Stockholm: P.-A. Norstedt & Fils, 1905. Large 8vo. (246x166mm). Original printed wrappers.
First edition of Becquerel's Nobel Lecture.""Becquerel attended a session of the 'Académie des Sciences' in Paris on 20 January 1896, when Jules Henri Poincaré exhibited a series of radiographs sent to him by Röntgen. He, like others, observed that the emission of X-rays from the cathode tube was accompanied by strong phosphorescence of the glass. He therefore suspected that other forms of induced phosphorescence might be accompanied by other hithero unknown rays. In February 1896 Charles Henry reported to the 'Académie' his discovery of that phosphorescence could be induced in certain substances by exposure to sunlight. In the same month Becquerel reported that uranium was among these substances. Like all his other early papers on the subject, this appeared in the 'Comptes rendus' and was entitled 'Sur les Radiations Invisibles' émises par les Corps Phosphorescents'. In a second paper, 'Sur quelques Propriétés Nouvelles des Radiations Invisibles', he reported the astonishing fact that uranium was capable of fogging photographic plates even without previous exposure to sunlight and when the plates themselves were completely protected from ordinary light. In a third paper, March 1896, 'Sur les Radiations invisbles émises par les d'Uranium' Becquerel discarded phosphorescence completely and declared that the emanations from uranium constituded an entirely new and unsuspected property of matter, which in his seventh paper he named 'radioactivité'. He also found that the uranium rays discharged a gold-leaf electroscope, which is still used as one method of detecting radio-activity.Becquerel also discovered that the residue of pitchblende, a natural uranium oxide, after the uranium had been extracted from it was about four times as radio-active as uranium itself. He therefore suggested to the Curies the importance of further investigations of the ore, with the result that they discovered radium. He continued to work on the subject until 1903, in which year he collaborated with Pierre Curie in a paper, 'Action Physiologique des Rayons du Radium', which is the starting-point of the treatment of disease by radio-active substances. In that year he also published ... ('Recherches sur une Propriété Nouvelle de la Matière' - the offered item) ... which is his definitive work, containing a chronological narrative of his investigations, his mature conclusions and a bibliography of two hundred and fourteen treatises on radio-activity, dating from his own first paper in 1896. The rays emitted by uranium were named in his honour 'Becquerel' rays. They were later discovered to be a composite of three forms of emanation, distinguished by Rutherford (in 1919) as alpha, beta and gamma rays and identified thus: alpha as helium nuclei, beta as electrons, and gamma as powerful X-rays."" - (PMM).In 1903 Becquerel shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with the Curies ""in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by his discovery of spontaneous radioactivity"".
"BECQUEREL, EDMOND (ALEXANDRE-EDMUND). - BECQUEREL'S ""CONTINUING RAYS"" OR THE ""BECQUEREL PHENOMENA""
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(Paris, Bachelier), 1840. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome XI (No.18). Pp. (667-) 716. (Entire issue offered). Becquerel's paper:pp. 702-703. Some marginal brownspots, margins slightly soiled, light browning an creasing.
First printing of an importent paper in the history of photochemistry as he here discovered some effects of coloured rays of the solar spectrum.""Edmund Becquerel seems to be the first person to observe, in 1840 (in the paper offered), that the latent daguerreotype image which had been underexposed could be intensified if re-exposed to the yellow and red rays of the spectrum and then developed with mercury... Explaining this phenomenon, Becquerel called the yellow-red continuing rays (""rayon continuateurs"") in contrast to the primary rays, which exicited or produced the light image and which he called exiciting rays (""rayons excitateurs"").... They are dependent on the wave lenght of the light.""(Eder ""History of Photography"", pp. 265 ff.)""Becquerel was an early experimenter in photography. In 1840 he discovered that the silver halides, natively insensitive to red and yellow light, became sensitive to that part of the spectrum in proportion to their exposure to blue, violet and ultraviolet light, allowing Daguerreotypes and other photographic materials to be developed by bathing in strong red or yellow light rather than by chemical treatment. In practice this technique was rarely used."" (Wikipedia).
"BECQUEREL, HENRI., MARIE CURIE, PIERRE CURIE, GUSTAVE BÉMONT, EUGÈNE DEMARÇAY. - THE DISCOVERY OF RADIOACTIVITY, RADIUM & POLONIUM DISCOVERED.
Reference : 49475
(1896)
Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1896 a. 1898. 4to. Bound in 2 contemp. hcloth, spines gilt and with gilt lettering. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome 122 a. 127. - 1633 pp. + 1302 pp. Both with halftitle and title-page. Title-pages with a punched stamp to lower margin. The papers (tome 122:) pp. 420-421, 501-503, 559-564, 689-694, 762-767, 1086-1088. (Tome 127:) pp. 175-178, 1215-1217, 1218. Internally clean and fine.
First appearance of the landmark papers in which Becquerel documents his discovery of Radio-activity, PROMPTING THE NUCLEAR AGE, and the papers which the Curies announced the discoveries of the 2 elements Polonium and Radium.Becquerel was an expert in fluorescence and phosphorescence, continuing the work of his father and grandfather. Follwing the discovery of X-rays by Röntgen, Bexquerel investigated fluorescent materials to see if they also emitted X-rays. He exposed a fluorescent uranium salt, pechblende, to light and then placed it on a wrapped photographic plate.He found that a faint image was left on the plate, which he believed was due to the pichblende emitting the light it had absorbed as a more penetrating radiation.. However, by chace, he left a sample that had not been exposed to light on top of a photographic plate in a drawer. he noticed that the photographic plate also had a a faint image of the pechblende. After several chemical tests he concluded that these ""Becquerel rays"" were a property of atoms. He had, by chace, discovered radio-activity and prompted thee beginning of the nuclear age. He shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903 with Marie and Pierre Curie. The ""Becquerel Rays"" were later discovered to be a composite of three forms of emanation, distinguished by Rutherford as alpha, beta and gamma rays.Dibner: 163 (the later Mémoire from 1903) - PMM: 393 (1903- Mémoire) - Garrison & Morton: 2001 (only the first paper). - Magie ""A Sourve Book in Physics"" p. 610 ff. - Norman:157. ""The Curie's owned their success to an extremely sensitive electroscopic apparatus constructed by Pierre and his brother Jacques, which made possible a ""new method of chemical analysis based on the precise measurement of radium emitted, a method still in use.""(DSB).Becquerel's discovery of the radioactive properties of uranium (1896) inspired Marie and Pierre Curie to investigate radiation. They reported their researches in a series of papers from 1897 in the Comptes rendus. First they isolated a new substance about three hundred times as active as radium. This they called Polonium in honour of Marie's native Poland. A further examnination of the residue of Pitchblende after the removal of uranium and polonium disclosed residual radio-activity far greater than was possessed by either substance alone. To this material the name Radium was given. The radium was found to be about two million times as radio-active as uranium.Garrison & Morton: 2003. - Magie ""A Source Book in Physics"" p. 613 ff.
"BECQUEREL, HENRI - THE FIRST EVIDENCE OF A RADIOACTIVE TRANSFORMATION.
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(Paris, Gauthier-Villars), 1901. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome 133, No 24.. Pp. (969-) 1044. (Entire issue offered). Becquerel's paper: pp. 977-980.
First appearance of this historical paper in which Becquerel relates THE FIRST EVIDENCE OF A RADIOACTIVE TRANSFORMATION. ""Nothing that Becquerel subsequently accomplished (after his discovery of radioactivity in 1896) was as important as this discovery, by which he opened the way to nuclear physics. Nevertheless, there were two other occasions on which he stood directly on the path of history: when he identified electrons in the radiations of radium (1899 - 1900) and when he published the first evidence of a radioactive transformation (1901). (The paper offered).""(DSB).""To prove his supposition that the uranium would recover its activity, Becquerel set aside some of the inactive uranium solution and its radioactive barium sulfate precipitate for a period of 18 months. Late in 1901, he found that the uranium had completely regained its activity, whereas the barium sulfate precipitate had become completely inactive. Becquerel wrote: ""The loss of activity ... shows that the barium has not removed the essentially active and permanent part of the uranium. This fact constitutes, then, a strong presumption in favor of the existence of an activity peculiar to uranium, although it is not proved that the metal be not intimately united with another very active product.""
Paris, A. Lahure, 1881. Orig. clothbacked boards. (4),174 pp., textillustrations. Slightly brownspotted.
First edition. With papers By Ed. Becquerel (1) and Henri Becquerel (2) and others.
Paris, G. Masson, 1888. Bound with the original printed wrappers to all 4 issues (8 wrappers) in contemp. hcalf. Wear to top of spine. Light wear along edges. Two small stamps on verso of titlepage. In ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique"", 6. Series - Tome XIV. 576 pp. The entire volume offered. Becquerel's papers pp. 170-257 a. pp.257-279.
First printing of Henri Becquerel's doctorial thesis. Becquerel is known for his discovery of radioactivity, for which he received the Nobel Prize for physics jointly with the Curies in 1903, and for other contributions to that field which he made during the half-dozen years when he was most active in it.After studying infrared spectra ""He then studied the absorption of light in crystals (1886-88), particularly its dependence of the plane of polarization of the incident light and the direction of its propagation through crystal (the papers offered). With these researches Becquerel obtained his doctorate from the Faculty of Sciences of Paris (1888) and election to the Academy of Sciences (1889).""(DSB I, p.558).The volume has other notable papers by Chappuis et Riviere, E. Edlund, M. Berthelot (3 papers).
(Paris, Victor Masson et Fils, 1859). Without wrappers. In: ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique"", 3e Series - Tome 55, Cahier Janvier 1861. Pp. 5-128 a. 2 large folded engraved plates (emission-lines and the phosporoscope). The entire issue offered.
First appearance of Becquerel's first two pioneering studies on lluminiscent phenomena. ""It was in these studies that Becquerel first described the phosphoroscope, an instrument of his own invention consisting of a box sealed with two disks mounted on the same axis and pierced with holes arranged in such a way that light could not at any one time pass through the entire apparatus. By rapidly revolving these perforated disks, an observer could continously view substances in the dark only fractions of a second after they had been exposed to brilliant light"" and by regulating the speed of the revolution of the disks, one could measure the lenght of time that substances continued to glow after the exposure to light. Using this device, Becquerel was able to identify many new phosphorescent substances and to show that the phenomenon G.C. Stokes had named fluorescence in 1852 was in reality only phosphorescence of an extremely short duration....In this manner substances could be analyzed without physical or chemical alteration.""(DSB I, p. 556).Becquerel dis his most importent work in optics on the phenomena of luminescence. In the middle years of the nineteenth century, he virtually monopollized the significant discoveries made inthis field.(DSB).
"BECQUEREL, HENRI. - THE DISCOVERY OF RADIO-ACTIVITY - THE BEGINNING OF THE NUCLEAR AGE
Reference : 46854
(1896)
Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1896. 4to. Near contemp. full cloth. Spine gilt and with gilt lettering. Bookmark, ""The Chemists Club"" in gold on lower part of spine. Light wear along edges. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome 122 (Entire volume offered).1633 pp. The papers: 420-421, pp. 501-502, pp. 559-564, pp. 689-694, pp. 762-767 and pp. 1086-1088.
First appearance of the six landmark papers in which Becquerel documents his discovery of Radio-activity, PROMPTING THE NUCLEAR AGE.Becquerel was an expert in fluorescence and phosphorescence, continuing the work of his father and grandfather. Follwing the discovery of X-rays by Röntgen, Bexquerel investigated fluorescent materials to see if they also emitted X-rays. He exposed a fluorescent uranium salt, pechblende, to light and then placed it on a wrapped photographic plate.He found that a faint image was left on the plate, which he believed was due to the pichblende emitting the light it had absorbed as a more penetrating radiation.. However, by chace, he left a sample that had not been exposed to light on top of a photographic plate in a drawer. he noticed that the photographic plate also had a a faint image of the pechblende. After several chemical tests he concluded that these ""Becquerel rays"" were a property of atoms. He had, by chace, discovered radio-activity and prompted thee beginning of the nuclear age. He shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903 with Marie and Pierre Curie. The ""Becquerel Rays"" were later discovered to be a composite of three forms of emanation, distinguished by Rutherford as alpha, beta and gamma rays.Dibner: 163 (the later Mémoire from 1903) - PMM: 393 (1903- Mémoire) - Garrison & Morton: 2001 (only the first paper). - Magie ""A Sourve Book in Physics"" p. 610 ff. - Norman:157.
Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1896. 4to. Bound in contemporary half cloth with marbled boards. ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome 122 (Entire volume offered). Two title labels with gilt lettering to spine. Minor wear to extremities, upper title label with a few nicks. Library stamp to title page, otherwise a fine and clean copy. Pp. 420-421" Pp. 501-502 Pp. 559-564 Pp. 689-694 Pp. 762-767" Pp. 1086-1088.
First appearance of the six landmark papers in which Becquerel documents his discovery of Radio-activity, PROMPTING THE NUCLEAR AGE.Becquerel was an expert in fluorescence and phosphorescence, continuing the work of his father and grandfather. Follwing the discovery of X-rays by Röntgen, Bexquerel investigated fluorescent materials to see if they also emitted X-rays. He exposed a fluorescent uranium salt, pechblende, to light and then placed it on a wrapped photographic plate.He found that a faint image was left on the plate, which he believed was due to the pichblende emitting the light it had absorbed as a more penetrating radiation.. However, by chace, he left a sample that had not been exposed to light on top of a photographic plate in a drawer. he noticed that the photographic plate also had a a faint image of the pechblende. After several chemical tests he concluded that these ""Becquerel rays"" were a property of atoms. He had, by chace, discovered radio-activity and prompted thee beginning of the nuclear age. He shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903 with Marie and Pierre Curie. The ""Becquerel Rays"" were later discovered to be a composite of three forms of emanation, distinguished by Rutherford as alpha, beta and gamma rays.Dibner: 163 (the later Mémoire from 1903) - PMM: 393 (1903- Mémoire) - Garrison & Morton: 2001 (only the first paper). - Magie ""A Source Book in Physics"" p. 610 ff. - Norman:157.
(Paris, Bachelier), 1839. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome IX (No.22). Entire issue offered. Becquerel's paper: pp. 711-713.
First printing of this important paper, which together with Becquerel's paper ""Mémoire sur les effets èlectriques produits sous l'influence des rayons solaires"" and ""Recherches sur les effets de la radiation chimique de la lumière solaire, au moyen des courants électriques"", published the same year, marks the beginning of Solar-Cell-Energy, the first step in a long path to solar panels, and a technology of immense importence for humanity. In 1923 Albert Einstein received the Nobel Prize for his theories explaining the photoelectric effect (his 1905-paper).The ""photovoltaic effect"" is the basic physical process through which a solar cell converts sunlight into electricity. In 1839, nineteen-year-old Edmund Becquerel, a French experimental physicist, discovered the photovoltaic effect while experimenting with an electrolytic cell made up of two metal electrodes. Becquerel found that certain materials would produce small amounts of electric current when exposed to light.
P., Didot, 1855/1856; 3 VOLUMES in 8, reliés en demi-chagrin vert, dos ornés de caissons dorés (reliures de l'époque), T.1 : 16pp., 456pp., 3 PLANCHES dépliantes, T.2 : (2), 476pp., T.3 : (2), 412pp., 14 PLANCHES dépliantes, soit 17 PLANCHES DEPLIANTES, nombreuses figures dans le texte
---- EDITION ORIGINALE ---- TRES BEL EXEMPLAIRE AYANT APPARTENU AU CELEBRE CHIMISTE T.J. PELOUZE avec son nom gravé en lettres dorés en pied des volumes et ENVOI (au crayon) de A.E. BECQUEREL et A.C. BECQUEREL sur le page de faux-titre du tome 1 à Monsieur PELOUZE ---- "Dans les cours de physique appliquée dont nous sommes chargés, l'un au Muséum d'histoire naturelle, et l'autre au Conservatoire des arts et métiers, nous exposons avec de grands développements, chacun dans notre spécialité, toutes les applications de l'électricité et du magnétisme à la chimie, aux sciences physiques, aux arts et à l'industrie, en les renfermant pour ainsi dire dans un même cadre, à raison de nos relations fréquentes et de la conformité de nos vues sur cette partie de nos connaissances. D'après le désir qui nous a été témoigné de voir paraître le résumé de nos leçons, nous avons pensé qu'il serait plus utile de réunir en un seul ouvrage les différents sujets traités dans les parties des cours du Muséum et du Conservatoire relatives à l'électricité. C'est ce motif qui nous a engagé à faire paraître un nouveau traité d'électricité et de magnétisme avec les principales applications qui ont été imaginées jusqu'ici. Ce traité, dans lequel se trouvent résumés les travaux les plus récents, est donc tout à fait distinct du Traité d'électricité et de magnétisme, en sept volumes... (Préface des auteurs) ---- "Alexandre-Edmond Becquerel was the son of Antoine-César Becquerel, experimental physicist and professor at the Muséum d'histoire naturelle... His most important achievement in science were in electricity, magnetism and optics... His Traité d'électricité et de magnétisme, leurs applicatons aux sciences physiques, aux arts et à l'industrie, 3 vols (Paris 1855/1856) was written in collaboration with his father. From 1845 to 1855, Becquerel devoted most of his attention to the investigation of diamagnetism. Anxious to preserve the simplicity of Ampère's electrical theory of magnetic action, he was unwilling to accept Faraday's contention that diamagnetic phenomena were fundamentally different from those of ordinary magnetism. To explain the repulsion of certain substances by the poles of a magnet, he conceived an "archimedian law" of magnetic action, so called because of its resemblance to Archimedes hydrostatic principle : "A body placed away from a magnetic center is attracted toward that center with a force equal to the difference which exists between the specific magnetism of the body and that of the milieu in which it is immersed" (Traité d'électricité III p. 52)...". (DSB I pp. 555/556) - Partington IV ---- Electricité (principes généraux) - Electrochimie - magnétisme et électro-magnétisme - etc**336.M2
Paris, G. Masson, 1883. 8vo. Contemp. hcalf, raised bands, gilt spine. Light wear along edges. Small stamps on verso of titlepage. In: ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique"", 5e Series, Tome 30. 576 pp. and 3 folded engraved plates. (Entire volume offered). Becquerel's paper pp. 5-68 and 1 folded engraved plate.
First apperance of Becquerels early importent paper on the infrared spectra. Becquerel’s early research was almost exclusively optical. His first extensive investigations dealt with the rotation of plane-polarized light by magnetic fields. He turned next to infrared spectra (in the paper offered), making visual observations by means of the light released from certain phosphorescent crystals under infrared illumination. Becquerel is known for his discovery of radioactivity, for which he received the Nobel Prize for physics jointly with the Curies in 1903, and for other contributions to that field which he made during the halfdozen years when he was most active in it.
Paris, G. Masson, 1882. 8vo. Contemp. hcalf, raised bands, gilt spine. Light wear along edges. Small stamps on verso of titlepage. In: ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique"", 5e Series, Tome 27. 576 pp. and 5 folded engraved plates. (Entire volume offered). Becquerel's paper: pp. 312-347 and 1 folded engraved plate. Textillustrations. (apparatus).
First apperance of Becquerels first optical paper. Becquerel’s early research was almost exclusively optical. His first extensive investigations dealt with the rotation of plane-polarized light by magnetic fields (the paper offered). He turned next to infrared spectra (in the paper offered), making visual observations by means of the light released from certain phosphorescent crystals under infrared illumination. Becquerel is known for his discovery of radioactivity, for which he received the Nobel Prize for physics jointly with the Curies in 1903, and for other contributions to that field which he made during the halfdozen years when he was most active in it.
Paris, Frimin Didot Frères, 1856, gr. in-8vo, titre + 412 p., richement ill. de 190 figures + 14 planches dépl. gravées (Planches I à XIII et VIbis), cartonnage muet d’époque.
Alexandre-Edmond Becquerel was the son of Antoine-César Becquerel, experimental physicist and professor at the Muséum d'histoire naturelle... His most important achievement in science were in electricity, magnetism and optics... His Traité d'électricité et de magnétisme, leurs applicatons aux sciences physiques, aux arts et à l'industrie, 3 vols (Paris 1855/1856) was written in collaboration with his father. From 1845 to 1855, Becquerel devoted most of his attention to the investigation of diamagnetism. Anxious to preserve the simplicity of Ampère's electrical theory of magnetic action, he was unwilling to accept Faraday's contention that diamagnetic phenomena were fundamentally different from those of ordinary magnetism. To explain the repulsion of certain substances by the poles of a magnet, he conceived an archimedian law of magnetic action, so called because of its resemblance to Archimedes hydrostatic principle : A body placed away from a magnetic center is attracted toward that center with a force equal to the difference which exists between the specific magnetism of the body and that of the milieu in which it is immersed (Traité d'électricité III p. 52)... . (DSB I pp. 555/556) - Partington IV. Electricité (principes généraux) - Electrochimie - magnétisme et électro-magnétisme.
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Reference : 34634
(1823)
1 vol. in-8 cartonnage marbré de l'époque, Chez Crochard, Paris, 1823, 448 pp., avec 3 planches dépliantes. Contient notamment : Sur le Développement de l'électricité par la pression ; Lois de ce développement (Becquerel) - Sur les Fils très-fins de platine et d'acier ; et sur la Distribution du magnétisme libre dans ces derniers (Becquerel) - Sur la chambre claire (Camera lucida) (Amici) - Sur la compressibilité de l'eau (Oersted) - Expérience électro-magnétique (Oersted) - Extrait d'un Mémoire sur la Propagation du mouvement dans les fluides élastiques (Poisson) - Sur le multiplicateur électro-magnétique de M. Schweiger et sur quelques applications qu'on en a faites (Oersted) ; Notes sur l'exhalation et l'absorption de l'azote dans la Respiration (Edwards) ; Extrait d'un mémoire sur les phénomènes électro-dynamiques (Savary) ; Sur une Flamme qui se dégage d'une montagne de l'Asie mineure, près de Deliktash (l'ancienne Olympus de Strabon) ; Note sur les Eaux sulfureuses de Barèges, Cauterets et Saint-Sauveur (Longchamp) ; Sur les Dents et les Ossemens d'éléphant, de rhinocéros, d'hippopotame, d'ours, de tigre, d'hyène et de seize autres, trouvés, en 1821, au fond d'une caverne, à Kirkdale dans le Yorkshire (Buckland) - De l'argile plastique d'Auteuil - Sur quelques nouvelles expériences thermo-électriques faites par M.le Baron Fourier et M. Oersted - Extrait d'une lettre de M. Ampère à M. Faraday ; etc...
Rare exemplaire du tome 22 des "Annales de Chimie et de Physique". Etat satisfaisant (cartonnage lég. frotté avec un accroc avec mq. en queue, petite tache d'encre aux derniers ff. en tête, petite mouill. marginale aux premiers ff.).
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Reference : 34635
(1823)
1 vol. in-8 cartonnage marbré de l'époque, Chez Crochard, Paris, 1823, 448 pp., avec 5 planches hors texte dont 4 dépliantes. Contient notamment : Sur la Vitesse du Son (Poisson) ; Sur les Causes des différences que l'on observe dans les savons, sous le rapport de leur degré de dureté ou de mollesse et sous celui de leur odeur ; et sur un nouveau groupe d'acides organiques (Chevreul) ; Lettre de M. Léopold de Buch à M. A. de Humboldt renfermant le Tableau géologique de la partie méridionale du Tyrol ; Sur le Titane (H. Rose) ; Réponse de M. Fresnel à la lettre de M. Poisson ; Note sur le phénomène des Anneaux colorés (Fresnel ) ; Examen du Sang et de son action dans les divers phénomènes de la vie (Prévost et Dumas) ; Du Développement de l'électricité par le contact de deux portions d'un même métal, dans un état suffisamment inégal de température ; des piles voltaïques construites avec des fils d'un même métal et même avec un seul fil, et de quelques Effets électriques qui naissent dans les combinaisons chimiques (Becquerel) ; Nouveaux résultats électro-chimiques (Becquerel) ; Sur le Gisement du granite dans la vallée de Fiemme (Alex. de Humboldt et Léopold de Buch) ; etc...
Rare exemplaire du tome 23 des "Annales de Chimie et de Physique", contenant notamment l'important article de Léopold de Buch sur le "Tableau géologique de la partie méridionale du Tyrol", avec les belles planches dépliantes qui l'accompagnent. Etat très satisfaisant (cartonnage lég. frotté, notamment en dos).
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Reference : 34661
(1832)
1 vol. in-8 cartonnage marbré de l'époque, Chez Crochard, Paris, 1832, 448 pp. avec 2 planches dépliantes. Contient notamment : Observations pour servir à l'Histoire chimique de l'Opium (Dublanc) ; Mémoire sur la Force élastique de la vapeur du mercure à différentes températures (Avogadro) ; Sur une Classe particulière de Figures acoustiques, et sur certaines formes affectées par des groupes de particules sur des surfaces élastiques vibrantes (Faraday) ; Sur quelques Combinaisons du Cyanogène (Wohler) ; Sur la Formation de la Naphtaline par M. le docteur Reichenbach et sur sa composition par Ch. Oppermann ; Mémoire sur l'Acide manganique, l'Acide hypermanganique, l'Acide hyperchlorique et les Sels formés par ces acides (Mitscherlich) ; Considérations générales sur les Changemens qui s'opèrent dans l'état électrique des corps par l'action de la chaleur, du contact, du frottement et de diverses actions chimiques (Becquerel) ; Mémoire sur la Préparation du Cyanure de Potassium et les Produits de sa décomposition par l'eau (Geiger) ; Sur la composition de la Cafféine (Pfaff et Liebig) ; Recherches sur l'Endosmose et sur la cause physique de ce phénomène (Dutrochet) ; etc...
Rare exemplaire du tome 49 des "Annales de Chimie et de Physique" contenant notamment la première édition de l'article d'Avogadro "Mémoire sur la Force élastique de la vapeur du mercure à différentes températures" (pp.369-392 ; DSB, I, 350). Bon état
Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1907, , 3 grands feuillets volants repliés [650 x 520], imprimés au recto, Sous enveloppe à l'adresse postale de Becquerel, Épreuves d'auteur, remises par l'imprimeur en vue de la publication d'un article devenu très rare, "Sur les électrons", destiné à paraître dans le numéro 65 du Bulletin de la Société internationale des électriciens ; elle comprend de nombreuses corrections et additions de la main d'Henri Becquerel. Après sa découverte en 1896 de la radioactivité, et celle de l'électron par Thomson en 1897, Henri Becquerel parvint, en 1900, à démontrer que les rayons Beta, ont un rapport de charge à la masse très proche de ceux des rayons cathodiques, et donc, en 1902, que ses mêmes rayons sont en réalité des électrons. Les corrections d'auteur rectifient les coquilles et le style du texte, mais elles apportent aussi des modifications importantes de calcul et de mesure. En outre, on trouve aussi des notes marginales, au crayon de papier, ou sur des papiers contrecollés, qui interrogent le texte et certains de ses calculs. Très beau document autographe conservé dans son enveloppe de l'Imprimerie Gauthier-Villars et adressé à "Monsieur Becquerel, rue Dumont D'urville 6. Paris". Cachets "épreuve" apposé par la société d'imprimerie Gauthier-Villars dans l'angle supérieur gauche de chaque feuillet. Couverture rigide
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Paris, 1946, in-4, portrait, (8), 55, (3)pp, 10pl, broché, Portraits des 4 Becquerel et 6 pl. h.t. Jean Becquerel : La découverte de la radioactivité - le duc de Broglie : Les conséquences de la découverte de la radioactivité dans le domaine de la physique - Yves Le Grand : Les applications de la radioactivité à la physique du globe - Général Lamothe : La lignée des Becquerel - A. Strohl : Les applications de la radioactivité dans le domaine de la biologie et de la médecine portrait, (8), 55, (3)pp.,