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1907Best.-Nr. 29338Leipzig Barth 1907. 8vo. Extract from "Annalen der Physik IV23" pp.197-198. Some slight browning to leaves. First edition. Weil No. 17. unknown
1927Best.-Nr. 28360Berlin Gruyter & Co. 1927. 4to. Orig. printed orange wrappers. Offprint/Sonderabdruck aus Sitzungsberichten.pp.23-30. Fine fresh copy. First edition of rare Offprint still called "Abdruck". - Weil No. 156.The early Offprints from "Sitzungsberichten." are called "Sonderabdruck" up to Weil No.165 including this. From Weil 166 they are called "Sonderausgabe.". - Before 161 up to 160 the Offprints do not have separate title and pagination the pagination follows the numbering in the periodical. From 166 the Offprint has both separate printed title and pagination. - So Weil Nos 161-165 is still "Abdruck" but with separate title and pagination. These facts are not mentioned in the bibliographies. unknown
1914Best.-Nr. 48163Braunschweig Vieweg & Sohn 1914. No wrappers. "Verhandlungen der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft im Jahre 1914. Hrsg. von Karl Scheel." 16. Jahrgang Nr. 16. Pp. 765- 834. Entire issue offered. With the general titlepage to 16. Jahrg. Titlepage stamped at foot. Einstein paper pp. 820-828. First edition. In this paper "Contributions to quantum theory" two considerations are given which are interrelated by a common goal inasmuch as it is attempted to derive two of the most importent achievementss of quantum theory viz. Planck's radiation law and Nernst's third law of thermodynamics in a new manner. The proofs do not involve Boltzmann's equation and are thus based enterely on macroscopic thermodynamics. They do introduce however the quantum hupothesis. Einstein points out that the alleged 'proofs' which try to derive the theorem of Nernst from the mere fact that the heat capacity of all substances goes to zero at absolute zero temterature are not genuine. Cornelius Lanczos.Weil No 67. unknown
1932Best.-Nr. 22769Berlin 1932. Orig. printed orange wrappers. Back strengthend with matching paper. Fresh copy. Offprint/Sonderabdr. aus "Sitzungsberichten". pp. 1-32. First edition. Weil No. 186. unknown
1923Best.-Nr. 22766Berlin 1923. Orig. printed orange wrappers. Back strengthend with matching paper. Fresh copy. Offprint/Sonerabdr. aus "Sitzungsberichte". pp. 369-364. First edition. Weil No. 137. unknown
1906Best.-Nr. 38794Leipzig Johann Ambrosius Barth 1906. Bound together in one contemp. hcloth. Small tears to spine ends. = "Annalen der Physik. Vierte Folge. Band 20. Herausgegeben von Paul Drude." Portrait Paul Drude VIII1048 pp. and 6 plates. Einstein papers: pp. 199-206 and 627-33. Internally fine and clean. The whole volume offered. Both papers first edition. It was for the papers "Ueber einen die Erzeugung und Verwandlung des Lichtes betreffenden heuristischen Gesichtspunkt" of 1905 and "Zur Theorie der Lichterzeugung. Theory of light emission and absorption the offered item that Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1921."The quantum theory has affected virtually every branch of physics. Its earliest and one of its most significant developments was Einstein's application of the theory to what is known as the 'photo-electrical effect'.Einstein explained this effext by suggesting that the classical view that light is emitted in the form of continous waves must be abandoned. The photo-electrical effect could be explained only as an example of quantum action where the waves of light or X-rays are emitted in minute particles or bullets. It is he size of the bullet the wave-lenght of the radiation which determines the number of electrons ejected. It was for this and not for the theory of relativity that Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1921. Einstein's two fundamental papers on this subject are "Ueber einem Erzeugung." 1905 and Zur Theorie der Lichterzeugung the paper offered here" PMM the note to 391. In the second paper Principle of the conservation of the centre of mass motion and the inertia of energy he shows that the conservation of mass is a special application of his energy principle E= Mc2 - Weil: 12 & 13.Among the many papers in this volume we have Max von Laue: Zur Thermodynamik der Inteferenzerscheinungen. pp. 365-378. hardcover
1906Best.-Nr. 46956Leipzig Johann Ambrosius Barth 1906. No wrappers. Extracted from "Annalen der Physik" Vierte Folge. Bd. 20. Pp. 199-206. Clean and fine. First printing of one of the papers for which Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1921. It was for the papers "Ueber einen die Erzeugung und Verwandlung des Lichtes betreffenden heuristischen Gesichtspunkt" of 1905 and "Zur Theorie der Lichterzeugung. Theory of light emission and absorption the offered item that Einstein received the prize: "for his services to theoretical physics and especially for his discoveryof the law of the photoelectrical effect" - his reward was not based on relativity."The quantum theory has affected virtually every branch of physics. Its earliest and one of its most significant developments was Einstein's application of the theory to what is known as the 'photo-electrical effect'.Einstein explained this effext by suggesting that the classical view that light is emitted in the form of continous waves must be abandoned. The photo-electrical effect could be explained only as an example of quantum action where the waves of light or X-rays are emitted in minute particles or bullets. It is he size of the bullet the wave-lenght of the radiation which determines the number of electrons ejected. It was for this and not for the theory of relativity that Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1921. Einstein's two fundamental papers on this subject are "Ueber einem Erzeugung." 1905 and Zur Theorie der Lichterzeugung the paper offered here" PMM the note to 391.Weil: 12 with an asterix denoting a major paper - Boni:12. unknown
1930Best.-Nr. 38646Berlin Akademie der Wissenschaften 1930. 4to. Orig. printed green wrapper. No VI 1930 of Sitzungsberichte der Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Wrappers with very small nicks atspine. Small part of one corner gone. pp. 110-120. A small stamp at foot of frontwrapper. First edition in the periodical form. - Weil No. 170 unknown
1918Best.-Nr. 40496Leipzig Johann Ambrosius Barth 1918. Without wrappers as extracted from "Annalen der Physik" Vierte Folge Bd. 55 Heft 4. The whole number present pp. 241-336. Einsteins paper pp. 241-244. First printing the periodical form. Einstein believed around 1918 "in the relativity of inertia that in 1918 in the paper offered he stated as being on equal footing three principles on which a satisfactory theory of gravitation should rest: 1. The principle of relativity as expressed by general covarianc. 2. The principle of equivalence. 3. Mach's principle the first time this term entered the literature: 'Das G-Feld ist 'restlos' durch die Massen der Körper bestimmt.' that is the g. are completely determined by the mass of bodies more generally bu T."Pais The Science of Albert Einstein p.287. - Weil:96. - Boni: 100. unknown
1912Best.-Nr. 49779Leipzig Barth1912. 8vo. No wrappers. In: "Annalen der Physik IV Bd. 38" No 7. Pp.249-472 a. 3 plates. Entire issue offered. Einstein's papers: pp. 355-369 and pp. 443-458. Clean and fine. Both papers in first edition and they are considered as the first appearance of a Nonlinear Field Equation for Gravitation. "Einstein published two remarkable memoirs in 1912 which were efforts to construct a complete theory of gravitation incorporating the equivalence principle. In these memoirs Einstein supposed that the gravitational field can be characterized completely by one function the local speed of light analogous to the Newtonian description where only the gravitational potential appears. By an extraordinary argument he extended the potential equation of Newton.In his second Memoir in 1912 he used the equivalence principle to show the influence of a static gravitational field on electromagnetic and thermal processes." DSB IV p.320 ff. - Weil No. 47 and 48. unknown
1908Best.-Nr. 38837Leipzig Hirzel 1908. 4to. Contemp. hcalf. Spine gilt. Corners and spine ends with light wear. "Physikalische Zeitschrift. Herausgegeben von E. Riecke und H.Th. Simon. Neunter Jahrgang". XIX928 pp. textillustrations and 8 plates. Einstein paper: pp. 216-217. Internally clean and fine. The whole volume offered. First edition. The volume contains also importent papers by Otto Hahn Lise Meitner Max Planck. unknown
1930Best.-Nr. 28365Berlin Gruyter X Co. 1930. 4to. Orig. orange printed wrappers. Offprint/Sonderausgabe aus Sitzungsberichten. pp. 1-13. First edition in the rare Offprint having separate printed title and separate pagination. See Weil No. 170 where this is not mentioned.The early Offprints from "Sitzungsberichten." are called "Sonderabdruck" up to Weil No.165 including this. From Weil 166 they are called "Sonderausgabe.". - Before 161 up to 160 the Offprints do not have separate title and pagination the pagination follows the numbering in the periodical. From 166 the Offprint has both separate printed title and pagination. - So Weil Nos 161-165 is still "Abdruck" but with separate title and pagination. These facts are not mentioned in the bibliographies. unknown
1903Best.-Nr. 47072Leipzig Johann Ambrosius Barth 1903. Contemp. hcloth. Handwritten paperlabel on spine. In: "Annalen der Physik. Vierte Folge. Band 11. Herausgegeben von Paul Drude.". VIII1144pp. and 6 plates. Entire volume offered. The Einstein paper: pp. 170-187. Faint signs of dampstains in outer margins on a few leaves. First edition of Einsteins fourth paper. In his paper from 1902 Einstein "says in his introduction that nobody has yet succeeded in deriving the conditions of thermal equilibrium and of the second law of thermodynamics from probability considerations although Maxwell and Boltzmann came near to it. Willard Gibbs is not mentioned. In fact Einstein's paper was written in ignorance of Gibbs paper published 1901. In the present paper Einstein builds the theory on another basis not used by Gibbs namely on the consideration of a single system in course of time later called "Zeit-Gesamtheit" time assembly and proves that this is equivalent to a certain virtual assembly of many systems Gibb's micro-canonical assembly.Einstein at once proceeded to apply his theorems to a case of utmost importance namely to systems of a size suited for demonstrating the reality of molecules and the correctness of the kinetic theory of matter."Walter Alicke. First edition of Einsteins fourth paper. In his paper from 1902 Einstein "says in his introduction that nobody has yet succeeded in deriving the conditions of thermal equilibrium and of the second law of thermodynamics from probability considerations although Maxwell and Boltzmann came near to it. Willard Gibbs is not mentioned. In fact Einstein's paper was written in ignorance of Gibbs paper published 1901. In the present paper Einstein builds the theory on another basis not used by Gibbs namely on the consideration of a single system in course of time later called "Zeit-Gesamtheit" time assembly and proves that this is equivalent to a certain virtual assembly of many systems Gibb's micro-canonical assembly.Einstein at once proceeded to apply his theorems to a case of utmost importance namely to systems of a size suited for demonstrating the reality of molecules and the correctness of the kinetic theory of matter."Walter Alicke. - Weil No. 4 - Boni No 4. hardcover
1904Best.-Nr. 38818Leipzig J.A. Barth 1904. Contemp. hcloth tears to hinges at upper part of spine. "Annalen der Physik. Vierte Folge. Band 14. Herausgegeben von Paul Drude". VIII1040 pp. and 3 plates. The Einstein paper: pp. 354-362. Internally clean and fine. The whole volume offered. First edition of Einstein's fifth work. "It was in this last of his early series of papers before the announcement of the theory of relativity in 1905 that Einstein introduced a new theme. Einstein asked for the physical significance of the constant now known as Boltzmann's konstant 'k'.It was already well known from the theory of the ideal gas that 'k' was simply related to the gas constant 'R' and to Avogardo's number the number of molecules in a gram-molecular weight of any substance. Einstein showed that 'k' entered into still another basic equation of the statistical theory the expression for the mean square fluctuation of the energy about its average value. This meant that 'k' determines the thermal stability of a system.the paper contains the seeds of much of his later work.Walter Alicke. - Weil No 5. hardcover
1920Best.-Nr. 38643Berlin Julius Springer 1920. Uncut in orig. printed wrappers. 15 1 pp. Clean and fine near mint condition. First edition. - Weil: 111. unknown
1931Best.-Nr. 28370Berlin Gruyter & Co. 1931. 4to. Orig. printed orange wrapper. Offprint/Sonderausgabe aus Sitzungsberichten.pp. 1-19. Fine fresh copy. First edition in the rare Offprint with separate printed title and separate pagination. Se Weil No. 182 where this is not mentioned. Weil No. 182 with an asterix denoting a major work.The early Offprints from "Sitzungsberichten." are called "Sonderabdruck" up to Weil No.165 including this. From Weil 166 they are called "Sonderausgabe.". - Before 161 up to 160 the Offprints do not have separate title and pagination the pagination follows the numbering in the periodical. From 166 the Offprint has both separate printed title and pagination. - So Weil Nos 161-165 is still "Abdruck" but with separate title and pagination. These facts are not mentioned in the bibliographies. unknown
1926Best.-Nr. 38843Berlin Julius Springer 1926. 4to. Contemp. hcloth. Some wear to binding. "Die Naturwisenschaften. Hrsg. von Arnold Berliner. Vierzehnter Jahrgang". XXVIII128644 pp. Einstein papers: pp. 223-224 and 300-301. Bohr paper pp. 1-10. The whole volume offred. All 3 papers in first edition. - Weil Nos 150;154. hardcover
1887Best.-Nr. 48810Leipzig Barth 1887-91. 8vo. No wrappers. 4 papers. In: "Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von G. Wiedemann" Neue Folge Bd. XXX No. 4 XXXI No 6 XXXII No. 11 XLIV No. 11. - Pp. 545-704 a. 1 plate pp. 145-336 a. 1 plate pp. 337-528 a. 1 plate pp. 385-576 a. 1 plate. With titlepge to vol. XXX htitlepage to vol. XXXI titlepage to vol. XXXII and titlepage to vol. XLIV. Titlepages with a stamp and on verso. Planck's papers: pp. 562-582 pp. 189-203 pp. 462-503 and pp. 385-428. Clean copies. First appearance of all 4 papers constituting Planck's seminal papers on entropy carrying the general title "On the principles of Increase of Entropy" in which he applied the second law of thermodynamics to chemical problems."His goal was as he said in the first paper of the series to carry further the "grand generalization" of Helmholtz Josiah Willard Gibbs and others: like the first principle of the mechanical heat theory the second the "Carnot-Clausius" principle applies not only to heat phenomena but to all kinds of physical and chemical phenomena; and because the second principle applies not only to reversible processes but also to irreversible or "natural" processes it applies to all processes whatsoever."Jungnickel and McCormach "Intellectual Mastery of Nature vol. 2 pp. 52 ff.What Einstein admired and called Planck's "first great scientific discovery" was the generality of its formulas which contain all that can be derived from pure thermodynamic principles. Einstein referred to the third paper in this series with the title "Gesetze des Eintritts beliebiger thermodynamischer und chemischer Reactionen"Akademie Nos. 8910 and 20. unknown
1921Best.-Nr. 46469Berlin Julius Springer 1921. Lex8vo. Orig. printed wrappers. Offprint/Sonderdruck from "Der Festschrift der Kaiser Wilhelm Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften zu ihrem 10jährigen Jubiläum". Pp. 50-52. A small tear to right margin 1 cm otherwise fine and clean. At foot frontwrapper "Nicht im Handel". First edition the offprint issue of this pioneerwork in globular cluster physics."In his paper on M13 Einstein 1921 concluded that the non-luminous mass contributes no higher order of magnitude to the total mass than does the luminous mass.To my knowledge this has been Einstein's only contact with globular clusters. As in other issues his claim still holds."Tom Richtler.Weil:117 - Boni:123. unknown
1931Best.-Nr. 38899Berlin Akademie der Wissenschaften 1931. 4to. Orig. printed wrappers. Small nicks to margin of wrapper. "Sitzungsberichte der Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften" issue XII pp. 233-247. Einstein paper: pp. 235-237 Schrödinger paper: pp. 238-247. Both papers first edition. - Weil No 179. unknown
1910Best.-Nr. 49714Leipzig Barth 1910. 8vo. Bound in contemporary half cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In "Annalen der Physik" Bd. 33 1910. Entire volume offered. Library stamp to verso of title page light wear to extremities. Otherwise fine and clean. pp. 1096-1104 and pp. 1105-1115; Pp. 1275-1298 Entire volume: VIII 1584 pp. 6 plates. First appearance of all three papers. The purpose of "A theorem in probability and its application in the Theory of radiation" is to demonstrate that the failure of statistical mechanics with respect to the radiation law Rayleigh - Jeans law contradicted by experience cannot be removed by the conjecture that perhaps the individual statistical events should not follow the usual law of independence product of probabilities instead of assuming a certain interdependence between them. Lanczos. The second paper "Statistical investigation on of the motion of an oscillator in a radiation field" makes use of the results of the previous investigation. Einstein's aim is to demonstrate that the Rayleigh-jeans law of radiation contracdicted by the physical facts is an unavoidable consequence of statistics even if we avoid any kind of assumption which may be suspected of needing correction. Lanczos. The third paper "Theory of the opalescence of homogenous fluids and fluid mixtures near the critical state" is an importent investigation and one of the most difficult of all his papers to understand. The aim of the paper is to complement the work of Smoluchovski Ann. d. Physik25 1908 who gave a general explanation of the strong density fluctuations - and the opalescence thus generated - of two fluids near the critical state of mixture or a single fluid near the critical state of condensation on the basis of the kinetic theory of heat. he did notgive howeverthe quantitative details concerning the scattered light associated with this phenomenon. Lanczos. - Weil Nos 34 35 and 36 with an asterix denoting major work.Weil No. 34 35 & 36. hardcover
1907Best.-Nr. 38828Berlin J.A. Barth 1907. Contemp. hcloth. Light wear to top of spine. "Annalen der Physik. Vierte Folge. Band 22" Engraved portrait of Pierre Curie. VIII1016 pp. and 4 plates. Einstein papers. pp. 180-190 pp. 569-572 and p.800. Internally clean and fine. The whole volume offered. All papers in first edition. "From 1905 through 1909 Einstein published five major papers on the hypothesis of energy quanta its theoretical implications and its use in the explanation of various phenomena. Among these papers we have his importent paper "Die Plancksche." and in his second paper from 1906d he asserted that Planck's derivation implicitly assumes quantification of the enrgies of charged oscillators. Now in the paper offered he returned to this question showing that if the structure function in phase space he had introduced earlier is assumed to restrict the oscillators to orbits with energies that are integral mulætiples of 'hv' then the average oscillator energy in a canonical ensemble yealds Planck's law when substituted in eg. The works contains the first systematic introduction of probability factors in the mathematics of Quantum Theory.The second paper represents Einstein's third stage in dealing with brownian motion. He had previous explained the zigzag motion of suspended particles and looked as this penomenon from a more general angle. In the present investigation he extends his reults to all macroscopic parameters by giving a general principle for the calculation of theit fluctuations. Weil: nos 15 1-2 with an asterix a. 16. hardcover
1909Best.-Nr. 38830Berlin J.A. Barth 1909. Orig. printed wrappers. Frontwr. eith tears endwr. only partly preserbed. "Annalen der Physik. Vierte Folge. Band 28 Heft 2. Heft 2 in 15 parts pp.217-248. Einstein Paper: pp. 445-47. First edition. The authors claimed in "Elementare Theorie der Brownschen Bewegungen" that the boundary conditions for E D H B on the boundary surface between two different media remain the same whwther the bodies are at rest or in motion. This is in fact not tthe case. The correction is made here with the help of a method which was originally employed by H. Hertz. Lanzos. - Weil No 26. unknown
1925Best.-Nr. 52559Berlin Königlich Akademie der Wissenschaften 1925-1929. 1. Einheitliche Feldtheorie von Gravitation und Elektrizität. Offprint: S. B. preuss. Akad. Wiss. 1925 pp.414-419. Original wrappers. Mint. Weil 147 / Boni 155.2. Neue Möglichkeit für eine einheitliche Feldtheorie von Gravitation und Elektrizität. Offprint: S. B. preuss. Akad. Wiss. 1928 pp.235-245. Original wrappers. Mint. Weil 162/ Boni 175.3. Zur einheitlichen Feldtheorie. Offprint: S. B. preuss. Akad. Wiss. 1929 pp.2-7. Original wrappers. Mint. Weil 165/ Boni 183.4. Einheitliche Feldtheorie und Hamiltonsches Prinzip. Offprint: S. B. preuss. Akad. Wiss. 1929 pp.156-159. Original wrappers. Mint. Weil 166/ Boni 184.5. Über den gegenwärtigen Stand der Feldtheorie. In: Festschrift Dr. A. Stodola Zürich Füssli 1929 pp.126-132. Publishers full cloth. Spine slightly faded. Otherwise mint. Weil 168 / Boni 178.All in all a very fine set. Offprint of all four papers and first edition of the final essay constituting Einstein's attempt toward creating a unified field theory: "a new theory of space with a view to unification of all forms of activity that fall within the sphere of physics giving them a common explanation" PMM416. The task of unifying nuclear electromagnetic and gravitational force is nowadays by many considered the holy grail of theoretical physics.Maxwell was the first to develop such a theory when he described the forces of electricity and magnetism as the single force electromagnetism. After Einstein had completed his general theory of relativity a field theory for gravitation he turned his attention towards generalizing his theory even further to include Maxwell's theory. Even though Einstein never succeeded in completing this task in the way that he finished his earlier theories he pioneered and explored many areas of this subject. "It had been repeatedly observed that Einstein's general theory of relativity necessitated a pluralistic explanation of the universe. In 1925 he announced that he had resolved this difficulty but the announcement was premature. In 1928 he attacked the problem once more only to find that Riemann's conception of space on which the general theory was based would not permit of a common explanation of electromagnetic and gravitational phenomena. In a series of papers the present devoted to the development of 'A Uniform Theory of Gravitation and Electricity' he outlined a new theory of space with a view to unification of all forms of activity that fall within the sphere of physics giving them a common explanation. All that would then remain to complete a scientific unison is the correlation of the organic and inorganic".PMM 416Barchas 586 hardcover
1902Best.-Nr. 49501Leipzig J. A. Barth 1902. 8vo. Bound in contemporary half calf with five raised bands and gilt lettering to spine. In ""Annalen der Physik. Vierte Folge. Band 9.". Entire volume offered. First edition of Einstein's third paper in which he deals with the definitions of temperature and entropy for thermal equilibrium conditions and with the equipartition theorem.The volume contains 2 papers by Max Planck originally published in "Jubelband für H.A. Lorentz" und Jubelband für J. Bosscha: "Ueber die von einem elliptisch schwingenden Ion emitterte und absorbierte Energie;" und "Ueber die Verteilung der Energie zwischen Aether und Materie;" pp. 619-628 und pp. 629-641.Weil No 3. hardcover