"BROGLIE (DEBROGLIE), LOUIS de. - DISCOVERY OF THE WAVE THEORY OF MATTER AND CREATION OF WAVE-MECHANICS.
Reference : 46949
(1923)
Paris, Gauthier-Villars et Cie, 1923. 4to. Bound in 2 contemp. full cloth. Spines gilt and with gilt lettering. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome 177. With htitle a. titlepage. 1513 pp. (Entire volume offered). De Broglie's papers: pp. 507-510, pp. 548-551 a. pp. 630-32. Clean and fine. A stamp to verso of titlepage.
First edition of these papers which ESTABLISHED A NEW ERA IN PHYSICS by introducing the epochal new principle that particle-wave duality should apply not only to radiation but also to matter and thus CREATING QUANTUM MECHANICS. These 3 papers were extended to form his doctoral thesis of 1924 ""Recherches sur la Théorie des Quanta.""De Broglie relates ""After long reflection in solitude and meditation, I suddenly had the idea, during the year 1923, that the discovery made by Einstein in 1905 should be generalized by extending it to all material particles and notably to electrons"" (Preface to his PhD thesis 1924).""He made the leap in his September 10, 1923, paper: E=hv should hold not only for photons but also for electrons, to which he assigns a 'fictitious associated wave'. In his September 24 paper, he indicated the direction in which one 'should seek experimental confirmations of our ideas': a stream of electrons traversing an aperture whose dimensions are small compared with the wavelenght of the electron waves 'should show diffraction phenomena' .""(Pais ""Subtle is the Lord"", pp. 425-436).In the third paper (October 8) he discusses ""The interplay between the propagation of the particle and of the waves could be expressed in more formal terms as an identity between the fundamental variational principles of Pierre de Fermat (rays), and Pierre Louis Maupertuis (particles) as de Broglie discussed it further in his last communication . Therein he also considered some thermodynamic consequences of his generalized wave-particle duality. He showed in particular how one could, using Lord Rayleigh’s 1900 formula for the number of stationary modes for phase waves, obtain Planck’s division of the mechanical phase space into quantum cells.Louis de Broglie achieved a worldwide reputation for his discovery of the wave theory of matter, for which he received the Nobel Prize for physics in 1929. His work was extended into a full-fledged wave mechanics by Erwin Schrödinger and thus contributed to the creation of quantum mechanics. After an early attempt to propose a deterministic interpretation of his theory, de Broglie joined the Copenhagen school’s mainstream noncausal interpretation of the quantum theory.""(DSB).""This idea [i.e. de Broglie's that matter might behave as waves] was tested and confirmed by Davisson and Germer in 1927... Thus the duality of both light and matter had been established, and physicists had to come to terms with fundamental particles which defied simple theories and demanded two sets of 'complementary' descriptions, each applicable under certain circumstances, but incompatible with one another."" (Printing and the Mind of Man, 417).
"BROGLIE (DEBROGLIE), LOUIS de. - COINING THE TERMS 'ANTIPARTICLE' AND 'ANTINEUTRINO'.
Reference : 48952
(1934)
(Paris, Gauthier-Villars), 1934. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", tome 198, No 2. Pp. (129-) 212. (Entire issue offered). De Broglie's paper: pp. 135-138. A stamp to the first page. Disbound.
First apperance of de Broglie's importent paper on antiparticles and the Neutrino of light. The antiparticle having the same mass as another but opposite values for its other properties.""In a communication dated January 8, 1934 (the paper offered)... de broglie stated that this new particle is an 'antiparticle which is related to (the neutrino) like the positive electron to the negative electron in the whole theory of Dirac'. In this note the terms 'antiparticle' and 'antineutrino' enter physics for the first time.""(Pais in ""Inward Bound"", p. 418).
Albin Michel, Science d'aujourd'hui 1945 In-8 1 vol. broche - 164 pp. bon état, avec les 12 planches ht annonçées,:électricité (discontinue) - théorie des électrons - Quanta de Planck - Lumière, radiation, ondes et protons - mécanique ondulatoire et défraction des éléments - Heisenberg
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ROUSSEAU - GUINGUENE (Pierre-Louis), BROGLIE (Charles Louis Victor de)
Reference : 39014
(1791)
1791 In-8, broché, couverture de papier moderne, 16 p. (dern. p. bl.) Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, 1791.
Edition originale. En août 1791, le journaliste et écrivain Pierre-Louis Ginguené rédigea une pétition visant à transférer les cendres de Jean-Jacques Rousseau au Panthéon.Soutenue par 300 signataires, dont les noms figurent sur ce document, cette demande fut portée par deux délégations: l'une composée de Parisiens et l'autre dhabitants de Montmorency, ville où Rousseau avait autrefois résidé. Malgré cet élan, le projet demeura en suspens jusqu'à ce que Thérèse Levasseur, veuve de Rousseau, intervienne auprès de la Convention nationale le 11 avril 1794. Les troubles de la Terreur retardèrent néanmoins la panthéonisation, qui n'eut lieu que le 11 octobre 1794.(Conlon, Rousseau, 871. Martin & Walter, 14883). Très bon exemplaire, très frais.
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Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, 1790 in-8, 8 pp., dérelié.
Projet de décret présenté par M. de Broglie, sur le déplacement du Régiment de Languedoc de la place de Montauban, où il était stationné depuis plus de six ans, et sur l'effervescence locale que cette mesure produisit. L'auteur était député de Colmar.Martin & Walter, 5348. - - VENTE PAR CORRESPONDANCE UNIQUEMENT
[FRONDE PARLEMENTAIRE - TOULOUSE] BROGLIE (Charles-Louis-Victor de)
Reference : 139952
Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, s.d. (1790) in-8, 7 pp., dérelié. Petite déchirure sans manque.
Réplique cinglante à la fronde du Parlement de Toulouse. L'auteur annonce des poursuites contre les rebelles.Martin et Walter, 5349. - - VENTE PAR CORRESPONDANCE UNIQUEMENT
Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, s.d. (1791) in-8, 19 pp., dérelié.
L'auteur était alors député du Haut-Rhin.Martin et Walter, 5351. - - VENTE PAR CORRESPONDANCE UNIQUEMENT
"BROGLIE (DE BROGLIE), LOUIS DE . - DISCOVERY OF THE WAVE THEORY OF MATTER AND CREATION OF WAVE-MECHANICS
Reference : 49718
(1923)
Paris, Gauthier-Villars et Cie, 1923. 4to. Bound in one contemp. full buckram. Spines gilt and with gilt lettering. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome 177. Bound with orig. printed front-wrapper to No. 1, half-title and title-page to vol. 177. 1513 pp. (Entire volume offered). De Broglie's papers: pp. 507-510, pp. 548-551 a. pp. 630-32. Clean and fine. A punched stamp on foot of title-page.
First edition of these papers which ESTABLISHED A NEW ERA IN PHYSICS by introducing the epochal new principle that particle-wave duality should apply not only to radiation but also to matter and thus CREATING QUANTUM MECHANICS. These 3 papers were extended to form his doctoral thesis of 1924 ""Recherches sur la Théorie des Quanta.""De Broglie relates ""After long reflection in solitude and meditation, I suddenly had the idea, during the year 1923, that the discovery made by Einstein in 1905 should be generalized by extending it to all material particles and notably to electrons"" (Preface to his PhD thesis 1924).""He made the leap in his September 10, 1923, paper: E=hv should hold not only for photons but also for electrons, to which he assigns a 'fictitious associated wave'. In his September 24 paper, he indicated the direction in which one 'should seek experimental confirmations of our ideas': a stream of electrons traversing an aperture whose dimensions are small compared with the wavelenght of the electron waves 'should show diffraction phenomena' .""(Pais ""Subtle is the Lord"", pp. 425-436).In the third paper (October 8) he discusses ""The interplay between the propagation of the particle and of the waves could be expressed in more formal terms as an identity between the fundamental variational principles of Pierre de Fermat (rays), and Pierre Louis Maupertuis (particles) as de Broglie discussed it further in his last communication . Therein he also considered some thermodynamic consequences of his generalized wave-particle duality. He showed in particular how one could, using Lord Rayleigh’s 1900 formula for the number of stationary modes for phase waves, obtain Planck’s division of the mechanical phase space into quantum cells.Louis de Broglie achieved a worldwide reputation for his discovery of the wave theory of matter, for which he received the Nobel Prize for physics in 1929. His work was extended into a full-fledged wave mechanics by Erwin Schrödinger and thus contributed to the creation of quantum mechanics. After an early attempt to propose a deterministic interpretation of his theory, de Broglie joined the Copenhagen school’s mainstream noncausal interpretation of the quantum theory.""(DSB).""This idea [i.e. de Broglie's that matter might behave as waves] was tested and confirmed by Davisson and Germer in 1927... Thus the duality of both light and matter had been established, and physicists had to come to terms with fundamental particles which defied simple theories and demanded two sets of 'complementary' descriptions, each applicable under certain circumstances, but incompatible with one another."" (Printing and the Mind of Man, 417).
"BROGLIE, LOUIS de. - DISCOVERY OF THE WAVE THEORY OF MATTER AND CREATION OF WAVE-MECHANICS.
Reference : 46950
(1924)
London, Taylor and Francis, 1924. Later full buckram, gilt lettering to spine. In: Philosophical Magazine conducted by Oliver Joseph Lodge etc."", Vol. 47. - Sixth Series. VIII,1168 pp. and 8 plates. (Entire volume offered). De Broglie's paper: pp. 446-458. Internally clean and fine.
First English version of the papers which ESTABLISHED A NEW ERA IN PHYSICS by introducing the epochal new principle that particle-wave duality should apply not only to radiation but also to matter and thus CREATING QUANTUM MECHANICS. The English paper is a translation of de Broglie's 3 ""Notes "" which he published in ""Comptes Rendus"" in September and October 1923 (Ondes et quanta. - Quanta de lumière, diffraction et interférences. - Les quanta, la théorie cinétique des gaz et le principe de Fermat). These 3 papers were extended to form his doctoral thesis of 1924 ""Recherches sur la Théorie des Quanta."" - This English edition (of the papers) was published before his thesis of 1924 as the paper is dated October 1, 1923, and published here in the Februar issue of Philosophical Magazine, months before the thesis.The English version contains furthermore an addition, a postscript, which contains a generalization of the theory which is consistent with the special theory of relativity, and NOT published in ""Comptes Rendues"" in 1923.With the three communications to the Academy of Sciences (the 3 Comptes Rendus papers) in the fall of 1923 de Broglie had presented the main ideas of his unified dynamics of light quanta and atoms. He was confident enough about his results that he submitted them also in English in the offered paper. At the end of the paper he summarized his results. De Broglie relates ""After long reflection in solitude and meditation, I suddenly had the idea, during the year 1923, that the discovery made by Einstein in 1905 should be generalized by extending it to all material particles and notably to electrons"" (Preface to his PhD thesis 1924).""He made the leap in his September 10, 1923, paper: E=hv should hold not only for photons but also for electrons, to which he assigns a 'fictitious associated wave'. In his September 24 paper, he indicated the direction in which one 'should seek experimental confirmations of our ideas': a stream of electrons traversing an aperture whose dimensions are small compared with the wavelenght of the electron waves 'should show diffraction phenomena' .""(Pais ""Subtle is the Lord"", pp. 425-436).In the third paper (October 8) he discusses ""The interplay between the propagation of the particle and of the waves could be expressed in more formal terms as an identity between the fundamental variational principles of Pierre de Fermat (rays), and Pierre Louis Maupertuis (particles) as de Broglie discussed it further in his last communication . Therein he also considered some thermodynamic consequences of his generalized wave-particle duality. He showed in particular how one could, using Lord Rayleigh’s 1900 formula for the number of stationary modes for phase waves, obtain Planck’s division of the mechanical phase space into quantum cells.Louis de Broglie achieved a worldwide reputation for his discovery of the wave theory of matter, for which he received the Nobel Prize for physics in 1929. His work was extended into a full-fledged wave mechanics by Erwin Schrödinger and thus contributed to the creation of quantum mechanics. After an early attempt to propose a deterministic interpretation of his theory, de Broglie joined the Copenhagen school’s mainstream noncausal interpretation of the quantum theory.""(DSB).""This idea [i.e. de Broglie's that matter might behave as waves] was tested and confirmed by Davisson and Germer in 1927... Thus the duality of both light and matter had been established, and physicists had to come to terms with fundamental particles which defied simple theories and demanded two sets of 'complementary' descriptions, each applicable under certain circumstances, but incompatible with one another."" (Printing and the Mind of Man, 417).This volume of Philosophical Magazine contains another importent paper in the history of Quantum Mechanics"": ""The Quantum Theory of Radiation"" by BOHR, KRAMERS AND SLATER, pp. 785-802. ""After Kramers had succeeded in extending the scope of the correspondence argument to the theory of optical dispersion ""thus rounding off a treatment of the interaction of atomic systems with radiation that accounted for all emission, absorption, and scattering processes"" Bohr ventured to propose a systematic formulation of the whole theory, in which what he called the virtual character of the classical model was emphasized. In this he was aided by Kramers and a young American visitor, J. C. Slater, and the new theory was published in 1924 under the authorship of all three. The most striking feature of this remarkable paper, ""The Quantum Theory of Radiation,"" was the renunciation of the classical form of causality in favor of a purely statistical description. Even the distribution of energy and momentum between the radiation field and the ""virtual oscillators"" constituting the atomic systems was assumed to be statistical, the conservation laws being fulfilled only on the average. This was going too far: the paper was hardly in print before A. H. Compton and A. W. Simon had established by direct experiment the strict conservation of energy and momentum in an individual process of interaction between atom and radiation. Nevertheless, this short-lived attempt exerted a profound influence on the course of events"" what remained after its failure was the conviction that the classical mode of description of the atomic processes had to be entirely relinquished."" (DSB).
1949 1949, Editions de la revue d'optique theorique et instrumentale, Raymond Daudel, Paul Chanson, Jean Surugue, jean Ratier, Mme Benoit, R. Bouchez, M. Haissinsky, Maurice Jean . format in 8, broché, couverture cartonnée, 198 pages plus table, parfait etat .
Ray E3*
Paris, Ernest Flammarion, 1937, in-8, 308 pp, Broché, couverture de l'éditeur, Édition originale. Ouvrage destiné au grand public, publié dans la Bibliotèque de philosophie scientifique : de Broglie y résume la révolution de la physique moderne par la découverte des quanta. Louis de Broglie (1892-1987) contribua au développement de la mécanique ondulatoire, puis quantique. "La longueur d'onde de Louis de Broglie établit un pont entre la loi des quanta de Planck et l'équivalence de la masse et de l'énergie d'Einstein. Ces trois lois constituent la clé de voûte de la physique du [XXe] siècle et on s'étonnera toujours qu'elles puissent, en si peu de signes, contenir autant de vérité" (En français dans le texte, 353). Il obtint le prix Nobel de Physique en 1929 pour ses travaux. Bon exemplaire. Pages jaunies, dos un peu usé. Couverture rigide
Bon 308 pp.
Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1953, in-8, VIII-302 pp, Broché, couverture imprimée de l'éditeur, Cet ouvrage fait partie du Traité de physique théorique et de physique mathématique de Louis de Broglie (1892-1987), ouvrages réunis par Jean-Louis Destouches. Nouveau tirage. Il reproduit l'essentiel du cours que le physicien professait à l'École Normale Supérieure depuis 1934, à l'occasion du programme du certificat d'études supérieures de théories physique. Louis de Broglie est à l'origine de l'idée révolutionnaire que les particules de la matière possèdent à la fois des propriétés corpusculaires et ondulatoires. Cette découverte lui valut le prix Nobel de Physique en 1929. Bon exemplaire. Couverture rigide
Bon VIII-302 pp.
Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1956. Royal8vo. Uncut in the original printed wrappers. Fine and clean. VII, (1), 297, (2) pp.
First printing of de Broglie's important work on nonlinear wave mechanics. ""The early 1950s again witnessed a major change in de Broglie’s views. Impressed by the nonlocal theory put forth by David Bohm in 1951, which reintroduced pilot-waves, de Broglie turned back to his first theoretical convictions. Surrounded by some faithful followers, de Broglie resumed his quest for a causal interpretation, this time supplementing his initial views with the idea of nonlinear dynamics for the singular wave. This was, however, increasingly perceived as a marginal research program, even in his own country, where quantum theoreticians preferred to stick to more mainstream physics, less fundamental and closer to the wealth of new experimental data emerging in the 1950s."" (DSB).
DE GAULLE (Général) - LOUIS XIV - BROGLIE (Louis de) - CELINE (Louis-Ferdinand) - GIDE (André) - SCHWOB (Marcel) -
Reference : 40959
Catalogue de la vente aux enchères organisée à Drouot-Richelieu le 11 décembre 1998 - un volume 22x28cm broché de 161 notices - bon état -
21 lettres autographes de Louis XIV, trois manuscrits du général de Gaulle, grand manuscrit scientifique de Louis de Broglie, deux importants manuscrits autographes de Céline, traductions autographes par Gide de Typhon de Conrad et de poèmes de Walt Whitman. Manuscrits, correspondances et archives de Marcel Schwob (1867-1905) -
Albin Michel | Paris 1945 | 13.50 x 19 cm | broché
Edition originale, un des 800 exemplaires numérotés sur Hollande, seuls grands papiers. Un infime manque en pied du dos, deux petites taches en tête du premier plat. - Photographies et détails sur www.Edition-Originale.com -
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Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1928, in-4°, 58 p., many hw. notes in German and underlining with pencil, untrimmed copy, original wrappers.
First edition of this paper, an important expansion of the ingenious ideas presented in his earlier publications, notamment «Recherches sur la théorie des quanta» (1924) and «Ondes et mouvements» (1926), in which Louis de Broglie introduced his discovery that constitutes the basis for developing the general theory nowadays known by the name of wave mechanics, a theory which has utterly transformed our knowledge of physical phenomena on the atomic scale.For his remarkable contributions to our knowledge of an entirely new aspect of the properties of matter the 1929 Nobel Prize was awarded to De Broglie for the discovery of the wave nature of electrons. The discovery was not only of fundamental importance for our concept of nature. It also gave research an extremely important and serviceable method for investigating the structure of matter, especially as it may be applied with ease to extremely small quantities.
Phone number : 41 (0)26 3223808
Albin Michel. (1941). 3 mille.,année d"édition. In-8 br. couverture imprimée, 268pp. De la Collection Sciences d"Aujourd"hui.
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(Paris, Gauthier-Villars), 1939. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", tome 209, No 5. Pp. (265-) 332. (Entire issue offered). De Broglie's paper: pp. 265-268. A stamp to the first page. Disbound.
First printing on an importent paper by De Broglie on Quantum Spin and statistics.
Paris, Gauthier-Villars et Cie, 1926. 8vo. Bound with orig. printed wrappers in contemp. hcloth. Spine gilt with gilt lettering. A small part of lower spine with a bit of discolouring after a papelabel. A punched stamp on top of title-page. Light wear along edges of boards.VI,133,(1) pp. and (2) pp. of announcements. Textfigs. Internally clean.
First edition. In this work De Broglie set forth the idea that electrons, as was previously regarded as particles, also have wave-quaracters, as well as light has. The idea was tested and confirmed by Davisson and Germer the year after in 1927. Also Schrödinger took up the idea and formulated his wave-equation, explaning the stationary states of the electron of Niels Bohr, by applying De Broglie's concept of electrons as waves to the hydrogen atom. ""Thus the duality of both light and matter had been established, and physicists had to come to terms with fundamental particles which defied simple theories and demanded two sets of 'complementary' descriptions, each applicable under certain circumstances, but imcompatible with one another."" (PMM: 417).
1941 Albin michel/ sciences d'aujourd'hui. 1941. In-8. reliure demi toile à coins, Bon état, Intérieur frais. 342 pages.
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Paris, Hermann, 1930, in-8, portrait, XVI, 292, (2)pp, 2pl, Broché, PREMIERE EDITION. Rare. Portrait de Louis de Broglie et 2 pl. h.t. L'auteur essaya de concilier les différentes théories conflictuelles sur les quanta. Il posa ses principes, dès 1924, dans sa thèse de doctorat ; quelques années plus tard, il les reprend et les développe dans un premier essai paru en 1928, "La mécanique ondulatoire" (58pp.). Cette théorie sera l'une des bases de la science moderne. Ex libris manuscrit sur la page de titre Couverture rigide
Bon portrait, XVI, 292, (2)pp.,
1952 P., Albin Michel (Les Savants et le Monde), 1952, fort in 8 broché, XI-497 pages ; non coupé ; bibliographie in-fine.
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Paris, Société nouvelle de l'Encyclopédie française, 1956 1 volume 24,7 x 29,5cm Reliure éditeur à vis vert foncé au titre blanc. Pagination multiple par fascicule (3,2 cm d'épaisseur); nombreuses figures in texte, 16 planches hors texte.
Réalisé par une équipe d'une cinquantaine de spécialistes, 2è volume, dirigé par Louis de BROGLIE (1892-1987), Prix Nobel de physique 1929, de cette "Encyclopédie française" fondée par Anatole de Monzie, mise en oeuvre par le grand historien Lucien FEBVRE (1878-1956), et continuée sous la direction générale de Gaston Berger; avant-propos de Lucien FEBVRE: "L' "Encyclopédie française" ne se propose pas d'atteindre à tout prix et par tous les moyens un public d'incompétents. Elle fournit de la Science physique telle que la pensent ses créateurs l'image la plus serrée, la plus fidèle, la plus dense. Elle n'expose pas [...] le savoir d'hier. Elle dit ce savoir d'aujourd'hui qui se profile en encorbellement sur le savoir de demain. Ainsi est-elle l'image [...] de l'effort de nos savants [...] sans traduction, sans trahison." "[Elle] n'essaie pas de [...] de rendre banal cet admirable combat de l'esprit humain, acharné à définir une réalité qu'il s'efforce chaque jour de compliquer et de diversifier."; index bio-bibliographique des collaborateurs; bibliographie. Bon état (charnières un peu frottées; petit cachet d'ex-libris).
Paris, Éditions de la revue d'optique théorique, 1949, in-8, 201 pp, Broché, couverture de l'éditeur, Louis de Broglie (1892-1987) contribua au développement de la mécanique ondulatoire, puis quantique. Il est à l'origine de l'idée révolutionnaire que les particules de la matière possèdent à la fois des propriétés corpusculaires et ondulatoires. Cette découverte lui valut le prix Nobel de Physique en 1929. Bon exemplaire non coupé. Dos insolé. Couverture rigide
Bon 201 pp.