P., Chron, circa 1930 un volume in 8, broché, couverture imprimée, (petite déchirure sans manque de papier dans la marge inférieure à deux feuillets), (2), 24pp., 2 tableaux, (1)
---- EDITION ORIGINALE de cet exposé par Marie CURIE de la découverte des radio-éléments, des propriétés des rayons et des transformations radio-actives -- BON EXEMPLAIRE**8267/M1
Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1910. 2 volumes in 8°, brochés. [2 ff.], XIII, 426 pp. ; [2 ff.], 548 pp. ; portrait de Pierre Curie en frontispice tiré en héliogravure et 7 planches. Remise en vente de l’édition originale avec de nouvelles couvertures : 1936 pour le volume 2, et 1939 pour le premier volume.
« Cet ouvrage représente l'ensemble des leçons qui ont constitué pendant ces dernières années le cours de Radioactivité professé à la Sorbonne. La rédaction de ces leçons a été complétée par quelques développements qui n'avaient pu trouver place dans l'enseignement... Dans ce livre l'exposé des phénomènes de la radioactivité proprement dits a été précédé par un exposé de la théorie des ions gazeux et par un résumé des connaissances les plus importantes sur les rayons cathodiques, les rayons positifs, les rayons Röntgen et les propriétés des particules électrisées en mouvement. Un chapitre a ensuite été consacré à la description des méthodes de mesures. Après la description détaillée de la découverte et de la préparation des substances radioactives, vient l'étude des émanations radioactives et de la radioactivité induite et des radiations émises par les corps radioactifs. Les substances radioactives sont ensuite classées par familles, avec l'étude, pour chacune d'elles de l'ensemble des propriétés et de la nature des transformations radioactives. » (Préface de Marie Curie). Bel exemplaire.
P., NRF, Gallimard, 1949, in 8° relié demi-percaline rouge à coins, amateur, plat supérieur de couverture conservé, 349 pages.
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Paris, Gallimard, 1938, in-8°, portrait photgr. de Mme Curie + 315 p., reliure en toile, avec la jaquette ill..
Première édition. Ex. num. nr. 3002 (sur 3390 ex.).
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1947 Paris, Alsatia, 1947, in 8 broché, 156 pages ; très nombreuses illustrations hors-texte.
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"CURIE, (MARIE) SKLODOWSKA. - RADIATION IS AN ATOMIC PROPERTY - COINING THE TERM 'RADIOACTIVITY'
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Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1898. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome 126, No 15). Entire issue offered. With htitle and titlepage to vol. 126. Pp. 1059-1110. Curie's paper: pp. 1101-1103. Clean and fine. A punched stamp in lower margin of title-page.
First printing of this milestone paper, being the first ""Note"" from Marie Curie about ""radioactivity"". This same ""Note"" contains a the fundamental observation: ""Two uranium ores... are much more active than uranium itself. This fact... leads one to believe that these ores may contain an element much more active than uranium."" This paper gives the first proof of the fact that radiation is an atomic property.""Henri Becquerel, discovered (1896) that uranium salts shielded from light for several months spontaneously emit rays related in their effects to Roentgen rays. Mme. Curie became enthusiastic about this subject filled with the unknown and, as she later acknowledged, involving no bibliographic research.The first step in the research was to determine whether there existed other elements capable, like uranium, of emitting radiation. Abandoning the idea of hyperfluorescence, couldn’t one calculate by electrical measurement the effects on the conductivity of air that were revealed by the gold-leaf electroscope? Pierre Curie and his brother Jacques had constructed an extremely sensitive apparatus to measure weak currents"" Mme. Curie employed it in testing both pure substances and various ores. In her first ""Note"" in the Comptes rendus""de l Académie des sciences (12 April 1898) she described the method that she followed throughout her life, the method that enabled her to make comparisons through time and crosschecks with other techniques:""I employed... a plate condenser, one of the plates being covered with a uniform layer of uranium or of another finely pulverized substance [(diameter of the plates, eight centimeters"" distance between them, three centimeters). A potential difference of 100 volts was established between the plates.]. The current that traversed the condenser was measured in absolute value by means of an electrometer and a piezoelectric quartz. In general she preferred the zero method, in which the operator compensates for the current created by the active material by manipulating the quartz. All of her students followed this procedure.""(DSB).The first results came in 1898: the measurements varied between 83 × 10-12 amperes for pitch blende to less than 0.3 × 10-12 for almost inactive salts, passing through 53 × 10-12 for thorium oxide and for chalcolite (double phosphate of uranium and copper). Thorium would thus be ""radioactive"" (the term is Mme. Curie’s" its radioactive properties were discovered at the same time, independently, by Schmidt in Germany.
P., PUF, 1923, un volume in 8, broché, couverture imprimée (défraîchie, traces de poussière en bordure du premier plat de couverture), (2), 48pp., (2)
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Braunschweig, Vieweg und Sohn, 1904. 8vo. Recent boards. Gilt lettering on spine. (4),132 pp., 14 textfigs. Clean and fine. (Die Wissenschaft. Sammlung naturwissenschaftlicher und mathematischer Monographien. Erstes Heft).
First German edition of Madame Curie's famous ""Recherches sur les substances radio-actives"",1903.(PMM, 394 - Dibner: 164 - Horblit: 19).
Editions Monelle Hayot Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 2009 Book condition, Etat : Bon broché, sous couverture imprimée éditeur, illustrée d'un tableau en couleurs dans les tons bleus grand In-8 1 vol. - 733 pages
quelques photographies dans le texte en noir 1ere édition, 2009 Contents, Chapitres : Préface de Robert Guillaumont - Avant-propos - 1859. Pierre Curie - 1890. Le refus de certains honneurs - 1892. Les amis très proches - 1894. Marya Sklodowska - 1898. La recherche de minerai - 1899. Friedrich Giesel, un rival ? - 1900. La candidature à l'université de Genève - 6-12 août 1900. Le Congrès international de physique - 1902. Elèves et préparateurs - 1903. Le prix Nobel de physique - 1903-1906. A la recherche d'un vrai laboratoire - 1905. Le spiritisme - 1906. Mort de Pierre Curie et condoléances - Annexes : Chronologie de Pierre (et Marie) Curie - Bibliographie - Index - Pierre Curie (15 mai 1859 à Paris - 19 avril 1906 à Paris) est un physicien français. Il est principalement connu pour ses travaux en radioactivité, en magnétisme et en piézoélectricité. Lui et son épouse, Marie Curie, pionniers de l'étude des radiations, reçurent une moitié du prix Nobel de physique de 1903 (l'autre moitié a été remise à Henri Becquerel) « en reconnaissance des services extraordinaires qu'ils ont rendus par leur effort conjoint de recherches sur les phénomènes des radiations découvertes par le professeur Henri Becquerel ». bon exemplaire, intérieur très frais et propre
Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1899. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome 129, No 19, 20 a. 21). Pp. (687-) 853. (3 entire issues offered). The papers: pp. 714-716, 716-717, 760-762 a. 823-825. All three issues clean and fine.
First apperance of 4 importent papers on the newly discovered phenomena of radioactivity.
Leipzig, Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft M.B.H., 1912, gr. in-8vo, 584 S., mit 1 Porträt, 7 Tafeln und 200 Figuren im Text, Vorbesitzer-Stempel auf Titelblatt, Leinenband, Titel goldgepr. auf Rücken und Buchdeckel.
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"CURIE, P. (PIERRE) et A. DEBIERNE. - MEASURING ABSOLUTE TIME FOR THE FIRST TIME
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(Paris, Gauthier-Villars), 1901. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome 133, No 5 and No 23. Pp. (969-) 1044 and pp. (909-) 966. The papers: pp. 276-279 + pp. 931-934 (both from vol. 133, and entire issues offered) + Tome 135, No 20. Pp. (821-) 880. (Entire issue offered). The paper: pp. 857-59. + Tome 136, No 4. Pp. (181-) 262. (Entire issue offered). The paper: pp. 223-226.
First printing of these four papers, constituting a revolution in time measuring, as Pierre Curie here defined a STANDARD FOR THE ABSOLUTE MEASURING OF TIME ON THE BASIS OF RADIOACTIVITY, and hereby departing from the relative measurements in geology and archaeology.After the discovery of Polonium and Actinium (1898 a. 1899 ) further discoveries followed. ""First came the announcement in 1899 by Marie Curie of induced radioactivity, brought about by the action of polonium or radium on inactive substances. The induced radioactivity persisted over a considerable period of time, a phenomenon of great concern to Pierre Curie. He took up the question with Debierne, with whom he published two papers in 1901(the first two papers offered)"" their experiments could be explained by Rutherford’s theory of emanation (radon), a radioactive gas emitted by radium. With J. Danne, Curie measured the diffusion coefficient of radium emanation in the air and proved, as Rutherford had done, that it liquefies at - 150°C. In order to clarify the nature of the emanation he studied the law of diminution of the activity of a solid after having removed it from a chamber in which a radium salt was present. In two notes presented to the Academy on 17 November 1902 and 26 January 1903 (the third and fourth papers offered), Curie showed that this activity diminishes according to an exponential law characterized by a time constant that, for the emanation, is equal to 5,752 days, regardless of the conditions of the experiment. The importance of this discovery, which marks the point of departure for all modern measurements of archaeological and geological dating, did not escape his, for at a meeting of the Société Française de Physidque in 1902 he defined a standard for the absolute measurement of time on the basis of radioactivity. Almost immediately Rutherford and Soddy showed that the exponential diminution was caused by the transmutation of radioactive elements."" (DSB. Pierre Curie).
"CURIE, P. (PIERRE) et Mme S. CURIE. - RADIOACTIVITY IS AN INTRINSIC ATOMIC PROPERTY.
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Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1902. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", tome 134, No 2. Pp. (69-) 132. With titlepage to volume 134. (Entire issue offered). The Curie's paper: pp. 85-87. A stamp to titlepage. Sewing loosening.
First appearance of an importent paper on the radioactive elements, in which Pierre and Marie Curie were the first to show, that the radioactive emissions from uranium and thorium was an INTRINSIC PROPERTY OF THEIR ATOMS.
[Université de Bordeaux I] - CUVILLIER, Hélène ; SERVANT, R. (Président)
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1 vol. in-4 br. polycopié, Université de Bordeaux I, 1978, 91 pp.
Très bon état pour cette thèse de docteur en physique.
Toulouse (Collection "Sup Aero"), Cepadues Editions, 1976, in 8° broché, VII-224 pages.
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Toulouse-Paris, édouard Privat, Tandou et Cie 1867 4 volumes. In-8 22 x 14 cm. Reliures éditeur demi-chagrin aubergine, dos à nerfs encadrés de petits fers à froid, V-652-664-856-701 pp., 1700 figures dans le texte, tables des matières, table alphabétique et analytique des matières contenues dans les quatre volumes. Rousseurs éparses, sinon exemplaires en très bon état.
Bon état d’occasion
Privat. 1863. In-8. Relié demi-cuir. Etat d'usage, Coins frottés, Dos frotté, Quelques rousseurs. 756 pages.. . . . Classification Dewey : 530-Physique
Classification Dewey : 530-Physique
Toulouse, Edouard Privat - Paris, F. Tandon, 1863. In-8 reliure 1/2 basane rouge, dos à 4 nerfs orné de filets dorés, VII-756 pp. (rousseurs). Avec 760 figures intercalées dans le texte.
Amsterdam, Henry Wetstein, 1688. Small 8vo. Contemp. full calf. Rebacked to style with raised bands. Corners renewed. Some scratches to covers. Engraved frontispiece (Schoonebeck, del. et sculp.) (10),139,(5) pp. and 35 engraved plates. A faint dampstain in upper part of the first ab. 50 leaves and first 7 plates, otherwise quite clean and printed on thick paper.
First edition of this beautifully illustrated work, depicting the different instruments in baroque interieurs and in pictorial landscapes, engraved by A. Schoonebeck. - ""The earliest account dealing exclusively with the subject, and especially valuable as the first work laying down rules for the graduation of the thermometer."" (Sotheran No. 929, note). - ""His detailed description of the principal meteorological instruments of the period is enriched with several new ideas, such as the calibration of the thermometric scale on the basis of two points of change of state: the point at which water freezes and - a much more contestable point - that at which butter melts."" (DSB). - Unknown to Poggendorff. - Wellcome II: p. 28.
Mayntz (Mainz), Ludwig Bourgeat, 1701. 8vo. Contemp. full calf. Raised bands gilt back. Back somewhat worn with cracks to leather at hinges. Small part of leather at covers gone. Corners bumped. (1. Theil:) Engraved frontispiece (dated 1694 Tractatus de Barometris Thermometris et Notiometris vel Higrometris). 80 pp. and 35 engraved plates. - (2. Theil:) Engraved frontispiece (dated 1697 Magne Tologia Curiosa). 77,(3) pp. and 33 engraved plates. Some light browning throughout (rather poor paperquality), first frontisp. and title a little frayed, first title partly mounted, a tear to last plate (no loss), one leaf loosing part of margin (no loss of letters)
Scarce second German edition of D'Alencé's two main works issued here under this joint title. It is translations of 1. ""Traittez des Barometres, Thermometrés etc."" from 1688 and ""Traitté de l'aiman..."" from 1687. The plates depict the different instruments and experiments in baroque interieurs and pictorial landscapes. The plates are copied from Schoonebeck's plate to the first edition.The work on Barometers, thermometers etc. ""(is) the earliest account dealing exclusively with the subject, and especially valuable as the first work laying rules for graduation of the thermometer.""(Sotheran No. 929, note) - ""His detailed description of the principal meteorological instruments of the period is enriched with several new ideas, such as the calibration of the thermometric scale on the basis of two points of change of state: the point at which water freezes and - a much more contestable point - that at which butter melts."" (DSB).The work on the magnet deals with all aspect of its effects and its uses, in compasses and navigation etc.( invention of the compass, magnetic mountains in America, declination, orientation of compass-needles in magnetic fields), and it sums up all the knowledge then known on the subject. The plates depicts magnetic experiments in pictorial landscapes. - Wellcome II:28 (not listing this joint edition). - Unknown to Poggendorff. - Weaver, Wheeler Gift: 200 (the first edition).
Privas, Imprimerie typographique de Roure, 1874 1 volume In-8° (14 x 22cm) Broché. 78p., 1 feuillet.
Peu courante plaquette du géologue du Vivarais Jean-Baptiste DALMAS (1811-1881), "auteur de "La Cosmogonie et la géologie basées sur les faits physiques, astronomiques", etc, etc", fondateur du Musée géologique de Privas en 1850, qui étudia volcans et tremblements de terre de la région: texte suivi de "Les tremblements de terre de la Drôme et de l'Ardèche" et de la "Réfutation" de l'auteur à "l'hypothèse qui [les] attribue [...] à une érosion souterraine de gypse et de sel gemme"; errata. Adresse différente en couverture: Paris, Savy, libraire, novembre 1874. Couverture salie, au dos déchiré avec petits manques et 1er plat.un peu endommagé, avec petits manques marginaux; intérieur propre.
Halle, Rengerschen Buchhandlung, 1803. Small 8vo. Without wrappers as extracted from ""Annalen der Physik. Herausgegeben von Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert"", Bd. 12, 13 u. 15. Pp. 310-318 a. pp. 385-95 (Bd. 12) - pp. 438-45 (Bd. 13) - pp. 1-24 a. pp. 121-43.. With the 3 titlepages to the 3 volumes. Stamp on titles. Some scattered brownspots.
First German translations of these fundamental papers in which Dalton formulated his gas-and pressure laws, such as ""The Law of Partial Pressures"" , ""The Charles Law"" or The Charles-Gay-Lussac Law"" (this law arrived at almost simustaneously with Gay-Lussac).These papers were read and published in the memoires from the ""Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society"" in 1801 and 1802 in 4 parts, the German translation, the item offered, is divided in 5 parts, probably incorporating the paper from Nicholson's Journal from 1801. The publication of these papers gave him at once international reputation they tried to explain why the gases of the atmosphere remain mixed instead of segregating with the heaviest element at the bottom, it states that the maximum density of a vapour in contact with its liquid remains the same whether other gases be present or not and the vies that the particles of everykind of elastic fluid are elastic only with regard to their own kind. and that the otal pressure of the atmosphere equals the sum of the pressures exerted by the individual gases, each of which excerts its pressure independently of the others. This was the first step toward his atomic theory of in chemistry. - He also showed that the quantity of water evaporated in a given time to be stricktly proportional to the force of aqueous vapour at the same temperature, and last, announcing the law that all elastic fluids expands the same quantity by heat, ""The Charle's Law or Charles-Gay-Lussac Law"".
Paris, Fuchs, AN XI (1802). Extract from ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago."" tome 45. Titlepage to vol. 45. Pp. 103-107. Some even browning to titlepage.
First French edition of ""Experiments And observations on the heat and cold produced by the mechanical condensation and rarefication of air"" 1802. It is Daltons 4th paper and the first paper as secretary of the Royal Society. It ""Contained the understated but importent result that the temperature of air compressed to one-half its volume is raised 50 Degr.F'""(Smyth No. 28)..
Halle, Rengerschen Buchhandlung, 1803. Contemp. hcalf., Raised bands, gilt spine. Slightly rubbed. ""Annalen der Physik. Herausgegeben von Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert"", Bd. 14. (8),512 pp. and 5 engraved plates. Small stamps on verso of titlepage and verso of plates. (Entire volume offered). Titlepage slightly brownspotted. A few scatterd brownspots. Dalton's papers: pp. 101-111, pp. 184-198, pp. 287-292 a. pp. 293-96.
First appearance in German of 4 importent early papers by Dalton (issued in English 1799, 1800 a.1803) - dealing with heat circulation (criticizing Rumford) and with air, its relations to temperature and pressures, announcing the importent observation, that the temperature of air compressed to one-half its volume is raised to 50 degrees Fahrenhait. ""Three papers that Dalton read to the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society in 1799 and 1800 (in which year he became the Society's secretary) show how much the question of water vapor continued to exercise him. In the first paper he discusse the balance in nature between rain, dew, river-water runoff, and evaporation. In the course of this discussion, he provided the earliest definition of the dew point. Then followed two competent, but more pedestrian, papers on heat, in which his firm belief in a fluid of heat is well-displayed and his complete acceptance of the particular caloric theory of William Irvine an Adair Crawford is apparent.""(DSB III, p.541). - Smyth No. 27, 28 a. 31 (German version).The volume contains otrher notable papers by Olbers ""Ueber die vom Himmel gefallnen Steinen"", Thomas Thomson (2 papers on the subject of ""heat of fluids""), Alex. Volta, Faujas-Saint-Fond etc.