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"RUTHERFORD, E. (ERNEST). - PREDICTIING A NEW CONSTITUENT OF THE NUCLEUS, THE NEUTRON.
Reference : 47243
(1920)
Nuclear Constitution of Atoms. (Bakerian Lecture).
London, The Royal Society, 1920. Royal8vo. Contemp. full cloth. Gilt lettering to spine. A small faint stamp on verso of titlepage and a few other leaves (in lower margins).In: ""Proceeding of the Royal Society of London"", Series A, Vol. 97. XVIII,470,XXI pp., textillustr. a. 2 plates. Rutherford's paper: pp. 374-400. Clean and fine.
First apperance of this famous lecture in which Rutherford predicted the existence of a new constituent of the atomic nucleus and its likely properties. In the lecture Rutherford suggested that ""it may be possible for an electron to combine much more closely with the H-nucleus (than is the case in the ordinary hydrogen atom)... It is the ontentionof the writer to test (this idea)... The existence of such atoms seems almost necessary to explain the building up of heavy elements.""Rutherford's collegue Chadwick made several attempts to detect the neutral particle but none was successful until he learned of experiments by the Joliot-Curies in Paris, in which, they said, extremely penetrating gamma rays were emitted. As he suspected, Chadwick found the rays were not gammas but neutrons: and not long afterward Norman Feather, also at the Cavendish, showed that neutrons were capable of causing nuclear disintegrations. Chadwick gave proof of its existence in 1932.
"RUTHERFORD, E. (ERNEST). - THE ALCHEMIST'S DREAM FULFILLED, THE CHANGE OF ONE ELEMENT INTO ANOTHER.
Reference : 46915
(1919)
Collision of alpha Particles with Light Atoms. (4 Parts). I. Hydrogen. II. Velocity of the Hydrogen Atom. III. Nitrogen and Oxygen Atoms. IV. An Anomalous Effect in Nitrogen. - [SPLITTING THE ATOM PMM 411.]
London, Taylor and Francis, 1919. Recent full cloth. Titlelabel in leather on spine with gilt lettering. In: ""The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science"" Sixth Series, Vol. XXXVII. Pp. VIII,616 pp. a. 6 plates. A stamp to top of p. 537. Rutherford's paper: pp. 537-587.
First appearance of this seminal paper which contains Rutherford's discovery of artificial transmutation. He here discovered, that the atomic nucleus (discovered by him in 1911) itself had a structure, when, by bombarding nitrogen with alpha particles, he produced THE FIRST ARTIFICIAL TRANSFORMATION OF AN ELEMENT INTO ANOTHER, and what was left after the bombardment had to be those of oxygen atoms. - Thus thus began the age of nuclear physics.""Rutherford was .. the first man ever to change one element into another as a result of the manipulations of his own hands. He had achieved the dream of the alchemists. He had also demonstrated the first man-made ""nuclear reaction"". By 1924 Rutherford had managed to knock protons out of the nuclei of most of the lighter elements."" (Asimov).""A few years before, Marsden had noticed scintillations on a screen placed far beyond the range of alpha particles when these particles were allowed to bombard hydrogen. Rutherford repeated the experiment and showed that the scintillations were caused by hydrogen nuclei or protons. This was easily understood, but when he substituted nitrogen for the hydrogen, he saw the same proton flashes. The explanation he gave in 1919 stands beside the transformation theory of radioactivity and the nuclear atom as one of Rutherford’s most important discoveries. This, he said, was a case of artificial disintegration of an element. Unstable, or radioactive, atoms disintegrated spontaneously"" but here a stable nucleus was disrupted by the alpha particle, and a proton was one of the pieces broken off."" (DSB).PMM: 411.
Die Radioaktivität. Unter Mitwirkung des Verfassers ergänzte autorisierte deutsche Ausgabe von E. Aschkinass.
Berlin, Julius Springer, 1907. Royal8vo. Uncut in orig. printed wrappers. A small nick to lower left part of frontwrapper. Stamps to titlepage. (10),597 pp., textillustrations. Internally clean. From the library of the Danish logician and philosopher Jørgen Jørgensen, with his name on top of frontwrapper.
First German edition of this importent work which is recognized as a classic, being the first textbook on Radio-Activity. To this German edition, translated from the second English of 1905, Rutherford himself has added further descriptions of the results obtained in the years in between.Rutherford made ""Proposal of a new theory of atomic disintegration and of the nuclear nature of the atom. Rutherford discovered and named the alpha, beta, and gamma rays.""( Horblitt, ""One Hundred Books famous in Science"" No 91 (Engl. ed.).""After the discovery of thorium emanations in 1900 new concepts of atomic structure followed from the brilliant experiments of Rutherford. A new theory of atomic disintegration was proposed, then the nuclear nature of the atom..... ""(Dibner ""Heralds of Science"", No 51 (Engl. ed.).
"RUTHERFORD, E. (ERNEST). - THE SATURNIAN MODEL OF THE ATOM.
Reference : 45087
(1904)
Zur Kenntnis der Atomenergie, eine Beziehung zwischen kinetischer Theorie und Radioaktivität.
(Leipzig, S. Hirzel), 1904. Without wrappers. In: ""Jahrbuch der Radioaktivität und Elektronik"", 1. Bd., heft 2. Pp. 103-214 (entire issue offered). Rutherford's paper: pp. 103-127
First appearance of the paper in which Rutherford set forth his early - before 1911-model - model of the atom, the so-calles Saturnian Model. Rutherford pictured here the radioactive atom as a giant whirligig of electrons and alpha-particles, whose stability is somewhat disturbed, perhaps as a result uncompensated radiation losses, precipitating the expulsion of some of its constituents with the tremendous speeds they possessed befiore the explosion.
"RUTHERFORD, ERNEST - NIELS BOHR - C.G. DARWIN. - THE DISCOVERY OF THE 'PROTON'.
Reference : 41545
(1914)
The Structure of the Atom. (Rutherford) + (Darwin:) Collision of 'alpha' Particles with Light Atoms. + (Bohr:) On the Effect of Electric and Magnetic Fields on Spectral Lines
London, 1914. No wrappers, but stiched. All three papers contained in: ""Philosophical Magazine"", Sixth Series, Vol. 27. No. 159. March 1914. The whole issue issue offered (=no. 159): pp. 397-540 and 2 plates.Rutherford's paper.pp. 488-498. - Darwin's paper: pp. 499-506. - Bohr's paper: pp. 506-523. All clean and fine.
First edition and first printing of all three papers. Rutherford, in this paper for the first time identifies the hydrogen nucleus, and called it the 'positive electron'. He later called it 'the proton' . In his definitive paper of 1911 he estimated the radius of the nucleus, a hundred thousand times smaller than that of an atom. Darwin in his paper (offered here) gave a more precise measure.In the first lines of the paper Rutherford outlines the content ""The present paper and and the accompanying paper by Mr. C. Darwin (the second paper offered here) deal with certain points in connection with the ""nucleus"" theory of the atom which were purposely omitted in my first communication on that subject (Phil. Mag. May 1911). A brief account is given of the later investigations which have been made to test the theory and of the deductions which can be drawn from them. At the same time a brief statement is given of recent observations on the passage of alpha particles through hydrogen, which throw importent light on the dimensions of the nucleus."" - Rutherford had studies alpha-particles intensely in the years before 1914 and proved quite conclusively that the individual particle was a helium atom with its electrons removed. The alpha particles were like the positive rays that had been discovered by Goldstein (1886), and now in 1914 (the paper offered) Rutherford suggested that the simplest positive rays must be those obtained from the hydrogen and that these must be the fundamentall positively-charged particle. He names it a 'positive electron'.Darwin, in the paper offered ""concluded from the known data:""No force proportional to some power of the distance other than the inverse square can give the dependence (the Rutherford scattering cross section) on (the initial velocity)"", and he then calculated the distance of closest alpha-particle-nucleus approach.The paper by Niels Bohr relates to ""The Stark effect"". In 1913 appeared ""an importent new discovery: when atomic hydrogen is exposed to a static electrical field its spectral lines split, the amount of splitting being proportional to thefield strenght (the linear Stark effect). After Rutherford read this news in ""Nature"", he at once wrote to Bohr:'I think it is rather up to you at the present time to write something on....electric effects.'"" (A. Pais). Bohrs paper on The Stark effect appeared in 1914, the paper offered here. - Rosenfeld. Niels Bohr' publications No. 10).
Über die Kernstruktur der Atome. Baker-Vorlesung. (Erschienen in den Proceedings of the Royal Society, A., 97). Autorisierte Übersetzung von Else Norst.
Leipzig, S. Hirzel, 1921. Cont. hcalf. Titlelabel gilt on back. Small stamp on title. (4),35 pp.
First German edition and the first edition in book-form, as this Bakerian lecture was published in the Proceedings 1920. In this work Rutherford not only considered the neutron as a possibility, but he furthermore predicted its likely properties (""the idea of the possible existence of an atom of mass one, which has a zero nuclear charge"").
"RUTHERFORD, ERNEST. - THE NATURE OF X-RAYS FINALLY SETTLED.
Reference : 41565
(1914)
The Wave-lenght of the soft gamma Rays from Radium B (In collaboration with E.N. da C. Andrade).
London, 1914. Without wrappers, but stitched. In ""Philosophical Magazine and Journalof Science"", Vol. 27, No. 161. May 1914. Pp. 757-916 a. 6 plates.(= the whole issue No 161). Rutherford's paper: pp. 854-860 a. 1 plate.
First edition, finally establishing the nature of Röntgen's X-Rays.In 1900 ""Villardhad discovered gamma gamma-rays. He noted at once that these rays are not deflected by magnetic fields. Two years later Rutherford suggested that gamma-rays might be very hard form of beta-rays. This view became less and less tenable...(and) slowly the evidence grew that gamma-rays and X-rays were akin, but a lately as 1912 Rutherford still wrote with a touch of caution: ""There is at present nodefinite evidence to belive that X-rays and gamma-rays are funamentally different kindsof radiation"". he matter was finally settled fourteent years after the first observatiob of gamma-radioactivity, when Rutherford and Andrade observed reflexion of gamma-rays from crystal force (in the paper offered here)."" (Pais. Inward Bound p. 62.).The issue contains further importent papers in first editions. W.H. BRAGG. The Intensity of Reflexion of X Rays by Crystals. Pp. 881-99. This is an account of his famous work on X-ray spectroscopy.E. MARSDEN: The Passage of alpha Particles through Hydrogen. Pp. 824-830. Here he discovered that when alpha-particles were projected into hydrogen, so that the heavy projectiles struck lighter atoms, a few of the hydrogen atoms were driven forward far beyond the range of the alpha particles.J.J.THOMSON: The Forces between Atoms and Chemical Affinity. Pp. 757-789.
Radio-Activity.
Cambridge University Press, 1904. Fine hcalf, raised bands, gilt lettering. Probably with renewed spine. On both covers a large gilt crowned coat of arms. Corners professionally repaired. (2),VIII,(2),399,(1) pp. Textfigs. and 1 plate facing p. 169. Halftitle and a few leaves with small brownspots in upper margin, otherwise a fine clean copy.
First edition. This work marks a new epoch in the understanding of the nature of nuclear physics. ""After the discovery of thorium in 1900 new concepts of atomic structure followed from the brilliant experiments of Rutherford. A new theory of atomic disentegration was proposed, then the nuclear nature of the atom. He discovered and named alpha and beta rays emitted from radioactive salts and predicted that disintegration of some radioactive elements would generate helium. he also produced in the laboratory the first artificial transmutation of one element into another."" (Dibner, Heralds of Science No. 51). - Horblit No 91.
"RUTHERFORD, ERNST. - THE MAGNETIC DETECTOR INVENTED - WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY MADE POSSIBLE.
Reference : 42381
(1897)
The Magnetic Detector of Electrical Waves and some of its Applications. Communicated by J.J. Thomson. Received June 11, - Read June 18, 1896.
(London, Harrison and Sons, 1897). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" Year 1897, Vol. 189 - A. Pp. 1-24., texfigs.
First appearance of this importent paper, the first paper by Rutherford published in England, in which he describes his invention of the ""Magnetic detector"" before Marconi made use of it in his wireless telegraphy across the Atlantic in 1901.On his arrival at Cambridge (in 1895) his talents were quickly recognized by Professor Thomson. During his first spell at the Cavendish Laboratory, he invented the detector for electromagnetic waves, an essential feature being an ingenious magnetizing coil containing tiny bundles of magnetized iron wire. The detector made it possible to send wireless signals.
Die Alpenquerungen. Ihre Verkehrseignung, Verkehrsbedeutung und Ausnutzung durch Verkehrswege.
Nürnberg, Friedrich-Alexander Universität, 1969. Gr.-8°. 199(1) S. Mit 2 gef. Tafeln, 2 gef. Profilen und 17 gef. Karten. Orig.-Pappband (Ecken leicht bestossen). ="Nürnberger Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeographische Arbeiten.", Band 10.
Fliegender Vorsatz gestempelt.
250 jaar Confrerie van Sint-Elooi te Tielrode: volksdevotie tot Sint-Elooi in Oost-Vlaanderen
, Tielrode : 1982 , gebonden in linnen met stofomslag , 151pp. Geillustreerd. prima staat.
volksdevotie tot Sint-Elooi in Oost-Vlaanderen,
THE PREPARATION OF SYMMETRICALLY C14 TAGGED ACETATE,
Brussel, Paleis der Academien, 1949 Gebrocheerd, papieromslag, 180 x 260mm., 9pp.
Mededelingen van de Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie voor Wetenschappen, Letteren en Schone Kunsten van Belgie. Klasse der Wetenschappen. Jaargang XI. N? 6. In goede staat.
Catalogue des fragments et manuscrits grecs du Matenadaran d'Erevan
, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2008 Hardcover. 240 p., 85 b/w ill. 16 colour ill., 220 x 280 mm, Languages: French, Including an index. Fine copy. ISBN 9782503529790.
Grace a une convention passee entre le Matenadaran d?Erevan et l?Universite d?Aix-Marseille 1, R. Varteni Chetanian a pu etablir le catalogue des manuscrits grecs et des fragments grecs presents au sein des manuscrits armeniens conserves dans la prestigieuse bibliotheque de la capitale de l?Armenie. Au cours de ses sejours a Erevan, elle a sans cesse beneficie du soutien et des conseils des bibliothecaires. Je les remercie d?avoir rendu possible l?elaboration de cet instrument de travail. La presente publication permet de faire connaitre aux chercheurs du monde entier des documents precieux, mais insuffisamment pris en compte par les hellenistes et les armenisants. En particulier, il reste beaucoup a faire dans le domaine des traductions des textes litteraires grecs en armenien. Le Catalogue de R. Varteni Chetanian, qui a par ailleurs publie une remarquable etude sur la traduction armenienne des Homelies sur les Actes des apotres de Jean Chrysostome, donne un moyen nouveau de progresser dans ce champ de recherche. C?est dire que le present Catalogue ne doit pas etre envisage comme une fin ou une cloture. Il doit au contraire etre a l?origine d?autres travaux : travaux d?edition des plus importants textes grecs exhumes par R. Varteni Chetanian ; travaux de numerisation des fragments et des manuscrits, afin de rendre possible leur consultation a distance. Jalon pour l?avenir de la recherche historique et philologique, voila comment doit etre envisage ce Catalogue. Sa confection a ete l?occasion de tisser des liens scientifiques entre l?Armenie et la France. Puissent les travaux qu?il suscitera permettre de poursuivre dans la meme voie et d?approfondir le sillon ainsi trace.
Bibliography of Classical Armenian Literature to 1500 AD,
Turnhout, Brepols, 1995 Hardback, 328 pages., 15,5 x 24,5.Languages : English. *new ISBN 9782503504551.
Bibliography of Classical Armenian Literature to 1500 AD,
"RYDBERG, J.R. (JOHANNES ROBERT). - REVISION OF THE PERIODIC SYSTEM.
Reference : 50386
(1906)
Elektron der erste Grundstoff.
Lund, Håkan Olssons Buckdruckerei, 1906. Lex8vo. Orig. printed wrappers. One of Rydberg's own copies with ""Ueberreicht vom Verfasser"" printed on frontwrapper. 30 pp., 2 large folded tables (the periodic system).
First edition of important revison of the periodic system in one the author's presentation copies (""Ueberreicht vom verfasser).""Rydberg’s study of the periodic properties of the elements led him in 1897 to suggest that certain characteristics of the elements could be more simply organized by using an atomic number instead of the atomic weights. This atomic number was to be identified with the ordinal index of the element in the periodic table. In 1906 Rydberg stated for the first time (the paper offered) that 2, 8, and 18 (that is, 2n2, where n= 1,2,3) represented the number of elements in the early periods of the system. In 1913 he went further, correcting an earlier error about the number of rare earths from 36 to 32, thus allowing the n = 4 group to be included in the pattern."" (DSB).
"RYDBERG, J.R. (JOHANNES ROBERT). - REVISION OF THE PERIODIC SYSTEM.
Reference : 50387
(1906)
Elektron der erste Grundstoff.
Lund, Håkan Olssons Buckdruckerei, 1906. Lex8vo. Orig. printed wrappers. Some small nicks to edges of wrappers. 30 pp., 2 large folded tables (the periodic system).
First edition of Rydberg's important revison of the periodic system. ""Rydberg’s study of the periodic properties of the elements led him in 1897 to suggest that certain characteristics of the elements could be more simply organized by using an atomic number instead of the atomic weights. This atomic number was to be identified with the ordinal index of the element in the periodic table. In 1906 Rydberg stated for the first time (the paper offered) that 2, 8, and 18 (that is, 2n2, where n= 1,2,3) represented the number of elements in the early periods of the system. In 1913 he went further, correcting an earlier error about the number of rare earths from 36 to 32, thus allowing the n = 4 group to be included in the pattern."" (DSB).
PAINTINGS FROM THE FRICK COLLECTION,
New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1990
Bound, red cloth, illustrated dustjacket in colour, 265 x 335mm., unnumbered pages ( 146pp ), colour illustration throughout.
"RÉAUMUR, (RENÉ-ANTOINE FERCHAULT DE). - FIRST DESCRIPTION OF THE AMBULACRAL FEET.
Reference : 44514
(1714)
Observations sur le Mouvement progressif de quelques Coquillages de Mer, sur celuy des Herrisons de Mer, & sur celuy d'une espece d'Etoile.
(Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1714). 4to. Without wrappers. Extracted from ""Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences. Année 1712"". Pp. 115-147 and 3 large folded engraved plates with many figs.
First appearance of a classic paper in animal physiology in which Réaumur investigates the means by which mollusks, starfish, and various other invertebrates move about. He was the first to describe ambulacral feet.""Réaumur was among the greatest naturalists of his or any age. In the breadth and range of his researches, in the patient detail of his observations, and in the brilliant ingenuity of his experiments, it would be difficult to name his equal. Thomas Henry Huxley has compared his favourably with Darwin.""(DSB).
"RÉAUMUR, (RENÉ-ANTOINE FERCHAULT DE). - FIRST ISOLATION OF THE GASTRIC JUICE.
Reference : 51377
(1756)
Sur la Digestion des Oiseaux. Experience sur la manière dont se fait la digestion dans les Oiseaux qui vivent principalement de grains & d'herbes, & dont l'estomac est un gésier - De la maniére dont elle se fait l'estomac des Oiseaux de proie. Prem...
Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1756. 4to. Without wrappers. Extracted from ""Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences. Année 1752"". Pp. 266-307 a. pp. 461-495. Both papers clean and fine.
First printing of these importent papers in the physiology of digestion as reaumur here for the first time isolated the gastric juice and demonstrated its solvent effects upon foods. To the experiments he used a pet kite by putting a sponge into the stomach attached to a string that he could withdraw. These results were ably confirmed and extended by the work of Lazaro Spallanzani.Garrison & Morton No 979.
"RÉAUMUR, (RENÉ-ANTOINE FERCHAULT DE). - THE FORMATION OF SNAIL-SHELLS.
Reference : 45236
(1711)
De la Formation et de L'Accroissement des Coqvilles des Animaux tant terrestres qu'aquatiques.
Paris, Jean Boudot, 1711. 4to. Without wrappers. Extracted from ""Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences. Année 1709"". Pp. 364-400 and 2 large folded engraved plates. With engraved frontispiece and titlepage to Année 1709.
Reamur's first zoological work, a pioneer-work in which he, as the first, describes the formation of the shells, and in which he proved that they grow not like the other parts of the animal body, by expansion, but by the external addition of new parts : he also assigned the cause of the variety of colour, figure, and magnitude which distinguishes one shell from another.""Réaumur’s first three communications to the Academy, on geometrical subjects, were presented in 1708 and 1709, and demonstrate a degree of mathematical sophistication worthy of a student of Varignon. Had Réaumur decided to remain a mathematician, he might well have been one of the greatest geometers of his age. In November 1709, however, he quite suddenly changed the course of his scientific career by reading a paper on the growth of animal shells. From then on, Réaumur’s work would be characterized by its extraordinary richness and diversity, but never again would he devote himself to the pure mathematical researches that had so fascinated him in his youth.""(DSB).""Réaumur was among the greatest naturalists of his or any age. In the breadth and range of his researches, in the patient detail of his observations, and in the brilliant ingenuity of his experiments, it would be difficult to name his equal. Thomas Henry Huxley has compared his favourably with Darwin.""(DSB).Together with Reaumur's work is a notable paper by NICOLAS LEMERY ""Conjectures et Reflexions sur la materie du Feu ou de la Lumiere"", pp. 400-418.
"RÉAUMUR, (RENÉ-ANTOINE FERCHAULT DE). - THE RÉAUMUR TEMPERATURE SCALE.
Reference : 46579
(1732)
Regles pour construire des Thermometres dont les Degres soient comparables, et qui donnent des idées d'un Chaud ou d'un Froid qui puissant être rapportés à desmsures connües.
Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1732. 4to. Without wrappers. Extracted from ""Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences. Année 1730"". Pp. 452-507 a. 1 folded engraved plate. With titlepage to Année 1730/1732. Titlepage with small tears to margins. Clean and fine.
First appearance of this importent paper in which Reaumur reveled how he constructed his invention of the thermometer scale, the scale which bears his name. The construction of the thermometer was based on alchohol, and the scaling bases on 0 degree for the freezing point of water and 80 degree for the boiling point of water.""The one serious drawback to Réaumur’s thermometer was that different strengths of alcohol have different coefficients of dilation, so that while one type of alcohol might expand one degree after the application of a certain amount of heat, another might expand two degrees under the same conditions. It was vital that all thermometers scaled according to his system have the same grade of alcohol. Réaumur suggested that the alcohol used in his thermometers be of a type that would dilate 80 degrees - that is, 8 parts in 100 - between the temperature of ice and the temperature at which the alcohol began to boil in an open thermometer tube. Owing to an unfortunate confusion of language in his article on the thermometer, however, nearly everyone believed that 80° on his scale was the temperature of boiling water"" and as a result, when so-called Reaumer thermometers began to be made by the artisans of Paris, they were nearly all scaled linearly with respect to two fiducial points, 0° for ice and 80° for boiling water."" (DSB).Parkinson ""Breakthroughs"" 1730 P.
"RÉAUMUR, (RENÉ-ANTOINE FERCHAULT DE). - THE RÉAUMUR TEMPERATURE SCALE INVENTED.
Reference : 51376
(1732)
Regles pour construire des Thermometres dont les Degres soient comparables, et qui donnent des idées d'un Chaud ou d'un Froid qui puissant être rapportés à desmsures connües. (+) Second Mémoire sur la Construction... (2 Papers).
Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1732 a. 1733. 4to. Without wrappers. Extracted from ""Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences. Année 1730 and 1731"". Pp. 452-507 a. pp. 250-296 and 1 folded engraved plate. With engraved frontispiece and titlepage to Année 1730/1732. Clean and fine.
First appearance of these importent paper in which Reaumur reveled how he constructed his invention of the thermometer scale, the scale which bears his name. The construction of the thermometer was based on alchohol, and the scaling bases on 0 degree for the freezing point of water and 80 degree for the boiling point of water.Parkinson ""Breakthroughs"" 1730.
"RÖNTGEN, W.C. (WILHELM CONRAD ROENTGEN). - THE SECOND SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION BEGINS.
Reference : 48742
(1898)
Ueber eine neue Art von Strahlen. (Erste- Zweite Mittheilung) + Weitere Betrachtungen über die Eigenschaften der X-Strahlen. (Dritte Mittheilung). 3 Papers (all).
Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1898. Contemp. hcloth, A small nick to boards on frontcover. Light wear to spine ends. Gilt lettering to spine. A stamp to verso of title-page. In Annalen der Physik und Chemie, Neue Folge, Band 64. VIII,(2),812 a. 2 plates. Röntgen's papers: 1. pp. 1-11, pp. 12-17 a. pp. 18-37. Internally clean and fine.
First full exposition of Röntgen's discovery of X-rays, the foundation stones of roentgenology, unveiling a new form of matter and offering a new revolutionary method for medical diagnosis.In order to ensure priority for his discovery, Röntgen first published the two first papers (Erste-Zweite Mittheilung) as offprints from ""Sitzungsberichte der Physikalisch-medicinischen Gesellschaft zu Würtzburg"" in 1895-96, but his discovery only finds its full form in the offered papers, as ""Dritte Mittheilung"" appears here.""Aside from its obvious applications, Roentgen's discovery galvanized the world of physics and led to a rash of further discoveries that so completely overturned the old concepts of the science, that the discovery of X-rays is sometimes considered the first stroke of the Second Scientific Revolution. (The First Scientific Revolution is, of course that which included Galileo and his experiments on falling bodies). Within a matter of months, investigations of X rays led to the discovery of radioactivity by Becquerel....The importence of the discovery was well recognized in its own time. In 1896 Roentgen shared the Rumford Medal with Lenard and in 1901, when Nobel Prizes were set up.the first to be honoured with a Nobel Prize in Physics was Roentgen."" (Asimov).Garrison & Morton No 2683 (only listing 1. paper) - PMM No 380 (listing only 2 parts) - Dibner: 162 (listing only 2 parts).
"RÖNTGEN, W.C. (WILHELM CONRAD). - THE SECOND SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION BEGINS.
Reference : 48027
(1898)
Ueber eine neue Art von Strahlen. (Erste- Zweite Mittheilung) + Weitere Betrachtungen über die Eigenschaften der X-Strahlen. (Dritte Mittheilung). 3 Papers (all).
Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1898. Contemp. hcalf, spine gilt and with gilt lettering. Some scratches to spine and corners bumped and with wear. Some scratching to boards.Stamps to titlepage and one leaf. In: ""Annalen der Physik und Chemie"", Neue Folge, Band 64. VIII,(2),812 a. 2 plates. (Entire volume offered). Röntgen's papers: 1. pp. 1-11, pp. 12-17 a. pp. 18-37. Internally clean.
First full exposition of Röntgen's discovery of X-rays, the foundation stones of roentgenology, unveiling a new form of matter and offering a new revolutionary method for medical diagnosis.In order to ensure priority for his discovery, Röntgen first published the two first papers (Erste-Zweite Mittheilung) as offprints from ""Sitzungsberichte der Physikalisch-medicinischen Gesellschaft zu Würtzburg"" in 1895-96, but his discovery only finds its full form in the offered papers, as ""Dritte Mittheilung"" appears here.""Aside from its obvious applications, Roentgen's discovery galvanized the world of physics and led to a rash of further discoveries that so completely overturned the old concepts of the science, that the discovery of X-rays is sometimes considered the first stroke of the Second Scientific Revolution. (The First Scientific Revolution is, of course that which included Galileo and his experiments on falling bodies). Within a matter of months, investigations of X rays led to the discovery of radioactivity by Becquerel....The importence of the discovery was well recognized in its own time. In 1896 Roentgen shared the Rumford Medal with Lenard and in 1901, when Nobel Prizes were set up.the first to be honoured with a Nobel Prize in Physics was Roentgen."" (Asimov).Garrison & Morton No 2683 (only listing 1. paper) - PMM No 380 (listing only 2 parts) - Dibner: 162 (listing only 2 parts).
"RÖNTGEN, WILHELM CONRAD & HEINRICH HERTZ. - HERTZ'S PRINCIPLE OF THE UNITY OF ELECTRIC FORCE.
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Neue Versuche über die Absorption von Wärme durch Wasserdampf. 2 Parts. (+ Hertz:) Ueber die Beziehungen zwischen den Maxwellschen electrodynamischen Grundgleichungen und den Grundgleichungen der gegnerischen Electrodynamik.
Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1884. Contemp.hcalf. Raised bands, gilt spine. Spine very slightly rubbed. Small stamp on htitle, title and verso of titlepage.""Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von G. Wiedemann"". Neue Folge Bd. 23. VIII,696 pp. and 8 folded plates. Röntgen's paper: pp. 1-40 a. 259-298, 2 folded plates. - Hertz's paper: pp. 84-103. Clean and fine.
First printing of Röntgen's early paper on the heat absorption in vapor. ""Having constructed a very sensitive air thermometer, he was able to measure the absorption of heat in water vapor, and his flair for experiment was also shown by his work on the compressibility of liquids and solids.""(DSB XI, p.530).An. HERTZ'S paper: This is a major paper by Hertz in which he gives simple proofs of Maxwell's fundamental equations. ""In 1884, at Kiel, Hertz had already carried out a study of Maxwell's theory. It was a theoretical response to Helmholtz' general problem of deciding between the electrodynamical theories. Whereas Helmholtz had shown that the experimental decision lay with unclosed currents, Hertz showed that a theoretical decision could be made on the basis of predictions for closed currents. Hertz proved that Maxwell's equations were compatible with the physical assumptions shared by all electrodynamical theories and that the equations of the contending theories were not. He concluded that if the choice lay solely between Maxwell's equations and the equations of the other type of theory, then Maxwell's were clearly preferable."" (DSB VI, pp. 344-45).The volume contains also an importent paper by OTTO RICHARD LUMMER his Inauguraldissertation: ""Über eine neue Inteferenzerscheinung an Planparallelen Glasplatten und eine Methode, die Planparallelität solcher Gläser zu prüfen"". Pp. 40-84 a. 1 plate. and ""Ueber eine neue Inteferenzerscheinung."" pp. 513-548. - Also papers by Kundt, Kohlrausch, Weber and others.
