite the whole world to an international exposition that he would host in Paris."" (Kryza, The Power of Light, p. 147). ""His initial experiments involved a glass-enclosed, water-filled iron cauldron, in which sunlight passed through a glass cover, heating the water. This simple arrangement boiled water, but it also produced small quantities of steam. Mouchot added a reflector to concentrate additional radiation onto the cauldron, thus increasing the steam output. He succeeded in using his apparatus to operate a small, conventional steam engine. Impressed by Mouchot's device, Emperor Napoleon III offered financial assistance, which Mouchot used to produce refinements to the energy system. Mouchot's work help lay the foundation for our current understanding of the conversion of solar radiation into mechanical power driven by steam.The publication of his book on solar energy, ""La Chaleur solaire et ses Applications industrielles"" (1869), coincided with the unveiling of the largest solar steam engine he had yet built. This engine was displayed in Paris until the city fell under siege during the Franco-Prussian War in 1871, and was not found after the siege ended."" (The Energy Library).‎

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‎"MOSELEY, H.G.J. - ESTABLISHING ORDER IN THE PERIODICAL TABLE OF ELEMENTS (PMM 407).‎

‎The High-Frequency Spectra of the Elements. - [INTRODUCING ""ATOMIC NUMBERS""]‎

‎London, 1913. Without wrappers, but stitched. In ""Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science"", Vol. 26, No. 156. December 1913. Pp. 937-1058 a. 6 plates.(= the whole issue No 156). Moseley's paper: pp. 854-860 a. 1 plate. Fine and clean.‎

‎First edition of this groundbreaking paper which Rutherford considered A WORK ON PAR WITH THE VERY DISCOVERY OF THE PERIODICAL TABLE, introducing the concept 'Atomic Number'.Moseley notes a regularity in the shifting of spectral lines when the elements (he examines 50 elements) are arranged according to atomic weight. He finds that bombardments of the various elements with cathode rays yeilds a systematic sequence of vibration frequencies, and from this he derives the concept of atomic number, which he recognizes as equal to the nuclear charge.""Moseley, working under Rutherford at Manchester, used the method of X-ray spectroscopy devised by the Braggs to calculate variations in the wave-lenght of the rays emitted by each element. These he was able to arrange in a series according to the nuclear charge of the element. Thus if the nuclear charge of hydrogen is 1, in helium it is 2, in lithium 3, and so on by regular progression to uranium as 92. These figures Moseley called atomic numbers.he pointed out that they also represented a corresponding increase in extra-nuclear electrons and that it is the number and arrangement of these electrons rather than the atomic weight that determines the properties of an element. It was now possible to base the periodical table on a firm foundation, and to state with confidence that the number of elements up to uranium is limited to 92. When Moseley'stable was completed, six atomic numbers had no corresponding elements"" but Moseley himself was able to predict the nature of four of the missing elements.""(Printing and the Mind of Man No. 407). Another paper on the same subject was published by Moseley the next year (1914).An important paper by Rutherford and Richardson is withbound: Analysis of the gamma rays of Thorium and Actinium Products. Pp.937-948 and 1 plate.‎

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‎"MOSELEY, H.G.J.‎

‎The High-Frequency Spectra of the Elements, I-II. - [ESTABLISHING ORDER IN THE PERIODICAL TABLE OF ELEMENTS - PMM 407]‎

‎London, 1913 & 1914. 8vo. 2 volumes, uniformly bound with the original wrappers in recent full blue cloth. In ""The London, Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine"", Sixth Series, Vol. 26, no. 156, December 1913 & vol. 27, no. 160, April 1914. Lower part of index (pp. 1059-1064) in vol 26 with horisontal repair to lower part, affecting last three line (but legible). A fine and clean set. Moseley's papers: pp. 703-13" pp. 1024-1034. [Entire issues: pp. 937-1064" pp. 541-756].‎

‎First edition of these groundbreaking papers, in which the arrangement of the elements in the periodic table was based on the atomic number and which thus placed the atomic table on a firm scientific foundation. ""Moseley, working under Rutherford at Manchester, used the method of X-ray spectroscopy devised by the Braggs to calculate variations in the wave-lenght of the rays emitted by each element. These he was able to arrange in a series according to the nuclear charge of the element. Thus if the nuclear charge of hydrogen is 1, in helium it is 2, in lithium 3, and so on by regular progression to uranium as 92. These figures Moseley called atomic numbers.he pointed out that they also represented a corresponding increase in extra-nuclear electrons and that it is the number and arrangement of these electrons rather than the atomic weight that determines the properties of an element. It was now possible to base the periodical table on a firm foundation, and to state with confidence that the number of elements up to uranium is limited to 92. When Moseley'stable was completed, six atomic numbers had no corresponding elements"" but Moseley himself was able to predict the nature of four of the missing elements.""(PMM 407). “In a very short time, Moseley produced the first of his two famous papers in which he showed the spectra of K radiation of ten different substances … Moseley arranged the spectra, one below the other in a step-like fashion, in such a way that a given wavelength was in the same position for all spectra. It then became clear by simple inspection of this ‘step ladder’ that the spectrum of K radiation of each element contains two strong lines (which Moseley called Ka (for the longer wavelength) and Kß (for the shorter) and that this pair of lines moves to shorter and shorter wavelengths in a monotonic fashion if one moves step by step from calcium to zinc Moseley's work made it clear once and for all that indeed the position number in the Periodic Table is equal to the number Z of positive elementary charges in the nucleus of an atom. It also showed that Z is more important for the spectroscopic and chemical properties of an atom than the atomic mass number A. This is evident in the case of the elements cobalt (Z = 27, A = 58.9) and nickel (Z = 28, A = 58.7), where even the order in A differs from that in Z.” (Brandt, The Harvest of a Century: Discoveries in Modern Physics in 100 Episodes) PMM 407Evans 62Norman 1599‎

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‎"MOISSAN, HENRI - PRESENTATION COPY - SYNTHETIC DIAMONDS.‎

‎Nouvelles Recherches sur la reproduction du Diamant.‎

‎(Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1905). 8vo. Uncut in orig. printed wrappers. A small nick at top edge on frontwrapper. Offprint from: ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique"", Series 8, tome V. 34 pp., textillustrations. Inscribed on frontwrapper ""A mon cher Collegue/ Monsieur K.V. Palmaer/ Hommage de l'auteur/ Henri Moissan""‎

‎"MOLINA, EDWARD C.‎

‎Application of the Theory of Probability To Telephone Trunking Problems. - [SEMINAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO TELEPHONE TRAFFIC THEORY]‎

‎New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Company, 1927. Lex8vo. Volume VI, July, No. 3, 1927 of ""The Bell System Technical Journal"". In the original printed blue wrappers. A bit of browning to spine and extremities, but overall fine. Internally very nice and clean. Pp. 461-494. [Entire issue: Pp. 375-550].‎

‎"MOSELEY, H.G.J.‎

‎The High-Frequency Spectra of the Elements, I-II. - [ESTABLISHING ORDER IN THE PERIODICAL TABLE OF ELEMENTS - PMM 407]‎

‎London, 1913 & 1914. 8vo. 2 volumes, uniformly bound with the original wrappers in recent full blue cloth. In ""The London, Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine"", Sixth Series, Vol. 26, no. 156, December 1913 & vol. 27, no. 160, April 1914. Lower part of index (pp. 1059-1064) in vol 26 with horisontal repair to lower part, affecting last three line (but legible). A fine and clean set. Moseley's papers: pp. 703-13" pp. 1024-1034. [Entire issues: pp. 937-1064 " pp. 541-756].‎

‎"MOSELEY, HENRY GWYN JEFFREYS.‎

‎The High-Frequency Spectra of the Elements. Part (I-) II. - [INTRODUCING ""ATOMIC NUMBERS"" - PMM 407]‎

‎London, Taylor and Francis, 1913-14. 8vo. Bound in two recent uniform full cloth bindings with gilt lettering to spines and front boards. Extracted from ""The London, Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine"" Sixth Series Volume 26 Nos 156 and 160, entire issues offered. A fine and clean set. Pp. 1024-1034 + 1plate" " pp. 703-713.‎

‎"MUSSCHENBROEK, PETERS (PIETER) von.‎

‎Grundlehren der Naturwissenschaft, nach der zweyten lateinischen Ausgabe, nebst einigen neuen Zusätzen des verfassers, ins Deutsche übersetzt. Mit einer Vorrede aus Licht gestellt von Johann Christoph Gottscheden.‎

‎Leipzig, Gottfried Kiesewetter, 1747. Large 8vo. Contemp. full calf. Richly gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on top of spine. Stamps on title-page. And free endpapers renewed. (36),802,(28) pp. and 26 folded engraved plates.‎

‎Scarce first German edition of his ""Elementa physices"". Musschenbroek's famous experiments can be studied here, which contain many illustrations" they deal with the mechanics of rigid bodies, air pressure, heat, cohesion, capillarity, phosphorescence, magnetism, and electricity. Many of these experiments have become classics in elementary instruction.Poggendorff II, 247.‎

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