London: Macmillan, 1886. 1st Edition. FULL VOLUME FIRST EDITION WITH TWO WORKS BY FRANCIS GALTON. Sir Francis Galton F.R.S. (1822-1911) was a Victorian polymath: geographer, meteorologist, tropical explorer, founder of differential psychology, inventor of fingerprint identification, pioneer of statistical correlation and regression, convinced hereditarian, eugenicist, proto-geneticist, half-cousin of Charles Darwin..... More about “Hereditary Stature” [Extracts from Presidential Address] pp. 295-8 WITH “Hereditary...

American Statistical Association, 1949. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS OF ULAM & METROPOLIS’S MONTE CARLO METHOD, “A NUMERICAL METHOD OF SOLVING MATHEMATICAL PROBLEMS BY TH SIMULATION OF RANDOM VARIABLES. It performs simulation of any process whose development is influenced by random factors, but also if the given problem..... More about “The Monte Carlo Method" in Journal of the American Statistical Association 44 No. 247 pp....

Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black, 1834. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF F. G. FISCHER’S PAPER ON THE ORIGIN OF METEORIC STONES. Fischer’s paper is both an extensive scientific overview of the beliefs already put forward on the subject (Chladni, La Place, Biot, etc.) and his advocacy of the theory, as..... More about “On the Origin of Meteoric Stones,” in The Edinburgh new Philosophical Journal (Jameson’s),...

1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST PUBLICATION OF BROWNIAN MOTION IN THE STOCK PRICES. While the theory was initially Louis Bachelier's, Maury Osborne made major corrections and extensions to Bachelier’s theory, was the first to study the technical analysis scientifically, the first to demonstrate the substantial contribution physics could..... More about "Brownian Motion in the Stock Market" (Operations Research 7 no 2 pp. 145-173,...

Austin: 1892. Second Edition. SECOND EDITION OF THE FIRST ENGLISH LANGUAGE TRANSLATION OF LOBACHEVSKIAN GEOMETRY. Lobachevsky created, developed and presented what has come to be known as Lobachevskian geometry in 1826. The document offered here is the second edition of the first English language translation of Lobachevsky's paper that was... More about Geometrical Researches on the Theory of Parallels, 1892 [NON-EUCLIDIAN GEOMETRY

London: The Royal Society, 1944. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OFFPRINT IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF A PAPER BY LITTLEWOOD ON INVARIANT THEORY. Offprints are prized because they are separately printed by journals and frequently issued in small quantities intended only for the author’s use and distribution to colleagues. “Dudley Ernest Littlewood..... More about "On Invariant Theory Under Restricted Groups" in Philosophical Transactions of the...

New Haven: Oliver Steele. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, full volume bound in original publisher's boards, OF THE FIRST WELL-DOCUMENTED RECORD OF A METEORITE FALL IN THE NEW WORLD & THE BEGINNING OF METEORITE SCIENCE IN THE UNITED STATES. "When a fiery meteor crash in 1807 lit up the dark early-morning... More about "An Account of the Meteor, which burst over Weston, in Connecticut, in December, 1807"...

London: The Royal Society, 1843. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION EXTRACT. 2 plates The plates have light stains; the text is bright and clean. Very good condition.Airy was an English mathematician and astronomer as well as Lucasian professor at Cambridge and Astronomer Royal. Among “his many achievements include work on planetary... More about On the laws of individual tides at Southampton and at Ipswich, pp. 45-54, Received Feb. 16, 1843....

London: The Royal Society, 1857. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION EXTRACT. Slight toning at the edges of the paper; minor. Near fine condition.Airy was an English mathematician and astronomer as well as Lucasian professor at Cambridge and Astronomer Royal. Among “his many achievements include work on planetary orbits, measuring the mean..... More about Account of the Construction of the New National Strandard of Length, and of its principal Copies,...

London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1819. 1st Edition. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION OF DULONG & PETIT’S DESCRIPTION OF THE DULONG-PETIT LAW, ONE THAT FOR MORE THAN HALF A CENTURY WAS USED TO DETERMINE ATOMIC WEIGHTS. The “impressive consequences [of their work] are even more surprising if we bear in mind that..... More about “Researches on the Measure of Temperatures, and on the Laws of the Communication of Heat” in...

Edinburgh: lLongman, Rees, Orme, Brown, 1834. 1st Edition. HANDSOMELY BOUND 1st EDITION (full volume) OF THE MOST EXTENSIVE CONTEMPORARY ACCOUNT OF BABBAGE'S DIFFERENCE ENGINE No. 1, -- THE FIRST COMPLETE DESIGN FOR AN AUTOMATIC CALCULATING ENGINE” (Computer History Portal). The demonstration model of Babbage’s engine consisted of approximately 2,000 parts... More about "Babbage's Calculating Engine..." in Edinburgh Review 59 pp. 263-327, 1834 [BABBAGE’S...

1st Edition. FIRST EDITIONS IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF TWO PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAYS BY BOHR ON HIS CONCEPT OF COMPLEMENTARITY. Bohr’s concept of complementarity was a key underpinning of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics. The concept includes the idea of wave-particle duality and that wave function collapse is linked to the..... More about "Causality and Complementarity" in Philosophy of Science 4 No. 3 pp. 289-298, July 1937...

New York: AAAS, 2001. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, JOURNAL ISSUE IN ORIGINAL PRINTED WRAPS OF THE 1st PUBLICATION & ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE 1st COMPLETE GENOME SEQUENCE OF A LIVING SPECIES, inclusive of Venter’s poster of the genome sequence itself. The genome sequence of Haemophilus influenzae used a newly developed technique..... More about “The Sequence of the Human Genome” in Science 291, Issue 5507, pp. 1304-1351, February 16, 2001