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Leipzig: F.W. Vogel, 1909. 1st Edition. Bound first edition of the FIRST PUBLISHED ACCCOUNT OF MINKOWSKI’S SPACETIME HYPOTHESIS “THE NOTION THAT MADE POSSIBLE THE EXPANSION OF THE RELATIVITY THEORY OF EINSTEIN FROM ITS SPECIFIC (1905) TO ITS GENERAL FORM (1916). Minkowski's hypothesis was first presented as a lecture on his..... More
Leipzig: Verlag von Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1896. 1st Edition. Handsomely bound FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF BOLTZMANN’S MOST IMPORTANT WORKS. Vorlesungen über Gastheorie [Lectures on Gas Theory] is Boltzmann's “masterpiece of theoretical physics. This work can rightly be considered the peak of development achieved in the modern kinetic theory of..... More
New York: American Telephone and Telegraph Co., 1941. 1st Edition. IN ORIGINAL PAPER WRAPS, the FIRST EDITION OF A PAPER CITED BY CLAUDE SHANNON “AS ONE OF HIS SOURCES OF THE SAMPLING THEOREM” (Butzera, Multiplex signal transmission and the development of sampling techniques” Applicable Analysis, January 2008, 1437). One year..... More
London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., 1982. 1st Edition. Full volume. FIRST EDITION OF WOOTTERS’ & ZUREK’S NO CLONING THEOREM &THE FIRST SIGNIFICANT PAPER DISCUSSING TELEPORTATION. Note that we also offer this paper in its original paper wrappers. The no-cloning theorem is one of the earlier results in the study of quantum..... More
London: Taylor and Francis, 1876. 1st Edition. No wrappers, as extracted. First edition of a classical paper complete with 13 lithograph plates by the famous English paleontologist, biologist and comparative anatomist Richard Owen. This paper is the first in a series of ten entitled "On the Fossil Mammals of Australia."..... More
London: Taylor and Francis, 1874. 1st Edition. No wrappers, as extracted. First edition of a classical paper complete with 8 lithograph plates by the famous English paleontologist, biologist and comparative anatomist Richard Owen. This paper is the first in a series of ten entitled "On the Fossil Mammals of Australia."..... More
London: Taylor and Francis, 1874. 1st Edition. First edition of a classical paper complete with 8 lithograph plates by the famous English paleontologist, biologist and comparative anatomist Richard Owen. This paper is the first in a series of ten entitled "On the Fossil Mammals of Australia." NOTE: We offer other..... More
London: Taylor and Francis, 1874. 1st Edition. No wrappers, as extracted. First edition of a classical paper complete with 8 lithograph plates by the famous English paleontologist, biologist and comparative anatomist Richard Owen. This paper is the first in a series of ten entitled "On the Fossil Mammals of Australia."..... More
London: Taylor and Francis, 1872. 1st Edition. No wrappers, as extracted. First edition of a classical paper complete with 7 lithograph plates by the famous English paleontologist, biologist and comparative anatomist Richard Owen. This paper is the first in a series of ten entitled "On the Fossil Mammals of Australia."..... More
London: Taylor and Francis, 1872. 1st Edition. No wrappers, as extracted. First edition of a classical paper complete with 7 lithograph plates by the famous English paleontologist, biologist and comparative anatomist Richard Owen. This paper is the first in a series of ten entitled "On the Fossil Mammals of Australia."..... More
London: Taylor and Francis, 1872. 1st Edition. No wrappers, as extracted. First edition of a classical paper complete with 10 lithograph plates by the famous English paleontologist, biologist and comparative anatomist Richard Owen. This paper is the first in a series of ten entitled "On the Fossil Mammals of Australia."..... More
London: Taylor and Francis, 1866. 1st Edition. No wrappers, as extracted. First edition of a classical paper complete with 3 lithograph plates by the famous English paleontologist, biologist and comparative anatomist Richard Owen. This paper is the first in a series of ten entitled "On the Fossil Mammals of Australia."..... More
London: Royal Society, 1934. 1st Edition. Original paper wrappers. First edition of significant works by two important scientists, Max Born & Arthur Eddington. BORN: “Born’s quest for the elusive divergence problem-free quantum theory of electromagnetism led to the important discovery of the nonlinear Maxwell–Born– Infeld equations for the classical electromagnetic fields..... More
London: Taylor and Francis, 1859. 1st Edition. No wrappers, as extracted. First edition of a classical paper complete with 5 lithograph plates by the famous English paleontologist, biologist and comparative anatomist Richard Owen. This paper is the first in a series of ten entitled "On the Fossil Mammals of Australia."..... More
Lancaster: American Physical Society, 1934. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, full volume. Included: Zwicky and Baade's explanation of their findings regarding supernovae, including the number and distribution of supernovae, the supernova process yielding neutron stars and cosmic rays from supernovae. Also included is a paper by Breit and Wheeler which is..... More
Lancaster: American Physical Society, 1960. 1st Edition. Full volume with original wrappers bound in. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF WEBER’S INVENTION OF THE FIRST GRAVITATIONAL WAVES DETECTOR. Hamiltonian formulation of the equations of general relativity now known as ADM formalism. WEBER: “The detection of gravitational waves is sometimes described..... More
London: Royal Society, 1866. 1st Edition. 1st ed., full volume (Parts I & II) of an important volume of Philosophical Transactions complete with 43 plates. A number of important papers are included, the most important of which is the appearance of a major paper by James Clerk Maxwell on the..... More
New York: American Physical Society, 1973. 1st Edition. IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS, 1st EDITION OF THE 1973 DISCOVERY OF ASYMPTOTIC FREEDOM, the nature of the strong force that binds quarks together in the nucleus. David Gross and Frank Wilczek (working together) and David Politzer (working independently) were the first to understand..... More
New York: American Physical Society, 1973. 1st Edition. Full bound volume, 1st EDITION OF THE 1973 DISCOVERY OF ASYMPTOTIC FREEDOM, the nature of the strong force that binds quarks together in the nucleus. David Gross and Frank Wilczek (working together) and David Politzer (working independently) were the first to understand..... More
London: Royal Society, 1823. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF DAVY’S DEMONSTRATION OF THE ROTATION OF MERCURY (shortly after Faraday demonstrated electromagnetic rotation. ALSO CHARLE’S BELL’S TWO PART DISCOVERY OF BELL’S PHENOMENON. ALSO two papers by Michael Faraday demonstrating the liquification of many gases most importantly chlorine and ammonia which provided..... More
Zurich: Europa Verlag, 1953. First published in 1934, this volume was published in 1953 and is bound in handsome white linen boards gilt-lettered on the front board and at the spine. It is a collection gleaned from Einstein’s speeches and letters across a wide span of his career. The subjects..... More
Minneapolis: American Physical Society, 1929. 1st Edition. BOUND FULL VOLUME, 1st ed. OF ROBERTSON'S SEMINAL MODIFICATION OF THE HEISENBERG UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE. The Heisenberg relations were quickly taken up, discussed, and sought to be extended or modified by many physicists, including Schrodinger, Condon, and Robertson. Robertson, a Princeton physicist better known..... More
London: Royal Society, 1858. 1st Edition. Handsomely bound FIRST EDITION, FULL VOLUME INCLUSIVE OF MANY IMPORTANT PAPERS & 71 PLATES. Included are Cayley’s paper on matrices marks “an epoch in the development of the subject” (Ball, A Short Account of the History of Mathematics, 476). Gassiot’s paper “was particularly important..... More
Wien: Ed. Hölzel, 1904. 1st Edition. Original wrappers (quite rare in this form) and housed in custom clamshell case. FIRST EDITION OF BJERKNES'S SEMINAL MATHEMATICAL MODEL OF ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS, now known as "the primitive equations of weather" – the mechanics and physics of weather. Bjerknes proposed these equations in the..... More
Berlin: Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1939. 1st Edition. VERY GOOD CONDITION FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF THE OFFPRINT of the first of Hahn and Strassmann's "three fundamental papers on nuclear fission," work which, when confirmed, demonstrated the previously unknown phenomenon of nuclear fission (Dibner, Heralds of Science, 168). (NOTE: We..... More