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18842090502130302290Nagata Shirabe Hyoe 1884. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 Nagata Shirabe Hyoe paperback
18872111902160201414Fukyusha 1887. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Fukyusha paperback
1890001476London Printing & Publishing Company Approx 1890. 48 engraved plates - of the heroines - engraved in the style of art from drawings by Frith Egg Kenny Meadows Hayter Corbould and other eminent artists. Letter-press extracts from the text in English and French; and critical essays on each of the characters. Tooled and ornate gilt leather spine. Overall very good condition. Happy to answer any questions and will gladly email a scan of book. Half-Leather. Large format Hardback. <br /><br /> London Printing & Publishing Company, hardcover
182844897Paris Crochard 1828. 8vo. Without wrappers. In 'Annales de Chimie et de Physique' Series 2 - Volume 37 Cahier 4. Pp. 337-444 entire issue offered. Poisson's paper:pp. 337-355. <br/><br/><em>First appearance of one of the founding papers in "The mathematical Theory of Elasticity" and Poisson's first on the subject. "The theory of elasticity based on the idea of a molecular structure attracted Poisson's interest and he did much to lay the foundations of that science."Timoshenko p. 111 ff."In the preface to the long "Mémoire sur I’équilibre et le movement des corps élastiques" 14 April 1828 the hints yield to explicit declaration. In applying mathematics to physics Poisson stated it was necessary at first to employ abstraction and "in this regard Lagrange has gone as far as possible in replacing physical ties by equations between coordinates." Now however "along with this admirable conception" it is necessary to "construct physical mechanics the principle of which is to reduce everything to molecular actions." In other words the death of Laplace the previous year enabled Poisson to move boldly ahead with his long range plans and to present himself as Laplace’s successor."DSBThe issue offered contains notable papers by Berzelius Gay-Lussac and others. </em> unknown
190048173Berlin Johann Ambrosius Barth 1900. Contemp. hcloth. over marbled boards gilt title to spine. Housed in a fine black morocco slicase gilt borders on sides spine with raised bands and gilt lettering. In: "Annalen der Physik" Vierte Folge Band 1. VIII 792 pp. 3 folded engraved plates.Entire volume offered. Planck's papers: pp. 69-122; 621-624;719-737. A very fine and clean copy. With the bookplate of Andras Gedeon on inside frontcover. <br/><br/><em>First edition of these fundamental and highly influential Planck-papers in which he defines his concept of entropy and heat radiation and hereby ANTICIPATES HIS FAMOUS SEMINAL PAPER OF 1900 which redefined physics and took it to the 20th century. - The first two papers "Ueber irreversible Strahlungsvorgänge" were rewritten for the "Annalen" and was first introduced in "Sitzungsberichte d.k. Akad. Wissensch. zu Berlin"."By invoking the hypothesis of natural radiation Planck not only succeeded in obtaining a relation between the energy of the resonator and the intensity of radiation for a given wavelength or frequency but also in defining the entropy of radiation by a proper expression such that the change of the total entropy was always a positive quantity". Mehra Jagdish. The historical development of quantum theory 2001 p. 36. These results found in the period 1894-00 culminated in the present paper "Ueber irreversible Strahlungsvorgänge" and for the first time incorporates the concept of natural radiation and made a purely electromagnetic definition of entropy and of temperature. </em> hardcover
190049800Berlin Johann Ambrosius Barth 1900. Later full buckram. Stamp on verso of titlepage. Narrow inner margins binding style with cords in margin. In: "Annalen der Physik" Vierte Folge Band 1. VIII 792 pp. 3 folded engraved plates.Entire volume offered. Planck's papers: pp. 69-122; 621-624;719-737. Internally fine and clean. <br/><br/><em>First edition of these fundamental and highly influential Planck-papers in which he defines his concept of entropy and heat radiation and hereby ANTICIPATES HIS FAMOUS SEMINAL PAPER OF 1900 which redefined physics and took it to the 20th century. - The first two papers "Ueber irreversible Strahlungsvorgänge" were rewritten for the "Annalen" and was first introduced in "Sitzungsberichte d.k. Akad. Wissensch. zu Berlin"."By invoking the hypothesis of natural radiation Planck not only succeeded in obtaining a relation between the energy of the resonator and the intensity of radiation for a given wavelength or frequency but also in defining the entropy of radiation by a proper expression such that the change of the total entropy was always a positive quantity". Mehra Jagdish. The historical development of quantum theory 2001 p. 36. These results found in the period 1894-00 culminated in the present paper "Ueber irreversible Strahlungsvorgänge" and for the first time incorporates the concept of natural radiation and made a purely electromagnetic definition of entropy and of temperature. </em> hardcover
189741482Berlin 1897. 4to. Uncut and unopened in original printed wrappers. Fresh copy fine and clean. Near mint. The entire "Heft" II: Pp. 35-81. Planck's paper pp.35-46. <br/><br/><em>Max Planck is considered to be the founder of the quantum theory and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918. "Über irreversible Strahlungsvorgänge" is a mathematical description of the electromagnetic radiation emitted from a black-body."Über irreversible Strahlungsvorgänge was published in five parts in the period 1897-1901 the present volume being number 1."With the Kirchhoff-Wien-Boltzmann work as a background Max Planck began his attack on the black-body problem in 1897. He labored under the erroneous impression for some time that Wien's formula was the only one which harmonized with the second law of thermodynamics. The experiments on black-bodies due to Lummer and Pringsheim Rubens and Kurlbaum forced him from that position." Planck Max. Catalogue 258 Interlibrum Vaduz "I had already been struggling with the problem of the equilibrium of matter and radiation for some years without success; I knew the problem is of fundamental significance for Physics." The significance was unparallelled when he in December 1900 delivered a paper entitled "On the Theory of the Energy Distribution Law in the Normal Spectrum" before the German Physical Society which today is considered the birth of quantum physics. The present volume constitutes a precursor to this work. - Akademie No 33 </em> unknown
186048140Paris Mallet-Bachelier 1860. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences" Tome 50 No 6 a. No 19 Tome 51 No 10 a. No 19. 4 entire issues offered. Pasteur's papers: pp. 303-307 849-854 tome 50 pp. 348-352 675-678 tome 51. <br/><br/><em>First appearance of the suite of the 4 groundbreaking papers marking the downfall of the theory of spontaneous generation and all of Pasteur's later work in this field can be seen as an extension elaboration and defence of the principles and methods set forth here. It is from these conclusions all modern bacteriology and immunology have developed. Pasteur was awarded the Zecker Price 1861 for these discoveries. "Pasteur's publications on the subject of spontaneous generation consists chiefly of communications to the Academy of Sciences in Paris and published in abstracts in the Comptes rendus. the paper offered. In these communication he dealt with the collection and demonstration of erms in the air the origin of ferments the distribution of germs in nature and many other questions. These reports were finally expanded in his famous "Memoire sur les corpuscules organisés qui existent dans l'atmosphere. Examen de la doctrine de génerations spontanées" which was published in 1861. Bullocdh "The History of Bacteriology" p. 96.Printing and the Mind of Man No 336 b - Garrison & Morton No. 2474. </em> unknown
18982091502135417982Seikyosha 1898. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 Seikyosha paperback
186642764London Taylor and Francis 1866. Large 4to. Without wrappers. Extracted from "Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London." Vol. 156 - Part I. Pp. 249-268 a. 1 lithographed plate. A few brownspots to the plate. Having the titlepage to vol. 156 - Part I. A few brownspots to lower margins. <br/><br/><em>First appearance of a major paper in the kinetic theory of gases in which Maxwell proved that the viscosity was independent of pressure as predicted and nearly a linear function of the absolute temperature T.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."James Clerk Maxwell published a famous paper in 1866 the paper offered using the kinetic theory of gases to study gaseous viscosity. The internal friction the viscosity of the gas is determined by the probability a particle of layer A enters layer B with a corresponding transfer of momentum. Maxwell's calculations showed him that the viscosity coefficient is proportional to both the density the mean free path and the mean velocity of the atoms. On the other hand the mean free path is inversely proportional to the density. So an increase of pressure doesn't result in any change of the viscosity. </em> unknown
183442833London Richard Taylor 1834 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1834 - Part I. Pp. 123-126 a. pp. 127-141. <br/><br/><em>First appearance of Lubbock's "Lunar-Theory""John Lubbock 1803-65 was an astronomer and mathematician. He made a special study of tides and of the lunar theory and developed a method for calculating the orbits of comets and planets. In mathematics he applied the theory of probability to life insurance problems." </em> unknown
189148777Harlem Les Heritieres Loosjes 1891. Lex8vo. Orig. printed wrappers. In "Archives Néerlandaises des Science Exactes et Naturelles. Redigée par J. Bosschar" Tome XXV 2me Livraison. Pp. 101- 226 entire issue offered. Lorentz's paper: pp. 107-130. A faint stamp to frontwrapper and to the first page. <br/><br/><em>First edition. In this paper Lorentz applies statistical methods to his molecular theory of dlute solutions discussing the phenomena of osmosis van't Hoff's law of pressure in this context and Boltzmann's theorem. </em> unknown
183349628Paris Crochard 1833. No wrappers. In: "Annales de Chimie et de Physique Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago." 2 Séries Tome 55 Cahier 2. pp. 113-224. Entire issue offered. Liebig's paper: pp. 113-156. Scattered brownspots. <br/><br/><em>First appearance in French - the paper was published at the same time in "Annalen der Pharmacie" and in"Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg.von Poggendorff"- of an importent paper on Radicals in which he regards alcohol as a hydrate of the ethyl radical and ether as the oxide of the ethyl radical. The paper is also relevant for the discovery and development of ether as an anaesthesia. </em> unknown
183443361Leipzig Johann Ambrosius Barth 1834. Without wrappers as issued in "Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg.von Poggendorff" 1. Bd. 31. Bd. der Reihe No. 21 22 a. 23. Pp. 321-368. Liebig's paper: Titlepage to 1. Bd. pp. 321-360. Clean and fine. <br/><br/><em>First appearance - the paper was published at the same time in "Annalen der Pharmacie" - of an importent paper on Radicals in which he regards alcohol as a hydrate of the ethyl radical and ether as the oxide of the ethyl radical. The paper is also relevant for the discovery and development of ether as an anaesthesia. </em> unknown
184342922Paris Imprimerie de Bachelier 1843. 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Journal de Mathématiques pures et appliquées.Publié par Joseph Liouville" tome VIII. Pp. 273-360. Clean and fine. <br/><br/><em>First appearance of Le Verrier's provisional theory on the motion of Mercury his studies of which eventually did much to demonstrate the validity of Einstein's Theory of Relativity. The planetary orbits should agree with the predictions of the General Theory of relativity but as Einstein pointed out in his "Erklärung der Perihelbewegung des Merkurs aus der allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie" from 1915 the divergences predicted were too small to be observed except in the case of the nearest planet Mercury where the perihelion advance according to the formula reaches the value of 43"" per 100 years being in full agreement with the calculations of Le Verrier who found this unexplained rest in the perihelion advance of Mercury per century if the perturbations due to the other planets are deduced.- Einstein tells in a letter to a friend that for several days he was in a 'state of delirious joy' by this wonderful astronomical confirmation of his theory."Le Verrier first began to study Mercury on the suggestion of Arago in 1840. Astronomers realized that Mercury's perihelion the point at which the orbit of a planet is closest to the sun advanced along its orbit at a rate of 566 seconds per century. Le Verrier calculated that even when taking into account the forces exerted by other planets in the solar system there still existed a discrepancy between calculation and observation. Le Verrier's accurate calculations showed that the planet's perihelion.did indeed advance forty seconds of an arc per century more than could be accounted for by Newton's theory of gravitation even after the minor pertubing effects of the other planets had been allowed for." Asimov. - Le verrier published these findings in the present work carefully as to the mass of the planet comparison with other orbits of planets and their perihelia. At the time Le Verrier put down the discrepancy to mis-observation or mis-calculation.- Sparrow Milestones of Science No. 133. </em> unknown
183549330Paris Crochard 1835. Contemp. hcloth. Gilt lettering to spine. In: "Annales de Chimie et de Physique Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago." 2e Series tome 59. 4462 pp. Entire volume offered. Some scattered brownspots. Laurent's papers: pp. 107-111 196-220376-397 a. 397-422. <br/><br/><em>First printing of these importent papers in the history of organic chemistry explaining the differences to Dumas' law of substitutions and introducing a "new type" and what he calls "fundamental and derived radicals". The introduction of the "Nucleus Theory" was the basis for the unitary theory formulated by Gerhardt."While studying the reactions of naphthalene and its compounds with the halogens and nitric acid Laurent was from the start characteristically concerned with the construction of an explanatory theory that would account for these phenomena. Like most creative scientists he generalized his solution to a specific problem through the imaginative use of analogy leading to the elaboration of the first comprehensive theory adequate for dealing with the whole domain of contemporaneous organic chemistry." DSB."A founder of modern organic chemistry Laurent was one of the most important chemists of the nineteenth century. He considered the behavior of matter to be a manifestation of its intimate internal structure which one cannot determine with certainty but which one has to investigate if one wants to understand. Laurent’s preoccupation was to construct a method that could guide the chemist forward along this path from facts to their causes. He was the first chemist to intimately associate crystallo-graphic data and chemical studies. Louis Pasteur and Charles Friedel later followed the way."DSB. </em> hardcover
181949624Paris Crochard 1819. Later full buckram. Gilt lettering on spine. Stamp on verso of title-page. "Annales de Chimie et de Physique Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago." Tome 12. Entire volume offered. 448 pp. a. 1 folded engraved plate. Laplace's papers: pp. 5-12 pp. 37-41 a. pp. 337-341. Scattered brownspots. <br/><br/><em>The paper on Capillarity is the last version of this theory in which he refined it to take account of the effect of heat in reducing the attractive force between the particles of a liquid. "The net attractive force was now taken as the difference between the innate attraction the only force considered in the supplement to the "Mecanique celeste" and a repulsive force that was supposed to be caused by the presence of heat."DSB. - Using the theory of Boscovich "who assumed that between every two ultimate particles and along the lines connecting them forces act which are attractive for some distances and repulsive for others. Using this theory with the added requirements that that the molecular forces diminish rapidly with increase of the distances between the molecules Laplace was able to develop his theory of capillarity referring to the offered paper."Timoshenko "History of the Strenghts of Material" p. 104.The 2 papers here offered on probability applied were both incorporated into the third edition of "Theoriques analytique des probabilities" 1820. </em> hardcover
181943817Paris Crochard 1819. Contemp. hcalf richly gilt spine. Light wear to top of spine and a few minor scratches. "Annales de Chimie et de Physique Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago." Tome 12. Entire volume offered. 448 pp. a. 1 folded engraved plate. Small stamps on verso of titlepage and plate. Laplace's papers: pp. 5-12 pp. 37-41 a. pp. 337-341. <br/><br/><em>The paper on Capillarity is the last version of this theory in which he refined it to take account of the effect of heat in reducing the attractive force between the particles of a liquid. "The net attractive force was now taken as the difference between the innate attraction the only force considered in the supplement to the "Mecanique celeste" and a repulsive force that was supposed to be caused by the presence of heat."DSB. - Using the theory of Boscovich "who assumed that between every two ultimate particles and along the lines connecting them forces act which are attractive for some distances and repulsive for others. Using this theory with the added requirements that that the molecular forces diminish rapidly with increase of the distances between the molecules Laplace was able to develop his theory of capillarity referring to the offered paper."Timoshenko "History of the Strenghts of Material" p. 104.The 2 papers here offered on probability applied were both incorporated into the third edition of "Theoriques analytique des probabilities" 1820. </em> unknown
188535224Kjøbenhavn Jacob Lund 1885. Orig. bogtrykt omslag. Løs i heftningen og omslaget med rifter og pletter. 491 pp. Indvendig pæn. <br/><br/><em>First edition. The most importent Danish work in psychology. It is a psychophysiological study on vasomotor disturbances and conditioned reflexes during period of emotional stress - known as the James-Lange-theory. </em> unknown
18982090502130302277Kuroemon Nishimura 1898. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 Kuroemon Nishimura paperback
185549133Paris: Gauthier-Villars 1855. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Seances de l'Academie des Sciences" Vol 40 No 5 6. Pp. 205- 260 a. pp. 261- 324. 2 entire issue offered. Hermite's paper's: pp. 249-256 a. 304-309. <br/><br/><em>First printing of Hermite's importent paper in which he created the theory of transformations."Another topic on which Hermite worked and made important contributions was the theory of quadratic forms. This led him to study invariant theory and he found a reciprocity law relating to binary forms. With his understanding of quadratic forms and invariant theory he created a theory of transformations in 1855. His results on this topic provided connections between number theory theta functions and the transformations of abelian functions.""Hermite’s 1855 results became basic for the transformation theory of Abelian functions as well as for Camille Jordan’s theory of "Abelian" groups. They also led to Herrnite’s own theory of the fifth-degree equation and of the modular equations of elliptic functions."DSB. </em> unknown
182159163London Baldwin Cradock and Joy 1821. Contemp. Hcalf. Minor scratches to spine. In: "Annals of Philosophy; or Magazine of Chemistry Mineralogy Mechanics Natural History. By Thomas Thomson." New series Vol. I. VIII479 pp. a. 7 engraved plates. Entire volumes offered. Herapath's papers: pp. 273-293 340-351 a. 401-416. <br/><br/><em>First printing of these contoversial papers where Herapath revived the kinetic theory of gases. His theory was more or less neglected by the scientific community at his time. The kinetic theory remained dormant and forgotten after Euler's and Bernouilli's work "until 1816 when Herapath proposed a theory which is essential Bernoulli's. Unfortunately he chose to define temperature as being proportional to the momentum rather than the kinetic energy of molecules. Herapath was the first to show more or less that kinetic theory can provide simple explanations for the changes of state diffusion and the propagation of sound."Trousdell "Essayas in the History of Mechanics" pp. 283 ff. </em> unknown
181646878London Baldwin Cradock and Joy 1816 a. 1821. Bound in 2 uniform contemp. moiré boards. Light wear along edges and a fes smaller scratches. In: "Annals of Philosophy; or Magazine of Chemistry Mineralogy Mechanics Natural History. By Thomas Thomson." Vol. VIII and New series Vol. I. VIII479 pp. a. 9 engraved plates VIII479 pp. a. 7 engraved plates. Entire volumes offered. Herapath's papers: pp. 56-60 1816 a. pp. 273-293 340-351 a. 401-416. <br/><br/><em>First printing of these contoversial papers where Herapath revived the kinetic theory of gases. His theory was more or less neglected by the scientific community at his time. The kinetic theory remained dormant and forgotten after Euler's and Bernouilli's work "until 1816 when Herapath proposed a theory which is essential Bernoulli's. Unfortunately he chose to define temperature as being proportional to the momentum rather than the kinetic energy of molecules. Herapath was the first to show more or less that kinetic theory can provide simple explanations for the changes of state diffusion and the propagation of sound."Trousdell "Essayas in the History of Mechanics" pp. 283 ff.Euler Bernoulli Herapath and Waterston may be considered the principal scientists who prior to 1850 attempted a more or less complete mathematical treatment of gases based on a set of molecular postulates. Jamie Wisniak."Having published a preliminary notice of his theory in the Annals of Philosophy in 1816 Herapath submitted a detailed account to the Royal Society in 1820. Davy who was elected to the presidency of the Society in November of that year was primarily responsible for the fate of the paper. Although Davy was already known as an advocate of the qualitative idea that heat is molecular motion he found Herapath’s quantitative development too speculative and complicated; he rejected the hypothesis of an absolute temperature implying an "absolute zero" of cold. Having been told that his paper would not be accepted for publication in the Philosophical Transactions Herapath withdrew it and published it instead in the Annals of Philosophy in 1821. Five years later he launched an attack on Davy in the Times of London accusing him of circulating unfounded criticisms of his experimental work which prevented its publication. Although Davy ignored a series of letters and challenges published in the Times Herapath later claimed Davy’s resignation from the presidency of the Royal Society 1827 as a victory for himself."DSB. </em> hardcover
185243564Leipzig Johann Ambrosius Barth 1852. Without wrappers as issued in "Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg.von Poggendorff" Dritte Reihe Bd. 26 Achtes Stück.= Heft No. 8 of 1852. The entire issue No. 8 offered. Titlepage to vol. 26. Pp. 501-600. Helmholtz's paper: pp. 501-523. Clean and fine. <br/><br/><em>First appearance of this founding paper in the modern theory of colour in which Helmholtz proved the surprising fact that there are only two among the colours of the spectrum yellow and indigo-blue which together yields pure white that is are complementary to each other whereas their combination had always been supposed to produce green."Helmholtz turned to the intricate problems of color vision in 1852 with an attack on Sir David Brewster's new theory of light. Brewster had maintained the objective reality of three primary colors by supposing in opposition to Newton that there exist three distinct kinds of light each of which excites in the eye one of the sensations red yellow or blue. Helmholtz regarded the theory as still another confusion of physical stimulus and subjective responce.He also revived Young's theory of color visoin.only to refute it. He had discovered that spectral colors when mixed always yield a duller color of less-than-spectral saturation. Therefore the whole idea that all colors may be obtained from mixtures of three primary colors must be incorrect he concluded for the spectral colorss at least can never be obtained in their full saturation by mixing any three of their number.Although Helmholtz dismissed Young's theory in 1852 by 1858 he had changed his mind and become its formost advocate. In order to save Ypoung's theory.Helmholtz asumed that Young's physiological primaries are not spectral colors att all but colors of far greater-than-spectral saturation."DSB VI pp. 246-247. Garrison & Morton 1508. </em> unknown
18072111902160200451Book by Tokuan Kao 1807. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 2 Book by Tokuan (Kao) paperback