‎Die Elektrizität in elementare Behandlung. Herausgegeben von William Garnett. Ins Deutsche übertragen von L. Graetz. Mit in den Text eingedruckten Holzstichen.‎

‎Braunschweig, Vieweg und Sohn, 1883. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine with gilt lettering. First inner hinge weakening. XVI,224 pp., textillustrations and 4 plates. Some scattered brownspots.‎

‎First German edition of Maxwell's ""Elementary Treatise on Electricity"", 1881.‎

‎La Chaleur. Lecons Élémentaires sur la Thermometrie, la Calorimétrie, La Thermodynamique, et la Dissipation de L'Énergie. Edition francaise, d'apres la huitieme edition anglaise., par Georges Mouret. Prècédée d'une préface par M.A. Potier.‎

‎Paris, Gauthier-Villars (as a paperlabel pasted on B.Tignot), (1891). Uncut in orig. printed wrappers. Unopened. Sewing broken on back. Nearly all of backstrip preserved. (4),IV,432 pp.Textillustrations. Scattered brownspots, mainly marginal. A good copy.‎

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‎First French edition of ""Theory of Heat"" from 1871. The work contains the description of the so-called ""sorting demon"", a member of a class of ""very small BUT lively beings incapable of doing work but able to open and shut valves which move without friction and inertia"", and thereby defeat the second law of thermodynamics. The demon points to the statistical characyer of the law. (DSB IX, p. 227).‎

‎Matter and Motion.‎

‎London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1876. Small8vo. Original blind stamped brown cloth. End papers renewed and first two leaves reinforced in margin. Repair to lower part of title-page affecting year of printing and small label ( ""S.L.M."") to p. 128. Extremities slightly rubbed, internnaly fine and clean. Pp. viii, (9)-128, (4).‎

‎Rare first edition of Maxwell's ""masterpiece of natural philosophy, notable especially for introducing into physics the term relativity in a passage that combines strenuous scientific insight with a mystical awareness (...)"" (Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, p. 209). ""Maxwell's Matter and Motion first appeared in 1876 and was reprinted before the year was out. The first American edition was printed in 1878. Following several reprints on both sides of the Atlantic, Sir Joseph Larmor added notes and appendices to produce a new edition in 1920. This edition was reprinted in 1925 and at least half-a-dozen times since 1952"" (Flood, McCartney & Whitaker, James Clerk Maxwell: Perspectives on his Life and Work (2014), p. 27). ""More light is thrown on Maxwell’s own opinions about the problem of relative and absolute motion and the connection between dynamics and other branches of physics by the delightful monograph Matter and Motion, published in 1876."" (DSB)‎

‎On Double Refraction in a Viscous Fluid in Motion.‎

‎(London, Taylor and Francis, 1873). 8vo. Uncut in the original printed wrappers. In ""Proceedings of the Royal Society"", Vol. XXII [22], No. 148. Entire issue offered. Wrappers with light soiling, spine lacking upper and lower part of paper, otherwise fine and clean. Pp. 46-47. [Entire issue: 51 pp.].‎

‎First printing of this important paper in which Maxwell describes an attempt to establish the relaxation time: ""In 1866 I made some attempts to ascertain whether the state of strain in a viscous fluid in motion could be detected by its action on polarized light"" (from the present paper.)‎

‎Theorie der Wärme. Autorisirte Deutsche Ausgabe übersetzt nach der vierten Auflage des Originals von F. Neesen. Mit in den Text eingedruckten Holzstichen.‎

‎Braunschweig, Vieweg und Sohn, 1878. Contemp. hcalf., raised bands gilt spine. A few minor scratches. IX,382,(X-)XVI pp., textillustrations. Internally clean and fine.‎

‎First German edition of Maxwell's ""Theory of Heat"" from 1871.‎

‎The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell. Volume I 1846-1862. Edited by P.M. Harman.‎

‎Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, (1990). 4to. Orig. full cloth. Fronstispiece. XXVIII,748 pp., 10 plates.‎

‎Über Faradays Kraftlinien. (1855/1856) und Über physikalischen Kaftlinien. (1861/1862). Hrsg. von L. Boltzmann.‎

‎Frankfurth am Main, Harri Deutsch, (1995). Orig. printed wrappers. Portrait. 130,146,(2) pp.‎

‎Reprint of Ostwalds Klassiker der Exakten Wissenschaften Bd. 69 u. 102.‎

‎The Bakerian Lecture. - On the Viscosity or Internal Friction of Air and other Gases. Received November 23, 1865 (+) Postscript.- Received December 7, 1865. - Read February 8, 1866.‎

‎(London, Taylor and Francis, 1866). Large 4to. Without wrappers. Extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London."", Vol. 156 - Part I. Pp. 249-268 a. 1 lithographed plate. A few brownspots to the plate. Having the titlepage to vol. 156 - Part I. A few brownspots to lower margins.‎

‎First appearance of a major paper in the kinetic theory of gases, in which Maxwell proved that the viscosity was independent of pressure as predicted, and nearly a linear function of the absolute temperature T.One of Maxwell's major investigations was on the kinetic theory of gases. Originating with Daniel Bernoulli, this theory was advanced by the successive labours of John Herapath, John James Waterston, James Joule, and particularly Rudolf Clausius, to such an extent as to put its general accuracy beyond a doubt"" but it received enormous development from Maxwell, who in this field appeared as an experimenter (on the laws of gaseous friction) as well as a mathematician.""James Clerk Maxwell published a famous paper in 1866 (the paper offered) using the kinetic theory of gases to study gaseous viscosity. The internal friction (the viscosity) of the gas is determined by the probability a particle of layer A enters layer B with a corresponding transfer of momentum. Maxwell's calculations showed him that the viscosity coefficient is proportional to both the density, the mean free path and the mean velocity of the atoms. On the other hand, the mean free path is inversely proportional to the density. So an increase of pressure doesn't result in any change of the viscosity.‎

‎""On the Dynamical Theory of Gases."" Received May 16, - 1866.‎

‎(London, Taylor and Francis, 1866). No wrappers, as extracted from""Proceedings of the Royal Society of London."", Vol. XV. May 16, 1866. Pp 167-171.‎

‎First appearance of this seminal paper (in the abstract-version from ""Proceedings""), representing the announcement of Maxwell's final ""Theory of Gases"" and introduces the ""Maxwell Distribution"" in its final form, a statistical means of describing aspects of the kinetic theory of gases, a theory, together with his electromagnetic theory, are considered to be some of the greatest advances in physics of all times. The paper offered, only 5 pages, is an abstract of a paper with the same title, which was printed in full in ""Philosophical Transactions"" in 1868. Everett considers this paper (1868) to be Maxwell's greatest single paper.The ""abstract"", which announces his discovery was printed the year before the larger paper. Maxwell's discoveries laid the foundations of special relativity and quantum mechanics.One of Maxwell's major investigations was on the kinetic theory of gases. Originating with Daniel Bernoulli, this theory was advanced by the successive labours of John Herapath, John James Waterston, James Joule, and particularly Rudolf Clausius, to such an extent as to put its general accuracy beyond a doubt" but it received enormous development from Maxwell, who in this field appeared as an experimenter (on the laws of gaseous friction) as well as a mathematician.In 1866, he formulated statistically, independently of Ludwig Boltzmann, the Maxwell-Boltzmann kinetic theory of gases. His formula, called the Maxwell distribution, gives the fraction of gas molecules moving at a specified velocity at any given temperature. In the kinetic theory, temperatures and heat involve only molecular movement. This approach generalized the previously established laws of thermodynamics and explained existing observations and experiments in a better way than had been achieved previously. Maxwell's work on thermodynamics led him to devise the Gedankenexperiment (thought experiment) that came to be known as Maxwell's demon.‎

‎Traité élémentaire d'électricité publié par W. Garnett précédé d'une notice sur les travaux en électricité du Professeur Maxwell, traduit de l'anglais par G. Richard -- PREMIERE EDITION FRANCAISE -- BON EXEMPLAIRE‎

‎P., Gauthier-Villars, 1884, un volume in 8, demi-basane marron, dos orné de filets dorés (reliure de l'époque), (cachet de bibliothèque), (2), 4pp., 44pp., 275pp., figures dans le texte‎

‎---- PREMIERE EDITION FRANCAISE -- BON EXEMPLAIRE ---- "Maxwell's electrical researches began a few weeks after his graduation from Cambridge and ended just before his death. They fall into two broad cycles : the first a period of five major papers on the foundations of electromagnetic theory, the second a period of extension with the treatise on electricity and magnetism, the elementary treatise on electricity...". (DSB XI, pp. 198/230)**3616/M3‎

‎A Note on experiments with floating Magnets showing the motions and arrangements in a plane of freely moving bodies, acted on by forces of attraction and repulsion" and serving in the study of the directions and motions of the lines of magnetic force...‎

‎(New Haven), 1878. Both issues with modern blank wrappers. In: The American Journal of Science and Arts"", Third series Vol. 15, No 88 and Vol. 16, No. 94. Pp. 245-524 and pp. 247-334 (2 entire issues offered). Mayer's papers: pp. 276-277 with textfig., pp. 247-256 with 2 pp. of illustrations.‎

‎First appearance of the papers in which Mayer describes his invention of the method of floating tiny magnets in a magnetic field, used in the early twentieth century as a key to discovering or illustrating atomic structure.""Mayer is most remembered (and cited) for his experiments in which magnetized needles were inserted into corks, which were then ftoated on water with their south poles upward, under the north pole of a powerful electromagnet. Under these conditions, certain definite stable configurations were observed “which suggested the manner in which atoms of molecules may be grouped in the formation of definite compounds and which illustrated various properties of the constitution of matter. These experiments won high praise from Kelvin ... and were later used by J. J. Thomson (Electricity and Matter [New Haven, 1904], ... and others as a key to the way in which a characteristic number of electrons might be arranged within the atoms of each chemical element in relation to the periodic table. Mayer thus made a small but significant contribution to the theory of atomic structure."" (DSB)Issue 94 of vol. 16 contains an importent paper by HENRY A. ROWLAND ""Research on the Absolute Unit of Electrical Resistance"", pp. 281-291, in which he established an authoritative figure for the absolute value of the Ohm. - Wheeler Gift: 3967.‎

‎Julius Robert Mayer. ‘Klassiker der Naturwissenschaften’, hrsg. v. Lothar Brieger-Wasservogel, Band 1.‎

‎Leipzig, Theodor Thomas, 1905, gr. in-8°, Porträt-Frontispiz + VI + 210 S., mehrheitlich unaufgeschnitten, leicht Stockfleckig, illustrierte Original-Broschüre.‎

‎Robert Julius Mayer (1814-1878) was one of the early formulators of the principle of the conservation of energy. ... Existing biographies of Mayer tend to whiggishness; one of the better ones is S. Friedländer, Julius Robert Mayer (Leipzig, 1905). Dictionary of Scientific Biography IX/235-240. ‎

‎Bemerkungen über die Kräfte der unbelebten Natur.‎

‎Heidelberg, C.F. Winter, 1842. Bound in a nice later hcalf. Raised bands, titlelabel with gilt lettering. In: ""Annalen der Chemie und Pharmacie. herausgegeben von Friedrich Wóhler und Justus Liebig"", Vol. 42. (6),356 pp. Mayer's paper: pp. 233-240. Volume 42 is offered bound together with vol. 41. (8),376 pp. a. 1 folded plate. (This volume contains importent cehemical papers by Kolbe, Cahours, Kopp, Wöhler, Laurent and Liebig (the first printing of Liebig's famous work on animal physiology and pathology)‎

‎First printing of one of the most important papers in physics, chemistry and physiology in the 19th century. The paper is the first to propose an equivalence of all forms of energy, including heat, and a conservation of total energy. Although Mayer was the first to set forth the general law of the conversation of energy (the first thermodynamical law), it was James Joule who first put the law on firm footing. ""The paper of 1842 (the paper offered) set out Mayer’s definitive view on the conservation of force and established his claim to priority"" historically the paper also provides insight into the processes through which Mayer arrived at his theory.""(DSB).""Originally trained as a physician, mayer did not enjoy medical practice. About 1840 he began to be interested in physics and he entered thhe field of research, ... In 1842 he not only presented a figure for the mechanical equivalent of heat, but he also clearly presented his belief in the conversation of energy. He had some difficulty getting his paper on the subject published but Liebig finally accepted for the importent journal he edited. Though Mayer was five years ahead of Joule his paper aroused no interest, and in the end it was Joule, with his imposing experimental background. who received credit for working out the mechanical equivalent of heat. And it was Helmholtz who recieved credit for announcing the law of conservation of energy because he announced it so much more systematically. Yet Mayer went further than either of the other two, for he included living phenomena in the realm of energy conservation (a daring step in a decade when vitalism, with its view that the laws of inanimate nature did not apply to living systems, was still a considerable force). Mayer argued that solar energy was the ultimate source of all energy on earth, both living and non-living. He further suggested that solar energy was derived from the slow contraction of the sun, or by the fall of meteors into the sun, in either case kinetic energy being converted to radiant energy.""(Asimov)""After 1860, Mayer was finally given the recognition he deserved. Many of his articles were translated into English, and such well-known scientists as Rydolph Clausius in Germany and John Tyndall in England began to champion Mayer as the founder of the law of the conservation of energy.""(Alan Lightman ""Great Ideas in Physics"", p. 8).Parkinson ""Breakthroughs"" 1842 P. - Magee ""A Source Book in Physics"", p. 196 ff. - Dibner: 157 (listing the offprint with a different title) - PMM: 330 (offprint-version). - Garrison & Morton: 606.‎

‎On the Origin of Elements. - [THE DISCOVERY OF THE NUCLEAR SHELL MODEL AND ""MAGIC NUMBERS""]‎

‎Lancaster, American Institute of Physics, 1949. Lex8vo. Volume 76, October 15, No. 8, 1949 of ""The Physical Review"", Second Series. Entire volume offered. In the original printed blue wrappers. Previous owner's name to vaguely stamped to top right corner of front wrapper. Minor traces of wear to extremities and a few small tears to spine. Overall a very nice and clean copy. Pp. 1226-1231. [Entire issue: Pp. 1005-1274].‎

‎First printing of Mayer's seminal paper which led to the finding of ""magic number"" and the Goeppert-Mayer ""shell model"". Marie Goeppert-Mayer and Marie Curie are the only two women to have received the Nobel Prize in Physics.The nuclear shell model is partly analogous to the atomic shell model which describes the arrangement of electrons in an atom. The nuclear shell model describes the structure of the nucleus in terms of energy based on the Pauli exclusion principle.""With Edward Teller in 1947, Marie Goeppert-Mayer began work on the origin of elements, which led to the finding that stable elements contained what would become known as ""magic numbers"", or patterns in the number of particles their nuclei contain. This ultimately led Goeppert-Mayer to the ""shell model"" of the nucleus - the theory that atomic nuclei owe their stability to the existence of relatively fixed ""shells"" or orbits upon which proton and neutrons travel. While other physicists also had envisioned a shell model, there was no convincing evidence until Marie Goeppert-Mayer, acting on a suggestion made by Enrico Fermi, and German scientist H. H. D. Jensen, working simultaneously but seperatly, discovered that spin-orbit coupling occurred within nuclei."" (Cullen-DuPont, Kathryn. Encyclopedia of women's history in America, 2000, p. 102) ""When Teller and I worked on a paper on the origin of elements, I stumbled over the magic numbers. We found that there were a few nuclei which had a greater isotopic as well as cosmic abundance than our theory or any other reasonable continuum theory could possible explain. Then I found that those nuclei had something in common: they either had 82 neutrons, whatever the associated proton number, or 50 neutrons. Eighty-two and fifty are "" magic "" numbers. That nuclei of this type are unusually abundant indicates that the excess stability must have played a part in the process of the creation of elements."" (Marie Goeppert-Mayer's Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1963)‎

‎Introduction à l'optique - Cours, exercices d'application, problèmes résolus‎

‎Dunod. 1993. In-8. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 234 pages - nombreux schémas en noir et blanc dans le texte.. . . . Classification Dewey : 530-Physique‎

‎ Classification Dewey : 530-Physique‎

‎ELEMENS D'ARITHMETIQUE, D'ALGEBRE ET DE GEOMETRIE, avec une introduction aux sections coniques.Ouvrage utile pour faire entrer dans l'esprit de ces sciences & pour disposer à l'étude de la physique & des sciences physico-mathématiques.Septième édition. Revue, corrigée & augmentée par l'auteur.‎

‎ A Paris, chez Nyon l'ainé, 1788, 1 plein veau, dos à nerfs, orné, tranches marbrées, roulette sur les coupes et les coiffes, plats frottés. in-8 de XI-(5)-557 pages, petite galerie de vers dans la marge du bas, sans gravité ; ‎

‎Jean-Mathurin Mazéas, né à Landerneau (Finistère). ‎

‎COURS DE PHYSIQUE / 2e EDITION.‎

‎CHARLES-LAVAUZELLE & CIE. 1939. In-12. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. convenable, Dos plié, Intérieur frais. 431 pages - Nombreuses figures en noir et blanc in texte . 1 tampon sur la page de titre.. . . . Classification Dewey : 530-Physique‎

‎LE CANDIDAT OFFICIEL Classification Dewey : 530-Physique‎

‎Matières et antimatières : A la recherche de la matière perdue‎

‎Dunod 2009 175 pages 22x14x2cm. 2009. Broché. 175 pages.‎

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‎Matières et antimatières : A la recherche de la matière perdue‎

‎Dunod 2009 175 pages 22x14x2cm. 2009. Broché. 175 pages.‎

‎jamais lu avec bandeau commercial‎

‎ELEMENTS DE PHYSIQUE - TOME 1 : MECANIQUE - A L'USAGE DES ETUDIANTS DES FACULTES DES SCIENCES ET DES CLASSES PREPARATOIRES AUX ECOLES D'INGENIEURS.‎

‎MASSON ET CIE. 1962. In-8. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. VIII + 241 pages - nombreuses figures en noir et blanc dans le texte.. . . . Classification Dewey : 530-Physique‎

‎ Classification Dewey : 530-Physique‎

‎Lectures sur les sciences physiques et naturelles - Physique, chimie, zoologie, géologie et botanique.‎

‎1 vol. in-4 cartonnage éditeur rouge, ill. noir et blanc, Gedalge jeune, Libraire-éditeur, Paris, s.d. (circa 1890), 239 pp.‎

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‎Etat très satisfaisant (qques cahiers un peu faibles, bon état par ailleurs, avec intérieur très frais).‎

‎Annales de physique, tome 7‎

‎1927 Masson et Cie éditeurs dixième série des annales de chimie et de physique. broché, 332p. bon état malgré de petits accrocs sur la couverture.‎

‎Table : contribution à l'étude de la répartition des températures le long d'un filament incandescent de tungstène chauffé électriquement dans le vide (G. Ribaud, S. Nikitine) - contribution à l'étude de l'émission de radiations de courte longueur d'onde par les corps faiblement conducteur (E. Bodin) - étude sur l'émission des rayons positifs, application à la séparation des isotopes (M. Morand) - de l'hydrodynamique à l'hydraulique (turbulence des gaz et des liquides)(M. Brillouin) - spectre d'arc et spectres d'étincelle du brome (L. et E. Bloch) - sur quelques nouvelles propriétés de la lumière et des rayons X, rôle des écrans (F. Wolfers) - comparaisons des différentes statistiques appliquées aux problèmes de quanta (L. Brillouin). ‎

‎La diffusion moléculaire de la lumière dans les liquides controle expérimental des formules théoriques - Extrait de le journal de physique et le radium aout 1927 série VI T.VIII n°8.‎

‎Le journal de physique et le radium. 1927. In-4. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. légèrement passée, Dos satisfaisant, Papier jauni. 16 pages agrafées - annotation sur le 1er plat.. . . . Classification Dewey : 530-Physique‎

‎ Classification Dewey : 530-Physique‎

‎Ordinary Non-Linear differential equations in engineering and physical Sciences.‎

‎Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1950. Orig. full cloth. VII,201 pp., textfigs.‎

‎PHYSIQUE TOME 2‎

‎EDITIONS SCIENTIFIQUE CLAUDE HERMANT. non daté. In-8. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. Paginé de 193 à 522. Nombreuses illustrations en noir et blanc, dans le texte.. . . . Classification Dewey : 530-Physique‎

‎ Classification Dewey : 530-Physique‎