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183343919Leipzig Joh. Ambrosius Barth 1833. Contemp. hcalf. Spine gilt. Very light wear to spine ends and edges. In: "Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg.von Poggendorff" Jahrgang 1833 Bd. 30 Ergäntzungsheft. 376 pp. a. 2 folded engraved plates. 2 small stamps to p.1 and a small stamp to verso of plates. Entire volume offered. Fresnel's papers: pp. 100-255 a. pp. 255-261. Clean and fine. <br/><br/><em>First German edition of Fresnel's epoch-making memoir from the French Academy 1826 and incorporating his experimental results from the years 1815-19 in which he for the first time explained the causes of the diffraction effects as the mutual interference of the secondary waves emitted by those portions of the original wave-front which have not been obstructed by the diffraction screen. His methods of calculation utilized the principles of both Huygens and Young and he summed the effects due to different portions of the same primary wave-front. He demonstrates that the transverse wave theory of light explains the observed phenomena of reflection refraction interference polarization difraction patterns diffraction fringes etc. making a strong case for the theory of the transverse nature of light waves. The memoir records also Fresnel's famous mirror-experiment."In broad contect Fresnel's work can be viewed as the first successfull assault on the theory of imponderables and a major influence on the development of nineteenth-centurty energetics." DSB V p. 171."Augustin Fresnel seems to have adopted a wave theory of light from the very beginning of his studies. His first paper presented to the Academy.in October 1815 and entitled "La Diffraction de la Lumiere" the paper offered was written after a long correspondance with Arago who had promised Fresnel his full support. "The wave theory" Fresnel wrote "is well suited to explaining the complicated propagation of light phenomena and since as we know from the case of sound waves can surcomvent obstacles I decided to make a study of shadows.It is because they cross in regions common to them both that two pencils of rays can produce fringes. hence it follows that the vibrations of rays which cross at very small angles can cancel out whenever crests of one correspond to the throughs of the other."The voume contains further a notable paper by AMPÈRE "Bestimmung der krummen Fläche der Lichtswellen in einem Mittel dessen Elasticität verschieden ist nach den drei Hauptrichtungen d.h. nach debjenigen in welchem die von der Elasticität erregte Kraft in desselben Richtung wirkt in der die Theilchen dieses Mittels verschoben wurden." First German edition. Pp. 262-295. </em> unknown
187143538Leipzig Johann Ambrosius Barth 1871. Without wrappers as issued in "Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von J.C. Poggendorff" 142. Bd. 1. issue "Heft" No 1 1871. Titlepage to vol. 142. Titlepage with small stamps on verso Pp. 1-176 a. 4 folded engraved plates entire issue offered. Kundt's paper: pp. 163-171. <br/><br/><em>First printing of this importent paper on the theory of dispersion. "The theory of the dispersion of light was given its modern form when F.P. Leroux found that a prism filled with iodine vapour refracts the red rays to a greater extent than it refracts the blue 1862 and when Kundt 1871 - in the paper offered - showed the connection between this phenomenon and absorption: in the neighbourhood of an absorption band the refractive index undergoes considerable variations.the mechanical theory - which had already been suspected by Maxwell in 1869 - was perfected by Helmholtz in 1875; three years later H.A. Lorentz translated the results into electromagnetic language and so independently did Helmholtz in 1892." Taton in "History of Science in the 19th Century" p. 221 - In 1888 Kundt succeeded Helmholtz at Berlin.Magie "A Source Book in Physics" pp. 382 ff. </em> unknown
186743497Leipzig Johann Ambrosius Barth 1867. Contemp. hcalf raised bands gilt spine with gilt lettering. A few scratches to binding. In "Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg.von Poggendorff" Bd. 99. Entire volume offered. 2X652 pp. and 4 folded engraved plates. Weber & Kohlrausch's paper:pp. 10-25. <br/><br/><em>First appearance of this importent paper the results of which Maxwell later used as a crucial support for his electromagnetical theory of light.".The velocity of light c were measured by W. Weber and R. Kohlrausch in 1855 the paper offered. They used an electrometer to determine the charge of a condnsor in electrostatic units and a ballistic galvanometer to measure the same charge in electrodynamic units. The resulting value for c was in good agreement with that obtained by Fizeau in 1849 and Maxwell accordingly felt entitled to identify light and electromagnetic vibrations. This conclusion recalls Newton's identification of gravity with universal attraction: it was not only because they obeyed the same formal law but also because both led to the same mathematical results that Newton saw fit to combine them."Taton Réne in "History of Sciencein The Nineteenth Century" p. 163. </em> hardcover
181144092Leipzig Johann Ambrosius Barth 1811. Without wrappers. In: "Annalen der Physik. Hrsg. Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert" Bd. 39 der Reihe Eilftes u. Zwölftes Stück. Titlepage to vol. 39. Pp. 129-244 a. 2 engraved plates. The entire issue offered. Young's papers: pp. 156-205 a. pp. 206-220. And pp. 245-360 a. 2 engraved plates. The entire issue offered. Young's papers: pp. 255-261 a. pp. 262-290. <br/><br/><em>First appearance in German of Youngs 3 groundbreaking papers On the Theory of Light and Colours 1802 - An account of some Cases of the Production of Colours not hitherto described 1802 - The Bakerian Lecture. Experiments and Calculations relative to physical Optics. 1804 - which gives the first really convincing evidence that the fringes are produced by interference of light waves and giving the experimental demonstrations of the general law of Interference.These importent demonstrations served as the experimental basis for the wave hypothesis of light. - In his two first papers "On the Theory of Light and Colours" 1802 and "An account of Some Cases of the Production of Colours not hitherto described" 1802 - he only partially announced his principle of Interference and the statement of it in "An Account." was entirely hypothetical and not experimental. Magie. Source Book in Physics gives extracts of this paper and a later paper under the head: Discovery of the interference of light pp.308-15.Young also shows here that diffraction effects can be explained by the interference law."The experimental basis for the wave hypothesis of light as Young formulated it was interference. The fact has already been observed that two trauins of water waves may be so superposed that in certain regions the throughs of one train will lie continuously on the crests of another thereby producing zero disturbance.Destryctive interference is said to occur between the two trains of waves in the former case and constructivee interference in lthe latter. Similarly two sound waves may be so combined as to produce alternate regions of silence and enhanced sound. The phenomenon of interference of which the forgoing are familiar examples is easely comprehensible in the case of combining waves but would be utterly incomprehensible in the case of combining streams of particles. So when Young demonstrated that two beams of light could under properly controlled conditions be made to combine in such a way as to produce alternate regions of darkness and light he was rightly considered to have identified in light a characteristic property of waves." Lloyd Taylor in: Physics. The Pioneer Science. p. 511.Of the three papers published in the years 1802-04 the last is the most importent as it gives the experimental demonstrations of the interference of light. Dibner in Heralds of Science No. 151 list the first paper so does PMM: 259. </em> unknown
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5 parts in 1 vol., 8vo., text in Italian, with fine engraved woodcut portrait of the author on title; contemporary full vellum, backstrip lettered and dated in MS with Sinclair family stamp in gilt, yapped fore-edges, blue sprinkled edges, some light and largely uniform age-stoning else a remarkably bright, clean, crisp copy. A SINCLAIR FAMILY COPY OF THE 'TESTINA' MACHIAVELLI, WITH FINE NINETEENTH CENTURY ENGRAVED ARMORIAL FAMILY BOOKPLATE ON FRONT PASTE-DOWN, MS SIGNATURE 'SINCLAIR' ON TITLE, AND FAMILY CREST WITH MOTTO STAMPED IN GILT ON BACKSTRIP. The bookplate carries the Sinclair press-mark in MS and the front paste-down several (cancelled) earlier press-marks. With a nineteenth century bookseller's printed cataloguing mounted facing front free endpaper. The collection comprises: Part I: Historie Fiorentine; Part II: Il Principe. La vita di Castruccio Castracani. Il modo che tenne il Duca Valentino per ammazzare Vitellozzo Vitelli. I ritratti delle cose di Francia e di Alamagna; Part III: Discorsi sopra la prima Deca di Tito Livio; Part IV: Dell'arte della Guerra; Part V: L'Asino d'oro. With the Index and Privilege of Clemente VII. The dating is false; several editions of Machiavelli carry nominally earlier dates following their proscription by the Pope in the 1550s. General James St. Clair-Erskine, 2nd Earl of Rosslyn (1762-1837) was educated at Edinburgh High School and Eton, and commissioned in 21st Light Dragoons (one of the several early manifestations of the regiment; disbanded 1783) after which he pursued a distinguished military and political career. He succeeded his uncle to the Earldom in 1805, and was in the following year a member of the Mission to Lisbon which resulted in Wellington's Peninsular Campaign. He was appointed General in 1814, Lord Privy Seal (1829-30) and Lord President of the Council under Peel (1934-5). The Geneva 'testina' editions take their name from the 'little head' of the author carried on titles. Brunet, III, 1274; Gamba 623 (recording several variant printings).
1989DBS-9780521344661Cambridge University Press 1989. 1st. Hardcover. New. Cambridge University Press hardcover
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