Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF AGASSI’S Discours de Neuchatel, THE 1837 “STARTING POINT OF ALL THAT HAS BEEN WRITTEN ON THE ICE AGE”. Louis Agassi's “epoch making” and quite dramatic Neuchatel Address was given in 1837 before the Helvetic Society..... More

London: Newberry, 1769. EXPERIMENTS AND OBSERVATIONS ON ELECTRICITY BY BENJAMIN FRANKLIN IS THE “MOST IMPORTANT SCIENTIFIC BOOK OF 18th CENTURY AMERICA" (Printing and the Mind of Man, 199). Further, the volume offered here, the fourth edition in English, and the first collected edition “is especially important because it includes additional..... More

Paris: Paul Gaultier, de l'Institut, 1934. 1st Edition. Paul Gaultier, de l'Institut. 13 x 19.5cm. 258pp. Handsome illustrated cover. How I see the World. Judaism, Politics and Pacifism in Germany 1933. Translated from the German by Colonel Cros. Content: Comment je vois le Monde - Politique et Pacifisme - Allemagne..... More

Lancaster: American Physical Society, 1954. 1st Edition. RARE FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE IN ORIGINAL WRAPS of the Yang and Mills quantum mechanical theory, introduced in this paper and underappreciated at that time. The Yang-Mills theory is now the foundation of most of elementary particle theory; it is the mathematical foundation..... 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

Washington DC: Spartan Books, 1965. 1st Edition. Designed by Seymour Cray and James E. Thornton, manufactured by Control Data Corporation 6600 (CDC 6600) was the world's first successful supercomputer. Thornton, the author of the first paper, was personally responsible for most of the detailed design of the Control Data model..... More

Paris: Durand, 1756. 2nd Edition. Two volume set of the 1756 FRENCH TRANSLATION OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN’S SEMINAL 1751 “Experiments and Observations on Electricity made at Philadelphia in America,” “the most important scientific book of eighteenth-century America" (Printing in the Mind of Man 199). This 1756 translation, the second, is “a..... More

1836. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF WHEATSTONES INTRODUCTION OF “OPTICAL EMISSION SPECTROMETRY” [the modern term] as an alternative to flame spectroscopy for the identification of the composition of metals. In 1835 and in this paper “Charles Wheatstone reported that different metals could be distinguished by bright lines in the emission..... More

1970. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS OF THE TEXT OF A 1969 PRESENTATION BY KEELING AT A SYMPOSIUM ON ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION. In the presentation he illustrates in some detail the risks of increasing carbon dioxide, but also recognizes the different views on the issue prevalent at that time..... More

London: 1925. 1st Edition. ORIGINAL WRAPPERS. FIRST EDITION of the issue of Nature including a centenary “Special Benzene Supplement” celebrating Faraday’s 1825 discovery of benzene. Faraday’s [discovery] of the compound benzene… became his greatest contribution in chemistry (Dictionary of Scientific Biography, 5, 531). “We are presenting a supplement containing the..... More

Leipzig: Barth, 1913. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS OF ROSENTHAL’S IMPORTANT PROOF THAT THAT THE ERGODIC HYPOTHESIS IS INCORRECT FOR ANY MECHANICAL SYSTEM. In 1913, German mathematician Artur Rosenthal (1887–1959) set out to answer the question “Can a mechanical system eventually pass through ever point on the energy..... More

Berlin: Vieweg und Springer, 1924. 1st Edition. BOUND FIRST EDITION OF EINSTEIN’S 1924 PAPER ON THE PHYSICS OF RADIOMETERS; EINSTEIN’S TRANSLATION OF BOSE’S SECOND PAPER ON THE BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATE (WITH UNTITLED ADDENDUM BY EINSTEIN); & WENTZEL’S SECOND PROPHETIC PAPER ANTICIPATING FEYNMAN’S PATH INTEGRAL APPROACH TO QUANTUM MECHANICS. This volume bears..... More