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

London: Macmillan & Sons, 1934. 1st Edition. JOURNAL ISSUE, FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT IN ENGLISH BY FERMI OF RADIOACTIVITY INDUCED BY SLOW NEUTRONS. The letter marks the beginning of Fermi's experimental researches in nuclear physics. In 1938 Fermi was awarded "for his demonstrations of the existence of new radioactive elements produced by..... More

Washington DC: Spartan Books, 1965. 1st Edition. Designed by Seymour Cray and James E. Thornton, manufactured by Control Data Corporation 6600 (CDC 6600) was the world's first successful supercomputer. Thornton, the author of the first paper, was personally responsible for most of the detailed design of the Control Data model..... More

London: 1997. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL PAPER WRAPS OF SUZANNE SIMARD’S SEMINAL DISCOVERY THAT TREES ‘TALK’ TO EACH OTHER – that complex, symbiotic networks in our forests facilitate communication and cooperation among trees; in other words, trees use fungal networks to nourish and communicate with each other. Simard..... More

1896. 1st Edition. John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh (1842–1919), was an English theoretical and experimental physicist who “made seminal contributions to theoretically defining the resolving power of gratings, prisms, telescopes and microscopes” (Lord Rayleigh: A Scientific Life, The Optical Society, June 2009). He was also head of the Royal..... 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

Oxford: Clarendon Press. Complete set, all three volumes. Profusely illustrated with plates and in-text illustrations. George Frederick Chambers (1841-1915) was one of Britain’s leading amateur astronomers and “one of the most influential figures in the history of British amateur astronomy” (SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data Systems, Harvard, 12). CONDITION & DETAILS: Oxford..... More

1970. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS OF THE TEXT OF A 1969 PRESENTATION BY KEELING AT A SYMPOSIUM ON ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION. In the presentation he illustrates in some detail the risks of increasing carbon dioxide, but also recognizes the different views on the issue prevalent at that time..... 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: 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

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

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