Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1876. 1st Edition. In 1876 and working independently of Maxwell, Vyshnegradsky “developed stability criteria of steam engine governors” (Engineering Department University of Illinois). His work explained “the conditions of stability [and criteria] of a steam engine equipped with a direct-action centrifugal regulator” (DSB, XIV, 105-106). As well, Vyshnegradsky’s..... More

1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF ASAPH HALL’S DISCOVERY OF THE MOONS OF MARS. Three papers are included in this listing; the 2nd and 3rd are first editions as well. The first and most important is Hall’s 1877 discovery of two moons orbiting Mars. The second, by Madan, proposes names for..... More

Paris: 1798. FIVE VOLUME FIRST EDITION SETOF LAPLACE'S FUNDAMENTAL WORK ON CELESTIAL MECHANICS & IN WHICH HE DEPICTS THE UNIVERSE AS A “GREAT SELF-REGULATING MACHINE” (Printing & the Mind of Man 252). First edition of one of the most important scientific works since Newton's "Principia.” Five volumes bound as four..... More

Paris: Theophile Barrois, 1780. 1st French Edition. First French edition published a year after the original and translated by the author. LANDMARK WORK MARKING THE DISCOVERY OF PHOTOSYNTHESIS by JAN INGEN-HOUSZ. In 1772, a paper by Joseph Priestley’s presented a wealth of achievements, but “the most surprising of... was the..... More

Paris: Mallet-Bachelier, 1855. 1st Edition. Full volume. RARE FIRST PRINTING OF BABBAGE’S REPORT ON SCHEUTZ’S DIFFERENCE CALCULATOR. Babbage thought so highly of Scheutz’s engine that in an effort to promote [it], presented a talk on it before the Academie des Sciences. In the talk, Babbage describes the machine’s construction and..... More

Berlin: Königlich Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1911. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF ONE OF A SERIES OF PAPERS BY PLANCK INTRODUCING THE CONCEPT OF ZERO POINT ENERGY. “The concept of zero-point energy has its roots in a reformulation of the original version of quantum theory proposed by Max..... More

Berlin: Julius Springer, 1921. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF THE “FIRST QUANTUM INTERPRETATION OF OPTICAL DISPERSION” (Taltavull, Rudolf Ladenburg and the First Quantum Interpretation of Optical Dispersion, Eur. Phys. J. H. 45, 123, 2020). “The problem of optical dispersion taught physicists important lessons about how to cross the boundary between..... More

McGraw-Hill, 1946. 1st Edition. IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS, THE FIRST PUBLICATION BY EINSTEIN OF THE FAMILIAR EQUATION, E=mc2, IN THAT SPECIFIC FORM. Eight months after Hiroshima, the editors of Science Illustrated turned to Albert Einstein to explain “the form of the energy that destroyed Hiroshima;” “to explain in his own words..... More

Konigsberg: Frid. Nicolovium, 1818. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF A SYSTEM DESIGNED BY BESSEL THAT “CONSTITUTES A MILESTONE IN THE HISTORY OF ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATIONS” (Dictionary of Scientific Biography, 97). Prior to Bessel, the positions of stars could not be determined with accuracy. The work offered here provided a system for..... More

Paris: Flammarion, 1938. 1st Edition. The evolution of ideas in physics, the first concepts to the theories of relativity and quanta. Translated from the English by Maurice Solovine. Paris, Flammarion, Library of scientific philosophy, 1938, in-12 paperback, illustrated first cover, 298 pp, with 73 figures in the text and 3..... More

Lancaster: American Physical Society, 1954. 1st Edition. RARE FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE of the INTRODUCTION OF THE YANG-MILLS QUANTUM MECHANICAL THEORY. Also included in this volume is the paper in which Gell-Mann and Goldberger introduce crossing symmetry. “It is shown that an exact calculation in quantum field theory gives results..... More

Pergamon Press: 1975. 1st Edition. First edition. This profusely illustrated biography of Copernicus is comprised of extensive essays on his scientific contributions, the nature of the scientific revolution of which he was a part, and the impact of his contributions and work. His humanistic contributions and their significance within the..... More

London: Harrison & Sons, 1935. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION of the LONDON EQUATIONS, “THE FIRST SUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT AT CHARACTERIZING THE ELECTRODYNAMIC BEHARIOR OF SUPERCONDUCTORS” (Yom, The London Equations). The second paper is part two of an important paper by Fermi and Segre, et al. explaining that slow neutrons are effective..... More