311 books for « wheeler m »Edit

‎Ant Larvae: Review and Synthesis.‎

‎1976 v, 108 p., numerous figures, paperbound. Ex library Dr. J. Krikken (with his small Ex Libris). Very good copy.‎

‎The Ants of North Dakota.‎

‎1963 viii, 326 p., num. figs & maps, paperbound. Library stamps, else good copy of the original, not a low quality modern print on demand reprint.‎

‎Our Universe: The Known and the Unknown. [In The American Scholar Vol. 37. No. 2]. - [COINING ""BLACK HOLE"" OFFICIALLY FOR THE FIRST TIME]‎

‎1968. 8vo. Entire issue of The American Scholar in the original printed wrappers. A slight bump to upper spine, otherwise exceptionally fresh, clean, and bright. Internally near mint. Wheeler: pp. 248-274. With an illustration of a black hole and diagrams in the text. [Entire volume: (17) pp. + pp. 210-378). ‎

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‎First printing of the seminal paper that coined the term ""black hole"", giving name to a then peculiar and controversial field of study that today is considered one of the most important in modern physics and a key to understanding the universe. ""In 1968, physicist John Archibald Wheeler popularized the term ""black hole"" to describe collapsed stars that have undergone total gravitational collapse, leading to a singularity from which no light can escape... Wheeler's introduction of the term helped to demystify the concept of black holes and fostered greater public and scientific interest in the field. His pioneering research contributed to the understanding of the potential existence of black holes as significant energy sources, particularly in the centers of galaxies, and positioned him alongside other prominent figures in theoretical physics. The ongoing search for black holes, including candidates like Cygnus X-1, continues to inspire research and deepen our understanding of fundamental cosmic phenomena and the fabric of space-time."" (Zabilka). A black hole is a supermassive star that has collapsed due to exhausting its supply of nuclear fuel, and therefore gravity compresses it into a superdense sphere that absorbs anything that approaches it"" not even light can escape. John Archibald Wheeler was a pioneer in black hole research and responsible for popularizing our undersatnding of this complex phenomenon. He was a prominent physicist and mentor for Nobel prize winner, Kip S. Thorne. ""John Archibald Wheeler is a major figure in twentieth century particle and gravitational physics. Along with Schwarzschild, Oppenheimer, Roy Kerr, and Stephen W. Hawking, he stands as a pioneer in the understanding and theory of black holes. Among the most significant contributions Wheeler made was breaking down the psychological barrier that exists for scientists and public alike to believe in something that has an esoteric name. By giving the singularity a common name like black hole, Wheeler put it within reach and made acceptance of the unusual theoretical results easier. Wheeler’s timing was also impeccable. While Wheeler and many others, especially Hawking, had been studying singularities for several years immediately after the radio discovery of the pulsars and their explanation in terms of neutron stars, the total collapse into singularities was the next logical step. By giving these objects a catchy name, Wheeler was able to bring them to attention and start the massive outpouring of interest that followed. Black holes provide clues to the resolution of outstanding difficulties in cosmology. They have been proposed as explanations of the missing mass needed to bring the mass of the universe to a level where the expansion will be slow and eventually reverse into the next phase of collapse. They have been proposed as a source of the massive energy outpouring of the quasars. Further, they appear to hold significant implications for studies in the field of general relativity. Wheeler has pioneered in seeking a theory that would combine quantum physics and general relativity into a theory of quantum gravity, a first step in formulating the long-sought unified field theory in relativity studies. At the present time, relativistic equations break down when confronted with the infinite forces and gravity of a singularity. The most fruitful consequence of the naming and study of black holes has been the significant research stimulated by the effort to find black holes. While incontrovertible proof is not yet available, Cygnus X-1 and two or three other dynamical doubles where objects on the order of 10 solar masses are invisible are circumstantial candidates for status as black holes. The search to strengthen the evidence continues, and exciting results will continue to develop.""‎

‎Forces in molecules [Feynman] (+) The mechanism of nuclear fission [N. Bohr. & J. A. Wheeler] ""On continued gravitational contraction"" [J. R. Oppenheimer & H. Snyder]. - [FEYNMAN'S UNDERGRADUATE THESIS & THE FIRST THEORETICAL DESCRIPTION OF A SINGULARITY]‎

‎[Lancaster], American Institute of Physics, 1939. Royal8vo. Bound in contemporary full red cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Entire volume of ""The Physical Review"", Volume 56, Second Series, July 1 - December 15, 1939. ""Development Department"" in small gilt lettering to lower part of spine. A very fine and clean copy. [Feynman:] Pp. 340-43. [Bohr & Wheeler:] Pp. 426-50. [Oppenheimer & Snyder:] Pp. 455-59. [Entire volume: X, 1264 pp.].‎

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‎First printing of three landmark papers, all of seminal importance in history of physics: Feynman's undergraduate thesis at MIT, the intricacies of the fission process, the groundwork for atomic and hydrogen bombs and the forgotten birth of black holes: The first theoretical description of a black hole, the production of a singularity when a sufficiently large neutron star collapses.First printing of ""FORCES IN MOLECULES"" - know known as Feynman-Hellmann theorem - is Feynman's undergraduate thesis at MIT, published when he was just twenty-one, which helped to establish his name in the world of physics. ""This work treated the problem of molecular forces from a thoroughly quantum-mechanical point of view, arriving at a simple means of calculating the energy of a molecular system that continues to guide quantum chemists."" (DSB). ""As Feynman conceived the structure of molecules, forces were the natural ingredients. He saw springlike bonds with varying stiffness, atoms attracting and repelling one another. The usual energy-accounting methods seemed secondhand and euphemistic: [He demonstrated that] the force on an atom's nucleus is no more or less than the electrical force from the surrounding field of charged electrons-the electrostatic force. Once the distribution of charge has been calculated quantum mechanically, then from that point forward quantum mechanics disappears from the picture. The problem becomes classical"" the nuclei can be treated as static points of mass and charge. Feynman's approach applies to all chemical bonds"" (Gleick, The Life and Science of Richard Feynman, P. 54).Oppenheimer and Snyder's ""ON CONTINUED GRAVITATIONAL CONTRACTION"" constitutes the very first theoretical prediction of a singularity when a sufficiently large neutron star collapses. This phenomenon was later to be coined as a black hole. ""Had J. Robert Oppenheimer not led the US effort to build the atomic bomb, he might still have been remembered for figuring out how a black hole could form."" (American Physical Society). Many historians of physics describe this paper as the forgotten birth of black holes. ""Oppenheimer and his graduate student George Volkoff presented the first analysis of the formation of a neutron star in a 1939 Physical Review paper titled, ""On Massive Neutron Stars"". Oppenheimer wondered what would happen to a very massive neutron star. The Schwartzschild analysis of General Relativity has a theoretical limit, called the ""Schwartzschild limit"", when the ratio of mass-to-radius of a star is 236,000 times greater than the ratio for our sun. When this limit is exceeded, the Schwartzschild analysis does not yield a solution. Oppenheimer believed that a neutron star could have sufficient mass to exceed this limit. What would happen to it? Oppenheimer and his graduate student Hartland Snyder applied General Relativity theory to a star with sufficient mass and density to exceed the Schwartzschild limit. The Schwartzschild analysis assumed that the size of the star stays constant with time. Oppenheimer and Snyder found that they could achieve a real solution from General Relativity when the Schwartzschild limit is exceeded by assuming that the diameter of the star decreases with time. They presented their analysis in a 1939 Physical Review paper, titled, ""On Continual Gravitational Contraction,"" which concluded with: ""When all thermonuclear sources of energy are exhausted, a sufficiently heavy star will collapse. Unless fission due to rotation, the radiation of mass, or the blowing off of mass by radiation, reduce the star's mass to the order of that of the sun, this contraction will continue indefinitely."" This analysis concluded that when the Schwartzschild limit is exceeded, the star must collapse indefinitely until it reaches a singularity having an infinite density of matter"" (Bjornson, Singularity Predictions of General Relativity, P. 4).The Chandrasekhar / Eddington controvery in the mid 30ies did discuss the fate of neutron stars but the first thoroughly theoretical desciption was first published here. ""THE MECHANISM OF NUCLEAR FISSION"" is the first fully worked out theory of nuclear fission, which laid the groundwork for atomic and hydrogen bombs.""Wheeler's technical mastery of physics is best seen in the classic paper of Bohr and Wheeler. Bohr and Wheeler wrote the paper in Princeton, where Bohr was visiting in the spring of 1939, a few months after the discovery of fission. The paper is a masterpiece of clear thinking and lucid writing. It reveals, at the center of the mystery of fission, a tiny world where everything can be calculated and everything understood. The tiny world is a nucleus of uranium 236, formed when a neutron is freshly captured by a nucleus of uranium 235. The uranium 236 nucleus sits precisely on the border between classical and quantum physics. Seen from the classical point of view, it is a liquid drop composed of a positively charged fluid. The electrostatic force that is trying to split it apart is balanced by the nuclear surface tension that is holding it together. The energy supplied by the captured neutron causes the drop to oscillate in various normal modes that can be calculated classically. Seen from the quantum point of view, the nucleus is a superposition of a variety of quantum states leading to different final outcomes. The final outcome may be a uranium 235 nucleus with a re-emitted neutron, or a uranium 236 nucleus with an emitted gamma-ray, or a pair of fission-fragment nuclei with one or more free neutrons. Bohr and Wheeler calculate the cross-section for fission of uranium 235 by a slow neutron and get the right answer within a factor of two. Their calculation is a marvelous demonstration of the power of classical mechanics and quantum mechanics working together. By studying this process in detail, they show how the complementary views provided by classical and quantum pictures are both essential to the understanding of nature. Without the combined power of classical and quantum concepts, the intricacies of the fission process could never have been understood. Bohr's notion of complementarity is triumphantly vindicated"" (John Archibald Wheeler, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 154 (2010)).‎

‎The mechanism of nuclear fission [N. Bohr. & J. A. Wheeler] ""On continued gravitational contraction"" [J. R. Oppenheimer & H. Snyder]. - [THE FIRST THEORETICAL DESCRIPTION OF A SINGULARITY]‎

‎Lancaster, American Institute of Physics, 1939. Royal8vo. In the original green printed wrappers. In ""The Physical Review"", Volume 56, Second Series, Number 5, September 1. With cloth back-strip. A quire, affecting both papers, detached but without any loss of paper. A few minor tear throughout, far from affecting text. [Bohr & Wheeler:] Pp. 426-50. [Oppenheimer & Snyder:] Pp. 455-59. [Entire volume: Pp. 387-486].‎

‎First printing of two landmark papers, all of seminal importance in history of physics: The intricacies of the fission process, the groundwork for atomic and hydrogen bombs and the forgotten birth of black holes: The first theoretical description of a black hole, the production of a singularity when a sufficiently large neutron star collapses.Oppenheimer and Snyder's ""ON CONTINUED GRAVITATIONAL CONTRACTION"" constitute the very first theoretical prediction of a singularity when a sufficiently large neutron star collapses. This phenomenon was later to be coined as a black hole. ""Had J. Robert Oppenheimer not led the US effort to build the atomic bomb, he might still have been remembered for figuring out how a black hole could form."" (American Physical Society). The paper has by several physics historians been described as the forgotten birth of black holes. ""Oppenheimer and his graduate student George Volkoff presented the first analysis of the formation of a neutron star in a 1939 Physical Review paper titled, ""On Massive Neutron Stars"". Oppenheimer wondered what would happen to a very massive neutron star. The Schwartzschild analysis of General Relativity has a theoretical limit, called the ""Schwartzschild limit"", when the ratio of mass-to-radius of a star is 236,000 times greater than the ratio for our sun. When this limit is exceeded, the Schwartzschild analysis does not yield a solution. Oppenheimer believed that a neutron star could have sufficient mass to exceed this limit. What would happen to it? Oppenheimer and his graduate student Hartland Snyder applied General Relativity theory to a star with sufficient mass and density to exceed the Schwartzschild limit. The Schwartzschild analysis assumed that the size of the star stays constant with time. Oppenheimer and Snyder found that they could achieve a real solution from General Relativity when the Schwartzschild limit is exceeded by assuming that the diameter of the star decreases with time. They presented their analysis in a 1939 Physical Review paper, titled, ""On Continual Gravitational Contraction,"" which concluded with: ""When all thermonuclear sources of energy are exhausted, a sufficiently heavy star will collapse. Unless fission due to rotation, the radiation of mass, or the blowing off of mass by radiation, reduce the star's mass to the order of that of the sun, this contraction will continue indefinitely."" This analysis concluded that when the Schwartzschild limit is exceeded, the star must collapse indefinitely until it reaches a singularity having an infinite density of matter"" (Bjornson, Singularity Predictions of General Relativity, P. 4).The Chandrasekhar / Eddington controvery in the mid 30ies did discuss the fate of neutron stars but the first thoroughly theoretical desciption was first published here. ""THE MECHANISM OF NUCLEAR FISSION"" is the first fully worked out theory of nuclear fission, which laid the groundwork for atomic and hydrogen bombs.""Wheeler's technical mastery of physics is best seen in the classic paper of Bohr and Wheeler. Bohr and Wheeler wrote the paper in Princeton, where Bohr was visiting in the spring of 1939, a few months after the discovery of fission. The paper is a masterpiece of clear thinking and lucid writing. It reveals, at the center of the mystery of fission, a tiny world where everything can be calculated and everything understood. The tiny world is a nucleus of uranium 236, formed when a neutron is freshly captured by a nucleus of uranium 235. The uranium 236 nucleus sits precisely on the border between classical and quantum physics. Seen from the classical point of view, it is a liquid drop composed of a positively charged fluid. The electrostatic force that is trying to split it apart is balanced by the nuclear surface tension that is holding it together. The energy supplied by the captured neutron causes the drop to oscillate in various normal modes that can be calculated classically. Seen from the quantum point of view, the nucleus is a superposition of a variety of quantum states leading to different final outcomes. The final outcome may be a uranium 235 nucleus with a re-emitted neutron, or a uranium 236 nucleus with an emitted gamma-ray, or a pair of fission-fragment nuclei with one or more free neutrons. Bohr and Wheeler calculate the cross-section for fission of uranium 235 by a slow neutron and get the right answer within a factor of two. Their calculation is a marvelous demonstration of the power of classical mechanics and quantum mechanics working together. By studying this process in detail, they show how the complementary views provided by classical and quantum pictures are both essential to the understanding of nature. Without the combined power of classical and quantum concepts, the intricacies of the fission process could never have been understood. Bohr's notion of complementarity is triumphantly vindicated"" (John Archibald Wheeler, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 154 (2010)).‎

‎The Linnaean fish collection in the Linnean Society of London.‎

‎1985 76 p., 5 figs, disbound (no covers). Published in: Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. We added from the same journal: Wheeler, Further notes on the fishes from the collection of Laurens Theodore Gronovius (1730-1777) (14 p., 3 figs)‎

‎Le potager du Roi - Fruits et légumes du château de Versailles‎

‎Paris, Somogy Editions d'art, 1998. In-4 carré cartonnage et jaquette ill. (pommier), 158 p. Avant-propos de Marylène Mongalvy. Très nombreuses photos en couleurs. Ill. en noir. Parfait état.‎

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‎Les Sociétés d'Insectes. Leur Origine- Leur Evolution.‎

‎1926, Paris. Librairie Octave Doin et Gaston Doin. Petit In-12 Br. 61 Figures. 468 p. avec Index et Table. BE. ‎

‎The New Taxonomy.‎

‎2009 xxviii, 399 p., numerous figures, hardbound. Library stamps, else good copy.‎

‎La Pomme, histoire, petites histoires, recettes...‎

‎ Editions du Chêne, 1997. Petit in/4 carré, cartonnage éditeur illustré, illustrations en couleur : photographies de L.. Toussaint et reproductions d’images anciennes, et aquarelles originales, 115 p.‎

‎Bel album qui nous présente ce fruit indissociable de notre culture et de notre mémoire. ‎

‎Tissus imprimés ‎

‎ Editions du Carrousel, 1999, in/4 broché, 173 pages. Illustrations en couleurs.‎

‎"A la différence des techniques traditionnelles de tissage, celles de l'impression sur tissu sont assujetties aux découvertes scientifiques dans le domaine de la chimie. Ainsi placée au carrefour de la science et de l'art, cette industrie ne cessera de se développer tout au long des XVIIIe et XIXe siècles, créant des articles de grande diffusion. Dans ces articles populaires, les dessinateurs s'approprieront les motifs les plus fameux de l'histoire du textile, imitant et interprétant tour à tour cachemires, écossais, motifs floraux et autres. C'est ce riche répertoire iconographique que nous vous proposons de découvrir dans ce livre, à travers plus de deux cents échantillons de tissus de la fin du XIXe siècle." ‎

‎Les sociétés d'insectes. Leur origine - leur évolution.‎

‎1926 xii, 468 p., 61 figs, paperbound. Very good copy. Ex library Claude Gouffé.‎

‎Les sociétés d'insectes, leur origine, leur évolution.‎

‎1926 Paris, Doin, 1926 : in-12, broché xii, 468 pp., 61 figures in-texte, 22 pp. de catalogue de l'éditeur in-fine, couvertures illustrées. Très bon état, dos satisfaisant !‎

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‎A Synthesis of the Holarctic Miridae (Heteroptera): Distribution, Biology, and Origin, with Emphasis on North America.‎

‎1992 v, 282 p., 31 figures, 77 distribution maps, cloth. Library stamps, else good copy.‎

‎The Evolution of Cultural Entities.‎

‎2002 xi, 221 p., cloth (dust jacket). Library stamps, else fine copy.‎

‎Studies in the genetics of Drosophila. VIII [AND] IX. Articles on genetics, taxonomy, cytology, and radiation.‎

‎1954-1957 Two volumes in two. 307, 316 p, numerous text figures, paperbound (uniform original printed covers). Both contain a wealth of information on all aspects of fruit flies by many different authors. Volume 9 was the last to published. Some spotting to endpapers and title pages, stamp on front wrapper versos, otherwise good.‎

‎The Age of Fin Whales at Physical Maturity. With a Note on Multiple Ovulations.‎

‎1930 32 p., 5 figs, 1 plate, roy. 4to, hcloth. Library stamp. Discovery Reports. Scarce.‎

‎The Linnaean Fish Collection in the Zoological Museum of the University of Uppsala.‎

‎1991 61 p., 29 figs, disbound (no covers). Published in: Proceedings of the Zoological Society, London.‎

‎Social Life Among the Insects: Being a Series of Lectures Delivered at the Lowell Institute in Boston in March 1922.‎

‎1968 vii, 375 p., 116 figs, publisher’s cloth. Number pasted on lower end spine, library stamps on edges, else good copy‎

‎A photographic guide to north american raptors.‎

‎1996 London, Academic Press, 1996 : In-8 Raisin, Cartonnage d'éditeurs. réédition, xviii, 198 pp., 377 photos couleurs, un excellent guide photographique des 42 espèces de rapaces diurnes d'Amérique du Nord Etat du neuf, Couv. remarquable, Dos impeccable, Intérieur frais.‎

‎Partition de la chanson : Under the Moon ( Yoo-oo-oo-oo ) Edition originale pour cette partition piano , chant. . Sur la couverture, photo de l’orchestre »Dewey Wright and his Rendezvous Orchestra " ‎

‎ Waterson 1927‎

‎ Bon état Format Américain Piano,Ukulélé ‎

‎Les Douze Talismans de Pouvoir. Nice A.M., villa Adonais, Ave Cap de Croix, Cimiez,sans date [vers 1950]. ‎

‎ Un volume relié (28 x 21,5 cm) de 102 pp. Relié, plein veau rouge, filet doré d'encadrement des plats et plat sup. titré doré avec le nom de M. R. Dabrainville en queue, dos fleuronné doré titré à nerfs, roulette dorée sur les remplis, montage sur onglets. Fort rare manuscrit de cette édition privée et unique de Rolt-Wheeler (1876-1960), célèbre astrologue et occultiste, docteur en théologie, qui fut également prêtre anglican et aumônier à New-York pendant 20 ans et fondateur de la revue ésotérique Astrosophie. Il s'agit de son ouvrage le plus rare et le moins connu, dont on estime qu'il ne réalisa que 20 exemplaires, manuscrits, individuels et strictement réservés à ses plus proches disciples. Nous n'avons pu trancher si cet exemplaire, qui ne comporte ni numéro, ni date, est de la main même de Rolt-Wheeler et/ou d'un de ses disciples. Reliure très légèrement passée avec de petites traces de frottements, charnières intérieures lég. lâches renforcées par une bande de conservation en toile gommée crème. "Les Talismans de Pouvoir sont basés sur une synthèse des principes égyptiens, kabbalistes, pythagoriciens, hermétiques, gnostiques et alchimiques (...) Les 24 symboles composés qui se trouvent dans ce livre ont été spécialement combinés pour un emploi théurgique et zodiacal et cela en usage personnel ; ce sont donc des Talismans. De plus en raison de leur étroite association avec les entités supérieures, ces symboles sont chargés de force spirituelle ; ce sont donc aussi des amulettes dans la signification ancienne du mot ", lit-on dans l'avant-propos. L'utilisation de cet ouvrage se déroulait en trois étapes. Le disciple devait d'abord apprendre les différents symboles et pouvoirs des talismans, apprendre les prières associées, et se familiariser avec les Génies et les Invocations. Le disciple désirant l'aide des Forces Supérieures devait mettre trois doigts sur le talisman approprié, dire son désir à voix haute et réciter la prière attribuée. ‎

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‎Les influences romaines au-delà des frontières impériales.‎

‎ 1960 Plon 1960, collection "Civilisations d'Hier et d'Aujourd'hui", IX+232pp., petit in-8, 16 cartes in texte, broché. ‎

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‎Un Mystère de Peter Duluth : Puzzle de Mort. ( Avec jaquette et dédicaces autographes signées des auteurs, Richard Wilson Webb et Hugh Callingham Wheeler et du traducteur, Maurice-Bernard Endrèbe ).‎

‎ Editions Presses de la Cité / Collection Cosmopolis ( ancêtre de la collection " Un Mystère " ) 1949. In-12 broché de 250 pages au format 12 x 19 cm. Couverture avec titre imprimé. Dos carré. Plats et intérieur parfaits. Exemplaire non coupé. Complet de la belle jaquette illustrée. Rarissime édition originale surtout dans un tél état de fraicheur. Précieux exemplaire orné de 3 dédicaces autographes signées, non nominatives, de Patrick Quentin alias, Richard Wilson Webb et Hugh Callingham Wheeler et du traducteur, Maurice-Bernard Endrèbe.‎

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‎. Vente exclusivement par correspondance. Le libraire ne reçoit, exceptionnellement que sur rendez-vous. Il est préférable de téléphoner avant tout déplacement.Forfait de port pour un livre 10 € sauf si épaisseur supérieure à 3 cm ou valeur supérieure ou égale à 100 €, dans ce cas expédition obligatoire au tarif Colissimo en vigueur. A partir de 2 livres envoi en colissimo obligatoire. Port à la charge de l'acheteur pour le reste du monde.Les Chèques ne sont plus acceptés.Pour destinations extra-planétaire s'adresser à la NASA.Membre du Syndicat Lusitanien Amateurs Morues‎