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• From C-Numbers to Q-Numbers: The Classical Analogy in the History of Quantum Theory (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Olivier Darrigol (HTML at UC Press)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Lectures on Quantum Physics and Applications (c1980), by Paul E. Dimotakis (PDF at Caltech)
• The Grand Unified Theory of Classical Quantum Mechanics (electronic edition, 2005), by Randell L. Mills (PDF files with commentary at blacklightpower.com)
• Fields (electronic edition, 2002), by Warren Siegel (PDF and Postscript with commentary at sunysb.edu)
• Properties of The Thirty-Two Point Groups (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1963), by George F. Koster, John O. Dimmock, Robert G. Wheeler, and Hermann Statz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Principles of Modern Physics (New York et al.: J Wiley and Sons, c1958), by A. P. French (page images at HathiTrust)
• Multipole Fields (New York: J. Wiley and Sons; London: Chapman and Hall, 1955), by Morris Edgar Rose (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Cellular Automaton Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics (c2016), by G. 't Hooft (PDF and EPub with commentary at springer.com)

• Quantum: The Open Journal for Quantum Science (2017-) (full serial archives)

• Treatise on Light: In Which Are Explained the Causes of That Which Occurs in Reflexion, and in Refraction, and Particularly in the Strange Refraction of Iceland Crystal (this translation ca. 1912), by Christiaan Huygens, trans. by Silvanus P. Thompson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Treatise on Light: In Which Are Explained the Causes of That Which Occurs in Reflexion, and in Refraction, and Particularly in the Strange Refraction of Iceland Crystal (this translation ca. 1912), by Christiaan Huygens, trans. by Silvanus P. Thompson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Buildup of Cf-252 and Intermediate Isotopes from Cm-244 in a High Flux (Argonne, IL: Argonne National Laboratory, 1961), by Susanne E. Vandenbosch and Paul R. Fields (page images at HathiTrust)

• Photoconductivity of Solids (New York and London: J. Wiley and Sons, c1960), by Richard H. Bube (page images at HathiTrust)

• Commercializing High-Temperature Superconductivity (1988), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• High-Temperature Superconductivity in Perspective (1990), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• Calculations of the Penetration of Gamma Rays: Final Report (White Plains, NY: Nuclear Development Associates; Oak Ridge, TN: U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, 1954), by Herbert Goldstein and J. Ernest Wilkins (page images at HathiTrust)

• Transition Curves of 330 Mev Bremsstrahlung (Berkeley, CA: University of California Radiation Laboratory, 1950), by Wade Blocker, Robert W. Kenney, and Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky (page images at HathiTrust)

• Theory of Excitons (New York and London: Academic Press, 1963), by Robert S. Knox (page images at HathiTrust)

• Optical Absorption Coefficients of Fused Silica in the Wavelength Range 0.17 to 3.5 Microns From Room Temperature to 980° C (Washington: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1966), by Oliver J. Edwards
  • PDF at nasa.gov
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• An Introduction to the Analysis of Spin-Spin Splitting in High-Resolution Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectra (1961), by John D. Roberts (PDF with commentary at Caltech)

• The Laws of Radiation and Absorption: Memoirs by Prévost, Stewart, Kirchhoff, and Kirchhoff and Bunsen (New York et al.: American Book Co. c1901), ed. by D. B. Brace, contrib. by Pierre Prevost, Balfour Stewart, G. Kirchhoff, and R. Bunsen
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Quantitative Molecular Spectroscopy and Gas Emissivities (Reading, MA and London: Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., c1959), by S. S. Penner (page images at HathiTrust)

• Electrons and Chemical Bonding (1965), by Harry B. Gray (PDF with commentary at Caltech)

• Molecular Orbital Theory: An Introductory Lecture Note and Reprint Volume (1965), by Carl Johan Ballhausen and Harry B. Gray (PDF with commentary at Caltech)
• Notes on Molecular Orbital Calculations (New York: W. A. Benjamin, 1961), by John D. Roberts (PDF at Caltech)

• Book Preservation Technologies (1988), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Understanding and Managing Irrigated Acid Sulfate and Salt-Affected Soils: A Handbook for the Lower Murray Reclaimed Irrigation Area (Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press, c2017), by R. W. Fitzpatrick, Luke Mosley, and Freeman J. Cook (PDF with commentary at Adelaide)

• Fields (electronic edition, 2002), by Warren Siegel (PDF and Postscript with commentary at sunysb.edu)
• Noncommutative Geometry, Quantum Fields and Motives (prepublication version, ca. 2008), by Alain Connes and Matilde Marcolli (PDF at alainconnes.org)
• Introduction to String Field Theory (1988), by Warren Siegel (PDF and Postscript at arxiv.org)

• Dynamic Nuclear Orientation (New York et al.: Interscience Publishers, 1963), by C. D. Jeffries (page images at HathiTrust)

• How to Use Signal and Sweep Generators (first edition; New York: J. F. Rider, c1953), by J. Richard Johnson (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)

• Superspace, or One Thousand and One Lessons in Supersymmetry (corrected from the 1983 edition), by S. James Gates, Marcus T. Grisaru, Martin Rocek, and Warren Siegel (PDF at arxiv.org)

• Power Sources for Remote Arctic Applications (OTA-BP-ETI 129; 1994), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files (with some bad OCR) at Princeton)

• Thermostatics and Thermodynamics: An Introduction to Energy, Information and States of Matter, With Engineering Applications (Princeton, NJ et al.: D. Van Nostrand Co., c1961), by Myron Tribus (page images at HathiTrust)

• Superspace, or One Thousand and One Lessons in Supersymmetry (corrected from the 1983 edition), by S. James Gates, Marcus T. Grisaru, Martin Rocek, and Warren Siegel (PDF at arxiv.org)

• The Grand Unified Theory of Classical Quantum Mechanics (electronic edition, 2005), by Randell L. Mills (PDF files with commentary at blacklightpower.com)

• Spinors, Spectral Geometry, and Riemannian Submersions, by Peter B. Gilkey, John V. Leahy, and Jeonghyeong Park (Postscript files at emis.de)

• Die Theorie der Physik, bei den Modernen Physikern (translated into German; Leipzig: W. Klinkhardt, 1908), by Abel Rey, trans. by Rudolf Eisler
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• James Clerk Maxwell and Modern Physics (London: Cassell and Company, 1896), by Richard Glazebrook (multiple formats at archive.org)
• La Théorie de la Physique Chez les Physiciens Contemporains (in French; Paris: F. Alcan, 1907), by Abel Rey
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• A Review of the Progress of Mathematical and Physical Science in More Recent Times, and Particularly Between the Years 1775 and 1850: Being One of the Dissertations Prefixed to the Eighth Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica (Edinburgh: A. and C. Black, 1858), by James David Forbes (page images at HathiTrust)

• A History of Electricity (New Illustrated Library of Science and Invention, v6; New York: Hawthorn Books, 1963), by Edward Tatnall Canby (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ka: A Handbook of Mythology, Sacred Practices, Electrical Phenomena, and Their Linguistic Connections in the Ancient Mediterranean World, by Hugh Crosthwaite, contrib. by Alfred De Grazia (PDF files at grazian-archive.com)

• Ka: A Handbook of Mythology, Sacred Practices, Electrical Phenomena, and Their Linguistic Connections in the Ancient Mediterranean World, by Hugh Crosthwaite, contrib. by Alfred De Grazia (PDF files at grazian-archive.com)

• Ploughshares and Swords: India's Nuclear Program in the Global Cold War (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c2022), by Jayita Sarkar (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Ploughshares and Swords: India's Nuclear Program in the Global Cold War (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c2022), by Jayita Sarkar (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Creating the New World: Stories and Images From the Dawn of the Atomic Age (second edition, c2004), by Theodore Rockwell (page images at Google)

• Lectures on Ten British Physicists of the Nineteenth Century (New York: John Wiley and Sons; London: Chapman and Hall, 1919), by Alexander Macfarlane (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Ancient and Modern Physics (ca. 1902), by Thomas Edgar Willson (Gutenberg text)

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