1st-2nd Quarter Portable Martin-type Microscope, Case & Accessories Offered by Esoterica Curiosa: Dale Beeks, specialist collector, purveyor & curatorial consultant of historical surveying & scientific instruments. There is a missing tooth on the rack. Original handwritten list of object on the bone sliders. Study the images for condition and details..... More
London: Taylor and Francis, 1856. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF RARE AND PARTICULARLY CURIOUS PAPER OFFERING DETAILED IMPROVEMENTS TO SCHEUTZ'S FULLY FUNCTIONAL MODEL OF BABBAGE'S DIFFERENCE ENGINE by one of Babbage’s “most vigorous detractors” (Computer History Website). The credit of inventing the first computing machines goes to..... More
London: The Royal Society, 1844. 1st Edition. FULL VOLUME BOUND FIRST EDITION WITH BOOLE’S IMPORTANT CONTRIBUTION TO THE THEORY OF LINEAR DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS & ROSSE’S OBSERVATIONS OF ‘CRAB NEBULA’ AS WELL AS HIS WELL KNOWN RENDERING. GEORGE BOOLE: “The English mathematician and philosopher George Boole (1815-1864) was one of the..... More
FIRST EDITIONS OF ALL THREE PAPERS DEVELOPING MAX BORN’S REVOLUTIONARY STATISTICAL INTERPRETATION OF QUANTUM MECHANICS, also known as the probability interpretation of the wave function, or the probabilistic interpretation of the Schrodinger wave function. Born argues – an argument that would lead directly to Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle -- that quantum..... More
London: Royal Society, 1934. 1st Edition. Original paper wrappers. First edition of significant works by two important scientists, Max Born & Arthur Eddington. BORN: “Born’s quest for the elusive divergence problem-free quantum theory of electromagnetism led to the important discovery of the nonlinear Maxwell–Born– Infeld equations for the classical electromagnetic..... 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: The American Physical Society. 1st Edition. 1956 FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS of the two papers that won Chamberlain and Segre the 1959 Nobel Prize for the first experimental confirmation of the antiproton, a new subatomic particle identical in every way to the proton, except that its electrical..... More
1st Edition. FIRST EDITIONS IN ORIGINAL PAPER WRAPS OF PART II ONLY OF ALLAN CORMACK’S SEMINAL INVENTION OF A MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUE FOR COMPUTER-ASSISTED X-RAY TOMOGRAPHY (CAT Scans) – TOGETHER, THESE TWO PAPERS DOCUMENT THE INVENTION OF THE CAT SCAN. Cormack’s work produced the most revolutionary development in the field of..... More
Minneapolis: American Physical Society, 1927. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS of Davisson and Germer's famous 1927 experiment confirming de Broglie's hypothesis on matter waves, a key pillar of the emerging theories of quantum mechanics. The Davisson-Germer experiment demonstrated the wave-like nature of electrons by showing that they could..... More
Braunschweig: Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn, 1915. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, FULL BOUND VOLUME, OF THE EINSTEIN-DE HAAS EFFECT -- an experimental observation that illustrates the relationship between magnetism and angular momentum and in which a change in the magnetic moment causes the rotation of a free body. In this 1915..... More
Lancaster, PA: American Physical Society, 1948. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, FULL VOLUME in PRISTINE CONDITION, OF FEYNMAN’S NOBEL PRIZE WINNING PATH-INTEGRAL FORMALISM, A “REFORMATION OF QUANTUM MECHANICS ITSELF” (American National Biography). Feynman’s path-integral formulation of quantum mechanics lead physicists out of the morass of endless calculations and provided them with..... More
London: Harrison & Sons, 1879. 1st Edition. First edition, full volume of a large supplemental publication by the Royal Society presenting, just as the title imparts: An Account of the Petrological, Botanical, and Zoological Collections Made in Kerguelen's Land and Rodriguez during the Transit of Venus Expeditions. The volume houses..... More
New Haven: Converse, 1832. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF A LANDMARK PAPER present in both the famous Dr. Haskell F. Norman Library and the Landmarks of Science and Medicine from the Library of Andras Gedeon, both collections handled by Christie’s. In this paper, Guthrie presents one of three independent discoveries..... More
Berlin: Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1939. 1st Edition. NEAR FINE CONDITION FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF THE OFFPRINT of the first of Hahn and Strassmann's "three fundamental papers on nuclear fission," work which, when confirmed, demonstrated the previously unknown phenomenon of nuclear fission (Dibner, Heralds of Science, 168). (NOTE: We..... More
London: Macmillan, 1939. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS of the first solid evidence that neutron multiplication is large enough (3.5) to creat a chain reaction, thus profiding "indirect proof of the neutron multiplication accompanying the fission of uranium nuclei after neutron capture" (Printing and the Mind of Man..... More
Berlin: Julius Springer, 1925. 1st Edition. FULL VOLUME 1st EDITION OF A NUMBER OF IMPORTANT WORKS, AMONG THEM, ONE BY HEISENBERG ON THE COMPLEX SPECTRA OF MANY-ELECTRON ATOMS. Details on other significant works in this volume follow beneath the Heisenberg discussion. In spring 1925, Heisenberg was convinced that what was..... More
London: The Royal Society, 1845. 1st Edition. BOUND 1st EDITION OF AN IMPRESSIVE COMPILATION OF 1845 PAPERS, among them significant papers by JW Herschel, Michael Faraday, W.R. Grove, and Carlo Matteucci. HERSCHEL’S PAPERS present “the 'modern' milestone for observing fluorescence” (Heinrichs, Milestones, Nature RMCB, 2009). In them he notes “that..... More
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London: Harrison & Sons, 1878. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION & PRINTING OF JOULE’S FINAL DETERMINATION OF THE MECHANICAL EQUIVALENT OF HEAT. This was the “last experimental research of any magnitude that Joule undertook” (Reynolds, Memoir of James Prescott Joule, 165). Crookes information appears below. Volume includes Parts I & II..... More
1861. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION and appearance in French of an 1861 landmark paper marking "the invention of Spectral Analysis and the announcement of the discovery of two new elements, Cesium and Rubidium [and eventually many more] by using the new method of spectroscopy developed by Kirchhoff and Bunsen. The..... More
THREE FIRST EDITIONS IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF EACH OF MANDELBROT’S SEMINAL PAPERS ON THE MARKETS — the 1963 paper itself, the 1967 followup, and the 1972 correction — all housed in a quarter calf clamshell case. Though best known for his development of fractal geometry, prior to that, Benoit Mandelbrot..... 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
1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF EIGHT RARE OFFPRINTS by Linus Pauling detailing his prominent contributions to the general understanding of the nature of the chemical bond, here bringing quantum mechanics to the solution of the nature of the chemical bonds that determine inorganic crystal structure. Collectively, these papers represent Pauling’s..... More
Kiel: C. Schmidt, 1921. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF WIRTZ’S 1921 STUDY OF THE BRIGHTNESS & DOPPLER SHIFT OF A NUMBER OF SPIRAL NEBULAE, HERE – 8 YEARS BEFORE HUBBLE -- PRESENTING THE FIRST SUGGESTION OF A LINEAR RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN VELOCITY AND APPARENT MAGNITUDE. In this paper, the title of..... More
Lancaster: American Institute of Physics, 1952. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS of the first full version (both parts one and two) of the Lee-Yang theorem, two "seminal papers that became classics in the field of statistical mechanics" (Hu, Yang-Lee-Fisher Zeros). Yang and Lee state "that if partition functions..... More