‎Max Planck zur Feier seines 60. Geburtstages.‎

‎Berlin, Julius Springer, 1918. 4to. Original printed yellow wrappers. In: ""Die Naturwissenschaften"", Sechster Jahrgang. Heft 17. 26. April 1918.Portrait of Max Planck. Small piece of paper lacking (2 cm2) of left margin of front wrapper and first 3 leaves, not affecting text. Pp. (193-) 263. The complete issue offered.‎

‎With first printings of importent papers by A. Sommerfeld ""MaxPlanck zum sechzigsten Geburtstage"", Max v. laue ""Thermodynamik und Kohärenz"", W. Nerst ""Quantentheorie und neuer Wärmesatz"", Smoluchowski ""Über den begriff des Zufalls und den Ursprung der Wahrscheinlichkeitsgesetze in der Physik"" and also papers by Paul S. Epstein, Fritz Reiche, W. Wien.‎

‎Positivismus und Reale Aussenwelt. Vortrag, gehalten am 12.November 1930 im Harnack-Haus der Kaiser Wilhelm-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften.‎

‎Leipzig, Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft, 1931. Small 8vo. Orig. printed wrappers. (4),35 pp.‎

‎Ueber das Princip der Vermehrung der Entropie. - [""PLANCK'S FIRST GREAT SCIENTIFIC ACCOMPLISHMENT"" (EINSTEIN)]‎

‎Leipzig, Barth, 1887. 8vo. Bound in contemporary half cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In ""Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von G. Wiedemann"", Neue Folge, Bd. XXXII"". Entire volume offered. Title page and first leaf of content page detached and with marginal tears. Otherwise a fine copy. Pp. 462-503. [Entire volume: VIII, 704 pp. + 5 folded plates].‎

‎First appearance of Planck's seminal paper on entropy carrying the general title ""On the principles of Increase of Entropy"" in which he applied the second law of thermodynamics to chemical problems. The paper is part of the 4 paper series on the subject.""His goal was, as he said in the first paper of the series, to carry further the ""grand generalization"" of Helmholtz, Josiah Willard Gibbs, and others: like the first principle of the mechanical heat theory, the second, the ""Carnot-Clausius"", principle applies not only to heat phenomena but to all kinds of physical and chemical phenomena"" and because the second principle applies not only to reversible processes but also to irreversible, or ""natural"", processes, it applies to all processes whatsoever...""(Jungnickel and McCormach ""Intellectual Mastery of Nature, vol. 2, pp. 52 ff.)What Einstein admired and called Planck's ""first great scientific discovery"" was the generality of its formulas which contain all that can be derived from pure thermodynamic principles. Einstein referred to the third paper in this series with the title ""Gesetze des Eintritts beliebiger thermodynamischer und chemischer Reactionen""‎

‎Ueber die Erregung von Electricität und Wärme in Elektrolyten.‎

‎Leipzig, Barth, 1910. 8vo. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine with gilt lettering. Spine slightly rubbed. A stamp to htitle and titlepage. In: ""Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von G. Wiedemann"", Vierte Folge, Bd. 39.. VIII,648 pp. (Entire volume offered). Planck's paper: pp. 161-187. Clean and fine.‎

‎First printing. - Akademie No. 17.Also with Röntgen ""Electrische Eigenschaften des Quarzes"", pp. 16-24, papers by Paschen, Ångström, Elster & Geitel. Drude ""Bestimmung der optischen Constanten der Metalle, pp. 481-554, Lenard etc.‎

‎Ueber die Natur des weissen Lichtes.‎

‎Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1902. 8vo. In contemporary half calf with gilt lettering and red title label to spine. In ""Annalen der Physik, Vierte Volge"", Band. 7. Entire volume offered. Spine lacking the upper 1 cm of spine. Pp. 390-400. [Entire volume: VIII, 948, (1) pp. + 3 plates].‎

‎First printing of Planck's paper on the nature of white light. ‎

‎Ueber die Natur des weissen Lichtes.‎

‎Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1902. 8vo. In later black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In ""Annalen der Physik, Vierte Volge"", Band. 7. Library plates pasted on to front free end paper and small library stamp to title page. Pp. 390-400. [Entire volume: VIII, 948, (1) pp. + 3 plates].‎

‎First printing of Planck's paper on the nature of white light. ‎

‎Ueber die Natur des weissen Lichtes.‎

‎Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1902. 8vo. In contemporary half calf with gilt lettering and red title label to spine. In ""Annalen der Physik, Vierte Volge"", Band. 7. Entire volume offered. Stamp to title page. Pp. 390-400. [Entire volume: VIII, 948, (1) pp. + 3 plates].‎

‎First printing of Planck's paper on the nature of white light. ‎

‎Ueber die von einem elliptisch schwingenden Ion emmittirte und absorbirte Energie. (Aus dem Jubelband für H.A. Lorentz, Arch. Néerl. p. 164. 1900, mitgetheilt vom Verfasser). (+) Ueber die Verteilung der Energie zwischen Aether und Materie. (Aus dem J...‎

‎(Leipzig, Barth), 1902. No wrappers. Punched in inner margins after cords. In: ""Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von G. Wiedemann"", Vierte Folge, Bd. 9., No. 11. Pp. 497-728. a. (Entire issue offered). Planck's papers: pp. 619-628 a. 629-641. Clean and fine.‎

‎First appearance in ""Annalen"" to which Planck submitted them in order to reach a wider audience. Here importent contributions to the clarification of the relation between entropy and probability, revising Boltzmann's distribution law of a given amount of energy.Akademie No 54 a. 56.‎

‎Zur Theorie der Wärmestrahlung.‎

‎Leipzig, Barth, 1910. 8vo. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine, titlelabel with gilt lettering. Spine a bit rubbed and lower part of hinge weakening. In: ""Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von G. Wiedemann"", Vierte Folge, Bd. 31.. VIII,1064 pp. and 6 plates. (Entire volume offered). Planck's paper: pp. 758-768. Internally clean and fine.‎

‎First printing of an importent paper in which Planck tries to ecplains some of the difficulties with the quantum theory by pointing to the central exchange of energy between matter and radient energy and criticising Jean's theory.""Planck explained his point of view in some detail in an article which he submitted (the paper offered) in January 1910... There he reviewed the main progress in radiation theory that had taken place since 1900, and also indicated his own attitude towards it. Two extreme points of view, he said, could be assumed. The most conservative way was raken by Jans, who had derived from the equations of classical mechanics and electrodynamics the classical radiation equation. Since the equation obviously disagreed with experiments, the necessity arose to find a way of modifying the equations of dynamics so as to include the existence of the quantum of action 'h'."" (Mehra & Rechenberg Vol. I:1, pp. 123 ff.).‎

‎Über die Grundlage der Lösungstheorie.‎

‎Leipzig, Barth, 1903. No wrappers. Punched in inner margins after cords. In: ""Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von G. Wiedemann"", Vierte Folge, Bd. 10., No. 2. Pp. 225-456 a. 1 folded plate. (Entire issue offered). Planck's paper: pp. 436-445.‎

‎First printing. Planck answers the critique of his thermodynamical theory set forewardby Mathias Cantor.Akademie No. 57.Also with Ferdinand Braun ""Einige versuche über Magnetisierung durch schnelle Schwingungen"", pp., 326-333, an importent paper in the development of radio communication.‎

‎Über die Natur der Wärmestrahlung.‎

‎Leipzig, Barth, 1924. 8vo. In full black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In ""Annalen der Physik"", Vol. 73, 1924. Entire volume offered. Library labels pasted on to front free end papers, small stamp to first page of contents. Otherwise fine and clean. Pp. 272-288. [Entire volume: VIII, 650 pp. + 4 plates.].‎

‎First appearance of Planck's paper on the Nature of thermal radiation. ‎

‎Initiations à la physique‎

‎Flammarion, coll. « Bibliothèque de philosophie scientifique » 1941 In-12 broché 19,4 cm sur 13. 278 pages. Couverure légeremet décirée interieur frais sinon état correct d’occasion.‎

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‎LECONS DE THERMODYNAMIQUE - AVEC UNE CONFERENCE SUR LE THEOREME DE NERNST ET L'HYPOTHESE DES QUANTA.‎

‎HERMANN. 1913. In-8. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. défraîchie, Coiffe en pied abîmée, Quelques rousseurs. 310 pages - Mouillure sur le 1er plat.. . . . Classification Dewey : 530-Physique‎

‎ Classification Dewey : 530-Physique‎

‎Autobiographie scientifique et derniers écrits. Les savants et le monde, collection dirigée par André George.‎

‎Paris, Albin Michel, 1960, in-8vo, 220 p., brochure originale.‎

‎Die Theorie des Sättigungsgesetzes.‎

‎Leipzig, Barth, 1881. 8vo. No wrappers. In: ""Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von G. Wiedemann"", Neue Folge, Bd. XIII. No. 7. With titlepage to Bd. XIII. Pp. (385-) 544 a. 1 plate. (Entire issue offered). Planck's paper: pp. 535-543. Stamp to titlepage and verso of. Clean and fine.‎

‎First apperance of Planck's first scientific paper, not to mention his dissertation and his habilitationsschrift (1880).Akademie No. 3.‎

‎Verdampfen, Schmeltzen und Sublimiren.‎

‎Leipzig, Barth, 1882. 8vo. Contemp. hcalf. Raised bands gilt spine with gilt lettering. Spine a bit rubbed. In: ""Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von G. Wiedemann"", Neue Folge, Bd. XV. VIII,680 pp. and 8 plates. (Entire volume offered). Planck's paper: pp. 446-475. Internally clean and fine. Stamp to titlepage and verso of.‎

‎First apperance of Planck's second scientific paper, not to mention his dissertation and his habilitationsschrift (1880).Akademie No. 4.The volume contains further importent papers by E. Goldstein (4 papers on Cathode-Rays), by Ångström, Kohlrausch etc.‎

‎Ueber das thermodynamische Gleichgewicht von Gasmengen.‎

‎Leipzig, Barth, 1883. 8vo. Contemp. hcalf. Raised bands gilt spine with gilt lettering. Spine a bit rubbed. In: ""Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von G. Wiedemann"", Neue Folge, Bd. XIX. VIII,956 pp. and 10 plates. (Entire volume offered). Planck's paper: pp. 358-378. Internally clean and fine. Stamp to titlepage and verso of.‎

‎First apperance of Planck's third scientific paper, not to mention his dissertation and his habilitationsschrift (1880). The paper deals with thermo-dynamic equilibrium of gas-mixtures.Akademie No. 5.The volume contains further importent papers by Heinrich Hertz, W.C. Röntgen, Kohlrausch, Elster & Geitel etc.‎

‎Vorlesungen über die Theorie der Wärmestrahlung. Fünfte (5.), abermals umgearbeitete Auflage.‎

‎Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1923, gr. in-8°, IX + 221 S., mit 6 Abbildungen, Original-Leinenband.‎

‎ Poggendorff III/1046-7 and IV/1172-3; Dictionary of Scientific Biography XI/7-17. ‎

‎Ueber irreversible Strahlungsvorgänge. (+) Nachtrag. (Beide:) (Für die Annalen bearbeitet vom Verfasser). (+) Bemerkungen zu einer Abhandlung über Thermodynamik des Hrn. K. Wesendonck. (+) Entropie und Temperatur strahlender Wärme.‎

‎Berlin, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1900 a. 1901. Bound in one contemp. hcalf. Raised bands, gilt spine. Spine a bit rubbed. (1900) and the issue (1901) unbound. In: ""Annalen der Physik"", Vierte Folge, Band 1. a. Bd. 6, 12. Heft. VIII, 792 pp. + 3 folded engraved plates.(Bd. 1). + Halftitle and Titlepage to Bd. 6 and pp. 661-876 a. 1 plate (Heft 12).(Entire volume offered and entire issue offered). Planck's papers: pp. 69-122" 621-624"719-737 a. pp. 818-831. A stamp to margins of halftitle and titlepages. Internally clean and fine.‎

‎First edition of these four fundamental and highly influential Planck-papers in which he defines his concept of entropy and heat radiation and hereby ANTICIPATES HIS FAMOUS SEMINAL PAPER OF 1900 which redefined physics and took it to the 20th century. - The first two papers ""Ueber irreversible Strahlungsvorgänge"" were rewritten for the ""Annalen"" and was first introduced in ""Sitzungsberichte d.k. Akad. Wissensch. zu Berlin"", 1897-1901.""By invoking the hypothesis of natural radiation Planck not only succeeded in obtaining a relation between the energy of the resonator and the intensity of radiation for a given wavelength or frequency, but also in defining the entropy of radiation by a proper expression such that the change of the total entropy was always a positive quantity"". (Mehra, Jagdish. The historical development of quantum theory, 2001, p. 36). These results found in the period 1894-00 culminated in the present paper ""Ueber irreversible Strahlungsvorgänge"" and for the first time incorporates the concept of natural radiation and made a purely electromagnetic definition of entropy and of temperature. ""Entropie und Temperatur strahlender Wärme"" is pivotal for understand how Planck reached his conclusions in ""Zur Theorie des Gesetzes der Energieverteilung im Normalspectrum"" and ""Ueber des Gesetzes der Energiverteilung im Normalspectrum"" (PMM 391) where by using the first two laws of thermodynamics first described by Rudolf Clausius and Ludwig Boltzmann Planck outlined the Quantum Hypothesis that energy from atom can be quantized. Planck established a connection between Wien's formula (Ueber die Energievertheilung im Emissionsspectrum eines schwarzen Körpers, 1896) and the analytic expression of the thermodynamic function. This paper represents a purely thermodynamic approach to the study of the properties of the radiation field which was fundamental in reaching the famous conclusions in his 1900- and 1901-paper. Akademie No. 41, 42, 43, 50.‎

‎Ueber irreversible Strahlungsvorgänge. (+) Nachtrag. (Beide:) (Für die Annalen bearbeitet vom Verfasser). (+) Bemerkungen zu einer Abhandlung über Thermodynamik des Hrn. K. Wesendonck.‎

‎Berlin, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1900. Contemp. hcloth. over marbled boards, gilt title to spine. Housed in a fine black morocco slicase, gilt borders on sides, spine with raised bands and gilt lettering. In: ""Annalen der Physik"", Vierte Folge, Band 1. VIII, 792 pp. + 3 folded engraved plates.(Entire volume offered). Planck's papers: pp. 69-122" 621-624"719-737. A very fine and clean copy. With the bookplate of Andras Gedeon on inside frontcover.‎

‎First edition of these fundamental and highly influential Planck-papers in which he defines his concept of entropy and heat radiation and hereby ANTICIPATES HIS FAMOUS SEMINAL PAPER OF 1900 which redefined physics and took it to the 20th century. - The first two papers ""Ueber irreversible Strahlungsvorgänge"" were rewritten for the ""Annalen"" and was first introduced in ""Sitzungsberichte d.k. Akad. Wissensch. zu Berlin"".""By invoking the hypothesis of natural radiation Planck not only succeeded in obtaining a relation between the energy of the resonator and the intensity of radiation for a given wavelength or frequency, but also in defining the entropy of radiation by a proper expression such that the change of the total entropy was always a positive quantity"". (Mehra, Jagdish. The historical development of quantum theory, 2001, p. 36). These results found in the period 1894-00 culminated in the present paper ""Ueber irreversible Strahlungsvorgänge"" and for the first time incorporates the concept of natural radiation and made a purely electromagnetic definition of entropy and of temperature.‎

‎Ueber irreversible Strahlungsvorgänge. (+) Nachtrag. (Beide:) (Für die Annalen bearbeitet vom Verfasser). (+) Bemerkungen zu einer Abhandlung über Thermodynamik des Hrn. K. Wesendonck.‎

‎Berlin, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1900. Later full buckram. Stamp on verso of titlepage. Narrow inner margins (binding style with cords in margin). In: ""Annalen der Physik"", Vierte Folge, Band 1. VIII, 792 pp. + 3 folded engraved plates.(Entire volume offered). Planck's papers: pp. 69-122" 621-624"719-737. Internally fine and clean.‎

‎First edition of these fundamental and highly influential Planck-papers in which he defines his concept of entropy and heat radiation and hereby ANTICIPATES HIS FAMOUS SEMINAL PAPER OF 1900 which redefined physics and took it to the 20th century. - The first two papers ""Ueber irreversible Strahlungsvorgänge"" were rewritten for the ""Annalen"" and was first introduced in ""Sitzungsberichte d.k. Akad. Wissensch. zu Berlin"".""By invoking the hypothesis of natural radiation Planck not only succeeded in obtaining a relation between the energy of the resonator and the intensity of radiation for a given wavelength or frequency, but also in defining the entropy of radiation by a proper expression such that the change of the total entropy was always a positive quantity"". (Mehra, Jagdish. The historical development of quantum theory, 2001, p. 36). These results found in the period 1894-00 culminated in the present paper ""Ueber irreversible Strahlungsvorgänge"" and for the first time incorporates the concept of natural radiation and made a purely electromagnetic definition of entropy and of temperature.‎

‎Über irreversible Strahlungsvorgänge. Erste Mittheilung. (Vorgetragen am 4 Februar: - gedruckt im Bericht vom gleichen Tage [St. VI]" - ausgegeben am 11 Februar.). [In: Mathematische und naturwissenschaftliche Mittheilungen aus den Sitzungsberichten d...‎

‎Berlin, 1897. 4to. Uncut and unopened in original printed wrappers. Fresh copy, fine and clean. Near mint. The entire ""Heft"" II: Pp. 35-81. Planck's paper pp.35-46.‎

‎Max Planck is considered to be the founder of the quantum theory and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918. ""Über irreversible Strahlungsvorgänge"" is a mathematical description of the electromagnetic radiation emitted from a black-body.""Über irreversible Strahlungsvorgänge was published in five parts in the period 1897-1901, the present volume being number 1.""With the Kirchhoff-Wien-Boltzmann work as a background, Max Planck began his attack on the black-body problem in 1897. He labored under the erroneous impression for some time that Wien's formula was the only one which harmonized with the second law of thermodynamics. The experiments on black-bodies due to Lummer and Pringsheim, Rubens and Kurlbaum forced him from that position."" (Planck, Max. Catalogue 258, Interlibrum Vaduz) ""I had already been struggling with the problem of the equilibrium of matter and radiation for some years without success"" I knew the problem is of fundamental significance for Physics."" The significance was unparallelled, when he in December 1900 delivered a paper entitled ""On the Theory of the Energy Distribution Law in the Normal Spectrum"" before the German Physical Society, which today is considered the birth of quantum physics. The present volume constitutes a precursor to this work. - Akademie No 33‎

‎Mesures hypsométriques dans les Alpes effectuées à l'aide du baromètre. Extrait des ‘Mémoires de la société de physique et d'histoire naturelle de Genève’, tome XV, 2ème partie.‎

‎Genève, Schuchardt, 1860, in-4to, 39 p., sans brochure.‎

‎Mémoire sur les phénomènes qui présente une masse liquide libre et soustraite à l'action de la pesanteur. Première partie‎

‎Bruxelles, Académie royale (impr.par Hayez) 1843 34pp.+ 1 planche hors-texte (avec rousseurs), publié dans et extrait de "Nouveaux mémoires de l'Académie Royale des sciences et belles-lettres de Bruxelles" Tome XVI (16), in-4, non coupé‎

‎Mémoire sur l'irradiation‎

‎Bruxelles, 1838 112pp.+ 1 planche dépliante, (Mémoire lu à la séance du 3 nov.1838), publié dans et extrait de "Nouveaux mémoires de l'Académie Royale des sciences et belles-lettres de Bruxelles" Tome XI (11, 1838), in-4‎