Springer, Berlin, 1935. 4to. (256x186mm). Pages 807-812 823-828" 844-849 from volume 23 of 'Die Naturwissenschaften'. Bound together in recent attractive marbled boards (Hanne Jensen). Leather title with gilt lettering on front board. A fine and clean copy.
First edition and first announcement of Schrödinger's famous reply to the EPR-paradox (also known as Schrödinger's Cat). When in May 1935 Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen published the so-called EPR-paper in ""Physical Review"", they set out to demonstrate that the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics could not constitute a complete description of nature. The EPR-article prompted a number of responses, e.g. from Bohr, the co-founder of the Copenhagen School, who began writing his response immediately after the publication of the Physical Review article. It is this debate that Schrödinger participates in with his seminal paper on ""The Present Situation in Quantum Mechanics"", in which he presents what is now famously known as Schrödinger's Cat. Schrödinger's Cat is the name of the thought experiment that Schrödinger develops in this article and that was intended as a discussion of the EPR article.After the publication of the EPR article, Einstein and Schrödinger had begun an exchange of letters on the subject of the possibility of quantum mechanics, as interpreted by the Copenhagenists, representing reality. During this exchange of letters, Schrödinger had been inspired by Einstein's view of the problem of applying the Copenhagen interpretation of Quantum mechanics to everyday objects. But Schrödinger, in his response, took his illustration of the absurdity of the interpretation and the incompleteness of quantum mechanics a step further" he applied it to a living entity, namely a cat. Schrödinger imagines a sealed box containing a cat, a bottle of poison, a radioactive source, a Geiger counter and a hammer. When the Geiger counter detects radiation, a mechanism is switched on that makes the hammer fall the hammer breaks the bottle, and the poison kills the cat. Because it is random, when the Geiger counter will detect radiation, and because in Quantum mechanics, physical conditions are described with the aid of a wave-function that explains all possible conditions of the system, Quantum mechanics, according to the Copenhagen interpretation, would come to the conclusion that the cat in the box is both living and dead, at the same time (the wave function is made up of a superposition of the two conditions -the cat being living and the cat being dead-" the two positions collapse into one, as soon as the system is interpreted as consisting of only one condition -either dead or living cat-, with the sole possible conclusion that the cat is both). Due to Heisenberg and Bohr's independent interpretation of Quantum theory (the ""Copenhagen interpretation), Quantum theory had in 1927 developed in a direction unforeseen by Schrödinger. ""Schrödinger was ""concerned and disappointed"" that this ""transcendental, almost physical interpretation of the wave phenomena"" had become the ""almost universally accepted dogma."""" (D.S.B. XII, p. 221). His most famous and widely used attack on this interpretation was that of ""Schrödinger's Cat"". This paradox of the dead-and-alive cat vigorously illustrated the absurdity of quantum mechanics and what was necessary to describe the states within this system. The thought experiment of Schrödinger's cat turned out to be hugely influential, and has become a standard paradox within both physics and philosophy.
Berlin, Springer, 1935. Royal8vo. Bound in recent half cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In ""Die Naturwissenschaften"", Vol 23, 1935. Minor wear to extremities, otherwise a very fine and clean copy. Pp. 807-812" Pp. 823-828" Pp. 844-849. [Entire volume: XIX, (1), 870, 8 pp.].
First edition and first announcement of Schrödinger's famous reply to the EPR-paradox, arguably the most celebrated and influential illustration of the paradoxes of quantum theory also known as Schrödinger's Cat. When in May 1935 Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen published the so-called EPR-paper in ""Physical Review"", they set out to demonstrate that the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics could not constitute a complete description of nature. The EPR-article prompted a number of responses, e.g. from Bohr, the co-founder of the Copenhagen School, who began writing his response immediately after the publication of the Physical Review article. It is this debate that Schrödinger participates in with his seminal paper on ""The Present Situation in Quantum Mechanics"", in which he presents what is now famously known as Schrödinger's Cat. Schrödinger's Cat is the name of the thought experiment that Schrödinger develops in this article and that was intended as a discussion of the EPR article.After the publication of the EPR article, Einstein and Schrödinger had begun an exchange of letters on the subject of the possibility of quantum mechanics, as interpreted by the Copenhagenists, representing reality. During this exchange of letters, Schrödinger had been inspired by Einstein's view of the problem of applying the Copenhagen interpretation of Quantum mechanics to everyday objects. But Schrödinger, in his response, took his illustration of the absurdity of the interpretation and the incompleteness of quantum mechanics a step further" he applied it to a living entity, namely a cat. Schrödinger imagines a sealed box containing a cat, a bottle of poison, a radioactive source, a Geiger counter and a hammer. When the Geiger counter detects radiation, a mechanism is switched on that makes the hammer fall the hammer breaks the bottle, and the poison kills the cat. Because it is random, when the Geiger counter will detect radiation, and because in Quantum mechanics, physical conditions are described with the aid of a wave-function that explains all possible conditions of the system, Quantum mechanics, according to the Copenhagen interpretation, would come to the conclusion that the cat in the box is both living and dead, at the same time (the wave function is made up of a superposition of the two conditions -the cat being living and the cat being dead-" the two positions collapse into one, as soon as the system is interpreted as consisting of only one condition -either dead or living cat-, with the sole possible conclusion that the cat is both). Due to Heisenberg and Bohr's independent interpretation of Quantum theory (the ""Copenhagen interpretation), Quantum theory had in 1927 developed in a direction unforeseen by Schrödinger. ""Schrödinger was ""concerned and disappointed"" that this ""transcendental, almost physical interpretation of the wave phenomena"" had become the ""almost universally accepted dogma."""" (D.S.B. XII, p. 221). His most famous and widely used attack on this interpretation was that of ""Schrödinger's Cat"". This paradox of the dead-and-alive cat vigorously illustrated the absurdity of quantum mechanics and what was necessary to describe the states within this system. The thought experiment of Schrödinger's cat turned out to be hugely influential, and has become a standard paradox within both physics and philosophy.
Berlin, Springer, 1935. Royal8vo. As extracted from ""Die Naturwissenschaften"", vol. 23, 1935. No backstrip. Fine and clean. Pp. 807-812"" 823-828.
First edition and first announcement of Schrödinger's famous reply to the EPR-paradox (also known as Schrödinger's Cat). When in May 1935 Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen published the so-called EPR-paper in ""Physical Review"", they set out to demonstrate that the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics could not constitute a complete description of nature. The EPR-article prompted a number of responses, e.g. from Bohr, the co-founder of the Copenhagen School, who began writing his response immediately after the publication of the Physical Review article. It is this debate that Schrödinger participates in with his seminal paper on ""The Present Situation in Quantum Mechanics"", in which he presents what is now famously known as Schrödinger's Cat. Schrödinger's Cat is the name of the thought experiment that Schrödinger develops in this article and that was intended as a discussion of the EPR article.After the publication of the EPR article, Einstein and Schrödinger had begun an exchange of letters on the subject of the possibility of quantum mechanics, as interpreted by the Copenhagenists, representing reality. During this exchange of letters, Schrödinger had been inspired by Einstein's view of the problem of applying the Copenhagen interpretation of Quantum mechanics to everyday objects. But Schrödinger, in his response, took his illustration of the absurdity of the interpretation and the incompleteness of quantum mechanics a step further" he applied it to a living entity, namely a cat. Schrödinger imagines a sealed box containing a cat, a bottle of poison, a radioactive source, a Geiger counter and a hammer. When the Geiger counter detects radiation, a mechanism is switched on that makes the hammer fall the hammer breaks the bottle, and the poison kills the cat. Because it is random, when the Geiger counter will detect radiation, and because in Quantum mechanics, physical conditions are described with the aid of a wave-function that explains all possible conditions of the system, Quantum mechanics, according to the Copenhagen interpretation, would come to the conclusion that the cat in the box is both living and dead, at the same time (the wave function is made up of a superposition of the two conditions -the cat being living and the cat being dead-" the two positions collapse into one, as soon as the system is interpreted as consisting of only one condition -either dead or living cat-, with the sole possible conclusion that the cat is both). Due to Heisenberg and Bohr's independent interpretation of Quantum theory (the ""Copenhagen interpretation), Quantum theory had in 1927 developed in a direction unforeseen by Schrödinger. ""Schrödinger was ""concerned and disappointed"" that this ""transcendental, almost physical interpretation of the wave phenomena"" had become the ""almost universally accepted dogma."""" (D.S.B. XII, p. 221). His most famous and widely used attack on this interpretation was that of ""Schrödinger's Cat"". This paradox of the dead-and-alive cat vigorously illustrated the absurdity of quantum mechanics and what was necessary to describe the states within this system. The thought experiment of Schrödinger's cat turned out to be hugely influential, and has become a standard paradox within both physics and philosophy.
Berlin, Springer, 1935. Royal8vo. Bound in contemporary half cloth with paper label pasted on to spine. In ""Die Naturwissenschaften"", Vol 23, 1935. Complete issue offered. Light browning throughout and Schrödinger's paper with underlignings. Pp 807-812" Pp. 823-828" Pp. 844-849. [Entire volume: 870, XIX pp].
First edition and first announcement of Schrödinger's famous reply to the EPR-paradox (also known as Schrödinger's Cat). When in May 1935 Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen published the so-called EPR-paper in ""Physical Review"", they set out to demonstrate that the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics could not constitute a complete description of nature. The EPR-article prompted a number of responses, e.g. from Bohr, the co-founder of the Copenhagen School, who began writing his response immediately after the publication of the Physical Review article. It is this debate that Schrödinger participates in with his seminal paper on ""The Present Situation in Quantum Mechanics"", in which he presents what is now famously known as Schrödinger's Cat. Schrödinger's Cat is the name of the thought experiment that Schrödinger develops in this article and that was intended as a discussion of the EPR article.After the publication of the EPR article, Einstein and Schrödinger had begun an exchange of letters on the subject of the possibility of quantum mechanics, as interpreted by the Copenhagenists, representing reality. During this exchange of letters, Schrödinger had been inspired by Einstein's view of the problem of applying the Copenhagen interpretation of Quantum mechanics to everyday objects. But Schrödinger, in his response, took his illustration of the absurdity of the interpretation and the incompleteness of quantum mechanics a step further" he applied it to a living entity, namely a cat. Schrödinger imagines a sealed box containing a cat, a bottle of poison, a radioactive source, a Geiger counter and a hammer. When the Geiger counter detects radiation, a mechanism is switched on that makes the hammer fall the hammer breaks the bottle, and the poison kills the cat. Because it is random, when the Geiger counter will detect radiation, and because in Quantum mechanics, physical conditions are described with the aid of a wave-function that explains all possible conditions of the system, Quantum mechanics, according to the Copenhagen interpretation, would come to the conclusion that the cat in the box is both living and dead, at the same time (the wave function is made up of a superposition of the two conditions -the cat being living and the cat being dead-" the two positions collapse into one, as soon as the system is interpreted as consisting of only one condition -either dead or living cat-, with the sole possible conclusion that the cat is both). Due to Heisenberg and Bohr's independent interpretation of Quantum theory (the ""Copenhagen interpretation), Quantum theory had in 1927 developed in a direction unforeseen by Schrödinger. ""Schrödinger was ""concerned and disappointed"" that this ""transcendental, almost physical interpretation of the wave phenomena"" had become the ""almost universally accepted dogma."""" (D.S.B. XII, p. 221). His most famous and widely used attack on this interpretation was that of ""Schrödinger's Cat"". This paradox of the dead-and-alive cat vigorously illustrated the absurdity of quantum mechanics and what was necessary to describe the states within this system. The thought experiment of Schrödinger's cat turned out to be hugely influential, and has become a standard paradox within both physics and philosophy.
"SCHRÖDINGER, ERWIN. - FIRST TREATMENT OF WAVE MECHANICS IN ENGLISH.
Reference : 47172
(1926)
Minneapolis, Minn., The Physicalreview, 1926. 4to. Contemp. full buckram. Small tear to first hinge at foot. A stamp in upper right corner on titlepage and 2 other pages. In: ""The Physical Review. Conducted by the American Physical Society"", Vol. 28, Second Series. VI,1343 pp. (Entire volume offered).Schrödinger's paper: pp. 1049-1070. Internally clean and fine.
First appearance of the first treatment of Wave Mechanics in English.The paper reviews Schrödinger's own wave-mechanics and De Broglie's ""phase waves"", and covers all the results Schrödinger had hitherto obtained in his main communications of 1926 (the 3 papers in German). An English translation of Schrödinger's main papers was not published until 1928.""The paper gives an account of the author's work on a new form of quantum theory. 1. The Hamiltonian analogy between mechanics and optics. 2. The analogy is to be extended to include real ""physical"" or ""undulatory"" mechanics instead of mere geometrical mechanics. 3. The significance of wave-length" macro-mechanical and micro-mechanical problems. 4. The wave-equation and its application to the hydrogen atom. 5. The intrinsic reason for the appearance of discrete characteristic frequencies. 6. Other problems intensity of emitted light. 7. The wave-equation derived from a Hamiltonian variation-principle" generalization to an arbitrary conservative system. 8. The wave-function physically means and determines a continuous distribution of electricity in space, the fluctuations of which determine the radiation by the laws of ordinary electrodynamics. 9. Non-conservative systems. Theory of dispersion and scattering and of the ""transitions"" between the ""stationary states."" 10. The question of relativity and the action of a magnetic field. Incompleteness of that part of the theory."" (From the Abstract in front of the paper).
Braunschweig und Berlin, Vieweg & Sohn, Julius Springer, 1921. 8vo. Bound in contemporary half cloth. Stamp to front free end paper. In ""Zeitschrift für Physik. Hrasg. von Karl Scheel"", vol. 5. Entire volume offered. [Schrödinger's paper:] pp. 163-66. [Entire volume: IV, 449, (1) pp].
First apperance of Schrödinger's paper on isotopy and the Gibb's paradox. ""Schrödinger started explicitly from the previous discussion between de Hevesy and Paneth on the one hand, and Fajans on the other, summarizing the results as 'Thermodynamical diversity of isotopes in principle, in spite of their complete or nearly complete chemical replaceability'. Thus far he partially supported the view promoted by Karlsruhe physico-chemist. However, he contradicted a result which Fajans had obtained, stating that the energy set free by mixing or diffusion of the volumes, containing different isotopes of the same chemical element, was proportional to the difference of the respective atomic weights - hence a consequence, it should become arbitrarily small as the mass difference disappeared. (Mehra, The Historical Development of Quantum Theory, P. 340).
Berlin, Springer, 1920. 8vo. Bound in contemporary half cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In ""Zeitschrift für Physik"", Bd. 1, 1920. Entire volume offered. Library stamp to front free end paper and title page, light wear to extremities. Pp. 201-214. [Entire volume: V, (1), 418 pp.].
First printing of Schrödinger paper on his little know research area: colorimetry.""His first papers on relativity pointed to a second major field of interest. In addition to these works, and his early papers on relativity, Schrödinger made a detailed study, through both measurement and computation, of the metric of color space and the theory of color vision."" (DSB).
Berlin, Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1931. 4to. Orig. printed wrappers. Small nicks to margin of wrapper. ""Sitzungsberichte der Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften"", issue XII, pp. 233-247. Einstein paper: pp. 235-237, Schrödinger paper: pp. 238-247.
Both papers first edition. - Weil No 179.
Leipzig, Ambrosius Barth, 1920. 8vo. In contemporary full cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In ""Annalen der Physik"", Vierte Folge, Band 63. Entire volume offered. Library labels pasted on the pasted down front free end paper. Stamp to title page and repairs to first 3 leaves (not affecting text), otherwise a fine copy. Pp. 397-426" Pp. 427-456" Pp. 481-520. [Entire volume: VIII, 923, VII pp.].
First appearance of Schrödinger's important three-paper series of a theory of colour measurement for daylight vision. ""His first papers on relativity pointed to a second major field of interest. In addition to these works, and his early papers on relativity, Schrödinger made a detailed study, through both measurement and computation, of the metric of color space and the theory of color vision."" (DSB).
Leipzig, Ambrosius Barth, 1927. 8vo. In contemporary full cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In ""Annalen der Physik"", Band 82. Entire volume offered. Library stamp to pasted down front and back free end-paper. Embossed stamp on title page. A fine and clean copy. Pp. 257-64"" Pp. 265-73. [Entire volume: VIII, 1168 pp. + 14 plates.
First appearance of Schrödinger's famous treatment of the Compton effect.""Schrödinger approached the wave mechanical treatment of the Compton effect in his own paper [the present] on a far less technical level [than Gordon]. He practically went back to the optical analogies that had stimulated the whole development in November 1925, and in which the properties of microscopic particles were described by matter waves and their propagation in homogeneous media. From such consideration, he now - a year later - drew the following conclusion: ""It is to be expected, nay, even demanded, that we should be able, by means of quite simple phase considerations…, to explain the connection between the changes in direction and frequency of the ether wave which occur in the Compton effect and the change of velocity of the electron."" (Mehra, The Historical Development of Quantum Theory)""Compton was able to account for this (lenghtening of wavelenght) by presuming that a photon of light struch an electron, which recoiled, subtracting some energy from the photon and therefore increasing its wavelenght. This made it seem that a photon acted as a particle: thus after more than a century, the particulate natuer of light, as evolved by Newton, was revived... What itamounted to was that Compton brought to fruition the view that electromagnetic radiation had both a wave aspect and a particle aspect, and that the aspect which was most evident depended on how the radiation was tested. De Broglie was, at the same time, showing that this held true also for ordinary particles, such as electrons."" (Asimov)
Leipzig, Ambrosius Barth, 1927. 8vo. In contemporary full cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In ""Annalen der Physik"", Band 82. Entire volume offered. Library stamp to pasted down front free end-paper. Traces after a paper label to lower part of spine. A fine and clean copy. Pp. 257-64"" Pp. 265-73. [Entire volume: VIII, 1168 pp. + 14 plates.
First appearance of Schrödinger's famous treatment of the Compton effect.""Schrödinger approached the wave mechanical treatment of the Compton effect in his own paper [the present] on a far less technical level [than Gordon]. He practically went back to the optical analogies that had stimulated the whole development in November 1925, and in which the properties of microscopic particles were described by matter waves and their propagation in homogeneous media. From such consideration, he now - a year later - drew the following conclusion: ""It is to be expected, nay, even demanded, that we should be able, by means of quite simple phase considerations…, to explain the connection between the changes in direction and frequency of the ether wave which occur in the Compton effect and the change of velocity of the electron."" (Mehra, The Historical Development of Quantum Theory)""Compton was able to account for this (lenghtening of wavelenght) by presuming that a photon of light struch an electron, which recoiled, subtracting some energy from the photon and therefore increasing its wavelenght. This made it seem that a photon acted as a particle: thus after more than a century, the particulate natuer of light, as evolved by Newton, was revived... What itamounted to was that Compton brought to fruition the view that electromagnetic radiation had both a wave aspect and a particle aspect, and that the aspect which was most evident depended on how the radiation was tested. De Broglie was, at the same time, showing that this held true also for ordinary particles, such as electrons."" (Asimov)
Leipzig, Ambrosius Barth, 1920. 8vo. In full black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In ""Annalen der Physik"", bd. 62. Entire volume offered. Small library stamp to lower part of title page and library label pasted on to front free end papers. Fine and clean. Pp. 603-22. [Entire volume: VI. 762 pp.].
First appearance of Schrödinger's important paper in which he presented his theory of pigments with highest luminosity""His first papers on relativity pointed to a second major field of interest. In addition to these works, and his early papers on relativity, Schrödinger made a detailed study, through both measurement and computation, of the metric of color space and the theory of color vision."" (DSB).
London, George Allen & Unwin, (1935). Orig. full cloth. 154 pp. + Publisher's announcements.
First edition. 2 of the seven papers were published before in 1932 in German as ""Zwei Vorträge"". In 1933 Schrödinger was awarded the Nobel prize jointly with Dirac.
Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1927. 8vo. Contemp. full cloth. Gilt lettering to spine. In ""Annalen der Physik"", Vierte Folge, Band 83. Entire volume offered. Schrödinger's paper: Pp. 956-68. [Entire volume: VIII, 1224 pp. + 9 plates.]. Stamp to inside frontcover, stamped in blind on titlepage. Internally clean.
First printing of Schroedinger's important paper which preceded the great work by von Neumann (November 1927) connecting thermodynamics and quantum mechanics. Von Neumann showed, in a paper published 1927, how generalized infinite-dimensional Euclidean spaces (function spaces) and linear operators provide the proper mathematical framework for quantum mechanics.
Berlin, Julius Springer, 1924. 8vo. Bound in contemporary halfcloth. In ""Zeitschrift für Physik"", Bd. 30.Entire issue offered. Stamp to front free end paper. Fine and clean. Pp. 341-359. [Entire volume: IV, 387 pp].
First printing of Schrödinger's paper on hydrogen heat.
Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1927. 8vo. Contemp. hcloth. Gilt lettering to spine. In ""Annalen der Physik"", Vierte Folge, Band 83. Entire volume offered. Schrödinger's paper: Pp. 956-68. [Entire volume: VIII, 1224 pp. + 9 plates.]. Stamp to verso of titlepage. Internally clean.
First printing of Schroedinger's important paper which preceded the great work by von Neumann (November 1927) connecting thermodynamics and quantum mechanics. Von Neumann showed, in a paper published 1927, how generalized infinite-dimensional Euclidean spaces (function spaces) and linear operators provide the proper mathematical framework for quantum mechanics.
Berlin, Julius Springer, 1924. 8vo. Bound in contemporary halfcloth. In ""Zeitschrift für Physik"", Bd. 30.Entire issue offered. Stamp to front free end paper and title page. Fine and clean. Pp. 341-359. [Entire volume: IV, 387 pp].
First printing of Schrödinger's paper on hydrogen heat.
Berlin, Springer, 1922. 8vo. Bound in contemporary half cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In ""Zeitschrift für Physik"", Bd. 11, 1922. Entire volume offered except for Einstein's paper on P. 326. Library stamp to front free end paper and title page, light wear to extremities. P. 170-79. [Entire volume: VIII, 328 pp.].
First printing of Schrödinger's paper on the heat of solids at high temperature and the quantization of a finite amplitude oscillation.
Leipzig, Ambrosius Barth, 1920. 8vo. In contemporary full cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In ""Annalen der Physik"", Vierte Folge, Band 61. Entire volume offered. Library labels pasted on the pasted down front free end paper. Stamp to title page and repairs to first leaf (not affecting text), otherwise a fine copy. Pp. 69-86. [Entire volume: 760, VIII pp.].
First appearance of Schrödinger's paper concerning the coherence of wide open bundles.
1990 Paris, Le Seuil, 1990, in 8° broché, 254 pages.
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SCHRODINGER, Erwin - BITBOL, Michel & BITBOL-HESPERIES, Annie (Traduction)
Reference : 113450
(1992)
1992 Editions du Seuil, collection "Sources du savoir" - 1992 - In-8, broché - 218 pages
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Cambridge, University Press, 1959. Orig. full cloth. VII,194 pp. A few pencil underlinings.
(Berlin, Julius Springer, 1922). 8vo. Bound in contemporary half cloth. In: ""Zeitschrift für Physik"", 11 band, 1922 (not the complete issue). Find and clean. Pp. 170-76. [Offered volume: Pp. 1-324, 327-398.]
First printing.