‎Temps, espace, matière. Leçons sur la théorie de la relativité. Traduites sur la quatrième édition allemande par G. Juvet et R. Leroy‎

‎P., Blanchard, 1922, un volume in 8, broché, couverture imprimée (légèrement défraîchie), 8pp., 290pp.‎

‎PREMIERE EDITION FRANCAIS ---- "H. Weyl, the most universal mathematicians of his generation, had an important role in the development of mathematical physics, the field to which his most famous books, Raum, Zeit und Materie (1918), on the theory of relativity, and Gruppentheorie und Quantenmechanik, are devoted". (DSB XIV pp. 281/285)‎

‎Das Kontinuum. Kritische Untersuchungen über die Grundlagen der Analysis.‎

‎Leipzig, Veit & Comp., 1918. Uncut and unopened in orig. printed wrappers. A very small nick to upper part of endwrapper. IV,(1),83 pp. Fine and clean.‎

‎Scarce first edition. ""In his 1818 monograph ""Ds Kontinuum"" Hermann Weyl initiated a program for the arithmetical foundations of mathematics. In the years following, this was overshadowed by the foundational scemes of Hilbert's nitary consistency program and Brouwer's intuitionistic redevelopment of mathematics. In fact, nor long after his own venture, Weyl became a convert to Brouwerian intuitionism and critized his old teachers program. Over the years, though, he became more and more pessimistic about the practical possibilities of reworking mathematics along intuitionistic lines, and pointed to the value of his own early foundational works. Weyl's work ""Das Kontinuum"" has come to be recognized for its importence as the opening chapter in the actual development of predicative mathematics, whose extent has been plumbed both mathematically and logically since the 1960'ties."" (Salomon feferman)‎

‎Die heutige Erkenntnislage in der Mathematik.‎

‎Erlangen, Weltkreis-Verlag, 1926. Orig. printed wrappers. Offprint/Sonderdruck des Symposion heft 3. (1),32 pp. Owners name on top of titlepage.‎

‎First edition.‎

‎Die Idee der Riemannschen Fläche. (Mathematische Vorlesungen an der Universitat Göttingen, no. V).‎

‎Leipzig und Berlin, B.G. Teubner, 1913. Orig. green printed wrappers. Frontwrapper nearly loose but without loss. Backstrip faded. Very small nicks to spineends. IX,(1),169,(1) pp. + Publishers catalogue. Textillustrations. Internally clean and fine.‎

‎Scarce first edition. As privatdozent Hermann Weyl had given a course on Riemann's theory of functions" but instead of following his predecessors in their constant appeal to intuition for the definition and properties of Riemann surfaces, he set out to give to their theory the same kind of axiomatic and rigorous treatment that Hilbert had given to Euclidean geometry. Using Hilbert's idea of defining neighborhoods by a system of axioms, and influenced by Brouwer's clever application of Poincare's simplicial methods (which had just been published), he gave the first rigorous definition of a complex manifold of dimension 1 and a throughout treatment (without any appeal to intuition) of all the questions regarding orientation, homology, and fundamental groups of these manifolds. ""Die Idee der Riemannschen Fläche"" (1913) immediately became a classic and inspired all later developments of the theory of differential and complex manifolds.(J.Dieudonne in DSB).‎

‎Quantenmechanik und Gruppentheorie.‎

‎Berlin, Julius Springer, 1928. 8vo. Contemp. hcloth. Gilt lettering to spine. In: Zeitschrift für Physik, Vol. 46. VII,902 pp. (Entire volume offered). Weyl's paper: pp. 1-46. Clean and fine.‎

‎First printing of the paper in which Weyl developed the concept of continous groups by using matrix representations in dealing with the mathematical formalism of quantum theory.‎

‎Quantenmechanik und Gruppentheorie.‎

‎Berlin, Julius Springer, 1928. 8vo. Bound in contemporary half cloth with gilt lettering, In ""Zeitschrift für Physik"", Band 46, 1928. Entire issue offered. Two stamps to title page, otherwise fine. Pp. 1-46. [Entire volume: VII, 902 pp].‎

‎First printing of the paper in which Weyl developed the concept of continous groups by using matrix representations in dealing with the mathematical formalism of quantum theory.‎

‎Quantenmechanik und Gruppentheorie. - [EARLY ANALYSIS OF THE FOUNDATIONS OF QUANTUM MECHANICS]‎

‎Berlin, Julius Springer, 1927. 8vo. In contemporary half cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In ""Zeitschrift für Fhysik"", vol. 46. Entire volume offered. Library stamp to title page. Pp. 1-46. [Entire volume: VII, (1), 902 pp.].‎

‎First printing of Weyl's exceedingly important paper which initially did not attract much attention but ""its repercussion turned out to be remarkably strong in the long range"". (Scholz, Weyl Entering the ’New’ Quantum Mechanics Discourse , p. 14). In it Weyl put forth an analysis of the foundations of quantum mechanics.""Weyl's (1927) paper, referred to by Yang above, is entitled Quantenmechanik und Gruppentheorie (Quantum Mechanics and Group Theory). In it, Weyl provides an analysis of the foundations of quantum mechanics and he emphasizes the fundamental role Lie groups play in that theory. Weyl begins the paper by raising two questions: (1) how do I arrive at the self-adjoint operators, which represent a given quantity of a physical system whose constitution is known, and (2), what is the physical interpretation of these operators and which physical consequences can be derived from them? Weyl suggests that while the second question has been answered by von Neumann, the first question has not yet received a satisfactory answer, and Weyl proposes to provide one with the help of group theory."" (SEP)Weyl’s approach to quantization was so general that for decades to come it did not attract much attention of physicists. At the beginning it even attracted very few successor investigations inside mathematics and was not noticed in the foundation of QM discourse, which was exclusively shaped by the Hilbert and von Neumann view until the 1950s. Although the immediate reception of Weyl’s early contributions to QM until about 1927, in particular his (Weyl 1927), was very sparse, its repercussion turned out to be remarkably strong in the long range:""1. A first and immediate next step was made by Marshall Stone and John von Neumann. They both took up Weyl’s statement of a uniquely determined structure of irreducible unitary ray representations. The result of this work is (for finite n) the now famous Stone/von Neumann representation theorem.2. A second line of repercussions may be seen in that part of the work of E. Wigner and V. Bargmann, which dealt with unitary and semi-unitary ray representations. In particular Wigner’s now famous work (at the time among physicists completely neglected) on the irreducible unitary ray representations of the Poincar´e group (Wigner 1939) looks like a next step beyond Weyl’s non-relativistic quantum kinematics from 1927. 3. A third impact is clearly to be seen in George Mackeys’s work. Mackey expressedly took up Weyl’s perspective (Mackey 1949) and developed it into a broader program for the study of irreducible unitary representations of group extensions.4.Finally, Weyl quantization was taken up by mathematical physicists from the later 1960s onwards with the rise of deformation quantization (Pool 1966). Here the starting point was the idea to translate the operator product introduced by Weyl’s own quantization.The last two points lead straight into very recent developments of mathematical physics."" (Scholz, Weyl Entering the ’New’ Quantum Mechanics Discourse).‎

‎Raum, Zeit, Matiere. Vorlesungen über allgemeine Relativitätstheorie.‎

‎Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, Springer-Verlag, 1970 in-8vo, 338 S., mit 23 Abbildungen, Original-Broschüre.‎

‎Zur Gravitationstheorie.‎

‎Leipzig, Ambrosius Barth, 1917. 8vo. In full black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In ""Annalen der Physik"", Vierte Folge, Band 54. Entire volume offered. Library labels to front end papers and stamp to title page, otherwise fine and clean. Pp. 117-145. [Entire volume: (2), 626, VIII pp. + 3 plates.].‎

‎First appearance of Weyl's first paper on gravitation and Einstein's theory of relativity.‎

‎Eine Neue Erweiterung der Relativitätstheorie [Weyl] (+) Experimenteller Nachweis der Schwereänderung, die ein auf normal geformter Erdoberfläche in östlicher oder westlicker Richtung bewegter Körper durch diese Bewegung erleidet [Eötvös].‎

‎Leipzig, Ambrosius Barth, 1919. 8vo. In contemporary half cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In ""Annalen der Physik"", Vierte Folge, Band 59. Entire volume offered. Hinges weak a library labels pasted on the pasted down front free end paper. Stamp to title page, othrewise a fine copy. Pp. 101-133"" Pp. 743-752. [Entire volume: VII, (1), 760 pp.].‎

‎First printing of WEYL ambitious paper in which he used the Stoney units, named after the Irish physicist George Johnstone Stoney, to unify quantum processes and gravity thereby seeking to create a ""Unified Field Theory"". The paper appears to have inspired Dirac's fascination with the large number hypothesis.Also contain in this volume is the first appearance of EÖTVÖS' important paper in which he explains the eastward deflection of falling objects. In the paper, he also describes a device with which the effect can be demonstrated experimentally.The Eötvös effect is the change in perceived gravitational force caused by the change in centrifugal acceleration resulting from eastbound or westbound velocity. When moving eastbound, the object's angular velocity is increased (in addition to the earth's rotation), and thus the centrifugal force also increases, causing a perceived reduction in gravitational force. This phenomenon had been observed in the early 20th century on research ships on which gravity was measured" they noticed that measurements of g yielded smaller values when the ship went eastward, and larger ones when they went westward. These observations are mentioned by Eötvös in a paper in which he provides the explanation of the effect.‎

‎On the Figures obtained by strewing Sand on Vibrating Surfaces, commonly called Acoustic Figures. Received February 12, - Read March 14, 1833.‎

‎(London, Richard Taylor, 1833). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1833 - Part II. Pp. 593-633 and many tables with vibrating figs. Clean and fine.‎

‎First printing of this classic paper on acoustics.""Wheatstones interest in acoustics was basically inspired by his desire to understand properties of a tone, such as timbre, interms of vibration. During the fifteen years he worked on acoustics, he investigated the mechanical transmission of sound, visible demonstrations of vibrations, and properties of the vibrating air column...""(DSB XIV, p. 289).‎

‎Josiah Willard Giggs. The History of a Great Mind.‎

‎New Haven: Yale University Press, 1951. 8vo. Publishers full cloth. XII,264 pp.‎

‎Researches on the Tides. Sixth Series. On the Results of an extensive System of Tide Observations made on the Coasts of Europe and America in June 1835.‎

‎London, Richard Taylor, 1836. 4to. Contemp. hcloth. Spine with gilt lettering. Stamp on title-page. (2),pp.289-341 and 3 large folded maps, 1 folded plate. Offprint with own title-page from ""Philosophical Transactions, Part II. for 1836."" Inscribed by Whewell on top of title-page ""The Minister of Marine, denmark/ from/ The Author.""‎

‎First edition. The paper summarises Whewell's importent observations on the tides,‎

‎Dielectric breakdown of solids.‎

‎Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1951. Orig. full cloth. XV, 271 pp. Old inscription on flyleaf.‎

‎Stephen Hawking - A Life in Science‎

‎A Dutton Book Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1992 Book condition, Etat : Bon hardcover, editor's full black and brown clothes, no dust-jacket grand In-8 1 vol. - 315 pages‎

‎ 1st edition Contents, Chapitres : Contents, Preface, Acknowledgments, xi, Text, 304 pages - The day Galileo died - Classical cosmology - Going up - Doctors and doctorates - From Black Holes to the Big Bang - Marriage and fellowship - Singular solutions - The breakthrough years - When Black Holes explodes - The foothills of fame - Back to the beginning - Science superstardom - When the Universe has babies - A Brief History of Time - The end of physics ? - Hollywood, fame and fortune - References and index no dust-jacket, else fine copy, no markings‎

‎Essai théorique sur la Vaporisation. Méthode pour augmenter le rendement des générateurs à vapeur.‎

‎Troisième édition refondue et augmentée, 1 vol. in-8 br., H. Dunod et E. Pinat, Paris, 1909, VIII-73 pp.‎

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‎Bon état (couv. lég. frottée)‎

‎Etude théorique et pratique sur la vaporisation , méthode pour augmenter considérablement le rendement des générateurs à vapeur‎

‎Dunod Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1904 Book condition, Etat : Bon broché grand In-8 1 vol. - 76 pages‎

‎ 1ere édition Contents, Chapitres : partie théorique : phénomène de l'ébullition de l'eau - expériences industrielles en vue de la constatation de l'économie de combustible par l'emploi de la méthode Bez intérieur très frais - couverture empoussierée, manques dans le haut et le bas du dos, coins de pages cornés en début d'ouvrage‎

‎Annalen der Physik und Chemie 1847 - 11. December - 1897. Gustav Wiedemann zum Funfzigjährigen Doctorjubiläum gewidmet.‎

‎Berlin, J.A. Barth, 1897. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine with gilt lettering. Bound with orig. printed wrappers. Annalen der Physik und Chemie Bd. 63, 1897. No 13. A stamp on half-title and title-page. XVI,436 pp. (Entire volume offered).‎

‎Containing a large number of papers by famous scientists in first printings. E.g. P. Drude, H. jahn, G. Quincke, A. Föppl, F. Pockels, P. lenard, W. König, H.A. Lorentz, F. Braun, W. Ostwald, H.F. Weber, W. Voigt, W. Nerst, M. Wien, Lummer und pringsheim, Max Planck, F. Kohlrausch.‎

‎Die natürliche Magie, aus allerhand belustigenden und nützlichen Kunststücken bestehend, zusammengetragen von Johann Christian Wiegleb. Mit Kupfern. 19 Bde. + 20. Theil (= Bd. 20, allgemeines Register). Erster Band in dritte und vermehrte Auflage. ‎

‎Berlin und Stettin, Friedrich Nicolai, 1789-1805. Bound in 19 uniform contemp. hcalf. Gilt spines. Tome- and titlelabels with gilt lettering. Light wear to top of spine on 2 volumes. A paperlabel pasted on upper compartments. Stamps on title-pages. Complete with 241 folded engraved plates. In general fine and clean. A few minor brownspots. Scattered brownspots to volume 19/20.‎

‎The work deals mainly with the natural sciences, physics, chemistry, mathematics, optics, technology etc. etc.Poggendorff II,1320.‎

‎Erklärung des atomistischen Wesens des tropfbar-flüssigen Körperzustandes, und Bestätigung desselben durch die sogenannten Molecularbewegungen.‎

‎Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1863. Conemp. hcalf. 5 raised bands, gilt spine and gilt lettering to spine. A few scratches to spine. A small nich to middle of spine.Small stamp on verso of first -and general- titlepage. In: ""Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von J.C. Poggendorff"", Vierte Reihe Bd. 28, (=Poggendorff Bd. 118). Entire volume offered. X,644 pp. and 8 engraved plates. Wiener's paper: pp. 79-94.‎

‎First printing of this importent paper in the development of the atomic theory.The cause of the Brownian movement was ascribed by C. Wiener in 1863 to bombardment of the suspended particles by the molecules of the liquid. This was confirmed by Svedberg in 1906"" he found that the length of the path described agrees with that calculated from the kinetic theory by Einstein (1905) and Smoluchowski (1906).The volume contains further notable papers: G. KIRCHHOFF ""Zur Geschichte der Spectral-Analyse und der Analyse der Sonnenatmosphäre"". Pp. 94-111.L. LORENZ: ""Ueber die Theorie des Lichts"". Pp. 111-145. - Lorenz is well known for his theory of the electromagnetic nature of light, which he, independently of Maxwell, published in 1867.‎

‎Über die Differentialgleichungen der Elektrodynamik für bewegte Körper. I-II.‎

‎Leipzig, Ambrosius Barth, 1904. 8vo. In contemporary half calf with four raised bands and gilt lettering to spine. In ""Annalen der Physik"", Vierte Folge, Band 13. Entire volume offered. Stamp to title page. Wear to extremities. Internally fine and clean. Pp. 641-662" Pp. 663-668. [Entire volume: 1079, VIII pp. + 8 plates.].‎

‎First appearance of Wien's two papers on differential equations on the electrodynamics of moving bodies. ‎

‎Über die Differentialgleichungen der Elektrodynamik für bewegte Körper. I-II.‎

‎Leipzig, Ambrosius Barth, 1904. 8vo. In full black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In ""Annalen der Physik"", Vierte Folge, Band 13. Entire volume offered. Library labels to front end papers and stamp to title page, otherwise fine and clean. Pp. 641-662" Pp. 663-668. [Entire volume: 1079, VIII pp. + 8 plates.].‎

‎First appearance of Wien's two papers on differential equations on the electrodynamics of moving bodies. ‎

‎Über die Energie der Kathodenstrahlen im Verhaltnis zur Energie der Rontgen- und Sekundarstrahlen.‎

‎(Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1905). 8vo. No wrappers. Extracted from ""Annalen der Physik"" Vierte Folge. Bd. 18. Entire issue no. 15 offered. Pp. 991-1007. [Entire issue: Pp. 869-1084 + 6 folded plates.].‎

‎First appearance of Wien's paper on the energy of cathode rays in relation to the energy of the X-ray and secondary rays.‎

‎Ueber die Energievertheilung im Emissionsspectrum eines schwarzen Körpers. - [WIEN'S DISPLACEMENT LAW]‎

‎Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1896. 8vo. Contemporary half cloth with gilt title to spine. Band 58 of ""Annalen der Physik und Chemie"". Library stamp to verso of title-page. Light wear to edges and capitals and a damp-stain to the lower part of the last three leaves. Otherwise a clean and well preserved copy. The entire volume offered. Pp. 662-669. [Entire volume: VIII, 776 pp. + 6 folded plates].‎

‎First edition of Wilhelm Wien's highly influential paper on the phenomenon of radiation, also known as Wien's displacement law. Wien followed Ludwig Boltzmann's approach when incorporating electrodynamics and thermodynamics in investigating radiation and its characteristics. ""He argued that if a system reaches the same temperature by the increase of temperature or by the adiabatic compression of the volume containing heat radiation, it should yield the same energy distribution. Considering also the Doppler effect of the radiation, Wien arrived at an expression for energy distribution that states that the product of temperature and the wave length is a constant"". (Mathew Chandrankunnel, Philosophy of physics, 2000, 4 p).Wien's empirical observations functioned as a starting point for Max Planck who wanted prove the theoretical foundation for Wien's, wishing thus to justify the entropy law. Today Wien's approximation is also known as Wien-Planck law.This phenomenon was coined ""Wien's displacement law"" because the energy density curve is displaced correspondingly to the temperature"" it implies that the hotter an object is, the shorter the wavelength at which it will release most of its radiation. Wien's description of radiation awarded him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1911. Wien's constant is today used in a wide range of different aspects of physics, e.g. cosmic microwave background, and the determination of how much energy is emitted from a light bulb. Magie, ""A Source Book in Physics"". Pp. 597-600.Other papers of interest contained in the present volume:KOHLRAUSCH, F. Ueber Widerstandsmessungen von Electrolyten mit Wechselströmen durch das Dynamometer. Pp. 514-516.BOLTZMANN, L. Zur Energetik. Pp. 595-598.RYDBERG, J. J. Die Neuen Grundstoffe des Cleveïtgases. Pp. 674-679.WIEN, W. Ueber die auf einer schweren Flüssigkeit möglichen Wellen von sehr Höhe. Pp. 729-735.Etc.‎

‎Untersuchung über die electrische Entladung in verdünnten Gasen. (Erste - Zweite Abhandlung). (2 Papers).‎

‎Berlin, J.A. Barth, 1898, 1901 Without wrappers. In ""Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von G. Wiedemann."", Neue Folge, Bd. 65, No. 7. (Entire issues offered). Pp. 241-480. . And Vierte Folge, Bd. 5. Pp. 241-488, textillustr. Wien's paper pp. 440-452, textillustrations and pp. 421-435, textillustrations. Clean and fine. The second issue punched in inner margin after cords., no loss of text.‎

‎First appearance of Wien's importent paper in which he shows that the cathode rays are particles, that their velocity is about a third to that of light and he establish the ratio between the mass and the charge.In the paper are ""described the experiments by which Wien determined the properties of the canal rays. The firstpart of the paper conatins a description of observations on the cathode rays, made with a Lenard Tube, in which the cathode rays passed through an aluminium window into an extension of the tube where as high a rarefaction as possible was maintained. The magnetic and electrostatic deflexions of a narrow cathode stream were observed and Wien concludes that it is proved by his investigation that the cathode rays which pass through the windoww carry with them strong negative charges.""(Magie ""Souce Book in Physics"", p. 597 ff.).Wien was awarded the 1911 Nobel Prize for physics for his discoveries regarding laws governing the radiation of heat.‎