‎Physics‎

‎"POUND, R. V. & REBKA JR. G. A.‎

‎Gravitational Red-Shift in Nuclear Resonance. - [THE POUND-REBKA EXPERIMENT - THE TEST THAT PROVED TIME IS RELATIVE]‎

‎(New York), American physical Society, 1959. Lex8vo. Volume 3, No. 9, November 1, 1959 of ""Physical Review Letters"", In the original printed blue wrappers. A very nice and clean copy externally as well as internally, near mint. Pp. 439-441. [Entire issue: 411-457].‎

‎First publication of the Pound-Rebka experiment which is regarded as being the last of the classical test of general relativity proposed by Albert Einstein to be verified. It is a test of the general relativity prediction that clocks should run at different rates at different places in a gravitational field and is considered to be the experiment that ushered in an era of precision test of general relativity. Today the so called gravitational redshift is essential for understanding the cosmos and operating the Global Positioning System (GPS).""Before he worked out the general theory of relativity, Einstein had already deduced that gravity must affect a light wave's frequency and wavelength. Light moving upwards from Earth's surface, for example, shifts to longer wavelength and lower frequency, as gravity saps it of some energy. But the effect is tiny in earth's modest gravity. In 1959 Robert Pound and Glen Rebka of Harvard University finally succeed in testing this crucial prediction, and they reported their results in [The present paper]."" (Physical Review Focus, 12 July 2005). Although the Global Positioning System (GPS) is not designed as a test of physics, it must account for the gravitational redshift in its timing system. When the first satellite was launched, some engineers neglected to predict that a noticeable gravitational time discrepancy would occur. So the first satellite was launched without the clock adjustment that was later built into satellites. It had a predicted time difference of 38 microseconds per day which, if not accounted for, could lead to hours of discrepancy.‎

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‎"POISSON, (SIMÉON-DENIS).‎

‎Mémoire Sur la variation des constantes arbitraires, dans les questions de mécanique. Lu à l'Academie, le 2 septembre 1816.‎

‎(Paris, Didot, 1818). 4to. Uncut, no wrappers as ectracted from ""Mémoires de L'Academie Royale des Sciences de L'Institut de France"" Année 1816 - Tome Ier. Pp. 1-70. Clean and fine.‎

‎First printing of major paper in mathematical physics.‎

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‎"POUILLET, CLAUDE-SERVAIS-MATHIAS. -‎

‎Mémoire sur la Pile de Volta et sur la loi générale de l'intensité que prennant les courants, soit qu'ils proviennent d'un seul élément, soit qu'ils proviennent d'une pile à grande ou à petite tension.‎

‎(Paris, Bachelier), 1837. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome IV, No. 8. Pp. 259-) 300. (Entire issue offered). Pouillet's paper: pp. 267-279.‎

‎Firstprinting of an interesting paper in the history of electricity in which Pouillet confirmed Ohm's Law. In fact, some authors have wrongly attributed the law itself to Pouillet. It is true, however, that he helped considerably to make known first in England and in France.‎

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‎"POISEUILLE, (JEAN LÉONARD MARIE). - THE ""POISEUILLE-LAW"" GENERALIZED.‎

‎Recherches expérimentales sur la mouvement des liquides de nature différente dans les tubes de très-petits diamètres.‎

‎Paris, Victor Masson, 1847. Contemp. hcalf, raised bands, gilt spine. Light wear along edges.Three small stamps on verso of titlepage. In ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique"", 3ieme Series, tome 21. 512 pp. a. 6 plates. (Entire volume offered). Poiseuille's paper: pp. 76-110. 3 small stamps on verso of titlepage. A small stamp on verso of plates.‎

‎First printing of the paper in which - after being persuated by a committee lead by Arago to make further experiments - Poiseuille generalized the law named after him, first announced in 1840. He studied experimentally the flow of different liquids through capillary tubes, and found the law named after him, that relates the flow to the pressure, the diameter and the lenght of the tube and to the viscosity of the liquid. Poiseuille's investigations are fundamental in blood viscosimetry. ""Poiseuille's work represents a major advance in blood pressure measurements""(Gedeon p. 189).""Poiseuille’s paper (the 1840-paper) was reviewed by a committee consisting of Arago, Piobert, and Regnault. They persuaded him to make further experiments with ether and mercury, and these investigations were published in 1847 (the paper offered). He found that ether yielded the same law as distilled water, whereas mercury obeyed a different law. In 1870 Emil Gabriel Warburg found that mercury obeys the Poiseuille law, except for certain anomalies caused by amalgamation in metal tubes.""(DSB). The paper was also printed at the same time in ""Comptes Rendues"".The volume contains other notable papers by August Laurent, Matteucci, Bravais, Senarmont ""Mémoire sur la Conductibilité des Substances cristallisées pour la Chaleur"", pp. 457-470.‎

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‎"POISSON, (SIMÉON-DENIS). - THE MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS OF HEAT - POISSON'S ISENTROPE.‎

‎Sur la Chaleur des Gaz et des vapeurs.‎

‎(Paris, Crochard, 1823). 8vo. Without wrappers. In 'Annales de Chimie et de Physique', Series 2 - Volume 23, Cahier 4. With halftitle to vol. 23. Pp. 337-444 (entire issue offered). Poisson's paper: pp. 337-352.‎

‎First appearance of Poisson's importent paper on the mathematical treatment of ""specific heats"".""In ""Sur la chaleur des gaz et des vapeurs,"" published in August 1823 in Annales de chimie et de physique, Poisson developed ideas published four months before by Laplace in Book XII of Mécanique céleste. Poisson introduced all the precautions needed to render the confused notion of quantity of heat susceptible to mathematical analysis. He called quantity of heat the magnitude that characterizes the transition of a given mass of gas from an arbitrary initial state of temperature and pressure to another state. This definition makes more abstract the quantitative aspect that naturally follows from the concept of heat as a caloric fluid. Poisson could thus deal comfortably with this magnitude, since for him it is simply a function q of p, p, and ø (pressure, density, and temperature). The equation of state p= ap(1+aø) was already classic, and the growing acceptance of the notions of specific heats, at constant pressure and constant volume, allowed him to write the simple partial differential equation of which should be the integral. He also showed that independently of any additional hypothesis, and whatever the arbitray function used in the integration, the adiabatic transformations (the term did not yet exist) correspond to the formulas p · py = constant and (?+266.67)·p1y= constant, y being the ratio of the specific heats, assumed constant.""(DSB).‎

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‎"POCKELS, F. - THE POCKELS EFFECT OR PHOTOELASTIC EFFECT DISCOVERED.‎

‎Ueber den Einfluss elastischer Deformationen, speciell einseitigen Druckes, auf das optische Verhalten krystallinischer Körper. (3 parts).‎

‎Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1889. 8VO. Contemp. hcalf. Raised bands, gilt spine. Top of spine worn and some wear to upper compartment. In ""Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von G. Wiedemann."", Neue Folge Bd. 37. VIII,680 pp. a. 7 folded plates. Pockels' paper: pp. 144-172, 269-305, 372-394. Small stamp to htitle, title-page and verso of. Internally fine.‎

‎"POISEUILLE, (JEAN LÉONARD MARIE). - THE ""POISEUILLE-LAW"" GENERALIZED.‎

‎Recherches expérimentales sur la mouvement des liquides de nature différente dans les tubes de très-petits diamètres.‎

‎Paris, Victor Masson, 1847. Contemp. hcalf, raised bands, gilt spine. Light wear along edges.Three small stamps on verso of titlepage. In ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique"", 3ieme Series, tome 21. 512 pp. a. 6 plates. (Entire volume offered). Poiseuille's paper: pp. 76-110. 3 small stamps on verso of titlepage. A small stamp on verso of plates.‎

‎"POISSON, (SIMÉON-DENIS).‎

‎Mémoire sur les températures de la partie solide du globe, de l'atmosphère, et du lieu de l'espace où la terre se trouve actuellement.‎

‎(Paris, Bachelier), 1837. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome IV, No 5. Pp. (137-) 188. (Entire issue offered). Poisson's paper: pp. (137-) 166.‎

‎"POISSON, (SIMÉON-DENIS). - THE FIRST OF ITS KIND, MOVING REFERENCE FRAMES AND ACCELERATION.‎

‎Extrait de la premiere partie d'un Mémoire sur la Mouvement des projectiles dans l'air, en ayent égard à leur rotation et à l'influence du mouvement diurne de la Terre.‎

‎(Paris, Bachelier), 1837. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome 5, No. 20. Pp. (659-) 710. (Entire issue offerd). Poisson's paper: pp. 660-667.‎

‎"POISSON, (SIMÉON-DENIS). - THE SUPPLEMENT TO ""THEORIE MATHÉMATIQUE DE LA CHALEUR""‎

‎Mémoire sur les Températures de la partie solide du Globe, de l'Atmosphère, et du lieu de l'Espace où la Terre se trouve actuellement. (Lu à l'Academie des Sciences le 30 janvier 1837).‎

‎Paris, Crochard et Comp., 1837. Orig. printed wrappers. No backstrip. In: ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago."", tome 64, Cahier 4 (Avril 1837). Pp. 337-447. (Entire issue offered with printed wrappers.). Poisson's paper: pp. 337-385.‎

‎"POUILLET, (CLAUDE-SERVAIS-MATHIAS). - THE SOLAR CONSTANT DETERMINED.‎

‎Mémoire sur la chaleur solaire, sur les pouvoirs rayonnants et absorbants de l'air atmosphérique, et sur la témperature de l'espace.‎

‎(Paris, Bachelier), 1838. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome VII, No 2. Pp. (23-) 92. (Entire issue offered). Pouillet's paper: pp. 24-65. In the text illustrations of the Pyrheliometer, constructed by Pouillet in this connection. Clean and fine.‎

‎"POULSEN, VALDEMAR. - THE INVENTION OF THE SOUND RECORDER.‎

‎Das Telegraphon.‎

‎(Berlin, J.A. Barth, 1900). No wrappers. In ""Annalen der Physik"", Vierte Folge. Band 3, No 12. Pp. 545-766. (Entire issue offered, No. 12). Poulsen's paper: pp. 754-760, textillustrations. Clean and fine, but punched in inner margins after cords, no loss of text.‎

‎"POWELL, CECIL FRANK.‎

‎Selected Papers of Cecil Frank Powell.‎

‎Amsterdam & London, North-Holland Publishing Company, 1972. 4to. Publishers full cloth with dust jacket. Jacket with a closed tear. A fine copy. XIII,(1),456 pp.‎

‎"POYNTING, J.H. - THE MAN WHO WEIGHED THE EARTH.‎

‎On a Determination of the Mean Density of the Earth and the Gravitation Constant by means of the Common Balance. Received May 13, - Read June 4, 1891.‎

‎(London, Harrison and Sons, 1892). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"", 1891, Vol. 182 - Series A. Pp. 565-656 a. 7 lithographed plates.‎

‎"PREECE, WILLIAM HENRY - THE EDISON EFFECT.‎

‎On a Peculiar Behaviour of Glow-Lamps raised to High Incandescence. (Received March 14, 1885).‎

‎London, Harrison and Sons, 1885. Later full buckram. Gilt lettering to spine. IX,506,XL pp., 1 plate, textillustr. (Entire volume offered). Preece's paper: pp. 219-230 with 6 large textillustrations. Internally clean and fine.‎

‎First printing of this importent paper in which Preece was the first to use the term ""Edison effect.""""In 1884 William Henry Preece, an official of the British General Post Office, was shown an experiment by Thomas Edison. Of this experiment Preece gave what appears to be the first printed account in a paper entitled 'On a Peculiar Behaviour of Glow-Lamps raised to High Incandescence' (the paper offered)... What Edison had demonstrated was that if a metal plate is sealed into an electric light bulb and joined to the positive end of the filament a considerable curent will pass. If the plate is joined to the negative terminal, however, no current will pass. This was known as the 'Edison effect' and in 1890 Fleming, an electrical engineer who had workes with the Edison Company in London and now was professor at University College, began a carefull study of this phenomenon in carbon filament lamps. In 1904 he was able to demonstrate that this occurred not only with electric waves but also with wireless waves. He thus introduced the basic principle of the modern wireless valve, which permits only unilateral conductivity.""(PMM No 396).Shiers & Shiers ""Early television"", No 186.‎

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‎"PREECE, WILLIAM HENRY - THE EDISON EFFECT.‎

‎On a Peculiar Behaviour of Glow-Lamps raised to High Incandescence. (Received March 14, 1885).‎

‎London, Harrison and Sons, 1885. Later full buckram. Gilt lettering to spine. IX,506,XL pp., 1 plate, textillustr. (Entire volume offered). Preece's paper: pp. 219-230 with 6 large textillustrations. Internally clean and fine.‎

‎"RAETHER, H.‎

‎Die Entwicklung der Elektronenlawine in den Funkenkanal. - [THE RAETHER LIMIT]‎

‎Berlin, Springer, 1939. 8vo. In contemporary halv cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In ""Zeitschrift für Physik"", Bd. 112, 1939. Entire volume offered. Stamp to front free end-paper. Fine and clean. Pp. 464-489. [Entire volume: VIII, 772 pp.].‎

‎First appearance of Raether's paper in which he presented his theory of discharge - the first based on experimental observation - including what later was to be known as the Raether limit" the physical limiting value of the multiplication factor (M) or gas gain in an ionization avalanche process.‎

Bookseller reference : 49266

‎"RAYLEIGH, LORD (J.W. STRUTT).‎

‎On the Specific Resistance of Mercury. Received April 24 - Read May 4, 1881.‎

‎(London, Harrison and Sons, 1883). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" Year 1883, Volume 174. Pp. 173-185, textillustration. Clean and fine.‎

‎First printing of one of the importent papers by Rayleigh in the search for determining the value of the Ohm.""Rayleigh's grasp of such widely diversed fields as optics and hydrodynamics, acoustics and electromagnetic theory, was phenomenal"" and only Maxwell, Kelvin, and Helmholtz came near him in this aspect of his genius.""(DSB XIII, p.102).‎

Bookseller reference : 43005

‎"RAYLEIGH, LORD (J.W. STRUTT).‎

‎On the Clark Cell as a Standard of Electro-motive Force. Received Jan. 7, - Read Jan. 21, 1886.‎

‎(London, Harrison and Sons, 1886). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" Year 1885, Volume 176 - Part II. - Pp. 781-800. Clean and fine.‎

‎First printing of Rayleigh's investigation of the Clark Cell that became known as the Board of Trade Cell of 1894. ""Rayleigh's grasp of such widely diversed fields as optics and hydrodynamics, acoustics and electromagnetic theory, was phenomenal"" and only Maxwell, Kelvin, and Helmholtz came near him in this aspect of his genius.""(DSB XIII, p.102).‎

Bookseller reference : 43008

‎"RAMSAY, WILLIAM & PER THEODOR CLEVE. - THE INDEPENDENTLY DISCOVERY OF HELIUM ON EARTH‎

‎On a Gas showing the Spectrum of Helium, the reputed cause of D3, one of the Lines in the Coronal Spectrum. preliminary Note. (Received March 26, 1895). (+) Helium, a Gaseous Constituent of certain Minerals. Part I. And (P.E. CLEVE:) Sur la présence d...‎

‎London, arrison and Sons, 1895. - (Paris, Gauthier-Villars), 1895. 8vo. and 4to. Later full cloth, gilt lettering to spine (Ramsay) and without wrappers (Cleve). In ""Proceedings of the Royal Society"" (Ramsay), Vol. 58. (Entire vol. offered). And in ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"" (Cleve), Tome 120, No 15. Pp. (797-) 850. (Entire issue offered). Ramsay's papers: pp. 65-67 and pp. 81-89. - Cleve's paper: p. 834. Stamps tp edges and a few corners a bit bumped on vol. 58, otherwise clean and fine.‎

‎"RAYLEIGH, LORD (J.W. STRUTT).‎

‎Experiments, by the Method of Lorentz, for the further Determination of the Absolute Value of the British Association Unit Resistance, with an Appendix on the Determination of the pitch of a Standard Tuning-Fork. Received December 8, 1882, - Read Janu...‎

‎(London, Harrison and Sons, 1884). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" Year 1883, Volume 174. - Pp. 295-322. Textillustr. Clean and fine.‎

‎"RAYLEIGH, LORD (J.W. STRUTT).‎

‎On the Constant of Magnetic Rotation of Light in Bisulphide of Carbon Received December29, 1884 - Read January 15, 1885.‎

‎(London, Harrison and Sons, 1886). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" Year 1885, Volume 176 - Part II. - Pp. 343-366, textillustrations. Clean and ine.‎

‎"REICHENBACH, HANS.‎

‎Axiomatik der relativistischen Raum-Zeit-Lehre.‎

‎Braunschweig, Vieweg & Sohn, 1924. Orig. clothbacked boards. Stamps to foot of titlepage. X,161,(1) pp., textdiagrams. From the library of the Danish logician and philosopher Jørgen Jørgensen with his name on front free endpaper. Clean and fine.‎

‎First printing of Reichenbach famous work on the philosophy of space and time with point of reference in Einstein's theory of relativity.""Reichenbach, who perhaps contributed the most to the recent development of the casual theory of time, approached his axiomatic research from the point of view of epistemology, that is, the theory of physical knowledge. The Axiomatik der relativistischen Raum-Zeit-Lehre, HIS GREAT ATTEMPT AT A PHILOSOPHICAL INTERPRETATION OF RELATIVITY, A BOOK WHICH IS ESSENTIAL TO AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE LOGICAL STRUCTURE OF RELATIVITY, is almost entirely dominated by the idea of causal action of which space and time are only expressions of structural features"". (Mehlberg. Essay on the causal theory of time, P. 105)‎

Bookseller reference : 47959

‎"REGNAULT, V. (HENRI VICTOR) - THE VAPOUR PRESSURE OF STEAM.‎

‎Mémoire sur les Forces élastiques dela vapeur d'eau.‎

‎Paris, Victor Masson, 1844. No wrappers. Extracted from ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique"", 3me Series - Tome 11. Pp. 273-335 and 1 large folded engraved plate (apparatus). With the halftitlepage to volume 11.‎

‎First printing of an importent paper in which Regnault found the connection between vapour pressure of steam at different temperatures.Henri Victor Regnault improved the method of Dalton to measure the elastic force of vapours at saturation. At the boiling point of a liquid, the elastic force of its vapour is equal to the supported pressure. Thus, if one boils water in an enclosure under increasing pressure conditions, water will reach increasing boiling temperatures at the same time. For each case, the elastic force of vapour will be equal to the imposed pressure.‎

Bookseller reference : 48079

‎"REINOLD, A.W.‎

‎On the Relation between the Thickness and the Surface Tension of Liquid Fluids. received May 15, - Read May 27, 1886.‎

‎(London, Harrison and Sons, 1887). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1886 - Vol. 177 - Part II. Pp. 627-684 a. 1 engraved plate (apparatus).‎

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