"LOMONOSOW (LOMONOSOV), MICHAELE (MIKHAIL). - THE DISCOVERY OF THE TRANSITION OF A METAL INTO PASSIVE STATE.
Reference : 42895
(1750)
(Petropoli (St. Petersbourg), 1750). 4to. Uncut, without wrappers. Extracted from ""Novi Commentarii Academiae Scientiarum Imperialis Petropolitanae"", Tom. I. ad Annum 1747 et 1748. Pp. 245-266 a. 1 engraved plate (ad. p. 251). Clean and fine.
First appearance of a groundbreaking paper in chemistry in which Lomonosov describes his discovery of the transition of a metal into passive state, and this is the first scientific description of this phenomena. He observed and described fast termination of the dissolution of iron in concentrated nitric acid, and attributed this to a change in the solvent properties.""Lomonosov employed corpuscular mechanics in chemical explanations more extensively than Boyle had done. Treating chemical compounds as particles in adhesion, he held that ""adhesion is eliminated and renewed by means of motion.....since no change in a body can take place withouy motion"". He attempted to apply these theories to chemical phenomena - although he was limited to speculation- in papers on the action of chemical solvents in general..""(DSB VIII, p. 469).""Lomonosov was founder of Russian science, and he would be universally recognized as a great pioneer of science had he been born a West European. He was famous also for his literary works, including poems and dramas. In 1755 he wrote a Russian Grammar that reformed the language and in the same year he helped found the University of Moscow. In 1760 he published the first history of Russia.""(Isaac Asimov).
1781 R. Baldwin, London.- 1 volume in8 reliure pleine basane époque,dos orné; plusieurs numéros London Magazine; pagination multiplr, dont = Scarce Revolutionary War Era Map Showing the Seat of War in the Southern Colonies- Detailed map of the Carolinas and Virginia, illustrating the progress of the American Revolutionary War, prepared by Thomas Kitchen for the June 1781 edition of the London Magazine with text- The map extends from the Chesapeake, Gloucester and Henrico Counties in the Northeast, to the Fluvanna River and the southern Alleghany Mountains and Blue Mountains in the Northwest and from the Camden and Ninety Six Districts in South Carolina in the Southwest to the Coast and the mouth of the Great Pedee River in South Carolina along the East Coast.- 13.5 x 11 inches,- and more
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LONDRES 1750 une vue d'optique en couleurs, GRAVÉE A L'EAU-FORTE ET AQUARELLE SUR PAPIER DE FORMAT: 44,5 x 29 cm., 1750 Londres Publish'd according Act of Parliament, sans nom d'Editeur,
Les vues doptiques sont un type particulier destampes populaires publiées en Europe au XVIIIe siècle. Ces estampes étaient une forme de divertissement destinée à être vue à travers des appareils appelés « machines optiques », « optiques », « zograscopes ». Ces estampes étaient exposées par des forains ambulants dans les rues de toute lEurope et étaient également collectionnées par les professionnels et les classes supérieures qui possédaient des machines optiques chez eux. Il y avait une grande curiosité pour lapparence des villes européennes non visitées et des lieux exotiques aux confins du globe, et ces estampes étaient lun des seuls moyens pour le grand public davoir un aperçu du monde. Les machines optiques utilisées pour ces gravures étaient équipées d'une lentille qui améliorait pour les spectateurs le grossissement et la perception de la profondeur tridimensionnelle des scènes représentées. Un miroir était souvent utilisé pour que les gravures en perspective puissent être vues à plat, et dans ces cas, les images étaient vues à l'envers. Il n'est donc pas rare que les scènes représentées soient dessinées à l'envers, et il y a souvent aussi un titre imprimé à l'envers en haut, permettant aux spectateurs de le lire rapidement. Il y avait généralement un texte supplémentaire au bas des gravures, souvent en plusieurs langues, qui pouvait être lu par l'opérateur de l'optique au bénéfice de son public ......... rare gravure ........... en bon état (good condition). en bon état
Brussel, Paleis der Academien, 1951 Gebrocheerd, papieromslag, 180 x 260mm., 14pp.
Mededelingen van de Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie voor Wetenschappen, Letteren en Schone Kunsten van Belgie. Klasse der Wetenschappen. Jaargang XIIII N?° 1. In goede staat.
CBS DISQUES. 1988. In-12. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. Photo du groupe en couverture.. . . . Classification : 410-33 Tours
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"LORENTZ, H.A. & L. (LUDWIG VALENTIN) LORENZ - THE ""LORENZ-LORENTZ EQUATION""
Reference : 43412
(1880)
Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1880. Without wrappers as issued in ""Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg.von G. Wiedemann."", Neue Folge Band IX, Heft 4. Titlepage to Bd. 9. Pp. 513-680 a. 1 folded engraved plate. + Neue Folge Band XI, Heft 9. Titlepage to Bd. 11. Pp. 1-176 a. 2 folded plates. Lorentz's paper"" pp. 641-665 (of Heft 4). Lorenz's paper: pp. 70-103. (2 entire issues offered). A stamp on titlepapges and verso. Both clean and fine.
First printing of these two fundamental papers, revealing a lasting result in the history of physics, as both authors INDEPENDENTLY OF EACH OTHER, discovered the mathematical formula for the dependence of refraction of light upon specific gravity. It is very interesting that they found the formula - now called the Lorenz-Lorentz Equation or Formula - with altogether different ways and methods. They both discovered the formula before 1880, L.V. Lorenz first, but, also independently, published their final versions in the same periodical, and in the same year (the 2 papers offered). - Parkinson ""Breakthroughs"" 1880 P.
Harlem, Les Heritieres Loosjes, 1891. Lex8vo. Orig. printed wrappers. In ""Archives Néerlandaises des Science Exactes et Naturelles. Redigée par J. Bosschar"", Tome XXV, 2me Livraison. Pp. (101-) 226 (entire issue offered). Lorentz's paper: pp. 107-130. A faint stamp to frontwrapper and to the first page.
First edition. In this paper Lorentz applies statistical methods to his molecular theory of dlute solutions, discussing the phenomena of osmosis (van't Hoff's law of pressure) in this context and Boltzmann's theorem.
Harlem, Les Heritieres Loosjes, 1887. Lex8vo.Orig. printed wrappers. Wrappers a bit frayed at edges. Upper right corner of frontwrapper gone. A faint stamp on wrapper and on titlepage. In ""Archives Néerlandaises des Science Exactes et Naturelles. Redigée par J. Bosscha"", Tome XXI. VI,492 pp. a. 8 plates (2 in chromolithography, 2 with 8 mounted photographs (photottypie)). Uncut and unopened, clean and fine.(The entire volume offered). Lorentz's paper pp. 103-176.
First appearance of an importent paper on the aberration of light ""in which he concluded that Fresnel's view of the luminiferous ether was superior to Stokes's. Unlike Stokes, Fresnel in his theory of aberration assumed that the ether near yhe earth did not participate in its motion. Lorentz thought that the hypothesis of the complete transparancy of matter to the ether was implicit in Fresnel's whole theory.""(DSB VIII, p.493). Lorentz further shows that the results of the Michelson-Morley experiments did not vindicate the theory of Stokes as Michelson thought, and he demonstrates that the results can be explained by his own theory as a combination of Fresnel's and Stokes's theories.
"LORENZ, L. (LUDVIG VALENTIN). - ESTABLISHING THE ELECTRO-MAGNETIC THEORY OF LIGHT.
Reference : 53255
(1867)
Kjöbenhavn, Bianco Luno, 1867. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine with gilt lettering. In: ""Oversigt over det Kongelige danske Videnskabernes Selskabs Forhandlinger... i Aaret 1867"". X,273,49,(3) pp., textillustrations and plates. (Entire volume offered). Lorenz's paper: pp. 26-45 and pp. 9-16 (Resumé en Francais). Clean and fine.
Scarce first edition of Lorenz' landmark paper, which contains his important studies on the electromagnetic theory of light in which he - less than two years after, but independently of, Maxwell - found that LIGHT MIGHT BE INTERPRETED AS ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES, and that his equations lead to the CORRECT VALUE FOR THE VELOCITY OF LIGHT. ""The procedure which Lorenz followed was that of which Riemann had suggested in 1858, namely, to modify the accepted formula of electrodynamics by introducing terms which, though too small to be appreciable in ordinary laboratory experiments, would be capable of accounting for the propagation of electrical effects through space with a finite velocity...The (Lorenz-) equations are, however, the fundamental equations of Maxwell's theory"" and therefore the theory of L. Lorenz is practically equivalent to that of Maxwell, so far as concerns the propagation of electromagnetic disturbances through free aether.....he suggested that ALL LUMINOUS VIBRATIONS MIGHT BE CONSTITUTED BY ELECTRIC CURRENTS, and hence that there was 'no longer any reason for maintaining the hypothesis of an aether, since we can admit that space contains sufficient ponderable matter to enable the disturbance to be propagated"" (Edmund Whittaker in ""A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity I"", p. 267-70).
Kjøbenhavn (Copenhagen), Bianco Luno,1869. 4to. Uncut and unopened in orig. printed wrappers. [Off-print from: Vidensk. Selsk. Skr., 5 Række, naturvidenskabelig og matematisk Afd., 8 Bd. V.]. Pp. (203-)248. A mint copy.
First printing, off-print in original printed wrappers of this groundbreaking paper.""A further remarkable result of Lorenz' optical researches on the basis of his fundamental wave equation was the well-known formula (Lorents-Lorenz formula) for the refraction constant R... His first paper on the refraction constant, in which he also gave an experimental verification of his formula in the case of water, dates from 1869. In 1870 H. A. Lorentz arrived at the same result, independently of Lorenz."" (D.S.B. VIII:501).
Lorenz Marita Noain Idoya Floury-Dagorn Ghislaine Roche Mélanie
Reference : 500292774
(2026)
ISBN : 9782754081894
FIRST 2026 351 pages 13 8x22 4x3 2cm. 2026. Broché. 351 pages.
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Georges Naef 2026 322 pages in-4. 2026. Cartonné/Jaquette. 322 pages. Iconographie de Nadine Saunier
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London, published at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand (printed by: William Clowes), 1823, in-4to, VIII + 120 p. + 17 plates with views all hand-coloured + 1 map, some stains on the free endpapers only, book contents and plates exceptionally clean, some dust stains mainly in the margins, handwritten on first flyleaf - E.W.P. Bonnet July 1854 - , orig. publisher’s illustrated red cloth. Spines a bit sunned, else a fine copy.
Première édition anglaise. Un bel album d’estampes sur l’Oberland. Très rare et très recherché. (cf. Perret sous Weibel). Perret mentionne sous Lory, n° 2696: ‘Souvenirs de la Suisse...pour faire suite au Voyage Pittoresque dans l’Oberland Bernois’, sans pour autant mentionner ‘le Voyage Pittoresque’, lui-même de 1822 (éd. de Paris), et il confond, selon moi, 2 éditions différentes .First English edition in a beautiful publisher’s binding. Seventeen hand-coloured aquatint views without signatures. The work is considered to be an English version of the work by Phil. Alb. Stapfer «Voyage pittoresque de l'Oberland ou Description ...» published in Paris, in- folio,1812, with 1 frontispice by Duncker and 14 coloured plates after G. Lory by S. Weibel which was also published in 1822 in Paris and Strasbourg. In this edition 11 views are by J.S. Weibel & 6 by F. Schmid, F. Schutz, M. Wocher & G. Lory. But ‘Some of the plates in Ackermann’s book, judging by the titles, do not correspond with any in the Voyage Pittoresque done in Paris. (Abbey Travel). These fine coloured views of Swiss lakes, mountains, glaciers & towns, all in typical warm, summerly English colours, are showing: 1 - ‘Bern’, 2 - ‘View near Thun’, 3 - ‘View of Thun’, 4 - ‘View of the Lake of Thun. From upper Island’, 5 - The environs of Thun’, 6 - ‘View of the Castle of Spiez’, 7 - ‘View of the Cavern of St. Beat, near the Lake of Thun’, 8 - ‘View of Unterseen’, 9 - ‘View of Interlaken’,10 - ‘Fall of the Staubbach’, 11 - ‘A View of the Jungfrau’, 12 - ‘View of the Glaciers of Grindelwald’, 13 - ‘View of the Glaciers of Roselouvi’, 14 - ‘Meyringen’, 15 - ‘The Fall of Olstenbach & the Bridge of Wyler, 16 - ‘View of the village of Brienz’, 17 - ‘View of the Castle of Rinkenberg’. The map of the ‘Glaciers of the canton of Berne’ is bound at the beginning as a frontispiece. Waber, BSL III/135, cf. III/133; Abbey, Travel 57; vgl. Mandach, Les Lory, p. 137; Perret 4534. (error of date 1923!); Tooley, English Books with coloured plates. Image disp.
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1 vol. in-8 br., Sources in Western Civilization, Herbert Rowen, The Free-Press, New York, 1967, 359 pp.
Very good copy, signed by the author to the famous professor Jean Mesnard. De la bibliothèque de Jean Mesnard (1921-2016), l'éminent spécialiste de Pascal et de la littérature du XVIIe siècle, normalien, agrégé de lettres, professeur à la Sorbonne et doyen de l'Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques.
VOGUE. 1979. In-12. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. Phtos du groupe sur la couverture et dans la pochette par RKM. Petit accroc d'enviorn 3 cm sur la tranche de la couverture.. . . . Classification : 410-33 Tours
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, Les humanoides associés , 1992 ; in-4, 51 pp., cartonnage de l'éditeur.
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GUILDE INTERNATIONAL DU DISQUE. non daté. In-12. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. Pochette en noir, blanc et jaune, biographie de PHILIPPE KOECHLIN dérrière la pochette.. . . . Classification : 410-33 Tours
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Éditions Famot Sans date. La Mousson (The Rains Came) est un roman de Louis Bromfield publié en 1937 écrit entre 1933 et 1937 qui a été adapté au cinéma en 1955 sous le même titre
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grand in-8 broché - 1891 - 94 pages - dédicacé - Ed. Privas, Imprimerie J.-J. Roux
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