‎The Kinematics of an Electron with an Axis.‎

‎London, Taylor and Francis, 1927. Contemp. full cloth. Stamped in blind on titlepage. In: ""The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science"", Vol. III, Seventh Series. X,1360 pp., textillustr. and 19 plates. (Entire volume offered). Thomas' paper: pp. 1-22. Internally clean and fine.‎

‎First printing - in full - of Thomas' paper on electron spin. The Thomas factor gives a correction to the spin-orbit interaction in quantum mechanics, which takes into account the relativistic time dilation between the electron and the nucleus of an atom.""In February 1926 the missing factor two was supplied (Nature vol. 117) by Llewellyn Thomas and has since been known as the Thomas factor. Thomas noted that earlier calculations of the precession of the electronic spin had been performed in the rest frame of the electron, without taking into account the precession of the electron orbit around its normal. Inclusion of this relativistic effect reduces the angular velocity of the electron (as seen by the nucleus) by the needed factor 1/2. Einstein was surprised. Pauli became converted."" (Pais ""Inward Bound"", p. 279).‎

‎RADIATIONS VISIBLES ET INVISIBLES‎

‎CONFERENCES FAITES A L’INSTITUTION ROYALE DE GRANDE BRETAGNE AUGMENTEES DE CONFERENCES NOUVELLES TRADUITES ET ANNOTEES PAR L. DUNOYER In-8 relié demi-chagrin noir, reliure d’époque (2) 3pp, 376 pp, (1), nombreuses figures dans le texte Seconde édition‎

‎Radiations visibles et invisibles. Conférences faites à l'Institut royale de Grande-Bretagne augmentées de conférences nouvelles. Traduites et annotées par L. DUNOYER -- BEL EXEMPLAIRE‎

‎P., Hermann, 1914, un volume in 8 relié en demi-chagrin noir (reliure de l'époque), (2), 3pp., 376pp., (1), nombreuses figures dans le texte‎

‎---- Seconde édition, REVUE et AUGMENTEE ---- "Thompson made many technical contributions notably in X rays, luminiscence, magnetisme, electrical machinery and illumination, and optics". (DSB XIII p. 356/357)**8347/M3‎

‎Radiations visibles et invisibles. Conférences faites à l'Institution royale de Grande-Bretagne augmentées de Conférences nouvelles. Traduites et annotées par L. Dunoyer. seconde édition, revue et augmentée.‎

‎ P., A. Hermann, 1914, in 8° broché, III-377 pages ; 196 figures ; couverture fanée. ‎

‎PHOTOS sur DEMANDE. ...................... Photos sur demande .......................... ‎

‎"Diffraction des rayons cathodiques; Exposés de physique théoriques, XV. Collection : Actualités scientifiques et industrielles, N° 212."‎

‎Paris, Hermann, 1935. 16 x 25, 57 pp., quelques figures, broché, non coupé, très bon état.‎

‎Au-delà de l'électron. Traduit de l'anglais par R. Fric. Préface de A. Cotton -- PREMIERE EDITION FRANCAISE‎

‎P., Hermann, 1935, un volume in 8, broché, couverture imprimée, 29pp., 1 planche‎

‎---- PREMIERE EDITION FRANCAISE ---- DSB XIII pp. 362/372**5006/o7ar-Cav.E2‎

‎Die Korpuskulartheorie der Materie -- FIRST GERMAN EDITION‎

‎Braunschweig, Friedrich Vieweg, 1908, un volume in 8 relié en cartonnage éditeur, 7pp., 166pp.‎

‎---- FIRST GERMAN EDITION ---- "Thomson received a great many honors, including the Nobel Prize (1906), a knighthood (1908), the order of merit (1912) and the Presidency of the Royal Society, which he assumed in 1915...". (DSB XIII pp. 362/372)**5015/L7AR‎

‎Elektrizität und Materie. Autorisierte ¥bersetzung von G. Sieberg -- FIRST GERMAN EDITION‎

‎Braunschweig, Vieweg, 1904, un volume in 8 relié en cartonnage éditeur, 6pp., (1), 100pp.‎

‎---- FIRST GERMAN EDITION ---- "Thomson received a great many honors, including the Nobel Prize (1906), a knighthood (1908), the order of merit (1912) and the Presidency of the Royal Society, which he assumed in 1915... . (DSB XIII pp. 362/372)**5010/L7AR-5011/L5AR‎

‎Elektrizität und Materie. Autorisierte ¥bersetzung von G. Siebert‎

‎Braunschweig, Vieweg, 1909, un volume in 8 relié en cartonnage éditeur, 6pp., (1), 116pp.‎

‎---- Deuxième édition allemande ---- "Thomson received a great many honors, includint the Nobel Prize (1906), a knighthood (1908), the order of merit (1912) and the Presidency of the Royal Society, which he assumed in 1915...". (DSB XIII pp. 362/372)**5011/L5AR-5010/L7AR‎

‎Elektrizität und Materie. Autorisierte Übersetzung von G. Siebert.‎

‎Braunschweig, Vieweg und Sohn, 1904. Uncut in orig. printed wrappers. Small portion of backstrip lacks. VI,(2),100 pp.‎

‎First German edition of ""Electricity and Matter"" published in the same year, and one of Thomson's main works on the electron and the atom. Thomson recieved the Nobel prize in 1906. (Die Wissenschaft. Sammlung naturwissenschaftlicher und mathematischer Monographien, 3).‎

‎Elemente der mathematischen Theorie der Elektricität und des Magnetismus. Aut.deutsche Ausg.von Gustav Wertheim.‎

‎Braunschweig, 1897. One corner of wrappers lacks. XIII,414 pp., 133 Illustr. - First German edition. In his work ""The Discharge of Electricity through Gases, 1898"" he calls his discovery of the electron a ""copuscle"".‎

‎La théorie atomique. Traduit de l'anglais par C. Moureu -- PREMIERE EDITION FRANCAISE‎

‎P., Gauthier-Villars, 1919, un volume in 8, broché, 57pp.‎

‎---- PREMIERE EDITION FRANCAISE ---- DSB XIII pp. 374/388**5014/M3‎

‎Conduction of Electricity Throught Gases. 2 vols.‎

‎New York, Dover Publ., 1969. Paperback. 491, 604 pp.‎

‎On some Applications of Dynamical Principles to Physical Phenomena. Received December 16, 1884, - Read January 8, 1885. (+) Some Applications of Dynamical Principles to Physical Phenomena. - Part II. Received March 31, - Read April 21, 1887. (2 Papers).‎

‎(London, Harrison and Sons, 1886 a. 1888). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1885. Vol. 176 - Part II. Pp. 307-342. + 1887. Vol. 178 - Series A. pp. 471-526.‎

‎First appearance of these importent papers, containing the ideas which was the foundations for his later developed theory of the electron theory of metals.""In a series of papers (the two papers offered), and a book..., Thomson illustrated how to guess at a term in the Lagrangian from a consideration of known phenomena and how, from the term once admitted, to deduca the existence and magnitudes of other effects. he also showed that a time-average of the Lagrangian could play a part of the entropy in certain problems usually handled by the second law of thermodynamics. One of his most importent contributions in this line, was the development of of the notion, perhaps original with him, that electricity flows in much the same way in metals as in electrolytes. He was to return to this idea in founding the electron theory of metals....‎

‎On the Determination of the Number of Electrostatic Units in the Electromagnetic Unit of Electricity. Communicated by Lord Rayleigh. Received June 19, - Read June 21, 1883.‎

‎(London, Harrison and Sons, 1884). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1883. Vol. 174 - Part II. Pp. 707-721, textillustrations. Clean and fine.‎

‎First appearance (together with the 2 pp. extract in ""Proceedings"") of Thomsons first paper on the electrostatic unit of electricity.""In 1884 Lord Rayleigh,....resigned the Cavendish Professorship of Experimental Physics. Thomson had by then completed a few imperfect bits of laboratory work, including a determination, at Rayleigh's suggestion, of the ratio of the electrostatic to the electromagnetic units of electricity (the paper offered). Rayleigh had intended to collaborate in this work which, apart from its imperfection, was typical of the Cavendish during this area" but Thomson, unaware of many of the pitfalls, ran away with the project, published hastily, and gave his collegues, including the Professor, to doubt that he had any future in experimental physics. With these credits and his mathematics, he competed for the chair" much to his surprise, and to the great annoyance of some of his competitors, who included Fitzgerald, Glazenbrook, Larmor, reynolds, and Schuster, he was elected.""(DSB XIII, p. 365).‎

‎A determination of ""v"", the Ratio of the Electromagnetic Unit of Electricity to the Electrostatic Unit. Received March 12, - Read March 27, 1890.‎

‎(London, Harrison and Sons, 1891). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1890. Vol. 181 - A. Pp. 583-621, textillustrations. Clean and fine.‎

‎First appearance of this paper of Thomsons second paper on the electrostatic unit of electricity, in which he corrects some of the imperfections in his first paper on the subject ""On the Determination of the Number of Electrostatic Units in the Electromagnetic Unit of Electricity"" published 1884.‎

‎On the Vibrations of a Vortex Ring, and the Action upon each other of Two Vortices in a Perfect Fluid. Communicated by Lord Rayleigh. Received November 16, - Read December 8, 1881.‎

‎(London, Harrison and Sons, 1883). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1883. Vol. 173 - Part II. Pp. 493-521, textillustrations. Fine and clean.‎

‎First appearance of Thomson's second paper on the Vortex Atom. In 1882 he had won a prize with the subject ""a general investigation of the action upon each other of two closed vortices in a perfect incompressible fluid""The first attempt to construct a physical model of an atom was made by Lord Kelvin in 1867. The main point was that in an ideal fluid, a vortex line is always composed of the same particles, it remains unbroken, so it is ring-like.""In fact, the investigations of vortices, trying to match their properties with those of atoms, led to a much better understanding of the hydrodynamics of vortices - the constancy of the circulation around a vortex, for example, is known as Kelvin's law. In 1882 another Thomson, J. J., won a prize for an essay on vortex atoms, and how they might interact chemically. After that, though, interest began to wane - Kelvin himself began to doubt that his model really had much to do with atoms, and when the electron was discovered by J. J. in 1897, and was clearly a component of all atoms, different kinds of non-vortex atomic models evolved.""(Michael Fowler).‎

‎On the Mathematical Theory of Electricity in Equilibrium, On the Elementary Laws of Statical Electricity. - [ANTICIPATION OF THE QUADRANT ELECTROMETER THE PORTABLE ELECTROMETER, AND THE ABSOLUTE ELECTROMETER]‎

‎Cambridge, Macmillan and Co., 1846. 8vo. Bound with the original front wrapper in contemporary half calf with black and red title labels to spine with gilt lettering. In ""The Cambridge and Dublin Mathematical Journal"", Vol. I [1], (Being Vol. V [5], of the Cambridge Mathematical Journal), 1846. Bookplate pasted on to pasted down front free end-paper and library code written in hand to lower part of spine. Library cards in the back. A fine and clean copy. Pp. 75-96. [Entire volume: IV, 288, VIII pp.].‎

‎First English translation (and first translation in general) with 'considerable additions' (as stated on p. 75) of Thomson's highly influential paper in which he for the very first time occupies himself with - and anticipates the invention of - the quadrant electrometer, the portable electrometer, and the absolute electrometer. ""When resident in Paris he published in Lionville's Journal a paper [first publication of the present], in which he examined the experiments and deductions of Sir. W. Snow-Harris. This investigator had made an experimental examination of the fundamental laws of Coulomb. Thomson showed by pointing out the defects of Harris' electrometer that the results, instead of disproving these laws, actually confirmed them, so far as they went, from this examination dates Thomson's interest in electrometers, which led to the invention of the quadrant electrometer, the portable electrometer, and the absolute electrometer. "" (Lectures on Ten British Physicists of the Nineteenth Century, P. 57).""Thomson's extensive contact with Liouville led him to think more deeply about electrical theory. Liouville had heard of Faraday's work in electrostatics, or at least of the aspects in which Faraday claimed to have found that electrical induction occurs in ""curved lines."" The conception seemed to conflict with the action-at-a-distance approach, and Liouville asked Thomson to write a paper clarifying the differences between Faraday on the one hand and Coulomb and Poisson on the other. This request prompted Thomson to bring together ideas he had been turning over in his mind during the previous three years.From Thomson's new point of view, both the French approach to electrical theory and that of Faraday should consist only of sets of mathematical propositions about the ""distribution of electricity"" on conducting bodies. Of Coulomb, who had never written like Poisson of the ""thickness"" of the electrical layer, Thomson said that he had ""expressed his theory in such a manner that it can only be attacked in the way of proving his experimental results to be inaccurate."" He did not, therefore, believe that Coulomb's approach would stand or fall with the fate of the electrical fluid.Of course, it may be wondered how Thomson could have employed the phrase ""distribution of electricity"" without believing that some hypothetical entity is implicated. He did not think so, however. Instead, by 1845 he was drawing a distinction between a ""physical hypothesis"" and an elementary mathematical law."" By a physical hypothesis he meant an assumption concerning the physical existence of an unobservable entity like the electrical fluid or Faraday's contiguous dielectric particles. By an elementary mathematical law he meant a statement that can be directly applied in experiments because its referents are phenomenal entities and mathematical propositions about them. For example, when it is a question of the ""distribution of electricity"" a phrase that might appear in an ""elementary mathematical law,"" the actual subject concerns the effects produced when a proof-plane is applied to a point of an electrified conductor. The measure of those effects is the twist given to the torsion-bearing thread of an electrometer. Coulomb's laws, therefore, and also those aspects of Poisson's mathematical development of them that do not depend upon the conception of electricity as a physical fluid, were thus actually concise, mathematical laws applicable to the results of such experiments. They were not hypotheses concerning the nature of electricity."" (DSB)‎

‎A Mathematical Theory of Magnetism. Received June 21, - Read Juni 21, 1849. (+) A Mathematical Theory of Magnetism. Continuation of Part I. Received June 20, - Read June 20, 1850. (2 Papers).‎

‎(London, Richard Taylor, 1851). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1851 - Part I. Pp. 247-268 a. pp. 269-285.‎

‎First appearance of Lord Kelvin's most importent paper on magnetism.""In Paris, Joseph Liouville (1809-1882) encouraged Thomson's professional interest in Michael Faraday, whom Thomson knew and interacted with in London, by suggesting that the reconciliation of Faraday's electrostatic experimental results and the views of the French mathematicians, Ampère, Coulomb, Poisson, etc., could be a fertile field of mathematical endeavor. Intrigued by Liouville's suggestion Thomson wrote several papers over the next few years based on Faraday's experimental results, including: On a Mechanical Representation of Electric, Magnetic and Galvanic Forces (1847). On the Mathematical Theory of Electricity (1848). On the Mathematical Theory of Magnetism (1851). (The paper offered).After receiving Maxwell's request for guidance, Thomson shared with him the challenge presented by interpreting Faraday's written experimental results using mathematical formalism. Faraday's work on electricity and magnetism intrigued Maxwell and he began his research by reading Thomson's papers on the subject.""(Alan T. Williams). ‎

‎Electrodynamic Qualities of Metals. - Part VII. Effects of Stress on the Magnetization of Iron, Nickel, and Cobolt. Received May 9, - Read May 23, 1878.‎

‎(London, Harrison and Sons, 1880). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"", Vol. 1710 - Part I. Pp. 55-85, 12 plates and textillustrations.‎

‎First printing. In the paper Lord kelvin describes the effects of magnetization on different metals, reaching a notion of ""critical stress"".‎

‎Elements of a Mathematical Theory of Elasticity. Received April 16, - Read April 24, 1856.‎

‎(London, Taylor and Francis, 1856). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1856 - Vol. 146 - Part II. Pp. 481-498.‎

‎First edition of an importent paper on the elasticity of materials. ""The most importent contributions made to physics by Thomson during the first years of his work at Glasgow were in the field of thermodynamics, buthe also obtained a considerable amount of experimental data in strenght of materials and in the theory of elasticity. The result were later used in the preparation of articles which appeared in the ninth edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica and they became widely read and greatly valued.""(Timoshenko p. 263).Lord Kelvin ""was generally looked upon as the founder of British physics. Together with helmholtz in germany, he had been the foremost figure in transforming - indeed, in creating - the science of physics as it was known in 1900.""(DSB XIII, p. 387).‎

‎The Bakerian Lecture. - On the Electro-dynamic Qualities of Metals. Received February 28, - Read February 28, 1856.‎

‎(London, Richard Taylor and William Francis, 1856). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" Vol. 146 - Part III. Pp. 649-751 a. 58 textillustr. of experimental apparatus. Clean and fine.‎

‎First appearance of Lord kelvin's large account of his thermo-electric researches in which he found, that the Peltier-effect must be directly proportional to the absolute temperature in a circuit formed of two metals. ""This result, however, as Thomson well knew, was contradicted by the observations of Cumming, who had shown that when the temperature of the hot junction is gradually increased, the electromotive force rises to a maximum value and then decreases. The contradiction led Thomson to PREDICT THE EXISTANCE OF A HITHERTO UNRECOGNIZED THERMO-ELECTRIC PHENOMENON - namely, a reversible absorption of heat at places in the circuit other than the junctions.(Whittaker ""A History of the Theories of Aether & Electricity"", pp. 237-38).‎

‎On the Thermal Effects of Fluids in Motion. Part I-II (2 Papers).‎

‎London, Richard taylor and William Francis, 1853-54. 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1853, Vol. 143 and 1854, Vol. 144. With titlepages to vol. 143 a. 144. The papers: pp. 357-365 a. pp. 321-364, textillustrations. The first titlepage bears the name of P.G. Tait.‎

‎First printing of these importent papers in which the authors found the so-called Joule-Thomson effect which should be the founding technology in refrigeration. They showed that a gas expanding into vacuum without addition of external work undergo a change in temperature, in spite of the theoretical speculations. The temperature change occurs due to the internal work required to overcome the attractive forces between molecules.""The only substantial contribution to thermodnamics to which the joint names of Joule and Thomson, are attached belongs to an idea conceived by Thomson, who saw the possibility of analyzing the deviations of gas properties from the ideal behavior. In particular, a non-ideal gas, made to expand slowly through a porous plug (so as to approximate a specified mathematical condition—constant enthalpy), would in general undergo a cooling (essentially a transformation of atomic motion into work spent against the interatomic attractions). For the delicate test of this effect Thomson required Joule’s unsurpassed skill (1852). But the application of the Joule- Thomson effect to the technology of refrigeration belongs to a later stage in the development of thermodynamics.""(DSB).Peter Guthrie Tait (1831 - 1901) was a Scottish mathematical physicist, best known for the seminal energy physics textbook Treatise on Natural Philosophy, which he co-wrote with Kelvin, and his early investigations into knot theory, which contributed to the eventual formation of topology as a mathematical discipline. His name is known in graph theory mainly for Tait's conjecture. (His name on the first titlepage).Parkinson ""Breakthroughs"" 1852 C.‎

‎On the Thermal Effects of Fluids in Motion. Received June 15, - Read June 16, 1853.‎

‎(London, Richard Taylor and William Francis, 1853) 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1853, Vol. 143 - Part III. Pp. 357-365. Textillustrations. Clean and fine.‎

‎First appearance of this highly importent paper in the development of thermodynamics, describing the experiments leading to the discovery of the cooling effect when a gas is allowed to expand freely. This is the founding theory, later used in refrigeration.""The only substantial contribution to thermodynamics to which the joint names of Joule and Thomson are attached belongs to an idea conceived by Thomson, who saw the possibility of analyzing the deviations of gas properties from the ideal behavior. In particular a non-ideal gas, made to expand slowly through a porous plug so as to approximate a specified mathematical condition - constant enthalpy), would in general undergo cooling (essentially a transformation of atomic motion into work spent against the interatomic attractions)....But the appliocation of the Joule-Thomson effect to technology of refrigeration belongs to a later stage in the development of thermodynamics.""(DSB VII, p. 182).The Joule-Thomson effect or Joule-Kelvin effect describes the increase or decrease in the temperature of a real gas (as differentiated from an ideal gas) or a liquid when allowed to expand freely through a valve or other throttling device while kept insulated so that no heat is transferred to or from the fluid, and no external mechanical work is extracted from the fluid. The Joule-Thomson effect is an isenthalpic process, meaning that the enthalpy of the fluid is constant (i.e., does not change) during the process. It is named for James Prescott Joule and William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin who established the effect in 1852, following earlier work by Joule on Joule expansion in which a gas expands at constant internal energy. The Joule-Thomson effect is sometimes referred to as the Joule-Kelvin effect. Engineers often refer to it as simply the J-T effect. ‎

‎Problems & Solutions in Group Theory for Physicists.‎

‎ World Scientific Pub. Co. Inc. 2004, 225x150mm, X - 464Seiten, broschiert. Schönes Exemplar.‎

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