"LAUE, MAX von - AN EXPERIMENTAL PROOF OF THE GENERAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY.
Reference : 44822
(1907)
Leipzig, Barth, 1907. No wrappers. Extracted from ""Annalen der Physik"", Vierte Folge, Bd. 23. Pp. 989-990 a. pp. 991-996. The leaves is punched in inner margins after cords. Fine and clean.
First edition of Laue's importent paper in which he gives an experimental proof of the non-addition and non-subtraction phenomena in respect of the velocity of light. - Laue was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1914.""Einstein’s special theory of relativity dispensed with the addition or subtraction of the velocities, hitherto assumed to be self-evident, and applied instead a special ""addition theorem."" In 1907 Laue demonstrated that this theorem readily yields Fizeau’s formula with the previously enigmatic Fresnel drag coefficient: u = c/n ± v(1 - 1/n2). Laue thereby furnished Einstein’s theory with an important experimental proof, which, along with the Michelson-Morley experiment and arguments from group theory, contributed to early acceptance of the theory. Having thus proved himself an expert in relativity theory, in 1910 Laue wrote the first monograph on the subject. He expanded it in 1919 with a second volume on the general theory of relativity"" the work went through several editions.""(DSB).
Leipzig, Barth, 1907. No wrappers. Extracted from ""Annalen der Physik"", Vierte Folge, Bd. 23. Pp. 1-43 a. pp. 795-797. The leaves is punched in inner margins after cords. Fine and clean. A stamp on the first leaf.
First printing of one of Laue's earliest works.Laue was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1914.
Leipzig, Brath, 1918. 8vo. In full cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In ""Annalen der Physik"", Vierte Folge, Band 56. Entire volume offered. Library labels pasted on the pasted down front free end paper. Traces after a label to lower part of spine. Stamp to title page. Internally fine and clean. Pp. 497-506. [Entire volume: VIII, 1152 pp.].
First appearance of Laue's early paper on X-ray interference and mixed crystals.
Leipzig, Ambrosius Barth, 1925. 8vo. In contemporary full cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In ""Annalen der Physik"", Vierte Folge, Band 76. Entire volume offered. Library labels pasted on the pasted down front free end paper. ""Fourth Series"" written in hand to spine and remains from a label to lower part of spine. Stamp to title page. Internally fine and clean. Pp. 619-628. [Entire volume: 888, VIII pp.].
First printing of Laue's paper on mechanical transformability.
(Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1905). 8vo. No wrappers. Extracted from ""Annalen der Physik"" Vierte Folge. Bd. 18. Pp. 523-566. [Entire offering: Pp. 413-638].
First appearance of Laue's paper on the propagation of radiation in dispersing and absorbing media. This caused a major
Springer verlag. 1949. In-8. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. légèrement passée, Dos satisfaisant, Papier jauni. 114 pages - ouvrage en allemand - quelques figures en noir et blanc dans le texte.. . . . Classification Dewey : 430-Langues germaniques. Allemand
Ouvrage en allemand. Classification Dewey : 430-Langues germaniques. Allemand
Braunschweig, Vieweg & Sohn, 1921. Orig. hcloth. Stamps on foot of title-page. XII,276 pp. Textillustr.
First edition.
"FRIEDRICH, W., P. KNIPPING, MAX v. LAUE. - THE NATURE OF X RAYS AND THE ATOMIC STRUCTURE OF CRYSTALS.
Reference : 43821
(1913)
(Leipzig, Ambrosius Barth, 1913). Without wrappers in ""Annalen der Physik"", Vierte Folge, Bd. 41, No.10. The entire issues offered. Pp. 873-1064 a. 6 plates. Laue's papers: pp. 971-988, pp. 989-1002 a. pp. 1003-1011. With the 5 famous plates in collotype (reproductions of the photographic plates), showing the X-Ray diffraction spectrum of different salt and substances (The ""Laue diagram"").
These papers represents the first full exposition of Laue's and his co-worker's discovery of the nature of X-Rays. The first two papers were printed the year before in ""Münchener Sitzungsberichte"", but finds their final form here and with the experimental confirmation by Laue and Tank. He showed that the regular spacing of the atoms in a crystal can serve as a grating of the desired precision, and he measures the wave-lenght of the X-rays.That crystals might be the appropriate grating for the X-rays proved to be well founded when Knipping, Friedrich and Tank found experimental confirmation of the theory.""It was in 1895 that Röntgen discovered a new form of radiation, to which, as its nature was so uncertain, he gave the name of the X-ray.....It was not until 1912, when von Laue showed it could be diffracted like ordinary light, that it was recognized with certainty as an ether wave of extremely short wave-lenght.Laue used a crystal for his diffraction grating...The X-ray is therefore identical with with light in respect to its nature, but differs greatly in quality: a state of things which is very favourable to an extension of our general knowledge of such radiations.""(William Bragg in ""The Universe of Light"", pp. 228 ff.).""It was the work of Laue and the experiments done by Friedrich and Knipping on his suggestion that cleared up the nature of X rays once and for all and that, moreover, beautifully demonstrated that crystals are composed of atoms arranged in a regular lattice......As in the case of Röntgen's original discovery, the photographs were extremely convincing. Other researchers immediately were attracted by the new field of X-ray spectroscopy and the discoveries by the Braggs and Mosely soon followed.""(Siegmund Brandt ""The harvest of a Century"", Episode 20, p. 80 ff.).""The awarding of the Nobel Prize in physics for 1914 to Laue indicated the significance of the discovery that Albert Einstein called ""ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL IN PHYSICS"". Subsequently it was possible to investigate X radiation itself by means of wavelenght determinations as well as to study the structure of the irradiated material. In the truest sense of the word scientists began to cast light on the structure of matter.""(DSB VIII, p. 51).PMM: 406 (the first 2 papers in Münchener Sitzungsberichte).The offered issue of ""Annalen"" contains also an importent paper by P. DEBYE & A. SOMMERFELD: ""Theorie des lichtelektrischen Effektes vom Standpunkt des Wirkungsquantums"", pp. 873-930
EINSTEIN, ALBERT und W.J. de HAAS - MAX PLANCK - MAX von LAUE.
Reference : 38835
(1915)
Braunschweig, Vieweg & Sohn, 1915. Contemp. hcalf, gilt. Spine with a few scratches and light wear to spine ends. ""Verhandlungen der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft im Jahre 1915. 17. Jahrgang. Im Auftrage der Gesellschaft herausgegeben von Karl Scheel."" VI,489 pp. textillustr. Einstein/Haas papers: pp. 152-170 a. p. 203 a. p. 420. - Planck paper: pp. 407-418 a. 418-19 a. 438-51. - Laue paper: pp. 198-202. Internally clean and fine. The whole volume offered.
All papers first edition. - In the papers by Einstein and Haas prooved the Ampere hypothesis that permanent magnetism is caused by the microscopic circular motions of electric charges. The experimental results was very close to the theoretical value and as such they gave a brilliant proof of the soundness of the hypothesis.
Braunschweig, Vieweg und Sohn, 1867. Uncut in original printed wrappers. Wrappers a bit soiled. (4),17 pp. With some faint marginal dampstains. On top of htitle the signature of ""Max Laue/ 22.1.1897"" in pencil.
First edition. Clausius established the second law of thermodynamics in papers fra 1850 and 1854, and coined the concept of ""entropy"" in 1865. In this paper he explains the consequences of entropy - ""Die Entropie der Welt strebt einem Maximum zu"" (p. 17).
Berlin, Verlag der Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1923. 4to. Uncut and partly unopened in orig. wrappers to issue XXVIII-XXIV of ""Sitzungsberichte der Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften"". Wrappers with nicks and tears, especilly frontwrapper with marginal loss. Die Energieschwankungen...pp. 350-354. - Bemerkung zu Quantenstatistik...pp. 355-58.- Bietet die Feldtheorie...pp. 359-364. - Zur Theorie der von glühende...pp. 334-348.
All four papers first edition. - Planck: Akademie both :145. - Eionstein: Weil No 137.