Item #67661 Eine Neue Art von Strahlen. Wilhelm Conrad RÖNTGEN.
Eine Neue Art von Strahlen
Eine Neue Art von Strahlen

Rare Offprint on the Discovery of X-Rays by Röntgen

Eine Neue Art von Strahlen. Von Dr. Wilhelm Konrad Röntgen. 2. Auflage.

Würzburg: Verlag und Druck der Stahel'schen K. Hof-Und Universitats-Buch-Und Kunsthandlung, 1896.

Würzburg: Verlag und Druck der Stahel'schen K. Hof- Und Universitats- Buch- Und Kunsthandlung, 1896.

Second edition. Octavo. 12 pp.

Original buff printed wrappers. Contemporary signature on top right hand corner, Dr. R. Bernoulli, most likey related to Dr. Daniel Bernoulli, prominent Swiss mathematician responsible for the "Bernoulli Theorem" still practised today. Wrappers a bit browned, otherwise, a very good, clean copy.

"While performing experiments with a Crookes vacuum tube, a type of cathode-ray tube, Röntgen observed that some agent produced in the tube was causing barium platinocyanide crystals to fluorescence was caused by unknown rays (which he named "x-rays") originating from the spot where cathode rays hit the glass wall of the vacuum tube. He announced his discovery in the present paper, which described the rays' photographic properties and their amazing ability to penetrate all substances, even living flesh. Although he was unable to determine the true physical nature of the rays, Röntgen was certain that he had discovered something entirely new, a belief soon confirmed by the work of other scientists such as Becquerel, Laue and the Curies. for his discovery, Röntgen was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for 1901.

"Röntgen submitted his paper for publication in the obscure Sitzungs-Berichte of the Würzburg Physical-Medical Society, a strategy deliberately employed to assure fast publication. Offprints of the article were printed at the same time, which Röntgen mailed (along with several x-ray photographs) to a number of scientific colleagues; the [first edition] offprint has wrappers but no title-page, and is dated "Ende 1895." 'It was this separate printing, and the following four additional printings in five issues, that were primarily responsible for the rapid dissemination of the news of Röntgen's discovery." (Klickstein, p. 62).'" —Haskell Norman Collection, 1841.

Norman Library, 1841. PMM 380 (describing the first edition).

HBS 67661.

$1,000.

Price: $1,000.00

Item #67661