Search Results: Titles starting with Q from Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc.

2005. Quai de Montebello, Paris. Etching, aquatint and roulette. No. 13 of 75 copies on wove Lana Royal, signed, titled, numbered and dated by the artist. 2005. 593 x 587 mm. (plate mark). Archivally framed (frame measures 934 x 857 mm.). This oversized plate depicts the Bouquinistes (riverside booksellers) on the Seine, the river, and the cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris. Fitch-Febvrel 196.

1922. Einstein, Albert (1879-1955) and Paul Ehrenfest (1880-1933). Quantentheoretische Bemerkungen zum Experiment von Stern und Gerlach. Offprint from Zeitschrift für Physik 11 (1922). 31-34pp. 229 x 155 mm. Original printed self-wrappers. Light toning but fine otherwise. First Edition, Offprint Issue. In 1922 the physicists Otto Stern and Walther Gerlach conducted a now-classic experiment in which a beam of silver atoms was streamed through an inharmonious magnetic field in order to observe the atoms' deflection patterns. Rather than a random and continuous distribution, as predicted by classical theory, the atoms passing through the field were deflected up or down by a specific amount, demonstrating that they had intrinsically quantum properties. The Stern-Gerlach experiment corroborated the Bohr-Sommerfeld model of the atom and strongly influenced later developments in 20th century physics. However, the experiment also created some serious difficulties for quantum physicists in the period before… Read More

1943. Dirac, Paul A. M. (1903-84). Quantum electrodynamics. Communications of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Sciences, series A, no. 1. Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1943. [2], 36pp. 257 x 183 mm. Original printed wrappers, slight wear. Very good. First Edition. A continuation of Dirac's 1939 theory of the classical electron. Kragh, Dirac: A Scientific Biography, p. 175. .

Brussels: Erik Speeckaert, 1989.

San Francisco: Norman, 1993. The Norman Publishing edition of The Queen Catalogues reprints, in two thick volumes, 17 different rare illustrated instrument catalogues and circulars published between 1887 and 1890 in the following fields:. Volume I: Priced and Illustrated Catalogue of Microscopes and Accessories, Magnifying Glasses, Stereoscopes, Graphoscopes, etc. (1890) Priced and Illustrated Catalogue of Ophthalmological Instruments, Spectacles and Eye-Glasses (1889) Illustrated Catalogue of Instruments used in Physical Optics (1888) Astronomical Telescopes, Transit Instruments, Helioscopes, Micrometers, Chronographs and Clocks, Objectives and Oculars, etc. (1889) Illustrated Catalogue of Terrestrial Telescopes, Telescope Stands, Eye-Pieces, Achromatic Objectives, and Accessories (1889) Special List of New Polariscopes and Polarizing Objects for the Use of Schools and Colleges (1887) Priced and Illustrated Catalouge of Optical Lanterns, Stereopticons, Photographic Transparencies and Colored Views… Read More

1938. Klein, Oskar (1894-1977). Quelques remarques sur le traitement approximative du problème des électrons dans un réseau cristallin par la mécanique quantique. Offprint from Journal de physique et le radium 9 (1938). 12pp. 271 x 220 mm. Original printed wrappers, a bit sunned, creased horizontally and vertically. Very good. Presentation Copy, inscribed by the author to H. A. Kramers (1894-1952) on the front wrapper: "Hans Kramers från [illeg.] förf." First Edition, Offprint Issue. "In 1938 [Klein] presented some procedures for solving the Schrödinger equation in a periodic force field and also for describing electron interactions in a crystal" (Dictionary of Scientific Biography). Klein presented this copy to Dutch physicist H. A. Kramers, one of the major architects of quantum theory. .

1924. Bohr, Niels (1885-1962); H. A. Kramers (1894-1954); and John C. Slater (1900-1976). The quantum theory of radiation. In The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine, 6th series, 47 (1924): 785-802. Whole number. 785-1056pp. 2 plates. 223 x 146 mm. Original printed wrappers, spine a bit chipped. Very good. First Edition in English, journal issue of the famous Bohr-Kramers-Slater (BKS) paper, in which Bohr and his co-authors attempted to do away with Einstein's light quanta by proposing a new quantum theory of radiation. The existence of light quanta had been proved experimentally by Arthur H. Compton's discovery of the Compton effect, the change in wavelength of x-rays scattered from a target at various angles. "Compton recognized that the shift in the wavelength of x-rays, if scattered by atoms, could be derived only by assuming the existence of radiation in the form of light-quanta, which collide with the electrons in atoms in elementary processes" (Mehra & Rechenberg, The… Read More