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

Lancaster: American Physical Society, 1950. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION of Feynman's proof of the validity of his 1949 "reformation of quantum mechanics itself," work that would "elegantly rewrite quantum theory" (American National Biography; Peacock, The Quantum Revolution, 102). ALSO included is Erwin Hahn's "Spin Echoes," the first detection and report..... More

American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1959. First Edition. FIRST ed., ORIGINAL WRAPPERS, THE GENOME ISSUE featuring features articles on technological developments in genome research, clinical applications, and concerns regarding the social impact of rapidly accumulating genetic information. The following papers are included: Fraser, C. M. et al., “The..... More

Bruxelles: H. Thiry-Van Buggenhoudt, 1866. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS OF A LARGE & IMPORTANT STUDY BY ADOLPHE QUETELET ON THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE IN BELGIUM. Quetelet was one of the founders of sociology and his “impact on nineteenth century thinking can in a certain sense be compared..... More

London: 1851. FIRST DESCRIPTION IN ENGLISH of FOUCAULT’S 1st MECHANICAL DEMONSTRATION OF THE EARTH’S ROTATION, FOUCAULT’S PENDULUM. Also included is BOOLE’S FIRST PAPER ON THE LOGIC OF PROBABILITY. FOUCAULT: Copernicus explained the daily diurnal rotation of the earth on its polar axis in 1543, however it was Foucault, 300 years..... 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

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

Edinburgh: Neill and Company, 1886. 1st Edition. 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 and speculative matters, and among one..... More

National Academy of Sciences, 1955. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS & HOUSED IN A CUSTOM PAMPHLET CASE of the groundbreaking theoretical paper by Niels K. Jerne describing his theory of antibody formulation. This article, which has 1,075 citations, revolutionized the theory of monoclonal antibodies and Jerne shared the..... More