The set includes an Abney level, compass, plumb-bob and a small spyglass. All items show use. Handsome leather bag. Offered by Esoterica Curiosa: Dale Beeks, specialist collector, purveyor & curatorial consultant of historical surveying & scientific instruments. Study the images for condition and details. Feel free to ask questions. Dale..... More
American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1973. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF THE ROSENHAN EXPERIMENT, A HIGHLY INFLUENTIAL EXPERIMENT CONDUCTED TO DETERMINE THE VALIDITY OF PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS. Rosenhan, psychologist and professor at Stanford, “sent eight ‘sane’ people to twelve psychiatric institutions. The pseudo-patients complained ‘they had..... More
Oxford: Clarendon Press. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF THE FIRST SEPARATE PRINTING OF THE ENGLISH VERSION OF MAX PLANCK’S FAMOUS NOBEL PRIZE ADDRESS. The wraps are housed in a custom clamshell case, gilt-lettered at the spine. Max Planck was awarded the 1918 Nobel Prize in Physics (received in 1919)"in..... More
Leipzig: Grossium & J.F. Gledoitschium, 1690. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF PAPIN’S DESCRIPTION OF HIS INVENTION OF THE STEAM ENGINE & A “MILESTONE PAPER IN THE HISTORY OF CALCULUS” by Jacob Bernoulli (Kiranyaz, Pattern Recognition, 19). PAPIN: Denis Papin was a French mathematician, physicist known for his invention of the..... More
Lancaster: American Physical Society, 1937. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS of Bethe's seminal paper work on neucleosynthesis, "Energy Production in Stars." GOOD CONDITION ONLY. Bethe's work on nuclear reactions relied heavily on the development of quantum mechanics, and resulted in the occurance of some classically forbidden reactions; and..... More
FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS. Gerard Bond and his colleagues identify a pervasive millennial-scale climate cycle operating independently of the glacial-interglacial climate state. Based on geologic tracers of drift ice in the North Atlantic, they postulate the theory of 1470-year climate cycles in the Late Pleistocene and Holocene eras. CONDITION..... More
Washington DC: The American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2006. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL PICTORIAL WRAPPERS OF A NOBEL PRIZE WINNING PAPER BY ERIC BETZIG. In 2014, Betzig, along with Stefan Hell and William Moerner, won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for figuring out a way to..... More
New York: American Telephone and Telegraph Company. 1951. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN PAPER WRAPS OF SHANNON’S 1951 FAMOUS WORK ON COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS. In 1948, Shannon founded the field of information theory by defining the once fuzzy concept of ‘information’ ) as it relates to communication engineers) in a precise..... More
Amsterdam: Mortier, 1747. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF D’ARCY’S PROPOSED AN EARLY VERSION OF THE CONCEPT OF CONSERVATION OF ANGULAR MOMENTUM FOR ORBITING BODIES. Extract in fine condition housed in a custom pamphlet case; text block complete. “In physics, angular momentum is the rotational equivalent of linear momentum. It is..... More
Berlin: Julius Springer, 1921. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS of a short letter Einstein wrote to the editors of Die Naturwissenschaften. In it, he stated that he did not author the preface of a book recently published by Lucien Fabre entitled Einstein’s Theories: A New Face in the..... More
New York: 1924. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS OF “ONE OF THE FOUNDATIONS OF INFORMATION THEORY” (Claude Shannon, A Mathematical Theory of Communication, 1948). Beginning with this lengthy twenty-two page paper (see Origins of Cyberspace 163), Nyquist’s nascent work ferreting out the necessary bandwidth requirements for the transmission..... More
American Institute of Electrical Engineers, 1928. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF NYQUIST’S SAMPLING THEOREM, the process of converting a signal, here that of a telegraph, into a numerical sequence. ORIGINAL WRAPPERS. The sampling theorem, later refined by Claude Shannon and now known as the Nyquist-Shannon Theorem, is the principle by..... More
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Berlin: Julius Springer, 1932. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST OF HEISENBERG’S 3 PAPERS PRESENTING THE FINAL MATHEMATICAL MODEL OF THE ATOM. Heisenberg’s seminal work, beginning here with ‘On the Structure of the Atomic Nuclei I,’ “mark[ed] the transition to the modern view on nuclear forces” (Pais, Inward Bound..... More
Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1921. 1st Edition. First edition of the first French translation of the conference held on May 5th, 1920 at the University of Leiden. The translation was done by Maurice Solovine. Original paper wrappers. Cited in Weil and Boni catalogs. CONDITION & DETAILS: Paris: Gauthier-Villars et Cie, Imprimeurs-Editeurs. Complete..... More
1925. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL PICTORIAL WRAPPERS. Near fine condition. “This paper is an early example of a series of papers – which continued until his death – in which he explored, within the confines of general relativity, possible pathways in the direction of a unified field theory..... More
1911. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, OF BOHR’S DOCTORAL THESIS. “Fra Forfatteren,” “From the Author,” appears in Bohr’s hand on the upper right corner of the front wrap. Bohr’s dissertation includes the first appearance of what is now known as the Bohr-van Leeuwen theorem stating that, in short, quantum..... More
2007. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL PICTORIAL WRAPPERS OF A 2007 JOURNAL ISSUE WITH TWO INTERESTING ARTICLES: (1) In-depth article by Topper & Vincent on Einstein's 1934 presentation of the mathematical derivation of his famous E=MC2 equation. In doing their research, the authors discovered a previously unknown photograph showing..... More
Washington DC: The American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1997. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL PICTORIAL WRAPPERS OF AN IMPORTANT PAPER BY BROECKER, “ONE OF THE WORLD’S LEADING CLIMATE EXPERTS” (Lippsett, Broecker Warns Gases Could Alter Climate Oceans' Circulation Could Collapse, Columbia Record, 1997). Often referred to as..... More
1749. 1st Edition. Praga (Prague): Typis Universitatis Carolo-Ferdinandeae in Collegio Societatis Jesu ad S. Clementem, 1749. A scarce textbook of physics, mathematics, astronomy, the natural sciences. Etc.. OCLC lists only one copy--from Charles-Ferdinand University in Prague which is now named simply Charles University. This work was authored by Johann Gremner..... More
Washington DC: American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2004. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL PAPER WRAPS OF THE NOBEL PRIZE WINNING DISCOVERY OF GRAPHENE, A FORM OF CARBON JUST ONE ATOM THICK – THE THINNEST MATERIAL & FIRST TWO-DIMENSIONAL MATERIAL EVER DISCOVERED, AS WELL AS ONE OF THE..... More
Washington DC: American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2005. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS – Heath et al report on findings in Europe that increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere reduced sequestration of root-derived carbon in the soil and raises concerns about what is happening in other..... More
FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS OF MEEHL & TEBALDI’S 2004 CLIMATE MODEL PREDICTING THE STRENGTHING OF HEAT WAVE INTENSITY AND FREQUENCY IN THE FUTURE. This issue bears the address label of Gary L. Bennett, an American scientist and engineer, specializing in aerospace and energy and whose “professional career has included..... More
Princeton University Press, 2008. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS OF THE CELEBRATED GREEN-TAO THEOREM. The theorem states that the prime numbers contain arbitrary long arithmetic progressions. For example, 5, 11, 17, 23, 29 is a sequence of five primes equally spaced, and so in arithmetic progression, the Green-Tao..... More
Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1864. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, 2 bound volumes of THE MOST IMPORTANT CONTEMPORANEOUSLY PUBLISHED PAPERS ON THE FALL OF THE ORGUEIL METEORITE. In 1864 the Orgueil meteorite fell in southwestern France. “ The fall itself was a spectacular event observed all over the western part of the country..... More
London: Macmillan, 1871. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, bound volume, LORD KELVIN’S SUGGESTION THAT LIFE ON EARTH WAS SEEDED BY METEORITES, “MOSS-GROWN FRAGMENTS FROM THE RUINS OF ANOTHER WORLD” (Kelvin, p. 270). The lengthy speech is an address to the British Association for the Advancement of Science and is printed here..... More