London: Macmillan & Sons, 1934. 1st Edition. JOURNAL ISSUE, FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT IN ENGLISH BY FERMI OF RADIOACTIVITY INDUCED BY SLOW NEUTRONS. The letter marks the beginning of Fermi's experimental researches in nuclear physics. In 1938 Fermi was awarded "for his demonstrations of the existence of new radioactive elements produced by..... 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
1896. 1st Edition. John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh (1842–1919), was an English theoretical and experimental physicist who “made seminal contributions to theoretically defining the resolving power of gratings, prisms, telescopes and microscopes” (Lord Rayleigh: A Scientific Life, The Optical Society, June 2009). He was also head of the Royal..... 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
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
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
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
Paris: 1933. 1st Edition. Folio-sized with particularly handsome original paper wraps. November 1933 issue of a La Presse Médicale, a French medical journal is known for its graphic beauty, inside and out. Continuously paginated pp. 1793-1875. Minor surface scuffing. Very good condition. 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
American Institute of Physics, 1957. 1st Edition. Bound full volume. FIRST EDITIONS OF 3 IMPORTANT PAPERS: (1) Bardeen, Cooper, & Schrieffer first announced their ‘BCS theory of superconductivity’ in a letter included in this volume; the letter presents many of their key ideas. Their theory describes superconductivity as a microscopic..... More
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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
Berlin: Julius Springer, 1935. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, FULL VOLUME, OF THE PREISACH MODEL OF HYSTERESIS; BOUND WITH VOLKOV’S “EXACT SOLUTION TO THE DIRAC EQUATION FOR AN OTHERWISE FREE ELECTRON INTERACTING WITH AN ELECTROMAGNETIC PLANE WAVE” (Guo, Exact Wave Functions, 39). The origin of the Preisach model can be traced..... More
FIRST EDITION of the Gamow Factor as well as a paper by Max von Laue in response to Gamow's work. The first presentation of the Klein-Nishina formula is also included in this volume. GAMOW: In 1928 and in the first application of quantum mechanics to the inner workings of the..... More
Leipzig: Barth, 1907. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF EINSTEIN’S 1st STATEMENT OF THE FULL EQUIVALENCE OF MASS AND ENERGY AND THE EQUATION E = MC² (written as µ = E/V²). In ‘On the Inertia of Energy Required by the Relativity Principle’ (pp. 371-384), “Einstein discussed the relationship between inertial mass..... More
San Francisco. FIRST EDITION OF THE 1st PRESENTATION of CTSS, the "Compatible Time-Sharing System" operating system written by a team of MIT programmers led by Prof. Fernando J. Corbato. Their work “helped pave the way for the personal computer, as well as the computer password” (Hafner, Fernando Corbató, a Father..... More
London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS OF THE 1967 LETTER TO THE EDITOR IN WHICH CARL SAGAN & HAROLD MOROWITZ HYPOTHESIZED LIFE MAY EXIST ON VENUS. The authors’ letter to the editor presents an analysis of the issue of life on Venus and speculates about the..... More
Berlin: Julius Springer, 1925. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF PAULI’S EXCLUSION PRINCIPLE giving a criterion for the electronic structure of atoms, and explaining the periodic table and the combining properties of the elements. Specifically, the Pauli exclusion principle states that no two “fermions” (elementary particles with half-integer..... More
London: George Bell & Sons, 1885. George Cruikshank (1792-1878) was the foremost British illustrator and caricaturist of the 1800s. During his career, Cruikshank produced well over 10,000 drawings and etchings ranging from book illustrations to political caricatures and social satire. He illustrated over 860 books plus countless periodicals and magazines..... More
London: Callow and Wilson, 1824. 1824 edition of a classic work by Thomas Copeland, “the founder of rectum surgery” (Wikipedia). First published in 1810, this work addressed the frequent occurrence of diseases of the rectum; prior to Copeland’s work, no special attention had been paid to the morbid state of..... More
First edition folio with 17 tables and an atlas of 17 engraved plates. Eugene Spee (1843-1924) was appointed astronomer at the Observatory of Bruxelles [Brussels], where he was especially concerned with solar physics. This work is obviously on the solar spectrum. CONDITION & DETAILS: Folio. [xvii], 1, [3], 49, [1]..... More
London: Macmillian & Sons, 1951. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF A NUMBER OF IMPORTANT PAPERS. ALSO INCLUDED: Armenteros, R.; Barker, K. H. “Decay of Neutral V-Particles” WITH Mackay, D. M., Calculating Machines and Human Thought WITH Bragg, W. L. Elimination of the Unwanted Image in Diffraction Microscopy WITH Martyn, D...... More
New York: Macmillan & Co., 1894. First published in 1889, Natural Inheritance is Galton’s pioneering work and is “the first statistical study of biological variation and inheritance"(Garrison & Morton No. 233). The product of fifteen years of work, Natural Inheritance introduced Galton’s complete theory (including the use of regression) and..... More
London: Macmillan & Co., 1892. Second expanded and corrected edition of Hereditary Genius, Galton’s best known and most influential work. “Galton originated the practice of empirical research in medical genetics. ... "Hereditary Genius", his best-known and most influential book” (Norman Coll. I, 864). Published in 1892 twenty years after the..... More
Leipzig: Englemann, 1867. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST ACCOUNT OF WHAT BECAME KNOWN AS CHROMOSOMES. “Friederich Wilhelm Benedikt Hofmeister (1824 1877) stands as one of the true giants in the history of biology and belongs in the same pantheon as Darwin and Mendel. Yet by comparison, he is..... More