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La theorie du rayonnement et les quanta... (offered with) Electrons and protons

La theorie du rayonnement et les quanta... (offered with) Electrons and protons by SOLVAY CONFERENCE]. LANGEVIN, BROGLIE; LORENTZ, BRAGG, ETC.

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Seller: Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts
Title
La theorie du rayonnement et les quanta... (offered with) Electrons and protons
Author
SOLVAY CONFERENCE]. LANGEVIN, BROGLIE; LORENTZ, BRAGG, ETC.
Seller
Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Description
Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1928. Both volumes with numerous text illustrations. Recent cloth. From the library of Martin J. Klein, professor of the history of science at Yale, and the first recipient of the Abraham Pais Prize for the History of Physics. I: The publication that resulted from the first Solway Conference of 1911 contains papers presented by Einstein (“L’état actuel du problème des chaleurs spécifiques; Weil, 52), Sommerfeld, Langevin, Nernst, Marie Curie, Perrin, Planck, Rubens, Warburg, Jeans and Lorentz (“Sur l’application au rayonnement du théorème de l’équipartition de l’énergie”), among others. This first conference on radiation and quanta examined applications from classical physics as well as quantum theory, and introduces a number of new concepts surrounding both theoretical and experimental work then being tested. The Solvay Institute for Physics and Chemistry was founded by the Belgian industrialist Ernest Solvay in 1912, following the invitation-only 1911 conference which was attended by the world’s top scientists. II: The fifth Solvay conference was perhaps the most famous, as it included luminaries such as Nobelists Einstein, Bohr, Bragg, Compton, Bohr, Dirac, Schrodinger, Curie, De Broglie and Heisenberg. Papers here include Bragg’s “L'intensité de réflexions des rayons X”; Compton’s “Discordances entre l'experience et la theorie électro-magnétique du rayonnement”; De Broglie, “La nouvelle dynamique des quanta”; Born & Heisenberg, “La mécanique des quanta”; Schrödinger, “La mécanique des ondes”; and Bohr, “Le postulat des quanta et le nouveau développement de l’atomistique”. This was also the beginning of the Bohr-Einstein debates, a series of public disputes about quantum mechanics. Bohr proposed that wave equations described where entities like electrons could be; however the entities didn't actually exist as particles until someone went looking for them. The act of observation caused existence. In Bohr's own words, the entities in question had no "independent reality in the ordinary physical sense." Einstein of course was a bit more empirical. An electron was an electron, and just because someone wasn't looking at it, it was still there — wherever “there” happened to be (see Boyd, The Bohr-Einstein Debates, http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi2627.htm).
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Angelica Kauffmann, R.A.: Her Life and Her Works by Lady Victoria Manners and Dr. G.C. Williamson

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Seller: Appledore Books, ABAA
Title
Angelica Kauffmann, R.A.: Her Life and Her Works
Author
Lady Victoria Manners and Dr. G.C. Williamson
Seller
Appledore Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Collectible; Very Good
Description
New York: Brentano's, 1924. 1st. Cloth. Collectible; Very Good. A well-preserved copy of the 1924 1st edition, limited to 1000 copies. Clean, bright and VG to VG+ in a duotone cloth binding, with beige spine and gilt-lettered label over dark-brown. Thick quarto, 268 pgs., deckled fore-edge and bottom-edge. Comprehensive monograph (with 10 color illustrations and dozens of black and white illustrations) on the great 18th century British female portrait painter Angelica Kauffmann.
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The Economics of Under-Developed Countries by Peter Bauer; Basil S. Yamey

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Title
The Economics of Under-Developed Countries
Author
Peter Bauer; Basil S. Yamey
Seller
Grayshelf Books, ABAA, IOBA (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
First Edition/First Printing with the correct statement to the copyright page; A Very Good or better book in a Very Good dust jacket. A handsome copy of this dissertation on applying economic skills to the problems of under-developed countries; this title uncommon in collectible condition. This book is in very good or better condition showing only some minor rubbing to the board edges, some moderate fading to the boards, and a PO signature to the front free paper. Housed in a clean and bright very good dust jacket that shows some minor rubbing and chipping to the spine ends, edges, and corners, and some light foxing to the flap edges. Not remaindered, not price clipped, not ex-library; in a fresh Mylar sleeve and will ship carefully wrapped in a sturdy box.
A Walk on the Wild Side

A Walk on the Wild Side by Algren, Nelson

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Title
A Walk on the Wild Side
Author
Algren, Nelson
Seller
Brenner's Collectable Books (United States)
Condition
Good
Description
New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1956. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo., 346pp. Solid Stated First Printing. Square, tight and clean throughout with some mild off-setting to end-papers. Board edges toned. Spines chipped. Sharp unclipped dust-jacket, ($4.50), has some chipping to spine ends and tips. Rubbing to hinges. Toning and spotting to rear panel. Not perfect but a presentable copy at a great price.

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