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MAX BORN (1882-1970)
Mimeograph typescript, completed in manuscript, of lectures in physics, 'Theorie der Wärme Vorlesung im Sommer-Semester 1922' and 'Vorlesung Ueber Theoretische Optik. Winter-Semester 1922', the manuscript elements including diagrams, equations and figures, as well as emendations and emphases to the typed text, in 2 volumes, mimeograph on rectos only, titles, contents and 230 leaves and 252 leaves, folio, half cloth. Provenance: Andries Charl Cilliers (1898-1980, ownership inscription inside upper cover).
The lectures on thermodynamics include sections on capillarity, the theory of the ideal gas according to Planck, thermochemistry and applications of van der Waal's equations; those on optics cover electromagnetism, field theory, wave theory, refraction, optical properties of crystals, electron theory, and Born's mathematical theory of optical rotation. Born's work up to this point had been particularly concerned with heat and the dynamics of the crystal lattice, and by 1921 he was able to provide a very precise definition of quantity of heat, the most satisfactory mathematical statement of the first law of thermodynamics.
In the same year, he was appointed professor of theoretical physics at Göttingen, the principal figure in a stellar group of scientists whose collaboration set the stage for major developments in theoretical physics, culminating in the birth of quantum mechanics. The present lecture course formed part of his first academic year at the institute. 'The "Born School" at Göttingen was as important to the flowering of theoretical physics as the schools of Bohr at Copenhagen and of Arnold Sommerfeld at Munich' (DSB).
The owner and annotator of these volumes, A.C. Cilliers, went on, after his physics studies at Göttingen, to become professor of theoretical physics at Stellenbosch University. (2)
Mimeograph typescript, completed in manuscript, of lectures in physics, 'Theorie der Wärme Vorlesung im Sommer-Semester 1922' and 'Vorlesung Ueber Theoretische Optik. Winter-Semester 1922', the manuscript elements including diagrams, equations and figures, as well as emendations and emphases to the typed text, in 2 volumes, mimeograph on rectos only, titles, contents and 230 leaves and 252 leaves, folio, half cloth. Provenance: Andries Charl Cilliers (1898-1980, ownership inscription inside upper cover).
The lectures on thermodynamics include sections on capillarity, the theory of the ideal gas according to Planck, thermochemistry and applications of van der Waal's equations; those on optics cover electromagnetism, field theory, wave theory, refraction, optical properties of crystals, electron theory, and Born's mathematical theory of optical rotation. Born's work up to this point had been particularly concerned with heat and the dynamics of the crystal lattice, and by 1921 he was able to provide a very precise definition of quantity of heat, the most satisfactory mathematical statement of the first law of thermodynamics.
In the same year, he was appointed professor of theoretical physics at Göttingen, the principal figure in a stellar group of scientists whose collaboration set the stage for major developments in theoretical physics, culminating in the birth of quantum mechanics. The present lecture course formed part of his first academic year at the institute. 'The "Born School" at Göttingen was as important to the flowering of theoretical physics as the schools of Bohr at Copenhagen and of Arnold Sommerfeld at Munich' (DSB).
The owner and annotator of these volumes, A.C. Cilliers, went on, after his physics studies at Göttingen, to become professor of theoretical physics at Stellenbosch University. (2)
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