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PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

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HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. X, 159 Pp Including Short Bibliography At End. Orange Cloth, Hardcover. Second Printing. Fine.

Zustand: VG. Berlin 1931 first edition. 4to. wraps. Eulogy to Michelson by Compton on pp. 777-778; reprint from 1881 of Michelson's article on Der Erde Gegen pn pp. 779-783 mit 9 Figuren and article by Joos on pp. 784-788. VG plus.

Zustand: Good. Paris 1893 first edition. Gauthier. Comptes Rendus .Original pale pink printed 4to wraps. Stringbound. Michelson article on pp. 790-794. Some pages yet unopened. In French. Good+. cover splitting at spine; some chipping and toning on cover edges; original stringbinding still holding; text clean; no owner marks. Michelson was first American to win Nobel in Physics when he won in 1907.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Xiv, 487 Pp. Clean Pages, Slightly Aged, In A Modern Sturdy Blue Cloth Binding, Spine Gilt, By Tassinari Bros. Of Indian Orchard, Ma. Light Wear. Two New Hampshire Institutional Stamps. Simon Newcomb (1835 -1909) Was A Canadian-American Astronomer, Applied Mathematician And Autodidactic Polymath. Newcomb Visited Paris, France In 1870, Already Aware That The Table Of Lunar Positions Calculated By Peter Andreas Hansen Was In Error. While In Paris, He Realized That, In Addition To The Data From 1750 To 1838 That Hansen Had Used, There Was Further Data Stretching As Far Back As 1672, And Newcomb Used The "New" Data To Revise Hansen's Tables. In 1878, Newcomb Started Planning For A New And Precise Measurement Of The Speed Of Light, Using A Refinement Of The Method Of Léon Foucault. A Letter From Albert Abraham Michelson Began A Long Collaboration And Friendship. In 1880, Michelson Assisted At Newcomb's Initial Measurement, But Michelson Left To Start His Own Project. Miichelson Published His First Measurement In 1880 (Reprinted Here), But Newcomb's Measurement Was Substantially Different, And, In 1883, Michelson Revised His Measurement To A Value Closer To Newcomb's. In 1881, Newcomb Discovered The Statistical Principle Now Known As Benford's Law, Formulating The Principle That, In Any List Of Numbers Taken From An Arbitrary Set Of Data, More Numbers Will Tend To Begin With "1" Than With Any Other Digit. In 1891, Within Months Of Seth Carlo Chandler's Discovery Of The 14-Month Variation Of Latitude, Now Referred To As The Chandler Wobble, Newcomb Explained The Apparent Conflict Between The Observed Motion And Predicted Period Of The Wobble, As Due To Elasticiity; He Used The Variation Of Latitude Observations To Estimate The Elasticity Of Earth, Finding It To Be Slightly More Rigid Than Steel. He Wrote On Economics And His Principles Of Political Economy (1885) Was Described By John Maynard Keynes As "One Of Those Original Works Which A Fresh Scientific Mind, Not Perverted By Having Read Too Much Of The Orthodox Stuff, Is Able To Produce From Time To Time In A Half-Formed Subject Like Economics." He Was Credited By Irving Fisher With The First-Known Enunciation Of The Equation Of Exchange Between Money And Goods Used In The Quantity Theory Of Money. His Reputation Suffers From His Hostility To C. S. Pierce, And Also From Newcomb's Disbelief In The Possibility Of Manned Flight. (Source: Wikipedia). Albert A. Michelson (1852-1931) Performed Early Measurements Of The Velocity Of Light With Amazing Delicacy And In 1881 He Invented His Interferometer For The Purpose Of Discovering The Effect Of The Earth's Motion On The Observed Velocity. In Cooperation With Professor E.W. Morley, And Using The Interferometer, It Was Shown That Light Travels At A Constant Speed In All Inertial Systems Of Reference. The Instrument Also Enabled Distances To Be Measured With Greater Accuracy By Means Of The Length Of Light-Waves. At The Request Of The International Committee Of Weights And Measures, Michelson Measured The Standard Metre In Terms Of Wavelength Of Cadmium Light. He Invented The Echelon Spectroscope And During His Wartime Service In The Navy He Performed Research Work On Devices For Naval Use - He Developed A Rangefinder Which Was Adapted As Part Of U.S. Navy Equipment. On His Return To Civilian Life, Michelson Became More Interested In Astronomy And In 1920, Using Light Interference And A Highly Developed Version Of His Earlier Instrument, He Measured The Diameter Of The Star Betelgeuse: This Was The First Determination Of The Size Of A Star That Could Be Regarded As Accurate. He Was The First American To Receive The Nobel Priize For Physics. (Nobel Lectures, Physics 1901-1921, Elsevier Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1967). With 1985 Purchase Receipt Of Space Scientist Richard E. Bateman From Astronomy Book Dealer Paul Luther.

First edition. 206 pages plus 3 pages of plates. Hardbound in very good condition in good dust jacket; Jacket quite worn and frayed with many pieces missing, front inner panel mostly loose.

Zustand: VG. Paris 1895 Gauthier-Villars et fils. In French. Hardcover. Small folio, 237pp., 1 page Table des Matieres, blue cloth. This is single complete volume Tome XI of Travaux et Memoires du Bureau International des Poids et Mesures. Michelson won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1907. Bound with Benoit and Guillaume Metres Prototype et Etalons,16pp. plus LXXXIII pages of "Observations"; 31pp., LXV pages of "Observations" plus Table des Matieres. Original blue printed wrapper bound in. "Duplicate" stamp on front end paper and "cancel" stamp on verso of title page. VG.

In: The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science. Series 5 Vol. 24 = July-December 1887, No. 151, pp. 449-463. Bound in half leather with gilt-stamped label on spine. Edges rubbed and bumped. Spine rubbed and damaged. Endpaper and title page are brown-spotted. Front cover loosened. This is the FIRST EUROPEAN PRINTING of the famous Michelson-Morley Experiment. The Complete Volume includes 9 plates. VII, 524 pp. Also included in this volume are the following first editions of: Rayleigh, Lord (d.i. J.W. Strutt), On the Maintenance of Vibrations by Forces of Double Frequency, and on the Propagation of Waves through a Medium endowed with a Periodic Structure. Poggendorff VI, 1218; TOMLINSON, H., The Effect of Change of Temperature in Twisting or Untwisting Wires which have suffered Permanent Torsion. No. 148, pp. 253-256; Remarkable Effect on raising Iron when Temporary Stress or Permanent Strain to a Bright-red Heat. No. 148, pp. 256-267. Poggendorff IV, 1514; THOMPSON, S.P., Twin Prisms for Polarimeters. No. 150, pp. 397-401. Poggendorff IV, 1494; HEAVISIDE, O., On Resistance and Conductance Operators, and their Derivatives, Inductance and Permittance, especially in Connection with Electric and Magnetic Energy. No. 151, pp. 479-502. Poggendorff IV, 602. Sprache: Englisch.

London, Taylor and Francis, 1887. 8vo. In recent full blue cloth. In: "The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science" Fifth Series, Vol. 24. VIII,524 pp., textillustr. and 9 plates. (Entire volume offered). Michelson & Morley's paper: pp. 449-463, textillustr. (depicting experimental apparatus etc.). Title-page with light soiling and lower 2 cm loose and traces from previous binding in inner maring. Otherwise a good copy. First European publication of this classic paper which announced one of the most celebrated experiments in the history of physics and eventually led Einstein to his Relativity Theory (see PMM 378,410,408). The paper appeared first in the "American Journal of Science" just one month before in November, not in August as stated in PMM. The offered paper appeared in the December issue 1887 and in a slightly modified form.Michelson was the first American to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics, in 1907, for the measurement of the speed of light through the design and application of precise optical instruments such as the interferometer, which was used in this experiment."Michelson, trained at the U.S. Naval Academy, and Morley, minister turned chemist, began a series of experiments to determine the relation of ether drift and the velocity of light, effects of extremely minute values. They used a slightly silvered glass set angular to a ray of sunlight so that a part ofthe ray was transmitted, a part reflected out and again returned, thereby providing two paths, one perpendicular to the other. If drift existed, the superimposed rays would produce interference. None was observed, showing that the earth's motion did not affect the light's speed. The negative result held revolutionary implications which led directly thru Lorentz and Einstein to the acceptance of new standards of reference of time and space from geometry and cosmometry."(Dibner).Dibner No 161 (listing the offered paper from Philosophical Magazine). - Norman 1505.- Magee "A Source Book in Physics", pp. 369 ff. (the offered paper).The volume contains another paper by Michelson and Morley "On a method of Making the Wave-lenght of Sodium Light the actual and practical Standard of Lenght", pp. 463-466.

New Haven, Conn., J.D. & E.S. Dana, 1887. 8vo. Contemporary half calf. Gilt lettering to spine. A small stamp to top of title-page. In: "The American Journal of Science. Editors James D. and Edward S. Dana", Third series Vol. XXXIV (July to December, 1887). VIII,500 pp., textillustr. and 10 plates. (Entire volume offered). The joint paper: pp. 333-345 and textillustr. (Apparatus). A few faint brownspots to titlepage, otherwise clean and fine. First appearance of this classic paper which announced one of the most celebrated experiments in the history of physics and eventually led Einstein to his Relativity Theory.The experiment was expected to show the rate of the earth's movement through the ether" they looked in vain for a difference between the speed of light in the direction of the earth's motion around the sun and the direction perpendicular to it. The failure of this experiment was a serious blow to classical scientific theories because it cast doubts on the existance of the universal ether which had been a basic principleof, for example, the Newtonian theories of the universe. (Vide PMM: 378, 401, 408).The paper appeared first in the "American Journal of Science" in November (as offered here), and was published a month later in "Philosophical Magazine" in a slightly modified form."Michelson, trained at the U.S. Naval Academy, and Morley, minister turned chemist, began a series of experiments to determine the relation of ether drift and the velocity of light, effects of extremely minute values. They used a slightly silvered glass set angular to a ray of sunlight so that a part ofthe ray was transmitted, a part reflected out and again returned, thereby providing two paths, one perpendicular to the other. If drift existed, the superimposed rays would produce interference. None was observed, showing that the earth's motion did not affect the light's speed. The negative result held revolutionary implications which led directly thru Lorentz and Einstein to the acceptance of new standards of reference of time and space from geometry and cosmometry."(Dibner)In 1919 Einstein met Michelson in California. At a dinner given in honor of them both, Einstein said in a speech "You (Michelson) uncovered an insidious defect in the ether theory of light, as it existed, and stimulated the ideas of H.A. Lorentz and Fitzgerald, out of which the Special Theory of Relativity developed. Without your work this theory would today be scarcely more than an interesting speculation." In an interview in 1842 Einstein said: "It is no doubt that Michelson's experiment was of considerably influence upon my work insofar as it strengthened my conviction concerning the validity of the Principle of relativity.On the other side I was pretty much convinced of the validity of the principle before I did know this experiment and its result. In any case, Michelson's experiment removed practically any doubt about the validity of the principle in optics and showed that a profound change of the basic concepts of physics was inevitable."Michelson was awarded the 1907 Nobel Prize "for his optical precision instrument (the inteferometer) and the spectroscopic and metrological investigations he has carried on."Dibner: Heralds of Science: 161 (lising the later version from "Philosophical Magazine") - Norman 1505.- Magee "A Source Book in Physics", pp. 369 ff. (the later paper).The volume contains another paper by Michelson and Morley "On a method of Making the Wave-lenght of Sodium Light the actual and practical Standard of Lenght", pp. 427-430.