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

Chicago: University of Chicago, 1930. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF HUBBLE’S FORMULATION OF A LAW (NOW KNOWN AS THE HUBBLE-REYNOLDS LAW) THAT GIVES THE OBSERVED SURFACE BRIGHTNESS PROFILE OF ELLIPTICAL GALAXIES AS A FUNCTION OF PROJECTED RADIAL DISTANCE. HUBBLE: The law was first formulated by John Henry Reynolds in 1913..... More

Chicago: University of Chicago, 1922. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF THE 1st APPEARANCE IN PRINT OF THE TERM “DARK MATTER” & FIRST SUGGESTION OF ITS EXISTENCE. This paper, First Attempt at a Theory of the Arrangement and Motion of the Sidereal System, represents a culmination of Kapteyn’s life work and..... More

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

Leipzig: Teubner, 1887. 1st Edition. First edition of Planck’s first book. This prize essay on the conservation of energy includes a ninety-one-page historical introduction on the subject. The year after the publication of this book, Planck became director of the Institute for Theoretical Physics. Max Planck won the Nobel Prize..... More

Paris: Victor Masson, 1858. 1st Edition. In Volume 52, FIRST EDITION OF "THE BEGINNING OF BACTERIOLOGY AS A MODERN SCIENCE," Louis Pasteur and "the first demonstration of the connection between a specific fermentation and the activity of a specific living micro-organism (Garrison-Morton 2472). In Volume 53, Archibald Scott Couper’s paper..... More

London: Printed for private circulation by J.B. Nichols and sons, 1864. 1st Edition. Captain William Henry Smyth was a British Admiral, hydrographer, and astronomer. In Bedford, England, Smyth built the Hartwell observatory; there he carried out astronomical observations for many years. In 1844, he published his Cycle of Celestial Objects..... More

Edinburgh: W & A. K. Johnston, 1882. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION. 18 PLATES. Charles Piazzi Smyth (1819-1900) was a British astronomer known for his many innovations. He was Astronomer Royal for Scotland. [He was also] “professor of practical astronomy in the University of Edinburgh. His primarily interest was in experimental..... More

London: Harrison & Sons, 1929. 1st Edition. Handsomely rebound FIRST EDITION of 2 Important papers Atkinson & Houtermans’ SEMINAL PAPER CONCLUDING THAT QUANTUM TUNNELING MAY ALLOW FOR THE GENERATION OF ENERGY IN STARS THROUGH NUCLEAR FUSION with 1st ed. OF THE MOST ACCURATE ESTIMATE OF THE AGE OF THE EARTH..... More

FIRST EDITION of the “Fermi Interaction,” -- his seminal quantum mechanical description of the first complete theory of beta decay. “A particularly elegant theory and paper, Fermi’s work is regarded as classic and remains highly influential to this day” (Peacock, The Quantum Revolution, 94). “In 1930, Pauli postulated the existence..... More

Berlin: Julius Springer. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF THE 2nd of a series of papers “IN WHICH [KOPFERMANN AND LADENBURG] PRESENTED THE FIRST EVIDENCE OF ‘NEGATIVE DISPERSION,’ WHAT PHYSICISTS NOW CALL STIMULATED EMISSION” (James, 100 Years at the Intersection of Chemistry and Physics 86). “Some historians of science have even..... More

London: Macmillan, 1974. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF HAWKING’S MOST IMPORTANT PAPER, HERE PREDICTING THAT BLACK HOLES RELEASE BLACKBODY RADIATION NOW KNOWN AS HAWKING RADIATION. Hawking’s Royal Society obituary stated: “It is fair to say that Stephen’s discovery ranks as one of the most important results ever..... More

New York: Institute of Radio Engineers, 1961. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL PRINTED WRAPPERS OF MINSKY’S “SEMINAL” WORK ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (MIT Biography). In this paper, Minsky outlines the basic features of AI programs that today still form the basis of artificial solving, including searching and pattern-recognition techniques. This..... More