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1971réf. S5346College Park Maryland:: American Institute of Physics 1971. 1971. Series: Physics Today Vol. 24 No. 8 August 1971. 285 x 212 mm. 4to. Pages 23-57. Entire issue: 88 pp. Numerous figs. tables. Pictorial wrappers. Good. This special issue dedicated to low temperature physics includes four papers: Bernd T. Matthias 1918-1980 The search for high-temperature superconductors John Clarke Electronics in superconducting junctions Seth J. Putterman 1945- and Isadore Rudnick 1917-1997 Quantum nature of superfluid helium and John K. Hulm 1923-2004 et al Superconducting magnets. American Institute of Physics, 1971. unknown books
1980réf. S5449Washington D.C.:: U.S. Department of Energy July 1980. 1980. DOE/ER-0066 UC-34. 280 x 212 mm. 4to. ii 4 2 iii 3 51 5 pp. Printed wrappers. Fine. U.S. Department of Energy, July 1980. unknown books
1999réf. 39208Boston:: Little Brown. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1999. Hardcover. 0316329754 . First North American printing. About fine in like dust jacket. . Little, Brown, hardcover books
1980réf. 31233Cambridge: MIT Press. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1980. Hardcover. 0262131536 . Translated from the Italian by Mirella and Riccardo Giacconi. First edition thus. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. . MIT Press hardcover books
2001réf. 21351Boca Raton: CRC Press. Fine. 2001. Hardcover. 0849302153 . Third printing. Fine in glossy printed boards. No dust jacket as issued. . CRC Press hardcover books
1965réf. S5446Washington D.C.:: GPO 1965. 1965. 232 x 149 mm. 8vo. vii 801 pp. Figs. tables index. Printed wrappers; spine faded. Very good. GPO, 1965. unknown books
1955réf. S5415Milan:: Societa Italiana di Fisica Edizione provvisoria 1955. 1955. 293 x 218 mm. 4to. v 518 pp. Figs. tables most of the articles in this publication are in English. Printed wrappers; spine ends chipped spine faded ms. title on spine. "Omaggio" rubber stamp and ownership signature of Pais on top cover. Very good. Contributors include L. W. Alvarez on the lifetime of the -meson and many others. Societa Italiana di Fisica (Edizione provvisoria), 1955. unknown books
1978réf. 129354United States: Oxford University Press 1978. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Very good: Book shows rubbing of spine/panels bumping of panel corners/spine ends. Oxford University Press hardcover books
réf. 608399"A. Prokhorov" in blue ink on 1/2 length portrait of Alexander Prokhorov wearing a dark suit long tie white shirt looking to the left of the camera. Photograph is on single weight stock; 4 3/8" x 6 1/4"; very good minor signs of handling. Signed and dated: "A. Prokhorov 22-05-90". unknown books
1889réf. 65142Paris: Gautier-Villars 1889. First Edition. hardcover. near fine. 2 volumes. 8 folding diagrams numerous text diagrams. Small 4to 1/2 brown morocco. decoratively gilt spines blind stamped pattern on covers. Paris: Gautier-Villars 1891- 1889 1891. Near Fine. Comprises vols. IV & V of the collection of memoirs. Includes an extensive bibliography. Gautier-Villars unknown books
1894réf. 6606Leipzig: J A Barth 1894. First Edition. Contemporary half leather. A near fine copy. 8vo xxix 1 - ornament 1 - 312 pp. Containing the general title of vol. III of the author's collected works - only issued in this manner because of Hertz's death in 1894. An important book that is devoted to the theoretical implications of Maxwell's electrodynamic equations for the rest of physics. The book also has Hertz' s brilliant introduction on the epistemological problems facing modern physics. This is accompanied by Helmholtz's homage to his colleague. DSB VI 340 - 348. J A Barth hardcover books
1931réf. 1185This item is currently on reserve; please contact dealer for more details. Cover title: Reglas Oficiales de Atletismo. 66 pp. rule book for international sporting competitions. 8vo. Very good. Illus. stiff wraps saddle stapled. 1185 Primarily of interest for the superb but uncredited estridentismo illustration that graces the front cover. "Aceptados por la Federación Atlética Internacional de aficionados en el Congreso de La Haya en agosto de 1926 con las adiciones y reformas hechas en el congreso de Amsterdam en 1928." As of February 2021 we can locate only one holding in North America at the National Library of Mexico. Talleres Gráficos de la Nación books
1804réf. 4488London: J Mawman 1804. First Edition. original paper backed boards. A very good copy with some wear to the spine; feint tide mark to corners of the frontis. 8vo xv 1 - Directions for the bookbinder 1 - 562 2 - adverts pp. 9 engraved plates. An important work in the history of thermodynamics that established several fundamental laws of heat radiation i.e. that the emissivity and absorptivity for any surface are equal; that the emissivity of a surface increases with the increase in reflectivity; that the intensity of heat radiated from a surface is proportional to the sine of the angles of the rays to the surface. He was also able to distinguish between conduction and radiation of heat. Leslie's research and this book also played an important role in the early nineteenth century debate about whether heat was a form of motion or matter. In chapter 19 Leslie describes some of the apparatus notably a photometer that he used in his experiments two distinct types are illus. He appears to have been a particularly adept designer of experiments and apparatus. DSB VIII 261 - 262 ; Cardwell Watt to Clausius pp. 107-112; Roberts p. 203; Neville II p. 57. J Mawman hardcover books
1897réf. 4401Leipzig: J A Barth 1897-1907. First Edition. Original three-quarter leather and marbled boards. . A very good copy. 4to. There is a frontis. of Helmholtz and numerous text illus. . The complete lectures on physical science by the famous scientist that was commenced shortly after his death. It contains important addtions to key lectures. The volumes were published out of sequence causing later volumes in the set to be issued prior to the first. The first division or 50 pp. introduction to the entire set was published in 1903 and is bound in a leather that appears slightly darker than the rest of the set and has a different ownership signature than the balance of the set though all volumes are uniform in what is a publisher's three quarter leather binding. Barth continued to issue the volumes through 1925 varying the impression dates as issued. An x-library set was sold at Christie's in 1996 but it was made up from later prtgs. See DSB; see NUC for a handful of holdings. J A Barth hardcover books
1857réf. 1064Paris: Mallet-Bachelier 1857. First Edition. Text is in half leather; folio is boxed. The text is rebacked; inst. blind stamp on title; folio with the original front printed wrapper rear wrapper wanting with stamp and institutional bookplate - NO other accessioning; blank margin of one plate with dust smudges and some chipping. 4to xxii 2 - blank 4 1 - 268 pp.; folio atlas 4 pp. 12 lithographic plates. One of the great experimental and theoretical works of hydraulics of the 19th century. D'Arcy's contributions lay in the conclusive demonstration that resistance to fluid flow depended upon the type and condition of the boundary material. An important theoretical work. See Rouse pp. 169-173; Roberts p. 86; Tokaty p. 93. Mallet-Bachelier hardcover books
1673réf. 5022Kempten: Per Rudolphum Dreherr 1673. SOLE EDITION. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in contemporary stiff vellum small repairs to foot of the spine re-cased endpapers renewed. Internally this copy is in fine condition with only minor faults as follows: half-title soiled small wormholes in first four lvs. a peppering of small wormholes to final four index lvs. and final blank leaf. Marginal hole not affecting text to leaf B3 margins of portrait leaf foxed and with light stain at foot. The volume was re-cased probably to remove a second slim work judging by the size of the overlapping vellum fore-edges of the binding. Provenance: Engraved armorial bookplate of Augustin Erath 1648-1719 German Augustinian Canon theologian translator. The "Phonurgia" is illustrated with an added engraved allegorical title by Georg Andreas Wolfgang 1631-1716 after Felix Cheurier an engraved title vignette an engraved portrait of Emperor Leopold I by Wolfgang after Franz Herman two engraved plates seventeen engravings and numerous woodcut diagrams and illustrations in the text musical notation ornamental woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials. Among the illustrations are Michele Todini's "claviorganum" one of the most technologically advanced keyboards of Kircher's time Kircher's own musical invention the "Aeolian Harp" and the invention that inspired the book Kircher's "Speaking Trumpet" the megaphone shown at the shrine of St. Eustace in Monterella. Various chambers with peculiar acoustical properties are also depicted such as a Vitruvian amphitheater the courtyard at the Villa Simonetta in Milan and the "ears" of the Tyrant Dionysius of Syracuse. There is also a depiction of one of Kircher's "talking statues" his 17th century intercom. "The 'Phonurgia Nova' is in part Kircher's response to Sir Samuel Morland 1625-95 a fellow of the Royal Society of London who claimed.to have invented the megaphone. Numerous testimonies from Kircher's admirers such as James Alban Gibbs and Gaspar Schott are appended to the work defending Kircher's claim as the inventor of the tuba stentorophonica as Morland called it. Kircher had indeed written extensively on the device in his 'Musurgia' and had been using the 'speaking trumpet' for years at the shrine of Mentorella to call people to services. The 'Phonurgia' treats the science and applications of sound amplification and echoes. It was the first book published in Europe devoted entirely to acoustics." Merrill. "The importance that the Jesuits placed on sensory experience as part of worship had a significant impact on Kircher's treatment of music. Within the devotional framework music was valued precisely because of its capacity to move the passions to produce strong emotional effects that under properly controlled conditions were designed to ravish the soul and lead the faithful closer to the divine. Indeed Kircher declared that the goal of all music was to move the affections and this belief goes a long way toward explaining his interest in classifying all the various emotional or affective states that music can imitate. Kircher's was the first systematic account of the 'doctrine of affections' which underpinned early opera and oratorio and was one of the fundamental assumptions of later Baroque composers such as Bach and Handel."Penelope Gouk "Making Music Making Knowledge: The Harmonious Universe of Athanasius Kircher". Per Rudolphum Dreherr hardcover books
