129 books for « chadwick »Edit

‎Sorcellerie à Salem.‎

‎Paris, E.P. / Denoël, 1971. In-8°, ix-377 pp., qqs. Ill. Br., très bon état.‎

‎Traduit de l'américain par Claude Carme. ‎

‎The celtic realms.‎

‎ London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1967. In-8 rel. pleine toile verte éditeur, titre doré au dos, XII-355 pp., 62 planches d'ill. photogr. en noir, 8 cartes en noir à pleine page, index. ‎

‎ Exlibris stamps, good condition. - Frais de port : -France 6,9 € -U.E. 9 € -Monde (z B : 15 €) (z C : 25 €) ‎

‎Documents in Mycenaean Greek. Three Hundred Selected Tablets from Knossos, Pylos and Mycenae with Commentary and Vocabulary. - [THE FIRST CORRECT DECIPHERING OF LINEAR B]‎

‎Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1956. 4to. In publisher's red full cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Hinges loose and cloth to lower part of hinges with tear. Lbrary stamp to verso of title page. Internally fine and clean. XXX, (2), 452 pp.‎

‎First edition of Ventris and Chadwick's exceedingly important work which constitutes the very first practical translation of Linear B (a syllabic script that was used for writing Mycenaean Greek - the earliest form of the Greek language) and certainly the earliest thorough discussion of Linear B translation. The decipherment of Linear B was not only of great interest to scholars and researchers, but also profoundly influenced European cultural history and affected how to define 'The Cradle of Europe': It demonstrated a Greek-speaking Minoan-Mycenaean culture on Crete, and presented Greek in writing some 600 years earlier than what was thought at the time.Linear B was initially deciphered by Ventris and Chadwick between 1951 and 1953. They published they first theories is 1952 in a short paper, a work which is still surrounded by much controversy" the present work is the first to contain what is generally accepted as the first thoroughly satisfying deciphering of Linear B. In a BBC radio program in 1952 Ventris concluded that the tablets (the ones translated in the present work) were Greek, and that there finally seemed to be a logical explanation to the mysterious signs: ""One of the most interested listeners to the broad cast was a young Cambridge philologist specializing in Greek, John Chadwick. At the time, the Ventris theory was just the latest in a long line of supposed ""solution"", every one of which had failed. But Chadwick, who had himself failed to read the tablets on the assumption that they were Greek, was interested. On July 9, Chadwick wrote to [Ventris], congratulating him on the solution. They formed a close association and together wrote a report of the decipherment [Their 1952-paper]. It gave a decidedly confusing explanation of the decipherment. And it did not gather up all the loose ends."" (Kahn, The Code Breakers, P. 933.).""At the time [in the early 50ies] the Linear B tablets from Knossos in the island of Crete were considered to be the earliest documents in the Greek language. Now the ancient Greeks have been claimed by Hellenists from the late 18th century onwards to be the founders of European civilization, all other peoples with an Indo-European linguistic heritage being excluded for some reason or another. In the description mankind's history, the absence or presence of the art of writing is even used for making the rather haphazard distinction between prehistory and history. So one can very well imagine why the island of Crete in offering hospitality to the first writing Greeks was proclaimed [...] the cradle of Europe."" (Binsbergen, Black Athena Comes of Age, Pp. 102-3.).‎

‎Documents in Mycenaean Greek. Three Hundred Selected Tablets from Knossos, Pylos and Mycenae with Commentary and Vocabulary. - [THE FIRST CORRECT DECIPHERING OF LINEAR B]‎

‎Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1956. 4to. In publisher's red full cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Front hinge almost detached. Internally fine and clean. XXX, (2), 452 pp.‎

‎First edition of Ventris and Chadwick's exceedingly important work which constitutes the very first practical translation of Linear B (a syllabic script that was used for writing Mycenaean Greek - the earliest form of the Greek language) and certainly the earliest thorough discussion of Linear B translation. The decipherment of Linear B was not only of great interest to scholars and researchers, but also profoundly influenced European cultural history and affected how to define 'The Cradle of Europe': It demonstrated a Greek-speaking Minoan-Mycenaean culture on Crete, and presented Greek in writing some 600 years earlier than what was thought at the time.Linear B was initially deciphered by Ventris and Chadwick between 1951 and 1953. They published they first theories is 1952 in a short paper, a work which is still surrounded by much controversy" the present work is the first to contain what is generally accepted as the first thoroughly satisfying deciphering of Linear B. In a BBC radio program in 1952 Ventris concluded that the tablets (the ones translated in the present work) were Greek, and that there finally seemed to be a logical explanation to the mysterious signs: ""One of the most interested listeners to the broad cast was a young Cambridge philologist specializing in Greek, John Chadwick. At the time, the Ventris theory was just the latest in a long line of supposed ""solution"", every one of which had failed. But Chadwick, who had himself failed to read the tablets on the assumption that they were Greek, was interested. On July 9, Chadwick wrote to [Ventris], congratulating him on the solution. They formed a close association and together wrote a report of the decipherment [Their 1952-paper]. It gave a decidedly confusing explanation of the decipherment. And it did not gather up all the loose ends."" (Kahn, The Code Breakers, P. 933.).""At the time [in the early 50ies] the Linear B tablets from Knossos in the island of Crete were considered to be the earliest documents in the Greek language. Now the ancient Greeks have been claimed by Hellenists from the late 18th century onwards to be the founders of European civilization, all other peoples with an Indo-European linguistic heritage being excluded for some reason or another. In the description mankind's history, the absence or presence of the art of writing is even used for making the rather haphazard distinction between prehistory and history. So one can very well imagine why the island of Crete in offering hospitality to the first writing Greeks was proclaimed [...] the cradle of Europe."" (Binsbergen, Black Athena Comes of Age, Pp. 102-3.).‎

‎The Decipherment of Linear B.‎

‎ Cambridge University Press, 1960 in-8°, x-155 pp, 2 pl. hors texte, dont le frontispice (une photo de Michael Ventris), 16 figures, une pl. dépliante hors texte, index, reliure éditeur, jaquette illustrée, bon état. Texte en anglais‎

‎Depuis les premières fouilles d'Evans, les tablettes d'argile crétoises gardaient leur secret... jusqu'au jour où Michael Ventris et John Chadwick sont parvenus à échanger des messages, en 1952, en Minoen B. Ce résultat remarquable dont John Chadwick relate les vicissitudes, les déboires et le triomphe est essentiellement l'oeuvre de Ventris, un amateur de génie, dialectologue de talent. Des années de recherche, la double bataille menée contre les inscriptions muettes et les rivaux sceptiques l'ont conduit à une découverte sensationnelle : les Crétois parlaient grec. Ce livre d'un grand savant est un roman policier de haute culture. — "... On peut considérer comme un apport de tout premier ordre à l'épistémologie actuelle cette histoire, alertement contée avec un sens profond de l'humain et quelques pointes d'humour, des principales tentatives de déchiffrement des écritures linéaires créto-mycéniennes, qui ont conduit des tâtonnements et des échecs des pionniers à la sensationnelle découverte de Ventris et Chadwick, soumise elle-même de la part d'autres savants à des vérifications et à des critiques, plus ou moins pertinentes, dont certaines même semblent avoir été inspirées par une malveillance mesquine, qui, comme le dit M. Chadwick, n'a fait que « discréditer leurs auteurs ». Les savants ne sont pas à l'abri de ces petitesses, voire de ces bassesses, quand on dérange certaines des certitudes où ils se sont ancrés..." (Charles Delvoye, L'antiquité classique) ‎

‎Possible Existence of a Neutron (Chadwick) (+) The neutron hypothesis (Iwanenko). - [DISCOVERY OF THE NEUTRON]‎

‎New York, Macmillian and Co, 1932. Royal8vo. In publisher's pictorial cloth with gilt lettering and Nature's logo to spine. Entire issue of ""Nature"", January - June, 1932, Vol. CXXXVI [129]. ""Emmanuel College"" in gilt lettering to spine. Signs of label removal from spine, very slight wear to extremities, otherwise a very fine and clean copy. Rare in the publisher's binding. [Chadwick:] P. 312. [Iwanenko:] Pp. 798.‎

‎First printing of Chadwick's landmark paper in which he announced the discovery of the neutron. The discovery awarded him the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1935. The discovery of the neutron was of seminal importance to the evolution of Particle Physics.James Chadwick performed a series of experiments at the University of Cambridge, showing that the gamma ray hypothesis was untenable. He suggested that the new radiation consisted of uncharged particles of approximately the mass of the proton, and he performed a series of experiments verifying his suggestion. These uncharged particles were called neutrons.""The discovery of the neutron completely revolutionized the physics of the atomic nucleus, both experimentally and theoretically. Since they are not electrically repelled they provide an ideal probe to study the nucleus"". (Brandt, The Harvest of a Century).‎

‎The Collisions of alpha particles with Hydrogen Nuclei.‎

‎(London, Taylor and Francis), 1921. Blank wrapper. In: ""The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science"" Sixth Series, Vol.42, No. 252, December 1921. Pp. 873-1024, textillustr. a. 1 plate. (Entire issue offered). Chadwick & Bieler's paper: pp. 923-940, textillustr.‎

‎First printingof this milestone paper in which the strong nuclear forces are mentioned for the first time.""It was only in 1921 that Chadwick had first shown that, at very small distances, the interactions of alpha particles with the atomic nucleus did not follow exactly the inverse square law predicted from the repulsion of their positive electrical scharges. Chadwick concluded that his experiments showed that these nuclear forces are of ""very great intensity"". According to Pais, this is THE FIRST PUBLISHED STATEMENT ABOUT THE EXISTENCE OF A STRONG NUCLEAR FORCE. This 'new force' interpretation was disputed untill well into 1920s.""(Hey & Walters).""In any event, Chadwick and Bieler's final conclusion avoid all reference to a possible electromagnetic cause for the deviations from the simple theory: ""The present experiments do not seem to throw any light on the nature of the law of variation of the forces at the seat of an electric charge, but merely show that the forces are of very great intensity... It is our task to find some field of force which will reproduce these effects."" I consider this statement, made in 1921, as marking the birth of the strong interaction.""(Pais in ""Inward Bound"", p. 240).‎

‎La découverte du neutron (1920-1936) , Préface de Louis Leprince-Ringuet‎

‎Editions du CNRS - C.N.R.S. - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1987 Book condition, Etat : Bon broché, sous couverture imprimée éditeur blanche, illustrée d'une photographie en couleur d'un neutron sur fond noir grand In-8 1 vol. - 182 pages‎

‎quelques figures dans le texte en noir et blanc 1ere édition, 1987 Contents, Chapitres : Préface, table, remerciements, vii, Texte, 175 pages - Introduction - Repères de la physique corpusculaire, 1895-1936 - Panorama du noyau atomique en 1920 - Résultats négatifs des recherches du neutron - Chadwick, Bothe et les Joliot-Curie entre 1920 et 1930 - Panorama du noyau atomique en 1931 - Les méthodes expérimentales en physique nucléaire vers 1930 - La découverte du neutron - Questions sur Bothe et les Joliot-Curie - Etablissement du statut de neutron, 1932-1936 - Epilogue - Annexes : Eléments de bibliographie - Titres de communications de conférences - Références - Textes originaux de Bothe, Bohr, Marie-Curie, Joliot-Curie, congrès Solvay, Chadwick - La découverte du neutron a résulté de trois séries dexpériences, faites dans trois pays différents, lune entraînant lautre. En ce sens elle est exemplaire de la recherche de la connaissance. En 1930, en Allemagne, Walther Bothe et Herbert Becker, spécialistes du rayonnement cosmique observent que les éléments légers lithium, béryllium et bore, bombardés par des particules a, émettent des rayons « ultra pénétrants » quils supposent être des rayons gamma beaucoup plus énergiques que ceux émis par des noyaux radioactifs ou accompagnant les transmutations nucléaires. En 1931, en France, Irène et Frédéric Joliot-Curie intrigués par ces résultats cherchent à comprendre la nature de ce rayonnement et découvrent quil a la propriété de mettre en mouvement des noyaux atomiques et en particulier des protons Ils supposent quil sagit là dun effet Compton entre des gamma dont ils estiment lénergie à environ 50 MeV (une énergie très élevée pour lépoque) et de lhydrogène. En 1932, en Angleterre, aussitôt ces résultats parus, James Chadwick fait un test confirmant les résultats et va plus loin et mesurant avec précision lénergie des noyaux projetés en utilisant la réaction nucléaire (..), il peut affirmer que le rayonnement « ultra pénétrant » ne peut être un rayonnement gamma, dénergie très élevée, mais doit être composé de particules de masse 1 et de charge électrique 0 : cest le neutron. Chacune des trois équipes avait travaillé avec les appareils dont elle disposait, mais aussi avec ses connaissances et avait baigné dans la tradition de son laboratoire. Il nest pas étonnant que ce soit au laboratoire de Cambridge, dirigé par Ernest Rutherford que le neutron ait été découvert. Depuis 1920, Rutherford, en effet, avait émis lhypothèse de lexistence du neutron comme une association proton-électron. Cependant l'explication des propriétés nucléaires oblige de reconnaître que le neutron est plutôt une particule aussi élémentaire que le proton. (source : Wikipedia) couverture légèrement jaunie avec d'infimes traces de pliures aux coins des plats, intérieur sinon frais et propre, papier à peine jauni, légères petites rousseurs sur les tranches n'affectant pas l'intérieur, cela reste un bon exemplaire de cet ouvrage de référence sur la découverte du neutron avec la reproduction des textes originaux‎

‎Lynn Chadwick : The Sculptor and his World / The Artist and his Work.‎

‎Leiden Spruyt, Van Mantgem & De Does 1988 1 vol. relié in-4, cartonnage sous jaquette illustré, 116 pp., nombreuses photos en noir et en couleurs. Texte en anglais. Très bon état.‎

‎Chadwick. Recent sculpture.‎

‎London Marlborough Fine Art 1984 1 vol. broché in-4, broché, couverture illustrée en noir, 36 pp., portrait et 24 reproductions en noir et en couleurs, chronologie. Textes et légendes en anglais. Bon état.‎

‎Chadwick. Recent sculpture.‎

‎London Marlborough Fine Art 1974 1 vol. broché in-4, broché, couverture illustrée en couleurs, 43 pp., portrait et 40 reproductions en noir et en couleurs. Textes et légendes en anglais. Bon état.‎

‎Trente ans d'activité‎

‎Genève, Gérald Cramer, 1971. In-plano en feuilles, couverture blanche rempliée, emboîtage de l'édition. Imprimé en marge de l'ouvrage "trente ans d'activité", chaque exemplaire est enrichi d'une oeuvre originale à l'origine du premier ouvrage, "Two Winged Figures", réalisée en 1968. Tirage à 50 exemplaires sur papier de Rives, celui-ci le numéro XIX, accompagné ici d'une lithographie de Lynn Chadwick, numérotée 22 sur 125 et signée.‎

‎Parfait exemplaire.‎

‎Le Déchiffrement du linéaire B. Aux origines de la langue grecque.‎

‎<p>Depuis les premières fouilles d'Evans, les tablettes d'argile crétoises gardaient leur secret... jusqu'au jour où Michael Ventris et John Chadwick sont parvenus à échanger des messages, en 1952, en Minoen B. Ce résultat remarquable dont John Chadwick relate les vicissitudes, les déboires et le triomphe est essentiellement l'œuvre de Ventris, un amateur de génie, dialectologue de talent. Des années de recherche, la double bataille menée contre les inscriptions muettes et les rivaux sceptiques l'ont conduit à une découverte sensationnelle : les Crétois parlaient grec. Ce livre d'un grand savant est un roman policier de haute culture. </p> Paris, 1972 Gallimard 234 p., ill. N/B, 1 planches N/B hors texte, broché. 14 x 22,5‎

‎Neuf‎

‎William Blake's Universe‎

‎Bindman, David and Esther Chadwick (ed.): William Blake's Universe. Exhibition: Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, 2024. 223 pages, illustrated throughout in colour. Hardback. 29 x 24cms. Accompanying the exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, this catalogue explores Blake's work against the backdrop of late-18th, early-19th century Europe and its political upheavals. It draws parallels with contemporary artists, most notably with Philipp Otto Runge (1777-1810).‎

‎Accompanying the exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, this catalogue explores Blake's work against the backdrop of late-18th, early-19th century Europe and its political upheavals. It draws parallels with contemporary artists, most notably with Philipp Otto Runge (1777-1810).‎

‎The Reformation‎

‎ 1968 Harmondsworth, Middlesex, Penguin Books, 1968, 18 x 11 cm, 463 pp Fair condition ‎

‎Soft cover a bit soiled. ‎

‎Les royaumes celtiques‎

‎ 1974 Paris, Fayard,1974, Fort In Huit , 452 pp, reliure d'éditeur en toile bordeaux, sans janquette, bon état, ‎

‎édition augmentée d'un chapitre : "la gaule dans le monde celtique ",traduction de Christian J.Guyonvar'ch, collection : "l'aventure des civilisations". ‎

‎Witchcraft at Salem. ‎

‎New York George Braziller, Inc. 1969 ‎

‎First Edition. First printing. Signed author dedication to front pastedown dated 1969. In original unclipped dust jacket, protected by archival cover. Red Boards with black and silver gilt title to spine. 215 x 150 mm (8œ x 6 inches). Very slight bumping to spine and corners. Cover has some small closed tears, rubbing, and edge wear. Overall very good copy that author gave as a gift to friends in March 1969. Chadwick Hansen made an astonishing claim in this book. He asserted that a few of those accused in Salem were actually guilty, and that witches did practice in Salem, some causing real harm to others. "There was witchcraft in Salem, and it worked," writes Hansen, who was a former English professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. "There was every reason to regard it as a criminal offense." Belief in witchcraft was far from unique to Salem, Hansen argued; it was endemic to Europe at the time and a constant in the English culture that 17th century New England reflected.‎

‎Les Femmes dans le mouvement surréaliste.‎

‎Paris Chêne 1986 1 vol. relié in-4, cartonnage éditeur, jaquette en couleurs d'après Kay Sage, 256 pp., nombreuses reproductions en noir. Excellente condition.‎

‎Possible Existence of a Neutron (Chadwick). (Bound with:) Disintegration of Uranium by Neutrons: a New Type of Nuclear Reaction (Meitner and Frisch). (Withbound:) Physical Evidence for the Division of Heavy Nuclei under Neutron Bombardment. (Frisch). ... - [DISCOVERY OF THE NEUTRON - THE ATOMIC BOMB.]‎

‎London, Nature, 1932 a.1939. 4to. Blank wrappers. All 4 extracted from ""Nature"" Nos. 3252 (Febr. 1932), 3615 (Febr.1939), 3616 ( Febr. 1939) and 3620 (March 1939).‎

‎All four papers in first edition. In 1932 James Chadwich proved the existence of th atomic particles carrying no electric charge which, for this reason, he called 'neutrons' (the first item offered here). ""In 1934 Senator Corbino, head of the physics department at the University of Rome, urged Enrico Fermi and his collaborators, among whom was Brune Pontecorvo, to patent a proces they had perfected for the production of artificial radio-activity by slow neutron bombardement. This process was a by-product of repetitions and enlargements of a discovery by Irene Curie and her husband Fredeic Joliot that the bombardment of certain light elements with alpha particles induced radio-activity. Further experiments conducted in 1938 at Berlin by Hahn and Strassmann were reported by Lise Meitner...She and her nephew, O.R. Frisch, working with Niels Bohr's laboratory, found the true explanation of these phenomena. The interpolation of a neutron into the nucleus of a uranium atom caused it to divide into two parts and to release energy amounting to about 200,000,000 electron volts. This process bore such a close similarity to the division of a living cell that Frisch suggested the use of the term 'fission' to describe it.....Halban, Jolio and Kowarski established the theoretical possibility of a self-perpetuating reaction..."" (Carter/Muir). - Printing and the Mind of Man No. 422,b,c and d.‎

‎Les royaumes celtiques.‎

‎ 1997 Paris, Fayard, 1974. In-8, IV-452 pages plus achevé d'imprimer. Reliure éditeur pleine toile rouge, jaquette. 105 illustrations photographiques. ‎

‎Les Secrets de l'Arbre‎

‎ 1988 Le Livre de Paris/Gallimard. 1988. 1 vol in-4, cartonnage éditeur illustré. 63 pages. Illustrations en couleurs dans le texte‎

‎Bon état ‎

‎La naissance des écritures, du cunéiforme à l'alphabet.‎

‎ Seuil, 1997, 503 pages, grand in 8 broché, bon état, coins légèrement cornés.‎

‎Congé pat : testé et approuvé‎

‎Marabulles (1/2025)‎

‎LIVRE A L’ETAT DE NEUF. EXPEDIE SOUS 3 JOURS OUVRES. NUMERO DE SUIVI COMMUNIQUE AVANT ENVOI, EMBALLAGE RENFORCE. EAN:9782501182904‎

‎Coffret alienor d aquitaine‎

‎Hauteville (10/2023)‎

‎LIVRE A L’ETAT DE NEUF. EXPEDIE SOUS 3 JOURS OUVRES. NUMERO DE SUIVI COMMUNIQUE AVANT ENVOI, EMBALLAGE RENFORCE. EAN:9782381222868‎

‎Guillaume le marechal, t3: la‎

‎Hauteville (7/2023)‎

‎LIVRE A L’ETAT DE NEUF. EXPEDIE SOUS 3 JOURS OUVRES. NUMERO DE SUIVI COMMUNIQUE AVANT ENVOI, EMBALLAGE RENFORCE. EAN:9782381224749‎