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

London: Williams and Norgate, 1880. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF THE JOINT FIRST PUBLICATION OF VENN DIAGRAMS (see below for clarification of concurrent publication). Venn diagrams provide an easy and better way of visualizing elements, information, sets, concepts, logical relationships, and even simply ideas. Essentially, they are illustrations that utilize..... More

Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1889. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF BOLLEE’S PAPER DETAILING THE CALCULATING MACHINE WHICH EMBODIED A MULTIPLICATION TABLE. The Bollee machine “could be considered the direct ancestor of the Millionaire”... “the first commercially successful mechanical calculator that could perform a direct multiplication” (Wikipedia). “Most early calculating machines carried out..... More

London: Royal Society, 1938. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST CORRECT “SOLUTION TO THE MANY-BODY PROBLEM IN CELESTIAL MECHANICS UNDER EINSTEIN’S THEORY OF GRAVITY FOR THE SPECIAL CASE OF POINT MASSES” (History of Physics: The Wenner Collection). Eddington and Clark’s equations “are now frequently used for high precision tracking..... More

Philadelphia: Franklin Institute, 1926. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION DODD’S 1926 CORRELATION COEFFICIENT CALCULATOR. The paper is accompanied by three illustrations and a photograph of his correlation machine. Stuart Dodd, a researcher at Princeton University, built a machine to automatically calculate correlations – a correlation calculator. Correlation is a statistical concept..... More

London: Macmillan Co., 1997. 1st Edition. Full volume. 1st EDITION WITH ORIGINAL FRONT WRAP PRESENT OF THE LANDMARK CLONING OF THE FIRST MAMMAL, DOLLY. NO ADDRESS LABEL. British biologists Sir Ian Wilmut and Keith Campbell announced the cloning of Dolly in this paper, the first account of their efforts and..... More

Prague: Gottlieb Haase & Sons, 1846. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF THREE PAPERS BY CHRISTIAN DOPPLER DETAILING EXTENSTIONS OF & SUPPLEMENTS TO HIS SEMINAL 1842 PAPER ON THE DOPPLER SHIFT. A handsome Sammelband binds the three works together. The papers are detailed below. Each furthers Doppler’s efforts to determine the..... 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

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

London: Macmillan, 1924. 1st Edition. Full volume. FIRST EDITION OF EDDINGTON’S PAPER PROPOSING A CHANGE IN COORDINATE SYSTEMS THAT WILL ELIMINATE THE SCHWARZSCHILD SINGULARITY. The physical significance of this singularity, and whether this singularity could ever occur in nature, was debated for many decades” until the possibility of a black..... More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005. 1st Edition. 1st PRINTING of Roger Penrose’s The Road to Reality, one of the most comprehensive accounts of the physical universe and its underlying mathematical theory. CONDITION & DETAILS: New York: Alfred A. Knopf. [xxviii], 1099, [9]. Illustrated throughout. Tightly bound and complete with..... More