Pergamon Press: 1975. 1st Edition. First edition. This profusely illustrated biography of Copernicus is comprised of extensive essays on his scientific contributions, the nature of the scientific revolution of which he was a part, and the impact of his contributions and work. His humanistic contributions and their significance within the..... More
Cambridge: Royal Society, 1859. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION (extracted from the 1859 Philosophical Transactions) OF THE PAPER IN WHICH CAYLEY “LAID THE FOUNDATIONS OF NON-EUCLIDEAN GEOMETRY” & “DEMONSTRATED THAT EUCLIDEAN GEOMETRY WAS PART OF PROJECTIVE GEOMETRY RATHER THAN THE CONVERSE” (Pierpont, "Cayley’s Definition of Non-Euclidean Geometry," AJM 53, 1, 1931..... More
London: Royal Society, 1858. 1st Edition. Handsomely bound FIRST EDITION, FULL VOLUME INCLUSIVE OF MANY IMPORTANT PAPERS & 71 PLATES. Included are Cayley’s paper on matrices marks “an epoch in the development of the subject” (Ball, A Short Account of the History of Mathematics, 476). Gassiot’s paper “was particularly important..... More
Lancaster: American Institute of Physics, 1924. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF THE 1924 PAPER IN WHICH COMPTON & HUBBARD FIRST CONFIRM & OBSERVE THE PARTICLE NATURE OF ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION (OR THE COMPTON EFFECT) USING WILSON’S NEW CLOUD CHAMBER METHOD. In a 1923 paper, Arthur Compton explained the Compton effect --..... More
London: Royal Society, 1938. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST CORRECT “SOLUTION TO THE MANY-BODY PROBLEM IN CELESTIAL MECHANICS UNDER EINSTEIN’S THEORY OF GRAVITY FOR THE SPECIAL CASE OF POINT MASSES” (History of Physics: The Wenner Collection). Eddington and Clark’s equations “are now frequently used for high precision tracking..... More
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Lancaster: American Physical Society. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL PRINTED WRAPS OF TWO PAPERS: DONALD GLASER’S BRIEF 1952 ANNOUNCEMENT OF HIS FIRST EXPERIMENT WITH HIS BUBBLE CHAMBER & HIS 1953 PAPER FULLY DESCRIBING HIS INVENTION AND SUMMARIZING ITS USE IN OBSERVING AND PHOTOGRAPHING THE TRACKS AND LIFETIMES OF PARTICLES..... More
London: Royal Society, 1866. 1st Edition. 1st ed., full volume (Parts I & II) of an important volume of Philosophical Transactions complete with 43 plates. A number of important papers are included, the most important of which is the appearance of a major paper by James Clerk Maxwell on the..... More
Leipzig: Barth, 1913. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS OF ROSENTHAL’S IMPORTANT PROOF THAT THAT THE ERGODIC HYPOTHESIS IS INCORRECT FOR ANY MECHANICAL SYSTEM. In 1913, German mathematician Artur Rosenthal (1887–1959) set out to answer the question “Can a mechanical system eventually pass through ever point on the energy..... More
London: Royal Society. 1st Edition. TWO VOLUME FIRST EDITIONS OF THE BAKERIAN LECTURES IN WHICH THE GERMAN-BRITISH PHYSICIST SIR ARTHUR SCHUSTER “WAS THE FIRST TO SHOW THAT AN ELECTRIC CURRENT IS CONDUCTED BY IONS” (Knill). In these lectures, Schuster “also showed that the current could be maintained by a small..... More
Lancaster: American Physical Society, 1952. 1st Edition. BOUND FULL VOLUME FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST MODEL OF ELECTRON-HOLE RECOMBINATION IN A HIGHLY PURE SEMICONDUCTOR. Cited over 2500 since publication, this model is now known as the Shockley-Read-Hall (SRH) recombination and is of import to solar and semiconductor technology. “Any electron..... More