Laplace Pierre Simone (6 results)
Published by Paris: Bachelier, 1835
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Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Good. Laplace, Simon. Exposition du Systeme du Monde. Paris: Bachelier, 1835. 6th edition. Half-leather. Very good condition. Large paper copy (or seemingly so), lacking the portrait, and with the front free endpaper detached. Very nicely bound in half morocco and marbled boards.
Published by Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1809
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Laplace, Pierre-Simone de. "Theorie der Kraft" sections 1-4. Includes: (1) Welche in den Haarröhren und bei ähnlichen Erscheinungen wirkt. (2) Die Wirkung der Haaröhren-Kraft auf eine neue Art Betrachtet. (3) Theorie des Anziehens und Abstossens schwimmender Körper, der Adhäsion einer Scheibe an…einer Flüssigen Oberfläche, und der Figur eines grossen Quecksilber-Tropfens mit prüfenden Versuchen von Gay-Lussac. (4) Allgemeine Betrachtungen über die Haarröhen-Kraft und über die Kräfte der chemischen Verwandschaft." __+__ Each section in which the Laplace contribution is printed (sections [Stuck] 9-12 contains the two pages of outer wrappers, bound in, making this a scarce publication. Published in the "Annalen der Physik", series 1, volume 33, published in Leipzig by J. Ambrosius Barth, and printed in 1809. We offer the entire volume of (12),452 pages and with 4 folding engraved plates, with the Laplace contributions on pp. 1-114, pp. 141-182, pp. 273-293, pp. 293-338 and pp. 373-394. Each section is complete. __+__ Provenance: from the Library of Bernhard Meining; then, the Deutsche Akademie der Luftfahtforschung; and on the USAAF library at Wright Patterson, and finally to the Library of Congress. Very well traveled. Nice copy.__+__ "The importance, for Laplace's theory, of the short range character of the molecular forces cannot be overstressed. Small terms involving the square of the distance were repeatedly ignored, and it is no coincidence that in his concluding remarks to the second supplement Laplace reiterated his belief in the identity of the forces at work in optical refraction, capillary action, and chemical reactions. In accordance with his belief that capillarity is a consequence of intermolecular action at a distance (albeit a very small distance), he tried to determine the relative magnitude of the attractive force between the particles composing the liquid (F1) and the force between the particles of liquid and those of the tube (F2). experiments, performed at Laplace's request, by Gay-Lussac, Haüy, and Jean-Lois Trémary gave the theory added plausibility, as Laplace himself was always ready to observe; and they certainly helped it to survive the criticism of Laplace's only contemporary rival in the treatment of capillarity, Thomas Young."--Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography online.
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Add to basketParis, Crochard, 1819. Later full buckram. Gilt lettering on spine. Stamp on verso of title-page. "Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago.", Tome 12. Entire volume offered. 448 pp. a. 1 folded engraved plate. Laplace's papers: pp. 5-12, pp. 37-41 a. pp. 337-341. Scattered brownspots. The paper on Capillari…ty is the last version of this theory in which he refined it to take account of the effect of heat in reducing the attractive force between the particles of a liquid. "The net attractive force was now taken as the difference between the innate attraction (the only force considered in the supplement to the "Mecanique celeste") and a repulsive force that was supposed to be caused by the presence of heat."(DSB). - Using the theory of Boscovich, "who assumed that between every two ultimate particles and along the lines connecting them forces act which are attractive for some distances and repulsive for others. Using this theory, with the added requirements that that the molecular forces diminish rapidly with increase of the distances between the molecules, Laplace was able to develop his theory of capillarity (referring to the offered paper)."(Timoshenko "History of the Strenghts of Material", p. 104).The 2 papers here offered on probability applied, were both incorporated into the third edition of "Theoriques analytique des probabilities" (1820).
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Add to basketParis, Crochard, 1819. Contemp. hcalf, richly gilt spine. Light wear to top of spine and a few minor scratches. "Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago.", Tome 12. Entire volume offered. 448 pp. a. 1 folded engraved plate. Small stamps on verso of titlepage and plate. Laplace's papers: pp. 5-12, pp. 37-41…a. pp. 337-341. The paper on Capillarity is the last version of this theory in which he refined it to take account of the effect of heat in reducing the attractive force between the particles of a liquid. "The net attractive force was now taken as the difference between the innate attraction (the only force considered in the supplement to the "Mecanique celeste") and a repulsive force that was supposed to be caused by the presence of heat."(DSB). - Using the theory of Boscovich, "who assumed that between every two ultimate particles and along the lines connecting them forces act which are attractive for some distances and repulsive for others. Using this theory, with the added requirements that that the molecular forces diminish rapidly with increase of the distances between the molecules, Laplace was able to develop his theory of capillarity (referring to the offered paper)."(Timoshenko "History of the Strenghts of Material", p. 104).The 2 papers here offered on probability applied, were both incorporated into the third edition of "Theoriques analytique des probabilities" (1820).
Ueber die Messung des Brechungsvermögens der undurchsichtigen Körper. (+) Ueber eine Eigenthümlichkeit des von durchsichtigen Körpern zurückgeworfenen Lichtes. Uebersetzt von Erman, mit einigen Erleuterungen von Tralles. (+ WOLLASTON:) eue Methode die.
"MALUS, ETIENNE LOUIS & LAPLACE, PIERRE-SIMONE & WOLLASTON, WILLIAM HYDE. - THE LAWS OF DOUBLE REFRACTION ESTABLISHED.
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Add to basketLeipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1809. Without wrappers as issued in "Annalen der Physik und der Physikalischen Chemie. Hrsg. Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert", Bd. 31, Drittes Stück. Titlepage to vol. 31. Pp. 225-336 a. 1 engraved plate. (Entire issue offered). Malus's papers: pp. 225-234 a. pp. 286-294. Wollaston's papers: pp. 235-251 a…. pp. 252-262 a. Erläuterungen von Gilbert pp. 263-273. Laplace's paper: pp. 274-285. First apperance in German of these importent papers on the refraction and double refraction of light. The papers by Malus is his first two papers on the refraction of light and Laplace's paper is the memoir in which he commented Malus' paper and Huygen's refraction law. "In 1788 Haüy found experimentally that Huygen's law was true only in certain special cases, but in 1802 Wollaston found experimental evidence for the Huygenian construction (the second Wollaston paper offered). In "Mémoire sur la mesure du pouvoir réfringent" (the first paper offered) Malus showed that Wollaston's experiments were incomplete, and so the French corpuscularian physicists did not trust Wollaston's results. They thought, moreover, that Wollaston was associated with Tmomas Young and therfore with the new wave hypothesis. In this situation the Institute on January 1808 proposed a prize which required an experimental and theoretical explanation of double refraction. The French "Newtonian" scientists hoped that Malus would find a precise and general law for double refraction within the framework of an emission theory of light. Malus was a skilled mathematician and during 1807 he had carried out experiments on double refraction. By december 1808 Malus had finished his experimental investigations, which verified the Huygenian law. What remained was a theoretical deduction of the law. In January 1809, Laplace published a memoir in which he deduced Huygen's law law within the framework of Newtonian mechanics, using the principle of least action, and Malus considered this an insolence which deprived him of the priority. In 1810 Malus von the prize for his "Théorie sur la double réfraction", published in 1811."(DSB IX, p. 73).
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Add to basketLeipzig, Joh. Ambrosius Barth, 1809. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine, raised bands. Very slightly rubbed. In "Annalen der Physik. Herausgegeben von Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert", Bd. 33. (Entire volume offered). (12),452 pp. and 4 folded engraved plates. Internally clean and fine. Small stamps on verso of titlepage. Laplace's papers: pp. 1…-114, pp. 141-182, pp. 273-293, pp. 293-338 a. pp. 373-394. First German edition of Laplace's groundbreeking papers on the "Short-range Forces" i.e. capillary action, cohesion of solids, chemical reactions etc., where Laplace makes a major contribution to the mathematization of the subject. The papers are his first contributions to mathematical physics, and appeared as supplements to Book X of the fourth volume of his "Traité de mécanique céleste"."The importence, for Laplace's theory, of the shortrange character of the molecular forces cannot be overstressed. Small terms involving the square of the distance were repeatedly ignored, and it is no coincidence that in his concluding remarks to the second supplement Laplace reiterated his belief in the idntity of the forces at work in optical refraction, capillary action, and chemical reactions. In accordance with his belief that capillarity is a consequence of intermolecular action at a distance (albeit a very small distance), he tried to determine the relativemagnitude of the attractive force between the particles composing the liquid (F1) and the force between the particles of liquid and those of the tube (F2). experiments, performed at Laplace's request, by Gay-Lussac, Haüy, and Jean-Lois Trémary.gave the theory added plausibility, as Laplace himself was always ready to observe" and they certainly helped it to survive the criticism of Laplace's only contemporary rival in the treatment of capillarity, Thomas Young."(DSB XV, Suppl. I, pp. 358 ff.).