Lancaster: American Physical Society, 1960. 1st Edition. Full volume with original wrappers bound in. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF WEBER’S INVENTION OF THE FIRST GRAVITATIONAL WAVES DETECTOR. Hamiltonian formulation of the equations of general relativity now known as ADM formalism. WEBER: “The detection of gravitational waves is sometimes described..... More

New York: American Physical Society, 1973. 1st Edition. IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS, 1st EDITION OF THE 1973 DISCOVERY OF ASYMPTOTIC FREEDOM, the nature of the strong force that binds quarks together in the nucleus. David Gross and Frank Wilczek (working together) and David Politzer (working independently) were the first to understand..... More

London: Royal Society, 1823. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF DAVY’S DEMONSTRATION OF THE ROTATION OF MERCURY (shortly after Faraday demonstrated electromagnetic rotation. ALSO CHARLE’S BELL’S TWO PART DISCOVERY OF BELL’S PHENOMENON. ALSO two papers by Michael Faraday demonstrating the liquification of many gases most importantly chlorine and ammonia which provided..... More

Minneapolis: American Physical Society, 1929. 1st Edition. BOUND FULL VOLUME, 1st ed. OF ROBERTSON'S SEMINAL MODIFICATION OF THE HEISENBERG UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE. The Heisenberg relations were quickly taken up, discussed, and sought to be extended or modified by many physicists, including Schrodinger, Condon, and Robertson. Robertson, a Princeton physicist better known..... More

Wien: Ed. Hölzel, 1904. 1st Edition. Original wrappers (quite rare in this form) and housed in custom clamshell case. FIRST EDITION OF BJERKNES'S SEMINAL MATHEMATICAL MODEL OF ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS, now known as "the primitive equations of weather" – the mechanics and physics of weather. Bjerknes proposed these equations in the..... More

London: Royal Society, 1886. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION as extracted, complete with 3 lithographed plates. In 1858 and in a paper we offer separately, the famous English paleontologist, biologist and comparative anatomist Richard Owen identifies and names extinct giant lizard bones: Megalania prisca. Disappearing approximately 40,000 years ago, Megalania prisca..... More

London: Royal Society, 1859. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION as extracted, complete with 2 lithographed plates. In this paper, on the largest known terrestrial lizard, the famous English paleontologist, biologist and comparative anatomist Richard Owen identifies and names extinct giant lizard bones: Megalania prisca. Disappearing approximately 40,000 years ago, Megalania Prisca..... More

FERREL’S 19th CENTURY “MAGNUM OPUS” PROPOSING THE FIRST COMPREHENSIVE PHYSICAL THEORY OF THE ATMOSPHERE. Offered are two papers by the American meteorologist William Ferrel, “the Newton or Kepler of meteorology.” “Transitioning from observational weather forecasting to mathematical weather forecasting required meteorologists to recognize that the laws of physics could apply..... More

London: Appleton, 1872. 2nd Edition. 2nd EDITION Spectrum Analysis: In Its Application to Terrestrial Substances, and The Physical Constitution of the Heavenly Bodies, A BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED WORK inclusive of Angstrom's and Kirchhoff's maps. "Spectrum Analysis became a standard work;" here revised and expanded upon the first edition. ( Knight, p...... More

Lancaster: 1966. 1st Edition. Bound full volume: FIRST EDITION OF THE NOBEL PRIZE WINNING 1966 PAPER IN WHICH PETER HIGGS PREDICTED THE 2012 DISCOVERY OF THE HIGGS BOSON. A type of subatomic particle, bosons are able to occupy the same point in space as do other different matter particles (like..... More

New York: John Day, 1931. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION. HANDSOME COPY OF A CLASSIC WORK WITH SCARCE ICONIC DUST JACKET PRESENT. Vanity Fair's guide to New York's "halls of terpsichore, cabarets, night clubs, roof gardens, road houses, and dancing grill rooms—no museums, night schools, or galleries." Included are "Speakeasies, Cab..... More

New York: American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1993. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL PICTORIAL WRAPS OF THE 1st PAPER TO “PROPOSE THE FIRST TECHNOLOGICALLY FEASIBLE DESIGN FOR A QUANTUM COMPUTER” (Wikipedia). PRISTINE condition with no mailing label.“Quantum computing studies theoretical computation systems (quantum computers) that make direct..... More