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‎Ni’ersi Bo’er ji [Chinese, i.e. ""Niels Bohr Collected Works""]. Vols. 1-10 [out of 12]. - [WITH DEDICATION FROM THE TRANSLATOR]‎

‎Shanghai, Huadong shifan daxue chubanshe, 1986 - 2001. 8vo. 10 volumes, all in publisher's uniform full cloth bindings with gilt lettering to spines and front boards. All volumes with presentation inscription from the translator to Niels Bohr's son, Ernest Bohr: ""To Mr. Ernest Bohr with / highest respect from / GeGe"". A fine and clean set of the first 10 volumes of Niels Bohr Collected Works.‎

‎First Chinese, and overall, translation of 'Niels Bohr Collected Works' with dedication inscription from the translator ot Bohr's son Ernest Bohr. Translator Prof. Ge Ge found Bohr’s personality and mode of thinking in harmony with traditional Chinese culture, which may be part of the explanation for his lifelong dedication to Niels Bohr and his work, and his great effort to translate and publish the only non-English edition of the Niels Bohr Collected Works in existence today. The first volume in English had appeared in 1972, and Ge Ge was able to publish a Chinese translation in 1986, fourteen years later.Ge Ge’s enthusiasm not only led to the Collected Works being published with impressive promptness in China, but no doubt provided additional motivation for the Director of the Niels Bohr Archive to prepare the volumes faster. In this way, Ge Ge had an influence even on the publication of the original edition. In 2001 Ge Ge received the prestigeousDanish Order of the Dannebrog “for hiscontribution to increasing the Chinese understanding of Danish science and promoting the Denmark-China scientific cooperation. He was in fact able to translate all the volumes of the Collected Works, the last volume of which was published in English in 2006. It testifies to Ge Ge’s dedication that he enthusiastically went on with the work in spite of having lost his eyesight" he died the following year. The volumes contain the following: Vol. 1: Early Work (1905-1911) Vol. 2: Work on Atomic Physics (1912-1917)Vol. 3: The Correspondence Principle (1918-1923) Vol. 4: The Periodic System (1920-1923)Vol. 5: The Emergence of Quantum Mechanics (mainly 1924-1926) Vol. 6: Foundations of Quantum Physics I (1926-1932) Vol. 7: Foundations of Quantum Physics II (1933-1958) Vol. 8: The Penetration of Charged Particles through Matter (1912-1954)Vol. 9: Nuclear Physics (1929-1952) Vol. 10: Complementarity beyond Physics (1928-1962) ‎

‎Journal of Jocular Physics. Volume III. October 7, 1955. - [""THIS IS THE ATOM THAT BOHR BUILT""]‎

‎Copenhagen, Institute for Theoretical Physics, 1955. Small folio (A4). Blank wrappers, stapled under cloth back-stip. Stenciled manuscript. 48 numbered leaves with printing on rectos only. Illustrated.‎

‎One of the few scarce original stenciled copies of the ""Journal of Jocular Physics, Vol. III,"" the 1955-volume of the privately circulated amateur-comedy-journal that Bohr's students made on the occasions of Bohr's most important birthdays (beginning with his 50th in 1935), in this case his 70th. The ""Journal"" is an eclectic blend of funny and clever stories, songs, poems, aphorisms, humorous descriptions of recent developments in physics, etc., all written in an informal tone with the underlying subject being Bohr's birthday.Since 1929 most of the greatest physicists of the 20th century had been gathering around Niels Bohr for a conference in Copenhagen at the Bohr Institute. Since 1931 this conference had also included a skit prepared by the youngest of the participants, the ""Copenhagen Faust"" of 1932 being the most famous and important of them. It is this skit that later develops into the ""Journal of Jocular Physics"" which was prepared and compiled for Bohr's 50th, 60th and 70th birthdays, the first in 1935, the second in 1945, and the third (the present) in 1955. The 1955 ""Jocular Physics"" was the last of them. ""The early decades of the present century witnessed the heady development of the Quantum Theory of the atom, and during that era the roads of theoreticians of all nationalities led, not to Rome, but to Copenhagen, the home city of Niels Bohr, who was the first to formulate the correct atomic model. It became customary at the end of each spring conference at Blegdamsvej 15 (the street address of Bohr's Institute of Theoretical Physics) to produce a stunt pertaining to recent developments in physics.However Copenhagen was also the home of abundant humor. As a respite from the intensive and highly competitive efforts taking place to characterize fundamental interactions on an atomic scale, physicists took the time to develop satirical letters, articles, plays and other works."" (Gamow, Thirty Years that Shook Physics, pp. 167-68).In his Report at the Niels Bohr Archive Symposium, ""Copenhagen' and beyond: Drama meets history of science"", Yu.V. Gaponov accounts for the history of ""physical art"": ""The 1950s and 1960s were the golden age of the utmost prosperity in Physics. The atomic revolution having opened for the scientists a new world of quanta led soon to the nuclear fission discovery and to the first steps in techniques to dominate the atomic energy. The realization of national atomic programs which first took place in USA and then in Russia (USSR) and Great Britain had attracted the whole world's attention and placed Physics and the natural sciences in general in a top position. Being concerned with matters of physics became then exclusive and prestigious and physicists as individuals attracted the society's attention. They became heroes of literature, theater, movies, press. This process was observed in many advanced countries. It was also typical for the former USSR of those times, although owing to special social circumstances it had acquired some particular forms. One such form was the creation of ""Physical Art"" traditions... The birth of these traditions is commonly associated with the appearance at MSU PhysFac in 1960 of a Student Humor Festival called ""Birthday of Archimedes"" (later ""Physics Day"") along with a comic buffoonery opera ""Archimedes"" (authors - physicists and poets V. Kaner, V. Milyaev). However, MSU physicists consider the ""Physical Art"" traditions to have started earlier. Here are some remarkable milestones: In 1932 the well known ""Faust"" jocular opera and in 1935 the special issue of the ""Jocular Physics"" journal were written by some eminent physicists in connection with the 50th birthday of Niels Bohr.""The present 1955-volume contains numerous very funny contributions by physicists around Bohr, all based on physics humour, physics word-games etc. We have for instance ""A Voyage to Laplacia"" by L. Rosenfeld, a ""Confidential"" report ""Standardization of (physics) Papers"" by J. Lindhard,""Broken English"" by H.B.G. Casimir (""There exists today a universal language that is spoken and understood almost everywhere: it is Broken English. I am not referring to Pidgin English a highly formalized and restricted branch of B.E. but to the much more general language that is used by waiters in Hawai, prostitutes in Paris and ambassadors in Washington, by business-men from Buenos Aires, by scientists at international meetings and by dirty-postcard-peddlers in Greece, in short honourable people like myself all over the world..."" (p. 14), aphorisms (like: ""One Bohr can answer more questions than 10 philosophers can ask"", """"I will have to sleep on that"" the physicist said, he lay down on the floor"", etc.), ""A Remarkable ""V-event"""" by M. Sheep, ""The Heart on the other Side"" by G. Gamow (""""But father will never give his consent... He is looking for a son-in-law who can help him in his business, and eventually take it over. You can't possibly qualify for that, can you?"" ""No, I guess I can't,"" agreed Stan Situs sadly. ""I cannot possibly see how the kind of mathematics I am doing or, in fact, ANY kind of mathematics can help the production and selling of shoes...""), the poem ""The Atom that Bohr Built"", etc. The ""Journal of Jocular Physics"" is an important document portraying both one of the main physical centres of this physically important period and how one of the greatest scientific minds of the 20th century was viewed by his students and collaborators - as being not only brilliant in his field of research but also as a funny, likeable and sympathetic person. See also:Gino Segrè. Faust in Copenhagen. A Struggle for the Soul of Physics and the Birth of the Nuclear Age.""Pimlico, 2008.George Gamow. Thirty Years that Shook Physics. The Story of Quantum Theory. New York, 1966.‎

‎Journal of Jocular Physics. Volume III. October 7, 1955. - [""THIS IS THE ATOM THAT BOHR BUILT""]‎

‎Copenhagen, Institute for Theoretical Physics, 1955. Small folio (A4). Stapled, unbound. Stenciled manuscript. Edges a bit bumped. A bit of spotting to first leaf. 48 numbered leaves with printing on rectos only. Illustrated.‎

‎One of the few scarce original stenciled copies of the ""Journal of Jocular Physics, Vol. III,"" the 1955-volume of the privately circulated amateur-comedy-journal that Bohr's students made on the occasions of Bohr's most important birthdays (beginning with his 50th in 1935), in this case his 70th. The ""Journal"" is an eclectic blend of funny and clever stories, songs, poems, aphorisms, humorous descriptions of recent developments in physics, etc., all written in an informal tone with the underlying subject being Bohr's birthday.Since 1929 most of the greatest physicists of the 20th century had been gathering around Niels Bohr for a conference in Copenhagen at the Bohr Institute. Since 1931 this conference had also included a skit prepared by the youngest of the participants, the ""Copenhagen Faust"" of 1932 being the most famous and important of them. It is this skit that later develops into the ""Journal of Jocular Physics"" which was prepared and compiled for Bohr's 50th, 60th and 70th birthdays, the first in 1935, the second in 1945, and the third (the present) in 1955. The 1955 ""Jocular Physics"" was the last of them. ""The early decades of the present century witnessed the heady development of the Quantum Theory of the atom, and during that era the roads of theoreticians of all nationalities led, not to Rome, but to Copenhagen, the home city of Niels Bohr, who was the first to formulate the correct atomic model. It became customary at the end of each spring conference at Blegdamsvej 15 (the street address of Bohr's Institute of Theoretical Physics) to produce a stunt pertaining to recent developments in physics.However Copenhagen was also the home of abundant humor. As a respite from the intensive and highly competitive efforts taking place to characterize fundamental interactions on an atomic scale, physicists took the time to develop satirical letters, articles, plays and other works."" (Gamow, Thirty Years that Shook Physics, pp. 167-68).In his Report at the Niels Bohr Archive Symposium, ""Copenhagen' and beyond: Drama meets history of science"", Yu.V. Gaponov accounts for the history of ""physical art"": ""The 1950s and 1960s were the golden age of the utmost prosperity in Physics. The atomic revolution having opened for the scientists a new world of quanta led soon to the nuclear fission discovery and to the first steps in techniques to dominate the atomic energy. The realization of national atomic programs which first took place in USA and then in Russia (USSR) and Great Britain had attracted the whole world's attention and placed Physics and the natural sciences in general in a top position. Being concerned with matters of physics became then exclusive and prestigious and physicists as individuals attracted the society's attention. They became heroes of literature, theater, movies, press. This process was observed in many advanced countries. It was also typical for the former USSR of those times, although owing to special social circumstances it had acquired some particular forms. One such form was the creation of ""Physical Art"" traditions... The birth of these traditions is commonly associated with the appearance at MSU PhysFac in 1960 of a Student Humor Festival called ""Birthday of Archimedes"" (later ""Physics Day"") along with a comic buffoonery opera ""Archimedes"" (authors - physicists and poets V. Kaner, V. Milyaev). However, MSU physicists consider the ""Physical Art"" traditions to have started earlier. Here are some remarkable milestones: In 1932 the well known ""Faust"" jocular opera and in 1935 the special issue of the ""Jocular Physics"" journal were written by some eminent physicists in connection with the 50th birthday of Niels Bohr.""The present 1955-volume contains numerous very funny contributions by physicists around Bohr, all based on physics humour, physics word-games etc. We have for instance ""A Voyage to Laplacia"" by L. Rosenfeld, a ""Confidential"" report ""Standardization of (physics) Papers"" by J. Lindhard,""Broken English"" by H.B.G. Casimir (""There exists today a universal language that is spoken and understood almost everywhere: it is Broken English. I am not referring to Pidgin English a highly formalized and restricted branch of B.E. but to the much more general language that is used by waiters in Hawai, prostitutes in Paris and ambassadors in Washington, by business-men from Buenos Aires, by scientists at international meetings and by dirty-postcard-peddlers in Greece, in short honourable people like myself all over the world..."" (p. 14), aphorisms (like: ""One Bohr can answer more questions than 10 philosophers can ask"", """"I will have to sleep on that"" the physicist said, he lay down on the floor"", etc.), ""A Remarkable ""V-event"""" by M. Sheep, ""The Heart on the other Side"" by G. Gamow (""""But father will never give his consent... He is looking for a son-in-law who can help him in his business, and eventually take it over. You can't possibly qualify for that, can you?"" ""No, I guess I can't,"" agreed Stan Situs sadly. ""I cannot possibly see how the kind of mathematics I am doing or, in fact, ANY kind of mathematics can help the production and selling of shoes...""), the poem ""The Atom that Bohr Built"", etc. The ""Journal of Jocular Physics"" is an important document portraying both one of the main physical centres of this physically important period and how one of the greatest scientific minds of the 20th century was viewed by his students and collaborators - as being not only brilliant in his field of research but also as a funny, likeable and sympathetic person. See also:Gino Segrè. Faust in Copenhagen. A Struggle for the Soul of Physics and the Birth of the Nuclear Age.""Pimlico, 2008.George Gamow. Thirty Years that Shook Physics. The Story of Quantum Theory. New York, 1966.‎

‎Opera Philosophica. Edited by Vilhelm Maar. At the Expense of the Carlsbergfond. 2 Vols.‎

‎Copenhagen, Vilhelm Tryde, 1910. 4to. Uniformly bound uncut with both original printed wrappers in two black full cloth bindings. Previous owner's name to front wrappers and ex-libris pasted on to verso of front wrappers. Titlepages in red/black, both with an engraved vignette (Domus Anatomica). (4), XXXII, 264 pp." 365,(1) pp. With many illustrations in the texts as facsimiles from the original works. Only printed in 350 copies, the present copy being no. 26. A fine and clean set. ‎

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‎This prestigious work contains all Steensen's famous works in Medicine, Anatomy, Geology etc. The Foreword, 32 pp., is in English and written by the editor Vilhelm Maar. ""Niels Stensen remains one of the most notable scientists in the history of anatomy. His method based on dissection and experiment enabled him to make significant contribution to the understanding of structure and function of human body. Like many successful scientists he was able to make the most of the rather serendipitous discovery of the parotid duct early in his career, soon expanding his research focus into new areas."" (Strkalj, Niels Stensen and the Discovery of the Parotid Duct).""In the physiology his researches into the anatomy of the glands led to his discovery of the [duct of] parotid gland, one of the three salivary glands near the ear, into the mouth, is still named ""Steno's duct."""" (PMM 151)‎

‎Helden-Ruhm in den Heroischen Verrichtungen Dess Weld berumbten See-Helden Herren Niels Juel Herren zu Soebygaard etc. Ritter (...) So von dem selben in dem 1676sten wie auch im 1677sten Jahr vollenbracht. - [FROM JUEL'S LIBRARY]‎

‎(No place, nor year, but around 1680). Folio (265 x 170 mm). In contemporary marbled wrappers. Paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Wear to extremities, missing part of the paper on spine. Internally with occassional light brownspotting. 18 ff.‎

‎Exceedingly rare first edition of this panegyric to Niels Juel, arguably the most famous commander in the Danish-Norwegian Navy only second to Tordenskjold. The present copy has until recently been house in the library of Valdemar's Castle, the very castle Juel was given by the king after his victory over Sweden in the Battle of Køge. The estate was transferred to him as payment for the Swedish ships captured in the battle. Niels Juel is beat known for his victories against Sweden during the Scanian War (1675–1679) and the present work focuses on his heroic deeds in the years 1676 and 1677, which were crucial in the war namely the Battle of Öland (1676) and the Battle of Køge Bay (1677) – One of Juel’s most famous triumphs where he decisively defeated the Swedish fleet. Biblioteca Danica III, 1209.‎

‎Postilla Eller Forklaring offuer Euangelia, som almindelige om Søndage oc andre hellige Dage, predickis i den christne Kircke, udi Danmarck oc Norge: først screffuen paa Latine, Oc nu paa det ny offuerseet, oc merckeligen forbedret aff Niels Hemmingss... - [EXCEEDINGLY SCARCE FIRST DANISH EDITION OF ""HEMMINGSEN'S POSTIL""]‎

‎Kiøbenhaffn, (Andreas Gutterwitz og Hans Stockelmann), 1576. Folio. (27 x 19 cm.). Senere velbevaret hellæderbind i flammet kalv fra omkring 1850. Ryg med svagt ophøjede ægte bind, smalle forgyldte borter langs bindene. Forgyldt rygtitel: HUUSPOSTIL. Eksemplaret er næsten komplet, idet der kun mangler titelbladet til 1. del og det sidste blanke blad. Del.1: 13 (af 14) unummererede blade + 214 nummererede blade. Del 2: 234 nummererede + 13 unummererede. Med talrige monumentale halvsides træsnit i teksten illustrerende Jesu levnedsløb, hvis kunstner indtil for nylig var uidentificeret. (Se noten neden for). Nogle fejlpagineringer i begge Dele. 2 signaturer (læg) ombyttede (i 1. Del og i registeret). Trykt på svært papir og med lettere brugsspor, mest blandt de første blade i 1. Del. Ca. 20 blade omkantede, ca. 15 blade kantforstærkede i højre margin, 3 blade reparerede med teksttab. Enkelte blade reparerede i kanter med tab af bogstaver i marginalierne. Kolofonbladet repareret i alle kanter, men uden tab af tekst. Enkelte blade med svage skjolder og brunpletter. Et læg i registeret løsnet. Alt i alt et usædvanligt velbevaret eksemplar af dette monumentalværk i dansk teologisk litteratur. Folio. (27 x 19 cm.). Later well preserved full mottled calf binding from ca 1850. Slightly raised real bands to spine, slim gilt borders along the bands. Gilt title to spine. The copy is nearly complete, as its is only lacking the title-page for part 1 and the final blank. Part 1: 13 (of 14) unnumbered leaves + 214 numbered laeves. Part II: 234 numbered leaves + 13 unnumbered leaves. Some paginational errors in both parts. Two quires have been swapped (in part 1 and the index). With numerous half-page woodcuts in the text depicting the life of Jesus. Until recently, the artist had remained unidentified (please see note below for clarification). Printed on thick, heavy paper. Signs of use, mostly to the first leaves of part 1. Ca 20 leaves re-margined, and ca 15 leaves re-inforced at outer margin. Three leaves repaired with loss of text. A few leaves restores at edges with marginal loss of lettering. All edges of colophon repaired, but no loss of text. A few leaves with light damp staining and brownspotting. One quire of the index loose. All in all an unusually well preserved copy of this extremely rare monument of Danish theology. ‎

‎Den uhyre sjældne første danske udgave af Hemmingsens Postil, ja faktisk findes kun 2 komplette eksemplarer på private hænder, nemlig det som var ejet af Tore Virgin indtil 1947 og et eksemplar som for nogle år siden dukkede op i Frankrig, og som nu er i en dansk privatsamling. Lauritz Nielsen anfører, at der alene er registreret 4 komplette eksemplarer i offentlige biblioteker (KB, Linköping, Stifts-og Landsbibliotek, Karen Brahe, Odense og Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel). Universitetsbibliotekets eksemplar er defekt, ligesom KB ejer 3 defekte eksemplarer ud over det komplette, som alle 3 er med mange mangler.Postillen udkom først på Latin i 1561 og blev fortsat med ialt 16 Latinske udgaver - alle i 8vo-, og om alle kan man vist sige, at de er af største sjældenhed. Carl S. Petersen kalder Niels Hemmingsen ""den største teologiske Videnskabsmand, der har levet i vor Fædreland"", og som elev af Melancton må han nok betegnes som den mest betydelige tænker i Reformationstidens Danmark og Norge. Hans Postil er ikke egentlige prædikener, ""men dispositioner til saadanne, udarbejdede med det formål at tvinge præsten til alvorlig gennemtænkning af den hellige Text"". Samtiden tildelte ham navnet ""Danmarks almindelige Lærer"". AN ILLUSTRATIONERNE: En dansk bogsamler og ekspert på danske 1500-tals tryk (Jørgen Jark) har bidraget til opklaringen af de monumentale illustrationers ophav. Han anfører, at signaturen CE (i Thesaurus og Birkelund fejllæst som CF) - ifølge Nagler ""Die Monogramisten"" - sandsynligvis står for kunstneren, mester Endele. Han var af Wittenbergskolen, og denne serie af billeder var tidligere anvendt i en tysk udgave af Luthers Postil. Et par af billederne er mærket med årstallene 1561 og 1562. Efter lånet til Danmark må de være returneret, da de ikke optræder senere i noget andet dansk tryk. Træskæreren har markeret sig med en træskærerkniv og et 4tals-agtigt tegn, der er et i tiden og tidligere ofte anvendt laugsmærke. Et par af billederne tilhører en helt anden serie, f.eks. Del I, blad 71b. De tilskrives Hans Brosamer og hele denne serie blev brugt af Matz Vingaard i hans Lutherpostil 1577.Lauritz Nielsen: 886. - Thesaurus I, 100. - Bibl. Danica I:499. - Birkelund, 31. The exceedingly scarce first edition of the first Danish edition of Hemmingsen’s Postil. Only two complete copies are known on private hands, one that was owned by Thore Virgin up until 1947, and another copy that appeared in France some years back and which is now in a Danish private collection. According to Lauritz Nielsen, merely four complete copies are registered in libraries world-wide (Royal Library in Danmerk, Linköping’s Stifts- og Landbibliotek, Karen Brahe in Odense, and Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel). The copy in the University Library in Denmark is defective, as are the three other copies that The Royal Library owns, all very incomplete. Hemmingsen’s Postille first appeared in Latin in 1561, followed by another 15 Latin editions, all in 8vo. All 16 editions are considered exceedingly rare. Carl S. Petersen calls Niels Hammingsen ”the greatest theological scientist that has ever lived in our country” (i.e. Denmark). As a pupil of Melanchthon, he is rightfully considered the most significant thinker during the Danish/Norwegian Reformation. His Postil does not cosntitute actual sermons, but ”dispositions for such, prepared with the goal of forcing the priest into serious contemplation of the holy Text.” (Own translation from Danish). By his contemporaries, Hemmingsen was known as “The common teacher of Denmark”. THE ILLUSTRATIONS: A Danish bibliophile and expert on 16th century printings (Jørgen Jark) has contributed to solve the question of the origin of the monumental illustrations. He states that according to Nagler in “Die Monogramisten”, the signature CE (in Thesaurus and Birkelund erroneously read as CF) most likely refers to the artist Master Endele. Endele was part of the Wittenberg School, and this series of illustrations had previously been used in a German edition of Luther’s Postil. A few of the illustrations bear the years 1561 and 1562. After having been lent to Denmark, they must have been returned, as they appear in no other Danish printing. The woodcutter has marked himself with a woodcutter’s knife and a sign resembling “4”, which was a commonly used guild mark of the period. A few of the illustrations belong to a completely different series, e.g. Part 1, f. 71b. They are attributed to Hans Brosamer" his enire series was used by Mats Vingaard in his Luther’s Postil from 1577. Lauritz Nielsen: 886. - Thesaurus I, 100. - Bibl. Danica I:499. - Birkelund, 31.‎

‎Den stormægtigste konges Christian den fierdes konges til Danmark og Norge, de venders og gothers, hertugs til Slesvig, Holsten, Stormarn og Ditmersken, greves til Oldenborg og Delmenhorst, historie, sammenskrevet af Niels Slange. 4 parts (all). - [A MASTERPIECE IN DANISH HISTORICAL LITERATURE]‎

‎København, Hans Kongel. Majests. privilegerede Bogtrykkerie, 1749. Folio (265 x 400 mm) Four parts uniformly bound in two full calf bindings with seven raised bands and richly gilt spines. Light wear to extremities, some scratches to boards and some of the gilt ornamentation to spine worn off. Lower compartment on spine of vol. 1 with repair. Top of title-page in vol. 1 with annotations in contemporary hand and small part of upper outer corner on title-page cut out, far from affecting text. A few leaves with contemporary marginal annotations, but an overall nice, clean and widemargined copy. (4), 10, 676 677-1534, (1) pp. + 2 engraved frontispieces depicting Christian IV and Niels Slange. ‎

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‎First edition of Niels Slange’s famous biography of Denmark’s arguably most renowned and legendary King, Christian IV – the work is in all aspects a masterpiece in Danish historical literature. Bibl. Danica III, 68.‎

‎Logarithmisch-Trigonometrische Tafeln mit fünf Decimalstellen. Sechste Stereotyp-auflage. - [FROM THE LIBRARY OF NIELS BOHR]‎

‎Berlin, P. Stankiewicz, (forword dated 1884). 8vo. Publishers blind stamped cloth. With RUBBER STAMP of NIELS BOHR and HANDWRITTEN SIGNATURE of CHRISTIAN. XVI,173,(1),(2) pp.‎

‎From the library of physicist Niels Bohr and his father Christian Bohr. ‎

‎L'Ange blanc. Les enfants de Tchernobyl sont devenus grands. ‎

‎ Les Editions Noir Sur Blanc, 2016. In-8 broché, couverture couleurs. A l'état de neuf. ‎

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‎La ville de Slavutych est la plus jeune d'Ukraine. Située à trente kilomètres de la centrale de Tchernobyl, elle a été construite par les autorités soviétiques immédiatement après la catastrophe de 1986, à la lisière de la zone contaminée, afin de loger les liquidateurs et le personnel affecté à l'entretien des réacteurs encore en activité. Conçue comme la ville idéale soviétique pour travailleurs de choc, Slavutych abrite 25 000 habitants. Trente ans après l'accident, une nouvelle génération est née et a grandi à Slavutych, à l'ombre de la plus grande catastrophe nucléaire de l'Histoire. Niels Ackermann est parti à la rencontre des habitants, de cette jeunesse pleine de rêves et d'espoirs. Il rencontre Ioulia, une adolescente qui lui présente ses amis et lui montre les différentes facettes de la ville. Au fil des séjours du photographe, entre 2012 et 2015, Ioulia se transforme peu à peu en une jeune femme, qui perd ses rêves et se voit confrontée à la réalité. Loin des discours catastrophistes ou misérabilistes, loin des clichés en noir et blanc, Niels Ackermann et le journaliste Gaetan Vannay montrent dans L'Ange blanc leur amour pour l'Ukraine, et toutes les interrogations sur la vie qui continue, dans cette région pas tout à fait comme les autres. Suite à un accident immobilisant votre libraire pour quelques semaines, le traitement des commandes est bien assuré, mais momentanément ralenti. Merci de votre patience et de votre compréhension.‎

‎Den stormægtigste konges Christian den fierdes konges til Danmark og Norge, de venders og gothers, hertugs til Slesvig, Holsten, Stormarn og Ditmersken, greves til Oldenborg og Delmenhorst, historie, sammenskrevet af Niels Slange. Vol. 4 only (out of ...‎

‎København, Hans Kongel. Majests. privilegerede Bogtrykkerie, 1749. Folio (405 x 255). In contemporary full calf with seven raised bands and richly gilt spine. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine and a few scratches to boards, internally very fine and clean. (3), 681-1534, (1) pp.‎

‎Volume four (out of four) of the first edition of Niels Slange’s famous biography of Denmark’s arguably most renowned and legendary King, Christian IV – the work is in all aspects a masterpiece in Danish historical literature. Biblioteca Danica III, 68.‎

‎DIVINAE PROPORTIONIS PRINCIPIUM Jan Deconynck ‎

‎, Mobius Publications, 2012 Softcover, 210mm x 297mm, 250 blz. genummerde oplage van 50 exemplaren, dit is nummer 14.‎

‎Artist book,in collaboration with Belgian painter Jan Deconynck, samenwerking tussen Jan Deconynck; kunstschilder, Albert Verleyen; Kunstcriticus & Niels Benoot; grafisch vormgever.. Printed in a limited serie of 50 copies, numbered. ‎

‎Oeuvres complètes. Nouvelle édition publiée aux frais de l'Etat Norvégien, par L. Sylow et S. Lie. 2 parts in 1 volume.‎

‎Christiania, Grøndahl, 1881, in-4to, 2 leaves + VIII + 621 p. + 1 blanc leaf; 2 leaves + 338 p. + 2 leaves ( 2 tables, et errata), light foxing in places, mainly limited to one margin, annexe: Niels Hendrik Abel, In Memoriam. p. 223-233, half vellum with marbled paper, upper spine hinge starting, two or three small scrapes to marbled paper of rear cover.‎

‎New edition of the complete works by the Norwegian genious in mathematics, particularly on elliptic integrals. “All of Abel's works carry the imprint of an ingenuity and force of thought which is unusual and sometimes amazing, even if the youth of the author is not taken into consideration. One may say that he was able to penetarte all obstacles down to the very foundations of the problems, with a force which appeared irrisistable ...” (Crelle's extensive eulogy of Abel, who died of tbc at the age of 28).Joint an appendice of 12 p.: Niels Hendrik Abel, In Memoriam. p. 223-233, with an article by S. PINCHERLE, entitled «Sur une série d'Abel». DSB I/12-17. ‎

‎Egenhændigt manuskript til ""Aristoteles Ethica Nicomachea."" 126 ss. 4to.‎

‎De første 46 sider er i Niels Mølers egen hånd, derefter veksler det mellem hans egen hånd og tre ukendte (sekretæreres?). Aristoteles' Nicomachaeiske Etik er i 10 bøger, og manuskriptet slutter midt i fjerde bog. I de dele, der ikke er i Niels Møllers egen håndskrift er der adskillige rettelser (foretaget af ham selv?). Munksgaard- udgaven trykt i 1936 følger nøje manuskriptet.‎

‎Postilla Eller Forklaring offuer Euangelia, som almindelige om Søndage oc andre hellige Dage, predickis i den christne Kircke, udi Danmarck oc Norge: først screffuen paa Latine, Oc nu paa det ny offuerseet, oc merckeligen forbedret aff Niels Hemmingss...‎

‎Kiøbenhaffn, Henrich Walkirch, 1600. Folio. I et samtidigt hellæderbind over træ. Ryg med fire ophøjede bind. Bind restaureret, men størstedelen af det oprindelige læder er bevaret på ryg og permer. Talrige ormehuller på permer. Verso af forperm tæt annotteret i samtidig hånd. Rester af to læderspænder. Første fire blade samt kolofon suppleret i faksimile. Otte blade i begyndelsen (sidste to af fortalen, samt Formanning til...) samt fyrre blade sidst (pp. 335-398 samt register) suppleret fra andet eksemplar. Bladene fra det indsatte eksemplar er beskåret ca 2 cm mere på alle marginer end det oprindelige eksemplar. Flere blade med reperationer i margin. (24), 362, 398, (18) pp. Med talrige monumentale halvsides træsnit i teksten illustrerende Jesu levnedsløb, hvis kunstner indtil for nylig var uidentificeret. (Se noten nedenfor).‎

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‎Postillen udkom først på Latin i 1561 og blev fortsat med ialt 16 Latinske udgaver, alle kan man vist sige, af største sjældenhed. Carl S. Petersen kalder Niels Hemmingsen ""den største teologiske Videnskabsmand, der har levet i vor Fædreland"", og som elev af Melancton må han nok betegnes som den mest betydelige tænker i Reformationstidens Danmark og Norge. Hans Postil er ikke egentlige prædikener, ""men dispositioner til saadanne, udarbejdede med det formål at tvinge præsten til alvorlig gennemtænkning af den hellige Text"". Samtiden tildelte ham navnet ""Danmarks almindelige Lærer"".ANG. ILLUSTRATIONERNE: En dansk bogsamler og ekspert på danske 1500-tals tryk (Jørgen Jark) har fornylig bidraget til opklaringen af de monumentale illustrationers ophav. Han anfører, at signaturen CE (i Thesaurus fejllæst som CF) - ifølge Nagler ""Die Monogramisten"" - sandsynligvis står for kunstneren, mester Endele. Han var af Wittenbergskolen, og denne serie af billeder var tidligere anvendt i en tysk udgave af Luthers Postil. Et par af billederne er mærket med årstallene 1561 og 1562. Efter lånet til Danmark må de være returneret, da de ikke optræder senere i noget andet dansk tryk. Træskæreren har markeret sig med en træskærerkniv og et 4tals-agtigt tegn, der er et i tiden og tidligere ofte anvendt laugsmærke. Et par af billederne tilhører en helt anden serie, f.eks. bind I, blad 71b. De tilskrives Hans Brosamer og hele denne serie blev brugt af Matz Vingaard i hans LutherpostilLauritz Nielsen: 887 Thesaurus I, 100.‎

‎Foreslag til det Danske Landsbye=Skolevæsens Forbedring.‎

‎Aarhus, Niels Lund, 1801. Ubeskåret med originale blå blanke omslag indsat i et nyere hshirtbd. med marmoreret overtrækspapir. 47 pp. Et læg fejlheftet. Gl. navn på titelbladet.‎

‎Originaltrykket. Yderst sjælden. Et af Niels Blichers (St.St. Blichers fader) skole-reformistiske skrifter.‎

‎London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical magazine and Journal of Science. Vol. XXVI - Sixth Serie‎

‎Londres, Taylor and Francis, juillet - décembre 1913, in-4, 1064 pp. 24 pl, Broché, couverture imprimée de l'éditeur, Fort volume réunissant les numéros 151 à 156 de cette revue scientifique de premier ordre, fondée en 1798 par le naturaliste anglais Richard Taylor. Il contient, en édition originale, l'article de Niels Bohr "On the Constitution of Atoms and Molecules" en trois parties (n° 151, 153 et 155) ; Ernest Rutherford, en collaboration avec son élève H. Richardson, pour "Analysis of the Gamma Rays from Radium D and Radium E" (n° 152) et "Analysis of the Gamma Rays of the Thorium and Actinium products" (n° 156) ; ainsi que l'article d'Henry G.J. Moseley "The High-Frequency Spectra of the Elements" (n° 156) : ? Niels Bohr (1885 1962), "On the Constitution of Atoms and Molecules" : dans ce texte fondamental sur la constitution des atomes et des molécules, le scientifique danois met au point sa théorie qui refonde le modèle de l'atome de Rutheford, alors en usage. Il introduit la notion d'état stationnaire des électrons, joint le modèle de l'atome de Rutherford à la théorie quantique de Planck et invente ainsi le modèle de Bohr, qui, bien qu'il ait été révisé depuis, a permis d'autres découvertes scientifiques également importantes. ? Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937), "Analysis of the Gamma Rays from Radium D and Radium E" et "Analysis of the Gamma Rays of the Thorium and Actinium products" : le physicien néo-zélandais publie ici ses recherches à propos des rayons gamma provenant du radium D et radium E puis du thorium et de l'actinium. Il a créé le nom de rayonnement gamma et les a déjà divisés en deux groupes en fonction de leur puissance pénétrante. ? Henry Moseley (1887-1915), "The High-Frequency Spectra of the Elements": l'élève, puis le collaborateur de Rutherford, a mené les expériences de cet article dans son propre laboratoire. Le scientifique britannique cherche à y mesurer les spectres de rayons X en plaçant les éléments dans des tubes sous vide puis en les bombardant d'électrons. Grâce à ce dispositif, il mettra en évidence la loi de Moseley qui met en relation les longueurs d'onde des rayons X et le numéro atomique des éléments, concept qu'il découvre et nomme. Cet découverte permettra de compléter le tableau périodique de Mendeleïev de ses éléments encore non connus. Bel ensemble d'articles scientifiques novateurs dans leur édition originale. Exemplaire non coupé. Cachets de l'Institut catholique de Paris. Dos refait, un peu fragile. PMM, 407. DSB, Rutherford, Moseley. Couverture rigide‎

‎Bon 1064 pp. 24 pl.‎

‎Originalmanuskriptet til En lystelig Visebog. Enogtyve Viser. Musik af Niels Clemmensen. Vignetter af Axel Nygaard.‎

‎Kbh., 1930. Lille folio. Indb. i et nydeligt samt. hldrbd. af rød maroquin. Indeholder det orig. egenhændige manuskript til teksten af Seedorf, orig. egenhændige tegninger af Nygaard, Orig. egenhændige noder af Clemmensen samt 1. prøvetryk af musikken og teksten, indeholdende adskillige egenhændige rettelser.‎

‎Yderst interessant originalt manuskript, af hvilket det bl.a. fremgår, at Seedorf havde påtænkt værket titlen ""Styrmand Andreasson og Konsorter"". Der findes adskillige andre kuriositeter og morsomheder, såsom kommentaren ""Her har/ du overset/ den manglende/ Tankestreg/ mellem Stud og med/ Ha! Ha!"" på 1. prøvetrykket af noderne til ""Bedæk med friske Krandse"", hvoraf det desuden fremgår, at den oprindelige titel var ""Trøsterig Vise for bedragne Ægtemænd.""Manuskriptet bærer en egenhændig dediktion til Karen Else (Seedorfs hustru, også kendt som ""Spindevinde""): ""Som Hans siger:/ Vor Moders Navn ved et Anker, boys,/ og saa Navnet paa hende, I veed!/ Din hengivne Ven/ Niels Clemmensen."" Manuskriptet bærer Karen Elses ex libris. Vedlagt et eksemplar af den trykte originaludgave.‎

‎The Structure of the Atom. (Rutherford) + (Darwin:) Collision of 'alpha' Particles with Light Atoms. + (Bohr:) On the Effect of Electric and Magnetic Fields on Spectral Lines‎

‎London, 1914. No wrappers, but stiched. All three papers contained in: ""Philosophical Magazine"", Sixth Series, Vol. 27. No. 159. March 1914. The whole issue issue offered (=no. 159): pp. 397-540 and 2 plates.Rutherford's paper.pp. 488-498. - Darwin's paper: pp. 499-506. - Bohr's paper: pp. 506-523. All clean and fine.‎

‎First edition and first printing of all three papers. Rutherford, in this paper for the first time identifies the hydrogen nucleus, and called it the 'positive electron'. He later called it 'the proton' . In his definitive paper of 1911 he estimated the radius of the nucleus, a hundred thousand times smaller than that of an atom. Darwin in his paper (offered here) gave a more precise measure.In the first lines of the paper Rutherford outlines the content ""The present paper and and the accompanying paper by Mr. C. Darwin (the second paper offered here) deal with certain points in connection with the ""nucleus"" theory of the atom which were purposely omitted in my first communication on that subject (Phil. Mag. May 1911). A brief account is given of the later investigations which have been made to test the theory and of the deductions which can be drawn from them. At the same time a brief statement is given of recent observations on the passage of alpha particles through hydrogen, which throw importent light on the dimensions of the nucleus."" - Rutherford had studies alpha-particles intensely in the years before 1914 and proved quite conclusively that the individual particle was a helium atom with its electrons removed. The alpha particles were like the positive rays that had been discovered by Goldstein (1886), and now in 1914 (the paper offered) Rutherford suggested that the simplest positive rays must be those obtained from the hydrogen and that these must be the fundamentall positively-charged particle. He names it a 'positive electron'.Darwin, in the paper offered ""concluded from the known data:""No force proportional to some power of the distance other than the inverse square can give the dependence (the Rutherford scattering cross section) on (the initial velocity)"", and he then calculated the distance of closest alpha-particle-nucleus approach.The paper by Niels Bohr relates to ""The Stark effect"". In 1913 appeared ""an importent new discovery: when atomic hydrogen is exposed to a static electrical field its spectral lines split, the amount of splitting being proportional to thefield strenght (the linear Stark effect). After Rutherford read this news in ""Nature"", he at once wrote to Bohr:'I think it is rather up to you at the present time to write something on....electric effects.'"" (A. Pais). Bohrs paper on The Stark effect appeared in 1914, the paper offered here. - Rosenfeld. Niels Bohr' publications No. 10).‎

‎Festskrift til Professor Dr. Niels Bohr. Paa 50 aars dagen d. 7. oktober 1935.‎

‎Kjøbenhavn, J. Jørgensen & Co., 1935. 8vo. In the original printed wrappers, uncut. Offprint from ""Fysisk Tidsskrift"". Frontiespiece of Bohr. Corners a bit bumped and a small tear to upper capital, other fine and clean throughout. Pp. 77-220.‎

‎First printing of this commemoration to Niels Bohr on his 50ies birthday. It consists of the following papers and essays written by Bohr's student and fellow physicians. Kramers H.A. Atom- og kvanteteoriens udvikling 1 aarene 1913-1925.Heisenberg, w. Udviklingen af kvanteteoriens principielle grundlag efter 1925. Klein, O. Den elektriske elementarladning og kvanteteorien. Rosenfeld, L. Kvanteteori og feltfysik. Ambrosen, J. Om neutronen. Bjerge, T. & F. Kalckar. Atomkærnernes egenskaber og opbygning.Bøggild, J.K. Højdestraalingen. Jacobsen, J.C. Absorption af Røntgen- og v-straaler.Langseth, A. Isotopeffekten i molekylspektrene. Madsen, C. B. Isotoper.Møller, C. Om positronteorien.Rasmussen, Ebbe. Spektralliniernes hyperfinstruktur. Rasmussen, R. E. H. Lidt om adsorption, refleksion og energiudveksling ved molekylstød mod faste overflader. Thorsen, V. Den elektriske lysbue. Werner, Sven. Atomernes størrelse.‎

‎Opera Philosophica. Edited by Vilhelm Maar. At the Expense of the Carlsbergfond. 2 Vols.‎

‎Copenhagen, Vilhelm Tryde, 1910. 4to. Bound partly uncut with both orig. printed frontwrappers in 2 solid hmorocco. Spines without titlelabels. A few minor scratches to bindings. Internally clean and fine printed on good paper. Titlepages in red/black, both with an engraved vignette (Domus Anatomica). (4),XXXII,264365,(1) pp. With many illustrations in the texts as facsimiles from the original works. Only prited in 350 copies.‎

‎This prestigious work contains all Steensen's famous works in Medicine, Anatomy, Geology etc. The Foreword, 32 pp., is in English and written by the editor Vilhelm Maar.‎

‎Opera Philosophica. Edited by Vilhelm Maar. At the Expense of the Carlsbergfond. 2 Vols.‎

‎Copenhagen, Vilhelm Tryde, 1910. 4to. Uncut in orig. printed wrappers. A small tear to frontwrapper at top of spine on vol. 2. Titlepages in red/black, both with an engraved vignette (Domus Anatomica). (4),XXXII,264"365,(1) pp. With many illustrations in the texts as facsimiles from the original works. Only prited in 350 copies. (No. 263 of 350). Printed on fine paper. Clean and fine. Dedication from the editor ""Hr. Dr. J.W. Johnsson/ venskabeligst fra Wilhelm Maar"".‎

‎This prestigious work contains all Steensen's famous works in Medicine, Anatomy, Geology etc. The Foreword, 32 pp., is in English and written by the editor Vilhelm Maar.‎

‎On the Quantum Theory of Line-Spectra. Part I-II. [Off-print from ""D. Kgl. Danske Vidensk. Selsk. Skrifter"". - [BOHR'S CORRESPONDENCE PRINCIPLE - PRESENTATION-COPIES]‎

‎Copenhagen, Bianco Lunos, 1918. 4to. Both parts uncut and in the original printed wrappers. Wrappers detached and with small nicks and tears to extremities. Internally fine and clean. Part I unopened. 36 pp. + pp. (37) - 100.‎

‎First editions, author's off-prints (with ""Separate Copy"" printed to front wrappers), presentation-copies, of the first two parts of Bohr's seminal work ""On the Quantum Theory of the Line-Spectra"" (which appeared in three parts and which was never finished, the third part of which, published 4 years later, is almost never found in presentation-sets), in which Bohr gave his first clear presentation of his groundbreaking ""correspondence principle"": ""Which would play a pivotal role in the later development of atomic theory and its transformation into quantum mechanics."" (Kragh, Quantum Generations, p. 56). It eventually became a cornerstone in the quantum mechanics formulated by Heisenberg and Schrödinger. ""There was rarely in the history of physics a comprehensive theory which owed so much to one principle as quantum mechanics owed to Bohr's correspondence principle"" (Jammer 1966, p. 118). The evolution of quantum theory is divided into two distinct periods"" from 1900 to 1925, usually referred to as the period with the old quantum theory still grounded in classical physics and the second period with quantum mechanics from 1925 onwards. The general rules of quantum mechanics are very successful in describing objects on an atomic level. But macroscopic systems are accurately described by classical theories like classical mechanics and classical electrodynamics. If quantum mechanics were to be applicable to macroscopic objects, there must be some limit in which quantum mechanics reduces to classical mechanics. Bohr's correspondence principle demands that classical physics and quantum physics give the same answer when the systems become large. ""A major tool he developed for dealing with quantum problem, [...], was the correspondence principle, which establishes links between predictions of the classical theory and expectations for the quantum theory."" (Pais, Niels Bohr's Times, p. 20.). In this sense, the correspondence principle is not only an exceedingly important methodological principle, it also represents the transition to quantum mechanics and modern physics in general and it became the cornerstone of Bohr's philosophical interpretation of quantum mechanics which later would be closely tied to his thesis of complementarity and to the Copenhagen interpretation. Another version of the correspondence principle lives on in philosophical literature where it has taken form as a more general concept representing a development of new scientific theories.""By 1918 Bohr had visualized, at least in outline, the whole theory of atomic phenomena. ... He of course realized that he was still very far from a logically consistent framework wide enough to incorporate both the quantum postulates and those aspects of classical mechanics and electrodynamics that seemed to retain some validity. Nevertheless, he at once started writing up a synthetic exposition of his arguments and of all the evidence upon which they could have any bearing" in testing how well he could summarize what was known, he found occasion to check the soundness of his ideas and to improve their formulation. In the present case, however, he could hardly keep pace with the growth of the subject the paper he had in mind at the beginning developed into a four-part treatise, 'On the Theory of Line Spectra', publication of which dragged over four years without being completed" the first three parts appeared between 1918 and 1922 [of which the two first from 1918 are offered here], and the fourth, unfortunately, was never published. Thus, the full impact of Bohr's view remained confined to the small but brilliant circle of his disciples, who indeed managed better than their master to make them more widely known by the prompter publication of their own results"" (D.S.B. II: 246-47).Inscribed to ""Hr. Docent D. la Cour/ Venskabeligst/ fra/ Forfatteren"" on both front wrappers. The renowned Danish physicist and meteorologist Dan la Cour (1876-1942), was the son of the great Poul la Cour (1846-1908), who is considered the ""Danish Edison"". Dan la Cour was the assistant of Niels Bohr's father, Christian Bohr, and a well known scientist. From 1903, he was head of the department of the Meteorological Institute, and from 1923 leader thereof. From 1908 he was Associate Professor at the Polytechnic College. His original scientific works are highly respected, as are his original apparati for measuring earth magnetism which are considered highly valuable. ""His original intelligence, which in many ways resemble that of his father, also bore fruit in his patenting of various inventions: the ""Pyknoprobe"", developed to quickly determine the different layers of the sea"" a use of termite in quickly heating food and drinks out in the open under unfavourable weather conditions."" (From the Danish Encyclopaedia - own translation). He wrote a number of important and esteemed works and was member of the Danish Scientific Academy as well as many prominent international scientific commissions of meteorology and geophysics (i.e. president of the International Geodetical and Geophysical Union). He was also honorary Doctor at the George Washington University. Rosenfeld, Bohr-Bibliography, 15.‎

‎On the Transmutation of Atomic Nuclei by Impact of Material Particles. I. General theoretical Remarks. (all published)‎

‎Copenhagen, Levin & Munksgaard,1937. 8vo. Uncut in orig. printed wrappers. In: ""Det KGL. Danske Videnskabernes Selskab. Mathematisk-fysiske Meddelelser. XIV,10"". 40 pp. Fine and clean.‎

‎First edition of the work in which Bohr introduced his famous Liquid Drop Model of the atom in order to interprete the nuclear structure. (The paper was not continued as Kalckar died the following year).""It had, of course, been clear to Bohr that analogies with atomic spectra could not be of help in interpreting his (earlier) picture of nuclear structure. Peripheral electrons, thinly spread within the atomic volume, can be compared to a dilute gas of particles interacting in pairs only. By contrast Bohr's picture of intranuclear motions of tightly bound nucleons should show 'essential collective aspects', he said. Now, together with Kalckar, he suggested that for nuclei a much more proper comparison would be with a drop of liquid. That analogy should not be taken too literally, the dynamics of a true liquid drop is vastly different from thta of nucleai. Yet the comparison, treated cautiously, was tempting and in the event proved fruitful in many respects, particularly in regard to collective motions.""(Pais ""Niels Bohr's Times"", pp. 339-40).""In the liquid drop model, formulated by Niels Bohr, the nucleons are imagined to interact strongly with each other, like the molecules in a drop of liquid. A given nucleon collides frequently with other nucleons in the nuclear interior, its mean free path as it moves about being substantially less than the nuclear radius. This constant ""jiggling around"" reminds us of the thermal agitation of the molecules in a drop of liquid. The liquid drop model permits us to correlate many facts about nuclear masses and binding energies"" it is useful in explaining nuclear fission. It also provides a useful model for understanding a large class of nuclear reactions."" (FAQ).Rosenfeld No 56.‎

‎Acta Medica & Philosophica Hafniensia. Ann. 1671&16721673 1674.1675.1676." 1677.1678. 1679. Cum aeneis figuris/Figuris aeneis illustrata. 5 vols (all). - [ONE OF THE FIRST MEDICAL PERIODICALS]‎

‎Copenhagen, Peter Haubold, 1673-80. 4to. A very nice recent full calf pastiche binding with four raised bands and gilt red title-label to spine. blindstamped borders to boards. Old owner's inscription (""Sven Borgh/Lund 1840"") to title-page. A very nice and clean copy with only a bit of brownspotting and some evenly browned leaves. A tear (with no loss) to one leaf and one leaf (vol. V, L3) with a neat marginal restoration, far from affacting text. The following two leaves with minor loss to blank upper margin (far from affecting text). The large double-page folded plate with Stensen's lymphatic glands (vol. II, p. 240) with a neat restoration to verso, no loss. Annotations and corrections in the same early, neat hand throughout. Woodcut vignettes and initials. All four title-pages (part III & IV have a joint title-page) printed in red and black. (16), 316" (20), 376 (16), 174, 216" (8), 342 pp. With ab. 60 woodcut illustrations in the text, many of them quite large, two of them full-page, and all 62 engraved plates (of which two are on a folded leaf), four of which are folded. A truly excellent, fully complete copy with all five volumes and all 62 plates.‎

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‎The very rare first edition of all five volumes of Bartholin's groundbreaking medical journal, which constitutes the first scientific periodical in Scandinavia and one of the very first medical periodicals in the world. Thomas Bartholin (1616-1680) was one of the leading physicians of his time, now remembered, among many other things, as the discoverer of the lymphatic system. He ""was the most celebrated physician of his period in Denmark and perhaps in all of Europe"". (Kronick, p. 81). He is considered ""a typical representative of the ""Curiosi naturae"" of the 17th century with all their learning, diligence and insatiable spirit of curiosity... He belonged with all his heart to the learned period, and yet he made an anatomical-physiological discovery of high mark when he found, and demonstrated, a hitherto entirely unknown vascular system in animals, and later in man - the lymphatic."" (Meisen, p. 25). He was a hugely influential and extremely productive man. Apart from his seminal discovery of the lymphatic system, he wrote a number of highly influential treatises, published a series of very influential anatomical papers, published his vast correspondence with other scientists, which has the character of a scientific archive at a time when there were not yet periodicals of natural science, provided us with the most extensive information about medicine in Denmark and about the conditions of the physicians, called attention to the significance of pathological anatomy, etc., etc., and ""[y]et the greatest importance is to be attached to his ""Acta medica philosophica Hafniensia"", in 5 volumes, that was published from 1673 to 1680, when he died. It is a scientific periodical, wide in its scope, one of the first of its kind."" (Meisen, p. 28). ""The Copenhagen biologists, under the quickening influence of Thomas Bartholin, produced five volumes of transactions known as the Acta medica et philosophica Hafniensia, which is now very rare."" (Hagenströmer)The leading contributors to the periodical, besides Bartholin himself, was the great Niels Steensen (Steno), Holger Jacobsen (Jacobaeus), Caspar Bartholin, Ole Borch (Borrichius), Ole Worm, Simon Paulli, Johan Rohde, Caspar Kölichen, etc., but the contributions were not confined to Danes or Scandinavians. For instance, the English anatomist Edward Tyson (1650-1708) also published here, as did several other internationally famous physicians and scientists. Interestingly, the ""Acta Hafniensia"", as it is known, has a great focus on the odd and curious, the astounding and marvelous, the unnatural and abnormal. Thorndike claims that ""Monsters and freaks of nature receive perhaps the most attention."" (vol. VIII, p. 234). However, the journal was far from limited to this. ""Thomas Bartholin describes the male mandrill illustrated by three anatomical plates (Male genitalia) and a figure of the entire animal, which had died of disease in the Royal Menagerie. Holger Jacobsen describes the scorpion, the salamander, snakes, several birds, the heron and the parrot (based on dissections and figures by Steno). He also investigated the fascinating and unique anatomical puzzle of the tongue of the black woodpecker (with plate). He gives an exceptionally interesting account of the mole cricket, Gryllotalpa, which is important as being one of the first in which the elongated segmental heart of insects is described and figured. This memoir is a commendable piece of zootomical research, and it is all the more outstanding because the subject of it was an invertebrate (Cole). The most outstanding contributions in the entire periodical, however, are the 12 by Niels Steensen (Steno), which are all printed here for the first time. Steensen was the most gifted of Bartholin's disciples, and when he returned to Denmark in 1672, he immediately took up anatomical demonstrations and dissections, the fruits of which he published here, in the first three volumes of the ""Acta Hafniensia"". His contributions constitute important finds in the fields of The Brain, The Heart, The Muscles and General Embryology. ""Steno's dissections of the muscles of the eagle, Aquila (1673) is one of the most remarkable essays in zootomy published up to his time, and it is perhaps more detailed and reliable than almost any other."" (Cole). (Gosch 24).In the paper ""Embryo monsto affinis Parisiis dissectus"" (Gosch 15), we have the first known description of the ""tetralogy of Fallot"" (Garrison & Morton no 2726.1). ""Bartholin was the most celebrated physician of his period in Denmark and perhaps in all of Europe. He was professor of anatomy at the University of Copenhagen and later became Dean of its Medical Faculty. The publication seems also to have associated with the activities of a scientific society, although there seems to be little evidence for Neuberger's statement that the ""Acta"" were the proceedings of this society. The preface to the translation of the ""Acta"" which are included in the ""Collection Académique"" gives the following account of its origins: ""The Academy of Copenhagen was founded by Frederick III, who was aware how much glory it brought to him and to Denmark by encouraging the sciences and by attracting and holding scientists in his kingdom. One finds little to clarify the history of this academy, even in the five published volumes. The editing of the memoirs was principally under the care of Bartholin, the first Dane to publish medical observations. His aim was first to make a collection which embraced all parts of science"" but, deterred by the immensity of the task, he limited himself to the different parts of medicine and to those observations that were offered to him. His sponsor was Count Griffenfeld, the grand chancellor of Denmark, who obtained an edict enjoining all Danish physicians to render exact correspondence with the Dean of the Faculty of Copenhagen and to inform him of all singularities in medicine and natural history observed in different parts of the kingdom. Bartholin had great hopes for this collection and one can truly find in the five volumes which he published many discoveries which would have been lost or perhaps not have existed if this correspondence had not brought them to light and encouraged him."" The ""Acta"" consisted primarily in short original observations on medical and natural scientific subjects, although it also contained a few abstracts of books."" (Kronick p. 81). Waller: 712 (listing only 39 plates)Wellcome: II, p. 108 (listing 61 plates)Gosch: III, pp 58-59 & I, pp. 137-38Hagströmer Library has only vols. I-IVBartholin papers: Gosch: Bartholin 30-43Steensen-papers: Gosch: Steno 15-26" Garrison&Morton: 2726.1Cole, F.J.: A History of Comparative Anatomy, pp 369-93Thorndike: History of Magic and Experimental Science, vol. VIII, Chapter 30Kronick, David A.: A History of Scientific and Technical Periodical 1665-1790, p. 57 & pp. 80-82Meisen: Prominent Danish Scientists through the Ages, pp. 25-28‎

‎Observationes Anatomicae. - [THE FOUNDATION OF THE STUDY OF GLANDS AS A SCIENCE]‎

‎Lugduni [Leiden], Jacobum Chouët, 1662. 12mo. Partly uncut in a nice later full calf binding (19th century?) with five raised bands and gilt lettering to spine. Hinges with a bit of wear and small piece of leather lacking on top of spine. Vague previous owner's name in contemporary hand to lower part of title-page. Ex-libris pasted on to pasted down front end-paper. Vague traces after stamp on p. 108. A fine copy. (12), 108 pp. + 3 folded plates.‎

‎The rare first edition of Steno's early and first major discovery, being the findings of the 3 main Ducts and glands of the eye, the mouth and the nose, among these the first account of the excretory duct of the parotid gland now named ""Stensen's Duct"". He correctly stated that the true purpose of the glands was to secrete fluid and ""with [the present work] Nicolaus Steno had established the study of glands as a science"". (Snorrason). His careful dissections of animal, and later human, brains were revolutionary. He demonstrated that tears are secrated by specific glands, thus striking a deadly blow to the ancient notion of cerebral excretion, even disproving the speculations of scholars such as Descartes, who believed that the corpus pineale (a brain gland) was the connecting point between soul and body.Steno arrived in Holland in March 1660 and was given lodging by the city's physician Gerad Blaes (Latin: Blasius) who himself had studied in Copenhagen and was a friend of Thomas Bartholin. A year later Steno wrote in a letter to Bartholin: ""After I had been given leave by Blasius to dissect on my own in the museum, I bought a sheep's-head in order to examine the brain. I happened to decide to investigate first the course of the veins and arteries at the mouth by introducing a probe into the vessels. I suddenly discovered that the point of the probe was moving freely in a spacious cavity and struck with a ringing sound against the teeth. Surprised at this, I called my host to hear his opinion. Blasius first said that it was due to force, then that it was one of nature's frequent freaks, and finally he looked up Wharton's book, but found no explanation there"". Shortly thereafter, Steno repeated the investigation on a dog and confirmed, ""there was a duct leading from the gland by the ear to the oral cavity, of a similar kind to the duct from the submaxillary gland found by the English man Thomas Wharton (1610-1673) a few years previously and described in his book Adenographia 1656. Steno was now certain that the gland was a salivary gland and not, as Wharton said in his book and as had been believed for some 1500 year, a kind of sponge intended to absorb surplus materials from the hard rami of the fifth pair of nerves, carry these back to the veins, warm up the outer and inner ear, and fill up the hollow around them."" (Snorrason). ""This discovery led Stensen to consider every fluid in the body as a glandular secretion. He then found a series of glands furnishing fluid to each of the body cavities. He likewise sought the afferent and efferent ducts of secretion. Stensen still used the name ""lymph"" for all watery glandular secretions, because he was not yet able to differentiate between them and to specify them chemically and physiologically. In the course of this basic research Stensen presented in his Leiden dissertation new discoveries of glands in the cheeks" beneath the tongue" and in the palate, whose structure of veins, arteries, nerves, and lymph vessels he also described. In his Observationes anatomicae (1662), dealing with his new discoveries concerning the glands, he described the lachrymal apparatus in great detail."" DSB 13, 33. ""Niels Stensen remains one of the most notable scientists in the history of anatomy. His method based on dissection and experiment enabled him to make significant contribution to the understanding of structure and function of human body. Like many successful scientists he was able to make the most of the rather serendipitous discovery of the parotid duct early in his career, soon expanding his research focus into new areas."" (Strkalj, Niels Stensen and the Discovery of the Parotid Duct).""In the physiology his researches into the anatomy of the glands led to his discovery of the [duct of] parotid gland, one of the three salivary glands near the ear, into the mouth, is still named ""Steno's duct."""" (PMM 151)Osler 4018Garrison & Morton 973Waller 9226Heirs of Hippocrates 393Norman 2010Snorrason 1662(PMM 151)‎