Fizeau, Armand Hippolyte Louis. “Ueber die zur Erzeugung der Moser'schen Bilder-beitragenden Ursachen”, which is the first German edition of “Sur les causes qui concouraent a la production des images de Moser” from the Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences 1842, volume 15. In Annalen der Physik, volume 58, 1843, No. 4, part VII, pp 592-593 in the issue of pp (521)-668 (with one folding plate). This issue is removed from a larger bound volume, with no outer wrappers. Very Good. Other works include those of C.F. Naumann, G.B. Airy, Faraday, Arago, and a longer piece by Daguerre. (“Ueber ein neues Versahren, die zu photographischen Bildern bestimmten Platten zu poliren, welches, so lange di eSufsern Umstande gleich bleiben, einerlei Resultate gicht”, pp 586-592, translated from the Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences volume 16, p. 588.) SOLD
Fizeau, Armand Hippolyte Louis. “Sur les effets resultant de certaines procedes employes pour abreger le temps necessaire a la formation des images photographiques”, in Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences, 1843, volume 16, pp 759-761. This is offered in the weekly issue, removed from a larger bound volume, and without wrappers. Very Good. $175
- “On 19 August 1839 Arago made public a description of a new process of “light painting” or heliography that had been invented by L.-J.-M. Daguerre. The daguerrotype, as the result of this process soon came to be called, was a crude forerunner of the modern photograph. Fitzeau’s earliest work in science was an attempt to improve Daguerre’s process and to make the heliograph an instrument of science. He showed that by covering the surface of the developed plate with a salt of gold, oxidation of the surface chemicals could be prevented and the contrasts between light and dark could be considerably heightened. He is often credited with the first use of bromine vapors to hasten the development of the photographic image, but this seems uncertain. Fizeau also introduced a widely used but unpatented method for turning a photograph into a photoetching.”--Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Fizeau, Armand Hippolyte Louis. “Sur le phenomene des interferences entre deux rayons de lumiere dans le case de randes differences de marche”, in Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences de l'Academie des Sciences, 1845, volume 21, offered in the weekly issue, the article occupying pp 1155-1158. The issue is removed from a larger bound volume, and offered with the wrappers. Very Good. $300
- “From 1844 Fizeau and Foucault undertook a series of precise and mechanically ingenious optical experiments that would ultimately have a profound effect on the course of physics. By the middle of the nineteenth century, most scientists had come to accept the wave theory of light, formulated near the beginning of the century by Thomas Young and Augustin Fresnel. There remained, however, several gaps in the investigation of the experimental consequences of the theory. For example, in the study of interference fringes produced by two rays of light issuing from the same source, only several dozen fringes on each side of the central band had been observed.”--Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Fizeau, Armand Hippolyte Louis. “L'Action des rayons rouges sur les plaques daguerriennes”, in Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences, 1846, the article occupying pp 679-682 in the weekly issue, and removed from a larger bound volume. There is some water staining to this volume, and so is in GOOD condition, only. $100
Fizeau, Armand Hippolyte Louis, AND Leon Foucault. "Recherches sur les interferences des rayons calorifiques." In: Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences, 27 September 1847, vol 25 #13. The issue: pp 432-472. Fizeau contribution on pp 447-450. Removed from larger bound volume. Offered with the original (front and rear) wrappers, which lack the spine. SOLD
- “In 1800 William Herschel, the British astronomer, discovered a form of invisible radiation above the red end of the spectrum which produced a heating effect. The infrared rays (or calorific rays as they were usually called) were shown to follow most laws that had been established for visible light. By using extremely small and delicate thermometers, Fizeau and Foucault demonstrated that calorific rays could produce interference fringes like those produced by visible light, except that instead of appearing as alternating bands of light and dark, the fringes produced by infrared rays appeared as alternating bands of hot and cold.”--Dictionary of Scientific Biography
First Terrestrial Measurement of the Speed of Light
Fizeau, Armand Hippolyte Louis. "Sur une experience relative a la vitesse de propagation de la lumiere." From: Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences, 16 July 1849, vol 29 #2. The issue: pp 65-132. Fizeau contribution appears on pp 90-92. Removed from larger bound volume. Offered with the scarce original (front and rear) wrappers, which lacks the spine. SOLD
This is the report by Fizeau on the first terrestrial measurement of the speed of light--the description of the experiment as well as the apparatus.
- "Fizeau was not satisfied merely with determining the relative velocities of light. He wanted to measure with some precision the absolute velocity. In 1849 he had conceived an ingenious mechanism that would enable him to achieve his goal: a large toothed wheel was spun rapidly about its axis, and a beam of light sent through the spaces between the teeth was reflected back to its source by a fixed mirror. When the wheel was rotated rapidly enough, the intermittent light rays returning from the mirror intersected the path of the teeth and thus became invisible to the observer stationed behind the wheel. As the mechanism was turned faster and faster, the light reappeared and disappeared alternately. The time required for the light to travel through the carefully measured distance was a simple function of the angular displacement of the wheel.
- “In 1849 Fizeau made a trial of his new method between his father’s house at Suresnes and Montmartre. The figure he obtained for the speed of light (about 315,000 kilometers per second) was not quite as accurate as the results of astronomical calculations, but the practicability of the method was established and became the basis of the more precise determinations made by Alfred Cornu in the 1870’s."--Dictionary of Scientific Biography. (Cornu would later write a short biography of Fizeau which (in spite of its slimness) is still the major contribution to what historians of science know about Fizeau.)
- “In 1849 Fizeau made a trial of his new method between his father’s house at Suresnes and Montmartre. The figure he obtained for the speed of light (about 315,000 kilometers per second) was not quite as accurate as the results of astronomical calculations, but the practicability of the method was established and became the basis of the more precise determinations made by Alfred Cornu in the 1870’s.
- “By substituting for teeth alternating bands of conducting and nonconducting materials, Fizeau attempted with little success to adopt his mechanism to the measurement of the speed of electricity. (A galvanometer, of course, replaced the eye of the observer.) In 1849 Fizeau tried the experiment with the engineer E. Gounelle, but the results were indecisive because of the complex way in which electricity is propagated through a conductor.”--Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Fizeau, Hippolyte and L. Brequet. "Sur l'Experience relative a la vitesse comparative de la lumiere dans l'air et dans l'eau." From: Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences, 17 June 1850, vol 30 #24. The issue: pp 755-788. Fizeau contribution pp 771-774. Removed from larger bound volume. Offered with the original (front and rear) wrappers, which lack the spine. $350
A corollary piece to the earlier and great contribution made in this same year to the CR, "Sur l'Experience relative a la vitesse comparative de la lumiere” cited by David Stern, Guide to Information Sources in the Physical Sciences, Important Works in the History of Physics, p 209
Velocity of Light in Media
Fizeau, Armand Hippolyte Louis. "Sur les hypotheses relatives a l'ether lumineux, et sur une experience qui parait demontrer que le mouvement des corps change la vitesse avec laquelle la lumiere se propage dans elur interieur", in Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences..,1851, volume 33, pp 349-355. The weekly issue removed from a larger bound volume, without the original printed wrappers. This is the first publication of the later, full report that appeared in 1859 in Annales de Chimie et de Physique, 3me Series - Tome LVII. $300
- "During most of pre-Galileo and Newton and for subsequent eras as well, it was supposed that in the interstitial spaces between objects of matter that there existed a "carrying medium" or aether for the transmission of light from source to reflecting object and thence to the human eye for perception. Two French physicists, Jean Bernard Léon Foucault ( 1819 -1868 ) and Armand Hippolyte Louis Fizeau ( 1819 - 1896 ), attempted the determination for the finite speed of light; Fizeau did so singly in 1849 and again in 1850 together with Foucault but thereafter independently sought the speed of light in his famous 1851 Fizeau Water Experiment whenever light was transmitted thru a high velocity flowing medium such as water. In essence, therefore, Fizeau attempted to confirm Augustin - Jean Fresnel ( 1788 - 1827 )'s "velocity drag coefficient" for light transmitted thru high - velocity ( at least / approx. 30 m/sec ) flowing water. It should be thus noted that Augustin - Jean Fresnel, French mathematical theorist and experimenter in optical wave physics, is the original mathematical discoverer in 1818 of the velocity drag coefficient."--Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Fizeau, Armand Hippolyte Louis. “Ueber die Inductions-Elektrisirmachinen und ein leichtes Mittel zur Erhohung ihrer Wirksamkeit”, in Annalen der Physik, 1853, series II, volume 89, part 2, No. 5., pp (1)-178, the Fizeau occupying pp 176-8. This is the first German translation of “Note sur les machines electriques inductives et sur un moyen facile d'aceroitre leurs effets”, Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences, 36, 1853. Nice copy, removed from a bound volume. Very Good. $150
Fizeau, Armand Hippolyte Louis. "Ueber die Hypothesen vom Lichtaether under ueber einen Versuch.", pp 457-465, in Annalen der Physik und Chemie, III/3, 1853, pp (322)-480, with one folding plate (IV). Removed from a bound volume, though complete in itself. Very Good, crisp copy. This is the German edition of Fizeau's "Sur les Hypothèthes relatives à l'éther lumineux, et sur une experience qui paraît démontrer que le mouvment des corps change la vitesse avec laquelle la lumière se propage dans leur intérieur", which was published September 29, 1851 in the Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences, and then published very soon after as "The Hypotheses Relating to the Luminous Aether, and an Experiment which Appears to Demonstrate that the Motion of Bodies Alters the Velocity with which Light Propagates itself in their Interior", in the Philosophical Magazine, vol 2, pp 568–573 (1851). "The Fizeau experiment was carried out by Hippolyte Fizeau in 1851 to measure the relative speeds of light in moving water. Fizeau used a special interferometer arrangement to measure the effect of movement of a medium upon the speed of light." $250
Fizeau, Armand Hippolyte Louis. “Sur une methode prepare a rechercher si l'azimut de polarization di rayon refracte est influence par le mouvement du corps refringent”, in Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences, 1859, volume 49, occupying pp 717-723 in the weekly issue. Offered in the original wrappers, removed from a larger bound volume. Very Good. $125
Leon Foucault
“Foucault is best-known for two of the most significant experiments of the mid-nineteenth century-the laboratory determination of the velocity of light (1850, 1862) and the mechanical demonstration of the earth’s rotation (1851, 1852)-and for his advancement of the technology of the telescope. He also performed a number of other important experiments, chiefly in optics, and developed several devices which were widely used in both experimental science and technology...”
“From 1844 to 1846 Foucault published geometry, arithmetic, and chemistry texts for the baccalauréat. Thereafter, except for his newspaper articles, he published only scientific papers. Foucault worked in a laboratory set up in his home until, following the award of the Cross of the Legion of Honor in 1851 (for his pendulum experiment) and the docteur ès sciences physiques in 1853 (for his thesis comparing the velocity of light in air and water), he was given a place as physicist at the Paris observatory by Napoleon III. Further honors followed: the Copley Medal of the Royal Society in 1855, officer of the Legion of Honor and member of the Bureau des Longitudes in 1862, and foreign member of the Royal Society (1864) and the academies of Berlin and St. Petersburg. Finally, after having failed to be elected in 1857, Foucault was chosen in 1865, following the death of Clapeyron, a member of the Académie des Sciences.”--Dictionary of Scientific Biography "Foucault, Jean Bernard Léon." vol. 5, Charles Scribner's Sons, 2008, pp. 84-87
Foucault, Léon. “Sur une horloge à pendule conique”, in Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences, 1847, volume 25, pp 154-160. Offered in the weekly issue, with the scarce wrappers, removed from a larger bound volume. Very Good. $225
Foucault, Léon. “Appareil destiné à rendre constante la lumière émanant d un charbon placé entre les deux pôles d'une pile”, Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences, 1849, volume 28, pp 68-69, in the weekly issue, offered with the wrappers, removed from a larger bound volume. Very Good. $175
- In the same issue: Foucault, Leon. “Note sur quelques phenomenes de la vision au moyen des deux yeux”, in Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences, 1849, volume 28, occupying pp 78-80 in the weekly issue. Offered with the original wrappers, removed from a larger bound volume. Very Good.
Foucault, Leon. “Allgemeine Methode zur Messung der geschwindigkeit des Lichts in Luft und durchsichtigen Mitteln... In Annalen der Physik, Leippzig, 1850, volume 81, section VIII, pp 434-442. the first edition in German of “Appareil destiné à rendre constante la lumière émanant d un charbon placé entre les deux pôles d'une pile”.
- Bound with: Fizeau and L. Breguet, “Notiz in Betreff eines Versuchs ueber die Comparative Geschwindigheit des Lichts in Luft und in Wasser”, pp 442-444.
The pair offered for Annalen der Physik, volume 81, No.. 11, (321)-480, removed from the bound volume, without wrappers. Very Good.
AND OFFERED WITH the supplementary paper in the next year:
_____. “Ueber den Versuch in Betreff der vergleichenden Geschwindigheit des Lichts in Luft und in Wasser”, in Annalen der Physik, 1851. series II, volume 82, No. 1, pp 124-127 in the issue of pp (1)-160, removed from a bound volume. Very Good.
The three: $350
Foucault, Leon. “Note sur l'emploi des appareils d induction effets des machines multiples”, in Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences, 1856, volume 42, pp 215-217. Offered in the weekly issue, removed from a larger bound volume, without wrappers. Very Good. $135
Foucault, Leon. “Note sur l emploi des appareils d induction interrupteur à mercure”, in Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences, 1856, volume 43, pp 44 -47. Offered in the original weekly issue, removed (without wrappers) from a larger bound volume. Very Good. $100
Foucault, Leon. “Nouveau polariseur en spath d'Islande Expérience de fluorescence”, in Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences, 1857. volume 45, the article occupying pp 238-241 in the weekly issue. Offered without the original outer wrappers, removed from a larger bound volume.
Foucault, Leon. “Recherches expérimentales sur les anesthésiques”, in Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences, 1857. volume 45, the article occupying pp 333-335 of the weekly issue. Offered without the outer wrappers, removed from a larger bound volume. Very Good. $!50
Foucault, Leon. "Description des procedes employes pour reconnaitre la configuration des surfaces optiques" in Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences ... , 1858, vol. 47, pages 958–959. (Description of the methods used to recognize the configuration of optical surfaces). In the weekly issue, removed from a larger bound volume, offered with the scarce wrappers. Very Good copy. $150
_____. Another copy, without wrappers. Very Good. $100
Foucault, Leon. “Sur une solution de l'isochronisme du pendule conique”, in Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences, 1862, volume 55, the article occupying pp 135-136 in the weekly issue. Offered without the outer wrappers, removed from a larger bound volume. Very Good. $200
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