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1873005243Paris and Londres: Gauthier-Villars 1873. Book. Very Good. Leather Spine/Cloth Boards. First Edition. Small Quarto. 2nd volume only. Very Good leather spine label with gilt titles boards a bit rubbed book plate front pastedown from the Library of the Royal Naval College Greenwich along with their stamp dated 1875 at title page and page 1. No other markings. Joseph Plateau 1801-1883 was a Belgian physicist He was the first person to demonstrate the illusion of a moving image has a mathematical problem named for him and is highly regarded for his studies of soap films capillary action and surface tension. Gauthier-Villars Hardcover
182046029Paris Crochard 1820. No wrappers. In "Annales". In "Annales de Chimie et de Physique Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago" Tome XIV Juin issue pp. 113-222. Entire issue offered with halftitlepage to vol. 14. Savart's paper: pp. 113-172 and 3 folded engraved plates. Plates with some scattered brownspots. <br/><br/><em>First printing of a pioneer paper on the acoustics of the violin and on the construction of the Trapezoidal Fiddle."In his earliest work Savart gave the first explanation of the function of certain parts of the violin. To learn how vibrations are transmitted from the strings to the rest of the instrument he induced vibrations in a free wood plate by passing a vibrating string over a bridge at its center; he also used Chladni’s sand-pattern technique to observe the resulting nodal lines. Savart showed that the bridge transmits the string’s vibrations; that the plate can be made to vibrate at any frequency; and that the corresponding mode is a modification of an unforced mode. He demonstrated that the sound post also serves to transmit vibrations and he explained that it therefore should not be placed under a nodal line. Thinking that symmetry and regularity would produce the best tone Savart built a trapezoidal violin with rectangular sound holes. When the instrument was played before a committee that included Biot the Composer Cherubini and other members of the Academy of Sciences and the Académie des Beaux-Arts its tone was judged as extremely clear and even but somewhat subdued."DSB.The issue also contains Eilhard Mitscherlich' famous paper in the first French version "Sur la Relation qui existe entre la forme cristalline et les proportions chimiques" pp. 172-190. </em> unknown
189743860Leipzig Johann Ambrosius Barth 1897. No wrappers. In: "Annalen der Physik und Chemie Neue Folge" Bd. 61 No 7. Titlepager to vol. 61. Pp. 417-640 a. 1 folded plate. Entire issue offered. Kaufmann's paper: pp. 544-552 textillustrations. A stamp to upper corner of titlepage. Clean and fine. <br/><br/><em>First printing of this landmark paper in particle physics in which Kaufmann found that the cathode are negatively charged particles that certain properties of the cathode rays are independent of the nature of the gas that they traverse and determining the ratio e/m. charge/mass"To define the 'birth of an era' is perhaps best left for parlor games. Let me write of the BIRTH OF PARTICLE PHYSICS nevertheless define it to take place in April 1897 and appoint Kaufmann and Thomson as keepers of the gate. Their respective experimental arrangements.are of comparable quality their experimental results equally good."Pais "Inward Bound" p. 84."In 1897 three physicists Weichert Kaufmann and Thomson in independent experiments found that cathode rays are indeed negatively charged particles having the peculiar property that the ratio of the mass and the charge of these particles is in the order of 1000 times smaller than for the lightest ion the ion of the hydrogen. The term 'electron' which had previously been used to denote the 'elementary charge' was soon adopted as the name of the new particle. The electron was the first of the later so-called 'elementary particles' to be discovered." Siegmund Brandt "The Harvest of a Century" No. 4 p.16 ff. </em> unknown
182046032Paris Crochard 1820. Uncut with orig. printed wrappers Juin-issue. In "Annales de Chimie et de Physique Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago" Tome XIV Juin issue pp. 113-222. Entire issue in orig. wrappers. Savart's paper: pp. 113-172 and 3 folded engraved plates. <br/><br/><em>First printing of a pioneer paper on the acoustics of the violin and on the construction of the Trapezoidal Fiddle."In his earliest work Savart gave the first explanation of the function of certain parts of the violin. To learn how vibrations are transmitted from the strings to the rest of the instrument he induced vibrations in a free wood plate by passing a vibrating string over a bridge at its center; he also used Chladni’s sand-pattern technique to observe the resulting nodal lines. Savart showed that the bridge transmits the string’s vibrations; that the plate can be made to vibrate at any frequency; and that the corresponding mode is a modification of an unforced mode. He demonstrated that the sound post also serves to transmit vibrations and he explained that it therefore should not be placed under a nodal line. Thinking that symmetry and regularity would produce the best tone Savart built a trapezoidal violin with rectangular sound holes. When the instrument was played before a committee that included Biot the Composer Cherubini and other members of the Academy of Sciences and the Académie des Beaux-Arts its tone was judged as extremely clear and even but somewhat subdued."DSB.The issue also contains Eilhard Mitscherlich' famous paper in the first French version "Sur la Relation qui existe entre la forme cristalline et les proportions chimiques" pp. 172-190. </em> unknown
1872035726London: Macmillan & Co 1872. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good. Xv 592 Errata At Bottom Of P. 592 52 Pp Publisher's Catalog Dated April 1872. First Printing; About A Quarter Of The Book Contains Papers Published Here For The First Time. Green Cloth Gilt Brown Endpapers. Gilt Complete And Bright Cloth Worn With Fraying At Corners And At Ends Of Spine And In Three One Inch Long Thin Lines On Rear Spine Edge And Joint Cracked Through At Top 1" Of Front Spine Edge Hinges Cracked At Endpapers And Before Title Page But Binding Solid. No Names Or Marks. <br/> <br/> Macmillan & Co hardcover
1893055105Clarendon Press Oxford 1893. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. Drawings Photographs. Xvi 578 2 Pp And 8 Pp Catalogs At End. First Edition Probable Second Issue With 4 Errata Printed At End Of Contents Rather Than On An Inserted Slip. Green Cloth Gilt And Stamped In Blind. Black Endpapers. Slight Wear Near Fine And Scarce Thus Gilt Bright Cloth Clean And Unfaded No Marks; Half Title Present <br/> <br/> Clarendon Press, Oxford hardcover
189643069Leipzig Johann Ambrosius Barth 1896. 8vo. Contemporary half cloth with gilt title to spine. Band 58 of "Annalen der Physik und Chemie". Library stamp to verso of title-page. Light wear to edges and capitals and a damp-stain to the lower part of the last three leaves. Otherwise a clean and well preserved copy. The entire volume offered. Pp. 662-669. Entire volume: VIII 776 pp. 6 folded plates. <br/><br/><em>First edition of Wilhelm Wien's highly influential paper on the phenomenon of radiation also known as Wien's displacement law. Wien followed Ludwig Boltzmann's approach when incorporating electrodynamics and thermodynamics in investigating radiation and its characteristics. "He argued that if a system reaches the same temperature by the increase of temperature or by the adiabatic compression of the volume containing heat radiation it should yield the same energy distribution. Considering also the Doppler effect of the radiation Wien arrived at an expression for energy distribution that states that the product of temperature and the wave length is a constant". Mathew Chandrankunnel Philosophy of physics 2000 4 p.Wien's empirical observations functioned as a starting point for Max Planck who wanted prove the theoretical foundation for Wien's wishing thus to justify the entropy law. Today Wien's approximation is also known as Wien-Planck law.This phenomenon was coined "Wien's displacement law" because the energy density curve is displaced correspondingly to the temperature; it implies that the hotter an object is the shorter the wavelength at which it will release most of its radiation. Wien's description of radiation awarded him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1911. Wien's constant is today used in a wide range of different aspects of physics e.g. cosmic microwave background and the determination of how much energy is emitted from a light bulb. Magie "A Source Book in Physics". Pp. 597-600.Other papers of interest contained in the present volume:KOHLRAUSCH F. Ueber Widerstandsmessungen von Electrolyten mit Wechselströmen durch das Dynamometer. Pp. 514-516.BOLTZMANN L. Zur Energetik. Pp. 595-598.RYDBERG J. J. Die Neuen Grundstoffe des Cleveïtgases. Pp. 674-679.WIEN W. Ueber die auf einer schweren Flüssigkeit möglichen Wellen von sehr Höhe. Pp. 729-735.Etc. </em> hardcover
1856010227London: 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
186743456London 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. <br/><br/><em>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. </em> unknown
