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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).

Kiöbenhavn, Johan Frederik Schultz, 1789. 4to. Samtidigt marmoreret helldrbd. m. ophøjede bd. på ryg og rig rygforgyldn. På skrivepapir men med en del sprete brunpletter, mest marginale. 16 kobberstukne plancher af Clemens, de 15 efter Abildgaard og Niels Klim som drabant efter Juel. Godt eksemplar af den såkaldte "Pragtudgave", "et af det 18. Aarhundredes bedste bogværker" (Birkelund nr. 182).

London, The Royal Society, 1920. Royal8vo. Contemp. full cloth. Gilt lettering to spine. A small faint stamp on verso of titlepage and a few other leaves (in lower margins).In: "Proceeding of the Royal Society of London", Series A, Vol. 97. XVIII,470,XXI pp., textillustr. a. 2 plates. Rutherford's paper: pp. 374-400. Clean and fine. First apperance of this famous lecture in which Rutherford predicted the existence of a new constituent of the atomic nucleus and its likely properties. In the lecture Rutherford suggested that "it may be possible for an electron to combine much more closely with the H-nucleus (than is the case in the ordinary hydrogen atom)... It is the ontentionof the writer to test (this idea)... The existence of such atoms seems almost necessary to explain the building up of heavy elements."Rutherford's collegue Chadwick made several attempts to detect the neutral particle but none was successful until he learned of experiments by the Joliot-Curies in Paris, in which, they said, extremely penetrating gamma rays were emitted. As he suspected, Chadwick found the rays were not gammas but neutrons: and not long afterward Norman Feather, also at the Cavendish, showed that neutrons were capable of causing nuclear disintegrations. Chadwick gave proof of its existence in 1932.

Kiøbenhaffn, Melchior Martzan, 1652. 4to. Samtidigt hellæderbind. Ophøjede bind på ryg. Rig rygforgyldning. Forgyldt titeletiket. Øvre kapitæl lidt slidt. Kobberstukket titelblad med "Justitia". (38),858,(1) pp. samt 49 pp. (Tractat offver alle de Faldsmaal och Bøder som findis). 2 genealogiske foldetavler. Rent frisk eksemplar. Kun enkelte brunpletter. Anden stærkt forøgede udgave af den første egentlige juridiske lærebog på dansk/norsk. - Thesaurus II, 705. - Bibl. Dan. I:640.

London, John Weale, 1839. Royal8vo. 2 Contemp. modest hcalf. With the orig. printed frontwrappers pasted on frontboards. Stamp on title-pages. 2 engraved title-pages. VIII,80,88,72;140 pp., 1 engraved plate. Platevolume with 59 engraved plates as belonging to vol. I (numbered between 1-103), mostly large and multiple-folded. Plates with scattered brownspots.

Halle, Niemeyer, 1913-16. Two 8vo volumes, both in orig. wrappers. 1st part, being offprint: in the orig. brownish wrappers. A bit of wear to upper capital and a bit of occasional brownspotting. Corners a bit bumped. Uncut. (4), 161 pp. 2nd part, being the entire issue of Jahrbuch für Philosophie ... from 1916: Orig. greyish wrappers, sunned spine. Nice and clean. Uncut. Pp. 21-478. Entire volume: VIII, 478, (2), (8, -contents list for volume 1, part 1). The first printing, first part in offprint, of Max Scheler's great phenomenological work "Formalism in Ethics and Non-Formal Ethics of Values".Max Scheler (1874-1928), an important contemporary of Husserl, was a German phenomenological philosopher mostly known for his theories of value and philosophical anthropology. He was very inspired by Husserl and further developed his philosophical method. He was greatly admired in his time and made important contributions to his fields of philosophy. When José Ortega y Gasset called Scheler "the first man of the philosophical paradise", this expresses a notion felt my many of the important philosophers of his time. Though he did not always see eye to eye with Husserl and Heidegger, they admired him a great deal, and had it not been because of his early and sudden death, he might well have survived as one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century. Heidegger actually referred to him as "the strongest philosophical power in contemporary Germany, no in contemporary Europe and even in contemporary philosophy in general" ("die stärkste philosophische Kraft im heutigen Deutschland, nein, im heutigen Europa und sogar in der gegenwärtigen Philosophie überhaupt"), and in his thoughts are represented the epitome of philosophical and cultural efforts articulated in the transition to the 20th century.In this work, which is one of his main, we are presented with the essence of Scheler's theory of value. He wishes to found an ethic in form of a theory of value, and he focuses on the feeling human nature and the individual, who feels and loves. He puts the value of the person in front of knowledge and perception and presupposes the sphere of the individual human being, denying the possibility of pure ego, pure reason or pure consciousness, thus criticizing both Husserl, Kant and German idealism. The essence of human existence cannot be accounted for by a transcendental ego, reason, will or the like, but by the human feelings with love as the centre. Scheler links human feelings to experiences of value and divides these into five ranks that can be felt by all human beings. These values are independent of the things they are felt with, though there is always a certain order, and this order is thoroughly investigated.

London, Porter, 1899. Small 4to. Orig. pictorial cloth gilt. Slight wear to top a. bottom of spine. Top edge gilt. Chromolithogr. frontisp. XIV,335 pp, 88 plates a. 2 fold. maps. Wood p. 514. The text is principally ornithological, Appendix containing a list of the species of birds observed by the party.

New York, The Macmillan Company, 1938. Original hcloth. Orig. printed paper label title on spine. Uncut. Frontispiece by Rockwell Kent. XI,(6),381 pp., 4 maps. Clean and fine. This is No. 176 of 200 copies of the special edition made for the Explorers Club. It is signed by Stefansson, Leacock (at end of the introcuction) and Rockwell Kent (at bottom of the frontispiece). A handwritten note says: "Above is the regular inscription.This copy is specially inscribed to Gaylord Beaman by Vilhjalmur Stefansson at the request of their friend Ralph Donaldson. New York March 11 1939." On inside frontcover the exlibris of A. Gaylord Beaman. First edition.

Berlin, Julius Springer, 1925. Contemp. hcloth. In: "Zeitschrift für Physik. Hrsg. von Karl Scheel", 32. Band. VI,951 pp., textillustr. (Entire volume offered). Heisenberg's paper: pp. 841-860. A stamp to title-page and front free endpaper. Interally clean. First printing of Heisenberg's importent paper on the complex spectra of many-electron atoms, - the third paper Heisenberg submitted from Copenhagen on the Quantum Theory."The paper on multiplet structure and anomalous Zeeman effects..., contained a complete discussion of the problem at that time. This paper had the blessing of Niels Bohr; also Pauli, who was in Copenhagen when the paper was completed, agreed with its overall content. The central goal of the paper was to formulate what Bohr called 'the stress (constraint), which is not analogous to the action of external forces' and to derive quantitative conclusions from it." (Mehra and Rechenberg "The Historical development of Quantum Theory", vol. 2, p. 201).The volume contains another importent paper in the history of Quantum Physics: W. BOTHE und H. GEIGER "Über das Wesen des Comptoneffekts, ein experimenteller Beitrag zur Theorie der Strahlung", pp. 639-663.

(London, Taylor and Francis, 1870). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1869 - Vol. 159 - Part II. Pp. 575-590 and 1 plate. Clean and fine. First apperance of the paper in which Thomas Andrews announces his discovery of the "CRITICAL POINT", which states that for every gas there was a temperature above which pressure alone could not liquefy it."This was a crucial discovery for it pointed the way toward the liquefaction of the permanent gases by demonstrating the necessity of dropping the temperature below the critical point before exerting pressure. This new view led within half a century to the work of Dewar and Kammerlingh-Onnes and the liquefaction of all known gases."(Asimov).Magie: A Source Book in Physics, pp. 187-192. - Parkinson, Breakthroughs: 1869 C.

Paris, Crochard, 1821. Without wrappers. In 'Annales de Chimie et de Physique', Volume 19, Cahier 4. Titlepage to vol. 19. Pp. 337-442 a. 2 folded plates. (Entire issue offered). Mitscherlich's paper: pp. 350-419. 2 large folded engraved plates (crystalforms). A few minor brownspots. First French edition - in the authors own form and translation - of Mitcherlich's announcment of his discovery of Isomorphism, stating that similar crystalline form reflect analogous chemical formulae, which Berzelius used in fixing the formulas of compounds. Mitcherlich was at this time an assistent to Berzelius, and the first printing of this classical paper appeared the same year in Akad. Handl., Stockholm. The paper was soon afterward printed in French (the paper offered) and English, and Berzelius discussed it in his "Jahresbericht", so that the work quickly became known. - Leicester & Klickstein pp. 306-08."The statement of the law of isomorphism...marks Mitscherlich's most importent contribution to chemistry - indeed, Berzelius considered Mitscherlich's discovery to be the most significant since that of chemical proportions. Berzelius himself found Mitscherlich's work to be of great use; he was at that time concerned with the determination of the atomic weights of the elements amd the law of isomorphism provided him with a valuable tool....Berzeluius' task was simplified by the application of Mitscherlich's law..."(DSB IX, p. 424).

Utrecht, Aux dépens de la Compagnie, 1765. Fine contemp. full mottled calf. Spine richly gilt. (8),275 pp. Internally clean and fine. Last leaf with a small loss of paper in outher margin. One leaf with a small hole in text. The work was first published in Russia in 1763, and in 1765 published in three different places in Europe. This fundamental work was written at the height of Voltaire's famous fight to "écraser l'Infame", which denoted fanatism, superstition and intolerance; it also symbolized Christianity, which he considered the most barbaric and cruel of all religions.

(London, Richard Taylor, 1834). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1834 - Part II. Pp. 425-470 a. 1 engraved plate. Clean and fine. First appearance of a historical paper in chemistry and physiscs in which Faraday brings forth the idea "that the atoms of matter are in some way endowed or associated with electrical powers, to which they owe their most striking qualities, and amongst them their mutual chemical affinity." He showed how natural it is to suppose that the electricity which passes through the electrolyte is exact equivaklent of that which is possessed by the atoms separated at the electrode: which implies that there is A CERTAIN ABSOLUTE QUANTITY OF THE ELECTRIC POWER ASSOCIATED WITH EACH ATOM OF MATTER.- Faraday further verifies, that the electricity of the violtaic pile is proportionate in its intensity to the intensity of the affinities concerned in its production. - Dealing with the the decompositions in electrolysis, he shows that THE FORCES TERMED CHEMICAL AFFINITY AND ELECTRICITY ARE THE SAME.From 1831 to 1852 Michael Faraday published his "Experimental Researches in Electricity" in The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. These papers contain not only an impressive series of experimental discoveries, but also a collection of heterodox theoretical concepts on the nature of these phenomena expressed in terms of lines of forces and fields. He published 30 papers in all under this general title.They represents Faraday's most importent work, are classics in both chemistry and physics and are the experimental foundations for Maxwell's electro-magnetic theory of light, using Faraday's concepts of lines of force or tubes of magnetic and electrical forces. His many experiments on the effects of electricity and magnetism presented in these papers lead to the fundamental discoveries of 'induced electricity' (the Farday current), the electronic state of matter, the identity of electricity from different sources, equivalents in electro-chemical decomposition, electrostatic induction, hydro-electricity, diamagnetism, relation of gravity to electricity, atmospheric magnetism and many other."Among experimental philosophers Faraday holds by universal consent the foremost place. The memoirs in which his discoveries are enshrined will never ceaseto be read with admiration and delight; and future generations will preserve with an affection not less enduring the personal records and familiar letters, which recall the memory of his humble and unselfish spirit."(Edmund Whittaker in A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity).

[Various places and printer] ,1945 - 1974. Collection of 24 offprint from various academic journals. All with wrappers (or as issued) and in fine condition. Contained in a black kassett. A large collection of offprint by American physicist John Tukey known for development of the FFT algorithm and box plot. Tukey's range test, the Tukey lambda distribution, Tukey's test of additivity and Tukey's lemma all bear his name."John Tukey's whole life was one of public service, and as the preceding quotes make clear, he had profound influence. He was a member of the President's Scientific Advisory Committee for each of Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson. He was special in many ways. He merged the scientific, governmental, technological, and industrial worlds more seamlessly than, perhaps, anyone else in the 1900s. His scientific knowledge, creativity, experience, calculating skills, and energy were prodigious. He was renowned for creating statistical concepts and words. JWT's graduate work was in mathematics, but driven by World War II, he left that field to go on to revolutionize the world of the analysis of data. At the end of the war he began a joint industrial-academic career at Bell Telephone Laboratories and at Princeton University. Science and the analysis of data were ubiquitous. This split career continued until he retired in 1985. Even after retirement his technical and scientific work continued at a very high level.He is said to have introduced the terms: "bit", "linear programming", "ANOVA", "Colonel Blotto", and was first into print with "software". Of these efforts L. Hogben and M. Cartwright wrote, "The introduction by Tukey of bits for binary digits has nothing but irresponsible vulgarity to commend it." Tukey's word "polykay" was described as "linguistic miscegenation" by Kendall and Stuart because of its combining a Greek prefix with a Latin suffix. JWT did it again later with "polyspectrum". (Brillinger, John Wilder Tukey).

Berlin, Springer, 1930. 8vo. In contemporary half cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In "Zeitschrift für Physik", Bd. 60, 1930. Entire volume offered. Stamp to title page and light wear to extremities, one leaf detached, otherwise fine and clean. VIII, 871 pp. First appearance of Fermi's important paper on a quantitative theory of the hyperfine structures of spectrum lines which later was to be named 'Fermi Contact Interaction'. The present paper was considered one of his most important by the Nobel Prize commitee."Fermi contact interaction" is the magnetic interaction between an electron and an atomic nucleus when the electron is inside that nucleus.

Franckfurt und Leipzig, 1770. Small 8vo. Contemp. hcalf. raised bands. Blindtoolings on spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A small paperlabel taped on lower compartment. Stamp on foot of title-page. Engraved frontispiece. 346,(2) pp. and 14 handcoloured engraved plates. Clean and fine, printed on good paper.

Weimar, Landes=Industrie=Comptoirs, 1800. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Tome-and titlelabel with gilt lettering. Slightly rubbed. XIX,488 pp. and 1 large folded engraved map. Map with a tear, but no loss. Light browning to leaves and a few brownspots. First German edition. (Bibliothek der neuesten und wichtigsten Reisebeschreibungen...hrsg. von M.C. Sprengel, 2. Bd.). Also with the series titlepage, this with a stamp.

London, Mount and Page, Sayer and Bennett, Jefferies and Faden, 1776. Small folio. Later hcloth. Gilt lettering to upper board. Stamp on title-page. (2),III,82 pp. Printed on thick paper, a few brownspots. The work describes in further details the maps published in Mackenzies "A Maritim Survey of Ireland...", 1776, and was published separately. See Shirley, Vol. 2, M.Mac-2a, p. 1228.

Amsterdam et Leipzig, Arkstée & Merkus, 1770. 3 contemp. full mottled calf. Richly gilt backs. Light wear to two top of spines. A small paperlabel taped to lower part of back. Stamped on verso of titlepages. Engraved portrait, 3 engraved titlevignettes and 3 half-page engraved vignettes. XXIV,398,(2);(4),432,(2);(4),493,(3) pp. and 41 folded engraved maps and plans. Jordan: 2579.

Cambridge, Deighton, Bell and Co., 1876. Orig. full brown cloth. Gilt lettering to spine. Spine ends slightly frayed. Some discolouring to endcover. Light wear to extremities. X,(1),384pp. + Publisher's catalogue 16 pp. Internally clean and fine. From the library of the Englsih mathematician F.S. Carey, having his name on upper part of titlepage. "F.S. Carey/Trin. Coll. Cam." First edition of the only published book by the famous British mathematician. Cayley's aimed at treeting elleiptic functions by "pure algebra" and to fill in the gaps left by Jacobi. "For most of his life Cayley worked incessantly at mathematics, theoretical dynamics, and mathematical astronomy. He published only one full-lenght book, "Treatise on Elliptic Functions" (the item offered); but his output of papers and memoirs was prodigious, numbering nearly a thousand, the bulk of them since published in thitteen large quarto volumes. His work was greatly appreciated from the time of its publication, and he did not have to wait for mathematical fame." (DSB).

København, Poppske Bogtrykkeri, 1834-38. Lille 8vo. Indbundet i 3 senere velbevarede hldrbd. i brun oaseged. Her og der med nogle brunpletter. Originaltrykket af forfatterens samlede udgave af de mindre afhandlinger, som i mange tilfælde er trykt her for første gang.

Odense, 1861-90. Bd. 1-9 indbundet i meget smukke private hldrbd. af blå oaseged (Axel Jensen), bd. 10 i samt. hldrbd.

Kbhvn., 1928-99. 4to. 1928-51 indbundet i 8 helshirtbd. Med registerbind til årg. 1928-98. Rigt illustr.

Franckfurt am Mayn, Johann Gottlieb Garbe, 1781. Contemp. full calf. Raised bands, richly gilt spine. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spine. (14),170,(6) pp. and 4 folded engraved plates with many figs. Clean and fine. The offered item is bound together with another work: Jetze, Franz Christoph. geographie für Militaristen und andere zum selbstunterricht. Mit 2 Kupfertafeln. Liegnitz und leipzig, David Siegert, 1791. XII,147 pp. a. 2 folded engraved plates.

København, Thiele, 1881-1918. Lex8vo. 5 smukke samtidige hldrbd. Bd. 5 med lidt falmet ryg. Originaltrykket.