The MIT Press, 1969. 1st Edition. The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Star Atlas has been prepared by the staff of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. Available in this atlas are magnitude, spectral class (in most cases), precise coordinates, proper motion, and Durchmusterung number. The total number of atlas stars slightly exceeds 260,000... More about Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Star Atlas of Reference Stars and Nonstellar Objects, The...

London: Taylor and Francis. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITIONS OF 4 GASSIOT PAPERS (1839, 1844, 1858, & 1859 extracts) LEADING TO & CONCLUDING WITH IMPORTANT EXPERIMENTS IN WHICH HE OBSERVED DEFLECTIONS OF CATHODE RAYS BY ELECTROSTATIC CHARGES & MAGNETISM. “Gassiot's work was particularly important in the demise of the contact theory... More about ALL FOUR IMPORTANT GASSIOT PAPERS, 1839-1859: CATHODE RAYS, PARTICLES, STRATIFICATION & THE...

FIRST EDITIONS IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF THE FOUNDATIONS OF BITCOIN’S BLOCKCHAIN ALGORITHM, INCLUDING THE CONCEPTS OF BYZANTINE FAULTS, THE BYZANTINE GENERALS PROBLEM, PROOF-OF-WORK, & SOFTWARE ABLE TO TOLERATE BYZANTINE FAULTS. The creation of a system like Bitcoin -- one both distributed and reliable -- is exceptionally problematic. The issues that..... More about "Reaching Agreements in the Presence of Faults" in Journal of the ACM 27 No. 2 pp....

Wien: Ed. Hölzel, 1904. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF BJERKNES’S SEMINAL MATHEMATICAL MODEL OF ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS, now known as “the primitive equations of weather”. Bjerknes proposed these equations in the paper offered here, and in so doing, pioneered numerical weather forecasting, which is based on applying physical laws to the..... More about “Das Problem der Wettervorhersage, betrachtet vom Standpunkte der Mechanik und der Physik”...

New York: AAAS, 1987. 1st Edition. TWO 1st EDITION PAPERS (in two separate issues, both in original wraps) OF IMPORT IN THE HISTORY OF SUPERCONDUCTIVITY, THE FIRST PROPOSING THE THEORY OF HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTIVITY, AND THE SECOND CONTRIBUTING TO THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR ITS AUTHORS. Working at Princeton and in... More about "The Resonating valence bond state in la-2CuO-4 and superconductivity" (Anderson) in...

1948. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF “THE CLASSIC PAPER” in which BRAINERD & SHARPLESS PROVIDE “THE ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING PROFESSION WITH BACKGROUND AND TECHNICAL INFORMATION” ABOUT ENIAC, THE WORLD’S 1st DIGITAL COMPUTER” (Brittain, Bainer & Sharpless on the ENIAC, IEEE 1984). The paper presents ENIAC’S development and includes..... More about “The ENIAC” in Electrical Engineering, pp.. 163-176,February 1948

London: Bulmer and Nicol, 1820. 1st Edition. Handsomely rebound full volume. FIRST EDITIONS of two significant papers: Davy describes the first room temperature catalytic reaction & Gompertz describes how he applied the method of fluxions to the development of the science of human mortality. DAVY PAPER: Cousin to Humphry Davy... More about "On Some Combinations of Platinum" (Davy pp. 108-125) WITH "A sketch of an...

New York: AAAS, 1970. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST PICTURES OF INDIVIDUAL ATOMS WITHIN A MOLECULAR STRUCTURE. Note that this paper includes those photographs. “Although individual atoms [had] been produced by field ion microscopes, there previously had been no way to reveal a single atom within a molecular... More about “Visibility of single atoms” in Science 168, No. 3937, pp. 1338–1340, June 12, 1970

New York: AAAS, 1972. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF THE HAFELE-KEATING EXPERIMENT SUPPORTING TIME DILATION IN SPECIAL AND GENERAL RELATIVITY. In short, Hafele and Keating observed that there was a discrepancy between the times measured by the traveling clocks and the times measured by similar clocks that... More about “Around-the-World Atomic Clocks: Predicted Relativistic Time Gains” and “Around-the-World...

London: Richard and Arthur Taylor. Complete volume. FIRST EDITION OF A SHORT PAPER BY LUKE HOWARD WHO IN 1802 SEMINAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO METEOROLOGY. Howard was a British chemist and amateur meteorologist. “In 1802, Luke Howard (1772 – 1864) made a fundamental contribution to weather forecasting by proposing the first standard... More about “On the best means for conducting meteorological observations in different places and climates,...

London: Macmillan, 1914. 1st Edition. FIRST ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF LAMARCKIAN EVOLUTIONARY THEORY – “A CLASSIC IN THE LITERATURE OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY” (Printing and the Mind of Man, 262), this copy bearing the ownership stamp of John Zachary Young, the English zoologist and neurophysiologist described as “one of the most influential..... More about Zoological Philosophy: An Exposition with Regard to the Natural History of Animals,1914. A...

London: The Royal Society, 1821. 1st Edition. Bound full volume, FIRST EDITION OF HUMPHRY DAVY’S RESEARCH PROVING THAT ELECTRICAL RESISTANCE VARIES WITH TEMPERATURE. Davy’s research “proved a difference in the conducting-power of metals and the decrease of that power as their temperature rose” (Royal Society). ALSO INCLUDED: 1st EDITION OF..... More about "On the Magnetic Phenomena Produced by Electricity" (Davy, pp. 7-19) AND "Further...

London: Fleetway Press, 1927. Excerpt from this 'Report': "My purpose in the present report has been to give a comprehensive account of the development and present state of our knowledge of the regularities in spectra, as deduced from the spectra themselves, with but little regard to theories of their origin... More about Report on Series in Line Spectra, 1927