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LIVENS, G.H.
The Theory of Electricity.
Cambridge, University Press, 1918. Royal8vo. Orig. full cloth. Spine with gilt lettering. Spine ends a bit frayed. Edges slightly rubbed. VI,(2),717 pp.
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Lorentz (Hendrik-Antoon) - Peter Zeeman and A.D. Fokker, ed.
Reference : 100361
(1935)
Hendrik Antoon Lorentz - Collected Papers - Volume VIII (8) , (Das Licht und die Struktur der Materie - The Radiation of Light - How can Atoms Radiate ? - Positive and Negative Electricity - Ergebnisse und Probleme der Elektronentheory - The Experimental Foundations of the Theory of Electricity - On Positive and Negative Electrons - The Methods of the Theory of Gases Extended to other Fields - Nouveaux résultats dans le domaine des théories moléculaires - Anwendung der kinetischen Theorien und Elektronenbewegung - Notes sur la théorie des électrons - Application de la théorie des électrons aux propriétés des métaux - The Motion of Electricity in Metals - Elektromagnetische Theorien physikalischer Erscheinungen - Clerk Maxwell's Electromagnetic Theory - Quelques remarques sur la théorie du magnétisme - La liquéfaction de l'hélium - La prévision scientifique - Physics in the New and Old World)
Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1935 Book condition, Etat : Bon hardcover, editor's binding, full brown printed clothes, no dust-jacket, as issued grand In-8 1 vol. - 423 pages
1st edition, 1935 Contents, Chapitres : Contents, vi, Text, 417 pages - Das Licht und die Struktur der Materie - The Radiation of Light - How can Atoms Radiate ? - Positive and Negative Electricity - Ergebnisse und Probleme der Elektronentheory - The Experimental Foundations of the Theory of Electricity - On Positive and Negative Electrons - The Methods of the Theory of Gases Extended to other Fields - Nouveaux résultats dans le domaine des théories moléculaires - Anwendung der kinetischen Theorien und Elektronenbewegung - Notes sur la théorie des électrons - Application de la théorie des électrons aux propriétés des métaux - The Motion of Electricity in Metals - Elektromagnetische Theorien physikalischer Erscheinungen - Clerk Maxwell's Electromagnetic Theory - Quelques remarques sur la théorie du magnétisme - La liquéfaction de l'hélium - La prévision scientifique - Physics in the New and Old World - Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, né le 18 juillet 1853 à Arnhem (Pays-Bas) et mort le 4 février 1928 à Haarlem (Pays-Bas) est un physicien néerlandais qui s'est illustré par ses travaux théoriques sur la nature de la lumière et la constitution de la matière. Il est co-lauréat avec Pieter Zeeman du prix Nobel de physique de 1902. - La majorité de ses travaux portèrent sur l'électromagnétisme. Il a laissé son nom aux transformations de Lorentz qui sont à la base de la théorie de la relativité restreinte. Elles ont été présentées par Lorentz dans le but d'expliquer les résultats de l'expérience de Michelson-Morley par une contraction réelle des longueurs dans le sens du mouvement, ce qui n'est d'ailleurs pas compatible avec l'interprétation moderne de la théorie de la relativité restreinte qui affirme seulement que la mesure d'une distance ou d'une durée dépend du référentiel dans lequel se fait cette mesure et n'a donc pas de caractère absolu. La théorie de Lorentz implique également l'existence d'un référentiel absolu, le seul où les lois de l'électromagnétisme seraient applicables et d'un milieu, l'éther, qui servirait de support à la propagation des ondes électromagnétiques et qui serait fixe dans ce référentiel absolu. Lorentz partagea, en 1902, le prix Nobel de physique avec Pieter Zeeman « en reconnaissance des extraordinaires services qu'ils ont rendus par leurs recherches sur l'influence du magnétisme sur les phénomènes radiatifs ». (source : Wikipedia) Fine copy, no markings, inside is fine and complete, various papers, on matter, electron, molecular theory, electromagnetism or magnetism, among others - Volume 8 only on 9
Aepinus (Franz Ulrich Theodor) - Home (R.W.), ed. - P.J. Connor, translation
Reference : 100514
(1979)
Aepinus's Essay on the Theory of Electricity and Magnetism - Introductory Monograph and Notes by R.W. Home, Translation by P.J. Connor
Princeton University Press Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1979 Book condition, Etat : Bon hardcover, editor's binding under editor's cream and blue dust-jacket grand In-8 1 vol. - 528 pages
14 text-figures in black with few fac-simile plates (complete) 1st edition, 1979 Contents, Chapitres : Contents, List of illustrations, Preface, Abbreviations, Chronology, xiv, Text, 514 pages - 1. Introduction : Biographical outline - The electrical background - Electricity in the Essay - Magnetism - A place in history - 2. An Essay on the Theory of Electricity and Magnetism : Dedication, Preface and Introduction - General principles of the theory of electricity and magnetism - Concerning electrical and magnetic attraction and repulsion - Concerning the communication of electricity and magnetism - Concerning Certain phenomena of bodies immersed in electric and magnetic vortices, and concerning the magnetism of the Earth - Dissertation 1. An explanation of a certain phenomenon of the Leyden Jar discovered by the celebrated Richmann - Dissertation 2. An explanation of a certain paradoxical magnetic phenomenon - Appendix : Annotated Bibliography of Aepinus's Published Writings - Bibliography and index - Franz Ulrich Theodor Aepinus (13 décembre 1724 - 10 août 1802) est un physicien allemand. Né à Rostock en Saxe, il est décédé à Dorpat en Livonie. - Il est descendant de Johannes Aepinus (1499-1553), théologien et controversiste de la Réforme protestante. Après avoir étudié la médecine pendant un temps, Franz Aepinus se consacre à la physique et aux mathématiques, disciplines dans lesquelles il gagne vite la reconnaissance en devenant membre de l'Académie de Berlin. En 1757 il s'établit à Saint-Pétersbourg comme membre l'Académie impériale des sciences et professeur de physique, fonctions qu'il occupe jusqu'à sa retraite en 1798. Il passe le reste de sa vie à Dorpat, où il meurt le 10 août 1802. Il bénéficia des faveurs spéciales de l'impératrice Catherine II qui le nomma tuteur de son fils Paul, et s'efforça avec succès d'établir des écoles normales sous direction à travers l'empire. Aepinus est cependant plus connu pour ses recherches, théoriques et expérimentales, en électricité et magnétisme. Son principal travail, Tentamen Theoriæ Electricitatis et Magnetismi, publié à Saint-Pétersbourg en 1759, fut la première tentative d'appliquer systématiquement les raisonnements mathématiques à ces sujets. Il publia également, en 1761, un traité, De distributione caloris per tellurem, et fut l'auteur de mémoires sur différents sujets en astronomie, mécanique, optique et mathématiques pures, tous conservés dans les journaux des sociétés savantes de Saint-Pétersbourg et Berlin. Sa discussion des effets de la parallaxe dans le transit d'une planète devant le disque solaire provoquèrent un grand intérêt en étant publiée (en 1764) entre les deux dates de transit de Vénus qui eurent lieu au xviiie siècle. (source : Wikipedia) discoloration of the spine of dust-jacket (sun-faded), else D.J. in rather fine condition, inside is fine, no markings, a very good copy of this first English edition of Aepinus's Essay on Electricity and Magnetism
The Theory of Electricity and Magnetism being Lectures on Mathematical Physics.
London, Macmillan and Co., 1897. Orig. full green cloth. Gilt spine. XII,576 pp., textillustr.
First edition.
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)
An Essay on Electricity, explaining the Principles of that useful Science and describing the Instruments, contrived either to illustrate the Theory, or render the Practice entertaining. To which is now added a Letter to the Author, from John Bitch, o...
London, R. Hindmars, 1792. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on top of spine. Stamps on title-page. XI,588 pp. and 5 large folded engraved plates. Internally clean. Frontispiece lacks. XI,588 pp. and 5 large folded engraved plates.
Poggendorff I, 10.
