‎Die Idee der Relativitätstheorie. Dritte, verbesserte und ergänzte Auflage.‎

‎Wien, Speringer-Verlag, 1948. Orig. printed wrappers. V,168 pp.‎

‎Die Idee der Relativitätstheorie. Zweite durchges. u. verb. Aufl. Mit 8 Textabb.‎

‎Berlin, Springer, 1922. Orig. printed wrappers. (4),172 pp. A few pencilunderlinings and notes.‎

‎Selections and Reflections - The Legacy of Sir Lawrence Bragg‎

‎Science Reviews Limited Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1990 Book condition, Etat : Bon hardcover, editor's full blue clothes, no dust-jacket grand In-8 1 vol. - 318 pages‎

‎few black and white illustrations 1st edition Contents, Chapitres : Contents, Preface, List of Contributors, Portrait, x, Text, 308 pages - Sir William Lawrence Bragg, 1890-1971, est un physicien australien. Il a reçu conjointement avec son père, Sir William Henry Bragg, le prix Nobel de physique de 1915 « pour leurs travaux d'analyse des structures cristallines à l'aide des rayons X». no dust-jacket, else fine copy, no markings‎

‎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 .......................... ‎

‎The Life of Lord Kelvin - 2 Volumes (Complete - William Thomson)‎

‎Chelsea Publishing Company, New York Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1976 Book condition, Etat : Bon hardcover, editor's binding, full red clothes, no D.-J. as issued In-8 2 vol. - 1327 pages‎

‎Volume 1 : 1 plate in frontispiece (Lord Kelvin in 1897), 7 other plates (complete, plates I to XVI) and illustrations - Volume 2 : 1 plate in frontispiece (Lord Kelvin and his Compass), 7 other plates (complete, plates IX to XVI) and illustrations (complete of the 16 plates) Reprint 1976 of the 1910's Edition Contents, Chapitres : Volume 1. Foreword, Preface, Contents, List of plates, xx, Text, 584 pages (Pages 1 to 584) - Volume 2. Contents, List of plates, xi, Text, pages 585 to 1297 (712 pages) - Volume 1. Childhood and upbringing at Glasgow - Cambridge - Postgraduate studies at Paris and Petershouse - The Glasgow chair - The young professor - Thermodynamics - The laboratory - The Atlantic telegraph : Failure - Strenuous years - The Epoch-making treatise - The Atlantic telegraph : Success - Labour and sorrow - The geological controversy - Later telegraphic work : The siphon recorder - Volume 2. The Lalla Rookh, the British Association and the Hooper - In the Seventies - Navigation : The Compass and the Sounding Machine - Gyrostatics and Wave Motion - In the Eighties - The Baltimore Lectures - Gathering up the threads - The Peerage - The Julilee : Retirement - The great comprehensive theory - Views and opinions - The closing years - Appendices : List of distinctions, academic and other - Printed books, Scientific communications and addresses - List of patents - Index - William Thomson, mieux connu sous le nom de Lord Kelvin (Belfast, 26 juin 1824 - Largs, 17 décembre 1907), 1er baron Kelvin, est un physicien britannique d'origine irlandaise reconnu pour ses travaux en thermodynamique. Une des innovations de Kelvin est l'introduction d'un « zéro absolu » correspondant à l'absence absolue d'agitation thermique et de pression d'un gaz, dont il avait remarqué les variations liées selon un rapport linéaire. Il a laissé son nom à l'échelle de température, dite absolue, ou température « thermodynamique », mesurée en kelvins. Son titre de Lord Kelvin fait référence à la rivière du même nom, qui coule à proximité de son laboratoire à l'université de Glasgow. (source : Wikipedia) Complete set in 2 volumes of Lord Kelvin's Life by Silvanus P. Thompson, near fine copy, no markings, few foxings on the right side of the page but not inside, else fine copy, no markings, complete of the 16 plates of illustrations (high quality reprint, Chelsea)‎

‎"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).‎

‎Au delà de l'électron , traduit par R. Fric avec une préface de M. A. Cotton, dans la série des Actualités Scientifiques et Industrielles n° 211, Exposés de Physique Théorique, volume XIV, publiés sous la direction de Louis de Broglie (Au-delà de l'électron)‎

‎Hermann et Cie , Actualités Scientifiques et Industrielles Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1935 Book condition, Etat : Très Bon broché, sous couverture imprimée éditeur marron, titre en rouge et noir grand In-8 1 vol. - 30 pages‎

‎1 planche hors-texte avec 2 figures (photographies) et 2 autres figures dans le texte (graphiques), complet 1ere traduction en français, 1935 "Contents, Chapitres : Préface, 4 pages - avec 2 appendices : Propagation des ondes dans un milieu supra-dispersif - Trajectoire d'un électron sous l'action d'une force extérieure - Joseph John Thomson, né le 18 décembre 1856 et mort le 30 août 1940, est un physicien britannique. Il a découvert l'électron ainsi que les isotopes et a inventé la spectrométrie de masse ; il a analysé la propagation d'ondes guidées. Il a reçu le prix Nobel de physique de 1906 pour « ses recherches théoriques et expérimentales sur la conductivité électrique dans les gaz ». Ces recherches ont fourni les preuves de l'existence de l'électron. - En 1897, Thomson prouve expérimentalement l'existence des électrons, qui avait été prédite par George Johnstone Stoney en 1874. Cette découverte est le résultat d'une série d'expériences sur les rayons cathodiques. La même année, il énonce son modèle de l'atome, le modèle de plum pudding. - En 1906, Thomson montre que l'atome d'hydrogène ne contient qu'un électron. À cette époque certaines théories ont envisagé divers nombres d'électrons. En 1912, il étudie la composition des mélanges des ions positifs dits « ions anodiques ». Au cours de cette recherche, il mesure la déflexion d'un faisceau de néon ionisé (Ne+) qui passe à travers un champ magnétique ainsi qu'un champ électrique. Sur la plaque photographique qui lui sert comme détecteur, il observe deux taches (voir image) qui correspondent aux atomes de masses 20 et 22. Il conclut que le néon est constitué d'atomes de deux masses différentes ou isotopes. Cette séparation des atomes par leur masse est le premier exemple de la spectrométrie de masse, méthode qui est subséquemment mise au point par Francis William Aston (étudiant de Thomson) et par Arthur Jeffrey Dempster (source : Wikipedia)" 1 ligne de la préface de Cotton soulignée en rouge, sinon bel exemplaire, frais et propre‎

‎Electricité et matière , traduit de l'anglais par Maurice Solovine, préface de Paul Langevin (Conférences données à Yale en 1903-1904)‎

‎Gauthier-Villars et Cie, à Paris , Science et Civilisation, Exposés Scientifiques du Savoir Humain Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1922 Book condition, Etat : Bon broché, sous couverture imprimée éditeur crème In-8 1 vol. - 142 pages‎

‎19 figures dans le texte en noir, et 1 planche hors-txte en frontispice, portrait de Sir J.-J. Thomson 1ere traduction en français, 1922 "Contents, Chapitres : Préface de Paul Langevin (4 pages), avant-propos de J.-J. Thomson, ix, Texte, 133 pages - Représentation du champ électrique par des lignes de force - Masse électrique et masse liée - Effets produits par l'accélération des tubes de Faraday - La structure atomique de l'électricité - La constitution de l'atome - La radioactivité et les substances radioactives - Joseph John Thomson, né le 18 décembre 1856 et mort le 30 août 1940, est un physicien britannique. Il a découvert l'électron ainsi que les isotopes et a inventé la spectrométrie de masse ; il a analysé la propagation d'ondes guidées. Il a reçu le prix Nobel de physique de 1906 pour « ses recherches théoriques et expérimentales sur la conductivité électrique dans les gaz ». Ces recherches ont fourni les preuves de l'existence de l'électron. - NB : Il s'agit de conférences données à l'Université de Yale en mai 1903 - (A series of four lectures, given by Thomson on a visit to Princeton University in 1896, were subsequently published as Discharge of electricity through gases (1897). Thomson also presented a series of six lectures at Yale University in 1904 - cf : Wikipedia)." couverture propre et en très bon état, avec quelques rousseurs discrètes, intérieur sinon frais et propre, papier à peine jauni, cela reste un bel exemplaire, bien complet du portrait de Thomson en frontispice‎

‎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). ‎