"LEIBNITZ, GOTTFRIED WILHELM., JOHANN BERNOULLI, JACOB BERNOULLI & ISAAC NEWTON - SOLVING THE BRACHISTOCHRONE PROBLEM.
Reference : 45644
(1697)
Leipzig, Grosse & Gleditsch, 1697. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Acta Eruditorum Anno MDCXCVII"", No V, May-issue. Pp. 193-240 (entire issue offered). With titlepage to the volume 1697. Leibniz: pp. 201-205. Johann Bernoulli: pp. 206-211. Jacob Bernoulli: pp. 211-214. Newton: pp. 223-224. As usual, some leaves with browning.
First appearance of the famous issue of Acta Eruditorum in which the 4 solutions by the 4 most eminent mathematicians at the time, were printed together. There were in all 5 solutions to the posed problem, and Newton's solution was first printed in the Philosophical Transactions (January 1697) and reprinted here. The solution proposed by L'Hopital, not printed here, was not published until 1988.The brachistochrone problem was posed by Johann Bernoulli in Acta Eruditorum in June 1696. He introduced the problem as follows: ""I, Johann Bernoulli, address the most brilliant mathematicians in the world. Nothing is more attractive to intelligent people than an honest, challenging problem, whose possible solution will bestow fame and remain as a lasting monument. Following the example set by Pascal, Fermat, etc., I hope to gain the gratitude of the whole scientific community by placing before the finest mathematicians of our time a problem which will test their methods and the strength of their intellect. If someone communicates to me the solution of the proposed problem, I shall publicly declare him worthy of praise."" Johann Bernoulli and Leibniz deliberately tempted Newton with this problem. It is not surprising, given the dispute over the calculus, that Johann Bernoulli had included these words in his challenge:- ....""there are fewer who are likely to solve our excellent problems, aye, fewer even among the very mathematicians who boast that [they]... have wonderfully extended its bounds by means of the golden theorems which (they thought) were known to no one, but which in fact had long previously been published by others.""According to Newton's biographer Conduitt, he solved the problem in an evening after returning home from the Royal Mint. Newton: ... ""in the midst of the hurry of the great recoinage, did not come home till four (in the afternoon) from the Tower very much tired, but did not sleep till he had solved it, which was by four in the morning.""Newton send his solution to his friend Charles Montague and Montague published anonymously in the Transactions. Newton's solution, presented here in the Acta, is also anonymous. The episode did not please Newton, as he later wrote: ""I do not love to be dunned [pestered] and teased by foreigners about mathematical things ..."" After the competition Johann Bernoulli said "".... my elder brother made up the fourth of these (after Leibniz, himself and Newton), that the three great nations, Germany, England and France, each one of their own to unite with myself in such a beautiful search, all finding the same truth.""Struik (Edt.) ""A Source Book in Mathematics, 1200-1800, pp. 391 ff.
Hannover, Zu finden bey Nicolai Försters und Sohns sel. Erben, 1735. 8vo. Cont.full vellum w. author and title in old hand on back. Bdg. a bit soiled. Internally a bit of brownspotting., title-page w. professionally repaired tear. Inner front-hinge starting to crack, but bdg. and bookblock tight. Overall a good and fairly well preserved copy. With engr. portrait, woodcut vignettes and one folded engr. plate depicting an early calculating machine. (28), 64, 1030 pp.
Rare third German edition. Last Richter-edition. First published in French in 1710. It is the only larger philosophical work, Leibnitz himself published and it is a work of immense importance to philosophy, theology and mathematics. In this work Leibniz represents his excellent calculating machine, which has served as the basis for what we now call a computer, as he presents the binary arithmetic, ""Rechnen mit Null und Eins"" (""calculating with zero and one"") in the Beylage (p. 926), which forms the basis for the much later developed computer science (see PMM 177). This work contains ""Anmerkungen"" by Richter and ""Lebens=Beschreibung"" by Fontenelle, followed by ""Beylage"". In these ""Beylage"" we find the method of converting numbers into the binary system, which here is said to be ""etwas recht neues, welches der Herr Leibnitz zu Hanover erfunden"" (""something brand new, which Mr. Leibnitz von Hanover has discovered"") as well as ""Eine Schrift. In welcher klar gezeiget wird/ dass nicht Herr Neuton,sondern der Herr von Leibnitz Erfinder des CALCULI DIFFERENTIALIS sey."" (A Treatise. In which it is clearly shown/ that Mr. Leibniz and not Mr. Newton is the inventor of the CALCULI DIFFERENTIALIS"").All early editions of the Theodicee are rare. See D.S.B.: VIII, pp. 161-166.
"LEIBNIZ (LEIBNITZ), G.F. - CHRISTIAAN HUYGENS - JOHANN BERNOULLI - JACOB BERNOULLI ET AL. - THE DISCOVERY OF THE ""CATENARY CURVE"" , THE ""LOGARITHMIC CURVE"" AND THE ""POLAR COORDINATES"".
Reference : 41859
(1691)
Leipzig, Grosse & Gleditsch, 1691. 4to. Contemp. full vellum. Faint handwritten title on spine. a small stamp on titlepage. In: ""Acta Eruditorum Anno MDCLXXXXI"". (8),590,(6) pp. and 13 (of 15) folded engraved plates. The 2 first plates lacks, but they do not belong to the papers listed.Leibniz' papers: pp.277-281 a. 1 plate, pp. 435-439. Johann Bernoulli: pp. 274-276 a. 1 plate. Huygens: pp. 281-282. - Jacob Bernoulli: pp. 282-290 a. 1 plate.
All papers first apperance. All 5 of extreme importence in the development of the Calculus. Leibniz' 2 papers on the catenary curve (paper 1-2 offered here) was written at the instigation of Jacques Bernoulli. Following the example of Blaise Pascal, who had initiated, in 1658, a contest for the construction of the cycloid, Leibniz also provoked the geometers of his time, by challenging them to submit, at the fixed date of mid-1691, their geometric method for the construction of the catenary curve. Leibniz later provided the answer, followed by Johann Bernoulli and Huygens.'These two papers are a historical account of the origin of the study of this transcendental curve, and, at the same time, the first physical-geometric construction showing the species-relationship between the catenary and the logarithmic curves, as two companion curves" one arithmetic, the other geometric. All of the differentials of the catenary curve, are arithmetic means of corresponding differentials of the logarithmic curve" and, all of the differentials of the logarithmic curve, are geometric means of the catenary.'""The Catenary is the form of a hanging fully flexible rope or chain (the name comes from ""catena"", which means 'chain'), suspended on two points. The interest in this curve originated with Galileo, who thought that is was a parabola. Young Christiaan Huygens proved in 1646 that this cannot be the case. What the actual form was remained an open question till 1691, when Leibniz, Johann Bernoulli and the then much older Huygens sent solutions to the problem to the ""Acta"" (Jakob Bernoulli, 1690, Johann Bernoulli 1691, Huygens 1691 and Leibniz 1691), - these 4 1691-papers offered here - in which the previous year Jakob Bernoulli had challenged mathematicians to solve it. As published, the solutions did not reveal the methods, but through later publications of manuscripts these methods have been known. Huygens applied with great ( paper 4) virtuosity the by then classical methods of 17th century infinitesimal mathematics, and he needed all his ingenuity to reach a satisfactory solution. Leibniz ( the papers 1-2) and Bernoulli (paper 3), applying the new Calculus, found the solutions in a much direct way. In fact, the catenary was a test-case between the old and the new style in the study of curves, and only because the champion of the old style was a giant like Huygens, the test-case can formally be considered as ending in a draw."" (Grattan-Guiness in ""From the Calculus to Set Theory, 1630-1910."").The paper by JACOB BERNOULLI ( no. 5 offered here) is a milestone papers as it marks the invention of the ""SYSTEM OF POLAR COORDINATES"" with points located by reference to a fixed point and a line through that point. Although newton had earlier also devised such a coordinate system (in 1671), his work was not known, so that the credit for the discovery generally goes to Bernoulli. (Parkinson, Breakthroughs (1691).Further papers contained in this volume of Acta Eruditorum:DENYS PAPIN: Mecanicorum de Viribus Motricibus sententia, asserta a D. Papino adversius C.G.G. L. (Leibniz) objectiones. pp. 6-13. The plate lacks. - and Dion. Papini Observationes quaedam circa materias ad Hydraulicam spectantes. Pp. 208-213 a. 1 plate. This importent paper is part of the LEIBNIZ-PAPIN-CONTROVERSY.JACOB BERNOULLI: Specimen Calculi Differentialis in dimensione Parabolæ helicoidis, ubi de flexuris curvarum in genere, carundem evolutionibus. Pp. 13-22. The plate lacks. - and J.B. Demonstratio Centri Oscillationis ex Natura Vectis, reperta occassione eorum, quæ super hac materia in Historia Literaria Roterodamensi recensentur, articulo...Pp.317-321.LEIBNIZ: O.V.E. Additio ad Schediasma de Medii Resistentia publicatum in Actis mensis Febr. 1889. Pp. 177-178. and O.V.E. Quadratura Arithmetica Communis Sectionum Conicarum quæ centrum babent,...Pp. 178-182 a. 1 plate.TSCHIRNHAUS: Singularia Effecta Vitri Caustici bipedalis, quod omnia magno sumtu hactenus constructa specula ustoria virtute superat, per D.T. Pp. 517-520
"LEIBNIZ (LEIBNITZ), G.F. - JOHANN BERNOULLI - JAKOB BERNOUILLI. - CHRISTIAAN HUYGENS ET AL. - INTRODUCING THE LEMNISCATE CURVE.
Reference : 41704
(1694)
Leipzig, Grosse & Gleditsch, 1694. 4to. Contemp. full vellum. Faint handwritten title on spine. a small stamp on titlepage. In: ""Acta Eruditorum Anno MDCXCIV"". (2),518 pp.. and 11 folded engraved plates. As usual with various browning to leaves and plates. The entire volume offered. Leibniz's papers: pp. 311-316, pp. 364-375. - Johann Bernoulli's papers: pp. 200-206, pp. 394-99, pp. 435-437, pp. 437-441. - Huygen's papers: pp. 338, pp. 339-41. - Jakob Bernoulli's papers: pp. 262-276, pp. 276-280, pp. 336-338, pp. 391-400. Some mispaginations.
All papers first appearance, dealing with, and clarifying the problems and the new applications of Leibniz' inventions of the differential- and integral calculus.In the papers Leibniz shows how to reduce linear first order ordinary differential equations to quadratures. I the other paper he gives a general method of finding the envelope of a family of curves, which helped to spread the theory of plane curves.In the groundbreaking paper offered here, Jakob Bernoulli introduces THE LEMNISCATE, a symmetric self-intersecting curve resembling a figure eight and defined by the condition that the product of the distance of anay point on the curve from two fixed points is (d/2)2, where d is the distance between the fixed points.""Jacob Bernoulli was fascinated by curves and the calculus, and one curve bears his name - the ""lemniscate of Bernoulli"", given by the polar equation r2=a cos 2""0"". The curve was described in the Acta Eruditorum of 1694 as resembling a figure eight or a knotted ribbon (lemniscus). However the curve that most caught his fancy was the logarithmic spiral....he swowed that it had several strioking properties not noted before...it is easy to appreciate the feeling that led Bernoulli to request that the ""spira mirabils"" be engraved on his tombstone together with the inscription ""Eadem mutata resurgo"" (Though changed, I arise again the same)."" (Boyer in his History of Mathematics).
"LEIBNIZ (LEIBNITZ), G.F. - THE APPEARANCE OF THE THEORY OF NORDIC ISRAELISM OR NORSE ISRAELISM.
Reference : 46424
(1700)
Hannover, Nicolai Förster, 1700 - Leipzig, Nicolai Förster, 1698. 4to. Contemp. full calf. Raised bands, richly gilt spine. (16),315,40,124,119 pp. Tome 2: (12),292,592 pp. First titlepage and Praefatio (16) leaves a bit browned, otherwise clean with only a few scattered brownspots. Some neath marginal notes in 2 contemporary hands.
Second edition of volume one, and first edition of volume two. In the 15 century chronicle ""Vetus Chronicon Holsatiae"", first printed here by Leibnitz, states, that the Danes were of the Tribe of Dan, while the Jutes the Jews. This is the first announcement of the theory later called Nordic Israelism or Norse Israelism. ""It is the belief that Scandinavian peoples, or the Nordic countries (Denmark, Faroe Islands, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden) descend from the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel. Although there is evidence of such a belief from literature during the Early Modern Period, Nordic Israelism as a movement and ideology only emerged in the latter half of the 19th century among several early proponents of British Israelism.""(Wikipedia).Ravier: 49 (tome I), 44 (Tome II, but Ravier is not clear on this point)
1994 Editions Borquet, 1994 - In-4 cartonnage bleu de l'éditeur sous jaquette illustrée (Lever de soleil au lac Louise, parc national de Banff) - Ouvrage illustré - Hors texte - 112 pages
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Fourbis 1996 13 716x1 016x17 78cm. 1996. Broché.
Bon état intérieur propre couverture défraîchie ternissures
London, Philip Wilson Publishers, 1982 Paperback, pictorial softcover in colour, frontispice in colour, 19.9x27.4 cm., 128 pp., illustrations in colour. ISBN 0856671371.
AUTEURS BELGES 480 pages 16 2x1x24 4cm. Sans date. Broché. 480 pages.
très bon état de conservation avec sa jaquette intérieur propre
Mardaga, 1986.- Institut Français d'Architecture. Collection Archives inaugurée par l'Institut Français d'Architecture. In-4 carré broché (24 x 22 cm), 232 pages, Illustrations noir & couleurs. , texte en français et anglais de Bertrand Lemoine avec la participation de Susan Stein pour les pages 143 à 171. - 680g.- Etat neuf.
OUEST FRANCE 2001 32 pages 15 24x0 508x21 844cm. 2001. pamphlet. 32 pages.
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ALTERNATIVES 2005 160 pages 23x1 4x26 2cm. 2005. Broché. 160 pages.
Lemonnier Nicolas Blanchard Philippe Thilleman Laury
Reference : 500047409
(2019)
ISBN : 9782815313261
RUSTICA 2019 64 pages 13 4x19 8x1 2cm. 2019. Broché. 64 pages.
Très bon état
Lemonnier Nicolas Blanchard Philippe Thilleman Laury
Reference : 500062518
(2019)
ISBN : 9782815313261
RUSTICA 2019 64 pages 13 4x19 8x1 2cm. 2019. Broché. 64 pages.
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Lemonnier Nicolas Blanchard Philippe Thilleman Laury
Reference : 500068010
(2019)
ISBN : 9782815313261
RUSTICA 2019 64 pages 13 4x19 8x1 2cm. 2019. Broché. 64 pages.
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Gallimard 2012 60 pages 18 2x1x27 2cm. 2012. Broché. 60 pages.
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Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1894. Without wrappers. In ""Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von G. Wiedemann."", Neue Folge Bd. 51, No. 2. (Entire issue offered). Pp. 225-416 a. 2 plates. Lenard's paper: pp. 225-267 a. 1 arge folded lithographed plate, showing the apparatus. Clean and fine.
First appearance of Lenard's importent paper on cathode rays for the work on which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1905.""After many experiments with aluminium foil of various thickness he was able to publish, in 1894 the paper offered), his great discovery that the plate of quartz that had, until then, been used to close the discharge tube, could be replace by a thin plate of aluminium foil just thick enough to maintain the vacuum inside the tube, but yet thin enough to allow the cathode rays to pass out. It thus became possible to study the cathode rays, and also the fluorescence they caused, outside the discharge tube and Lenard concluded from the experiments that he then did that the cathode rays were propagated through the air for distances of the order of a decimetre and that they travel in a vacuum for several metres without being weakened. Although Lenard at first followed Hertz in believing that the cathode rays were propagated in the ether, he later abandoned this view as the result of the work of Jean Perrin in 1895, Sir J.J. Thomson in 1897 and W. Wien in 1897, which proved the corpuscular nature of the cathode rays.""(Nobel Prize.org).Shiers ""Early Television"" no 239.
(Berlin, J.A. Barth, 1902). No wrappers. In ""Annalen der Physik"", Vierte Folge. Band 8, No 5. Pp. 1-232 a. 1 folded plate. (Entire issue offered, No. 5). Lenard's paper: pp. 149-198. The block is punched in inner margins after cords. Punching does not affects the text. Fine and clean.
First printing of Lenard's famous paper in which he made the crucial discovery that the electron energy showed not the slightest dependence on the light intensity', a fact to be explained in 1905 by the existence of light-quanta by Einstein.""In 1902 Lenard succeeded in discovering importent properties of the photoelectric effect. He found that as the intensity of the light increases the number of electrons set free rises, but their velocity remains unaffected: the velocity depends solely on the wavelenght. The interpretation of this relationship was provided in 1905 by Albert Einstein's hypothesis of light quanta. In 1905 Lenard received the Nobel Prize in physics for his cathode ray experiments"" and in 1907 he succeede Quincke as professor and director of the physics and radiology laboratory at the University of Heidelberg...(The Laboratory was renamed the Philipp Lenard Laboratory in 1935).""(DSB VIII, p. 181). - Parkinson ""Breakthroughs"" 1902 P.
Leningrad Society of Researchers of the Culture of Finno-Ugric Peoples,
Reference : 8554917
Short description: In Russian. Leningrad Society of Researchers of the Culture of Finno-Ugric Peoples,. Report. Leningrad: LOICFUN, 1927-1928. The image is provided for reference only. It may reflect condition of one of the available copies or only help in identifying the edition. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKU8554917
LENNON (John) - ONO (Yoko) - GINSBERG (Allen) - The Rolling Stones - GALLIARD (Slim) -
Reference : 42131
London : Knullar Publishing, 1968. Bi-hebdomadaire de 32 pages. 29,5x46cm. Couverture en deux tons illustrée (affiche du temps de Cromwell proclamant l'abolition de Noël). Au sommaire de cet important journal anglais de contre-culture : Ankor Wat, par Allen Ginsberg - interview avec Michael McClure - Alex Gross - Death of Dogma - Dave Robins -David Mendella - From Kathakali to Biokinetic Theatre: The Exploding Galaxy - Arts Lab split - Tom McGrath: Grunts from Glasgow - Perfumed Garden - John Peel; Counter Culture - The Creation of an Alternative Society by Joseph Berke - Free Schools Campaign - Emmanuel Petrakis’ Jean Luc Godard at NFT (One Plus One) - John Lennon's "prick" is interviewed in a fictitious piece about vegetarianism - "Being Another Conversation With John Lennon's Prick On The State Of Meat." - Lyrics from ‘Stones Beggars Banquet published - full back page ad for The Alchemical Wedding at the Albert Hall Dec 18th, affiche de la soirée "Mariage alchimique" où John Lennon et Yoko Ono feront une performance enveloppés dans un sac blanc. Ce numéro contient le calendrier de l'année 1969 (58x46cm) encarté avec au verso une variante psychédélique du jeu de dames à cinq joueurs. Le nom du jeu "Pent-a-Rooni" est emprunté à l'argot inventé par le jazzman Slim Galliard. L'affiche en couleurs est pliée mais en très bon état.
"LENZ, E. (HEINRICH FRIEDRICH EMIL.). - THE LAW OF RESISTIVITY.
Reference : 49141
(1837)
(London, Richard Taylor, 1837). No wrappers. Extracted fron ""Scientific Memoirs, selected from The Transactions of Foreign Academies of Science and Learned Societies. Edited by Richard Taylor."", Vol. I, pp. 311-324. Disbound.
First appearance in English of this importent paper in which Lenz established the law of electrical resistivity in wires, stating that ""their conductibilities are in an inverse ratio to their lengths."" The paper is a translation of ""Ueber das Gesetz der Leitungsfähigket für Electricität bei Dräthen von verschiedenen Längen und Durchmessern."", published in St. Petersbourg in 1835.
, Brepols, 2022 Paperback, 346 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:17 b/w, 19 tables b/w., Language(s):English, Greek, Hebrew. ISBN 9782503598062.
Summary The detailed study of the Septuagint opens new avenues of interpretation of the biblical text and enables new advancements in exegetical studies. The Greek version can be studied through several different approaches and the application of exegetical methods, old and new, contributes to a better understanding of numerous literary, historical and theological aspects of the Bible. The present volume collects the contributions written by renowned scholars who address the issue of the role and impact of Septuagint studies on biblical exegesis and theology. The papers range from more methodological discussions to exegetical studies applying various approaches to the Septuagint text. The wide variety of methods applied reveals numerous aspects of the Septuagint and the biblical text in general, such as their composition, history, textual transmission, literary scope and shape, and theology. The diversity of methods and analyses of the Septuagint represented in this book have, nevertheless, a common denominator: Biblical exegesis would benefit greatly from a deeper knowledge of the Septuagint. TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface (Leonardo Pessoa & Daniela Scialabba) 'Bringing forth from the Treasure New and Old': Septuagint Studies and Exegetical Methods (Siegfried Kreuzer) Non-Israelites and the God of Israel: The Vocabulary of 'Conversion' in the Septuagint and Greek Jewish Literature against its Greek-Hellenistic Background (Daniela Scialabba) The Use of the Septuagint in Critical Commentaries (Emanuel Tov) Elisha's Posthumous Miracle in Textual History (II Kings 13. 20-21): What does This Story Teach Us about the Textual History of the Books of Kings? (Adrian Schenker) The Septuagint's Faculty of Putting Things in Their Right Place: Challenges of a Critical Edition of IV Kingdoms / II Kings 10. 30-31; 13. 14-21 (Julio Trebolle, Pablo Torijano & Andr s Piquer) Can We Understand the Pillars of the First Temple without the LXX? Textual and Iconographic Perspective (Daniel Prokop) Haman through the Looking Glass: The Refraction of Genre in Greek Esther (Cameron Boyd-Taylor) Rhetoric of Solomon's Speech in I Kings 8. 12-13 and III Kingdoms 8. 53a (Peter Dubovsk ) Lost in Translation: LXX-Jeremiah through the Lens of Pragmatics (Benedetta Rossi) Narratological Approaches to the LXX of the Books of Samuel (Leonardo Pessoa da Silva Pinto) Septuagint and New Testament in Papyri and Pandects: Texts, Intertextuality and Criteria of Edition (Martin Karrer) The Litter of Solomon: Textual and Exegetical Problems in Canticles 3. 6-11 (Luciano Bossina) Reading 'According to the Revelation Shown to Moses': A Study of the Influence of the LXX Text on Patristic Biblical Interpretation (Georg G bel) The Importance of the LXX for Biblical Theology: Some Notes on Method (Luca Mazzinghi) Biblical Index
, Taschen, 2022 Hardcover with booklet, 23 x 37 cm, 4.77 kg, 892 pages. English (booklet) German (Herbalbook). ISBN 9783836587662.
With his 1543 herb manual, botanical pioneer Leonhart Fuchs created a masterpiece of Renaissance botany and publishing. This edition is based on Fuchs?s personal, hand-colored original and features over 500 illustrations, including the first visual record of New World plant types such as maize, cactus, and tobacco.
LEON VI LE SAGE (LEO VI THE WISE) [NOAILLES P. & DAIN A., eds.]
Reference : R116360
(1944)
Paris, Les Belles Lettres 1944 lxiii + 383pp., 26cm., brochure originale, bon état, [Introduction en français, édition du texte grec avec traduction française], R116360