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1998réf. 2610ec541New York: W. W. Norton & Company 1998. BP2 - A first edition stated with complete numberline hardcover book SIGNED and dated by John A. Wheeler with "With warmest good wishes!" written on the half-title page in very good condition in very good dust jacket is mylar protected. Dust jacket has some wrinkling chipping and crease on the edges and corners small open tear/chipped on the back bottom edge some scattered chipping/bug damage on the opposite side some light discoloration and shelf wear. Book has some bumped corners some wrinkling on the spine edges some scattered chipping/bug damage on the cover near the edges and some on the top cover edges some spot stains on the top page edges light discoloration and shelf wear. 9.5"x6.5" 380 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. John Archibald Wheeler was an American theoretical physicist. He was largely responsible for reviving interest in general relativity in the United States after World War II. Wheeler also worked with Niels Bohr to explain the basic principles of nuclear fission. Together with Gregory Breit Wheeler explored positron-electron pair production from the collision of two photons now known as the Breit-Wheeler process. He is known for popularizing the term "black hole" to describe the gravitationally completely collapsed objects predicted by general relativity. He also coined "quantum foam" "neutron moderator" "wormhole" and "it from bit" and hypothesized the "one-electron universe". Stephen Hawking called Wheeler the "hero of the black hole story". At 21 Wheeler earned his doctorate at Johns Hopkins University under the supervision of Karl Herzfeld. He studied under Breit and Bohr on a National Research Council fellowship. In 1939 he collaborated with Bohr on a series of papers using the liquid drop model to explain the mechanism of fission. During World War II he worked with the Manhattan Project's Metallurgical Laboratory in Chicago where he helped design nuclear reactors and then at the Hanford Site in Richland Washington where he helped DuPont build them. He returned to Princeton after the war but returned to government service to help design and build the hydrogen bomb in the early 1950s. He and Edward Teller were the main civilian proponents of thermonuclear weapons. For most of his career Wheeler was a professor of physics at Princeton University which he joined in 1938 remaining until 1976. At Princeton he supervised 46 PhD students more than any other physics professor. Wheeler left Princeton at the age of 65. He was appointed director of the Center for Theoretical Physics at the University of Texas at Austin in 1976 and remained in the position until 1986 when he retired and became a professor emeritus. With Kip Thorne and Charles Misner he coauthored the general relativity textbook Gravitation. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. W. W. Norton & Company Hardcover
1782réf. r5076London: C. Dilly and J. Bowen. Cover rubbed with corner wear. Neatly rebacked with new eps. Content VG. 1782. The Second Edition with Considerable Additions and Alterations. Leather cover. 210mm x 130mm 8" x 5". xxiv 495pp index. 4 folding engraved plates. The author 1749-1809 was an Anglo-Italian physicist and made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1779. . C. Dilly and J. Bowen hardcover
réf. 059841Joseph Henry Laboratories Princeton Unibversity 1975. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Fine. I 538-605 Pp. Offprint In Card Covers With Cutout Front Cover Black Binding. Near Fine Slight Aging To Covers. Inscribed By Wheeler To Adolf Grunebaum. Per Wikipedia Adolf Grünbaum 1923 - 2018 Was A German-American Philosopher Of Science And A Critic Of Both Psychoanalysis And Karl Popper's Philosophy Of Science. He Was The First Andrew Mellon Professor Of Philosophy At The University Of Pittsburgh From 1960 Until His Death And Also Served As Co-Chairman Of Its Center For Philosophy Of Science From 1978 Research Professor Of Psychiatry From 1979 And Primary Research Professor In The Department Of History And Philosophy Of Science From 2006. His Works Include Philosophical Problems Of Space And Time 1963 The Foundations Of Psychoanalysis 1984 And Validation In The Clinical Theory Of Psychoanalysis 1993. Joseph Henry Laboratories, Princeton Unibversity paperback
1998réf. 046940New York: W. W. Norton & Company 1998. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 380 Pp. Black Boards Gilt. First Printing Indicated. Inscribed On The Half Title Page By John Archibald Wheeler. Fine In Fine Dust Jacket Priced $27.95. W. W. Norton & Company hardcover
1950réf. 046939American Physical Society / American Institute Of Physics 1950. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. 422 Pp. Annual Volume 1950 Bound With Green Morocco Spine And Tips No Wrapers. Patterned Boards Speckled Edges Gilt Title On Spine. Near Fine No Wear Immaculate Gilt Brilliant "Hauptbucherel" Stamp And Circular Ownership Stamp In Ludwigshafen On Title Page Vertical Crease On Title Page Else Fine. Chien-Shiung Wu Chinese: ; 1912 - 1997 Was A Chinese-American Particle And Experimental Physicist Who Made Significant Contributions In The Field Of Nuclear And Particle Physics. Wu Worked On The Manhattan Project Where She Helped Develop The Process For Separating Uranium Into Uranium-235 And Uranium-238 Isotopes By Gaseous Diffusion. She Is Best Known For Conducting The Wu Experiment Which Proved That Parity Is Not Conserved. This Discovery Resulted In Her Colleagues Tsung-Dao Lee And Chen-Ning Yang Winning The 1957 Nobel Prize In Physics While Wu Herself Was Awarded The Inaugural Wolf Prize In Physics In 1978. Her Expertise In Experimental Physics Evoked Comparisons To Marie Curie. Her Nicknames Include The "First Lady Of Physics" The "Chinese Madame Curie" And The "Queen Of Nuclear Research". In September 1944 Wu Was Contacted By The Manhattan District Engineer Colonel Kenneth Nichols. Wu Was Frustrated With Her Lack Of Professorships And Volunteered To Help Out In The Project. The Newly Commissioned B Reactor The First Practical Nuclear Reactor Ever Built Which Was Located At The Hanford Site Had Run Into An Unexpected Problem Starting Up And Shutting Down At Regular Intervals. John Archibald Wheeler And Partner Enrico Fermi Suspected That A Fission Product Xe-135 With A Half-Life Of 9.4 Hours Was The Culprit And Might Be A Neutron Poison Or Absorber. Segrè Then Remembered The 1940 Phd Thesis That Wu Had Done For Him At Berkeley On The Radioactive Isotopes Of Xe And Told Fermi To "Ask Ms. Wu". After Fermi Contacted Wu Segrè Visited Her Dorm Room Together With Nichols And Collected The Typewritten Draft Prepared For The Physical Review. The Suspicions Of Fermi And Wheeler Came True Wu's Paper Unknowingly Verified That Xe-135 Was Indeed The Culprit For The B Reactor; It Turned Out To Have An Unexpectedly Large Neutron Absorption Cross-Section. Wu Also Used Her Findings In Radioactive Uranium Separation To Build The Standard Model For Producing Enriched Uranium To Fuel The Atomic Bombs At The Oak Ridge Tennessee Facility As Well As Build Innovative Geiger Counters. Wu Like Most Involved Physicists In Their Later Years Distanced Herself From The Manhattan Project Due To Its Destructive Outcome And Recommended To The Taiwanese President Chiang Kai-Shek In 1962 To Never Build Nuclear Weapons. In November 1949 Wu Experimented With The Conclusions Of Einstein's Epr Thought Experiment Which Called Quantum Entanglement "Spooky Action At A Distance". Wu Managed To Be The First To Establish The Phenomenon And Validity Of Entanglement Using Photons Through Observing Angular Correlation. Specifically The Experiment Carried Out By Wu Was The First Important Confirmation Of Quantum Results Relevant To A Pair Of Entangled Photons As Applicable To The Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Epr Paradox. In Her Post-War Research Wu Continued To Investigate Beta Decay. In 1949 Wu Completely Established Fermi's Theory And Showed How Beta Decay Worked Especially In Creating Electrons Neutrinos And Positrons.At Columbia Wu Knew The Chinese-Born Theoretical Physicist Tsung-Dao Lee Personally. In The Mid-1950S Lee And Another Chinese Theoretical Physicist Chen Ning Yang Grew To Question A Hypothetical Law Of Elementary Particle Physics The "Law Of Conservation Of Parity". The Discovery Of Parity Violation Was A Major Contribution To Particle Physics And The Development Of The Standard Model. The Discovery Actually Set The Stage For The Development Of The Model As The Model Relied On The Idea Of Symmetry Of Particles And Forces And How Particles Can Sometimes Break That Symmetry. See The Much Longer Wikipedia Article. American Physical Society / American Institute Of Physics hardcover
2000réf. 034820Cambridge / London: The MIT Press 2000. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Fine/As New. Xxi 135 Pp. Blue Cloth Silver Gilt. Second Printing. Inscribed By The Author To A Caltech Professor Jerry Solomon: " To Jerry With High Hopes For A Deeper Understanding Of The Laws Of Nature C A Mead". As New In As New Dj. Per Wikipedia Carver Andress Mead Born 1934 Is An American Scientist And Engineer. He Currently Holds The Position Of Gordon And Betty Moore Professor Emeritus Of Engineering And Applied Science At The California Institute Of Technology Caltech Having Taught There For Over 40 Years. He Taught Deborah Chung The First Female Engineering Graduate Of Caltech. He Advised The First Female Electrical Engineering Student At Caltech Louise Kirkbride. His Contributions As A Teacher Include The Classic Textbook Introduction To Vlsi Systems 1980 Which He Coauthored With Lynn Conway. A Pioneer Of Modern Microelectronics He Has Made Contributions To The Development And Design Of Semiconductors Digital Chips And Silicon Compilers Technologies Which Form The Foundations Of Modern Very-Large-Scale Integration Chip Design. In The 1980S He Focused On Electronic Modelling Of Human Neurology And Biology Creating "Neuromorphic Electronic Systems."567 Mead Has Been Involved In The Founding Of More Than 20 Companies.8 Most Recently He Has Called For The Reconceptualization Of Modern Physics Revisiting The Theoretical Debates Of Niels Bohr Albert Einstein And Others In Light Of Later Experiments And Developments In Instrumentation. Carver Mead Has Developed An Approach He Calls Collective Electrodynamics In Which Electromagnetic Effects Including Quantized Energy Transfer Are Derived From The Interactions Of The Wavefunctions Of Electrons Behaving Collectively.68 In This Formulation The Photon Is A Non-Entity And Planck's Energy-Frequency Relationship Comes From The Interactions Of Electron Eigenstates. The Approach Is Related To John Cramer's Transactional Interpretation Of Quantum Mechanics To The Wheeler-Feynman Absorber Theory Of Electrodynamics And To Gilbert N. Lewis's Early Description Of Electromagnetic Energy Exchange At Zero IntervalClarification Needed In Spacetime. Although This Reconceptualization Does Not Pertain To Gravitation A Gravitational Extension Of It Makes Predictions That Differ From General Relativity. For Instance Gravitational Waves Should Have A Different Polarization Under "G4v" The Name Given To This New Theory Of Gravity. Moreover This Difference In Polarization Can Be Detected By Advanced Ligo. The MIT Press hardcover
1856réf. 010227London: Richard Taylor and William Francis 1856. Book. Very Good. Cloth. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First Edition in original green embossed cloth with bright gilt lettering at spine Very Good corners turned in widely scattered small spots of browning hinges tight. With three engraved plates one folding and errata slip tipped at p. 445. The inked signature of Robert Siegfried front paste down. viii 496 pp. Richard Taylor and William Francis Hardcover
réf. 118558London Bantam Press 1988. . First edition corrected second printing; 8vo; illustrations throughout the text a few small spots to the title and contents leaf and to the edges of the text block; publisher's blue boards titles to spine gilt a very good copy in the lightly rubbed jacket with a couple of small spots to the upper panel; 198pp. First edition the corrected second printing of one of the most successful popular science books ever written. The first printing included a number of textual errors and was recalled making copies uncommon. In 1974 physicist Stephen Hawking 1942-2018 made the revolutionary discovery that black holes rather than being totally inescapable actually release a type of energy now known as Hawking radiation. That same year he was elected one of the youngest-ever members of the Royal Society and in 1979 he followed in the footsteps of Isaac Newton when he was appointed Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge. Hawking began to consider writing for a general audience in the early 1980s and approached an editor at the Cambridge University Press who suggested that he avoid equations. Famously A Brief History of Time contains only one: e = mc2 instead relying on narrative and illustrations to explain complex concepts such as the Big Bang the expansion and fate of the universe quantum mechanics black holes the directionality of time and the search for a unifying theory of physics. Despite its complex subject matter the book was an immediate success and the Guardian has described it as 'a succinct entertaining and brilliantly lucid account of our relationship with the universe' McCrum 'The 100 Best Non-Fiction Books No. 6' March 2016. London, Bantam Press, 1988. hardcover
1913réf. 032974Haarlem: De Erven Loosjes 1913. First Separate Edition . Soft cover. Good. 60 Pp. Beige Wrappers Printed In Black.Wear And Losses To Paper Backstrip Wear At Tips. Paper Browning Bookplate Of A Well-Published Leiden-Trained Mathematical Physicist Jan Korringa. With The Three Summary Handouts For The Lectures Titled Het Relativiteitsbeginsel I Ii And Iii Of 4 4 And 5 Pages. Pencil Notes In Text And Also Dating The First Lecture As March 1913 These Notes Not By By Korringa But Possibly By H A Kramers Who Attended These Lectures As A Student And Passed Some Of His Physics Books To Korringa Who Later Became Kramers' Principal Assistant. The Summary Handouts Are Quite Scarce. De Erven Loosjes paperback
1906réf. 058327Leipzig: Verlag Von B. G. Truebner 1906. Early Edition . Cloth. Good. 128 1 Pp. Original Green Cloth Spine Lettered In Gilt Covers Stamped In Blind. . Torn At Spine. Ex-Library California Institute Of Technology With Their Marks Bookplate And Pocket And With Gift Bookplate Of E. T. Bell Professor Of Mathematics And As "John Taine" Pulp Science Fiction Writer. Endpaper With His Signature And 1918 Date With A Note That He Purchased It From Another Person At Columbia University Apparently M. E. Gansohne Whose Signature And Address Appear Above The Bell Information. There Is Another Note On The Rear Cover Dated 1908. Ppm 378 The Electron Theory. Covers Worn Fraying At Corners And Closed Split To Spine Cloth 1" Foil/Label On Spine. Verlag Von B. G. Truebner hardcover
1932réf. 53414Berlin Springer 1932. 8vo. Orig. full yellow cloth. with orig. printed dustjacket. Jacket with a few minor small tears. Small stamp on titlepage and jacket with previous owners name: Niels Arley 1911-94 collaborated with Niels Bohr professor at Inst. of Theoretical Physics Univ. of Copenhagen. 82622 pp. With many annotations in small pencil by Niels Arley throughout. First edition. In the early years of quantum mechanics several distinct formulations were developed; Heisenberg's matrix mechanics Schrödinger's wave mechanics and Dirac's more general transformation theory. However these theories lacked strict mathematical rigor only much later through Schwartz's theory of distributions did Dirac's theory achieve this. Quantum mechanics is one of the fields of science which was fortunate to attract the attention of a mathematician of von Neumann's character. Von Neumann showed in a paper published 1927 how generalized infinite-dimensional Euclidean spaces function spaces and linear operators provide the proper mathematical framework for quantum mechanics. Von Neumann was strongly influenced by Hilbert's program of axiomatizing the fields of science. The axiomatic approach which von Neumann takes in his theory has ever since dominated modern physics and functional analysis and it was von Neumann who coined the term 'Hilbert space'. Von Neumann's work in this field culminated in this monograph which in addition to the earlier paper includes his important considerations inspired by Bohr and Heisenberg regarding the problem of measurement in particular von Neumann's disproof of hidden variables. hardcover
1965réf. 010746Rome: Pontificia Academia Scientiarum 1965. Journal. Near Fine. Printed Wrappers. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Thus. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Association Copy. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED by author at title page "To Willies Barnstone Glad that we are alive! Alair. Feb. 67". Near Fine. Octavo. In original grey printed wrappers. Spine foxed. Top of front wrapper INSCRIBED in ink in Barnstone's hand "also appeared in: Brain and Conscious Experience Ed. John Eccles Springer-Verlog New York Inc. 1966.". A scientific offprint paginated 667-703. Alair de Oliveira Gomes was a professor of the Philosophy of Science and then of Contemporary Art before establishing himself as a pioneer of homoerotic photography. Both he and Barnstone were deeply inspired by classical Greek culture and approached their disciplines similarly influenced by musical structures exhibiting the musical features of their non-musical art forms. Gomes's academic publications and his signature on items other than his famous photographs are RARE. . Pontificia Academia Scientiarum Paperback
1965réf. 033390New York: The American Physical Society 1965. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. Entire Issue In Original Blue-Green Wrappers. Near Fine. The American Physical Society paperback
1867réf. 43456London Taylor and Francis 1867. 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" Vol. 157 - Part I. Titlepage to volume 155 and pp. 49-88. Titlepage with minor light browning at corners. Internally clean. A small stamp on verso of titlepage. First appearance of this seminal paper in its full version from "Transactions" representing the announcement of Maxwell's final "Theory of Gases" and introduces the "Maxwell Distribution" in its final form a statistical means of describing aspects of the kinetic theory of gases a theory together with his electromagnetic theory are considered to be SOME OF THE GREATEST ADVANCES IN PHYSICS OF ALL TIMES. Everett considers this paper 1868 to be Maxwell's greatest single paper. Maxwell's discoveries laid the foundations of special relativity and quantum mechanics.One of Maxwell's major investigations was on the kinetic theory of gases. Originating with Daniel Bernoulli this theory was advanced by the successive labours of John Herapath John James Waterston James Joule and particularly Rudolf Clausius to such an extent as to put its general accuracy beyond a doubt; but it received enormous development from Maxwell who in this field appeared as an experimenter on the laws of gaseous friction as well as a mathematician.In 1866 he formulated statistically independently of Ludwig Boltzmann the Maxwell-Boltzmann kinetic theory of gases. His formula called the Maxwell distribution gives the fraction of gas molecules moving at a specified velocity at any given temperature. In the kinetic theory temperatures and heat involve only molecular movement. This approach generalized the previously established laws of thermodynamics and explained existing observations and experiments in a better way than had been achieved previously. Maxwell's work on thermodynamics led him to devise the Gedankenexperiment thought experiment that came to be known as Maxwell's demon. unknown
1966réf. 059777New York: Interscience Publishers / John Wiley & Sons 1966. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Xiv 394 Pp. Gray-Green Cloth Printed In Dark Green. First Printing. Near Fine Previous Owner's Name. Dj With Slight Wear Two Short Tears At Top Of Rear Panel. Remarkably Thorough Experimental And Theoretical History And Analysis. Definitive For The Advanced Student And The Expert. Per Wikipedia Chien-Shiung Wu Chinese: ; Pinyin: Wú Jiànxióng; Wade-Giles: Wu2 Chien4-Hsiung2; 1912 - 1997 Was A Chinese-American Particle And Experimental Physicist Who Made Significant Contributions In The Fields Of Nuclear And Particle Physics. Wu Worked On The Manhattan Project Where She Helped Develop The Process For Separating Uranium Into Uranium-235 And Uranium-238 Isotopes By Gaseous Diffusion. She Is Best Known For Conducting The Wu Experiment Which Proved That Parity Is Not Conserved. This Discovery Resulted In Her Colleagues Tsung-Dao Lee And Chen-Ning Yang Winning The 1957 Nobel Prize In Physics While Wu Herself Was Awarded The Inaugural Wolf Prize In Physics In 1978. Her Expertise In Experimental Physics Evoked Comparisons To Marie Curie. Her Nicknames Include The "First Lady Of Physics" The "Chinese Madame Curie" And The "Queen Of Nuclear Research". After Work On The Manhattan Project During Wwii Wu Accepted An Offer Of A Position As An Associate Research Professor At Columbia. She Would Remain At Columbia For The Rest Of Her Career And Was First Named Associate Professor In 1952 Which Made Her The First Woman To Become A Tenured Physics Professor In University History. In November 1949 Wu Experimented With The Conclusions Of Einstein's Epr Thought Experiment Which Called Quantum Entanglement "Spooky Action At A Distance". Wu Was The First To Establish The Phenomenon And Validity Of Entanglement Using Photons Through Observing Angular Correlation As Her Result Confirmed Maurice Pryce And John Clive Ward's Calculations On The Correlation Of The Quantum Polarizations Of Two Photons Propagating In Opposite Directions. Specifically The Experiment Carried Out By Wu Was The First Important Confirmation Of Quantum Results Relevant To A Pair Of Entangled Photons As Applicable To The Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Epr Paradox. Her 1950 Letter To Physical Review Famously Identified Confirmation Of Wheeler's Ideas On Entanglement. Tsung-Dao Lee And Another Chinese Theoretical Physicist Chen Ning Yang Grew To Question A Hypothetical Law Of Elementary Particle Physics The "Law Of Conservation Of Parity". Lee And Yang Worked Out A Pencil-And-Paper Design Of An Experiment For Testing Conservation Of Parity In The Laboratory. Because Of Her Expertise In Choosing And Then Working Out The Hardware Manufacture Set-Up And Laboratory Procedures Wu Then Informed Lee That She Could Carry Out The Experiment. Wu Chose To Do This By Taking A Sample Of Radioactive Cobalt-60 And Cooling It To Cryogenic Temperatures With Liquid Gases. Cobalt-60 Is An Isotope That Decays By Beta Particle Emission And Wu Was Also An Expert On Beta Decay. The Discovery Of Parity Violation Was A Major Contribution To Particle Physics And The Development Of The Standard Model. The Discovery Actually Set The Stage For The Development Of The Model As The Model Relied On The Idea Of Symmetry Of Particles And Forces And How Particles Can Sometimes Break That Symmetry.The Wide Coverage Of Her Discovery Prompted The Discoverer Of Fission Otto Frisch To Mention That Those At Princeton Would Often Say That Her Experiment Was The Most Impactful Since The Michelson-Morley Experiment That Inspired Einstein's Theory Of Relativity. In December 1962 Wu Experimentally Demonstrated A Universal Form And More Accurate Version Of Fermi's Old Beta Decay Model Confirming The Conserved Vector Current Cvc Hypothesis Of Richard Feynman And Murray Gell-Mann On The Road To The Standard Model. Interscience Publishers / John Wiley & Sons hardcover
1988réf. ZB253536American Institute of Physics 1988. volumes 15-24 1988-1997 mostly original paper wrappers ex library good price is for the lot. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request. American Institute of Physics unknown
1946réf. 049312The American Philosophical Society 1946. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Fine. 79 Pp. Entire Issue In Original Wrappers 1946. Fine Slight Browning No Marks. The Moment In The Twentieth Century When Scientists As A Class Were Clearly Appalled By The Colossal Destructive Power They Had Created For Governments And Others To Use In Any Way They Wish A Moral Qualm Which Has Practically Almost Disappeared And There Are Always Some Following In The Footsteps Of These Scientists Who Will Make Any New Weapon Or Or Political Candidate Or Media Influencer Regardless Of The Consequences So Many In Fact That We No Longer Even Notice Them Individually. They Are The System. The American Philosophical Society paperback
1913réf. 032015London: Macmillan And Co 1913. First English Language Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Xiv 1 219 Pp 4 Pp Ads At Rear. Blue Cloth Gilt And Blindstamped. Seven Line Inscription And Signature Of Zeeman Dated In December 1924 To Alfred Lande. Light Rubbing At Corners And Front Spine Edge Gilt All Present But Not Brilliant Very Faint Dampstaining In Upper Right Third Of Front Cover And Small Area In Upper Corner Of Rear Cover But No Trace On Contents; Otherwise Clean No Fading To Cloth. From Wikipedia: Alfred Landé 1888 -1976 Was A German-American Physicist Known For His Contributions To Quantum Theory. In 1913 Landé Was Sent By Arnold Sommerfeld His Thesis Advisor At The University Of Munich To Be A Special Assistant For Physics To David Hilbert At The University Of Göttingen To Replace Paul Peter Ewald Whom Sommerfeld Had Sent To The Same Position In 1912. Landé Obtained His Doctorate Under Sommerfeld At The University Of Munich Two Weeks Prior To The Start Of The First World War. He Joined The Red Cross And Served For Two Years On The Eastern Front Before Being Invited By Max Born To Join Him At The Artillery Testing Commission One Of The Few Scientific Sections Of The Army. Apart From Their Work On Artillery Location By Sound Ranging They Began To Examine The Cohesive Forces And Compressibility Of Crystals. This Work Led To The Unexpected Result That The Electron Trajectories In Atoms Were Not At All Like Planetary Orbits Which At The Time Was The Usual Understanding Of The Electron In An Atom. Landé Studied Atomic Structure Intensively For The Next Seven Years. In 1916 Sommerfeld Had Begun To Apply The New Atomic Theory To Form A General Quantization Rule. In 1919 Landé Unexpectedly Turned To Spectroscopy Even Though The Continuation Of The Study Of The Spatial Orientation Of The Atoms Was The Most Pressing Problem Of The Time. He Turned To The Problem Of Atoms With Several Electrons In Particular To The Simplest Case The Spectrum Of Helium. The Spectrum Showed Non-Combining Single And Double Actually Triplet As It Turned Out Later Terms So That It Seemed As If Helium Was Made Of Two Different Substances Which Is Explained Today As The Result Of Electron Spin. Landé's Work Contained Several New Important Ideas Including The Rule Of Vector Addition Of Two Quantum-Mechanical Angular Momenta J1 And J2. His Findings And Postulates Were Later Confirmed By Quantum Theory. Landé's Frankfurt Investigations December 1920 Until April 1921 Ended With The Discovery Of The Well-Known Landé G-Formula And An Explanation For The Anomalous Zeeman Effect. The Landé G-Factor Is Now Defined Through Mj The Magnetic Quantum Number. In 1923 Landé Stated The Landé Interval Rule A Rule Dealing With The Relation Between An Electron's Spin And Orbit. Landé Was A Forerunner In A Phase Of New Interpretation Of Quantum Theory From Which Concrete Physical Statements About Experimentally Verifiable Facts Can Be Made. This Happened After The First Phase Of The Interpretation Of The Theory With Well-Known Discussions Between Niels Bohr Werner Heisenberg And Wolfgang Pauli Who Favoured The Copenhagen Interpretation Opposed In Varying Degrees By Erwin Schrödinger Louis De Broglie And Most Notably Albert Einstein. After 1950 And For The Rest Of His Life Landé Turned Energetically Against The Copenhagen Interpretation Of Quantum Theory Requiring As Did Einstein An Objectively Real Description Of Physical Processes. This Change Was Driven By Landé's Perception That Wave-Particle Duality Was An Unnecessary Misrepresentation Of Quantum Processes That He Explained By Developing A New Unitary Particle Formulation Without Dualistic Reference To Waves. Landé Based His New Formulation Upon Non-Quantal Principles Of Symmetry And Invariance With Duane's Rule For Quantisation Of Momentum Exchange With Space-Periodic Structures And Leibniz's Principle Of Cause-Effect Continuity To Explain The Intrinsically Probabilistic Nature Of Quantum Processes. His Interpretation Is Considered A Minority Interpretation. Macmillan And Co hardcover
réf. 205017London: Head of Zeus in association with Goldsboro Books 2015-2020. 1st UK Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Signed by Authors on title/limitations pages . Very Scarce set of 8 books 7 by Cixin Liu and one by Baoshu all 1st edition 1st impression and signed by the author. All are limited editions with seven of the eight books being numbered 175 out of 250. Set includes The Three-Body Problem 175/250 also signed and dated by translator The Dark Forest 175/250 also signed by translator Death�s End Forest 175/250 also signed by translator The Redemption of Time by Baoshu 175/250 signed by Baoshu and the translator Ball Lightning 175/250 The Supernova Era 175/250 also signed by translator Hold Up the Sky 55/250 and Of Ants and Dinosaurs 175/250. All published by Head of Zeus in association with Goldsboro Books. ISBNs are 9781784971557 9781784971595 9781784971632 9781788542203 9781786694683 9781788542388 9781838937607 9781789546118. All books are in Fine/Fine condition DJ�s are not price clipped and are protected in clear archival quality non adhesive protectors. All books are unread with no inscriptions or markings other than author/translator signatures. A very scarce set in this condition. Head of Zeus in association with Goldsboro Books hardcover
1961réf. ZB393201Rockefeller University Press 1961-1970. Volumes 1-10; partly bound price is for the lot. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request. Rockefeller University Press unknown
1991réf. ZB393039IOP Press 1991-1999. Volumes 1-9 1991-1999 an uninterrupted run of complete volumes partly bound library markings textually clean & tight price is for the lot. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request. IOP Press unknown
1730réf. 035995London: William Innys 1730. 4th Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. New Calf Spine And Tips Over Marbled Paper Covered Boards New Endpapers. Two Preliminary Blanks Title Advertisements To First Second And Fourth Editions382 Pp 12 Folding Plates And Two Pages Of Publisher's Ads At Rear. Page Block 19.5 Cm Text Block 6.5" X 3 1/2" From Top To Bottom Of Printed Area Including Page Running Headings Tall. Top Edge Of Page Block Is Dark Grey Or Black Fore Edge And Bottom Edge Red All Polished. Leaves 7 5/8" Tall; Binding 7 3/4" X 5 3/16". The Last And Best Edition Prepared By Newton Corrected From The Third Edition By Newton; In This Fourth Edition Of 1730 There Are 31 Queries And It Is The Famous "31St Query" That Over The Next Two Hundred Years Stimulated A Great Deal Of Speculation And Development On Theories Of Chemical Affinity. The Publishers Have Added To This Edition Several Citations From The Lectiones Opticae 1669-1671 To Show Where Demonstrations Omitted From The Opticks May Be Found. Unusually Well Preserved Binding Fine Contents Clean Some Tiny Foxing Spots Mainly In Margins And Mainly Towards Beginning Of Book; Very Slight Wear To Edges Of Page Block. . William Innys hardcover
1998réf. ZB394168Pergamon Press 1998. volumes 1-75. 1998. partly bound library markings textually clean & tight price is for the set. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request. Pergamon Press unknown
1975réf. ZB393202Rockefeller University Press 1975-1996. Volumes 13-70; mostly in original paper wrappers. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request. Rockefeller University Press unknown
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
