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Die gegenwärtige Situation in der Quantenmechanik I-III [All]. (The Present Situation in Quantum Mechanics). - [SCHRÖDINGER'S CAT]
Berlin, Springer, 1935. Royal8vo. Bound in contemporary half cloth with paper label pasted on to spine. In ""Die Naturwissenschaften"", Vol 23, 1935. Complete issue offered. Light browning throughout and Schrödinger's paper with underlignings. Pp 807-812" Pp. 823-828" Pp. 844-849. [Entire volume: 870, XIX pp].
First edition and first announcement of Schrödinger's famous reply to the EPR-paradox (also known as Schrödinger's Cat). When in May 1935 Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen published the so-called EPR-paper in ""Physical Review"", they set out to demonstrate that the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics could not constitute a complete description of nature. The EPR-article prompted a number of responses, e.g. from Bohr, the co-founder of the Copenhagen School, who began writing his response immediately after the publication of the Physical Review article. It is this debate that Schrödinger participates in with his seminal paper on ""The Present Situation in Quantum Mechanics"", in which he presents what is now famously known as Schrödinger's Cat. Schrödinger's Cat is the name of the thought experiment that Schrödinger develops in this article and that was intended as a discussion of the EPR article.After the publication of the EPR article, Einstein and Schrödinger had begun an exchange of letters on the subject of the possibility of quantum mechanics, as interpreted by the Copenhagenists, representing reality. During this exchange of letters, Schrödinger had been inspired by Einstein's view of the problem of applying the Copenhagen interpretation of Quantum mechanics to everyday objects. But Schrödinger, in his response, took his illustration of the absurdity of the interpretation and the incompleteness of quantum mechanics a step further" he applied it to a living entity, namely a cat. Schrödinger imagines a sealed box containing a cat, a bottle of poison, a radioactive source, a Geiger counter and a hammer. When the Geiger counter detects radiation, a mechanism is switched on that makes the hammer fall the hammer breaks the bottle, and the poison kills the cat. Because it is random, when the Geiger counter will detect radiation, and because in Quantum mechanics, physical conditions are described with the aid of a wave-function that explains all possible conditions of the system, Quantum mechanics, according to the Copenhagen interpretation, would come to the conclusion that the cat in the box is both living and dead, at the same time (the wave function is made up of a superposition of the two conditions -the cat being living and the cat being dead-" the two positions collapse into one, as soon as the system is interpreted as consisting of only one condition -either dead or living cat-, with the sole possible conclusion that the cat is both). Due to Heisenberg and Bohr's independent interpretation of Quantum theory (the ""Copenhagen interpretation), Quantum theory had in 1927 developed in a direction unforeseen by Schrödinger. ""Schrödinger was ""concerned and disappointed"" that this ""transcendental, almost physical interpretation of the wave phenomena"" had become the ""almost universally accepted dogma."""" (D.S.B. XII, p. 221). His most famous and widely used attack on this interpretation was that of ""Schrödinger's Cat"". This paradox of the dead-and-alive cat vigorously illustrated the absurdity of quantum mechanics and what was necessary to describe the states within this system. The thought experiment of Schrödinger's cat turned out to be hugely influential, and has become a standard paradox within both physics and philosophy.
Die gegenwärtige Situation in der Quantenmechanik I-III [All]. (The Present Situation in Quantum Mechanics). - [SCHRÖDINGER'S CAT]
Springer, Berlin, 1935. 4to. (256x186mm). Pages 807-812 823-828" 844-849 from volume 23 of 'Die Naturwissenschaften'. Bound together in recent attractive marbled boards (Hanne Jensen). Leather title with gilt lettering on front board. A fine and clean copy.
First edition and first announcement of Schrödinger's famous reply to the EPR-paradox (also known as Schrödinger's Cat). When in May 1935 Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen published the so-called EPR-paper in ""Physical Review"", they set out to demonstrate that the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics could not constitute a complete description of nature. The EPR-article prompted a number of responses, e.g. from Bohr, the co-founder of the Copenhagen School, who began writing his response immediately after the publication of the Physical Review article. It is this debate that Schrödinger participates in with his seminal paper on ""The Present Situation in Quantum Mechanics"", in which he presents what is now famously known as Schrödinger's Cat. Schrödinger's Cat is the name of the thought experiment that Schrödinger develops in this article and that was intended as a discussion of the EPR article.After the publication of the EPR article, Einstein and Schrödinger had begun an exchange of letters on the subject of the possibility of quantum mechanics, as interpreted by the Copenhagenists, representing reality. During this exchange of letters, Schrödinger had been inspired by Einstein's view of the problem of applying the Copenhagen interpretation of Quantum mechanics to everyday objects. But Schrödinger, in his response, took his illustration of the absurdity of the interpretation and the incompleteness of quantum mechanics a step further" he applied it to a living entity, namely a cat. Schrödinger imagines a sealed box containing a cat, a bottle of poison, a radioactive source, a Geiger counter and a hammer. When the Geiger counter detects radiation, a mechanism is switched on that makes the hammer fall the hammer breaks the bottle, and the poison kills the cat. Because it is random, when the Geiger counter will detect radiation, and because in Quantum mechanics, physical conditions are described with the aid of a wave-function that explains all possible conditions of the system, Quantum mechanics, according to the Copenhagen interpretation, would come to the conclusion that the cat in the box is both living and dead, at the same time (the wave function is made up of a superposition of the two conditions -the cat being living and the cat being dead-" the two positions collapse into one, as soon as the system is interpreted as consisting of only one condition -either dead or living cat-, with the sole possible conclusion that the cat is both). Due to Heisenberg and Bohr's independent interpretation of Quantum theory (the ""Copenhagen interpretation), Quantum theory had in 1927 developed in a direction unforeseen by Schrödinger. ""Schrödinger was ""concerned and disappointed"" that this ""transcendental, almost physical interpretation of the wave phenomena"" had become the ""almost universally accepted dogma."""" (D.S.B. XII, p. 221). His most famous and widely used attack on this interpretation was that of ""Schrödinger's Cat"". This paradox of the dead-and-alive cat vigorously illustrated the absurdity of quantum mechanics and what was necessary to describe the states within this system. The thought experiment of Schrödinger's cat turned out to be hugely influential, and has become a standard paradox within both physics and philosophy.
Die gegenwärtige Situation in der Quantenmechanik I-III [All]. (The Present Situation in Quantum Mechanics). - [SCHRÖDINGER'S CAT]
Berlin, Springer, 1935. Royal8vo. Bound in recent half cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In ""Die Naturwissenschaften"", Vol 23, 1935. Minor wear to extremities, otherwise a very fine and clean copy. Pp. 807-812" Pp. 823-828" Pp. 844-849. [Entire volume: XIX, (1), 870, 8 pp.].
First edition and first announcement of Schrödinger's famous reply to the EPR-paradox, arguably the most celebrated and influential illustration of the paradoxes of quantum theory also known as Schrödinger's Cat. When in May 1935 Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen published the so-called EPR-paper in ""Physical Review"", they set out to demonstrate that the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics could not constitute a complete description of nature. The EPR-article prompted a number of responses, e.g. from Bohr, the co-founder of the Copenhagen School, who began writing his response immediately after the publication of the Physical Review article. It is this debate that Schrödinger participates in with his seminal paper on ""The Present Situation in Quantum Mechanics"", in which he presents what is now famously known as Schrödinger's Cat. Schrödinger's Cat is the name of the thought experiment that Schrödinger develops in this article and that was intended as a discussion of the EPR article.After the publication of the EPR article, Einstein and Schrödinger had begun an exchange of letters on the subject of the possibility of quantum mechanics, as interpreted by the Copenhagenists, representing reality. During this exchange of letters, Schrödinger had been inspired by Einstein's view of the problem of applying the Copenhagen interpretation of Quantum mechanics to everyday objects. But Schrödinger, in his response, took his illustration of the absurdity of the interpretation and the incompleteness of quantum mechanics a step further" he applied it to a living entity, namely a cat. Schrödinger imagines a sealed box containing a cat, a bottle of poison, a radioactive source, a Geiger counter and a hammer. When the Geiger counter detects radiation, a mechanism is switched on that makes the hammer fall the hammer breaks the bottle, and the poison kills the cat. Because it is random, when the Geiger counter will detect radiation, and because in Quantum mechanics, physical conditions are described with the aid of a wave-function that explains all possible conditions of the system, Quantum mechanics, according to the Copenhagen interpretation, would come to the conclusion that the cat in the box is both living and dead, at the same time (the wave function is made up of a superposition of the two conditions -the cat being living and the cat being dead-" the two positions collapse into one, as soon as the system is interpreted as consisting of only one condition -either dead or living cat-, with the sole possible conclusion that the cat is both). Due to Heisenberg and Bohr's independent interpretation of Quantum theory (the ""Copenhagen interpretation), Quantum theory had in 1927 developed in a direction unforeseen by Schrödinger. ""Schrödinger was ""concerned and disappointed"" that this ""transcendental, almost physical interpretation of the wave phenomena"" had become the ""almost universally accepted dogma."""" (D.S.B. XII, p. 221). His most famous and widely used attack on this interpretation was that of ""Schrödinger's Cat"". This paradox of the dead-and-alive cat vigorously illustrated the absurdity of quantum mechanics and what was necessary to describe the states within this system. The thought experiment of Schrödinger's cat turned out to be hugely influential, and has become a standard paradox within both physics and philosophy.
Die gegenwärtige Situation in der Quantenmechanik I-II. (The Present Situation in Quantum Mechanics). - [SCHRÖDINGER'S CAT]
Berlin, Springer, 1935. Royal8vo. As extracted from ""Die Naturwissenschaften"", vol. 23, 1935. No backstrip. Fine and clean. Pp. 807-812"" 823-828.
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First edition and first announcement of Schrödinger's famous reply to the EPR-paradox (also known as Schrödinger's Cat). When in May 1935 Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen published the so-called EPR-paper in ""Physical Review"", they set out to demonstrate that the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics could not constitute a complete description of nature. The EPR-article prompted a number of responses, e.g. from Bohr, the co-founder of the Copenhagen School, who began writing his response immediately after the publication of the Physical Review article. It is this debate that Schrödinger participates in with his seminal paper on ""The Present Situation in Quantum Mechanics"", in which he presents what is now famously known as Schrödinger's Cat. Schrödinger's Cat is the name of the thought experiment that Schrödinger develops in this article and that was intended as a discussion of the EPR article.After the publication of the EPR article, Einstein and Schrödinger had begun an exchange of letters on the subject of the possibility of quantum mechanics, as interpreted by the Copenhagenists, representing reality. During this exchange of letters, Schrödinger had been inspired by Einstein's view of the problem of applying the Copenhagen interpretation of Quantum mechanics to everyday objects. But Schrödinger, in his response, took his illustration of the absurdity of the interpretation and the incompleteness of quantum mechanics a step further" he applied it to a living entity, namely a cat. Schrödinger imagines a sealed box containing a cat, a bottle of poison, a radioactive source, a Geiger counter and a hammer. When the Geiger counter detects radiation, a mechanism is switched on that makes the hammer fall the hammer breaks the bottle, and the poison kills the cat. Because it is random, when the Geiger counter will detect radiation, and because in Quantum mechanics, physical conditions are described with the aid of a wave-function that explains all possible conditions of the system, Quantum mechanics, according to the Copenhagen interpretation, would come to the conclusion that the cat in the box is both living and dead, at the same time (the wave function is made up of a superposition of the two conditions -the cat being living and the cat being dead-" the two positions collapse into one, as soon as the system is interpreted as consisting of only one condition -either dead or living cat-, with the sole possible conclusion that the cat is both). Due to Heisenberg and Bohr's independent interpretation of Quantum theory (the ""Copenhagen interpretation), Quantum theory had in 1927 developed in a direction unforeseen by Schrödinger. ""Schrödinger was ""concerned and disappointed"" that this ""transcendental, almost physical interpretation of the wave phenomena"" had become the ""almost universally accepted dogma."""" (D.S.B. XII, p. 221). His most famous and widely used attack on this interpretation was that of ""Schrödinger's Cat"". This paradox of the dead-and-alive cat vigorously illustrated the absurdity of quantum mechanics and what was necessary to describe the states within this system. The thought experiment of Schrödinger's cat turned out to be hugely influential, and has become a standard paradox within both physics and philosophy.
Über die Leitung der Elektrizität auf der Oberfläche von Isolatoren an feuchter Luft (mit 3 Textfiguren) (Vorgelegt an der Sitzung am 30. Juni 1910). [In. Sitzungsberichte der keiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlic... - [SCHRÖDINGER'S FIRST PUBLICATION]
Wien, 1910. Entire volume present: 8vo. Uncut and unopened in the orig. printed wrappers. A bit of brwonspotting and soiling, but in all a very good and well preserved copy. Pp. 1215-1222. Entire volume: (2) pp., pp. 1057-1379, (3, -blank), 4 (table of contents, on different, very thin paper) pp.
First edition of Schrödinger's dissertation, his first printed work, ""On the Conduction of Electricity on the Surface of Insulators in Moist Air.""In 1907, Schrödinger began attending lectures in theoretical physics at the University of Vienna. This was Schrödinger's third semester, but theoretical physics had been closed down at the university for two years after of Boltzmann's death. Haselörhl became the new professor and Schrödinger appreciated his lectures on theoretical physics so much that he attended them five days a week for eight semesters in a row. In 1910 Schrödinger received the doctorate under Haselöhrl for the present work.At the time when Schrödinger worked on the present treatise, electrical insulation in instruments for the measurement of radioactivity and ionization played an important role in experimental physics. Almost all of the work was done in the department of Franz Exner and the experiments were carried out in the small laboratory that he shared with Jakob Salpeter. The work is centered around a set of electrical measurements that are designed to show the effects of moist air on the conductivity of solid insulators such as amber, glass, sulfur, ebonite etc. The work is considered as showing Schrödinger's excellent experimental abilities, but he is criticized with lacking theoretical content. He also neglected to carry out a control experiment to prove his assumption that the effects of the moist air on the conductivity of the insulators was restricted to the surface, and he didn't mention the temperature at which his measurements were made. However, his practical work with these insulating solids did prove to be of great importance" they were the basis of his important survey of dielectricity that he completed in 1814. The work was presented at a meeting of the Vienna Academy of Sciences on June 30th, 1910, and this was the first time that Schrödinger delivered a report on his own research work to fellow scientists. The dissertation was published a few weeks later in the proceedings of the Academy, and this was Schrödinger's first publication.The Austrian physicist Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger (1887 -1961) is widely renowned for his contributions to quantum mechanics, especially the Schrödinger equation, for which he received the Nobel Prize in 1933.
Quantisierung als Eigenwertproblem. (Erste-Vierte Mitteilung) + Über das Verhältnis der Heisenberg-Born-Jordanschen Quantenmechanik zu der meinen. - [THE BIRTH OF WAVE MECHANICS]
Leipzig, J.A. Barth, 1926. 8vo. All five paper bound separately in blank blue wrappers. Extracted from In ""Annalen der Physik. Hrsg. von W. Wien und M. Planck., Vierte Folge, Bde. 79-81.""Entire issue 4, 6, 8, 13 and 18 offered. A fine and clean set. [Schrödinger's papers:] Pp. 361-376" Pp. 489-527" Pp. 734-756 (Bd. 79). Pp. 438-490 (Bd. 60). Pp. 109-131 (Bd. 81).
First printing and first appearence of these 5 papers which introduces Schrödinger's wave-equations and explains the stationary states of electrons in Bohr's theory of the atom by way of applying de Broglie's concept of electron waves. These papers are among the most important in modern physics and ""almost overnight, made Schrödinger famous"" (Brandt, Harvest of a Century).""The intensity of Schrödingers work on the problem (he found the earlier Bohr-Sommerfeld quantum theory unsatisfactory) increased as he saw that he was on the track of ""a new atomic theory"", and it reached a peak during his winter vacation in Arosa. On 27 December 1925 he wrote to Wilhelm Wien, editor of the ""Annalen der Physik"" inMunich that he was very optimistic: ""I believe that I can give a vibrating system...thatyields the hydrogen frequency levels as it eigenfrequencies."" The frequences of the emitted light rays are then obtained, as Schrödinger observed, by establishing the differences of the two eigenfrequencies respectively. ""Consequently the way is opened toward a real understanding of Bohr's frequency calculation - it is really a vibration (or, as the case may be, interference) process, which occurs with the same frequency as the one we observe in the spectroscope. I hope, that I will soon be able to report on this subject in a little more detail and in a more comprehensive fashion"" (Schrödinger's letter to Wien)...The so-called Klein-Gordon equations which Schrödinger used gives an incorrect description of the relativistic structures Schrödinger tried to describe. As this equation he tried to use, describes particles without spin, whereas a a description of electrons requires the Dirac equation...""After a brief interruption Schrödinger took up his method again, but this time he treated the electron nonrelativistically. It soon became apparent that he had arrived at a theory that correctly represented a the behavior of the electron to a very good approximation. THE RESULT WAS THE EMERGENCE OF WAVE MECHANICS IN JANUARY 1926. Schrödinger published the results of his research in a series of four papers in the ""Annalen der Physik"" bearing the overall title ""Quantisierung als Eigenwertproblem."" The first installment, sent on 26 January and received by Wien the next day, contains the first apperarance in the literature of his famous wave equation, written out for the hydrogen atom...""(DSB). In the fifth paper offered, Schrödinger himself shows that there is an essential equivalence of his theory and that of Heisenberg, Born and Jordan's.Brandt, Harvest of a Century, no. 39.
Quantisierung als Eigenwertproblem. (Erste-Vierte Mitteilung) + Über das Verhältnis der Heisenberg-Born-Jordanschen Quantenmechanik zu der meinen" - [THE BIRTH OF WAVE MECHANICS]
Leipzig, J.A. Barth, 1926. Bound in 3 uniform contemp. full cloth. Spine with gilt lettering. Lower parts of spine with remains of a paperlabel. Edges very slightly rubbed. In ""Annalen der Physik. Hrsg. von W. Wien und M. Planck."", Vierte Folge, Bde. 79-81. VI,760"VIII,828"VIII,1172 pp. Textillustr. and plates. The Schrödinger papers: Pp. 361-376,489-527,734-756 (Bd. 79) - pp. 438-490 (Bd. 60) - pp. 109-131 (Bd. 81). Internally clean and fine. One page of ""Inhalt"" in Bd. 79 misbound and with a small tear.
First printing and first appearence of these 5 papers which introduces Schrödinger's wave-equations and explains the stationary states of electrons in Bohr's theory of the atom by way of applying de Broglie's concept of electron waves. These papers are among the most important in modern physics.""The intensity of Schrödingers work on the problem (he found the earlier Bohr-Sommerfeld quantum theory unsatisfactory) increased as he saw that he was on the track of ""a new atomic theory"", and it reached a peak during his winter vacation in Arosa. On 27 December 1925 he wrote to Wilhelm Wien, editor of the ""Annalen der Physik"" inMunich that he was very optimistic: ""I believe that I can give a vibrating system...thatyields the hydrogen frequency levels as it eigenfrequencies."" The frequences of the emitted light rays are then obtained, as Schrödinger observed, by establishing the differences of the two eigenfrequencies respectively. ""Consequently the way is opened toward a real understanding of Bohr's frequency calculation - it is really a vibration (or, as the case may be, interference) process, which occurs with the same frequency as the one we observe in the spectroscope. I hope, that I will soon be able to report on this subject in a little more detail and in a more comprehensive fashion"" (Schrödinger's letter to Wien)...The so-called Klein-Gordon equations which Schrödinger used gives an incorrect description of the relativistic structures Schrödinger tried to describe. As this equation he tried to use, describes particles without spin, whereas a a description of electrons requires the Dirac equation...""After a brief interruption Schrödinger took up his method again, but this time he treated the electron nonrelativistically. It soon became apparent that he had arrived at a theory that correctly represented a the behavior of the electron to a very good approximation. THE RESULT WAS THE EMERGENCE OF WAVE MECHANICS IN JANUARY 1926. Schrödinger published the results of his research in a series of four papers in the ""Annalen der Physik"" bearing the overall title ""Quantisierung als Eigenwertproblem."" The first installment, sent on 26 January and received by Wien the next day, contains the first apperarance in the literature of his famous wave equation, written out for the hydrogen atom...""(DSB). In the fifth paper offered here, Schrödinger himself shows that there is an essential equivalence of his theory and that of Heisenberg, Born and Jordan's.
Quantisierung als Eigenwertproblem. Part I-IV. (Erste-Vierte Mitteilung) (+) Über das Verhältnis der Heisenberg-Born-Jordanschen Quantenmechanik zu der meinen" - [THE BIRTH OF WAVE MECHANICS]
Leipzig, J.A. Barth, 1926. 8vo. Bound in three volumes: two uniform contemporary half cloth and one contemporary full cloth. In ""Annalen der Physik. Hrsg. von W. Wien und M. Planck., Vierte Folge, Bde. 79-81."" Band 79 (full cloth) with gilt lettering to spine, library label pasted on to pasted down front free end-paper and library stamp to front free end-paper. Band 80,81 (half cloth) with a copy of the title page pasted on the front boards. White handwritten title to spine and coners bumped. Library cards inserted on pasted down front free end-paper. All three copies internally fine and clean. [Schrödinger's papers:] Pp. 361-376" Pp. 489-527 Pp. 734-756 (Bd. 79). Pp. 438-490 (Bd. 60). Pp. 109-131 (Bd. 81). [Entire volumes: VII, (1), 160 pp. + 10 plates VII, (1), 828 pp. + 15 plates" VIII, 1172 pp. + 11 plates.].
First printing and first appearence of these 5 papers which introduces Schrödinger's wave-equations and explains the stationary states of electrons in Bohr's theory of the atom by way of applying de Broglie's concept of electron waves. These papers are among the most important in modern physics.""The intensity of Schrödingers work on the problem (he found the earlier Bohr-Sommerfeld quantum theory unsatisfactory) increased as he saw that he was on the track of ""a new atomic theory"", and it reached a peak during his winter vacation in Arosa. On 27 December 1925 he wrote to Wilhelm Wien, editor of the ""Annalen der Physik"" inMunich that he was very optimistic: ""I believe that I can give a vibrating system...thatyields the hydrogen frequency levels as it eigenfrequencies."" The frequences of the emitted light rays are then obtained, as Schrödinger observed, by establishing the differences of the two eigenfrequencies respectively. ""Consequently the way is opened toward a real understanding of Bohr's frequency calculation - it is really a vibration (or, as the case may be, interference) process, which occurs with the same frequency as the one we observe in the spectroscope. I hope, that I will soon be able to report on this subject in a little more detail and in a more comprehensive fashion"" (Schrödinger's letter to Wien)...The so-called Klein-Gordon equations which Schrödinger used gives an incorrect description of the relativistic structures Schrödinger tried to describe. As this equation he tried to use, describes particles without spin, whereas a a description of electrons requires the Dirac equation...""After a brief interruption Schrödinger took up his method again, but this time he treated the electron nonrelativistically. It soon became apparent that he had arrived at a theory that correctly represented a the behavior of the electron to a very good approximation. THE RESULT WAS THE EMERGENCE OF WAVE MECHANICS IN JANUARY 1926. Schrödinger published the results of his research in a series of four papers in the ""Annalen der Physik"" bearing the overall title ""Quantisierung als Eigenwertproblem."" The first installment, sent on 26 January and received by Wien the next day, contains the first apperarance in the literature of his famous wave equation, written out for the hydrogen atom...""(DSB). In the fifth paper offered, Schrödinger himself shows that there is an essential equivalence of his theory and that of Heisenberg, Born and Jordan's.
Quantisierung als Eigenwertproblem. (Erste-Vierte Mitteilung) + Über das Verhältnis der Heisenberg-Born-Jordanschen Quantenmechanik zu der meinen" - [THE BIRTH OF WAVE MECHANICS.]
Leipzig, J.A. Barth, 1926. Bound recently in 3 fine hcalf of black morocco.. Spine with gilt lettering. In: ""Annalen der Physik. Hrsg. von W. Wien und M. Planck."", Vierte Folge, Bde. 79-81. VI,760"VIII,828"VIII,1172 pp. Textillustr. and plates. The Schrödinger papers: Pp. 361-376,489-527,734-756 (Bd. 79) - pp. 438-490 (Bd. 60) - pp. 109-131 (Bd. 81). Internally clean and fine.
First printing and first appearence of these 5 papers which introduces Schrödinger's wave-equations and explains the stationary states of electrons in Bohr's theory of the atom by way of applying de Broglie's concept of electron waves. These papers are among the most important in modern physics.""The intensity of Schrödingers work on the problem (he found the earlier Bohr-Sommerfeld quantum theory unsatisfactory) increased as he saw that he was on the track of ""a new atomic theory"", and it reached a peak during his winter vacation in Arosa. On 27 December 1925 he wrote to Wilhelm Wien, editor of the ""Annalen der Physik"" inMunich that he was very optimistic: ""I believe that I can give a vibrating system...thatyields the hydrogen frequency levels as it eigenfrequencies."" The frequences of the emitted light rays are then obtained, as Schrödinger observed, by establishing the differences of the two eigenfrequencies respectively. ""Consequently the way is opened toward a real understanding of Bohr's frequency calculation - it is really a vibration (or, as the case may be, interference) process, which occurs with the same frequency as the one we observe in the spectroscope. I hope, that I will soon be able to report on this subject in a little more detail and in a more comprehensive fashion"" (Schrödinger's letter to Wien)...The so-called Klein-Gordon equations which Schrödinger used gives an incorrect description of the relativistic structures Schrödinger tried to describe. As this equation he tried to use, describes particles without spin, whereas a a description of electrons requires the Dirac equation...""After a brief interruption Schrödinger took up his method again, but this time he treated the electron nonrelativistically. It soon became apparent that he had arrived at a theory that correctly represented a the behavior of the electron to a very good approximation. THE RESULT WAS THE EMERGENCE OF WAVE MECHANICS IN JANUARY 1926. Schrödinger published the results of his research in a series of four papers in the ""Annalen der Physik"" bearing the overall title ""Quantisierung als Eigenwertproblem."" The first installment, sent on 26 January and received by Wien the next day, contains the first apperarance in the literature of his famous wave equation, written out for the hydrogen atom...""(DSB). In the fifth paper offered here, Schrödinger himself shows that there is an essential equivalence of his theory and that of Heisenberg, Born and Jordan's.Brandt, Harvest of a Century, no. 39.
Statistical Thermodynamics. Course of Seminar Lectures. Delivered in January - March 1944, at the School of Theoretical Physics. - [A UNIFIED STANDARD METHOD OF DEALING WITH STATISTICAL THERMODYNAMICS]
Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1944. 4to. Original pre-publication typescript, hectographt print, printed on rectos only. In original red printed wrappers with black cloth spine. Paley Johanson's copy, with his owner's name and inscription to top of front wrapper: Paley Johnson/ Dept. of Colloid Science/ Free School Lane/ Cambridge"". A few smaller nicks and creases to front wrapper, otherwise a fine clean copy. (2), 135 ff.
Scarce pre-publication typescript, with an excellent provenance, of Schrödinger's important attempt at developing a simple, unified standard method of dealing with all cases of statistical thermodynamics, developed in his seminar lectures of the Dublin institute for advanced studies in January - March 1944. A very small edition of the lectures was published in hectograph form by the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies [offered item]. In 1952 the first public printing, differing a bit from the hectograph printing, of the lectures appeared - in a book of the same title. That highly popular book was printed in large numbers. ""The idea of this seminar is to develop briefly one simple, unified standard method, capable of dealing, without changing the fundamental attitude, with ALL cases (classical, quantum, Bose-Einstein, Fermi-Dirac, etc.) and with every new problem that may turn up. The interest is focused on the general procedure, and examples are dealt with as illustrations thereof. Not a first introduction for new-comers to the subject is intended, rather a 'repetitorium'. The wording is extremely shortened about well-known stories to be found in every one of a hundred text-books, but more extended on some vital points, usually passed over in all but large monographs (as Fowler's and Tolman's)There is, essentially, only one problem in statistical thermodynamics: the distribution of a given amount of energy E over N identical systems..."" (From the General Introduction by Schrödinger, f. 1).It is in the course of the present lectures that Schrödinger explains why he thought the Boltzmann counting method not be appropriate. Furthermore, Schrödinger here distinguishes himself from his 1925-6 publications on the same subject by presenting (1) the complete relinquishment of the concept of wave packets, and (2) the exclusive stress put on the field quantization formalism which, for all statistical purposes, is equivalent to Schrödinger's initial quantized matter wave model. ""A very small edition of these lectures was published in hectograph by the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. It is hoped that the present edition, for which the text has been slightly revised, may reach a wider circle of readers. (Initiating Note in the second edition of the book). PALEY JOHNSON (1917-2011) was a famous colloid scientist, in the field of which he became a world authority, focusing on the physical properties of biological macromolecules in solution. Having won a place at Trinity College Cambridge and gone on to make a PhD there, he went on to the Royal Institution in London, where, along with Albert Alexander, he produced a comprehensive two-volume Oxford University Press monograph on Colloid Science, which, for nearly half a century, remained the authoritative text in the field, and is still a valuable reference source, even today. Primarily in recognition of this, along with other achievements, the University subsequently awarded Paley the distinction of an ScD degree. In 1950, he returned to Free School Lane to take up an academic post at the Colloid Science Laboratory.""Paley was first and foremost an experimentalist, one of the best, and his attention turned to physical techniques for solving biological problems - to two techniques in particular, of which he became the master and a world authority. One was the analytical Utracentrifuge. [...] Paley found a completely new application for this technique in the characterization of gels, gelatin and other jelly-like materials. One of the present world leaders in colloid science, Professor Helmut Colfen at the University of Konstanz in Germany, comments on this work on gel analysis in the analytical ultracentrifuge: ""Paley did the first systematic analyses of gel systems in the centrifuge which was highly pioneering work since up to then, only solutions or dispersions of particles had been investigated. He found that the behaviour of a gel in the centrifuge was fundamentally different from a solution or dispersion and established the theory describing this. He was thus the first one to accurately describe the behaviour of gels in the centrifugal field and laid the foundations for the analysis and understanding of the important class of materials known as hydrogels, crucial for their application in food and biopharmaceuticals.""The other technique which became Paley's trademark was light scattering of macromolecular dispersions - a technique requiring meticulous attention to detail. Without that attention, as Paley would say, ""experiments were not useful"". In his own research and publications, he did a lot to establish good practice, giving detailed procedures for achieving this, and was very critical of other studies where this attention to detail was not followed or shortcuts had been taken. [...] Colloid science at Cambridge and Paley Johnson were almost synonymous."" (Steve Harding, Obituary in The Biochemical society, december 2011).Colloid Science, with its study of large molecules, is a bridge building subject lying at the boundary of a number of disciplines, physical chemistry, biology and mathematics. It's results are important and beneficiel in a large number of fields. During the War Paley worked in the colloid laboratory collaborating with others on various projects: the development of incendiary mixtures and the use of cellulose nitrate in making cordite for rockets" the use of detergents in lubrication the use of synthetic polymers in warfare. He also had a wartime research Fellowship sponsored by ICI looking at an interest, which remained a serious study, the use of the protein in peanut butter.
"SCHRÖDINGER, ERWIN. - FIRST TREATMENT OF WAVE MECHANICS IN ENGLISH.
Reference : 47172
(1926)
An undulatory Theory of the Mechanics of Atoms and Molecules.
Minneapolis, Minn., The Physicalreview, 1926. 4to. Contemp. full buckram. Small tear to first hinge at foot. A stamp in upper right corner on titlepage and 2 other pages. In: ""The Physical Review. Conducted by the American Physical Society"", Vol. 28, Second Series. VI,1343 pp. (Entire volume offered).Schrödinger's paper: pp. 1049-1070. Internally clean and fine.
First appearance of the first treatment of Wave Mechanics in English.The paper reviews Schrödinger's own wave-mechanics and De Broglie's ""phase waves"", and covers all the results Schrödinger had hitherto obtained in his main communications of 1926 (the 3 papers in German). An English translation of Schrödinger's main papers was not published until 1928.""The paper gives an account of the author's work on a new form of quantum theory. 1. The Hamiltonian analogy between mechanics and optics. 2. The analogy is to be extended to include real ""physical"" or ""undulatory"" mechanics instead of mere geometrical mechanics. 3. The significance of wave-length" macro-mechanical and micro-mechanical problems. 4. The wave-equation and its application to the hydrogen atom. 5. The intrinsic reason for the appearance of discrete characteristic frequencies. 6. Other problems intensity of emitted light. 7. The wave-equation derived from a Hamiltonian variation-principle" generalization to an arbitrary conservative system. 8. The wave-function physically means and determines a continuous distribution of electricity in space, the fluctuations of which determine the radiation by the laws of ordinary electrodynamics. 9. Non-conservative systems. Theory of dispersion and scattering and of the ""transitions"" between the ""stationary states."" 10. The question of relativity and the action of a magnetic field. Incompleteness of that part of the theory."" (From the Abstract in front of the paper).
Isotopie und Gibbssches Paradoxen.
Braunschweig und Berlin, Vieweg & Sohn, Julius Springer, 1921. 8vo. Bound in contemporary half cloth. Stamp to front free end paper. In ""Zeitschrift für Physik. Hrasg. von Karl Scheel"", vol. 5. Entire volume offered. [Schrödinger's paper:] pp. 163-66. [Entire volume: IV, 449, (1) pp].
First apperance of Schrödinger's paper on isotopy and the Gibb's paradox. ""Schrödinger started explicitly from the previous discussion between de Hevesy and Paneth on the one hand, and Fajans on the other, summarizing the results as 'Thermodynamical diversity of isotopes in principle, in spite of their complete or nearly complete chemical replaceability'. Thus far he partially supported the view promoted by Karlsruhe physico-chemist. However, he contradicted a result which Fajans had obtained, stating that the energy set free by mixing or diffusion of the volumes, containing different isotopes of the same chemical element, was proportional to the difference of the respective atomic weights - hence a consequence, it should become arbitrarily small as the mass difference disappeared. (Mehra, The Historical Development of Quantum Theory, P. 340).
"SCHRÖDINGER, E. (ERWIN). - RENOUNCING STATIONARY STATES IN QUANTUM PHYSICS.
Reference : 49100
(1952)
Are there Quantum Jumps ?. Part I-II.
Edinburgh, Nelson and Sons, 1952-53. 8vo. Contemp. hcloth. Tome-and titlelabels with gilt lettering. In: ""The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science"", Vol. III (May 1952 to February 1953). XIV,394 pp. Entire volume offered. Stamps to foot of titlepage and a few other pages. Schrödinger's papers: pp. 109-123 a. 233-242. Clean and fine.
First printing of these importent papers on the philosophy of Quantum physics. ""If we have to go on with these damned quantum jumps, then I'm sorry that I ever got involved."" (E.Schrodinger).""In it he contrasts the smooth evolution of the Schrodinger wavefunction with the erratic behaviour of the picture by which the wavefunction is usually supplemented, or 'interpreted', in the minds of most physicists. He objects in particular to the notion of 'stationary states', and above all to 'quantum jumping' between those states. He regards these concepts as hangovers from the old Bohr quantum theory, of 1913, and entirely unmotivated by anything in the mathematics of the new theory of 1926. (J.S. Bell).
Farbenmetrik. - [SCHRÖDINGER ON COLORIMETRY]
Berlin, Springer, 1920. 8vo. Bound in contemporary half cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In ""Zeitschrift für Physik"", Bd. 1, 1920. Entire volume offered. Library stamp to front free end paper and title page, light wear to extremities. Pp. 201-214. [Entire volume: V, (1), 418 pp.].
First printing of Schrödinger paper on his little know research area: colorimetry.""His first papers on relativity pointed to a second major field of interest. In addition to these works, and his early papers on relativity, Schrödinger made a detailed study, through both measurement and computation, of the metric of color space and the theory of color vision."" (DSB).
Valbreuze (Robert de), ed. - M. Abraham et Eugène Bloch, eds. - Ernest Schrodinger - Arnold Sommerfeld - Louis de Broglie - Marie Curie - Léon Brillouin - Enrico Ferm - O.W. Richardson - I. Langmuir - C. Reczynski - Dr. Ehrenhaft - M. Laporte - E. Darmois - M. Leblanc - L. Dunoyer - W.R. King - H.C. Rentschler, D.E. Henry et K.O. Smith - P. Zeeman et T.L. De Bruin - L. Neel - P. Weiss - T.D. Yensen - J.H. van Vleck - R. de L. Kronig - L. et E. Bloch - F. London - Mlle A.C. Davies et F. Horton - H. Rausch von Traubenberg - P. Debye - A. Ioffé - R. de Mallemann - G. Bruhat et M. Pauthenier - Courtines - C.J. Davisson - Ponte - J. de Haas et J. Voogd - Mc Lennan - R.A. Millikan - L. Wertenstein - W.D. Coolidge et C.N. Moore - E.N. da C. Andrade - A. Tuve - Maurice de Broglie et J. Thibaud
Reference : 101088
(1933)
Comptes rendus du Congrès International d'Electricité - Paris, 1932 - Volume 2. Comptes rendus des travaux de la première section - Science de l'électricité et du magnétisme - Théories générales - Isolants, conducteurs - Radioactivité - Corps magnétiques
Gauthier-Villars , Congrès International d'Electricité Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1933 Book condition, Etat : Bon relié, cartonnage éditeur, pleine percaline bleu foncé, titres au dos, CIE orné sur le plat supérieur fort et grand In-8 1 vol. - 999 pages
quelques figures et schémas dans le texte en noir et blanc 1ere édition, 1933 Contents, Chapitres : Tables, xv, Texte, 984 pages - O.W. Richardson : Les phénomènes thermoioniques - I. Langmuir : Décharges électriques dans les gaz aux basses pressions - C. Reczynski : Les réactions chimiques pendant les décharges électriques dans les gaz raréfiés - Professeur Dr. Ehrenhaft : Charges électriques inférieures à celles de l'électron - M. Laporte : Formation, nature et propriétés des ions dans les gaz - E. Darmois : Les électrolytes forts - M. Leblanc : Redresseurs, détecteurs, conduction unipolaire - L. Dunoyer : Les cellules photo-électriques - W.R. King : Les relais photo-électriques - H.C. Rentschler, D.E. Henry et K.O. Smith : Cellules photo-électriques - P. Zeeman et T.L. De Bruin : Décomposition magnétique des raies spectrales - L. Neel : Recherches récentes sur le magnétisme (théorique) - P. Weiss : Recherches récentes sur le magnétisme (expérimental) - T.D. Yensen : Recherches pour l'amélioration des matériaux ferro-magnétiques, 1900-1932 - J.H. van Vleck : Remarques sur les variations thermiques de la susceptibilité paramagnétique - R. de L. Kronig : Isotopes et spectres de bandes - L. et E. Bloch : Théorie électrique de la structure des atomes et des molécules, spectroscopie - F. London : La théorie électrique des forces entre les atomes et les molécules, chimie - Mlle A.C. Davies et F. Horton : Recherches récentes sur les potentiels d'ionisation et de résonance - H. Rausch von Traubenberg : L'effet Stark - P. Debye : Molécules polaires - A. Ioffé : Le champ moléculaire dans les diélectriques - R. de Mallemann : Polarisation rotatoire magnétique - G. Bruhat et M. Pauthenier : Biréfringence électrique et biréfringence magnétique - Courtines : Les fluctuations dans les appareils destinés aux mesures électriques - E. Schrodinger : L'électron de Dirac dans la théorie de la relativité générale - C.J. Davisson : Conception et démonstration de la nature ondulatoire de l'électron - Ponte : Les études expérimentales des diffractions des ondes associées et leurs applications - A. Sommerfeld : Conductibilité électrique, thermo-électricité - J. de Haas et J. Voogd : Etudes expérimentales sur la conductibilité électrique des métaux et la supra-conductibilité - Mc Lennan : Conductibilité des métaux en haute fréquence aux très basses températures - Louis de Broglie : Etat actuel de la théorie électromagnétique - Léon Brillouin : Propagation des ondes électromagnétiques dans les milieux matériels - Enrico Fermi : Etat actuel de la physique du noyau atomique - Madame Marie P. Curie : Les rayons des corps radioactifs en relation avec la structure moléculaire - R.A. Millikan : Etat actuel de nos connaissances sur le lieu et le mode de production des rayons cosmiques - L. Wertenstein : Passages de particules chargées d'électricité à travers la matière - W.D. Coolidge et C.N. Moore : Etude expérimentale des rayons cathodiques en dehors du tube générateur - E.N. da C. Andrade : Etude expérimentale des rayons positifs et leur application à la question des isotopes - A. Tuve : Recherches expérimentales sur les tubes à vide à très hautes tensions - Maurice de Broglie et J. Thibaud : Les rayons X et les rayons alpha - J. Thibaud : L'effet Compton - Production d'ions positifs de vitesse élevée par accélérations multiples infimes petits taches discretes sur le cartonnage qui reste en très bon état, intérieur frais et propre, papier à peine jauni, cela reste un bel exemplaire, il s'agit du volume 2, première section des actes de ce célèbre congrès d'électricité, avec des contributions prestigieuses de Louis de Broglie, Léon Brillouin, Enrico Fermi, Marie Curie, A. Sommerfeld, P. Zeeman, Ernest Schrodinger, notamment, une quarantaine de contributions au total, complet en lui-même
Broglie (Louis de), sur - Académie des Sciences - D. Pestre - A. Kozhevnikov - B.R. Wheaton sur Maurice de Broglie - O. Darrigol - F. Kubli - H. Kragh sur Erwin Schrödinger - A. Russo - H. Barreau - W. Kuhn - Y. Ben Dov - Georges Lochak
Reference : 100101
(1994)
La découverte des ondes de matière - Actes du colloque organisé à l'occasion du centenaire de la naissance de Louis de Broglie à Paris, 16-17 juin 1992 , (La physique en France, 1900-1930, un panorama -Light quanta and waves, Einstein reputation as a dualist - The laboratory of Maurice de Broglie and the empirical foundations of matter-waves - Les premiers travaux de Louis de Broglie -Conversations avec Louis de Broglie au sujet de sa thèse -The heritage of Louis de Broglie in the works of Schrödinger and other theoreticians - La découverte des ondes de matière - Le rôle de la relativité dans la pensée de Louis de Broglie - L'influence des images métaphysiques du monde sur le développement des idées fondamentales dans la physique, particulièrement chez Louis de Broglie - De Broglie's conception of the wave-corpuscule duality - Comment Louis de Broglie faisait de la physique)
Académie des Science et Tec Doc Lavoisier - Institut de France Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1994 Book condition, Etat : Bon broché, sous couverture imprimée éditeur noire, illustrée d'une figure ronde crème grand In-8 1 vol. - 137 pages
1 portrait de Louis de Broglie en frontispice 1ere édition, 1994 Contents, Chapitres : Avant-propos, liste des intervenants, table, vi, Texte, 131 pages - D. Pestre : La physique en France, 1900-1930, un panorama - A. Kozhevnikov : Light quanta and waves, Einstein reputation as a dualist - B.R. Wheaton : The laboratory of Maurice de Broglie and the empirical foundations of matter-waves - O. Darrigol : Les premiers travaux de Louis de Broglie - F. Kubli : Conversations avec Louis de Broglie au sujet de sa thèse - H. Kragh : The heritage of Louis de Broglie in the works of Schrödinger and other theoreticians - A. Russo : La découverte des ondes de matière - H. Barreau : Le rôle de la relativité dans la pensée de Louis de Broglie - W. Kuhn : L'influence des images métaphysiques du monde sur le développement des idées fondamentales dans la physique, particulièrement chez Louis de Broglie - Y. Ben Dov : De Broglie's conception of the wave-corpuscule duality - Georges Lochak : Comment Louis de Broglie faisait de la physique - Louis Victor de Broglie, prince, né le 15 août 1892 à Dieppe et mort le 19 mars 1987 à Louveciennes est un mathématicien et physicien français. À seulement 37 ans, il devient lauréat du prix Nobel de physique de 1929 « pour sa découverte de la nature ondulatoire des électrons ». - Il est initié aux travaux de la physique moderne par son frère aîné, Maurice de Broglie, secrétaire des rencontres Solvay. Si on se réfère à la biographie Nobel, cest à 32 ans, en 1924, six ans après la fin de la Première Guerre mondiale, quil soutient une thèse de doctorat purement théorique devant un jury comprenant Paul Langevin et Jean Perrin6. Quatre ans plus tard, cette thèse lui vaudra dêtre nommé maître de conférences à la faculté des sciences de luniversité de Paris (Institut Henri-Poincaré), et dêtre considéré comme « nobélisable » à 36 ans, et un an plus tard, en 1929, elle lui vaudra le prix Nobel de physique pour sa « découverte de la nature ondulatoire de lélectron », sa thèse théorique ayant été totalement confirmée par deux expérimentateurs américains Davisson et Germer qui ont observé la première diffraction délectron par un cristal. Cette expérience produisant des interférences délectrons, confirma sans ambiguïté lhypothèse de de Broglie. Ses travaux sur la nature ondulatoire des électrons font de lui le physicien qui a associé une onde aux particules massiques. (source : Wikipedia) légères traces de pliures sur la couverture qui reste en bon état, intérieur sinon frais et propre, cela reste un bon exemplaire
Zum kosmologischen Problem der allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie. (Withbound Schrödinger:) Spezielle Relativitätstheorie und Quantenmechanik.
Berlin, Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1931. 4to. Orig. printed wrappers. Small nicks to margin of wrapper. ""Sitzungsberichte der Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften"", issue XII, pp. 233-247. Einstein paper: pp. 235-237, Schrödinger paper: pp. 238-247.
Both papers first edition. - Weil No 179.
Grundlinien einer Theorie der Farbenmetrik im Tagessehen, I-III.
Leipzig, Ambrosius Barth, 1920. 8vo. In contemporary full cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In ""Annalen der Physik"", Vierte Folge, Band 63. Entire volume offered. Library labels pasted on the pasted down front free end paper. Stamp to title page and repairs to first 3 leaves (not affecting text), otherwise a fine copy. Pp. 397-426" Pp. 427-456" Pp. 481-520. [Entire volume: VIII, 923, VII pp.].
First appearance of Schrödinger's important three-paper series of a theory of colour measurement for daylight vision. ""His first papers on relativity pointed to a second major field of interest. In addition to these works, and his early papers on relativity, Schrödinger made a detailed study, through both measurement and computation, of the metric of color space and the theory of color vision."" (DSB).
Über den Comptoneffekt (+) Der Energieimpulssatz der Materiewellen.
Leipzig, Ambrosius Barth, 1927. 8vo. In contemporary full cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In ""Annalen der Physik"", Band 82. Entire volume offered. Library stamp to pasted down front and back free end-paper. Embossed stamp on title page. A fine and clean copy. Pp. 257-64"" Pp. 265-73. [Entire volume: VIII, 1168 pp. + 14 plates.
First appearance of Schrödinger's famous treatment of the Compton effect.""Schrödinger approached the wave mechanical treatment of the Compton effect in his own paper [the present] on a far less technical level [than Gordon]. He practically went back to the optical analogies that had stimulated the whole development in November 1925, and in which the properties of microscopic particles were described by matter waves and their propagation in homogeneous media. From such consideration, he now - a year later - drew the following conclusion: ""It is to be expected, nay, even demanded, that we should be able, by means of quite simple phase considerations…, to explain the connection between the changes in direction and frequency of the ether wave which occur in the Compton effect and the change of velocity of the electron."" (Mehra, The Historical Development of Quantum Theory)""Compton was able to account for this (lenghtening of wavelenght) by presuming that a photon of light struch an electron, which recoiled, subtracting some energy from the photon and therefore increasing its wavelenght. This made it seem that a photon acted as a particle: thus after more than a century, the particulate natuer of light, as evolved by Newton, was revived... What itamounted to was that Compton brought to fruition the view that electromagnetic radiation had both a wave aspect and a particle aspect, and that the aspect which was most evident depended on how the radiation was tested. De Broglie was, at the same time, showing that this held true also for ordinary particles, such as electrons."" (Asimov)
Über den Comptoneffekt (+) Der Energieimpulssatz der Materiewellen.
Leipzig, Ambrosius Barth, 1927. 8vo. In contemporary full cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In ""Annalen der Physik"", Band 82. Entire volume offered. Library stamp to pasted down front free end-paper. Traces after a paper label to lower part of spine. A fine and clean copy. Pp. 257-64"" Pp. 265-73. [Entire volume: VIII, 1168 pp. + 14 plates.
First appearance of Schrödinger's famous treatment of the Compton effect.""Schrödinger approached the wave mechanical treatment of the Compton effect in his own paper [the present] on a far less technical level [than Gordon]. He practically went back to the optical analogies that had stimulated the whole development in November 1925, and in which the properties of microscopic particles were described by matter waves and their propagation in homogeneous media. From such consideration, he now - a year later - drew the following conclusion: ""It is to be expected, nay, even demanded, that we should be able, by means of quite simple phase considerations…, to explain the connection between the changes in direction and frequency of the ether wave which occur in the Compton effect and the change of velocity of the electron."" (Mehra, The Historical Development of Quantum Theory)""Compton was able to account for this (lenghtening of wavelenght) by presuming that a photon of light struch an electron, which recoiled, subtracting some energy from the photon and therefore increasing its wavelenght. This made it seem that a photon acted as a particle: thus after more than a century, the particulate natuer of light, as evolved by Newton, was revived... What itamounted to was that Compton brought to fruition the view that electromagnetic radiation had both a wave aspect and a particle aspect, and that the aspect which was most evident depended on how the radiation was tested. De Broglie was, at the same time, showing that this held true also for ordinary particles, such as electrons."" (Asimov)
Theorie der Pigmente von größter Leuchtkraft
Leipzig, Ambrosius Barth, 1920. 8vo. In full black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In ""Annalen der Physik"", bd. 62. Entire volume offered. Small library stamp to lower part of title page and library label pasted on to front free end papers. Fine and clean. Pp. 603-22. [Entire volume: VI. 762 pp.].
First appearance of Schrödinger's important paper in which he presented his theory of pigments with highest luminosity""His first papers on relativity pointed to a second major field of interest. In addition to these works, and his early papers on relativity, Schrödinger made a detailed study, through both measurement and computation, of the metric of color space and the theory of color vision."" (DSB).
Landsberg (P.T.), ed. - G.N. Lewis - E. Schrödinger - P. Morrison - F. Hoyle - P.A.M. Dirac - A. Aharony - Y. Ne'eman - A.J. Leggett - R. Penrose - P.C.W. Davies - E.H. Gombrich - W.J. Ong
Reference : 100179
(1985)
The Enigma of Time Compiled and Introduced by P.T. Landsberg , (1. Irreversibility : The symmetry of time in physics - Irreversibility - Time's arrow and external perturbations -A matter of time - 2. Cosmology and electrodynamics : The asymmetry of time - New ideas of space and time - Thermodynamics, cosmology and the physical constants - 3. Quantum mechanics including Black holes : Time reversal symmetry violation and the H-theorem - Time reversal asymmetry as the fundamental level and its reflection on the problem of the arrow of time - The arrow of time and quantum mechanics - Singularities and time-asymmetry - Black holes thermodynamics and time asymmetry - 4. Time in the arts : Moment and movement in art - Evolution, myth and poetic vision)
Adam Hilger Ltd, Bristol and Boston Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1985 Book condition, Etat : Très Bon paperback, editor's black printed wrappers, illustrated by an astrophysical photography, title in yellow grand In-8 1 vol. - 260 pages
many black and white illustrations Reprinted edition, 1985 (1st was 1982) Contents, Chapitres : Contents, List of Authors, Preface and Acknowledgments, xii, Text, 248 pages - Introduction - Minor comments on some of the reprinted papers - 1. Irreversibility : G.N. Lewis : The symmetry of time in physics - E. Schrödinger : Irreversibility - P. Morrison : Time's arrow and external perturbations - P.T. Landsberg : A matter of time - 2. Cosmology and electrodynamics : F. Hoyle : The asymmetry of time - P.A.M. Dirac : New ideas of space and time - P.T. Landsberg : Thermodynamics, cosmology and the physical constants - 3. Quantum mechanics including Black holes : A. Aharony : Time reversal symmetry violation and the H-theorem - Y. Ne'eman : Time reversal asymmetry as the fundamental level and its reflection on the problem of the arrow of time - A.J. Leggett : The arrow of time and quantum mechanics - R. Penrose : Singularities and time-asymmetry - P.C.W. Davies : Black holes thermodynamics and time asymmetry - 4. Time in the arts : E.H. Gombrich : Moment and movement in art - W.J. Ong : Evolution, myth and poetic vision - Some books on time - Glossary and index near fine copy, no markings
MacAdam (David), ed. - Plato - Aristotle - Isaac Newton- George Palmer - Thomas Young - Hermann Günter Grassmann - James Clerk Maxwell - Herman von Helmholtz - Johannes von Kries - Frederic Eugene Ives - Erwin Schrödinger - John Guild - Lewis Fry Richardson - Stephen Polyak - Sir Wilfried E. Le Gros Clark
Reference : 101511
(1970)
Sources of Color Science , (Timaeus - On the soul ii - Sense and the sensible 2 - Meteorologica iii - New theory about light and colors - Opticks - Theory of colors and vision - Theory of light - On the theory of light and colors - Theory of compound colors - Theory of the perception of colors - The diagram of colors - Theory of compound colors, and the relations of the colors of the spectrum - On color vision - Physiological optics - Contribution to the physiology of visual sensations - Chromatic adaptation - Influence of adaptation on the effects produced by luminous stimuli - The optics of trichromatic photography - Outline of a theory of color measurement of daylight vision - Thresholds of color differences - Some problems of visual perception - Interpretation of quantitative data in visual problems - Measurability of sensations of hue, brightness, or saturation - Retinal structure and color vision - Laminar pattern of the lateral geniculate nucleus considered in relation to color vision)
The MIT Press Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1970 Book condition, Etat : Bon hardcover, editor's binding, under editor's pink printed dust-jacket grand In-8 1 vol. - 292 pages
a few black and white text-figures 1st edition, 1970 Contents, Chapitres : Contents, Preface, x, Text, 282 pages - Plato : Timaeus - Aristotle : On the soul ii - Sense and the sensible 2 - Meteorologica iii - Isaac Newton : New theory about light and colors - Opticks - George Palmer : Theory of colors and vision - Theory of light - Thomas Young : On the theory of light and colors - Hermann Günter Grassmann : Theory of compound colors - James Clerk Maxwell : Theory of the perception of colors - The diagram of colors - Theory of compound colors, and the relations of the colors of the spectrum - On color vision - Herman von Helmholtz : Physiological optics - Johannes von Kries : Contribution to the physiology of visual sensations - Chromatic adaptation - Influence of adaptation on the effects produced by luminous stimuli - Frederic Eugene Ives : The optics of trichromatic photography - Erwin Schrödinger : Outline of a theory of color measurement of daylight vision - Thresholds of color differences - John Guild : Some problems of visual perception - Interpretation of quantitative data in visual problems - Lewis Fry Richardson : Measurability of sensations of hue, brightness, or saturation - Stephen Polyak : Retinal structure and color vision - Sir Wilfried E. Le Gros Clark : Laminar pattern of the lateral geniculate nucleus considered in relation to color vision near fine copy, minor wear on the top of the dust-jacket, with very small missing of paper on the top of the spine, the D-J remains nearly complete and fine, inside is fine, no markings
Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences - Barton J. Bernstein - Isobel Falconer on J.J. Thomson - Naomi Oreskes - Pierre Quédec on Weiss - Alexander Rüger on Erwin Schrodinger
Reference : 100907
(1988)
Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences - Volume 18, Part 2 (1988) , (Four physicists and the bomb : The early years - J.J. Thomson's work on positive rays, 1906 - 1914 - The rejection of continental drift - Weiss' magneton : The sin of pride or a venial mistake - Atomism from cosmology : Erwin Schrödinger's work on wave mechanics and space-time structure)
University of California Press, History of Science and Technology , Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1988 Book condition, Etat : Bon paperback, editor's white wrappers, title in blue grand In-8 1 vol. - 183 pages
few black and white illustrations and text-figures 1st edition, 1988 Contents, Chapitres : Barton J. Bernstein : Four physicists and the bomb : The early years - Isobel Falconer : J.J. Thomson's work on positive rays, 1906 - 1914 - Naomi Oreskes : The rejection of continental drift - Pierre Quédec : Weiss' magneton : The sin of pride or a venial mistake - Alexander Rüger : Atomism from cosmology : Erwin Shrödinger's work on wave mechanics and space-time structure plastified wrappers, transparent, else near fine, no markings - pages 232 to 414
Schrödinger et les paradoxes quantiques - L'Univers réside dans l'onde , dans la collection Grandes Idées de la Science, dirigée par Etienne Klein
RBA Editions , Grandes Idées de la Science Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 2013 Book condition, Etat : Très Bon relié, cartonnage imprimé éditeur noir, illustré d'une figure en couleurs grand In-8 1 vol. - 167 pages
nombreuses illustrations dans le texte en noir et blanc édition de 2013 Contents, Chapitres : Introduction - Lumière et matière - L'équation d'onde - La quête du sens - Le chat enfermé - Lectures recommandées - Index bel exemplaire, frais et propre
