‎Ueber die Anordnung der Elektricität auf einer einzelnen sehr dünnen Platte und auf den beiden Belegungen einer Franklin'schen Tafel.‎

‎Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1852. Without wrappers. In ""Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von J.C. Poggendorff"", Bd. 86, No 6. Pp. 161-336 a. 1 plate. Clausius' paper: pp. 161-205. With titlepage to volume 86.‎

‎An early paper on electrodynamics in which Clausius determines the ""Potentialfunktion"", introduced by George Green in 1828 . The issue contains also Plúcker un Geissler's importent paper ""Studien über Thermometrie und verwandte Gegenstände"", pp. 238-279.""The first account of Geissler’s activity dates from 1852, when, with Julius Plücker, at Bonn, he constructed his famous standard thermometers. They differed from the thermometers then in use by their thin glass, by the application of capillarity, and by their high precision. For calibrating he used his new glass balance that had a sensitivity of 0.1 mg. of mercury.""(DSB).‎

‎Ueber einen neuen mechanischen Satz in Bezug auf stationäre Bewegungen. (Vorgetragen in der Niederrheinischen Gesellschaft für Natur-und Heilkunde am 16. Juni 1873" mitgetheilt vom Hrn. Vefasser).‎

‎Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1873. Without wrappers. In ""Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von J.C. Poggendorff"", Bd. 150, No.9. Pp. 1-176 a. 2 plates. (Entire issue offered). Clausius' paper: pp. 106-130. With titlepage to volume 150.‎

‎First apperance of an importent paper in which Clausius explains the concepts of 'disgregation' and 'ergon' in terms of Hamilton's Principle of Least Action.‎

‎Ueber die mittlere Länge der Wege, welche bei der Molecularbewegung gasförmiger Körper von den einzelnen Molecülen zurückgelegt werden" nebst einigen anderen Bemerkungen über die mechanische Wärmetheorie.‎

‎Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1858. Contemp. hcalf. 5 raised bands, gilt spine and gilt lettering to spine. A few scratches to spine. Small stamp on verso of first -and general- titlepage. In: ""Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von J.C. Poggendorff"", Vierte Reihe Bd. 15, (=Poggendorff Bd. 105). X,636 pp. and 4 folded lithographed plates. Clausius's paper: pp. 239-258. The entire volume offered. Fine and clean.‎

‎First printing of this main paper in the working out of the Kinetic Theory of Gases in which Clausius announced his determination of the equation governing the mean free path lenght of a molecule moving freely in gases. By this he inscribed his name as one of the founders of the Kinetic Theory of Gases.""Clausius was one of the founders of the kinetic theory of gases and of the science of thermodynamics. He and Lord Kelvin at about the same time and independently announced the Second Law of thermodynamics. Clausius particularly developed the theory of thermodynamics by applying it to the study of gases and vapors.""(Magie in ""A Source Book in Physics"", p. 228).""In order to analyze the process (of molecular collisions), Clausius adopted a simplified model for his admittedly complicated molecule. He assumed that whatever the actual patterns on intermolecular forces, one could suppose that there is some advantage distance between the centers of molecules which would represent a general boundary between attractive and repulsive forces. If two molecules were to approach each other within that boundary, repulsion would generally occur. Thus the very complex problem of intermolecular action was reduced to a ""billiard ball"" model."" (DSB III, p. 307-06). - Parkinson, Breakthroughs, C/P 1858.‎

‎Ueber die Anwendung des Satzes von der Aequivalenz der Verwandlungen auf die innere Arbeit. (Vorgelen in der Züricher naturforschenden Gesellschaft am 27. Januar 1862).‎

‎Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1862. Without wrappers. In ""Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von J.C. Poggendorff"", Bd. 116, No. 5. Pp. 1-192 a. 1 folded lithographed plate. (Entire issue offered). Clausius' paper: pp. 73-112. With titlepage to volume 116.‎

‎First appearance of the paper in which Clausius makes importent contributions to the generalization and understanding of the Second Law of Thermodynamics by introducing the concept of disgregation and proving the equivalence of the transformation of heat.""Clausius began that search for understanding in 1862 by introducing the concept of disgregation, a concept that, he said, was based on an idea he had long held: that the force of heat for performing mechanical work (both internal and external together) was proportional to the absolute temperature.13 Clausius had never stated this idea explicitly before, although he had argued in 1853, by adopting an analogy between a reversible steam engine and a thermocouple, that the potential difference at a thermocouple junction should be proportional to the absolute temperature. In any event, he now wished to assert that the work which can be done by heat in any change of the arrangement of a body is proportional to the absolute temperature multiplied by a function of molecular arrangement, the disgregation Z. Given this assumption and his postulate that the heat in a body H was only a function of temperature, he was able (1) to prove his theorem of the equivalence of transformations and (2) to separate the equivalence function (entropy) into a temperature-dependent term and a configurational-dependent term...""(DSB).The issue contains other notable papers, Plücker ""Ueber recurrente Ströme und ihre Anwendung zur Darstellung von Gasspectra"", pp. 27-54, Tyndall ""Ueber Strahlung und Absorption der Wärme durch gasförmige Materie"", pp. 1-27.‎

‎Ueber das Wesen der Wärme, vergleichen mit Licht und Schall. Ein populäret Vortrag gehalten zu Zürich den 12. Februar 1857.‎

‎Zürich, Meyer & Zeller, 1857. Uncut in orig. printed wrappers. Some browning to upper wrapper. S tamp on title-page. 31 pp. Scattered brownspots. From the library of Max v. Laue, having his stamp on top of upper wrapper ""M. Laue"".‎

‎First edition of Clausius' popular account of his dynamical theory of heat (the second law of thermodynamics).‎

‎Mémoire sur la nature du mouvement appelé CHALEUR. (Extraits par M. Adolphe Wurtz).‎

‎Paris, Victor Masson, 1857. 8vo. Contemp. hcalf. Raised bands, gilt spine. A bit rubbed along edges. In: ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique"", 3ieme Serie, Tome 50. 512 pp. a. 1 folded engraved plate. (Entire volume offered). Clausius' paper: pp. 497-507. Stamp to verso of titlepage. Internally clean.‎

‎First French version of this milestone paper on the Kinetic Theory of Gases - ""Ueber die Art der Bewegung, welche wir Wärme nennen"", 1857 - in which Clausius gives the physical explanation for the evaporation of a liquid and presents the first physical argument in support of Avogadro's hypothesis that equal volumes of gases at the same temperature and pressure contain equal numbers of molecules.""In the paper ""Ueber die Art der Bewegung, welche wir Wärme nennen."", Rudolf Clausius (1822-1888) established mathematically that the heat in a gas cannot be accounted for exclusively by translational motion of the molecules and asserts that molecules have rotational and vibratiional motion as well as translational motion. He consequently rejects the contentions the the translational kinetic energy is conserved during molecular collisions and that all molecules have equal, constant velocities. His allowancee for differing molecule velocities enables him to offer a new explanation of evaporation, asserting that he molecules able to overcome the attractive forces of the liquid and ""escape"" to the gaseous state are those with high velocities (and hence high kinetic energies). hence evaporation produces a loss of energy in the liquid and a decreasein temperature.""(Parkinson in ""Breakthroughs"", 1857 C/P).""This 1857 paper (the paper offered) also marked another importent beginning in physical theory, for it presented the first physical argument in support of Avogadro's hypothesis that equal volumes of gases at the same temperature and pressure contain equal numbers of molecules. Clausius argued that if it were assumed that all types of molecules possess the same translational energy at equal temperatures, then, since all gases have the same relationship between pressure, volume, and temperature, they would necessartly contain equal numbers of molecules in equal volumes at the same temperatur and pressure. Avogadro's hypothesis, therefore, found support in the mechanical theory of heat, independently of the usual chemical arguments.""(DSB III, p. 307).The volume contains JOULE'S famous paper ""Remarques sur la nature de la chaleur et la constitution des fluides élastiques"" (Extraits par M. Verdet). Originally published (1848) 1851. First French version. pp. 381-83.‎

‎Ueber die Anwendung der mechanischen Wärmetheorie auf die Dampfmaschine.‎

‎Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1856. Conemp. hcalf. 5 raised bands, gilt spine and gilt lettering to spine. A few scratches to spine. Small stamp on verso of first -and general- titlepage and small stamps to verso of plates. In: ""Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von J.C. Poggendorff"", Vierte Reihe Bd. 7, (=Poggendorff Bd. 97). (2),X,644 pp. a. 5 folded engraved plates. (Entire volume offered). Internally clean and fine. Clausius paper (in 2 parts): pp. 441-476 a. pp. 513-558. Clean and fine.‎

‎First appearance of this groundbreaking paper in which Clausius applied the second law of thermodynamics to the working of the steem-engine and stated, what he called the ""second fundamental theorem in the mechanical theory of heat"", the concept of ""equivalent-value"", which is the precursory formulation of the concept of ""entropy"". He showed especially that the heat of the steem could be negative as well as positive, thereby laying the foundation of modern technological thermodynamics. The volume contains other notable papers:THOMSON, W. (Lord Kelvin) & J.P. JOULE: ""Ueber die Wärmewirkung bewegter Flüssigkeiten"" (On the Thermal Effects of Fluids in Motion"" (1853). Pp. 576-414.This is the first German edition of a classic paper on thermodynamics, in which Thomson and Joule announced the so-called JOULE-THOMSON EFFECT (or Joule-Kelvin Effect), describing the increase or decrease in temperature of a real gas or liquid when allowed to expand freely through a valve or other throtting device while kept insulated so that heat is transferred to or from the fluid, and no external mechanical work is extracted from the fluid.R. KOHLRAUSCH: ""Ueber die elektrischen Vorgänge bei der Elektrolyse."" Pp. 397-414 a. 559-575 (in 2 parts).Frst printing of this importent paper, stating the fundamental facts of electrolyses and describing the theory of the ""TANGENT GALVANOMETER"", which Kohlrausch and Weber used to determine the electromagnetic value of the discharge current when a Leyden jar is discharged through the galvanometer. The ratio of the measured speed and the speed of light, led Kirchhoff to state in 1857 that an electric disturbance was propagated along a perfectly conducting wire at the velocity of light.Wheeler Gift No. 3002.‎

‎Ueber einige Stellen der Schrift von Helmholtz ""über die Erhaltung der Kraft""" (and Helmholtz:) Erwiederung auf die Bemerkungen von Hrn. Clausius" (and Clausius:) Ueber einige Stellen der Schrift von Helmholtz ""über die Erhaltung der Kraft"", zweite No...‎

‎Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1853-54. No wrappers. ""Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von J.C. Poggendorff"", Vol. 89, No 8 and vol. 91 No 2 a. 4. Pp. 497-628, pp. 161-320 a. pp. 497-628 a. 1 folded plate. (3 entire issues offered). Clausius's papers pp. 568-579 (vol. 89, ""Heft"" 8) a. pp. 601-604 (vol. 91,""Heft"" 4). Helmholtz paper: pp. 241-260 (vol. 91, ""Heft"" 4). With titlepages to both volumes 89 a. 91. All three issues clean and fine.‎

‎First printing of the 3 main papers in the famous Helmholtz-Clausius controversy about the principle of the ""Conservation of Energy"". His reply to Clausius contains very importent additons to his conservation law, as it clarifies his use of the concepts of ""energy"", ""vis viva"", ""electrical tension"" , ""potentials"" etc.Helmholtz famous work Über die Erhaltung der Kraft"" from 1847 gave the first comprehensive statement of the first law of thermodynamics: All modes of energy, heat, light, electricity, and all chemical phenomena, are capable of transformation from one to the other but are indestructible and cannot be created. Clausius (in the papers offere) critized helmholtz on his theory of heat over the consistency of the physical interpretation and of the use mathematics. He argued that Helmholtz's demonstration of his conservation law was valid only for Helmholtz's particulat model of matter, and that he had not understood the notion of the potential. This criticism lead Helmholtz expand and clarify the central concepts of physics, importent steps in the history of theoretical physics.‎

‎Ueber die Wärmeleitung gasförmiger Körper.‎

‎Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1862. Without wrappers as issued in ""Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von J.C. Poggendorff"", 115. Bd., 1. issue (""Heft"" No 1, 1862). Titlepage to vol. 115. Pp. 1-176 a. 1 folded engraved plate. (The entire issue offereed (""Heft"" 1)). Clausius' paper: pp. 1-56. Some brownspots to right marginon some leaves.‎

‎First printing of this importent paper, the seciond of C's papers in the working out of the Kinetic Theory of Gases. In the paper he states that he found an error in Maxwell's theory of gases, an error Maxwell was to admit as far more serious. ""In his initial approach to the conduction of heat in gases, Maxwell drew a brilliant analogy between diffusion (a transfer of mass) and conduction (a transfer of kinetic energy), thereby making it possible to use the form of his diffusion equation to represent conduction, simply replacing the mass of a molecule with its kinetic energy. Clausius critized this adoption of the diffusion equation, because, given the assumptions, mass transfer would accompany the heat conduction and the process would not be one of energy transfer alone. He then offered a revised theory of conduction. ""(DSB III, p. 308).""Clausius was one of the founders of the kinetic theory of gases and of the science of thermodynamics. He and Lord Kelvin at about the same time and independently announced the Second Law of thermodynamics. Clausius particularly developed the theory of thermodynamics by applying it to the study of gases and vapors.""(Magie in ""A Source Book in Physics"", p. 228).‎

‎Über den Zweiten Hauptsatz de mechanischen Wärmetheorie. Ein Vortrag, gehalten in einder allgemeinen Sitzung der 41. Versammlung deutscher Naturforscher und Aerzte zu Frankfurt a. M. am 23. September 1867.‎

‎Braunschweig, Vieweg und Sohn, 1867. Uncut in original printed wrappers. Wrappers a bit soiled. (4),17 pp. With some faint marginal dampstains. On top of htitle the signature of ""Max Laue/ 22.1.1897"" in pencil.‎

‎First edition. Clausius established the second law of thermodynamics in papers fra 1850 and 1854, and coined the concept of ""entropy"" in 1865. In this paper he explains the consequences of entropy - ""Die Entropie der Welt strebt einem Maximum zu"" (p. 17).‎

‎Ueber das mechanische Aequivalent einer elektrischen Entladung und die dabei stattfindende Erwärmung des Leitungsdrahtes.‎

‎Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1852. Without wrappers as issued in ""Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von J.C. Poggendorff"", 86. Bd., Drittes Stúck (""Heft"" No 7, 1852). Entire issue offered. Pp. 337-500. Clausius' paper: pp. 337-375. Clean and fine.‎

‎First appearance of one of Clausius' early papers on the first and second Law of Thermodynamics, marking his rejection of the caloric theory of heat, providing a new mechanical explanation of the concepts of free and latent heat.‎

‎Ueber den Satz vom mittleren Ergal und seine Anwendungen auf die Molecularbewegungen der Gase. (Vertragen in der Niederrheinischen Gesellschaft für Natur- und Heilkunde am 9. November 1874).‎

‎(Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1876) Without wrappers. In ""Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von J.C. Poggendorff"", Ergänzungsband VII, Stück 2. Pp. 177-336 a. 1 folded engraved plate. (Entire issue offered). Clausius's paper: pp. 215-280. Clean and fine.‎

‎First appearance of an importent contribution to the second law of thermodynamics.""Ckausius..devoted several years to the elaboration of what he thought represented a new and unique contribution to theoretical mechanics, his idea of a variation in the force function itself. He ignored the new directions in Boltzmann's yhought and, surprisingly, never once thought to find a mechanical explanation for the irreversible increase in entropy. In fact in his final attempt (the paper offered), he even adopted a model in which he reduced the admittedly disordered collissions of molecules to a case of noncolliding mass points in ordered motion.""(DSB III, p. 309).‎

‎Théorie mécanique de la chaleur traduit de l'allemand par F. Folie - Tome 1 seul‎

‎Librairie Scientifique, Industrielle et Agricole Eugène Lacroix, éditeur à Paris Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1868 Book condition, Etat : Bon broché, sous couverture imprimée éditeur grise, sans le plat inférieur In-8 1 vol. - 465 pages‎

‎Quelques figures dans le texte en noir 1ere édition, édition originale en français, 1868 "Contents, Chapitres : Préface du traducteur, préface de l'auteur, xxiv, Texte, 441 pages, catalogue Lacroix, 36 pages - - Rudolf Julius Emmanuel Clausius (Köslin, Poméranie, 2 janvier 1822 Bonn, 24 août 1888) est un physicien allemand connu pour ses contributions majeures à la thermodynamique. Découvrant au hasard de ses recherches l'ouvrage oublié ""Réflexions sur la puissance motrice du feu"" de Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, il en comprit immédiatement la portée et en assura la promotion auprès des physiciens de son époque. Il complète l'énoncé de la deuxième loi de la thermodynamique (1850), et inventa le concept d'entropie en 1865. Il est reconnu sur le plan international comme le véritable énonciateur du second principe de la thermodynamique puisque ayant introduit la notion d'entropie toujours utilisée aujourd'hui. Clausius justifie son choix dans Sur diverses formes des équations fondamentales de la théorie mécanique de la chaleur (1865) : « Je préfère emprunter aux langues anciennes les noms des quantités scientifiques importantes, afin qu'ils puissent rester les mêmes dans toutes les langues vivantes ; je proposerai donc d'appeler la quantité S l'entropie du corps, d'après le mot grec (...) une transformation. C'est à dessein que j'ai formé ce mot entropie, de manière qu'il se rapproche autant que possible du mot énergie ; car ces deux quantités ont une telle analogie dans leur signification physique qu'une analogie de dénomination m'a paru utile ». (cité dans Dictionnaire d'histoire et de philosophie des sciences de Dominique Lecourt, PUF, 1999). Ses travaux sur la thermodynamique lui valurent la médaille Copley en 1879. (source : Wikipedia)" couverture à peine jaunie avec une très légère trace de pliure au coin inférieur droit du plat supérieur, sinon bon exemplaire, intérieur frais et propre de ce texte fondamental dans l'histoire de la thermodynamique - Tome 1 seul de cette série en deux volumes, complet en lui-même‎

‎La Philosophie Naturelle de Galilée. Essai sur les origines et la formation de la méchanique classique.‎

‎Paris, Armand Colin, 1968. Royal8vo. 504 pp.‎

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‎The Common Sense of the Exact Sciences. Edited with a Preface by Karl Pearson. Newly edited and with an Introduction by James R. Newman. Preface by Bertrand Russell.‎

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‎Too Hot to Handle - The Story of the Race for Cold Fusion‎

‎W.H. Allen Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1990 Book condition, Etat : Bon hardcover, editor's binding, under editor's black and multicolors printed dust-jacket, illustrated by the White house and multicolors illustrations grand In-8 1 vol. - 376 pages‎

‎a few black and white text-figures 1st edition, 1990 "Contents, Chapitres : Preface, Text, Appendices, Notes, Index, 376 pages - « Fusion froide » est une expression médiatique qui désigne des réactions supposées nucléaires à température et pression ambiantes. La plus connue est celle qui semble être une fusion nucléaire réalisée selon des techniques dérivées d'une expérience réalisée par Martin Fleischmann et Stanley Pons en mars 1989. Cette expérience se caractérisait par un dégagement de chaleur non explicable par la quantité d'énergie électrique reçue (faisant fondre l'électrode). Mais les conditions expérimentales ne permettaient pas d'exclure une origine extérieure non maîtrisée à cette énergie qui semblait excédentaire. Le terme de « fusion froide » apparaît en 1956 dans un article du New York Times1 décrivant le travail de Luis W. Alvarez sur la catalyse par muon. E. Paul Palmer de l'université Brigham Young a aussi utilisé le terme en 1986 dans son investigation sur la « géo-fusion », la possible existence de la fusion dans le cur des planètes. Les phénomènes de ce domaine de recherche sont aussi appelés low-energy nuclear reactions (LENR, pour « réactions nucléaires à basse énergie »), CANR, LANR, CMNS, BL, Sonofusion, Bubble fusion, CNT ou « transmutations biologiques ». L'expression « fusion froide » n'est pas admise par la majorité de la communauté scientifique, parce que l'expérience de Pons et Fleischman est difficilement reproductible et a déclenché une polémique mondiale sur la vérification effectuée par les comités de lecture. Le principe même de la fusion froide reste controversé, certains n'hésitant pas à assimiler ces expériences à celles de l'alchimie et des tentatives de transmutation du plomb en or ; les processus physiques reconnus permettant d'aboutir de façon avérée à des réactions de fusion nucléaire, utilisables pour la production d'énergie, nécessitant en effet des pressions et des températures extrêmement élevées." near fine copy, the dust-jacket is fine, inside is near fine, small private agency stamp on the endpaper and on the page before the title-page, unmarked and clean‎