London: Taylor and Francis, 1895. 1st Edition. FIRST APPEARANCE, 1st EDITION OF THE KORTEWEG- de VRIES (KdV) EQUATION, a mathematical model of waves on shallow water surfaces. ALSO INCLUDED, a 1st EDITION OF YULE’S DESIGN FOR A HARMONIC ANALYZER, among the “foremost examples of the functional analog devices developed in..... More

London: Royal Society. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITIONS OF FIVE PAPERS (Parts I through V) BY LOCKYER DETAILING HIS SPECTRUM ANALYSIS OF THE SUN. Offered is a Sammelband (a book comprising a number of separately printed works that are subsequently bound together) of extracts in fine condition inside and out; in..... More

London: Taylor and Francis. FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST PUBLISHED DESCRIPTION OF BOYS’ INTEGRAPH, AN ANALOG COMPUTING DEVICE THAT MECHANICALLY PLOTTED THE INTEGRAL OF A GRAPHICALLY DEFINED FUNCTION. Sir Charles Vernon Boys (1855-1944) was an innovative, fastidious, British physicist and inventor who received many honors and awards. A noteworthy development..... More

1911. 1st Edition. Full volume. FIRST EDITION OF A PAPER BY PLANCK MARKING “THE BIRTH OF THE CONCEPT OF ZERO-POINT ENERGY (Miloni, The Quantum Vacuum: An Introduction to Quantum Electrodynamics, 10). “The concept of zero-point energy has its roots in a reformulation of the original version of quantum theory proposed..... More

Baltimore: John Hopkins University, 1886. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF POINCARE’S PROOF & A GENERALIZATION OF TWO THEOREMS OF KARL WEIERSTRASS, a German mathematician frequently cited as the ‘father of modern analysis.’ “Henri Poincaré (1854-1912) was a mathematician, theoretical physicist and a philosopher of science famous for discoveries in several..... More

London: Harrison & Sons, 1898. 1st Edition. Bound full volume, FIRST EDITION OF WILLIAM RAMSAY’S ANNOUNCEMENT OF HIS DISCOVERY OF KRYPTON & NEON. “In recognition of his services in the discovery of the inert gaseous elements in air, and his determination of their place in the periodic system,” Ramsay was..... More

Berlin: Julius Springer, 1918. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS OF EINSTEIN’S REVIEW OF WEYL’S SEMINAL WORK, RAUM-ZEIT-MATERIE [SPACE-TIME-MATTERS] -- WEYL’S STUDY OF THE THEORY OF RELATIVITY, written after spending a year with Einstein as the latter was working out the details of his theory. Weyl’s work is still..... More

New York: 1934. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF THE 1st PUBLISHED DESCRIPTION OF H. S. BLACK’S INVENTION OF THE ‘STABILIZED FEEDBACK AMPLIFIER, CONSIDERED BY SOME THE MOST IMPORTANT BREAKTHROUGH OF THE 20th CENTURY IN THE FIELD OF ELECTRONICS GIVEN ITS WIDE AREA OF APPLICATION (Wikipedia). Initially, Black’s idea – feeding..... More

Washington DC: The American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1970. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF THE FIRST USE OF MUON RADIOGRAPHY TO SEARCH PYRAMIDS. Luis Walter Alvarez (1911-1988) used cosmic rays to search for hidden chambers in the pyramids and in the paper offered here, Alvarez..... More

1968. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS OF THE 1st PRINTING OF THE JOHN WHEELER’S TERM “BLACK HOLE” – A PLACE IN SPACE WHERE GRAVITY PULLS SO MUCH THAT EVEN LIGHT CANNOT GET OUT. Wheeler first used the appellation in a lecture before the American Association for the Advancement..... More

London: Harrison & Sons, Ltd. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF A THREE VOLUME LANDMARK SERIES OF PAPERS PROVIDING THE FIRST MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS OF EPIDEMICS as well as "the first mathematical model that could be used to describe an influenza epidemic" (Coburn, "Modeling influenza," BMC Medicine, 7, 2009, 1741). This work..... More

Braunschweig: Druck und Vieweg. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITIONS OF A SERIES OF 3 PAPERS BY PLANCK TOGETHER MARKING “THE BIRTH OF THE CONCEPT OF ZERO-POINT ENERGY (Miloni, The Quantum Vacuum: An Introduction to Quantum Electrodynamics, 10). The issues in which the three papers appeared have been bound together (complete with..... More

The Institute of Radio Engineers, 1949. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS OF A PAPER BY PRESPER ECKERT, et al. DESCRIBING THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE HIGH-SPEED MERCURY DELAY LINE MEMORY FOR COMPUTER APPLICATIONS. The acoustic delay line was invented by William Shockley in 1942 and developed by Presper Eckert..... More