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Kiøbenhaffn, Henrich Waldkirch (og andre ?), 1613-33. 4to. Velbevaret samtidigt dansk hellæderbind over træ i renæssancestil og med 2 originale spænder i bronce. Ophøjede bind på ryg. Permer med blindtrykte rammer i streger og ruller samt i midterfelterne pladetrykte portrætter (Justitia ?). Lidt slid ved øverste kapitæl.(52);(20);(38) pp. samt 115 forordninger. Ialt ca. 600 pp. Bagerst i bindet 26 sider med samtidige tilføjelser, notater m.v. Yderst velbevaret. Alle i originaltrykkene - de 3 første med angivelse af trykker: Henrich Waldkirch, Forordningerne uden angivelse af trykker. - Forordningerne vedrører alle sider af samfundslivet, handel, næring, sundhedsvæsenet, myntvæsenet, vejvæsenet, retsvæsenet, skolevæsenet etc. etc. for Danmark-Norge. - Bibl. Danica I: 635 ff.

8vo. Bound in 3 fine uniform polished full calf. 5 raised bands. Richly gilt compartments, titlelabels in red and green. All edges gilt, gilt line-borders on covers, inner gilt borders (Bound by Riviere & Sons). 2 hinges slightly weakening, but not loose. Very slight wear to top of spines. Internally fine and clean with occassinally very faint offsettings from plates. With all 3 leaves of directions to Binder. With all 78 handcoloured aquatint plates (including 3 frontispieces), 2 handcoloured titles. Last "cul-de-lampe" also handcoloured. In the text woodengravings. A fine set of all three Tours with the famous plates after the drawings by T. Rawlandson. - Tooley 427-29.

Leipzig, B.G.Teubner, 1871 u. 1873. Bound in 2 later full cloth. Small stamp on foot of titlepages.In. "Mathematische Annalen. In Verbindung mit C. Neumann begründet durch Rudolf Friedrich Alfred Clebsch", IV. und VI. Band. (4),637 pp. a. (4),642 pp., 6 plates. Klein's papers: pp. 573-625 a. pp. 112-145. Both volumes offered. First edition of these 2 papers which unifies the Euclidean and Non-Euclidean geometries, by reducing the differences to expressions of the "distance function", and introducing the concepts "parabolic", "elliptic" and "hyperbolic" for the geometries of Euclid, Riemann and of Lobatschewski, Gauss and Bolyai. He further eliminates Euclid's parallel-axiom from projective geometry, as he shows that the quality of being parallel, is not invariant under projections.Klein build his work on Cayley's "distant measure" saying, that "Metrical properties are not properties of the figure per se but of the figure in relation to the absolute." This is Cayley's idea of the general projective determination of metrics. The place of the metric concept in projective geometry and the greater generality of the latter were described by Cayley as "Metrical geometry is part of projective geometry." Cayley's idea was taken over by Felix Klein....It seemed to him to be possible to subsume the non-Euclidean geometries, hyperbolic and double elliptic geometry, under projective geometry by exploring Cayley's idea. He gave a sketch of his thoughts in a paper of 1871, and then developed them in two papers (the papers offered here).Klein was the first to recognize that we do not need surfaces to obtain models of non-Euclidean geometries....The import which gradually emerged from Klein's contributions was that projective geometry is really logically independent of Euclidean geometry....By making apparent the basic role of projective geometry Klein paved the way for an axiomatic development which could start with projective geometry and derive the several metric geometries from it."(Morris Kline).The offred volumes cntains other importen mathematical papers by f.i. by Klebsch, Lipschitz, Neumann, Noether, Thomae, Gordan, Lie, Du Bois-Raymond, Cantor (Über trigonometrische Reihen),etc.(Sommerville: Bibliography of Non-Euclidean Geometry p. 45 a. 49.)

Paris, 1885-86. Folio. Bound in one cont. hcalf. pp. 99-192 and pp. 1-192. Having many wood-cut illustr. with designs etc in the text and 64 beautifull large chromolithographed plates (19 double-page, 4 uncoloured).

(Paris), Gallimard, (1963). 8vo. Original printed wrappers, uncut and unopened. Minor soiling to spine, otherwise fine, clean, and fresh. "S P" punched into bottom of back wrapper and last two leaves. 210, (6) pp. First edition, presentation-copy "Pour Monsieur André Bourin/ en hommage respecteuse/ MF", of Foucault's highly influential work on the strange and compelling literary genious Raymond Roussel. The work constitutes Foucault's only book-length work of literary criticism, and it immediately became highly influential, especially among the Surrealists. Raymond Roussel (1877-1933) was a French poet, novelist, playwright, musician, and chess enthusiast, who exerted a profound influence on 20th century French literature.André Bourin (born 1918) is a French literary critic, producer, and author, who has worked for Nouvelles littéraires, ORTF, TF1 and been the literary critic of La Revue des Deux Mondes, Quotidien de Paris, and Figaro.

London, Harrison and Sons, 1902. 8vo. Contemp. full cloth. Top of spine worn down. Lower spine end with a small crack. A collation remark on title-page. A bookmark on inside frontcover, stating that the volume was bound 10/9/02 for City of Manchester. Municipal Technical School. "Proceedings of the Royal Society", Vol. 69. VII,501 pp. a. 6 plates. Bayliss & Starling's announcement: pp. 352-353. Internally clean. This is the first printing, annoucing a milestone discovery which introduced a quite new field in physiology and medicine, the discovery of the FIRST HORMONE, which the discoverers named "Secretin". A few years later Sterling coined the word 'hormone' from the Greek 'hormon', meaning to exite or set into motion. Until know it was though that the control of the glands, here the pancreas, was controlled by the nerves (Pavlow and others), but Bayliss and Sterling showed that they have found that the intestine was signalling the pancreas by some COMPLETELY NEW MECHANISM involving a new kind of body or substance functioning as a chemical messenger. "If nerves are the sprinters of biology, Bayliss & Starling had discovered the marathon runners. In doing so, they also founded the science of hormones, called endocrinology" (Alan Lightman "The Discoveries", p. 34 ff). The announcement, as offered here, was later the same year followed by their larger paper "The Mechanism of Pancreatic Secretion" which they published in "Journal of Physiology (1902)"."With the discovery of hormones, Bayliss & Starling had found the internal command and control centers - and in this, their discovery was much larger than a new communication system. The mechanism of response and control was chemical: atoms and molecules. Now, with hormones, there was a mechanism for a living thing to regulate itself. Furthermore with hormones, an organism could not only be studied but also controlled from the outside... Never had the living body come closer to a machine, a self-regulating machine governed not only by physics but also chemistry. An not only a machine, but a machine that we human could willfully control. At the start of the new century, we still have not come to terms with the implications of this idea."(Alan Lightman).Parkinson "Breakthroughs", 1902 B.

Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1898. Contemp. hcalf, spine gilt and with gilt lettering. Some scratches to spine and corners bumped and with wear. Some scratching to boards.Stamps to titlepage and one leaf. In: "Annalen der Physik und Chemie", Neue Folge, Band 64. VIII,(2),812 a. 2 plates. (Entire volume offered). Röntgen's papers: 1. pp. 1-11, pp. 12-17 a. pp. 18-37. Internally clean. First full exposition of Röntgen's discovery of X-rays, the foundation stones of roentgenology, unveiling a new form of matter and offering a new revolutionary method for medical diagnosis.In order to ensure priority for his discovery, Röntgen first published the two first papers (Erste-Zweite Mittheilung) as offprints from "Sitzungsberichte der Physikalisch-medicinischen Gesellschaft zu Würtzburg" in 1895-96, but his discovery only finds its full form in the offered papers, as "Dritte Mittheilung" appears here."Aside from its obvious applications, Roentgen's discovery galvanized the world of physics and led to a rash of further discoveries that so completely overturned the old concepts of the science, that the discovery of X-rays is sometimes considered the first stroke of the Second Scientific Revolution. (The First Scientific Revolution is, of course that which included Galileo and his experiments on falling bodies). Within a matter of months, investigations of X rays led to the discovery of radioactivity by Becquerel....The importence of the discovery was well recognized in its own time. In 1896 Roentgen shared the Rumford Medal with Lenard and in 1901, when Nobel Prizes were set up.the first to be honoured with a Nobel Prize in Physics was Roentgen." (Asimov).Garrison & Morton No 2683 (only listing 1. paper) - PMM No 380 (listing only 2 parts) - Dibner: 162 (listing only 2 parts).

(Kbhvn., G.L. Lahde, 1805). Tv-folio. Smukt senere hldrbd. (Anker Kyster) med rig rygforgyldning og rhombeformet forgyldt skindtitel på forperm. Beskrivende tekst på dansk og tysk. Med 24 kobberstukne prospekter af danske Slotte fra Bruun's ikke fuldendte værk "Novus Atlas Danicus", som af Lahde i 1805 blev genoptrykt med de originale plader og for slottenes vedkommende samlet under denne titel. De sidste 4 med lidt brunpletter.

Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1853, 1856, 1858, 1859. Without wrappers in "Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von J.C. Poggendorff", Dritte und Vierte Reihe, Bd. 89 No. 6 u. 7, Bd. 98 No 5, Bd. 103 No 1, Bd. 106 No. 3. The 5 entire issues offered. Hittorf's papers pp. 177-211 (Bd. 89), pp. 1-33 (Bd.98), pp. 1-56 (Bd.103), pp.337-411 a. 513-586 (Bd. 106). In all 7 engraved plates. All issues fine and clean. First printing of all 4 fundamental papers on electrochemistry, where Hittorf states his concepts of ionic migration and transport numbers, concepts that should be the foundation stones of the later evolved theory of ionization, culminating in Svante Arrhenius's famous discovery of electrolytic dissociation."After Faraday's experimental investigations in 1834, it was accepted that the electricity passing through an electrolytic cell was carried by the movement of charged ions produced from the decomposition of the compounds making up the solution. Daniell had extended these ideas in 1839 and showed that salts were compounds not of acid anhydrides and metallic oxides as had been thought, but of metallic cations and elemental or compound acid anions. Believing that the conductivity of solutions was due to these ions, he began a study of their transference. In 1853 Hittorf took up the problem. He extended the ideas of Daneill by reasoning inthe following manner: Cations and anions exist in solutions and migrate under the influence of current through the solution. The migration of the cation toward the cathode and away from the anode, and the deposition of the anode on the positive electrode, together result in a decrease of teh salt in the neighborhood of the anode. A similar analysis shows that there is also a decrease in the concemtration of the salt in the neighborhood of the cathode. If the motion of the two dissimilar ions were the same, the decrease in the concentration of the salt would be the same at the two electrodes.....Hwe concluded that the speeds of migration...were different and he characterized this fact by defining "transport numbers", which specified the portion of the transport of electricity carried by each ion. (DSB VI, p. 439). - Leicester & Klickstein "A Source Book of Chemistry", p. 400-406.In the 2 issues of 1853 are contained 2 papers by Helmholtz of fundamental cjharacter, both in physiology and on the theory on the conservation of energy. HERMAN HELMHOLTZ: "Ueber einige Gesetze der Vertheilung elektrischer Ströme in körperlichen Leitern mit Anwendung auf die thierisch-elektrischen Versuche (+) Ueber einige Gesetze....(Schluss). 2 papers. 1853. (Bd. 89 No.6 a. 7). Pp. 211-233 a. pp. 353-377."In this work (the papers offered) Helmholtz for the first time enters the field of mathematical physics and physiology, with the full equipment of the higher mathematical analysis, of which he was the only master in its application to the latter science.....This very interesting and fundamental work on the distribution of electrical currents in material conductors is purely mathematical in character, owing to Helmholtz's method of proving the theorems, which are intelligible enough from the physical point of view, It is essentially connected with the treatise on the CONSERVATION OF ENERGY, since helmholtz merely substitutes for the expression 'free tension' there employed, the identical concept of Gauss's potentia, or Green's potential function."(Koenigsberger in "Hermann von helmholtz", p. 99-103.).

Hafniæ, Godiche, N. Möller, 1772-92. - (Registerbind), 1878. Folio. Bd. 1-2 i samtidige helldrbd. med rig rygforgyldning og ophøjede bind. Med en del brugsspor. Bd. 3-7 samt registerbindet. i nyereensartede hshirtbd. Med 12 foldetabeller. Bd. 1-3 med de 19 kobberstukne plancher af håndskriftfaksimiler. Bd. 4-7 uden håndskriftfaksimiler. Spredt papirsbruning, men ellers ren, bortset fra et titelblad som er noget smudsigt. Supplementsbindet (kaldet VIII, som udkom 1834 er ikke tilstede). The largest collection of Danish medieval texts. In 1834 - 30 years later - a supplementary volume was published (called Vol. VIII), this is not present here. With the Index-volume (in 2 parts) published more than 100 years after the first volume. - From vol. IV P.F. Suhm was editor, after the death of Langebek. "I dtte værk der indeholder de vigtigste kilder til dansk middelalder, og som står mål med tilsvarende udenlandske værker i samtiden, finder man resultatet af mange års grundige studier." (DBL).

Frankfurt am Main, And. Wechel, 1576. Folio. Bound in contemporary blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards with the two original brass clasps. Hinges with grey coloured repair. Lower part of spine with traces after having been coloured red and blue. A very fine and clean copy. [Saxo:] (8), 342, (24) pp + 1 blank leaf + [Germanicarum Rerum Quatuor... :] (10), 224, (10) ff.]. Third and last 16th century Latin edition of Saxo's "History of Denmark", edited by Philip Loncier, rector of the Frankfurt Gymnasium.Saxo Grammaticus (ab. 1150-1220) was probably a secular clerk or secretary to Absalon, Archbishop of Lund, the great Danish churchman, statesman and warrior. Saxo is remembered today as the author of the first full history of Denmark, in which he modeled himself on the classical authors (e.g. Virgil, Plato, Cicero) in order to glorify his fatherland. The work dates from the end of the 12th century and was edited by Christiern Pedersen, a Canon of Lund, and printed by Jodocus Badius Ascendius in Paris in 1514 (the editio princeps) with 16th century re-issues following in 1534 (Basel) and 1576 (the present). Only with the first printing of this seminal work did the work become known throughout academic circles. The work soon received international fame and is to this day renowned as not only being immensely important historically, but also being extremely well written (Saxo is praised by Erasmus, for instance, for possessing great power of eloquence). The work consists of sixteen books that cover the time from the founders of the Danish people (Dan I of Denmark) till Saxo's own time, ending around 1185 (with the submission of Pomerania), when the last part is supposedly written. The work thus covers the entire history of Denmark until Saxo's own time, seen under a somewhat glorified perspective, from heathen times with tales of Odin and the gods of Valhalla to the times of Absalon, who probably directly influenced the sections on the history of his own time, working closely with Saxo himself. Apart from that, the work contains the first known written narration of the legend of Hamlet (Amleth, the son who took revenge for his murdered father). It is most likely this narrative of Saxo's, which he based on an oral tale, that forms the basis for Shakespeare's "Hamlet", which takes place in Helsinore in Denmark. There is fairly certain evidence that Shakespeare knew Saxo's work on the History of Denmark and thus, from that, the legend of Amleth.The editio princeps was printed in Paris in 1514, the second edition being printed in Basel in 1534.LN 1450Thesaurus 190.GERMANICARUM RERUM QUATUOR...Bound with Saxo is German Simon Schard's (1535-1573), History of Germany from the time Augustus till Henry IV.Adams G 488

Haye, Jean Nulme et Adrian Moetjens, 1741. 4to. All three parts bound in one contemp. hcalf, richly gilt spine. Tome-and titlelabels with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on upper compartment. Corners a bit bumped. Stamps on first titlepage. 2 titlepages in red/black with engraved vignette.VI,(1),139,(5);148,(16) pp. Anhang: (8),99 pp. With 40 large folded engraved plates. Light browning to the first ca. 10 leaves and verso of the last. Otherwise fine and clean, printed on good paper. First edition. - Klaus Jordan: 765.

London, Robert Hardwicke, 1863-72. Small 4to. Bound in 11 original full cloth, richly gilt. All edges gilt. Extremities a little rubbed, covers on a few volumes dampstained at edges and corners. Marginal browning, but plates overall in fine, clean condition. Containing 1840 handcoloured plates in lithography. Sitwell p. 140. Third edition, where the last two volumes were published much later (vol. 12 + Supplementvol.).

Soræ, Joachim Moltke, Henrik Kruse,1644-45. Folio. (31,2 x 21 cm.). Samtidigt helpergamentsbind med håndskreven rygtitel. Bindet med lidt ældre blækpletter. Kobberstukket titelblad med Chr. IV, Valdemar I, Absalon og Saxo. (6), 384, (20), 252, (22) pp. samt talrige træsnitillustrationer i kommentardelen. Stephanius' kommentar har selvstændigt titelblad. Stort, rent og velbevaret eksemplar. Med Jonas Skougaards stilige kollationering i blyant på indersiden af forpermen, hvor han også bemærker, at dette eksemplar er større end normalen. Originaludgaven af den berømte "Sorø-udgave" som skulle afløse Chr. Pedersen's "Pariserudgave". Stephanius' tekst er filologisk set fremragende og udgaven er banebrydende for Saxo-forskningen.Bibl. Danica III,9. - Thesaurus II, 668. - Birkelund, 48. - Skougaard III,p.138.

Koppenhagen (Copenhagen), (Mads Vingard, sold by Heinrich Waldkirch), 1597. 4to. In contemporary limp vellum. Binding soiled and miscoloured, edges of boards missing small part of vellum. Leaf O-T2 with hole from burning in inner margin(Primarily affecting (P3-S3). Dampstain in upper margin. 104 ff (of which two are blank). First edition of August Erich's first-hand account of Christian IV's coronation in Copenhagen in 1596. His work offers a detailed account about the proceedings, the participants and the significance of the event. "August Erich calls himself "German Secretary to his Royal Majesty". He was present at the ceremonious coronation of King Christian IV August 29, 1596, and describes the various processions, festivities and tournaments. He also records the names of the persons taking part in the coronation and how they were dressed." (Thesaurus I, 230). Christian IV was crowned on 29 August 1596 at the Church of Our Lady in Copenhagen by the Bishop of Zealand, Peder Jensen Vinstrup (1549–1614). He was crowned with the new Crown Regalia which had been made for him by Dirich Fyring. Christian IV (1577-1648) is probably the most famous - and infamous - king in the history of Denmark. On the one hand, he is known as the longest reigning monarch, as the patron and creator of some of the country's most significant and spectacular buildings. On the other hand, he is also known as the king who definitively crushed Denmark's dreams of being a great power. The following year, the work was published in Danish. Thesaurus 230 Lauritz Nielsen 573 Biblioteca Danica III,70

De tre første bind i orig. kartonnager. Resterende i 32 samt. hldrbd. Rygge her og der lidt slidte. Med talrige plancher, planer, kort m.v. Lundstedt Nr. 339.

(Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1735). 4to. Without wrappers. Extracted from "Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences. Année 1733". Pp. 23-39, pp. 73-84, pp. 233-254 a. 1 engraved plate, pp. 457-476. With titlepage to the volume (1733/1735). Margins of titlepage with a few brownspots. First appearance of these milestone papers in the histroy of electricity in which Dufay explains his discovery of two kinds of electricity and the relation between them, attraction and repulsion, shocks and sparking, and the full recognition of electrostatic repulsion. He formulates the two-fluid theory of electricity. He further showed that "not all bodies can become electrified themselves" (by friction) and went on to show, "that they can all acquire a considerable (electrical) virtue when the tube (of rubbed) glass), wood, metals or liquids are brought near them,", provided only that they are insulated by beiing stood on "a support of glass or of sealing-wax".Dufay "TRANSFORMED A COLLECTION OF MISCELLANEOUS WEEDS INTO THE FIRST GARDEN OF EUROPE" (Heilbron)"Dufay's substantive discoveries - ACR, the two electricities, shocks and sparking - are but one aspect, and perhaps not the most significant, of his achievement. His insistence on the impiortence of the subject, on the universal character of electricity, on the necessity of organizing, digesting and regulariizing known facts before grasping new ones, all helped to introduce order and professionel standards into the study of electricity at precisely the moment when the accumulation of data began to require them. He foundthe subject a record of often capricious, disconnected phenomena, the domain of the polymaths, textbook writers, and prfesional lecturers, and left a body of knowledge that invited and rewarded prolonged scrutinity from serious physicists." (Heilbron "Electricity in the 17 & 18 Centuries", p. 260).Parkinson "Breakthroughs", 1734 P - Ronalds Library, p. 145. - Not in Wheeler Gift Cat.

Giessen, Kriegerischen Buchhandlung, 1777-95. Bound in 12 uniform contemp. hcalf. Gilt spines. Tome- and titlelabels with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spines. 12 engraved titlevignettes. With 56 large folded engraved plates, folded tables. Poggendorff I,222. - Jordan, 2279.

1944-45. Folio. Indbundet i 4 ensartede hshirtbd. Alt i maskinskrevet gennemslagskopi (svensk stencil-udgave) og som derfor kun udkom i et ganske lille oplag. ""Information" er besættelsestidens største og betydeligste illegale pressebureau, der forsynede både de illegale blade og udlandet med ucensuredede nyheder fra det besatte Danmark. Mens det for de illegale blade gjaldt om at udkomme i så store oplag som muligt, gjaldt det for "Information" om af hensyn til sikkerheden at begrænse oplaget mest muligt. Da krigen sluttede havde man rundet de 1000 eksemplarer pr. udgave, men længe var oplaget under det halve, og i den første lange periode var der tale om så få eksemplarer, at de kunne skrives med gennemslag i én eller få arbejdsgange. "Information" hører til de i det ydre mest ydmyge illegale publikationer, men så meget større var virkningen og betydningen." (KB)

Paris, Baudouin Frères et N. Delangle, 1827-28. Bound in 34 contemp. uniform hcalf, richly gilt spines. Various wear to spine-ends, a few vols. with small tears to hinges. Edges rubbed. Engraved portrait, 2 folded maps to vol. I, 3 plates to vol. 11, Carte polaires to vol. 5 and 192 engraved and handcoloured plates. (Oiseaux 118, Mammifères 74). Plates with tissue-guards and in general fine and clean. Textvolumes with some foxing and scattered brownspots throughout.

(Antwerpen ca. 1580). 32 x 41 cm. Kobberstukket Danmarkskort i original håndkolorereing. Med Skåne, Halland og Blekinge samt den nordlige del af Tyskland.Foldningen fint forstærket på bagsiden med japanpapir. Et af de tidligste danmarkskort med Marcus Jordan og Cornelis Anthoniszoon som forlæg. Kortet har ingen tekst på bagsiden, men stammer fra Ortelius' berømte atlas "Theatrum orbis terrarum", som udkom i 19 udgaver, alle før 1584. I de senere udgaver af atlasset blev kortet revideret og opdelt i to mindre dele.Bramsen p. 56.

Kbh., 1748. Stor4to. Lidt senere hellæderbind i flammet kalv med ophøjede bind på ryg. På skrivepapir. (14), 368 pp. Kobberstukket frontispiece, samt 109 kobberstukne plancher. tekst på dansk, fransk og tysk. Thurahs monumentale Københavnsbeskrivelse i originaltrykket.

Dresden, Waltherischen Hofbuchhandlung., 1780-81. 4to. 2 cont. hcalf with gilt spines. Tapestrip in upper compartment of backs on both volumes. Spines with 2 paperlabels pasted on. Loss of a part of coverpaper. Internally fine. 2 large engraved titlevignettes. (24),274,(12),350,(2) pp and 62 mostly double-page folded engraved plates (a few larger). Numb. 1-34 (27 a. 28 made of 4 plates a+b) and A-D + 1-26, all called for. 1 plate slightly stained in lower margin. First German edition. Scarce.

Berlin, Springer, 1932. 8vo. Orig. full yellow cloth. with orig. printed dustjacket. Jacket with a few minor small tears. Small stamp on titlepage and jacket with previous owners name: Niels Arley (1911-94, collaborated with Niels Bohr, professor at Inst. of Theoretical Physics, Univ. of Copenhagen). (8),262,(2) pp. With many annotations in small pencil by Niels Arley throughout. First edition. In the early years of quantum mechanics several distinct formulations were developed; Heisenberg's matrix mechanics, Schrödinger's wave mechanics, and Dirac's more general transformation theory. However these theories lacked strict mathematical rigor (only much later through Schwartz's theory of distributions did Dirac's theory achieve this). Quantum mechanics is one of the fields of science which was fortunate to attract the attention of a mathematician of von Neumann's character. Von Neumann showed, in a paper published 1927, how generalized infinite-dimensional Euclidean spaces (function spaces) and linear operators provide the proper mathematical framework for quantum mechanics. Von Neumann was strongly influenced by Hilbert's program of axiomatizing the fields of science. The axiomatic approach which von Neumann takes in his theory has ever since dominated modern physics and functional analysis, and it was von Neumann who coined the term 'Hilbert space'. Von Neumann's work in this field culminated in this monograph which in addition to the earlier paper includes his important considerations, inspired by Bohr and Heisenberg, regarding the problem of measurement, in particular von Neumann's disproof of hidden variables.

Lugduni (Lyon), Seb. Gryphium, 1556. 8vo. Cont. full calf. Raised bands, gilt borders on covers. A gilt centerpiece on both covers. Leather at upper compartment of back gone and a nick to lower compartment. Corners bumped and worn, somewhat rubbed. 567,(71) pp. Old repair to foot of title, no loss of text. Some old ownership inscriptions on endpapers and title, 2 old engraved bookplates pasted on front-and endpapers. Internally with a few mainly marginal brownspopts and a faint dampstain in lower corners of the first leaves. Woodcut initials. "Somnium" pp. 3-178 having geographical woodcuts in the text and a woodcut map of the old world. Printers woodcut-device on title. Fourth Lyon-edition of Macrobius's 2 main works. In the "Somnium" he uses passages of Cicero's work as mere suggestions to construct a treatise on Neoplatonic philosophy - the most satisfactory and widely read Latin compendium on Neoplatonism that existed during the Middle Ages. Macrobius was one of the leading popularizers of science in the Latin West, and his conception of the world geography as an equatorial and meridional ocean (depicted in the book) dividing the earth into four quarters, dominated scientific thinking on world geography in the Middle Ages. - His "Saturnalia" deals with Roman feasts in form of table-talk at a banquet in Rome, giving information of food and drink and their preparation (Vicaire 986 (ed.1492, Simon p. 547 (ed. 1492)). and is fascinatingly rich in philological, historical, antiquarian and scientific lore, throwing a clear light on the interests and taste of the period. - Adams vol. II: M 68.