THE HARVEY PLOTNICK LIBRARY OF QUANTUM PHYSICS
Catalog Information: 294 lots | 117 with images
Lot 1: NEWTON,
Isaac (1642-1727). Autograph manuscript fragment, comprising part of Query 31, added to the second English edition of Opticks (published 1717), containing a reflection upon the philosophy of modern scientific inquiry as opposed to the "occult qualiti [...more]
Lot 2: ASTON, Francis William (1877-1945). Isotopes. London: E. Arnold, 1922.
8 o. 4 photographic plates, text illustrations. Original dark blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine (very minor wear). Provenance : the author's copy with his signature, ink and pencil manuscript additions to the tables on pp. 89 and 143, 2 loosely inserte [...more]
Lot 3: ASTON, Francis William. Isotopes. London: E. Arnold, 1922.
8 o. 4 photographic plates, text illustrations. Original dark blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine (very minor wear). FIRST EDITION. Norman 77; PMM 412.
Lot 4: ALVAREZ,
Luis (1911-1988); Edwin MCMILLAN (B. 1907); Emilio SEGR쳌 (1905-1989) and others. Physics 290(f). Mimeographed typescript on rectos. N.p., n.d. [Berkeley, circa 1950]. 4 o. Loose sheets with holes punched in left margin, preserved in a modern binder a [...more]
Lot 5: BECQUEREL, Henri (1852-1908). Recherches exp‚rimentales sur la polarisation rotatoire magn‚tique. Offprint from: Annales de Chimie et de Physique, T. XII. Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1877.
8 o. Illustrations in text. (Some occasional pale foxing.) Original printed wrappers, uncut and unopened (spine lightly soiled). FIRST EDITION, OFFPRINT ISSUE, of Becquerel's first extensive investigation in physics. From 1874-1877, Becquerel was a s [...more]
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