Bausch & Lomb Professional Model with graduated circular mechanical stage, lever inclination lock, coarse focus with drawtube and reank & pinion, rear pillar fine focus, and plano concave mirror. A nice large professional microscope in good condition. Offered by Esoterica Curiosa: Dale Beeks, specialist collector, purveyor & curatorial consultant of..... More
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De causa gravitatis physica generali disquisitio experimentalis. Quae praemium à Regia Scientiarum Academia promulgatum, retulit; anno 1728. Paris, Cl. Jombert, 1728.
1728. 1st Edition. First Edition of George Bernhard Bilfinger’s De Causa gravitatis physica generali disquisitio experimentalis (On the General Physical Cause of Gravity) – a prize winning explanation of the cause of the weight of bodies designed to check Galileo's and Edme Mariotte's theories. In so doing, Bilfinger discusses the..... More
Experimentelles zur Theorie von Bohr, Kramers und Slater (Bothe & Geiger, pp. 440-441) WITH Bemerkungen zur Quantenmechanik freier Elektronen ( Elsasser, p. 711) WITH Ersetzung der Hypothese vom unmechanischen Zwang durch eine Forderung bezüglich des inneren Verhaltens jedes einzelnen Elektrons (Uhlenbeck & Goudsmit, pp. 953–954) in Die Naturwissenschaften 13, 1925
1925. 1st Edition. Full volume. FIRST EDITIONS OF THREE IMPORTANT PAPERS: (1) WALTHER BOTHE AND HANS GEIGER show that energy is conserved in quantum interactions. (2) WALTER ELSASSER proposes the Davisson-Germer experiment. (3) GEORGE UHLENBECK & SAMUEL GOUDSMIT introduce the concept of electron spin. BOTHE & GEIGER, in this paper..... More
Representation of a function by its line integrals with some radiological implications II in Journal of Applied Physics 35, October 1964, pp. 2908 - 2913 [ORIGINAL WRAPPERS]
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
The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication
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
Die Mutationstheorie: Versuche und Beobachtungen über die Entstehung von Arten im Pflanzenreich. Leipzig: Von Veit, Two Volumes, 1901-1903
Leipzig: Von Veit. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF DE VRIES TWO VOLUME CLASSIC WORK ON GENETICS INCLUDING HIS REDISCOVERY OF MENDEL’S LAWS AS WELL AS HIS DISCOVERY OF THE PHENOMENON OF MUTATION. This work is de Vries’s most complete exposition on these subjects and it “made him famous and he..... More
On the Proper Motion of the Solar System (Galloway, pp. 79-109; Read on April 15, 1847; Published 1848) WITH On the Cause of the Discrepancies Observed by Mr. Baily with the Cavendish Apparatus for Determining the Mean Density of the Earth (Hearn & Whitehead, pp. 217-229 in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 137, 1848
London: Richard and John E. Taylor, 1847. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, FULL VOLUME, OF THE EARLIEST DEFINITIVE ANALYSIS OF THE PROPER MOTION OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM; Thomas Galloway was a Scottish mathematician; this paper was the most important of his career and won him the prestigious Royal Medal. The ‘Proper..... More
The Geological Age of Reptiles, in American Journal of Science and the Arts 21 pp. 359-364, 1831
New Haven: Converse, 1831. 1st Edition. Gideon Mantell (1790-1852) was an English obstetrician, geologist and paleontologist best known for his discovery of the first dinosaur ever to be described properly -- a momentous event” (DSB, 87). In “The Geological Age of Reptiles,” Mantell is responding to a paper by Cuvier..... More
[TWO PRIMARY BUBBLE CHAMBER PAPERS] Bubble Chamber Tracks of Penetrating Cosmic-Ray Particles in Physical Review 91 No. 3, August 1, 1953, pp. 762–763 WITH Some Effects of Ionizing Radiation on the Formation of Bubbles in Liquids in Physical Review 87 No. 4, p. 665, August 15, 1952
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
Gravitational field of a spinning mass as an example of algebraically special metrics in Physical Review Letters 11 Number 5, September 1, 1963, pp. 237-238 [LANDMARK KERR BLACK HOLE PAPER SOLVING EINSTEIN’S GENERAL RELATIVITY EQUATIONS; KERR’S BLACK HOLES PROVEN STABLE IN 2022]
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
Spectroscopic Observations of the Sun. Received February 2, Read March 19, 1874. Pp. 577-586 in The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Vol. 165, Pt. 2., 1875. [OFFPRINT of LOCKYER’S DISCOVERY OF HELIUM ON THE SUN. 6 PLATES]
London: Taylor and Sons. 1st Edition. RARE OFFPRINT OF JOSEPH LOCKYER'S DISCOVERY OF HELIUM ON THE SUN. ORIGINAL PAPER WRAPS, FINE CONDITION. 6 PLATES. An “offprint” is a separately published and bound issue of the journal paper in question. Usually these are printed for the given authors and for authors..... More
The Electromagnetic Equations of the Supraconductor (London, pp. 71-88) WITH Artificial Radioactivity Produced by Neutron Bombardment II (Fermi, et al. pp. 522-558) in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A 149, 1935 [FIRST EDITION, THE LONDON EQUATIONS with Part II of an important Fermi, Segre paper]
London: Harrison & Sons, 1935. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION of the LONDON EQUATIONS, “THE FIRST SUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT AT CHARACTERIZING THE ELECTRODYNAMIC BEHARIOR OF SUPERCONDUCTORS” (Yom, The London Equations). The second paper is part two of an important paper by Fermi and Segre, et al. explaining that slow neutrons are effective..... More
De la nature des rayons X; reflexions sur la cause de leurs effets pathologiques et Photographiques
Paris: A. Maloine, 1897. 1st Edition. SCARCE FIRST EDITION OF AN EARLY WORK ON X-RAYS BY 19th MEDICAL PHOTOGRAPHER, FÉLIX MÉHEUX. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPS. Félix Méheux (1838–1908) was a medical photographer and an outstanding illustrator and colorist at the Hôpital Saint-Louis from 1884 to 1904. This pamphlet..... More
On the relative motion of the earth and the luminiferous ether in London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science, 5th Series, Vol. 24, 1887, pp. 449-463.
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
The Structure of Proteins: Two Hydrogen-Bonded Helical Configurations of the Polypeptide Chain in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 37, 1951, pp. 205-211 WITH The Pleated Sheet, a New Layer Configuration of Polypeptide Chains in PNAS, 37, 1951, pp. 251-256 WITH Configurations of Polypeptide Chains with Equivalent CIS Amide Groups, PNAS, 38, 1952, pp. 86-93
Easton, PA. National Academy of Sciences. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF THREE OF SEVEN PAPERS BY PAULING AND COREY ON THE MOLECULAR STRUCTURE OF PROTEINS. A decade before x-ray crystallography first revealed the structures of proteins, Pauling and Corey deduced their main structural features: the 'alpha-helix,' the 'gamma helix' and..... More
Absorption und Emission elektrischer Wellen durch Resonanz in Annalen der Physik und Chemie Vol. 57, 1896, pp. 1-14
Leipzig: Barth, 1896. 1st Edition. MAX PLANCK ON THE PROPERTIES OF ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION. Full volume with original wraps bound in at the rear. This paper was first published in the Proceedings of the Prussian Academy in 1895 followed by this publication in 1896. As early as 1894, Planck expressed an..... More
On a New Geometry of Space [Memoir] in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 155, Part II, Received December 22, 1864; Read February 2, 1865, pp. 725-791 WITH On a New Geometry of Space [Abstract] Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 14, No. 72, Received December 22, 1864; Read February 2, 1865, pp. 53-58
1865. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITIONS, FIRST PRINTINGS, BOTH IN ORIGINAL WRAPS, OF TWO PAPERS BY PLÜCKER RECONSTRUCTING ANALYTICAL GEOMETRY, “HERALDING THE ERA OF LINE AND PROJECTIVE GEOMETRY” and introducing the Plücker coordinates which abandoned the use of Cartesian coordinates in a plane in favor of a system of three coordinates..... More
Über die magnetische Nachwirkung in Zeitschrift für Physik, Band 94, Heft 5 & 6,1935, pp. 277-302
Berlin: Julius Springer, 1935. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL PRINTED WRAPS OF THE “LANDMARK” PAPER PRESENTING THE PREISACH MODEL OF HYSTERESIS ((Mayergoyz, Mathematical Models of Hysteresis, 1). The Preisach model is a well-known hysteresis identification method in which the hysteresis is modeled by linear combination of hysteresis operators. First..... More
Sur les photographies de la Lune obtenues au grand Équatorial coudé de l'Observatoire de Paris [Part I] in Comptes Rendus, Vol. 119, No. 2, pp. 130-135, 9 July 1894 AND Sur les photographies de la Lune obtenues au grand Équatorial coudé de l'Observatoire de Paris [Part II] in Comptes Rendus, Vol. 119, No. 4, pp. 254-259, 23 July 1894
Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1894. 1st Edition. ORIGINAL WRAPS, FIRST EDITIONS OF TWO PAPERS (July 9, 1894 & July 23, 1894) IN WHICH THE FRENCH ASTRONOMERS PIERRE HENRI PUISEUX AND MAURICE LOEWY DETAIL THE PIONEERING WORK THAT LEAD TO THEIR SEMINAL LUNAR ATLAS, A WORK REGARDED AS 'THE ULTIMATE ACHIEVEMENT OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY..... More
Sur les photographies de la Lune obtenues au grand Équatorial coudé de l'Observatoire de Paris [Part I] in Comptes Rendus, Vol. 119, pp. 130-135, 1894 AND Sur les photographies de la Lune obtenues au grand Équatorial coudé de l'Observatoire de Paris [Part II] in Comptes Rendus, Vol. 119, pp. 254-259, 1894 WITH Sur les photographies de la Lune et sur les objets nouveaux qu'elles ont permis de de découvrir in Comptes Rendus, Vol. 121, pp. 6-12, 1895 AND Sur la constitution physique de la Lune et l'interprétation de divers traits de sa surface, mis en évidence par les photographies in Comptes Rendus, Vol. 121, pp. 79-85
Paris: Gauthier-Villars. 1st Edition. TWO VOLUME, FIRST EDITIONS OF FOUR PAPERS IN WHICH THE FRENCH ASTRONOMERS PIERRE HENRI PUISEUX AND MAURICE LOEWY DETAIL THE PIONEERING WORK THAT LEAD TO THEIR SEMINAL LUNAR ATLAS, A WORK REGARDED AS 'THE ULTIMATE ACHIEVEMENT OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY ASTRONOMICAL PHOTOGRAPHY" (The Photobook: A History, Vol. I...... More
Esperienze Intorno alla Generazione Deglinsetti Fatte da Francesco Redi Accademia della Crusca, e scritte in una letters, 1674
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). Redi's seminal work includes 39..... More
On Being Sane in Insane Places in Science 179 No. 4070, January 19, 1973
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
Communications in the Presence of Noise in Proceedings of the IRE [The Institute of Radio Engineers] 37, No. 1, January 1949, pp. 10-21
New York: Institute of Radio Engineers, 1949. 1st Edition. TRUE FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL PRINTED WRAPS OF CLAUDE SHANNON’S MATHEMATICAL PROOF & REFINEMENT OF NYQUIST’S SAMPLING THEOREM (now Nyquist-Shannon), “THE BACKBONE OF MODERN COMMUNICATIONS” (Gran, Numerical Computing, 136). Following this publication, the paper appeared in Bell Telephone’s Technical Publications. Shannon’s..... More
Spinning Electrons and the Structure of Spectra Nature 117 No. 2938 pp. 264–265, February 20, 1926 [FIRST EDITION, ORIGINAL JOURNAL ISSUE IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS]
London: Macmillan, 1926. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, ORIGINAL WRAPS, OF THE 1ST ANNOUNCEMENT IN ENGLISH OF THE CONCEPT OF ‘INTRINSIC SPIN’’ OF THE ELECTRON. While still students studying at Leiden under Paul Ehrenfest, two Dutch physicists, George Uhlenbeck and Samuel Goudsmit postulated that the electron must have an intrinsic angular..... More