MAXWELL, JAMES CLARK - THE "MAXWELL-DISTRIBUTION"S FINAL FORM - A MAIN PAPER IN 19TH CENTURY PHYSICSBiblio.com
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
188965142Paris: 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.<br/> <br/> Comprises vols. IV & V of the collection of memoirs. Includes an extensive bibliography.<br/> <br/> Gautier-Villars unknown
1864010636London: Trubner & Co. 1864. Book. Very Good. Cloth. First British Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. First British Edition from the then last German eighth including the "Advertisement by the Editor" and the " Introductory Letter" by the author. Green cloth covered blind stamped boards with gilt lettering to the spine. Very Good. Spine has 2 small holes 3" tear to cloth at top back joint both hinges starting but holding nicely. Two different prior owner book plates to front paste down James H. Graff of Baltimore and William B. Jensen noted Univ. of Cincinnati chemist and educator. A printed portrait of Buchner tipped onto front end page. Small book seller stamp to bottom of front end page. A foundational text of 19th-century scientific materialism SCARCE in the First English language edition. . Trubner & Co. Hardcover
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
1885010230London: Deighton Bell and Co. 1885. Book. Very Good. Cloth. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. viii 97 p. two plates 2 16 p publisher's catalogue. Bound in original red cloth with gilt lettering front cover old cloth tape repair to spine Very Good cloth soiled and spotted last few pages with damping at top edge not affecting text small stamp of the Cincinnati Public Library verso of title page no other library markings with slight indication of book plate removal rear paste down. SCARCE."This is to the best of my knowledge the first English-language monograph to deal specifically with chemical dynamics.". George Downing Liveing and the Origins of Chemical Thermodynamics in Great Britain" William B. Jensen Bull. Hist. Chem. Vol. 38 No. 1 2013 . Deighton, Bell and Co. Hardcover
1827005252Paris: Chez Bechet Jeune Libraire 1827. Book. Very Good. Marbled Boards. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Bound in period marbled boards leather spine gilt titles marbled end pages. 428 pp. 1 internal folding chart 10 folding charts at rear. Book plate of Henry A. Rowland front paste down with Johns Hopkins Univ. Library "disposed" stamp to book plate and title page. Library label to spine no other library markings. Henry A Rowland was the first president of the American Physical Society and the first occupant of the chair of physics at the Johns Hopkins University. Book is Very Good boards rubbed internally clean unmarked and tight. Tome I only. Chez Bechet Jeune, Libraire Hardcover
18812111902160200219Takahashi Matsunosuke 1881. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 3 Takahashi Matsunosuke paperback
1846230200John Weale 1846. 1st. Hardback. Fair. First seperate edition hardback 1846 with no jacket as issued. In overall fair-to-good used condition with some minor signs of age handling and storage - paper-covered boards with red cloth spine worn to edges tanned and a little soiled; title label to spine tanned and chipped. Binding tight and hinges sound. Internally clean no annotation or inscriptions - ownership signature neat to front endpaper dated 11/08/1848; tanning to page-ends with light scattered foxing here and there but text charts tables plates and diagrams bright and clear throughout. Includes publishers catalogue of Engineering and Architectural titles to rear. Photographs available. Not an old library book. John Weale hardcover
1893w160721591London: MacMillan 1893. 507pp black pebbled cloth gold writing on spine minor rubbing at spine ends and corner tips slight crack in end page paper along front inside lower spine hinge is still tight two different bookplates for "Louis Maxwell Potts" on front end page first edition many figures and equations footnotes index glossary references ten chapters . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. London: MacMillan Hardcover
1811009891Paris: Chez H. Nicolle 1811. Book. Very Good Plus. Hardcover. Second Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Second augmented and corrected edition of the work originally published under the title "Da Tails Scientifiques". Two volumes handsomely bound in contemporary full mottled calf the backs intricately gilt decorative end papers. Very Good some rubbed spots to end papers. a few small rubs at edges. Chez H. Nicolle Hardcover
1863006976Braunschweig: Verlag von Friedrich Vieweg Und Sohn 1863. Book. Very Good. Cloth. Later Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Both volumes dated 1863 and both are Very Good in original cloth period prior owner name stamped 4 times to front end pages and once to rear paste downs moderate foxing throughout both volumes boards rubbed fold-out color plate in vol. 2 with 2" tear at fold. Numerous wood engravings throughout both volumes. Wiedemann became famous through his works on electromagnetism and made important contributions to the fields of chemistry and physics. Verlag von Friedrich Vieweg Und Sohn Hardcover
1832025796New York: J & J Harper 1832. First Edition Thus 2nd Printing. Original Printed Cloth. Good. Frontispiece Engraving Of Sir Isaac Newton After Painting By G. Kneller. 422 Pp. Original Printed Boards. 1831 Printing Indicated On Title 1832 Shown On Front Cover #Xxvi In Harper's Family Library. Binding Strong Hinges Not Broken Some Fraying At Corners Backstrip Worn And Detached Along Front Spine Edge. <br/> <br/> J & J Harper hardcover
1894022196Chicago / London 1894 - 1895: The Open Court Publishing Company 1894. First Edition . Card Wrappers Stringbound. Very Good. 4 Volumes With Appendix To Volume 2 Three Hole Punch At Spine Edge String Bound In Plain Card Wrapers Original Wrappers Bound In Library Stamp At Top Of Cover Of Numbers 2 And 3 And No Other Marks Or Names Chipping To Top Of Covr Page Of Issue Number 4. Early English Language Appearance Of Mach's Thoughts On Conservation Of Energy. The U S Congress Had Already Weighed In On This Issue Decades Earlier And Further Discussion Was Not Of Mainstream Interest. Mach's Book On The Subject Appeared In 1905 Followed By An English Translation. All Four Volumes Volume 5 Nos 1-4 Are Unopened Pages Still Attached At Top Unread And As Issued. <br/> <br/> The Open Court Publishing Company unknown
1897020146New York: Harper & Borthers 1897. First Edition . Tan Cloth. Fine/No Dust Jacket. Xviii 513 Pp. Tan Cloth Lettered In Dark Brown On Front Cover And In Gilt On Spine. An Introductory College Text From The Experimental Viewpoint. Near New With A Few Tiny Surface Abrasions On Spine. Ink Inscription 'Frederick Bedell From The Publisher Dec 1897" On Front Free Endpaper No Names Or Marks In The Book. Per Wikipedia Joseph Sweetman Ames 1864 - 1943 Was A Physicist Professor At Johns Hopkins University Provost Of The University From 1926 To 1929 And University President From 1929 To 1935. He Is Best Remembered As One Of The Founding Members Of The National Advisory Committee For Aeronautics Naca The Predecessor Of Nasa And Its Longtime Chairman 1919-1939. Nasa Ames Research Center Is Named After Him. He Was Elected A Fellow Of The American Academy Of Arts And Sciences In 1911. He Was The 1935 Recipient Of The Langley Gold Medal From The Smithsonian Institution. Ames Was Also An Assistant Editor Of The Astrophysical Journal And Associate Editor Of The American Journal Of Science; Editor-In-Chief Of The Scientific Memoir Series; And Editor Of Joseph Von Fraunhofer's Memoirs On Prismatic And Diffractive Spectra 1898."Frederick Bedell 1868-1958 Received An A.B. Degree From Yale University In 1890 And A Ph.D Degree From Cornell In 1892. He Was Appointed Assistant Professor Of Physics At Cornell In 1893 And In 1904 Professor Of Applied Electricity. His Most Important Contributions In Electrical Engineering Were His Experimental Investigations And Theoretical Studies Delaing With Alternating Currents. In 1917 He Was Appointed As An Advisor In The Establishment At Cornell Of One Of The United States Army Schools Of Military Aeronautics Which Led To His Work In The Investigation Of Airplane Performance And Design. He Also Worked On The Development Of Devices To Aid The Deaf By Utilizing The Phenomenon Of Sound Conduction Through The Bones. For Twenty-Nine Years He Served As Editor Of The Physical Review. After His Retirement He Did Research At California Institute Of Technology. " His Papers Are At Cornell. Not Inscribed By Ames; Inscribed From The Publisher. <br/> <br/> Harper & Borthers hardcover
1877005990London: Trubner & Co. 1877 Book. Good. Hardcover. WRITTEN INSCRIPTION BY "THE AUTHOR" W/O SIGNATURE. First Edition. "The present brief Treatise is essentially a suggestive work not a demonstrative one." The work divides itself into three parts:- Vital Physics Animal Morphology Epidemics and includes a short essay "upon or rather against the Detrital Theory of Geology--a science which records the life of a past world but now entombed in the rocks on the surface of the earth." Edgewear age toning of pages Foxing of FFEP. Trubner & Co. hardcover
1833r2330London: Longman Hurst Rees Orme Brown & Green. G : in Good condition without dust jackets. Rebacked with modern black cloth. Slight foxing. 1833. 5th Edition. Grey hardback boards with black cloth spines. 210mm x 140mm 8" x 6". xxx 701pp; 332pp ads. Volume I and Volume II part I. Volume II part II never published. . Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green hardcover
1886038804London : Gebbie & Co 1886. 1st Edition 1st Printing. No Binding. Near Fine. 18" X 12 7/8" One Of A Series Of High Quality Productions Published By Gebbie In 1886 With Tissue Guard And With The Explanatory Text Page. <br/> <br/> Gebbie & Co unknown
187719567London: Longmans Green & Co. Very Good- in No Dust Jacket dust jacket. 1877. First Edition. Hardcover. Boards show shelf wear end papers show light discoloration. Previous owner's name "Samuel Jacobsohn" stamped in ink on title page contents page and last page of text.; A tight solid book hinges intact. Untrimmed fore and bottom page edges. Minimal pencil marks. Dark red cloth covered boards blind stamped on front board and gilt titles on spine.; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 509 pages; In small print on title page - "Reprinted from the transactions of the Royal Irish Academy; The reports of the British Association for the Advancement of Science; etc." Lloyd was Provost of Trinity College in Dublin. . Longmans, Green & Co. hardcover
