‎FLAUBERT (Gustave), SAND (George) ‎
‎The Correspondence‎

‎Correspondence of Johannes Hevelius. Volume IV. The Correspondence with Stanislaw Lubieniecki‎

‎, Brepols, 2021 Hardback, 573 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:22 b/w, Language(s):English, Latin, French. ISBN 9782503571188.‎

‎Summary Stanislaw Lubieniecki (1623-1675) was a Polish nobleman and adherent to the Unitarian religion. After his coreligionists were expelled from Poland and Lithuania in 1658, he settled in Hamburg and in the neighbouring town of Altona. When a comet appared in the sky in late 1664, Lubieniecki entered into correspondence with about forty astronomers, mathematicians and other scholars - Giovanni Battista Riccioli, Athanasius Kircher, Otto von Guericke, Erasmus Bartholin and Isma l Boulliau, among others. Johannes Hevelius was one of the addressees of his letters, and their correspondence turned out to be long-lasting and abundant. In the years 1664-1673, they exchanged 92 letters (31 from Hevelius, 61 from Lubieniecki). This correspondence is the fourth most voluminous in the entire corpus of Hevelius's letters. Hevelius was a reputed astronomer, sometimes unwilling to share his observations and ideas, and Lubieniecki was an interested dilettante, striving to learn more about the comets of 1664 and 1665 and other astronomical phenomena as well as their significance. He wanted to collect as many accounts of contemporary and historical comets as possible, and he published them in his Theatrum cometicum. Even though at the same time Hevelius worked on his Cometographia, they both realized that their books touched upon different aspects of cometary studies: historical in the Theatrum cometicum and astronomical in Cometographia. This volume is a part of the edition of Johannes Hevelius's correspondence. The collection of letters, whose manuscripts are kept in the Library of the Paris Observatory, has not been published nor thoroughly studied yet. TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 1 : Stanislaw Lubieniecki and his Theatrum cometicum 1.1. The Life of Stanislaw Lubieniecki 1.2. Outline of Cometary Studies in Lubieniecki's Time 1.3. Theatrum cometicum 2 : The Hevelius-Lubieniecki Correspondence 2.1. The Number of Letters 2.2. Overview of the Correspondence 2.3. Hevelius's Input to Lubieniecki's Cometary Discussions 2.4. Overlap of Hevelius's and Lubieniecki's Networks 3 : Lubieniecki and the Heavens 3.1. Lubieniecki and the Theatrum cometicum in the Critical Literature 3.2. Lubieniecki and Astronomy 3.3. Lubieniecki and Astrology 3.4. Lubieniecki's Astronomical Correspondence 3.5. Letters in the Theatrum cometicum 4 : Editorial Principles CORRESPONDENCE APPENDICES Appendix 1. : Lubieniecki's Extract from Hevelius's Prodromus cometicus Appendix 2. : Lubieniecki's Extract from Hevelius's Descriptio cometae Appendix 3. : Lubieniecki's Opinion on the Meaning of Comets BIBLIOGRAPHY INDICES‎

‎The Absorption of Radiation by multiply periodic Orbits, and its relation to the Correspondence Principle and the Rayleigh-Jeans Law. Part I- (II). (I. Some Extensions of the Correspondence Principle. - II. Calculation of Absorption by multiply period...‎

‎Corning, N.Y., and Menasha, Wisc., The Physical Review, 1924. Royal8vo. Full buckram. Gilt lettering to spine. A stamp to top of titlepage and to front free endpaper. In: ""The Physical Review. A Journal of Experimental and theoretical Physics"", Vol. 24, Second Series. V,704 pp., textillustr. Van Vleck's papers: pp. 330-346 a. pp. 347-365. Internally clean and fine.‎

‎First appearance of Van Vleck's two importent papers in which he clarifies and extends the Principle of Correspondence.""Van Vleck made his greatest contribution to the old quantum theory in 1924, when he conceived his correspondence principle for absorption. He demonstrated that in the limit of high quantum numbers there would be a correspondence between absorption by classical, multiply periodic systems, and by their quantum analogues. His proof depended on interpreting net absorption in the quantum theory as the difference between gross absorption and stimulated emission of radiation (an interpretation prompted by a remark of Breit’s). Van Vleck was particularly pleased that his classical theory reproduced the quantum result without the need for stimulated emission, which he referred to as ""negative absorption."" (DSB).""Van Vleck’s theory of absorption by multiply periodic systems was consistent with the newly derived Kramers theory of dispersion, and it convinced Bohr that his correspondence principle applied not only to emission but also to absorption. Further, Van Vleck’s 1924 calculation made use of several of the ideas that Werner Heisenberg used in his matrix mechanics a year later. Van Vleck’s work, however, did not lead in the direction of matrix mechanics. His intent was to explain quantum phenomena (especially ""negative absorption"") in classical terms rather than to devise an internally consistent quantum theory."" (DSB).In 1977 he shared the Nobel Prize with Philip Anderson and N. F. Mott.Van der Waerden ""Sources of Quantum Mechanics"", pp. 203 ff.‎

‎Zur Frage der Polarisation der Strahlung in der Quantentheorie. - [TOWARDS QUANTUM THEORY - THE CORRESPONDENCE PRINCIPLE]‎

‎Braunschweig und Berlin, Vieweg & Sohn, Julius Springer, 1921. 8vo. Bound in Contemporary half cloth. Stamp on title-page. In ""Zeitschrift für Physik. Hrasg. von Karl Scheel"", vol. 6. [Bohr's paper:] pp. 1-9. [Entire volume: IV, 416 pp].‎

‎First edition of this seminal contribution to the correspondence principle. ""...in the hands of Bohr and his school the correspondence principle was like ""a magic wand that allowed the results of the classical wave theory to be of use for the quantum theory...but a costly price had to be paid. For taking resort to classical physics in order to establish quantum-theoretic predictions, or in other words, constructing a theory whose corroboration depends on premises which conflict with the substance of the theory, is of course a serious inconsistency from the logical point of view. Being fully aware of this difficulty, Bohr attempted repeatedly to show ""the correspondence principle must be regarded purely as a law of quantum theory, which can in no way diminish the contrast between the postulates and electrodynamic theory."" The earliest allusion to such a conception may perhaps be found as early as 1921 in a paper (the paper offered) in which Bohr briefly discussed the function of the principle...""(Max Jammer).The volume contains paper by famous phycisists such as E. Brody, H. Pauli, M. Born, W. Pauli Jr. and many others. ‎

‎Zur Frage der Polarisation der Strahlung in der Quantentheorie. - [TOWARDS QUANTUM THEORY - THE CORRESPONDENCE PRINCIPLE]‎

‎Braunschweig und Berlin, Vieweg & Sohn, Julius Springer, 1921. 8vo. Bound in contemporary half cloth. Crossed out stamp on title-page. In ""Zeitschrift für Physik. Hrasg. von Karl Scheel"", vol. 6. Entire volume offered. [Bohr's paper:] pp. 1-9. [Entire volume: IV, 416 pp].‎

‎First edition of this seminal contribution to the correspondence principle. ""...in the hands of Bohr and his school the correspondence principle was like ""a magic wand that allowed the results of the classical wave theory to be of use for the quantum theory...but a costly price had to be paid. For taking resort to classical physics in order to establish quantum-theoretic predictions, or in other words, constructing a theory whose corroboration depends on premises which conflict with the substance of the theory, is of course a serious inconsistency from the logical point of view. Being fully aware of this difficulty, Bohr attempted repeatedly to show ""the correspondence principle must be regarded purely as a law of quantum theory, which can in no way diminish the contrast between the postulates and electrodynamic theory."" The earliest allusion to such a conception may perhaps be found as early as 1921 in a paper (the paper offered) in which Bohr briefly discussed the function of the principle...""(Jammer).The volume contains paper by famous phycisists such as E. Brody, H. Pauli, M. Born, W. Pauli Jr. and many others. ‎

‎"Voltaire's Correspondence, edited by Theodore Besterman Genèse, Institut et musée Voltaire, 1953-1965, soit 107 volumes (complet), in-8°, broché (softcover), sur papier vergé(laid paper), intérieur bien frais (very clean inside), quelques couverture légèrement défraîchies. Texte des lettres en français, avec notes et commentaires en anglais. Travail monumental et ruineux fourni par Th. Besterman pour arriver à rassembler dans cette belle collection la grande partie de la correspondance de Voltaire de son vivant. ""M. Besterman s'est efforcé de servir l'érudit sans incommoder le plaisir du simple lecteur. Les notes indispensables sont donc présentées sous quatre rubriques, manuscrits, éditions, textes, commentaires. Chaque volume contient une table chronologique des lettres, une table des noms des correspondants, un index des abréviations bibliographiques, une clef des pseudonymes et des surnoms utilisés dans la correspondance, une table de concordance avec l'édition Moland."" ""Mr. Besterman has endeavored to serve the scholar without disturbing the reader's pleasure, so the essential notes are presented under four headings, manuscripts, editions, texts, commentaries, and each volume contains a chronological table of letters, the names of correspondents, an index of bibliographic abbreviations, a key of pseudonyms and nicknames used in correspondence, a table of concordance with the edition Moland Regroupant 18162 lettres de Voltaire à plus de 1400 correspondants. Le vol. C est une bibliographie de la liste des correspondances des manuscrits cités dans les notes. Les 7 derniers volumes correspondent à l'index général. 18162 letters from Voltaire's correspondence. Vol. C is a bibliography of the correspondence list of manuscripts quoted in the notes. The 7 last vol. are general index Les envois hors de l'union européenne & les DOM-TOM sont payants. Merci de me contacter avant d'acheter cet ensemble de plus de 70 Kgs, afin que je vous informe du montant des frais de port."‎