Search Results: Titles starting with A from Atticus Rare Books

London: Taylor and Francis. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITIONS OF 4 GASSIOT PAPERS (1839, 1844, 1858, & 1859 extracts) LEADING TO & CONCLUDING WITH IMPORTANT EXPERIMENTS IN WHICH HE OBSERVED DEFLECTIONS OF CATHODE RAYS BY ELECTROSTATIC CHARGES & MAGNETISM. "Gassiot's work was particularly important in the demise of the contact theory of voltaic electricity" (Wikipedia). In 1858 & 1859, John Gassiot reported experiments in which he observed deflections of cathode rays by electrostatic charges & magnetism. These findings (along with Plücker's) provided the first evidence that ‘cathode rays' carry an electric charge & might be particles. The roots of television can even be found in Gassiot's research into electric discharges in rarefied gases. With Faraday & others, Gassiot's work was part of the foundation of cathode-ray-tube technology which led much later to electron physics (Shiers, Early TV Bibliography). When Gassiot began his research the identity of static & voltaic seemed likely. "But if so,… Read More

New York: The American Physical Society. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF THE MERMIN-WAGNER THEOREM, BOTH THE ORIGINAL PAPER AND THE SUBSEQUENT ISSUE IN WHICH AN ERRATUM (correcting typographical errors) TO THE PAPER WAS PUBLISHED. Once referred to as "An Exact Monte Carlo Algorithm for Quantum Spin Systems", Mermin and Wagner "rigorously prove that at any nonzero temperature, a one- or two-dimensional isotropic spin-S Heisenberg model with finite-range exchange interaction can be neither ferromagnetic nor antiferromagnetic. The method of proof is capable of excluding a variety of types of ordering in one and two dimensions" (Vassiliev, Scientific Reports, Jan. 2017; Mermin & Wagner, 1966). "The Mermin-Wagner [also known as Mermin-Wagner-Hohenberg theorem, No-Go Theorem, Mermin-Wagner-Berezinskii theorem, or Coleman theorem] theorem exemplifies the crucial influence of both the dynamical symmetry and the spatial dimensionality on thermal phase transitions in many-body systems. It says: At… Read More

Leipzig: Barth, 1896. 1st Edition. MAX PLANCK ON THE PROPERTIES OF ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION. Full volume with original wraps bound in at the rear. This paper was first published in the Proceedings of the Prussian Academy in 1895 followed by this publication in 1896. As early as 1894, Planck expressed an interest in the thermodynamics of radiation, writing "there is hope that we will also be able to achieve a more detailed understanding of those electrodynamic processes that are directly conditioned by temperature — as in heat radiation in particular — without having to make the laborious detour through the mechanical explanation of electricity" (Planck, Antrittsrede, 3). In 1895, Max Planck submitted a paper — this paper — to the Prussian Academy. "Building upon Hertz's treatment of electric oscillations using Maxwell's theory, Planck analyzed the absorption and emission of electromagnetic waves by electric resonators of dimensions small relative to the wavelength; he regarded this… Read More

Princeton: Association for Symbolic, 1959. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression in original wrappers of issue #4 of the 1959 Journal of Symbolic Logic. This, the December issue, includes important abstracts of Kripke papers received by the Journal in 1959: "Distinguished Constituents", "Semantical Analysis of Modal Logic", "The Problem of Entailment". All three papers in this listing relate to Kripke's seminal first paper on modal logic, "A Completeness Theorem in Modal Logic" - a paper in which Kripke's initial intuitive idea was that a proposition is necessary if and only if it is true in all possible worlds. NOTE: We offer separately all four issues of The Journal of Symbolic Logic for this same year including "A Completeness Theorem in Modal Logic." As the story goes, in 1959 and at the age of seventeen, Kripke wrote his completeness theorem in modal logic at age 17; he mailed the paper to the journal and it was sent out for comments, to, among a number of others, the head of the… Read More

Washington DC: AAAS, 2004. 1st Edition. FIST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS of a work of significance that employed aircraft and satellite measurements to show that the West Antarctica glacier thinning has accelerated since the 1990s. This work confirmed "that when the ocean eats at one end of a glacier, it can draw far distant ice toward the sea, with potentially dangerous consequences" (Kerr, Bit of Antarctica Slides to the Sea, Science Insider, September 23, 2004). "'It's a very impressive piece of work,'" says glaciologist Richard Alley of Pennsylvania State University, University Park. "Too many different lines of evidence are agreeing now" for them to be wrong about the thinning or the speedup of the past 10 to 15 years" (ibid). CONDITION & DETAILS: Washington DC: The American Association for the Advancement of Science. 8vo. Original pictorial wrappers. The issue bears the address label of Gary L. Bennett. Bennett's work at the NASA, the DOE, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and at NERVA… Read More

London: Harrison & Sons, 1879. 1st Edition. First edition, full volume of a large supplemental publication by the Royal Society presenting, just as the title imparts: An Account of the Petrological, Botanical, and Zoological Collections Made in Kerguelen's Land and Rodriguez during the Transit of Venus Expeditions. The volume houses papers by a plethora of specialists within their fields, with the papers being specific to each island. Most notably, the volume includes five papers by the renowned Albert Gunther of the British Museum (2 papers on reptiles, 2 on fishes, 1 on birds - each illustrated.) All of the volume's papers are accompanied by at least one plate, in some instances more. In total, there are 55 plates. DETAILS: Complete Parts I & II. Quarto. 909pp. Full index. 71 plates. Ex-libris with a small stamp on the title page; no other markings inside or out. Handsomely rebound in aged calf. 5 raised bands at the spine, each gilt-ruled with gilt-tooled fleur de lis. Red and black, gilt-lettered… Read More

London: The Royal Society, 1857. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION EXTRACT. Slight toning at the edges of the paper; minor. Near fine condition. Airy was an English mathematician and astronomer as well as Lucasian professor at Cambridge and Astronomer Royal. Among "his many achievements include work on planetary orbits, measuring the mean density of the Earth, a method of solution of two-dimensional problems in solid mechanics and, in his role as Astronomer Royal, establishing Greenwich as the location of the prime meridian" (Wikipedia). Airy's discovery of a new inequality in the motions of Venus and the earth is in some respects his most remarkable achievement. Airy's abstract for this paper: "In presenting this Report to the Royal Society, I must solicit their indulgence for many imperfections, arising from the circumstances under which the task of writing it has devolved on me. Through the whole account, I have to record the proceedings of others, and (in a great measure) I have to describe the trains… Read More

London: The Royal Society, 1858. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION EXTRACT OF A PAPER BY GEORGE BIDDELL AIRY (1801-1892). The original standards of length and weight were destroyed in the great fire at the Houses of Parliament in 1834. Airy undertook the exposition and experimentation to establish new national standards, presented here in this paper. Three engraved plates with minor foxing. The text is bright and clean. Very good. Airy was an English mathematician and astronomer as well as Lucasian professor at Cambridge and Astronomer Royal. Among "his many achievements include work on planetary orbits, measuring the mean density of the Earth, a method of solution of two-dimensional problems in solid mechanics and, in his role as Astronomer Royal, establishing Greenwich as the location of the prime meridian" (Wikipedia). Airy's discovery of a new inequality in the motions of Venus and the earth is in some respects his most remarkable achievement.

London: Royal Society, 1877. 1877. Bound Proceedings of the Royal Society printing of the invention of the solar cell. We offer the first edition, published in the Philosophical Transactions separately]. ADAMS' & DAYS DEMONSTRATION THAT ELECTRICITY COULD BE PRODUCED FROM LIGHT WITHOUT MOVING PARTS AND LED TO THE MODERN SOLAR CELL" (Wikipedia). William Grylls Adams and Richard Evans Day write of their discovery of a completely new phenomenon - "that light had caused a flow of electricity through a solid material. Adams and Day called current produced by light "photoelectric." Today, we call it "photovoltaic." (Perlin). Community Environmental Council, From Selenium to Silicon and Beyond). Note that this paper was also published in The Philosophical Transactions just prior to this publication. The field of solar photovoltaics began in 1872 when British engineer Willoughby Smith published a paper on the photo-sensitivity of selenium. The dream of harnessing the near limitless energy of the sun… Read More

London: Royal Society, 1877. 1877. PRISTINE EXTRACT, 1st edition of the INVENTION OF THE SOLAR CELL. This printing is the true first and preceeds the Proceedings of the Royal Society printing which we offer separately]. ADAMS' & DAYS DEMONSTRATION THAT ELECTRICITY COULD BE PRODUCED FROM LIGHT WITHOUT MOVING PARTS AND LED TO THE MODERN SOLAR CELL" (Wikipedia). William Grylls Adams and Richard Evans Day write of their discovery of a completely new phenomenon - "that light had caused a flow of electricity through a solid material. Adams and Day called current produced by light "photoelectric." Today, we call it "photovoltaic." (Perlin). Community Environmental Council, From Selenium to Silicon and Beyond). Note that this paper was also published in The Philosophical Transactions just prior to this publication. The field of solar photovoltaics began in 1872 when British engineer Willoughby Smith published a paper on the photo-sensitivity of selenium. The dream of harnessing the near limitless energy of… Read More

Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1845. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION of the first experimental verification of the Doppler effect with sound waves. For this paper, "acoustic tests on the Dutch railway plus remarks on the theory of Professor Doppler," "Buys" Ballot, a Dutch chemist and meteorologist, put a group of musicians on a train and took up his position on a station platform. He asked the train engineer to rush the train past him as fast as he could while the musicians played and held a constant note, "g". Both Ballot and a set of observers selected for their sensitivity to pitch were able to detect the Doppler shift (as a change in pitch) as the train passed. Thus the pitch varied just as Doppler had predicted. CONDITION & DETAILS: Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth. 8vo. (8 x 5 inches; 200mm x 125mm); Handsomely rebound in three-quarter calf over marbled paper boards; four raised bands at the spine; gilt-lettered and tooled. Very tightly bound. Ex-libris with stamp on title page and no exterior… Read More

Pisa: Dalla Tipografia Pieraccini, 1907. 1st Edition. FIRST SEPARATE EDITION OFFPRINT ON RADIOACTIVITY IN ORIGINAL PRINTED WRAPS. Gian Alberto Blanc [sometimes Le Blanc] (1879-1966) was an Italian physicist, geochemist, paleontologist, and politician. Blanc attended the University of Rome,studied was Sella and Blaserna, graduating in 1904; his thesis was on Gibbs's new theory on the balance of chemical systems. That same year, and while still at school, Blanc began research into the radioactivity of some hydrothermal sediments from Savoy. This research led him to discover a new radioactive nucleic acid that was simultaneously and independently identified by Hahn. Ramsey suggested the name ‘radiotore'. In 1907, in the same year that this offprint came out, Blanc was the first to determine ‘radiotores' disintegration constant. It if for this reason that Blanc was invited by Marie Curie to continue his research in her Paris laboratory and collaborate on the publication of the Tables des… Read More

Berlin: Verlag der Akademie der Wiss, 1927. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, OFFPRINT ISSUE IN ORIGINAL PAPER WRAPS, VERY GOOD CONDITION. "Einstein and Grommer's work [treats] the particle as a singularity in the field, and attempts[s] to obtain the equations of motion by imposing conditions on the exterior field in the neighborhood of the singularity" (Stachel, Einstein from ‘B' to'Z', pp. 507). Weil 155. In 1927, Einstein's research "concentrated on a new approach to the problem of the motion of particles in a general field theory" (Mehra, The Golden Age of Theoretical Physics, 997). He presented his work, conducted with Jakob Grommer in this report. Einstein and Grommer here show that ‘in the case of a pure gravitational field the mechanical behavior of singularities can be derived,' a result which in Einstein's opinion ‘opened the possibility to obtain, on the basis of the field equations, a theory of matter characterized as discontinuities in space' (ibid, 997; Einstein and Grommer, 1927).… Read More

New York, 1960. 1st Edition. 1st edition of the fifth volume issued. NOT ex-library. Plates and in-text illustrations throughout. Tightly bound in blue buckram with slight scuffing at the edge tips; gilt-lettered at the spine. Dozens of papers, fully indexed. Nice red-speckled text-block. Slight toning and spotting to the endpapers. Largely bright and very clean. pp. 878.

New York, 1959. 1st Edition. 1st edition of the fourth volume issued. NOT ex-library. Plates and in-text illustrations throughout. Tightly bound in blue buckram with slight scuffing at the edge tips; gilt-lettered at the spine. Dozens of papers, fully indexed. Nice red-speckled text-block. Slight toning and spotting to the endpapers; 3 light check marks in index, 1 interior one. Largely bright and very clean. pp. 838.

New York, 1962. 1st Edition. 1st edition of the ninth volume issued. NOT ex-library. Plates and in-text illustrations throughout. Tightly bound in blue buckram with slight scuffing at the edge tips; gilt-lettered at the spine. Nice red-speckled text-block. Dozens of papers, fully indexed. Slight toning and spotting to the endpapers; underlining in one paper. Largely bright and very clean. pp. 898.

New York, 1961. 1st Edition. 1st edition of the seventh volume issued. NOT ex-library. Plates and in-text illustrations throughout. Tightly bound in blue buckram with slight scuffing at the edge tips; gilt-lettered at the spine. Dozens of papers, fully indexed. Nice red-speckled text-block. Slight toning and spotting to the endpapers; underlining in one paper. Largely bright and very clean. pp. 898.

New York, 1958. 1st Edition. 1st edition of the second volume issued. NOT ex-library. Plates and in-text illustrations throughout. Tightly bound in blue buckram with slight scuffing at the edge tips; gilt-lettered at the spine. Dozens of papers, fully indexed. Nice red-speckled text-block. Minor toning to the endpapers, some minor spotting. One page has a light pen mark. Largely bright and very clean. 794pp.

New York, 1958. 1st Edition. 1st edition of the first volume issued. NOT ex-library. Plates (some color) and in-text illustrations throughout. Tightly bound in blue buckram with slight scuffing at the edge tips; gilt-lettered at the spine. Dozens of papers, fully indexed. Nice red-speckled text-block. Minor toning to the endpapers, some minor spotting. Largely bright and clean. 794pp.

New York, 1959. 1st Edition. 1st edition of the third volume issued. NOT ex-library. Plates and in-text illustrations throughout. Tightly bound in blue buckram with slight scuffing at the edge tips; gilt-lettered at the spine. Dozens of papers, fully indexed. Nice red-speckled text-block. Slight toning and spotting to the endpapers. Largely bright and very clean. 848pp.