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1962rif. S0336Washington D.C.:: National Science Foundation Israel Program for Scientific Translations 1962. 1962. 8vo. 470 pp. Figs. tables. Original printed wrappers bound in simple card covers brown spine library tape title label. Ex-Carnegie. National Science Foundation, Israel Program for Scientific Translations, 1962. unknown books
1934rif. S10133London:: The Physical Society 1934. 1934. 8vo. iv 86 pp. Text figs. Original printed wrappers; upper left corner of cover and f.f.e.p. torn away without text loss wrappers browned corners bent. Very good. The Physical Society, 1934. unknown books
2026rif. x-1032504854Taylor & Francis Ltd 2026. Paperback. New. 2nd ed edition. 404 pages. 6.14x0.86x9.21 inches. Taylor & Francis Ltd paperback
1978rif. BN507353La Documentation française 1978. 1978. Softcover. Matériaux et composants optiques Matériaux et composants optiques Groupe Instrumentation optique France et Direction de la documentation française France La Documentation française paperback
1766rif. 46594Berlin Haude et Spener 1766. 4to. No wrappers as issued in "Mémoires de L'Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres" tome XV pp. 89-184 and 1 folded engraved plate. First edition. Redern curator to the Berlin Academy presents here an historical account of the development in Optics from Kepler to Euler together with its mathematical theory.Poggendorff II:582-83. unknown
1760rif. 45083Paris Imprimerie Royale 1760. 4to. Extract from "Mémoires de Mathematique et de Physique Présentés à l'Academie des Sciences par divers Savans" Tome III. Pp. 321-325. A faint dampstain to inner margins. First apperance of Boskovic's paper in which he explains how light is refracted and reflected in droplets of water creating the coloured rainbow - he discusses the sphericity in connection with both refraction and reflexion of light and he comments on Newton's optics. unknown
1864rif. 41709London Taylor and Francis 1864. No wrappers as extracted from"Proceedings of the Royal Society". From November 19 1863 to December 22 1864 inclusive." Vol. XIII. Pp 531-536. First printing of the first announcement of Maxwell unification of light-waves electricity and magnetism the most importent of the papers relating to his electromagnetic theory in which he brought electro-magnetical phenomena on a clear mathematical form. The present paper is an abstract of the larger paper which was read to the Royal Academy in 1864 but only issued the year later 1865 in "Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society" where it was printed in full and as an abstract in "Philosophical Magazine" 1865."A generation later Einstein's work on relativity was founded directly oupon Maxwell's electromagnetic theory; it was this that led him to equate Faraday with Galileo and Maxwell with Newton." PMM No 355 but only the paper from 1865. - Dibner. Heralds of Science No 68 1865 paper. unknown
1767rif. 35575Berlin Haude et Spener 1767. 4to. No wrappers as issued in "Memoires de l'Academie des Sciences et Belles-Lettres". Tome XVI pp. 1-44 and 2 folded engraved plates. First edition. - Poggendorff II: p. 583. unknown
1855rif. 43859Leipzig Johann Ambrosius Barth 1855. Without wrappes. In: "Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von J.C. Poggendorff" 94. Bd. No 1 "Heft" No 1 1855. Pp. 1-176 a. 4 folded engraved plates. Entire issue offered. Titlepage to vol. 94 small stamp on verso. Fick's paper: pp. 59-86. Helmholtz's paper: pp. 1-28. Clean and fine. First appearance of Fick's importent paper in molecular physics in which he annouced his two laws of diffusion.Fick's first law relates the diffusive flux to the concentration field by postulating that the flux goes from regions of high oncentration to regions of low concentration with a magnitude that is proportional to the concentration gradient spatial derivative. - Fick's second law predicts how diffusion causes the concentration field to change with time. Wikipedia.First appearance of HELMHOLTZ'S fundamental paper in physiological optics in which he examined the sensitivity of the eye for the individual elements of the violet end of the spectrum; he was able to detect a whole series of distinct tones of purple: he alters the name 'invisible rays' to that of 'ultra-violet rays'; discussion of the relations of the wavelenghts of complementary colours and the intensity required if the mixture of simple complementarity colours is to produce white. He answered these questions quantatively. "THE TREATISE the paper offered WHICH HAS BEEN FUNDAMENTAL FOR ALL LATER WORK OF THE SAME KIND concludes with an inquiry into the validity of Newton's Colour Circle which Helmholtz designates as one of the most brilliant inspirations of that great thinker."Leo Koenigsberge "Hermann von Helmholtz" pp. 131-133. unknown
1755rif. 50315Altenburg Richterischen Buchhandlung 1755. 4to. Contemp. boards. Handwritten titlelabel on spine. Engraved titlevignette. 205315 pp. and 22 folded engraved plates. A few scattered brownspots but in general clean. Scarce first German edition of this hugely influential textbook in optics."Smith wrote on optics and harmonics. In 1738 he published A Compleat System of Optics in Four Books viz. A Popular at Mathematical a Mechanical and a Philosophical Treatise. Both comprehensive and reliable the work became probably the most influential optical textbook of the eighteenth century. It was also published in Dutch in 1753 in German in 1755 and in two different French translations in 1767 In 1778 an abridged version was published in English. In turn its popularity helped to establish the eighteenth-century conviction that light is particulate." DSB. hardcover
rif. 19043Revue de 1951. In/4 reliure toile simili-chagrin vert dos lisse à titre doré couvertures conservées illustrations en noir 11 numéros de 30 pages de Janvier à décembre 1951. Revue abondamment illustrée au charme délicieusement années 50 et techniquement approfondie. Du N°133 au N° 144. Avec des grandes signatures comme : Lionel Terray Gérard Taylor unknown
1891rif. 61761London: Longmans Green & Co. 1891. 8vo. viii 426 2 pp. plus 24 pp. publisher’s ads. With 232 woodcut engraved text illustrations & diagrams. Green embossed publisher’s cloth ruled borders at upper & lower fore-edges rebacked black & gilt morocco spine label still G copy w/ former exlib ownership stamps on interior pages. Second edition of this well-illustrated and informative Victorian handbook on use of the magic lantern and many other scientific optical instruments in creating effects for scientific study as well as for exhibition and instruction. Included are significant sections on manipulating the magic lanterns creating glass slides carriers & special effects; colour theory and instruments depicting colour polarizing apparatus magnetism revealed by optical projection and more. Longmans, Green & Co., hardcover
1999rif. 014830London United Kingdom: Kluwer Academic Publishers 1999. Cloth/Laminated Boards. Like New/No d/j as Published. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Type: Book This text provides a comprehensive coverage of the design and modelling of the devices and systems required for optical communication networks. It should be a useful reference text for those engineers implementing and designing such networks and deals with modelling and simulation of optical links at the levels both of devices and of systems. Simulation experiments and results are included as are details of devices under development in research laboratories. Optical and telecommuntications scientists working in research and development and design engineers working in the field should find this text to be a useful resource.318pp. Kluwer Academic Publishers hardcover
1504rif. 5444Venice: Giovanni Battista Sessa June 1504. THIRD OR FOURTH EDITION of the two editions of 1504 priority has not been determined. THE FIRST TO BE EDITED BY LUCA GAURICO. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in modern vellum. Title with large woodcut showing the author in his study surrounded by books lecturing his students one of whom takes notes. Sessa's cat-and-mouse printer's device appears on the same leaf.The text is illustrated with 77 woodcut diagrams. A very fine copy crisp and bright. There is a very light stain on the title page a bit of soiling in the gutter of leaf A3 and a discreet paper repair to the fore-edge of the final leaf. "The 'Perspectiva communis' was the most widely used of all optical texts from the early fourteenth until the close of the sixteenth century and it remains today the best index of what was known to the scientific community in general on the subject" DSB. It was first printed in Milan around 1482 then in 1503 it was included in a collection by Thomas Bradwardine "Praeclarissimum mathematicarum opus"Valencia. This 1504 edition the first edited by Luca Gaurico can be considered the third although another edition of the pre-Gaurico version was also published in 1504 at Leipzig. A mathematician from Naples and teacher of Scaliger Gaurico who also edited the works of Archimedes and Ptolemy completely revised the text. "The work on which Pecham's fame has chiefly rested is the Perspectiva communis probably written between 1277 and 1279 during Pecham's professorship at the papal curia. In the first book Pecham discussed the propagation of light and color the anatomy and physiology of the eye the act of visual perception physical requirements for vision the psychology of vision and the errors of direct vision. In book II he discussed vision by reflected rays and presented a careful and sophisticated analysis of image formation by reflection. Book III was devoted to the phenomena of refraction the rainbow and the Milky Way. "The central feature of Pecham's optical system and the dominant theme of book I of the 'Perspectiva communis' is the theory of direct vision. Here as elsewhere Pecham endeavored to reconcile all the available authorities-Aristotle Euclid Augustine al-Kindi Ibn al-Haytham Ibn Rushd Grosseteste and Bacon. Following Ibn al-Haytham Pecham argued that the emission of visual rays from the observer's eye is neither necessary nor sufficient as an explanation of sight; the primary agent of sight is therefore the ray coming to the eye from a point on the visible object. But in an attempt to follow Aristotle al-Kindi and Grosseteste as well Pecham argued that visual rays do nevertheless exist and perform the important but not always necessary function of moderating the luminous rays from the visible object and making them "commensurate with the visual power." Thus Pecham like Bacon resolved the age-old debate between the emission and intromission theories of vision in favor of a twofold radiation although to be sure priority was given to rays issuing from the visible object. "The rays issuing from points on the visible object fall perpendicularly onto the cornea and penetrate without refraction to the sensitive ocular organ the glacial humor or crystalline lens; nonperpendicular rays are weakened by refraction and therefore can be largely ignored. Since only one perpendicular ray issues from each point of the visible object and the collection of such perpendicular rays maintains a fixed order between the object and the eye a one-to-one correspondence is established between points on the object and points on the glacial humor and unconfused perception of the visual field is thus achieved. Vision is not "completed" however in the glacial humor. There is a further propagation of the rays or species through the vitreous humor and optic nerve to the common nerve where species from the two eyes combine and eventually to the anterior part of the brain and the "place of interior judgment." "Pecham's optical system included significantly more than a theory of direct vision. He briefly discussed the doctrine of species; treated at length the propagation of rays; and developed a theory to explain how solar radiation when passing through noncircular apertures gives rise to circular images. He expressed the full law of reflection and applied it to image formation by plane spherical cylindrical and conical mirrors; in this analysis he revealed an implicit understanding of the nature of the focal point of a concave mirror. Although he did not possess a mathematical law of refraction he successfully applied the general qualitative principles of refraction to the images that result from refraction at plane and circular interfaces between transparent media of various densities. In his discussion of the rainbow Pecham again attempted to reconcile different theories. He argued that all three kinds of rays rectilinear reflected and refracted concur in the generation of the rainbow. "Pecham's 'Perspectiva communis' is still extant in more than sixty manuscripts and went through twelve printed editions including a translation into Italian between 1482 and 1665. It was used and cited by many medieval and Renaissance natural philosophers including Dominicus de Clavasio Henry of Langenstein Blasius of Parma Lorenzo Ghiberti Leonardo da Vinci Albert Brudzewski Francesco Maurolico Giambattista della Porta Girolamo Fabrici Johannes Kepler Willebroad Snellius and G. B. Riccioli. It was lectured upon in the late Middle Ages at the universities of Vienna Prague Paris Leipzig Cracow Würzburg Alcala and Salamanca."DSB. Giovanni Battista Sessa, June hardcover
1968rif. 5-5X006NY: Dover 1968. Oversize Paperback. GOOD. Tight bright clean interior. Covers are creased with rubbed edges and sticker smudges. Owner's name on title page and a few folded page corners. "unabridged and corrected republication of the work originally published by Oxford University Press in 1954 to which have been added a new preface and a series of thirteen papers by the author originally published in the 'Journal of the Optical Society' of America." 424 indexed pages. 6.5x9.25" 16.5x23.5cm Dover paperback
1998rif. 316648AUnited Kingdom: Inst of Physics Pub Inc 1998. Boards have light wear. Pages are clean & text is free from markings. All pages secure in binding. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Inst of Physics Pub Inc hardcover
1964rif. 725280PN. New. 1964. Soft Cover. Date is original print. This is a reprint edition. . PN paperback
2007rif. 1346838PN. New. 2007. Soft Cover. This is a reprint edition. . PN paperback
1990rif. 238594PN. New. 1990. Soft Cover. Date is original print. This is a reprint edition . PN paperback
1998rif. 1308968PN. New. 1998. Soft Cover. Date is original print. This is a reprint edition . PN paperback
2000rif. 1325752PN. New. 2000. Soft Cover. Date is original print. This is a reprint edition . PN paperback
1953rif. 712076PN. New. 1953. Soft Cover. Date is original print. This is a reprint edition. . PN paperback
1995rif. 283379PN. New. 1995. Soft Cover. Date is original print. This is a reprint edition . PN paperback
