Paris: L’imprimerie Royale. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITIONS OF 2 IMPORTANT PAPERS: CLAIRAUT ON STELLAR ABERRATION, THE FIRST DIRECT CONFIRMATION OF THE COPERNICAN THEORY with MAUPERTUIS & HIS OFFICIAL REPORT ON THE LAPLAND EXPEDITION TO MEASURE THE SHAPE OF THE EARTH. THE TRIPS CONFIRMED NEWTON’S DYNAMIC & SUPPORTED THE OBLATE SHAPE..... More

London: Alexander Tilloch, 1804. 1st Edition. BOUND FIRST EDITION OF A LETTER ON THE ATOMIC THEORY IN CHEMISTRY FROM JOHN DALTON to Alexander Tilloch, founder of the journal in which this paper is published. Also included are papers of import by Gay-Lussac, Biot, and Cuvier. John Dalton (1766-1844) was an..... More

FIRST EDITION OF THE 1892 PAPER IN WHICH LE CHATELIER DESCRIBES HIS INVENTION OF THE OPTICAL PYROMETER, an instrument that “provided the first reliable measurements of a number of temperatures of particular importance to science and industry” (DeWitt, Theory and Practice of Radiation Thermometry, 366). His invention measured temperature by..... More

Paris: Victor Masson, 1862. 1st Edition. PASTEUR’S SEMINAL REFUTATION OF SPONTANEOUS GENERATION, INCLUSIVE OF “SWAN NECK” FLASK ENGRAVINGS. The doctrine of spontaneous generation -- a belief that living organisms arose spontaneously from non-living matter -- was used to explain the appearance of microorganisms in decaying organic substances beginning with Aristotle..... More

Paris: Victor Masson, 1860. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF PASTEUR’S DEFINITIVE PROOF THAT ALCOHOLIC FERMENTATION IS DUE TO THE ACTION OF A LIVING ORGANISM (yeast), and is not a purely chemical process as most chemists since. Lavoisier had believed. This work laid the foundation for the germ theory of disease..... More

Paris: Victor Masson, 1858. 1st Edition. In Volume 52, FIRST EDITION OF "THE BEGINNING OF BACTERIOLOGY AS A MODERN SCIENCE," Louis Pasteur and "the first demonstration of the connection between a specific fermentation and the activity of a specific living micro-organism (Garrison-Morton 2472). In Volume 53, Archibald Scott Couper’s paper..... More

Paris: Chez Fuchs et Guillaume, 1798. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF TWO PAPERS BY VAUQUELIN REPORTING THE DISCOVERY OF BERYLIUM. Louis Nicolas Vauquelin (16 May 1763 – 14 November 1829), was a French pharmacist and chemist who reports in this paper his discovery of a new ‘earth’ obtained by pulverizing..... More