![HELMHOLTZ, Hermann von (1821-1894). Über die Erhaltung der Kraft, eine physikalische Abhandlung. Berlin: G. Reimer, 1847. 8° (213 x 130mm). (Some spotting.) FIRST EDITION OF HELMHOLTZ'S MOST CELEBRATED SCIENTIFIC PAPER. Helmholtz's 72-page paper 'On the Conservation of Energy' appeared just five years after he had received his medical degree from the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Institut in Berlin. At 26 he was astonishingly young to achieve such a brilliant synthesis of the theories of Sadi Carnot, Clapeyron, Holtzmann and Joule, with its renowned mathematical proof of the first law of thermodynamics. Dibner Heralds of Science 159; Garrison & Morton 611; Grolier Science 48; PMM 323; Norman 1039; Waller II, 11365. [Bound with 8 other scientific papers as follows:]](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2001/CKS/2001_CKS_06456_0049_000(030310).jpg?w=1)
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HELMHOLTZ, Hermann von (1821-1894). Über die Erhaltung der Kraft, eine physikalische Abhandlung. Berlin: G. Reimer, 1847. 8° (213 x 130mm). (Some spotting.) FIRST EDITION OF HELMHOLTZ'S MOST CELEBRATED SCIENTIFIC PAPER. Helmholtz's 72-page paper 'On the Conservation of Energy' appeared just five years after he had received his medical degree from the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Institut in Berlin. At 26 he was astonishingly young to achieve such a brilliant synthesis of the theories of Sadi Carnot, Clapeyron, Holtzmann and Joule, with its renowned mathematical proof of the first law of thermodynamics. Dibner Heralds of Science 159; Garrison & Morton 611; Grolier Science 48; PMM 323; Norman 1039; Waller II, 11365. [Bound with 8 other scientific papers as follows:]
MOHL, Hugo von (1805-1872). Grundzüge der anatomie und Physiologie der vegetabilischen Zelle. Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn, 1851. 8° (213 x 130mm). Half-title and one folding engraved plate (browned). Garrison & Morton 114: 'Von Mohl saw and described cell division.' [and:] Justus von LIEBIG (1803-1873). Ueber Theorie und Praxis in der Landwirthschaft. Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg, 1856. Half-title. [and:] Heinrich Wilhelm DOVE. Ueber Electricität. Berlin: G. Reimer, 1848. [and:] Emil DU BOIS REYMOND (1818-1896). Über Thierische Bewegung. Berlin: G. Reimer, 1851. Wood-engraved title vignette after the author. [and:] W. BEETZ. Über die Wärme. Berlin: F. Schneider, 1854. [and:] H. HELMHOLTZ. Ueber die Wechselwirkung der Naturkräfte und die darauf bezüglichen neuesten Ermittelungen der Physik. Könisberg: Gräfe & Unzer, 1854. 8°. Half-title. 8°. Second edition. The first edition was published at Königsberg earlier in the same year. cf. Waller II, 11366. [and:] H. HELMHOLTZ. Ueber das Sehen des Menschen ein populär Wissenschaftlicher Vortrag. Leipzig: Leopold Voss. 1855. [and:] W. BEETZ. Ueber Magnetismus. Berlin: G. Reimer, 1852. [and with:] 5 reports of the "Weekly Evening Meeting" of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, June 3 1853-March 30 1860, including two presentation copies to Dr. Atkinson (one from W.R. Grove). All 8° (213 x 130mm). (Some spotting and browning of page edges throughout the volume.) Later 19th-century half calf by Proudfoot (rebacked). Provenance: Dr. [Edmund] Atkinson (bookplate).
Edmund Atkinson studied in Göttingen and was, from 1862, Professor of Experimental Science at Sandhurst Military College (see Poggendorff III, 48 and IV, 45). Since Atkinson translated Helmholtz's popular scientific lectures into English (London, 1873, etc.), it is possible that, although uninscribed, this copy of Über die Erhaltung der Kraft may have been a presentation copy either from Helmholtz himself or Reimer, his publisher.
MOHL, Hugo von (1805-1872). Grundzüge der anatomie und Physiologie der vegetabilischen Zelle. Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn, 1851. 8° (213 x 130mm). Half-title and one folding engraved plate (browned). Garrison & Morton 114: 'Von Mohl saw and described cell division.' [and:] Justus von LIEBIG (1803-1873). Ueber Theorie und Praxis in der Landwirthschaft. Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg, 1856. Half-title. [and:] Heinrich Wilhelm DOVE. Ueber Electricität. Berlin: G. Reimer, 1848. [and:] Emil DU BOIS REYMOND (1818-1896). Über Thierische Bewegung. Berlin: G. Reimer, 1851. Wood-engraved title vignette after the author. [and:] W. BEETZ. Über die Wärme. Berlin: F. Schneider, 1854. [and:] H. HELMHOLTZ. Ueber die Wechselwirkung der Naturkräfte und die darauf bezüglichen neuesten Ermittelungen der Physik. Könisberg: Gräfe & Unzer, 1854. 8°. Half-title. 8°. Second edition. The first edition was published at Königsberg earlier in the same year. cf. Waller II, 11366. [and:] H. HELMHOLTZ. Ueber das Sehen des Menschen ein populär Wissenschaftlicher Vortrag. Leipzig: Leopold Voss. 1855. [and:] W. BEETZ. Ueber Magnetismus. Berlin: G. Reimer, 1852. [and with:] 5 reports of the "Weekly Evening Meeting" of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, June 3 1853-March 30 1860, including two presentation copies to Dr. Atkinson (one from W.R. Grove). All 8° (213 x 130mm). (Some spotting and browning of page edges throughout the volume.) Later 19th-century half calf by Proudfoot (rebacked). Provenance: Dr. [Edmund] Atkinson (bookplate).
Edmund Atkinson studied in Göttingen and was, from 1862, Professor of Experimental Science at Sandhurst Military College (see Poggendorff III, 48 and IV, 45). Since Atkinson translated Helmholtz's popular scientific lectures into English (London, 1873, etc.), it is possible that, although uninscribed, this copy of Über die Erhaltung der Kraft may have been a presentation copy either from Helmholtz himself or Reimer, his publisher.
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