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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.‎

‎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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‎"Prepared by the Editors of Vogue."‎

‎VOGUE'S MANUAL Of SMART SERVICE And TABLE SETTING‎

‎New York: The Conde Nast Publications Inc 1930. 1st edition. Light blue cloth binding silver stamped lettering to front board. Modest wear to binding light sunning and wear. Slight lean to spine paper age-toned. An about VG example. 90 6 blank pp. B/w photographic images and illustrations throughout. 8vo. 9-1/2" x 7" <br/><br/> The Conde Nast Publications, Inc hardcover books‎

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‎"RAYLEIGH, LORD (J.W. STRUTT) and WILLIAM RAMSAY. - THE DISCOVERY OF ARGON.‎

‎Argon, a New Constituent of the Atmosphere. Received and Read January 31, 1895.‎

‎London, Harrison and Sons, 1895. 4to. Orig. full cloth. Gilt lettering to spine. Blindtooled covers. First corner a bit bumped. In ""Philosophical Transactions"", Vol. 186 - I, Series A. XIV,(2),602,(4) pp. (Entire volume offered). The paper: p. 187-241 a. 8 textillustrations (apparatus). The title-page with faint brownspots. Otherwise internally clean and fine.‎

‎First printing of this importent paper in the history of chemistry, Lord Rayleigh's most famous discovery, announcing the discovery of this new gas, the first finding of one of the rare gases (inert gases) having unusual properties, and forming a distinct group in the periodic table, and all with zero valency.""The original paper in the ""Philosophical Transactions"" will undoubtly rank as a classic, the investigation having been a particularly brilliant ine."" (Ernst von Meyer in History of Chemistry). For this discovery Lord Rayleigh and W. Ramsay received the Nobel Prize (1904). The volume also contains WILLIAM CROOKES ""On the Spectra of Argon"", OSBORNE REYNOLD ""On the Dynamical Theory of Incompressible Viscous Fluids and the determination of the Criterion"", KARL PEARSON ""Contributions to the Mathematical Theory of Evolution. - II. Skew Variations in Homogenous Materials"" etc.After having made several measuring of the densities of gases, ""Rayleigh came across a curious puzzle. With oxygen, he always obtained the same density, regardless of how the oxygen might be produced, whether from one particular compound, from a second compound, or from the air. The situation was different with nitrogen. The nitrogen he obtained from air constantly showed a slightly higher density than the nitrogen he obtained from any of various compounds. Rayleigh could think of several ways in which the nitrogen obtained from air might be contaminated but none of the possibilities checked out experimentally. He was so frustrated that he went so far as to write to the journal ""Nature"" asking for suggestions. Ramsay, a brilliant Scottish chemist, asked permission to tackle the problem and received it. The upshot was that a new gas, somewhat denser that nitrogen, was discovered to exist in the atmosphere. It was named argon and it was the first of a series of rare gases of unusual properties whose existence had never been suspected.""(Asimow).Dibner, Heralds of Science No. 50 - Neville, Historical Chemical Library vol. II, p.358.‎

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‎"RAMSAY, WILLIAM and MORRIS W. TRAVERS. - DISCOVERY OF THE ELEMENT KRYPTON.‎

‎On a new Constituent of Atmospheric Air. Received June 8 - Read June 9, 1898.‎

‎(London, Taylor and Francis, 1898) No wrappers. In ""Proceedings of the Royal Society of London."", Vol.63, Nos. 399-400 (both issues offered).. Pp. 373-480 a. 5 plates. Ransay & Travers' paper: pp. 405-408.‎

‎First appearance of the paper in which Ramsay and Travers announced their discovery of a new element which they named ""krypton"" (meaning hidden).""Dr. William Hampson presented them (Ransay & Travers) with about a liter of liquid air, which they used, not for liquefying the argon, but for obstaining sufficient skill in manipulation so that they would not risk loosing their precious fifteen liter of argon......The residue left after most of the liquid air had boliled away consisted largly of oxygen and nitrogen, which Ramsay and Travers temoved with red-hot copper and magnesium. ....(they) then examined the twenty-five cibic centimeters of residual gas, and when they found it to be inerst, they immediately placedit in a Pl'ucker tube connected to and induction coil and observed its spectrum. There was a bright yelælow line with a greener tint than that of the helium line and a brilliant green line that did nor coincide with any line of argon, helium, mercury, or hydrogen. They discoverede this gas on 30 May, 1898, and named it 'krypton'....they found that it belonged between bromine and rubidium in the periodic table, and so great was their excitement that the younger chemist almost forgot about his examination for doctor of sciwence which had been schedules for the next day.""(Weeks, p. 267).Parkinson ""Breakthroughs"", 1898 C.‎

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‎"RASK, RASMUS. - IDENTIFYING THE RELATION BETWEEN SINHALESE AND SANSKRIT.‎

‎Singalesisk Skriftlære.‎

‎Kolombo (Colombo), 1821. With orig. blank blue backwrapper (frontwrapper lacks). (2),16 pp. Titlepage brownspotted.‎

‎First edition. In this importent work Rask ""identified Sinhalese as a speech belonging to the same class as Sanskrit and added that Tamil belonged to quite a different class. Since then the subject has been studied and discusses by various scholars, and it is established beyond doubt that Sinhalese is an Indo-Aryan language.""‎

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‎"RETZIUS, GUSTAF. - THE SIMIAN BRAIN.‎

‎Cerebra Simiarum illustrata. Das Affenhirn in bildlicher Darstellung.‎

‎Stockholm, Jena, Centraldruckerei, 1906. Folio. Fine orig. hcloth. Spines gilt, tome-and titlelabels with gilt lettering. (26) pp. and 67 fine collotype-plates each in 2 states (Phot. und Lichtdruck von C. Westphal, Stockholm). Fine and clean.‎

‎First edition of this gross anatomy of the ape brain, a photographic documentation of the different views of all ape brains, including the orangutang and the gorilla. ""This large atlas with its excellent plates depicting the brain of the monkey is typical of the basic contributions to neurology which this Swedish comparative anatomist made at the time of the founding of the neurone doctrine."" (Heirs of Hippocrates No 2048).‎

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‎"REGNAULT, V. (HENRI VICTOR) et J. REISET. - INSPIRING JULES VERNE - THE ""RESPIRATORY QUOTIENT""‎

‎Recherches chimiques sur la Respiration des Animaux des diverses Classes.‎

‎(Paris, Victor Masson, 1849). Without wrappers. In: ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique"", Troisieme Series - Tome 26. Cahier 3-4. Pp. 299-528 a. 2 folded engraved plates, showing apparatus used.(Entire issues offered). The joint paper takes up both issues. With half-title to tome 26.‎

‎First appearance of this classic paper, which contains extensive comparative studies of respiration and calorimetry. They refined Lavoisier's experiments on measuring the oxygen uptake and carbon dioxide production of animals and calculated the first good ratios of what came to be called the ""RESPIRATORY QUOTIENT"". It was the use of the apparatus and methods developed here, that enabled scientists the world over to gain some understanding of utilization of energy by many different animals.The inspiration for the space age scientific novel by JULES VERNE ""De la Terre a la Lune"" (1865) was based on the methods described by Regnault and Reiset in this paper to provide oxygen and remove carbon dioxide produced by men, dogs and chickens in the ""projectile"". The paper is cited several times in this famous novel.The species study in the Regnault and Reiset collaboration included warm-blooded animals, such as dogs, cats, and rabbits as well as hibernating and non-hibernating marmots. Cold-blooded animals , such as frogs, salamanders, reptiles and lizards were also described...In over 100 experiments their assays included the effects of temperature, season, diet, level of nutrition, compositionof air, sex, hibernation, age, body weights and other variables onrespiratory exchange and nitrogen exhalation or absorption (Based on W. Flatt & W. Payne).Garrison & Morton: 932.‎

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‎"REGNAULT, V. (HENRI VICTOR) - THE LAW OF DULONG AND PETIT CONFIRMED.‎

‎Recherches sur la chaleur spécifique des corps simples et des corps composés.‎

‎(Paris, Bachelier), 1840. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome 10, No 16. Pp. (671-) 670. (Entire issue offered). Regnault's paper: pp. 658-663. A few small inkspots on first page.‎

‎Regnault announced here that he has found experimental evidence for the approximate nature of Dulong & Petit's Law for both elements and compounds.""His first results on the specific heat of solids were presented to the Academy of Sciences on April 3, 1840. One finds there the first experimental demonstration of the approximate law of Dulong and Petit, which had been ypothesized, rather than established, by these physicists. For 24 pure elements, Regnault demonstrated that this law was only partially true mostly because there was no accepted table of atomic weights at that time."" (Laurie Dahlberg)‎

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‎"Revised by the Editors"‎

‎Don't Play in the Street. The Two Taps: or The Silent Shoemaker and His Two Boys.‎

‎New-York: Lane & Scott. Leather spine and corners and marbled paper-covered boards. 12 pp.; 27 pp. 5.5 inches by 3.5 inches. Two stories and a poem for children. Single name in ink on front free endpaper some foxing a little children's scribbling inside rear cover Good. Rare. . Good. Hardcover. 1848. Lane & Scott hardcover‎

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‎"RITTER, JOHANN WILHELM - THE INVENTION OF THE DRY CELL BATTERY.‎

‎Versuche mit einer Voltaischen Zink - Kupfer - Batterie von 600 Lagen.‎

‎(Halle, Rengerschen Buchhandlung, 1803). Without wrappers. Extracted from ""Annalen der Physik. Herausgegeben von Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert"", Bd. 13, Erstes Stück. Pp. 1-72 and 2 folded engraved plates. A faint dampstain to lower part of some leaves and to the plates..‎

‎First appearance of the paper in which Ritter describes his invention (1802) of the dry cell battery.‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 44124

‎"ROLOFF, CHRISTIAN LUDVIG. - THE NORTH AMERICAN RACCOON DESCRIBED.‎

‎Description d'un Quadrupede D'Amerique, rapporté par M. Linnaeus au Genre des Ours. Traduit du Latin.‎

‎(Berlin, Haude et Spener, 1758). 4to. No wrappers, as issued in ""Memoires de Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres"", Annee 1756, tome XI, pp. 149-162 a. 3 folded engraved plates.‎

‎First printing of an early description of the North American Raccoon, Ursus Lotor, Washer Bear (Linné 10th ed.), with 3 fine engraved plates.‎

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‎"ROEMER (RÖMER), OLE - THE PLAN FOR ""OBSERVATORIUM TUSCULANUM""‎

‎Olai Roemeri ad G.G. Leibnitium Epistola de Instrumento Astronomicis Observationibus serviente à se inventa. (Dated Hafniæ 15. Dec. 1700).‎

‎Berlin, Ambrosius Haude, 1727. 4to. Contemp. full calf. Raised bands. Tome- and titlelabels with gilt lettering. Minor repairs at upper joint. In: ""Miscellanea Berolinensia, ad Incrementium scientiarum ex Scriptis Societati Regiæ Scientiarum exhibitis editia, Continuatio II."" (6),346,(4) pp., 11, partly folded engraved plates. Scattered brownspots. Roemer's letter to Leibniz: pp. 276-78, 2 textillustrations. The entire volume offered.‎

‎First printing of Roemer's letter to Leibniz in which he describes his plan for a new observatory and the circle-instrument.""In a letter written to Leibniz, dated December 15, 1700, - (the offered item) - in reply to Leibniz's request for the most suitable plan for an observatory, Roemer describes his plans for the ""Observatorium Tusculanum"". He has an excellent discussion of the need of building the observatory so that it can best serve the function for which it is intended, namely, observation. He probably was thinking of the construction of the Paris Observatory, a beautiful building, but impractical as far as actual observational needs were concerned. He also describes the prime vertical transit and states his preference for the circle as compared to quadrants and sextants, saying that he would have confidence in a circle of four feet in diameter than a quadrant of ten."" (I. Bernard Cohen in ""Roemer and the first determination of the Velocity of Light"", p. 48).‎

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‎"ROSCOE, HENRY E. - THE ISOLATION OF VANADIUM.‎

‎The Bakerian Lecture. - Researches on Vanadium. Received November 20, - Read December 19, 1867. (+) Researches on Vanadium. - Part II. Received June 16, - Read June 17, 1869.‎

‎(London, Taylor and Francis, 1869-70). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1868 - Vol. 158. Pp. 1-27. A small tear to top of first leaf, no loss. (+) Vol. 159. Pp. 679-692.‎

‎First appearance of this importent paper in which Roscoe announces the isolation of vanadium.""The final step in the discovery of vanadium was accomplished by the English chemist, Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe...In about 1865 he found that some of the copper veins of the Lower Keuper Sandstone of the Trias in Chesire contained vanadium and that one of the lime precipitates from this ore contained about two percent of it. It was from this unpromishing material that Roscoe and Sir Edmund Thorpe laboriously prepared the pure vanadium compounds needed for a thorughout study of the element. When Roscoe investigated these compounds he found that vanadium is a trivalent element of the phosphorous group. He also discovered that what Berzelius had taken for the metal was really the mononitride, VN, and that most of the vanadium compounds studied by the Swedish chemists had contained oxygen.""(Weeks. ""Discovery of the Elements"", p. 93).‎

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‎"RUMFORD, BENJAMIN COUNT (BENJAMIN THOMPSON). - THE MECHANICAL EQUIVALENT OF HEAT.‎

‎An Enquiry concerning the Nature of Heat, and the Mode of its Communication. Read february 2, 1804.‎

‎(London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1804). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1804 - Part I. Pp. 77-182 and 2 engraved plates (showing his experimental apparatus). First and last leaves with some faint browning and brownspots. The plates with some browspots, mainly to margins. Wide-margined.‎

‎First appearance of Rumford's second large paper on the mechanical equivalent of heat, in which he owerthrows the caloric theory. Rumford's early papers were importent steps towards the conception of the principle of the ""Conservation of Energy"" and the thermodynamical laws.""The importence of this investigation here entered into, - inasmuch as it applies to most of the operations of nature as well as art, - appears so manifest, that we shall not recapitulate what the author advances on the subject. before he proceeds to the details of his experiments for the purpose oof computing the emissions of heat from various bodies under a variety of circumstances, he finds it necessary to prmise a minute description of the principal part of the apparatus he contrived for the purpose...""(Abstract).In his famous paper of 1798 ""An Inquiry Concerning the Source of Heat Which is Exicited by Friction"" showed that heat is a form of motion and not a substance as it was seen in the 18th century.""He had been lead to the hypothesis that friction is an inexhaustable source of heat while considering the boring of a canon at Munich's military arsenal and had proceeded to experiment with brass guns at the arsenal. The experiments confirm the hypothesis, justifying his conclusion that heat is not a material substance as others had believed. He goeson to equate heat to motion.""(Parkinson in ""Breakthroughs"" 1798 P.)‎

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‎"RUMFORD, GRAFEN von (BENJAMIN THOMPSON). - THE ECONOMY OF HEAT.‎

‎Beyträge zur Lehre von der Wärme in physikalisher und ökonomischer Rücksicht.‎

‎(Halle, Rengerschen Buchhandlung, 1800) Without wrappers. In ""Annalen der Physik. Herausgegeben von Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert"", Bd. 3, Drittes Stück. (The entire issue offered). Pp. 257-376 a. 3 folded engraved plates. Rumford's paper: 257-376.‎

‎First appearance in German of selected papers from Rumford's Experimental Essays on heat, describing smoky fireplaces and his design of more efficient fireplaces using radiant heat better. He discovers that mat surfaces radiate heat better than shiny ones etc. etc.‎

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‎"RUTHERFORD, E. (ERNEST). - THE NUCLEAR ATOM - PMM 411.‎

‎Die Radioaktivität. Unter Mitwirkung des Verfassers ergänzte autorisierte deutsche Ausgabe von E. Aschkinass.‎

‎Berlin, Julius Springer, 1907. Royal8vo. Uncut in orig. printed wrappers. A small nick to lower left part of frontwrapper. Stamps to titlepage. (10),597 pp., textillustrations. Internally clean. From the library of the Danish logician and philosopher Jørgen Jørgensen, with his name on top of frontwrapper.‎

‎First German edition of this importent work which is recognized as a classic, being the first textbook on Radio-Activity. To this German edition, translated from the second English of 1905, Rutherford himself has added further descriptions of the results obtained in the years in between.Rutherford made ""Proposal of a new theory of atomic disintegration and of the nuclear nature of the atom. Rutherford discovered and named the alpha, beta, and gamma rays.""( Horblitt, ""One Hundred Books famous in Science"" No 91 (Engl. ed.).""After the discovery of thorium emanations in 1900 new concepts of atomic structure followed from the brilliant experiments of Rutherford. A new theory of atomic disintegration was proposed, then the nuclear nature of the atom..... ""(Dibner ""Heralds of Science"", No 51 (Engl. ed.).‎

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‎"RUTHERFORD, ERNEST. - THE NUCLEAR NATURE OF THE ATOM.‎

‎Radio-Activity.‎

‎Cambridge University Press, 1904. Fine hcalf, raised bands, gilt lettering. Probably with renewed spine. On both covers a large gilt crowned coat of arms. Corners professionally repaired. (2),VIII,(2),399,(1) pp. Textfigs. and 1 plate facing p. 169. Halftitle and a few leaves with small brownspots in upper margin, otherwise a fine clean copy.‎

‎First edition. This work marks a new epoch in the understanding of the nature of nuclear physics. ""After the discovery of thorium in 1900 new concepts of atomic structure followed from the brilliant experiments of Rutherford. A new theory of atomic disentegration was proposed, then the nuclear nature of the atom. He discovered and named alpha and beta rays emitted from radioactive salts and predicted that disintegration of some radioactive elements would generate helium. he also produced in the laboratory the first artificial transmutation of one element into another."" (Dibner, Heralds of Science No. 51). - Horblit No 91.‎

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‎"RUTHERFORD, ERNEST. - THE NATURE OF X-RAYS FINALLY SETTLED.‎

‎The Wave-lenght of the soft gamma Rays from Radium B (In collaboration with E.N. da C. Andrade).‎

‎London, 1914. Without wrappers, but stitched. In ""Philosophical Magazine and Journalof Science"", Vol. 27, No. 161. May 1914. Pp. 757-916 a. 6 plates.(= the whole issue No 161). Rutherford's paper: pp. 854-860 a. 1 plate.‎

‎First edition, finally establishing the nature of Röntgen's X-Rays.In 1900 ""Villardhad discovered gamma gamma-rays. He noted at once that these rays are not deflected by magnetic fields. Two years later Rutherford suggested that gamma-rays might be very hard form of beta-rays. This view became less and less tenable...(and) slowly the evidence grew that gamma-rays and X-rays were akin, but a lately as 1912 Rutherford still wrote with a touch of caution: ""There is at present nodefinite evidence to belive that X-rays and gamma-rays are funamentally different kindsof radiation"". he matter was finally settled fourteent years after the first observatiob of gamma-radioactivity, when Rutherford and Andrade observed reflexion of gamma-rays from crystal force (in the paper offered here)."" (Pais. Inward Bound p. 62.).The issue contains further importent papers in first editions. W.H. BRAGG. The Intensity of Reflexion of X Rays by Crystals. Pp. 881-99. This is an account of his famous work on X-ray spectroscopy.E. MARSDEN: The Passage of alpha Particles through Hydrogen. Pp. 824-830. Here he discovered that when alpha-particles were projected into hydrogen, so that the heavy projectiles struck lighter atoms, a few of the hydrogen atoms were driven forward far beyond the range of the alpha particles.J.J.THOMSON: The Forces between Atoms and Chemical Affinity. Pp. 757-789.‎

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‎"RUTHERFORD, E. (ERNEST) and T. ROYDS. - THE FINAL PROOF OF THE NATURE OF ALPHA-PARTICLES.‎

‎The Nature of the alpha Particle.‎

‎Manchester, 1909. 8vo. Contemp. full cloth. Orig. printed paper label on spine (a bit chipped). In: ""Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Literary & Phlosophical Society. (Manchester Memoirs.). Volume LIII. (1908-09). Entire volume offered. The volume contains 24 papers, all with seperate pagination. Rutherford's paper: pp. 1-3.‎

‎First printing of the paper which Rutherford and Royds gave the final proof that the alpha particle are atoms of helium. The present paper was read on November 3rd 1908 and published on the 19th. It was reprinted in Philosophical Magazine and that paper is dated November 13, 1908 and published February 1909.""After nearly a decade of labor, Rutherford was finally prepared to state... what the alpha particle really was ""We may conclude that an alpha-particle is a helium atom, or, to be more precise, the alpha-particle, after it has lost its positive charge, is a helium atom"". In a paper together with Royds, completed in November 1908, he was even more emphatic: ""We can conclude with certainty... that the alpha-particle is a helium atom... They had shown that a discharge sent through a volume in which alpha-particles from radium had been collected produced the characteristic helium spectrum !""(Pais ""Inward Bound"", p. 61).""Rutherford’s early conviction that the alpha particle was a doubly charged helium atom, but he had not succeeded in proving that belief. In 1908 he and Geiger were able to fire alpha particles into an evacuated tube containing a central, charged wire and to record single events. Ionization by collision, a process studied by Rutherford’s former colleague at Cambridge, J. S. E. Townsend, caused a magnification of the single particle’s charge sufficient to give the electrometer a measurable ""kick."" By this means they were able to count, for the first time accurately and directly, the number of alpha particles emitted per second from a gram of radium.This experiment enabled Rutherford and Geiger to confirm that every alpha particle causes a faint but discrete flash when it strikes a luminescent zinc sulfide screen, and thus led directly to the widespread method of scintillation counting. It was also the origin of the electrical and electronic methods of particle counting in which Geiger later pioneered. But at this time the scintillation technique, now proved reliable, was more convenient. This counting work also led Rutherford and Geiger to the most accurate value of the fundamental electric charge e before Millikan performed his oil-drop experiment. They measured the total charge from a radium source and divided it by the number of alphas counted to obtain the charge per particle. Since this figure was about twice the previous values of e. they concluded that the alpha was indeed helium with a double charge. But Rutherford still desired decisive, direct proof"" and here his skilled glassblower came to his aid. Otto Baumbach in 1908 was able to construct glass tubes thin enough to be transparent to the rapidly moving alpha particles yet capable of containing a gas. Such a tube was filled with emanation and was placed within a larger tube made of thicker glass. In time, alpha particles from the decaying emanation penetrated into and were trapped in the space between inner and outer tubes: and when ROYDS SPARKED THE MATERIAL IN THIS SPACE, THEY SAW THE SPECTRUM OF HELIUM."" (DSB).The volume contains 2 other importent papers by Rutherford 1. ""Some Properties of the Radium Emanations"" (issued Nov. 19th, 1908) and 2. together withY. Tuomikoski ""Differences in the Decay of the Radium Emanations"" (issued April 7th, 1909).‎

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‎"RUTHERFORD, E. (ERNEST). - THE SATURNIAN MODEL OF THE ATOM.‎

‎Zur Kenntnis der Atomenergie, eine Beziehung zwischen kinetischer Theorie und Radioaktivität.‎

‎(Leipzig, S. Hirzel), 1904. Without wrappers. In: ""Jahrbuch der Radioaktivität und Elektronik"", 1. Bd., heft 2. Pp. 103-214 (entire issue offered). Rutherford's paper: pp. 103-127‎

‎First appearance of the paper in which Rutherford set forth his early - before 1911-model - model of the atom, the so-calles Saturnian Model. Rutherford pictured here the radioactive atom as a giant whirligig of electrons and alpha-particles, whose stability is somewhat disturbed, perhaps as a result uncompensated radiation losses, precipitating the expulsion of some of its constituents with the tremendous speeds they possessed befiore the explosion.‎

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‎"RYDBERG, J.R. (JOHANNES ROBERT). - REVISION OF THE PERIODIC SYSTEM.‎

‎Elektron der erste Grundstoff.‎

‎Lund, Håkan Olssons Buckdruckerei, 1906. Lex8vo. Orig. printed wrappers. One of Rydberg's own copies with ""Ueberreicht vom Verfasser"" printed on frontwrapper. 30 pp., 2 large folded tables (the periodic system).‎

‎First edition of important revison of the periodic system in one the author's presentation copies (""Ueberreicht vom verfasser).""Rydberg’s study of the periodic properties of the elements led him in 1897 to suggest that certain characteristics of the elements could be more simply organized by using an atomic number instead of the atomic weights. This atomic number was to be identified with the ordinal index of the element in the periodic table. In 1906 Rydberg stated for the first time (the paper offered) that 2, 8, and 18 (that is, 2n2, where n= 1,2,3) represented the number of elements in the early periods of the system. In 1913 he went further, correcting an earlier error about the number of rare earths from 36 to 32, thus allowing the n = 4 group to be included in the pattern."" (DSB).‎

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‎"RÉAUMUR, (RENÉ-ANTOINE FERCHAULT DE). - THE FORMATION OF SNAIL-SHELLS.‎

‎De la Formation et de L'Accroissement des Coqvilles des Animaux tant terrestres qu'aquatiques.‎

‎Paris, Jean Boudot, 1711. 4to. Without wrappers. Extracted from ""Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences. Année 1709"". Pp. 364-400 and 2 large folded engraved plates. With engraved frontispiece and titlepage to Année 1709.‎

‎Reamur's first zoological work, a pioneer-work in which he, as the first, describes the formation of the shells, and in which he proved that they grow not like the other parts of the animal body, by expansion, but by the external addition of new parts : he also assigned the cause of the variety of colour, figure, and magnitude which distinguishes one shell from another.""Réaumur’s first three communications to the Academy, on geometrical subjects, were presented in 1708 and 1709, and demonstrate a degree of mathematical sophistication worthy of a student of Varignon. Had Réaumur decided to remain a mathematician, he might well have been one of the greatest geometers of his age. In November 1709, however, he quite suddenly changed the course of his scientific career by reading a paper on the growth of animal shells. From then on, Réaumur’s work would be characterized by its extraordinary richness and diversity, but never again would he devote himself to the pure mathematical researches that had so fascinated him in his youth.""(DSB).""Réaumur was among the greatest naturalists of his or any age. In the breadth and range of his researches, in the patient detail of his observations, and in the brilliant ingenuity of his experiments, it would be difficult to name his equal. Thomas Henry Huxley has compared his favourably with Darwin.""(DSB).Together with Reaumur's work is a notable paper by NICOLAS LEMERY ""Conjectures et Reflexions sur la materie du Feu ou de la Lumiere"", pp. 400-418.‎

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‎"RÉAUMUR, (RENÉ-ANTOINE FERCHAULT DE). - THE RÉAUMUR TEMPERATURE SCALE.‎

‎Regles pour construire des Thermometres dont les Degres soient comparables, et qui donnent des idées d'un Chaud ou d'un Froid qui puissant être rapportés à desmsures connües.‎

‎Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1732. 4to. Without wrappers. Extracted from ""Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences. Année 1730"". Pp. 452-507 a. 1 folded engraved plate. With titlepage to Année 1730/1732. Titlepage with small tears to margins. Clean and fine.‎

‎First appearance of this importent paper in which Reaumur reveled how he constructed his invention of the thermometer scale, the scale which bears his name. The construction of the thermometer was based on alchohol, and the scaling bases on 0 degree for the freezing point of water and 80 degree for the boiling point of water.""The one serious drawback to Réaumur’s thermometer was that different strengths of alcohol have different coefficients of dilation, so that while one type of alcohol might expand one degree after the application of a certain amount of heat, another might expand two degrees under the same conditions. It was vital that all thermometers scaled according to his system have the same grade of alcohol. Réaumur suggested that the alcohol used in his thermometers be of a type that would dilate 80 degrees - that is, 8 parts in 100 - between the temperature of ice and the temperature at which the alcohol began to boil in an open thermometer tube. Owing to an unfortunate confusion of language in his article on the thermometer, however, nearly everyone believed that 80° on his scale was the temperature of boiling water"" and as a result, when so-called Reaumer thermometers began to be made by the artisans of Paris, they were nearly all scaled linearly with respect to two fiducial points, 0° for ice and 80° for boiling water."" (DSB).Parkinson ""Breakthroughs"" 1730 P.‎

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‎"RÉAUMUR, (RENÉ-ANTOINE FERCHAULT DE). - FIRST ISOLATION OF THE GASTRIC JUICE.‎

‎Sur la Digestion des Oiseaux. Experience sur la manière dont se fait la digestion dans les Oiseaux qui vivent principalement de grains & d'herbes, & dont l'estomac est un gésier - De la maniére dont elle se fait l'estomac des Oiseaux de proie. Prem...‎

‎Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1756. 4to. Without wrappers. Extracted from ""Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences. Année 1752"". Pp. 266-307 a. pp. 461-495. Both papers clean and fine.‎

‎First printing of these importent papers in the physiology of digestion as reaumur here for the first time isolated the gastric juice and demonstrated its solvent effects upon foods. To the experiments he used a pet kite by putting a sponge into the stomach attached to a string that he could withdraw. These results were ably confirmed and extended by the work of Lazaro Spallanzani.Garrison & Morton No 979.‎

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‎"RÖNTGEN, W.C. (WILHELM CONRAD). - THE SECOND SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION BEGINS.‎

‎Ueber eine neue Art von Strahlen. (Erste- Zweite Mittheilung) + Weitere Betrachtungen über die Eigenschaften der X-Strahlen. (Dritte Mittheilung). 3 Papers (all).‎

‎Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1898. Contemp. hcalf, spine gilt and with gilt lettering. Some scratches to spine and corners bumped and with wear. Some scratching to boards.Stamps to titlepage and one leaf. In: ""Annalen der Physik und Chemie"", Neue Folge, Band 64. VIII,(2),812 a. 2 plates. (Entire volume offered). Röntgen's papers: 1. pp. 1-11, pp. 12-17 a. pp. 18-37. Internally clean.‎

‎First full exposition of Röntgen's discovery of X-rays, the foundation stones of roentgenology, unveiling a new form of matter and offering a new revolutionary method for medical diagnosis.In order to ensure priority for his discovery, Röntgen first published the two first papers (Erste-Zweite Mittheilung) as offprints from ""Sitzungsberichte der Physikalisch-medicinischen Gesellschaft zu Würtzburg"" in 1895-96, but his discovery only finds its full form in the offered papers, as ""Dritte Mittheilung"" appears here.""Aside from its obvious applications, Roentgen's discovery galvanized the world of physics and led to a rash of further discoveries that so completely overturned the old concepts of the science, that the discovery of X-rays is sometimes considered the first stroke of the Second Scientific Revolution. (The First Scientific Revolution is, of course that which included Galileo and his experiments on falling bodies). Within a matter of months, investigations of X rays led to the discovery of radioactivity by Becquerel....The importence of the discovery was well recognized in its own time. In 1896 Roentgen shared the Rumford Medal with Lenard and in 1901, when Nobel Prizes were set up.the first to be honoured with a Nobel Prize in Physics was Roentgen."" (Asimov).Garrison & Morton No 2683 (only listing 1. paper) - PMM No 380 (listing only 2 parts) - Dibner: 162 (listing only 2 parts).‎

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