New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005. 1st Edition. SIGNED FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING of Roger Penrose’s The Road to Reality, one of the most comprehensive accounts of the physical universe and its underlying mathematical theory. CONDITION & DETAILS: New York: Alfred A. Knopf. [xxviii], 1099, [9]. Illustrated throughout. Tightly bound..... More
London: 1925. 1st Edition. ORIGINAL WRAPPERS. FIRST EDITION of the issue of Nature including a centenary “Special Benzene Supplement” celebrating Faraday’s 1825 discovery of benzene. Faraday’s [discovery] of the compound benzene… became his greatest contribution in chemistry (Dictionary of Scientific Biography, IV, 531). “We are presenting a supplement containing the..... More
London: Macmillan, 1924. 1st Edition. Full volume. FIRST EDITION OF EDDINGTON’S PAPER PROPOSING A CHANGE IN COORDINATE SYSTEMS THAT WILL ELIMINATE THE SCHWARZSCHILD SINGULARITY. The physical significance of this singularity, and whether this singularity could ever occur in nature, was debated for many decades” until the possibility of a black..... More
New York: American Physical Society, 1965. 1st Edition. Bound full volume, FIRST EDITION of Roger Penrose’s 1965 proof laying “the foundations of the modern mathematical theory of gravitational collapse” (DeWitt-Morette, Black Holes, 126). In a discovery with profound ramifications for the Big Bang Theory and crucial in understanding of black..... More
London: 1949. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS OF THE 1st SUBSTANTIVE DISCUSSION OF THE EDSAC, THE FIRST STORED-PROGRAM COMPUTER. “EDSAC was the first practical general purpose stored program electronic computer” (The National Museum of Computing). Earlier machines were either dedicated to a single task (e.g. Colossus and code..... 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
Lancaster: American Institute of Physics, 1933. 1st Edition. Bound full volume. First edition of Anderson’s Nobel Prize winning discovery of one of the tiniest particles in nature, the positron. This volume also includes many other important papers. ANDERSON, pp. 491-494: Anderson announces his discovery of the first known particle of..... More
American Institute of Physics, 1957. 1st Edition. Bound full volume. FIRST EDITIONS OF 3 IMPORTANT PAPERS: (1) Bardeen, Cooper, & Schrieffer first announced their ‘BCS theory of superconductivity’ in a letter included in this volume; the letter presents many of their key ideas. Their theory describes superconductivity as a microscopic..... More
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Berlin: Vieweg und Springer, 1924. 1st Edition. BOUND FIRST EDITION OF EINSTEIN’S 1924 PAPER ON THE PHYSICS OF RADIOMETERS; EINSTEIN’S TRANSLATION OF BOSE’S SECOND PAPER ON THE BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATE (WITH UNTITLED ADDENDUM BY EINSTEIN); & WENTZEL’S SECOND PROPHETIC PAPER ANTICIPATING FEYNMAN’S PATH INTEGRAL APPROACH TO QUANTUM MECHANICS. This volume bears..... More
Washington DC: The White House, 1965. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF A PAPER & REPORT THAT MARKS THE 1st TIME THAT A U.S. PRESIDENT WAS OFFICIALLY WARNED OF ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS FROM THE ACCUMULATION OF FOSSIL-FUEL CARBON DIOXIDE IN THE ATMOSPHERE (Ken Caldeira, atmospheric scientist at the Carnegie Institution for Science's..... More
FIRST EDITION of the Gamow Factor as well as a paper by Max von Laue in response to Gamow's work. The first presentation of the Klein-Nishina formula is also included in this volume. GAMOW: In 1928 and in the first application of quantum mechanics to the inner workings of the..... More
1837. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS of the first announcement of Samuel Morse's single-wire telegraph system and description of an early form of Morse code to be used to communicate on the system. The report is technically detailed and illustrated. Morse’s telegraph includes “a Register which permanently records..... More
Leipzig: Barth, 1907. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF EINSTEIN’S 1st STATEMENT OF THE FULL EQUIVALENCE OF MASS AND ENERGY AND THE EQUATION E = MC² (written as µ = E/V²). In ‘On the Inertia of Energy Required by the Relativity Principle’ (pp. 371-384), “Einstein discussed the relationship between inertial mass..... More
San Francisco. FIRST EDITION OF THE 1st PRESENTATION of CTSS, the "Compatible Time-Sharing System" operating system written by a team of MIT programmers led by Prof. Fernando J. Corbato. Their work “helped pave the way for the personal computer, as well as the computer password” (Hafner, Fernando Corbató, a Father..... More
Vindobonae [Vienna]: Typis Ioannis Thomae, 1770. COMPLETE 4 VOLUME SET OF LINNAEUS’S SYSTEMA NATURAE, “ONE OF THE MOST FUNDAMENTAL WORKS IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE” (Christie’s Valuable Printed Books and Manuscripts 14 November 2007, Sale 7471). This work represents "the inauguration of the classification of plants and animals" (Grolier/Horblit) which..... More
Lancaster, PA: American Institute of Physics, 1933. First edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS OF ANDERSON’S DISCOVERY OF ONE OF THE TINIEST PARTICLES IN NATURE, THE POSITRON, A PART OF THE ATOM ALSO KNOWN AS THE POSITIVE ELECTRON. To measure the energy of the electrons produced by cosmic rays, Anderson..... More
London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS OF THE 1967 LETTER TO THE EDITOR IN WHICH CARL SAGAN & HAROLD MOROWITZ HYPOTHESIZED LIFE MAY EXIST ON VENUS. The authors’ letter to the editor presents an analysis of the issue of life on Venus and speculates about the..... More
Berlin: Julius Springer, 1925. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF PAULI’S EXCLUSION PRINCIPLE giving a criterion for the electronic structure of atoms, and explaining the periodic table and the combining properties of the elements. Specifically, the Pauli exclusion principle states that no two “fermions” (elementary particles with half-integer..... More
London: Macmillan, 1953. 1st Edition. FOUR VOLUME 1st EDITIONS OF ALL 4 Volumes of the 1953 Journal NATURE, THESE CONTAINING THE FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE “SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT WORK IN THE HISTORY OF THE LIFE SCIENCES, THE DISCOVERY OF DNA (Important Scientific Books, Christies, 2008, 378). Volume 171 appears in..... More
Cosmopolitan, 1908. 1st Edition. First edition in original wraps of two articles about Mars, one by H. G. Wells and the other by David Todd. As the covers makes clear, the authors were asked to consider the question: “Is Mars Inhabited?”. Both concluded that Mars is inhabited, and Wells went..... More
Berlin: Julius Springer, 1932. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION (ENTIRE VOLUME), INCLUDING VLADIMIR FOCK’S ‘FOCK’S SPACE’ PAPER, an “elegant” and important description of “the space of states for quantum systems with an arbitrary (infinite) number of particles” (Pais; Chronology of Milestone Events in Physics). ALSO INCLUDED, TERENIN & POPOV’S PHOTOION-PAIR FORMATION..... More
London: George Bell & Sons, 1885. George Cruikshank (1792-1878) was the foremost British illustrator and caricaturist of the 1800s. During his career, Cruikshank produced well over 10,000 drawings and etchings ranging from book illustrations to political caricatures and social satire. He illustrated over 860 books plus countless periodicals and magazines..... More
London: Callow and Wilson, 1824. 1824 edition of a classic work by Thomas Copeland, “the founder of rectum surgery” (Wikipedia). First published in 1810, this work addressed the frequent occurrence of diseases of the rectum; prior to Copeland’s work, no special attention had been paid to the morbid state of..... More
First edition folio with 17 tables and an atlas of 17 engraved plates. Eugene Spee (1843-1924) was appointed astronomer at the Observatory of Bruxelles [Brussels], where he was especially concerned with solar physics. This work is obviously on the solar spectrum. CONDITION & DETAILS: Folio. [xvii], 1, [3], 49, [1]..... More
1978. 1st Edition. The encryption method described in this paper, famously known as "RSA" for the names of its authors, is widely used for secure data transmission. It has been cited more than 21,000 times. Other papers of import are included; see below. “An encryption method is presented with the..... More