Leiden, Sijthoff, 1935. Lex8vo. In the original publishers cloth. Black leather title label with gilt lettering to spine. Previous owner's name to. A very fine and clean copy. IX, (1), 451, (1) pp.
First edition of Reichenbach famous work on the theory of probability which 1949 was traslated into English (The Theory of Probability, 1949).Reichenbach studied civil engineering, physics, mathematics, and philosophy at Berlin, Göttingen, and Munich in the 1910s. Among his teachers were neo-Kantian philosopher Ernst Cassirer, mathematician David Hilbert, and physicists Max Planck, Max Born, and Arnold Sommerfeld. Reichenbach received his degree in philosophy from the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg in 1915 with a dissertation on the theory of probability titled Der Begriff der Wahrscheinlichkeit für die mathematische Darstellung der Wirklichkeit (The Concept of Probability for the mathematical Representation of Reality), published in 1916. Between 1917 and 1920, while he was working as a physicist and engineer, Reichenbach attended Albert Einstein's lectures on the theory of relativity at Berlin. He was fascinated by the theory of relativity and in a few years published four books about this subject: The Theory of Relativity and A Priori Knowledge (1920),Axiomatization of the Theory of Relativity (1924), From Copernicus to Einstein (1927), and The Philosophy of Space and Time (1928). In 1920 he began teaching at the Technische Hochschule at Stuttgart as private docent.During his stay in Turkey he published The Theory of Probability (1935). In 1938 he moved to the United States, where he became professor at the University of California at Los Angeles."" (DSB)
Leiden, Sijthoff, 1935. Lex8vo. Orig. full cloth. Stamps on titlepage. IX, (1), 451, (1) pp. From the library of the Danish logician and philosopher Jørgen Jørgensen with his name on front free endpaper.
First edition of Reichenbach famous work on the theory of probability which 1949 was traslated into English (The Theory of Probability, 1949).Reichenbach studied civil engineering, physics, mathematics, and philosophy at Berlin, Göttingen, and Munich in the 1910s. Among his teachers were neo-Kantian philosopher Ernst Cassirer, mathematician David Hilbert, and physicists Max Planck, Max Born, and Arnold Sommerfeld. Reichenbach received his degree in philosophy from the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg in 1915 with a dissertation on the theory of probability titled Der Begriff der Wahrscheinlichkeit für die mathematische Darstellung der Wirklichkeit (The Concept of Probability for the mathematical Representation of Reality), published in 1916. Between 1917 and 1920, while he was working as a physicist and engineer, Reichenbach attended Albert Einstein's lectures on the theory of relativity at Berlin. He was fascinated by the theory of relativity and in a few years published four books about this subject: The Theory of Relativity and A Priori Knowledge (1920),Axiomatization of the Theory of Relativity (1924), From Copernicus to Einstein (1927), and The Philosophy of Space and Time (1928). In 1920 he began teaching at the Technische Hochschule at Stuttgart as private docent.During his stay in Turkey he published The Theory of Probability (1935). In 1938 he moved to the United States, where he became professor at the University of California at Los Angeles."" (DSB)
Braunschweig, Vieweg & Sohn, 1924. 8vo. Original printed orange wrappers. Wear to spine and some minor overall soiling to extrimities. Previous owner's name to free front end-paper. Internally fine and clean. X, 156, (6) pp.
First printing of Reichenbach famous work on the philosophy of space and time with point of reference in Einstein's theory of relativity.""Reichenbach, who perhaps contributed the most to the recent development of the casual theory of time, approached his axiomatic research from the point of view of epistemology, that is, the theory of physical knowledge. The Axiomatik der relativistischen Raum-Zeit-Lehre, HIS GREAT ATTEMPT AT A PHILOSOPHICAL INTERPRETATION OF RELATIVITY, A BOOK WHICH IS ESSENTIAL TO AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE LOGICAL STRUCTURE OF RELATIVITY, is almost entirely dominated by the idea of causal action of which space and time are only expressions of structural features"". (Mehlberg. Essay on the causal theory of time, P. 105)""By 1924 Reichenbach had developed his theory of ""equivalent descriptions,"" a central tenet of his theory of knowledge. It is formulated in his Axiomatik der relativistischen Raum-Zeit-Lehre (1924), and it is developed with new applications in his works on quantum mechanics and time. This theory attributes an indispensable role in physical theory to conventions but rejects the extreme conventionalism of Poincaré and his school. Reichenbach insisted that a completely stated description or physical theory must include conventional elements, in particular such ""coordinating definitions"" as equal lengths and simultaneous times. These definitions are not bits of knowledge, for such questions as whether or not two rods distant from each other have the same length are not empirically answerable. Hence such coordinations must be regarded as conventions, as definitions, as neither true nor false."" (DSB)
Berlin, Verlag der Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1932. Royal8vo. In the original printed wrappers. Author's presentation offprint with the printed presentation statement on top of frontwrapper ""Überreicht vom Verfasser"" [i.e. ""Given by the author""]. Offprint from ""Sitzungsberichten der Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften"", Vol. XXIX, 1932. Light miscolouring a few nicks to extremities. top right corner with traces after having been bended. Internally fine. 15 pp.
Scarce offprint with the author's printed presentation statement on top of frontwrapper of Reichenbach famous work on the theory of probability which 1949 was traslated into English (The Theory of Probability, 1949).Reichenbach studied civil engineering, physics, mathematics, and philosophy at Berlin, Göttingen, and Munich in the 1910s. Among his teachers were neo-Kantian philosopher Ernst Cassirer, mathematician David Hilbert, and physicists Max Planck, Max Born, and Arnold Sommerfeld. Reichenbach received his degree in philosophy from the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg in 1915 with a dissertation on the theory of probability titled Der Begriff der Wahrscheinlichkeit für die mathematische Darstellung der Wirklichkeit (The Concept of Probability for the mathematical Representation of Reality), published in 1916. Between 1917 and 1920, while he was working as a physicist and engineer, Reichenbach attended Albert Einstein's lectures on the theory of relativity at Berlin. He was fascinated by the theory of relativity and in a few years published four books about this subject: The Theory of Relativity and A Priori Knowledge (1920),Axiomatization of the Theory of Relativity (1924), From Copernicus to Einstein (1927), and The Philosophy of Space and Time (1928). In 1920 he began teaching at the Technische Hochschule at Stuttgart as private docent.During his stay in Turkey he published The Theory of Probability (1935). In 1938 he moved to the United States, where he became professor at the University of California at Los Angeles."" (DSB)
Leiden, Sijthoff, 1935. Lex8vo. In the original full black cloth. Extremities with lidt wear and soiling, especially to front bard. Internally fine and clean. IX, (1), 451, (1) pp. From the library of the Welch philosopher Henry Habberley Price with his name on front free endpaper: ""H. H. Price / New College / Oxford"".
First edition of Reichenbach famous work on the theory of probability which 1949 was traslated into English (The Theory of Probability, 1949).Reichenbach studied civil engineering, physics, mathematics, and philosophy at Berlin, Göttingen, and Munich in the 1910s. Among his teachers were neo-Kantian philosopher Ernst Cassirer, mathematician David Hilbert, and physicists Max Planck, Max Born, and Arnold Sommerfeld. Reichenbach received his degree in philosophy from the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg in 1915 with a dissertation on the theory of probability titled Der Begriff der Wahrscheinlichkeit für die mathematische Darstellung der Wirklichkeit (The Concept of Probability for the mathematical Representation of Reality), published in 1916. Between 1917 and 1920, while he was working as a physicist and engineer, Reichenbach attended Albert Einstein's lectures on the theory of relativity at Berlin. He was fascinated by the theory of relativity and in a few years published four books about this subject: The Theory of Relativity and A Priori Knowledge (1920),Axiomatization of the Theory of Relativity (1924), From Copernicus to Einstein (1927), and The Philosophy of Space and Time (1928). In 1920 he began teaching at the Technische Hochschule at Stuttgart as private docent.During his stay in Turkey he published The Theory of Probability (1935). In 1938 he moved to the United States, where he became professor at the University of California at Los Angeles."" (DSB)H. H. Price was a Welsh philosopher, known for his work on perception. He also wrote on parapsychology.
Braunschweig, Vieweg & Sohn, 1924. Orig. clothbacked boards. Stamps to foot of titlepage. X,161,(1) pp., textdiagrams. From the library of the Danish logician and philosopher Jørgen Jørgensen with his name on front free endpaper. Clean and fine.
First printing of Reichenbach famous work on the philosophy of space and time with point of reference in Einstein's theory of relativity.""Reichenbach, who perhaps contributed the most to the recent development of the casual theory of time, approached his axiomatic research from the point of view of epistemology, that is, the theory of physical knowledge. The Axiomatik der relativistischen Raum-Zeit-Lehre, HIS GREAT ATTEMPT AT A PHILOSOPHICAL INTERPRETATION OF RELATIVITY, A BOOK WHICH IS ESSENTIAL TO AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE LOGICAL STRUCTURE OF RELATIVITY, is almost entirely dominated by the idea of causal action of which space and time are only expressions of structural features"". (Mehlberg. Essay on the causal theory of time, P. 105)
London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, (1959). Orig. full cloth. IX,214 pp.
First English edition.
New York, Macmillan, 1947. 8vo. In the original full blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and front board. Stamp to title page and front free end paper. Light wear to extremities, otherwise fine and clean. XVI, 444 pp.
First printing of Reichenbach influential work in which he for the first time presented his theory of nomological statements: the semantic analysis of tensewhere he distinguishes three points in time and two ordering relations.
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Berkeley, University of California Press 1954 xi + 333pp., 2nd printing, 22cm., publisher's hardcover, dustwrapper, text and interior are clean and bright, good condition, F105705
Orig. full cloth. 370 pp.
First German edition.
Berkeley and Los Angeles, University of California Press, 1951. Orig. full cloth. XI,333 pp.
First edition.
Berkeley a. Los Angeles, University of California Press, 1944. Orig. full cloth. X,182 pp.
First edition.
Chicago, University of Chicago Press, (1957). Orig. full cloth. X,410,(1) pp.
N.Y., Georg Braziller, 1957. Orig. full cloth. Portrait. 300 pp.
Amsterdam, North-Holland, 1954. Orig. boards. (6),140 pp.
Leipzig, Felix Meiner, 1931. Orig. printed wrappers. Previous owners name on title (Victor Kuhr, prof. in Philosophy Copenhagen). 64 pp. Fine and clean.
First edition.
Berlin, Walter de Gruyter, 1928. 8vo. In the original full blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and front board. Spine a bit faded. Light wear to spine ends. Stamps to foot of title-page. VI, 380, (2) pp. With the name of Victor Kuhr, Danish professor of philosophy, on front free endpaper.
First edition of the ""first comprehensive and systematic representation of geometry in physics."" ""This work was an important landmark in the development of the empiricist conception of geometry"". (Carnap, Introduction to the present work in the first English translation).
Berlin, Walter de Gruyter, 1928. 8vo. In the original full blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and front board. Spine a bit faded. Light wear to spine ends and wear along edges. Stamps to foot of title-page. VI, 380, (2) pp.
First edition of the ""first comprehensive and systematic representation of geometry in physics."" ""This work was an important landmark in the development of the empiricist conception of geometry"". (Carnap, Introduction to the present work in the first English translation).
Leipzig, Felix Meiner, 1931. Orig. printed wrappers. Previous owners name on frontcover (Jørgen Jørgensen, prof. in Philosophy Copenhagen). 64 pp. Stamps on title-page.
First edition.
Hermann et Cie. 1932. In-8. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. Plaquette de 43 pages. Etiquette de code sur le 1er plat. Tampon et annotation de bibliothèque en page de titre.. . . . Classification Dewey : 500-SCIENCES DE LA NATURE ET MATHEMATIQUES
Actualités scientifiques et industrielles, 49. Trad. du Général Ernest Vouillemin revue par l'auteur. Intro. de Marcel Boll. Classification Dewey : 500-SCIENCES DE LA NATURE ET MATHEMATIQUES
FLAMMARION. 1934. In-8. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 284 pages. . . . Classification Dewey : 530-Physique
Classification Dewey : 530-Physique
Ernest Flammarion. 1938. In-8. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. convenable, Dos abîmé, Papier jauni. 284 pages. Rousseurs et quelques pliures. Ex-libris en page de titre et page de garde, à l'encre.. . . . Classification Dewey : 500-SCIENCES DE LA NATURE ET MATHEMATIQUES
Traduit par Maurice Lecat. Bibliothèque de Philosophie scientifique. Classification Dewey : 500-SCIENCES DE LA NATURE ET MATHEMATIQUES
P., Flammarion, (vers 1930), petit in 8° relié demi toile vert sapin, 284 pages ; cachets.
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P., Hermann, 1939, grand in 8° broché, 67 pages.
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