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Perturbation theory and its applications in quantum mechanics
John Wiley & sons. 1966. In-8. Relié. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 428 pages.. Avec Jaquette. . . Classification Dewey : 530-Physique
Etiquette sur coiffe en pied. Tampon bibliothèque. texte écrit en anglais. Classification Dewey : 530-Physique
On the Evidence afforded by Bode's Law of a permanent Contraction of the Radii Vectores of the Planetary Orbits.
Manchester, 1895. 8vo. In the original printed wrappers. Offprint from: ""Memoirs and Proceedings of the manchester Literary and Philosophical Society"", Volume Nine, Fourth series. With the authors presentation inscription to top of first page: ""With the Author's Compliments"". Lacking backwrapper. Internally fine and clean. Pp. 95-107.
Offprint with the author's presentation inscription. Henry Wilde, a wealthy individual from Manchester, England who used his self-made fortune to indulge his interest in electrical engineering. He invented the dynamo-electric machine, or self-energising dynamo, published in 1866. The machine was considered remarkable at the time, especially since Wilde was fond of spectacular demonstrations, such as the ability of his machine to cause iron bars to melt.
On the Indefinite Quantitative Relations of the Physical and Chemical Forces.
Manchester, The Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, 1896. 8vo. In the original printed wrappers. Offprint from ""Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society"", Tenth [10] volume, Fourth series. With author's presentation inscription to top of front wrapper: ""With the Author's Compliments."". Lacking 1 cm of lower part of front wrapper, not affecting text, otherwise a very fine and clean copy. Pp. 61-71 + 1 plate.
Scarce offprint issue, with author's presentation inscription, of Wilde's important contribution to the quantitative relations of the physical and chemical forces especially in relation to batteries. Henry Wilde (1833 - 1919) a wealthy individual from Manchester, England who used his self-made fortune to indulge his interest in electrical engineering. He invented the dynamo-electric machine, or self-energising dynamo, published in 1866. The machine was considered remarkable at the time, especially since Wilde was fond of spectacular demonstrations, such as the ability of his machine to cause iron bars to melt.
On the Influence of the Configuration and Direction of Coast Lines upon the Rate and Range of the Secular Magnetic Declination
Manchester, The Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, 1894. 8vo. In the original printed wrappers. Offprint from ""Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society"", Ninth [9] volume, Fourth series. With author's presentation inscription to top of front wrapper: ""With the Author's Compliments."". Light soiling to extremities. Very fine and clean. Pp. 181-186 + 1 folded plate.
Scarce offprint issue, with author's presentation inscription, of Wilde's contribution to the magnetic declination of the Earth.Henry Wilde (1833 - 1919) a wealthy individual from Manchester, England who used his self-made fortune to indulge his interest in electrical engineering. He invented the dynamo-electric machine, or self-energising dynamo, published in 1866. The machine was considered remarkable at the time, especially since Wilde was fond of spectacular demonstrations, such as the ability of his machine to cause iron bars to melt.
On the Origin of Elementary Substances, and on some New Relations of their Atomic Weights. - [WILDE ON THE ORIGIN OF ELEMENTS]
Manchester, T. Sowler and Co., 1878. 8vo. In the original printed wrappers. Offprint from ""The Proceedings of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society"", April 30. Author's presentation inscription to front wrapper ""Edmund J Mills / with the Author's Compliments"". Miscolouring to lower part of front wrapper. Internally fine and clean. 25 pp. + 1 folded plate.
Scarce offprint issue, with author's presentation inscription, of Wilde's contribution to the origin of elements and his views on the newly created periodic system.Henry Wilde (1833 - 1919) a wealthy individual from Manchester, England who used his self-made fortune to indulge his interest in electrical engineering. He invented the dynamo-electric machine, or self-energising dynamo, published in 1866. The machine was considered remarkable at the time, especially since Wilde was fond of spectacular demonstrations, such as the ability of his machine to cause iron bars to melt.
On the Origin of Elementary Substances and on some New Relations of Their Atomic Weights (+) Sur l'origine corps simples, et sur l'existence de relations nouvelles entre leurs poids atomiques.
London (+) Paris, Kegan Paul (+) Gauthier-Villars et fils, 1892. Large4to. Without front wrapper and backtrip. Internally fine and clean. VI, 18 pp + 1 folded plate.
Second issue, with alterations and additional material, of Wilde's contribution to the origin of elements and his views on the newly created periodic system, including the first French translation. Wilde states in the preface [printed here for the first time] that: ""The reprinting of this paper is all the more desirable, as some of the views set forth therein have been modified by subsequent investigatiors, without advancing much beyond what had already been accomplished"" while, in other instances, there has been a distinct retrogression from the solid position which chemical philosophy had attained more than forty years ago."" Henry Wilde (1833 - 1919) a wealthy individual from Manchester, England who used his self-made fortune to indulge his interest in electrical engineering. He invented the dynamo-electric machine, or self-energising dynamo, published in 1866. The machine was considered remarkable at the time, especially since Wilde was fond of spectacular demonstrations, such as the ability of his machine to cause iron bars to melt.
Actes de l'Academie nationale des sciences, Belles Lettres et Arts 5,ème série tome 20 la fusion, esssence de l'univers
Non Renseigné. 1995. In-8. En feuillets. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. Tiré à part de la page 57-67, illustré de schémas. . . . Classification Dewey : 530-Physique
Classification Dewey : 530-Physique
LES ENFANTS D'EINSTEIN. LA RELATIVITE GENERALE A L'EPREUVE DE L'OBSERVATION
INTEREDITIONS. 1988. In-8. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur acceptable. 301 pages.. . . . Classification Dewey : 530-Physique
Traduit de l'américain par Françoise Balibar et Michel Biezunski. Préface de Jean Audouze. Classification Dewey : 530-Physique
The cosmic frontiers of general relativity
Little Brown and Company 1977 in8. 1977. Cartonné. illustrations en noir et blanc
sans jaquette bords insolés intérieur propre
Investigaciones experimentales sobre los espectros de la descarga oscilante. Tesis. Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires.
Buenos Aires, Coni Hermanos 1915, 265x180mm, 232páginas, encad. percalina
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An Electromagnetic Effect - Contribution n° 7 - Physical Laboratory, Oberlin College , offprint from The American Journal of Science, vol. XXXIV, September 1912
American Journal of Science Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1912 Book condition, Etat : Bon paperback In-8 1 vol. - 7 pages
8 figures Contents, Chapitres : Bowden in 1895 described some interesting experiments on the behavior of a column of mercury in a magnetic field when carrying an electrical current, Williams had repeated the experiments and explain the effects petit accroc sur quelques pages
Introduction Electrical Engineering. Circuits and Machines.
Princeton New Jersey, D. van Nostrand 1956, 235x155mm, 552pages, editor's binding.
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Elements of X-Ray Crystallography.
Addison-Wesley Publishers Company, Inc. 1970, 235x160mm, IX - 256pages, editor's binding with jacket. Stained top edge and brown spots on top and bottom endpapers and name of previous owner on top of front page, otherwise a fine copy, clean interior.
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"WILSON, C.T.R. - THE IMPROVED VERSION OF ""WILSONS CLOUD-CHAMBER"".
Reference : 46922
(1911)
On a Method of making Visible the Paths of Ionising Particles through a Gas.
London, Harrison and Sons, 1911. Small 4to. Contemp. full cloth. Spine gilt and with gilt lettering. A stamp to verso of titlepage and a few other leaves. In: ""Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A."", Vol. LXXXV. XXIII,605,XXIV pp. and 11 plates. (Entire volume offered). Wilson's paper: pp. 285-288 a. 1 plate. Clean and fine.
First appearance of the paper which describes the final version of his invention, the famous Cloud-Chamber, - the first Cloud Chamber was invented by him in 1896 - for making visible and photographing the paths of charged particles, an invention for which Wilson received a share of the Nobel Prize in 1827. By using the Cloud Chamber he was here (1911) able to observe the track of an alpha ray by condensing water drops onto the ions produced by its passage.The Cloud Chamber, which Rutherford called ""the most original apparatus in the whole history of physics"", became standard equipment in physics laboratories, and made possible numerous important discoveries in the fields of particle and nuclear physicsAfter 1896 ""Wilson continued to experiment with ultraviolet radiation and other techniques for producing condensation effects, but soon concentrated on atmospheric electricity, not returning to the cloud chamber until December 1910. He designed an improved chamber with new methods of illumination and the possibility of photographing the results. At this time Wilson realized that it might be possible to reveal the track of an a ray by condensing water drops onto the ions produced by its passage. During March 1911 he saw this effect produced in his apparatus. Thus, the elucidation of phenomena seen in the Scottish hills led to the possibility of studying the processes of radioactivity, and the Wilson cloud chamber became an important piece of laboratory equipment. But it was in the study of cosmic rays that it achieved its full power, particularly in the refined form developed by Patrick Blackett, in which it was possible to study particles of very high energy and the production of electron-positron pairs with the chamber situated in a strong magnetic field."" (DSB).
"WILSON, C.T.R. - THE INVENTION OF THE WILSON ""CLOUD CHAMBER""
Reference : 42616
(1897)
Condensation of Water Vapour in the Presence of Dust-free Air and other Gases. Communicated by J.J. Thomson. Received March 15, - Read April 8, 1897.
(London, Harrison and Sons, 1897). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" Year 1897, Volume 189 - Series A. - Pp. 265-307. Clean fine. Textillustrations, depicting Wilson's famous apparatus
First printing of this groundbreaking paper in which Wilson describes the invention which made it possible to view the track of a single atomic projectile or electron. The invenvention of the ""Dust-Chamber"" made it possible for J.J. Thomson in 1897 to calculate the charge of the electron, and thereby finding its mass, since the ratio between the two was known. In most cases it was found that the track of the particle is a straight, or nearly straight line.""C.T.R. Wilson had been developing his cloud-chamber, which was to provide the most powerfull of all methods of investigation in atomic physics. In moist air, if a certain degree of supersaturation is exceeded this can be secured by a sudden expansion of the air) condensation takes place on dust-nuclei, when any are present: if by preliminary operations condensation is made to take place on the dust-nuclei, and the resulting droplets are allowed to settle, the air in the chamber is thereby freed from dust. If now X-rays or radiation from a radioactive substance are passed into the chamber, and if the degree of supersaturation is sufficient, condensation again takes place: this is due to the production of ions by the radiation. Thus the tracks of ionising radiations can be made visible by the sudden expansion of a moist gas, each ion becoming the centre of a visible globule of water. Wilson showed that the ions produced by uranium radiation were identical with those produced by X-rays."" (Whittaker in ""A History of the Theories of Aether & Electricity"" II:p.4).
"WILSON, C.T.R. - THE MOST ORIGINAL AND WONDERFUL INSTRUMENT IN SCIENTIFIC HISTORY - WILSON'S CLOUD CHAMBER.
Reference : 45816
(1913)
Über die Expansionsapparat zur Sichtsbarmachung der Bahnen ionisierender Teilchen in Gasen, und über einige mittels dieses Apparats gewonnene Ergebnisse. Mit 23 Figuren im Text und auf 5 Tafeln. (Eingegangen 6. Oktober 1912). (On an Expansion Apparatu...
Leipzig, S. Hirzel, 1913. 8vo. Orig. printed wrappers, no backstrip. Wrappers loose. In ""Jahrbuch der Radioaktivität und Elektronik"", 10. bd., Heft 1. Pp. 1-138 (entire issue offered). Wilson's paper: pp. 34-54, textillustrations, showing apparatus and 5 photographic plates, showing ionizing by Alpha-, Beta- and Röntgen- radiation).
Together with the English version - published 1912 in the Proceedings of the Royal Society - this is Wilson's main paper relating ""that the track of an ionizing particle might be made visible and photographed by condensing water of the ions which is liberated"". The first trails were obtained in 1911 where he submitted a short note of this to the Proceedings. In the offered paper he published the first tracks made by the ionizing particles of alpha, beta and Röntgen-rays. This, Wilson Cloud-Chamber, became an extremely valuable instrument of fundamental research, the discovery of the positron in 1932 and the kaon in 1963 were made by using cloud chambers as detectors.""But the whole course of the particle appears infinitely more clearly by the method invented by C.T.R. Wilson in 1911 and named after him. The radiation is allowed to enter an expansion-chamber, containing a gas saturated with water vapour. A sudden expansion of the chamber cools the gas, and cloud-drops are then formed instantly around the ions produced along the tracks of the particles. By suitable illumination these tracks can be made to stand out clearly as if they had been described by luminous projectiles. The ""Altmeister"" of modern nuclear physics, Lord Rutherford, once called the Wilson chamber ""the most original and wonderful instrument in scientific history"".""Thomson Rees Wilson (1869-1959), a Scottish physicist, is credited with inventing the cloud chamber. Inspired by sightings of the Brocken spectre while working on the summit of Ben Nevis in 1894, he began to develop expansion chambers for studying cloud formation and optical phenomena in moist air. Very rapidly he discovered that ions could act as centers for water droplet formation in such chambers. He pursued the application of this discovery and perfected the first cloud chamber in 1911. In Wilson's original chamber the air inside the sealed device was saturated with water vapor, then a diaphragm is used to expand the air inside the chamber (adiabatic expansion). This cools the air and water vapor starts to condense. When an ionizing particle passes through the chamber, water vapor condenses on the resulting ions and the trail of the particle is visible in the vapor cloud. Wilson, along with Arthur Compton, received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1927 for his work on the cloud chamber. (Wikipedia).
On the Condension Nuclei produced in Gases by the Action of Röntgen Rays, Uranium Rays, Ultra-violet Light, and other Agents. Received October 29, - Read November 24, 1898.
(London, Harrison and Sons, 1899). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"", Vol. 192 - Series A. Pp. 403-453. Textillustrations. Clean and fine.
First printing of Wilson's second importent paper describing his further experiments with his ""Cloud Chamber"".""To the period 1895-1912 belongs the development of an instrument which to my mind is the most original and wonderful in scientific history.I refer to the cloud or expansion chamber of C.T.R. Wilson...It was a wonderful advance to be able to se, so to speak, the details of the adventures of these particles in their flight through the gas....""(Lord Rutherford).""C.T.R. Wilson had been developing his cloud-chamber, which was to provide the most powerfull of all methods of investigation in atomic physics. In moist air, if a certain degree of supersaturation is exceeded this can be secured by a sudden expansion of the air) condensation takes place on dust-nuclei, when any are present: if by preliminary operations condensation is made to take place on the dust-nuclei, and the resulting droplets are allowed to settle, the air in the chamber is thereby freed from dust. If now X-rays or radiation from a radioactive substance are passed into the chamber, and if the degree of supersaturation is sufficient, condensation again takes place: this is due to the production of ions by the radiation. Thus the tracks of ionising radiations can be made visible by the sudden expansion of a moist gas, each ion becoming the centre of a visible globule of water. Wilson showed that the ions produced by uranium radiation were identical with those produced by X-rays."" (Whittaker in ""A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity."" II, p. 4).
"WILSON, C.T.R. - THE ""WILSON-CLOUD-CHAMBER"" BROUGHT TO PERFECTION.
Reference : 47063
(1923)
Investigations on X-Rays and Beta-Rays by the Cloud Method.. Part I. - X-Rays. Part II. - Beta-Rays. (2 Papers).
London, Harrison and Sons, 1923. Royal8vo. Contemp. full cloth, gilt lettering to spine. A small stamp to verso of titlepage and on foot of a few leaves.. In: ""Proceedings of the Royal Society"", Series A, Vol. 104. VI,(6),676,XXXII pp., textillustr. and plates. (Entire volume offered). Wilson's papers: pp. (1-) 24 and 12 plates + pp. 192-212 and 9 plates.
First printing of the paper in which Wilson had brought his Cloud Chamber to perfection and showed the photographic tracks of the particles. The Cloud Chamber was the first detector of radioacticity and nuclear transmutations and it played an importent role in experimental particle physics e.g. the discovery of the positron. Wilson received the Nobel prize - together with Arthur Compton - in physics in 1927 for his work on the Cloud Chamber.""The 21 cloud chamber pictures of X-rays and beta-rays on coated stock printed recto only were the culmination of many years research by Wilson and at last showed the full potential of this method as a tool for particle physicists. Early in 1911 (Wilson) was the first person to see and photograph the tracks of individual alpha-particles and electrons. The event aroused great interest as the paths of the alpha-particle were just as W.H. Bragg had drawn them in publication some years earlier. But it was not until 1923 (the paperoffered) that the clous chamber was brought to perfection and led to his two, beautifully illustrated classic papers on the track of electron."" (The Nobel Foundation).
Wilson (David B.) on Lord Kelvin and Sir George Gabriel Stokes
Reference : 100262
(1987)
Kelvin and Stokes - A Comparative Study in Victorian Physics , (Lord Kelvin and Sir George Gabriel Stokes)
Adam Hilger Ltd, Bristol Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1987 Book condition, Etat : Très Bon hardcover, editor's binding, under editor's original red dust-jacket, illustrated by 2 portraits, Stokes and Kelvin grand In-8 1 vol. - 269 pages
few black and white illustrations, photographs and manuscript's fac-similé, few text-figures 1st edition, 1987 Contents, Chapitres : Contents, Preface, Chronological Tables, Abbreviations, xvi, Text, 253 pages - Introduction - The Early-Victorian background - Professors - Religion and science - Cautious realism - Stokes's Jelly ether - Thomson's Aerial ether (Lord Kelvin) - Stokes, correspondent - Radioactivity : Kelvin versus Rutherford - Index - William Thomson, mieux connu sous le nom de Lord Kelvin (Belfast, 26 juin 1824 - Largs, 17 décembre 1907), 1er baron Kelvin, est un physicien britannique d'origine irlandaise reconnu pour ses travaux en thermodynamique. Une des innovations de Kelvin est l'introduction d'un « zéro absolu » correspondant à l'absence absolue d'agitation thermique et de pression d'un gaz, dont il avait remarqué les variations liées selon un rapport linéaire. Il a laissé son nom à l'échelle de température, dite absolue, ou température « thermodynamique », mesurée en kelvins. Son titre de Lord Kelvin fait référence à la rivière du même nom, qui coule à proximité de son laboratoire à l'université de Glasgow. (source : Wikipedia) - George Gabriel Stokes (13 août 1819 1er février 1903), 1er baronnet, est un mathématicien et physicien britannique né en Irlande. Ses contributions majeures concernent la mécanique des fluides, l'optique et la géodésie. - Il publie, en 1845, le résultat de ses travaux sur les mouvements des fluides dans sa thèse On the theories of the internal friction of fluids in motion. Son approche mathématique décrivant l'écoulement d'un fluide newtonien incompressible dans un espace tridimensionnel, en ajoutant une force de viscosité à partir des équations d'Euler (Principes généraux du mouvement des fluides, 1755), est à l'origine des équations de Navier-Stokes. L'ensemble de ses recherches est synthétisé par son traité Report on recent research in Hydrodynamics, paru en 1846, texte fondateur de l'hydrodynamique. Il exploite ses expériences sur le mouvement d'un pendule dans un fluide pour étudier les variations de la gravitation à la surface de la terre et publie On the variation of gravity at the surface of the earth en 1849, ce qui fait de lui « l'un des initiateurs de la géodésie ». En 1852, dans On the change of refrangibility of light, il explique le phénomène de la fluorescence en constatant que certains matériaux, tels que le fluorine (CaF2) et l'ouraline, émettent la lumière visible lorsqu'ils sont exposés au rayonnement ultraviolet, qui possède une longueur d'onde inférieure. L'augmentation de la longueur d'onde est dite le déplacement de Stokes. (source : Wikipedia) the top right corner of the D.-J is very lightly torn, without missings, quite nothing, else near fine copy, no markings, a very nice copy of the first edition, 1987
The Mysteries of the Atom.
London, Chapman & Hall, 1934. Orig. full cloth. Spine faded. Spine ends rubbed. X,146 pp.
First edition.
On the Electrical Conductivity of Flames Conatining Salt Vapours. Communicated by J.J. Thomson. Received March 19,- Read April 27, 1899.
(London, Harrison and Sons, 1899). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" Year 1899, Volume 192 - Series A. - Pp. 499-528, textillustr. Clean and fine.
First printing of Wilson's paper in which he investigated the mobility of ions in flames, studying the electrical discharge in rarified gases...and following J.J. Thomson, made an attempt to determine the charge of the electron by using the cloud chamber. The experiment, in which he observed the fall of the condensation drops in the vertical electric fiels and its absence, was a forerunner of the more precise technique developed by Robert Millikan. (DSB 18, supplement II, p. 992).
Lasers - Principles and Applications
Prentice-Hall , International Series in Optoelectronics Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1987 Book condition, Etat : Très Bon paperback grand In-8 1 vol. - 320 pages
Contents, Chapitres : Contents, Preface, Symbols, xii, Text, 308 pages - Laser fundamentals - Operation of practical lasers - Properties of laser radiation - Metrological and scientific applications - Industrial, medical and military applications - Holography - Optical information, transmission and storage fine copy
Dompteurs de Foudre - Les drames et les amours des savants qui préparent en secret l'ère atomique.
Verviers, Gerard & Cie ("Marabout Geant n° G25"), sans date (ca. 1955) 1 volume in-16, 497 pages, broche , couverture illustrée
Excellent état. [MB-5]
L'énergie
Time LIFE. 1965. In-4. Cartonné. Bon état, Coins frottés, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 199 pages avec de nombreuses illustrations et photographies en noir et blanc et en couleurs. Ouvrage réalisé avec la collaboration de scientifiques : René Dubos, Herny Marguenau et C.P. Snow.. . . . Classification Dewey : 530-Physique
Classification Dewey : 530-Physique
Handbuch der Physik I-III.
Breslau, Eduard Trewendt, 1891-93. Bound in 5 contemp. half calf bindings. Stamps on titlepages. Illustr.
Encyclopædie der Naturwissenschaften, III. Abtheilung.
