Ca 1795-1810 Early Cased Trepanning Set by McClellan, Complete Offered by Esoterica Curiosa: Dale Beeks, specialist collector, purveyor & curatorial consultant of historical surveying & scientific instruments. Study the images for condition and details. Feel free to ask questions. Dale: 319 431-5031 See our other items under Instruments, Objects, and..... More
Amsterdam. FULL VOLUME 1st AMSTERDAM EDITION OF AMONTONS’ DESCRIPTION OF HIS CONSTANT VOLUME AIR THERMOMETER, a device that functioned “independent of the atmospheric pressure). In other words, this is “Amontons' account of his invention of the first thermometer with which temperature was measured by the pressure of air."(Magie "A Source..... More
Wien: Ed. Hölzel, 1904. 1st Edition. Bound volume. FIRST EDITION OF BJERKNES’S SEMINAL MATHEMATICAL MODEL OF ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS, now known as “the primitive equations of weather” – the mechanics and physics of weather. Bjerknes proposed these equations in the paper offered here, and in so doing, pioneered numerical weather forecasting..... More
American Institute of Physics, 1939. 1st Edition. ORIGINAL WRAPS, NEAR FINE CONDITION. 1st EDITION OF TWO (within a single journal issue) SEMINAL PAPERS IN THE HISTORY OF PHYSICS, one by Bohr & Wheeler and one by Oppenheimer & Snyder. BOHR & WHEELER'S "The Mechanism of Nuclear Fission" is the first..... More
London: Macmillan, 1932. 1st Edition. FULL VOLUME 1st EDITION of James Chadwick’s initial speculation about the "possible" existence of the neutron, a subatomic particle with no electrical charge and a mass slightly larger than that of a proton. When, three months later, Chadwick affirmed his discovery, his assertion rewrote then..... More
New York: Orange Judd, 1868. 1st American Edition. Two volume FIRST AMERICAN EDITION of “ONE OF DARWIN’S MOST INFLUENTIAL AND WIDE-RANGING BOOKS. IT IS ALSO HIS LONGEST AND MOST DETAILED WORK” (Freeman, The Works of Charles Darwin, 879). It is also “the only section of Darwin's big book on the..... More
McGraw-Hill, 1946. 1st Edition. IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS, THE FIRST PUBLICATION BY EINSTEIN OF THE FAMILIAR EQUATION, E=mc2, IN THAT SPECIFIC FORM. Eight months after Hiroshima, the editors of Science Illustrated turned to Albert Einstein to explain “the form of the energy that destroyed Hiroshima;” “to explain in his own words..... More
New York: Ivison, Phinney, & Co., 1859-1860. 1st edition of FERREL’S 19th CENTURY “MAGNUM OPUS” PROPOSING THE FIRST COMPREHENSIVE PHYSICAL THEORY OF THE ATMOSPHERE. Considered “the first really powerful intellect to focus sustained attention on meteorology,” the American meteorologist, William Ferrel here provides “the first general formulation of the equations..... More
FULL VOLUME 1st EDITION OF THREE LANDMARK PAPERS, each of seminal import in the history of physics. FEYNMAN'S "Forces in molecules" is the first edition of Feynman's undergraduate thesis, the paper that began to establish his name in physics. Published when he was just twenty-one, his work here a fundamental..... More
Lancaster: American Institute of Physics, 1957. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL PRINTED WRAPS OF FEYNMAN’S ONLY PAPER ON SUPERCONDUCTIVITY IN PRISTINE CLAMSHELL CASE. Feynman’s work did not unravel the mysteries of superconductivity, but it significantly impacted all work in the field, including the eventual and seminal BCS Theory “‘in..... More
Berlin: Druck und Verlag von G. Reimer. 1st Edition. Single Volume 1847 published in 1850. FIRST EDITION OF HELMHOLTZ’S FIRST FULLY COMPREHENSIVE STATEMENT OF THE FIRST LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS – that energy can be converted from one form to another with the interaction of heat, work and internal energy, but..... More
London: William Wesley & Son, 1894. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION. EXCEPTIONALLY SCARCE. In the late 19th century, George Cornish Sutton Higgs, a British watchmaker and optician proficient in the sciences, built an extraordinary spectrograph and employed it to greatly advance the application of photography to the study of solar spectra..... More
FIRST EDITION OF THE SEMINAL PAPER IN WHICH HUBBLE PRESENTS HIS CLASSIFICATION OF GALAXIES, ESTIMATES THEIR MEAN DENSITIES, & DERIVES FOR THE FIRST TIME THE MEAN MASS DENSITY IN GALAXIES IN THE UNIVERSE AS A WHOLE. THE PAPER IS “A MORE OR LESS COMPLETE DESCRIPTION OF GALAXIES AS EXTRAGALACTIC SYSTEMS…..... More
FIRST EDITION (FULL VOLUME 52) OF THE PHYSICAL REVIEW HOUSING 6 IMPORTANT PHYSICS PAPERS. In "Field Theory of Nuclear Interaction," Nicholas Kemmer proposes the first of two alternative currents required for electroweak synthesis. In "Visible Radiation Produced by Electrons," Pavel Cherenkov describes the theory of Cherenkov radiation, the effect wherein..... More
New York: American Physical Society, 1963. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF KERR’S LANDMARK 1963 PAPER DESCRIBING THE MATHEMATICS OF ROATATING BLACK HOLES, A WORK THAT EXACTLY SOLVED EINSTEIN’S EQUATIONS OF GENERAL RELATIVITY. Not infrequently, Kerr’s achievement is described without hyperbole as the most important exact solution to any equations in..... More
Princeton: Association for Symbolic Logic, 1959. 1st Edition. FULL VOLUME, BOUND FIRST EDITION OF SAUL KRIPKE’S SEMINAL FIRST PAPER ON MODAL LOGIC, “A Completeness Theorem in Modal Logic”. The paper presents Kripke’s important ideas on the semantics of modal logic, or the logic of modal notions like necessity and possibility..... More
1897. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, OFFPRINT ISSUE, OF LARMOR’S FAMOUS PAPER INTRODUCING THE FIRST FORMULATION OF WHAT IS NOW KNOWN AS THE LORENTZ-TRANSFORMATION (or transformations), INCLUDING THE FIRST UNDERSTANDING AND PREDICTION OF THE CRUCIAL TIME DILATION & LENGTH CONTRACTION PROPERTIES INHERENT IN MAXWELL’S EQUATIONS. The transformation is “a general approach..... More
London: Royal Society. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITIONS OF FIVE PAPERS (Parts I through V) BY LOCKYER DETAILING HIS SPECTRUM ANALYSIS OF THE SUN. Offered is a Sammelband (a book comprising a number of separately printed works that are subsequently bound together) of extracts in fine condition inside and out; in..... More
1887. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, FIRST BRITISH PRINTING of a work haled both as the greatest failed experiment of all time AND as 'one of the greatest achievements in physics of all time' (Lightman, 130). 'What Michelson and Morley did... was undermine a longstanding belief in something called the luminiferous..... More
London: Taylor and Francis, 1910. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF THE IMPORTANT PRECURSOR TO ROBERT MILLIKAN’S FAMOUS OIL DROP EXPERIMENT, THIS THE ‘BALANCED-DROPLET’ EXPERIMENT. In his autobiography, Millikan notes that this paper established the "first definite, sharp, unambiguous proof that electricity was definitely unitary in structure and that it only..... More
ORIGINAL WRAPS, full issue 121 housed in a handsome custom case. FIRST EDITION OF AN IMPORTANT PAPER IN WHICH THE FRENCH PHYSICIST JEAN PERRIN PROVES UNEQUIVOCALLY NOT JUST THAT CATHODE RAYS TRANSPORT CHARGE , BUT THAT "CATHODE RAYS CONSIST OF NEGATIVELY CHARGED MATTER MOVING WITH CONSIDERABLY VELOCITY" (Magee, Source Book..... More
Florence: Onofri, 1674. THIRD EDITION OF FRANCESCO REDI'S MASTERPIECE REFUTING SPONTANEOUS REGENERATION, first published in 1668. "A milestone in the history of modern science," Redi's book outlines the first series of experiments to disprove 'spontaneous generation' -- "a theory also known as Aristotelian abiogenesis" (Wikipedia). Francesco Redi was an Italian..... More
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Leipzig: Barth-Verlag, 1898. 1st Edition. IN RARE ORIGINAL WRAPS, THE 1898 FIRST COMPLETE EDITION OF RONTGEN’S ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE DISCOVERY OF THE X-RAY, INCLUSIVE OF ALL 3 PAPERS and housed in a custom cloth box. For this work, Rontgen was awarded the first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901. “Their..... More
American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1973. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF THE ROSENHAN EXPERIMENT, A HIGHLY INFLUENTIAL EXPERIMENT CONDUCTED TO DETERMINE THE VALIDITY OF PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS. Rosenhan, psychologist and professor at Stanford, “sent eight ‘sane’ people to twelve psychiatric institutions. The pseudo-patients complained ‘they had..... More