Leiden: Petrus Rammasenius, 1628. 3rd Edition. THIRD EDITION OF THE INVENTION & DESCRIPTION OF NAPIER’S BONES, THE 1st CALCULATING MACHINES & THE “PRECURSORS OF SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY AND MODERN CALCULATING MACHINES AND COMPUTERS” (Printing and the Mind of Man 116). Napier’s invention, essentially a system of rods, offered a mechanical means for..... More

1st Edition. Complete Issues. FIRST EDITION of the FIRST APPEARANCE of H. G. WELLS’ “War of the Worlds”: COMPLETE ORIGINAL JOURNAL ISSUE SERIALIZATION WITH ALL 22 CHAPTERS – THIS PRECEDING THE 1898 PUBLICATION OF THE BOOK BY ONE YEAR. It is unusual for all chapters of this serialization to be..... More

1st-2nd Quarter Portable Martin-type Microscope, Case & Accessories Offered by Esoterica Curiosa: Dale Beeks, specialist collector, purveyor & curatorial consultant of historical surveying & scientific instruments. There is a missing tooth on the rack. Original handwritten list of object on the bone sliders. Study the images for condition and details..... More

Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1863. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, full bound volume, OF WIENER’S 1863 PAPER PROVIDING THE FIRST SCIENTIFIC ANALYSIS OF THE CAUSE OF BROWNIAN MOTION – THE FIRST QUALITATIVE IDENTIFICATION OF THE INTERNAL MOLECULAR CAUSE OF BROWNIAN MOTION. Information on Kirchhoff’s solar spectral analysis paper – the last..... More

Ca 1795-1810 Early Cased Trepanning Set by McClellan, Complete Offered by Esoterica Curiosa: Dale Beeks, specialist collector, purveyor & curatorial consultant of historical surveying & scientific instruments. Study the images for condition and details. Feel free to ask questions. Dale: 319 431-5031 See our other items under Instruments, Objects, and..... More

Operations Research Society of America, 1959. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, full volume inclusive of many important papers: one of only two declassified papers written by the physicist Hugh Everett during his long tenure “analyzing the cost-benefits of global and limited nuclear warfare,” for the top secret Weapons Systems Evaluation Group..... More

Berlin: Vieweg und Springer, 1926. 1st Edition. Bound FIRST EDITION OF BORN, HEISENBERG, & JORDAN’S “MONUMENTAL” THREE-MAN PAPER, ‘ON QUANTUM MECHANICS II’, THE FIRST COMPLETE STATEMENT OF MATRIX MECHANICS (Peacock, Quantum Revolution, 52). Handsomely rebound. See details below. In this work, Born, Heisenberg, and Jordan extend the methods Heisenberg presented..... More

1st Edition. 1st EDITIONS OF GALTON’S 1888 PAPER & HIS 1890. The1888 paper presents his invention of the concept of correlation coefficient. His extensive & detailed 1890 paper describes the evolution of his thinking & the development of his ideas, culminating in the invention of the concept itself. “The great..... More

New York: New York Times, 1936. 1st Edition. First edition of the March 7, 1936 issue of the New York Times, complete with “Certificate of Authentication” by the Historic Newspaper Archives. The certificate is #379913; it is signed and includes the seal of the archive. As the title implies, this..... More

Berlin: Julius Springer, 1920. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS OF EINSTEIN’S LEIDEN LECTURE EXPLAINING AT LENGTH HIS THEORY OF THE ETHER ALONG WITH THOSE OF LORENTZ & MAXWELL. Very good + condition. “Einstein’s lecture at the University of Leiden on the occasion of his appointment as a visiting..... More

FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF A PIONEERING TECHNIQUE FOR PROJECT PLANNING AND MONITORING commonly called PERT (Project Evaluation Review Technique. The paper “describes the development and application of a technique for measuring and controlling development progress” for the Navy’s Polaris Fleet Ballistic Missile program” (Malcolm, et al., 1959, p...... More

American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1973. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF THE ROSENHAN EXPERIMENT, A HIGHLY INFLUENTIAL EXPERIMENT CONDUCTED TO DETERMINE THE VALIDITY OF PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS. Rosenhan, psychologist and professor at Stanford, “sent eight ‘sane’ people to twelve psychiatric institutions. The pseudo-patients complained ‘they had..... More

Leipzig: Grossium & J.F. Gledoitschium, 1690. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF PAPIN’S DESCRIPTION OF HIS INVENTION OF THE STEAM ENGINE & A “MILESTONE PAPER IN THE HISTORY OF CALCULUS” by Jacob Bernoulli (Kiranyaz, Pattern Recognition, 19). PAPIN: Denis Papin was a French mathematician, physicist known for his invention of the..... More