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‎"The Usual Gang of Idiots", Compiled By Grant Geissman‎

‎MAD About the 90s: The Best of the Decade‎

‎New York NY: Mad Books 2005. First edition stated / first printing 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Perma-Bound hardcover is in very good ex-library missing first white page checkout list on inside rear cover library name marked out in 3 places condition with pictorial covers. An Attractive Copy! Please feel free to ask me for pictures or more information Thanks. . First Edition. Pictorial Hardcover. Very Good. Mad Books Hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 013879 ISBN : 1401206603 9781401206604

‎"The Usual Gang of Idiots"‎

‎Mad About the Fifties‎

‎<p>NY: Quality Paperback Book Club. NF. 1997. 1st Printing. Paperback. First printing of this edition. 8 1/4" x 10 1/2" trade paperback bound in pictorial wrappers. Near Fine condition. Tiny rubs to the corners. Color and black & white comic reprints. .</p> Quality Paperback Book Club paperback‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 64006

‎"THE VAMPIRES NIGHT ORGY."‎

‎Two 2 Variant Vintage Original Photographs‎

‎not signed from the 1974 film "The Vampires Night Orgy." 1. 3/4 length shot of an unidentified woman screaming as she is touched on the shoulder by a woman's hand. 2. 3/4 length shot of an unidentified Vampire with another unidentified woman next to her. Photographs are on single weight stock; 8" x 10"; very good minor signs of handling; 1974. No Binding. Very Good. unknown books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 606817

‎"THE VOLTAIC PILE INVESTIGATED. - FOUNDATION OF ELECTROCHEMISTRY.‎

‎Collection of 10 papers relatiing to Volta's construction of the Voltaic Pile and its chemical and physical effects.‎

‎Halle, Rengerschen Buchhandlung, 1801. Contemp. hcalf., Raised bands, gilt spine. Slightly rubbed. ""Annalen der Physik. Herausgegeben von Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert"", Bd. 8. (8),504 pp. a. 6 folded engraved plates, showing various set ups of the pile (Böchmann, Davy, Arnim etc.). Small stamps on verso of titlepage. Some leaves with a faint dampstain in righ margins, but clean and fine.‎

‎In 1800 Volta published his famous paper ""On the Electricity excited by the mere Contact of Conducting Substances of different Kinds"" in the Philosophical Transactions. In the paper he described his famous ""Pile"", the first primary battery and the real foundation of electrochemistry. The pile completely revolutionized the theory and practice of electricity and immediately inspired a series of new electrolytic experiments, many of which is recorded here in the volume offerd.The volume contains a series of importent experiments with the pile:HUMPHREY DAVY ""Bemerkungen und Versuche über Oxydirung des Zinks...Ursach der Wirksamheit galvanischer Batterieen..."" (first German edition of three papers from Nicholson's Journal). Pp. 1-21. And ""Beobachtungen über die Gaserzeugung in den einzelnen Ketten galvanischer Batterien"", pp. 300-315 (also from Nicholson's Journal).P.L. SIMON ""Beschreibung eienr neuen galvanisch-chemischen Vorrichtung und ...merkwürd. Versuche..."", pp. 22-36.G.R. TREVIRANUS ""Ueber den Euinfluss ...Galvanismus auf die thierische Reichbarkeit."", pp. 44-68.C.W. BÖCKMANN ""Versuche und beobachtungen über die Wirkungen der galvanischen Electricität durch Volta's Säule., pp. 137-162. He here revised Volta's use of the terminal plates in the pile and showing the true form of the pile.L.A. von ARNIM ""Bemerkungen über Volta's Säule"", pp. 163-196, 257-284.ERMAN ""ueber die electroskopischen Phánomene der Voltaischen Säule"", pp. 197-215.W. GRUNER ""Einige merkwürdige Versuche mit Volta's Säule."", pp. 216-227.C.H. PFAFF ""Bemerkungen über dieselben Versuche"", pp. 228-232.EINHOF ""Versuche über die Wirksamkeit verschiedener Metalle mit Säuren in ihrer Verbindung zu Voltaischen Säule"", pp. 316-322.J.W. RITTER ""Versuche und Bemerkungen über den Galvanismus der Voltaischen Batterie. Dritter Brief"", pp. 385-473. He here proves that the poles of the pile were electrified.‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 45107

‎"THE WARDMASTER"" [Disabled Men's Association of Australia]‎

‎The home nurse‎

‎Melbourne : Veritas Pub. Co. 1930. Octavo 183 x 123 mm illustrated stiff wrappers 63 pp a very good copy. unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 23343

‎"THOMAS, L. H. (LLEWELLYN). - THE THOMAS FACTOR.‎

‎The Kinematics of an Electron with an Axis.‎

‎London, Taylor and Francis, 1927. Contemp. full cloth. Stamped in blind on titlepage. In: ""The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science"", Vol. III, Seventh Series. X,1360 pp., textillustr. and 19 plates. (Entire volume offered). Thomas' paper: pp. 1-22. Internally clean and fine.‎

‎First printing - in full - of Thomas' paper on electron spin. The Thomas factor gives a correction to the spin-orbit interaction in quantum mechanics, which takes into account the relativistic time dilation between the electron and the nucleus of an atom.""In February 1926 the missing factor two was supplied (Nature vol. 117) by Llewellyn Thomas and has since been known as the Thomas factor. Thomas noted that earlier calculations of the precession of the electronic spin had been performed in the rest frame of the electron, without taking into account the precession of the electron orbit around its normal. Inclusion of this relativistic effect reduces the angular velocity of the electron (as seen by the nucleus) by the needed factor 1/2. Einstein was surprised. Pauli became converted."" (Pais ""Inward Bound"", p. 279).‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 47242

‎"THOMSON, THOMAS & WILLIAM HYDE WOLLASTON. - THE LAW OF MULTIPLE PROPORTIONS CONFIRMED - THE FOUNDATIONS OF ATOMIC THEORY.‎

‎On Oxalic Acid. Read January 14th, 1808. (Thomson) (+) On Super-acid and Sub-acid Salts. Read January 28, 1808. (Wollaston). 2 Papers.‎

‎(London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1808). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1808 - Part I. Pp. 63-95 (Thomson) and pp. 96-102 (Wollaston:). Clean and fine.‎

‎First appearance of these two historical papers in chemistry in which Thomson and Wollaston, independently, presents experimental proofs of John Dalton's ""Law of Multiple Proportions"", and thereby laying the foundations of the Atomic Theory. - These demonstrations went far to influence chemists favorably toward Dalton's atomic theory. ""In January 1808 Thomson was the first to submit an experimental illustration of the law of multiple proportions, doing so at least four months before the publication of Dalton's ""New System of Chemistry Philosophy"" (1808). This paper, ""On Oxalic Acid"" also established a usefull method of determining empirical formulas.""(DSB XIII, p. 373).""This paper is also importent as he here introduces quantified chemical symbolism for compounds, a compound with, for instance, two parts oxygen (w) and one part carbon (c) being denoted by 2w + c."" (Parkinson in ""Breakthroughs"", 1808 C).""In 1808 he (Wollaston) described his experiments on carbonates, sulfates, and oxalates, which proved that the composition of these substances was regulated by the law of multiple proportions. These additional instances of the law were easely verifiable and were often mentioned as standard examples. Wollaston accepted that his findings were merely particular instances of Dalton's assertion that the atoms of elements united one to one, or by simple multiple relation.""(DSB XIV, p.488).‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 42626

‎"THOMSON, WILLIAM (LORD KELVIN) & JAMES PRESCOTT JOULE. - THE JOULE-THOMSON EFFECT DISCOVERED.‎

‎On the Thermal Effects of Fluids in Motion. Received June 15, - Read June 16, 1853.‎

‎(London, Richard Taylor and William Francis, 1853) 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1853, Vol. 143 - Part III. Pp. 357-365. Textillustrations. Clean and fine.‎

‎First appearance of this highly importent paper in the development of thermodynamics, describing the experiments leading to the discovery of the cooling effect when a gas is allowed to expand freely. This is the founding theory, later used in refrigeration.""The only substantial contribution to thermodynamics to which the joint names of Joule and Thomson are attached belongs to an idea conceived by Thomson, who saw the possibility of analyzing the deviations of gas properties from the ideal behavior. In particular a non-ideal gas, made to expand slowly through a porous plug so as to approximate a specified mathematical condition - constant enthalpy), would in general undergo cooling (essentially a transformation of atomic motion into work spent against the interatomic attractions)....But the appliocation of the Joule-Thomson effect to technology of refrigeration belongs to a later stage in the development of thermodynamics.""(DSB VII, p. 182).The Joule-Thomson effect or Joule-Kelvin effect describes the increase or decrease in the temperature of a real gas (as differentiated from an ideal gas) or a liquid when allowed to expand freely through a valve or other throttling device while kept insulated so that no heat is transferred to or from the fluid, and no external mechanical work is extracted from the fluid. The Joule-Thomson effect is an isenthalpic process, meaning that the enthalpy of the fluid is constant (i.e., does not change) during the process. It is named for James Prescott Joule and William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin who established the effect in 1852, following earlier work by Joule on Joule expansion in which a gas expands at constant internal energy. The Joule-Thomson effect is sometimes referred to as the Joule-Kelvin effect. Engineers often refer to it as simply the J-T effect.‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 42715

‎"THOMSON, WILLIAM (LORD KELVIN) and J.P. JOULE. - THE JOULE-THOMSON EFFECT.‎

‎On the Thermal Effects of Fluids in Motion. Part I-II (2 Papers).‎

‎London, Richard taylor and William Francis, 1853-54. 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1853, Vol. 143 and 1854, Vol. 144. With titlepages to vol. 143 a. 144. The papers: pp. 357-365 a. pp. 321-364, textillustrations. The first titlepage bears the name of P.G. Tait.‎

‎First printing of these importent papers in which the authors found the so-called Joule-Thomson effect which should be the founding technology in refrigeration. They showed that a gas expanding into vacuum without addition of external work undergo a change in temperature, in spite of the theoretical speculations. The temperature change occurs due to the internal work required to overcome the attractive forces between molecules.""The only substantial contribution to thermodnamics to which the joint names of Joule and Thomson, are attached belongs to an idea conceived by Thomson, who saw the possibility of analyzing the deviations of gas properties from the ideal behavior. In particular, a non-ideal gas, made to expand slowly through a porous plug (so as to approximate a specified mathematical condition—constant enthalpy), would in general undergo a cooling (essentially a transformation of atomic motion into work spent against the interatomic attractions). For the delicate test of this effect Thomson required Joule’s unsurpassed skill (1852). But the application of the Joule- Thomson effect to the technology of refrigeration belongs to a later stage in the development of thermodynamics.""(DSB).Peter Guthrie Tait (1831 - 1901) was a Scottish mathematical physicist, best known for the seminal energy physics textbook Treatise on Natural Philosophy, which he co-wrote with Kelvin, and his early investigations into knot theory, which contributed to the eventual formation of topology as a mathematical discipline. His name is known in graph theory mainly for Tait's conjecture. (His name on the first titlepage).Parkinson ""Breakthroughs"" 1852 C.‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 48811

‎"Torrens" of The Motor Cycle‎

‎The Motor Cyclist's Workshop‎

‎Iliffe & Sons Ltd 1954. Hardcover. Good. 1954. Sixth edition. 176 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards. Black and white illustrations throughout. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking inscriptions inserts light foxing tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Iliffe & Sons, Ltd hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 1706199537LEE

‎"TRONCHIN, (THEODORE) - ""THE POITOU-COLIC""‎

‎De Colica Pictonum.‎

‎Genevæ, Fratres Cramer, 1757. Cont. boards. Light staining to upper corner on frontcover. XII,82 pp. A few scattered brownspots. On good paper.‎

‎First edition. ""Tronchin, sometimes physician to Voltaire, showed that the so-called ""Poitou-colic"" was caused by drinking water which had passed through lead gutters. Tronchin introduced inoculation into Holland, France, and Switzerland"" he was Boerhaave's favourite pupil and became a very wealthy practioner."" (Garrison & Morton No. 2095). - Waller 9686.‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 28781

‎"Twenty-one Balloons" Dubois, "Boy Who Fears the Sea" Sperry, "Anne of Green Gables" Montgomery‎

‎Boys and Girls World Literature Complete Works 17 America Edition 7‎

‎Kodansha 1960. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Kodansha paperback‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 2090202118205122

‎"TYNDALL, JOHN. - COINING THE WORD 'CALORESCENCE'.‎

‎On Calorescence. Received October 20, - Read November 23, 1865.‎

‎(London, Taylor and Francis, 1866). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"", Vol. 156 - Part I, pp. 1-24, textillustr. a. 1 lithographed plate. Plate with minot brownspots.‎

‎First appearance of this mpirtent paper in which Tyndall shows that infrared radiant energy absorbed by matter emissed visible radiant energy. This transformation had not previously been observed. He also coined the word ""Calorescence"".These new effects had noting to do with fluorescence.‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 42935

‎"Union of Russian Legitimist Monarchists;" HIH. the Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich H. I.‎

‎Who Shall be the Emperor of Russia‎

‎Munich: R. Oldenbourg Ol'denburg 1924. Octavo 22 × 15 cm. Original staple-stitched self-wrappers; 11 pp. With a frontispiece portrait of the Grand Duke on coated paper and one chart The male descendants of Emperor the Nikolai I sic!. Oxidation from staples; light wear to wrappers and lower left corner of text lightly scuffed; else about very good. Scarce English translation of this defence of the claims to the throne of Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich which features a two-page preface signed "Kirill." From the preface: "The deliverance of Our perishing country emphatically demands the triumph of Right and Good and the reunion of all Russians--true to their Oath and loving their Country--around the same and only banner of legality under whose protection there can be neither quarrels nor dissension." A harbinger of the tragic disunity of the Russian aristocracy in emigration which would only intensify throughout the 1920s. Editions by the Union of Russian Legitimist Monarchists were published in French and English and were apparently aimed at a larger international audience. They are scarce with only two other titles recorded: "The head of the Romanoff Dynasty the Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich" and a French translation of the latter and a French translation of the present pamphlet. KVK OCLC show only two copies of the present title worldwide at the Bavarian State Library the International Labor Organization in Geneva and at Cambridge University. unknown books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : P002599

‎"VAN VLECK, J.H. - TOWARDS QUANTUM MECHANICS, THE CORRESPONDENCE PRINCIPLE.‎

‎The Absorption of Radiation by multiply periodic Orbits, and its relation to the Correspondence Principle and the Rayleigh-Jeans Law. Part I- (II). (I. Some Extensions of the Correspondence Principle. - II. Calculation of Absorption by multiply period...‎

‎Corning, N.Y., and Menasha, Wisc., The Physical Review, 1924. Royal8vo. Full buckram. Gilt lettering to spine. A stamp to top of titlepage and to front free endpaper. In: ""The Physical Review. A Journal of Experimental and theoretical Physics"", Vol. 24, Second Series. V,704 pp., textillustr. Van Vleck's papers: pp. 330-346 a. pp. 347-365. Internally clean and fine.‎

‎First appearance of Van Vleck's two importent papers in which he clarifies and extends the Principle of Correspondence.""Van Vleck made his greatest contribution to the old quantum theory in 1924, when he conceived his correspondence principle for absorption. He demonstrated that in the limit of high quantum numbers there would be a correspondence between absorption by classical, multiply periodic systems, and by their quantum analogues. His proof depended on interpreting net absorption in the quantum theory as the difference between gross absorption and stimulated emission of radiation (an interpretation prompted by a remark of Breit’s). Van Vleck was particularly pleased that his classical theory reproduced the quantum result without the need for stimulated emission, which he referred to as ""negative absorption."" (DSB).""Van Vleck’s theory of absorption by multiply periodic systems was consistent with the newly derived Kramers theory of dispersion, and it convinced Bohr that his correspondence principle applied not only to emission but also to absorption. Further, Van Vleck’s 1924 calculation made use of several of the ideas that Werner Heisenberg used in his matrix mechanics a year later. Van Vleck’s work, however, did not lead in the direction of matrix mechanics. His intent was to explain quantum phenomena (especially ""negative absorption"") in classical terms rather than to devise an internally consistent quantum theory."" (DSB).In 1977 he shared the Nobel Prize with Philip Anderson and N. F. Mott.Van der Waerden ""Sources of Quantum Mechanics"", pp. 203 ff.‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 47166

‎"VARIGNON, (PIERRE). - VARIGNON'S MANOMETER COINING THE WORD 'MANOMÉTRE'‎

‎Manometre, ou Machine pour trouver le raport des raretés ou raréfaction de l'Air naturel d'un même lieu en différens tems, ou de différens lieux en un même ou en différens tems, &c.‎

‎(Paris, Jean Boudot, 1706). 4to. Without wrappers. Extracted from ""Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences"". Année 1705. Pp. 300-331, textillustrations.‎

‎First apperance of this importent paper in which Varignon describes the function and theory behing his invention of the manometer, a term which he coined in this paper. 'Manometre' from Greek (manos + metron) = sparce measure.Stitched together is another importent paper JOSEPH TOURNEFORT ""Observations sur les Maladies des Plantes"", pp. 332-345 in which he made the first classification of plant diseases.‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 46059

‎"VAUQUELIN, (NICOLAS) - THE DISCOVERY OF CHROMIUM.‎

‎Sur une nouvelle substance métallique contenue dans le plomb rouge de Sibérie, et qu'on propose d'appeler Chrôme, à cause de la propriété qu'il a de colorer les combinaisons ou il entre. Lu à la premiere classe de l'Institut national, le 11 Brumai...‎

‎Paris, Fuchs et Guillaume, An VIe. (1798). Contemp. hcalf. Spine gilt. Very slightly rubbed. Small stamps on verso of titlepage. In: ""Annales de Chimie, ou Recueil de Mémoires concernant la Chemie"" Tome 25. - 335,(3) pp., 2 engraved folded plates and 1 folded table..(the entire volume offered). Vauquelin's papers: pp. 21-32 a. pp. 194-204. Some brownspots to the first and last leaves, otherwise fine and clean.‎

‎First printing of the papers in which Vauquelin describes and announces his discovery of Chromium. The first paper was simultaneously printed in Mem.de l'Institut. Because of its many coloured compounds Fourcroy and Haüy suggested the name 'chromium' for the new metal. (Greek, chroma-colour).In 1797, Vauquelin began his own studies of Siberian red lead. He was convinced that the mineral contained a new element. None of the elements then known could account for his results. He reported ""a new metal, possessing properties entirely unlike those of any other metal."" A year later, Vauquelin was able to isolate a small sample of the metal itself. He heated charcoal (nearly pure carbon ) with a compound of chromium, chromium trioxide (Cr 2 O 3 ). When the reaction was complete, he found tiny metallic needles of chromium metal. DSB XIII, p. 597 - Parkinson ""Breakthrough"" 1798 C.The volume contains other importent papers in the history of chemistry, Guyton ""Examen de quelques propriétés du Platine"" a. ""Examen de quelques critiques de la nomenclature de chimistes francais"", Chaptal ""Observations sur la fabrication de l'acétite de cuivre (verd-de-gris) etc.‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 43089

‎"VILLARD, P. (PAUL ULRICH). - THE DISCOVERY OF GAMMA RAYS AND GAMMA RADIATION.‎

‎Sur la réflexion et la réfraction des rayons cathodiques et des rayons déviables du radium. (+) Sur le rayonnement du radium.‎

‎(Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1900). 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome 130, No 15 a. No 18. Pp. (962-) 1044 a. pp. (1145-) 1220. Entire issues offered. Stamp on first pages. A few tears to margins. Poor paperquality, fragile. Villard's papers: pp. 1010-1012 a. 1178-1182, textillustrations.‎

‎First apperance of Villard's two papers in which he announced and described the discovery of a new type of radiation more powerfull and penetrating than alpha-and beta rays. The new type of rays was named by Rutherford as gammarays.""His (Villard)experiments in radioactivity led to the unexpected discovery of gamma rays in 1900. Villard recognized them as being different from x rays because the gamma rays had a much greater penetrating depth. He had discovered they were emitted from radioactive substances and were not affected by electric or magnetic fields. These came to be called gamma rays by another scientist, Ernest Rutherford. It wasn't until 1914 that Rutherford showed that they were a form of electromagnetic (EM) like light only with a much shorter wavelength than x rays. Now we know that gamma rays are a form of EM radiation similar to x rays. Gamma rays tend to have a higher energy and a shorter wavelength than x rays do. However, the dividing line between these two forms of radiation is not clearly defined. Scientists typically apply the term gamma ray to EM radiation with energies above several hundred thousand electron volts."" (Hps - Healt Physics Society). - See Sigmund Brandt ""The Harevst of a Century"", Episode 6, p. 24 ff.).The issues contains other importent papers HENRI BECQUEREL ""Note sur la transmission du rayonnement du radium au travers des corps"", pp. 979-984 and ""Sur la transparance de l'aluminium pour le rayonnement du radium"", pp. 1154-57. P. CURIE et G. SAGNAC ""Électrisation négative des rayons secondaires produits au moyen des rayons de Röntgen"", pp. 1013-1016.‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 48207

‎"VOLTA, (ALEXANDRO). - ESTABLISHING THE ""ELECTRIC CURRENT"" - THE PRECURSOR OF THE VOLTAIC CELL.‎

‎Extrait D'une lettre de M. Volta à M. Gren, sur l'électricité dite animale. Par Van Mons"" Traduit de L'Allemand. (+) Seconde lettre. (+) Addition a la Lettre précédente.‎

‎Paris, Guillaume/Fuchs, An VI, ou 1797, AN VII (1799). Without wrappers..In: ""Annales de Chimie, ou Recueil de Mémoires concernant la Chemie"" Tome 23, 4. Cahier. Titlepage to vol. 23. + Tome 29, Cahier 1, Titlepage to tome 29. Stamp to verso of titlepages. Pp. (225-) 336 + pp. (1-) 112. (2 entire issues offered). Volta's letters: pp. 276-315, 1 folded engraved plate with 22 figs. + pp. 91-93.‎

‎First French edition of these 3 letters to Gren in which Volta described his last steps towards his groundbreaking construction of his famous ""Pile"". In the letters he established the first law governing an electrical fluid and he anticipated both Davy and Faraday.""In 1796 Volta wrote three letters to Gren (published in German in Gren's N.J. der Physik). In THE FIRST he describes 'a very remarkable experiment'. A tin cup filled with soapy water, milk of lime, or better fairly strong alkaline ley, was held with one or both hands moistened witn ater, and the tip of the tongue dipped into the liquid. A sour taste was at once perceived by the tongue in contact with the alkaline liquid, which soon, changed into a salty and finally into a sharp alkaline taste. The acid taste was 'produced by the current of the electric fluid passing from the tin to thee alkaline liquer, from there to the tongue, then through the body to the layer of water and from there to the tin in a continous current..... In his SECOND LETTER Volta repeats this 'law' of the combination of three conductors. The mutual contact of silver and tin, for example, produces 'an action, a force, by means of which the first gives the electric fluid and the second receives it. If the circuit is completed by a humid concustor, a current or continous circulation of this fluid is set up in the direction indicated in the table (depicted on the attached plate)... In his THIRD LETTER Volta describes experiments in which plates of silver and zinc so smooth that they adhered on contact, polished, dry, and insulated, were brought in close contact, and separated by pulling them perpendicularly apart. They gave small deflections when applied directly to the electrometer...."" (Partington ""A History of Chemistry"", Vol. IV, pp. 10-12).‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 48189

‎"VOSSIUS, GERHARD (GERARDUS) JOHANN. - ""ARTES LIBERALES"" AND THE HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS.‎

‎Ars Historica. Sive de Historiae, & Historicis naturâ, Historiaeque scribendae praeceptis, Commentario. Ad Illustrissimum Virum, Joannem Berckium. (+) De Qvattuor Artibus popularibus, de Philologia, et Scientiis Mathematicis, Cui Operi sunjungitur, Ch...‎

‎Leiden, Joannis Maire, 1653 - Amsterdam, Ioannes Blaeu, 1650. 4to. One contemp. full vellum. Contemp. handwritten titles (weak) to spine. First title in red/black with large engraved titlevignette. (8),154,(1) pp. (Ars Historica 1653) - (16),94,(14) pp. (Grammatistice etc. 1650) - (8),83,(15) pp. (De Philologia, 1650) - (16),467,(33) pp. (De Universae Mathesios..., 1650). Fine and clean.‎

‎First edition of ""De Qvattuor Artibus..."" (which includes ""De Universae Mathesios"" with separate titlepage) and second edition of ""Ars Historica""The mathematical work: Poggendorff II, 1235. ""de Mathesios."": ""According to prof. Cantor, (it) is the first history of mathematics in its widest sense"". Honeyman Coll., 3081.‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 49198

‎"WHEATSTONE, CHARLES. - THE WHEATSTONE BRIDGE.‎

‎The Bakerian Lecture, - An Account of several new Instruments and Processes for determining the Constants of a Voltaic Circuit. Received June 15, - Read June 15, 1843.‎

‎(London, Richard and John E. Taylor, 1843). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1843 - Part II. Pp. 303-327 and 2 lithographed plates.‎

‎Frst appearance of an importent paper in the history of electricity. ""In 1843 Wheatstone published an experimental verification of Ohm's law, helping to make the law (already well known in Germany) more familiar in England. In connection with the verification he developed new ways of measuring resistances and currents. In particular, he invented the rheostat and popularized the Wheatstone bridge (in the paper offered), originally invented by Samuel Christie.""(DSB).‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 42429

‎"WHEWELL, WILLIAM - A PIONEER-WORK ON TIDES WITH THE FIRST COTIDAL WORLD-MAP.‎

‎Essay towards a First Approximation to a Map of Cotidal Lines. Read May 2, 1833.‎

‎(London, Richard Taylor, 1833). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1833 - Part I. Pp. 147-236, a few textillustr.,1 engraved plate and 2 large folded engraved maps (a general, representing the greater part of the world (42x93 cm) and Chart of the British Isles, drawn and engraved by J.& C. Walker.). A small tear to world map. Clean and fine.‎

‎First appearance of this classic, pioneering paper on the investigation of tidal phenomena. It is the first in a series of 16 papers Whewell made for the Royal Society. It contains the first printed cotidal world-map.""Whewell took over the subject of mapping cotidal lines from Lubbock with entusiasm....He exercised the pioneer's privilege of coining new words and phrases appropriate to his subject. Many failed to stick, some phrases of Whewell's origin still occasionally used are: 'age of the tides', 'luni-tidal interval', 'semi-menstrual inequality' etc, etc....Whewell's initial cotidal map for the world ocean was presented in his first paper of 1833 (the paper offered). By his own admission, it was entirely preliminary and tentative, what nowadays might be called a ""strawman"", to stimulate discussionm. He later (1836) suggested smll modifications, especially near the coast of North America"" these were incorporated in an 'improved' world map by G.B. Airy in his celebrated tratise on ""Tides and wave"", (Cartwright in ""Tides. A Scientific History"", pp.110-112.)‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 42692

‎"WIEN, WILLY. (WILHELM). - DETERMINING THE MASS AND VELOCITY OF CANAL RAYS.‎

‎Untersuchung über die electrische Entladung in verdünnten Gasen. (Erste - Zweite Abhandlung). (2 Papers).‎

‎Berlin, J.A. Barth, 1898, 1901 Without wrappers. In ""Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von G. Wiedemann."", Neue Folge, Bd. 65, No. 7. (Entire issues offered). Pp. 241-480. . And Vierte Folge, Bd. 5. Pp. 241-488, textillustr. Wien's paper pp. 440-452, textillustrations and pp. 421-435, textillustrations. Clean and fine. The second issue punched in inner margin after cords., no loss of text.‎

‎First appearance of Wien's importent paper in which he shows that the cathode rays are particles, that their velocity is about a third to that of light and he establish the ratio between the mass and the charge.In the paper are ""described the experiments by which Wien determined the properties of the canal rays. The firstpart of the paper conatins a description of observations on the cathode rays, made with a Lenard Tube, in which the cathode rays passed through an aluminium window into an extension of the tube where as high a rarefaction as possible was maintained. The magnetic and electrostatic deflexions of a narrow cathode stream were observed and Wien concludes that it is proved by his investigation that the cathode rays which pass through the windoww carry with them strong negative charges.""(Magie ""Souce Book in Physics"", p. 597 ff.).Wien was awarded the 1911 Nobel Prize for physics for his discoveries regarding laws governing the radiation of heat.‎

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‎"WILDFOWLER" OF "THE FIELD" Clements Lewis‎

‎MODERN WILDFOWLING‎

‎MODERN WILDFOWLING Horace Cox 1880 first edition slight wear to the corner tips a bit of dulling to the spine else a vg copy rebound in half leather and cloth with raised spines in 6 decorated compartments with gold-gilt t.p.e.'s.Illustrated with fold-outs. Horace Cox hardcover‎

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‎"WILSON, C.T.R. - THE ""WILSON-CLOUD-CHAMBER"" BROUGHT TO PERFECTION.‎

‎Investigations on X-Rays and Beta-Rays by the Cloud Method.. Part I. - X-Rays. Part II. - Beta-Rays. (2 Papers).‎

‎London, Harrison and Sons, 1923. Royal8vo. Contemp. full cloth, gilt lettering to spine. A small stamp to verso of titlepage and on foot of a few leaves.. In: ""Proceedings of the Royal Society"", Series A, Vol. 104. VI,(6),676,XXXII pp., textillustr. and plates. (Entire volume offered). Wilson's papers: pp. (1-) 24 and 12 plates + pp. 192-212 and 9 plates.‎

‎First printing of the paper in which Wilson had brought his Cloud Chamber to perfection and showed the photographic tracks of the particles. The Cloud Chamber was the first detector of radioacticity and nuclear transmutations and it played an importent role in experimental particle physics e.g. the discovery of the positron. Wilson received the Nobel prize - together with Arthur Compton - in physics in 1927 for his work on the Cloud Chamber.""The 21 cloud chamber pictures of X-rays and beta-rays on coated stock printed recto only were the culmination of many years research by Wilson and at last showed the full potential of this method as a tool for particle physicists. Early in 1911 (Wilson) was the first person to see and photograph the tracks of individual alpha-particles and electrons. The event aroused great interest as the paths of the alpha-particle were just as W.H. Bragg had drawn them in publication some years earlier. But it was not until 1923 (the paperoffered) that the clous chamber was brought to perfection and led to his two, beautifully illustrated classic papers on the track of electron."" (The Nobel Foundation).‎

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