New York: AAAS, 2006. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF STEINHARDT & TUROK’S EXPLANATION OF HOW THEIR 2002 CYCLIC THEORY OF THE UNIVERSE CAN RESOLVE THE COSMOLOGICAL CONSTANT PROBLEM. Steinhardt and Turok's 2002 cyclic universe theory is a model of cosmic evolution according to which the universe undergoes..... More
New York: AAAS, 2005. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS of a significant paper by Webster et al. documenting a large and significant increase – more than 50% increase in both the frequency as well as the percentage of observed category -- of category 4 and 5 hurricanes for..... More
Washington DC: AAAS, 2009. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS of an important paper finding that in periods during the past 800,000 years when the concentration of carbon dioxide was similar to the current level the temperatures were 3-6 degrees centigrade warmer and sea level was 25 to 40..... More
New York: AAAS, 2008. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF THE FIRST PAPER TO SHOW & DESCRIBE THE OPTICAL IMAGING OF AN EXTRASOLAR PLANET, a Jupiter-sized planet orbiting the star Fomalhaut . The work is a “landmark [discovery], as it reports the first definitive, direct imaging of exoplanets..... More
Washington DC: AAAS, 2004. 1st Edition. FIST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS of a work of significance that employed aircraft and satellite measurements to show that the West Antarctica glacier thinning has accelerated since the 1990s. This work confirmed “that when the ocean eats at one end of a glacier, it..... More
Paris: Hotel de Thou, rue des Poitevins, 1780. LAVOISIER’S OFFICIAL EASTER MEMOIR ON THE COMPOSITION OF AIR. THIS IS THE 1780 edition. WE OFFER THE 1st 1778 EDITION SEPARATELY. In this work, Lavoisier proposed that ordinary air is composed of two different gases, one “highly respirable” (that he named “oxygen”)..... More
Paris: De l’Imprimerie Royale, 1778. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, LAVOISIER’S OFFICIAL EASTER MEMOIR ON THE COMPOSITION OF AIR. In this work, Lavoisier proposed that ordinary air is composed of two different gases, one “highly respirable” (that he named “oxygen”) and the other (later named nitrogen) that was unable to support..... More
London: J. Johnson. “THE FIRST OF DARWIN’S FOUR MAJOR WORKS, THE BOTANIC GARDEN” IS OFFERED HERE IN TWO HANDSOMELY BOUND VOLUMES (Dictionary of Scientific Biography, III, 578-579). Erasmus Darwin (1732-1802) was a remarkable polymath, working as a physician, naturalist, medical botanist, and inventor. He was also Charles Darwin’s grandfather. The..... More
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
1920. 1st Edition. First edition in original wraps of Einstein’s review of a paper by Nobel Prize winner Walter Rudolf Hess entitled Theory of the Viscosity of Heterogeneous Systems. CONDITION: The journal was published in three sections. All three are here, all bright, clean, and in near fine condition. 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
Bausch & Lomb Professional Model with graduated circular mechanical stage, lever inclination lock, coarse focus with drawtube and reank & pinion, rear pillar fine focus, and plano concave mirror. A nice large professional microscope in good condition. Offered by Esoterica Curiosa: Dale Beeks, specialist collector, purveyor & curatorial consultant of..... 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
London: Harrison & Sons, 1929. 1st Edition. FIRST AMERICAN PRINTING OF A “REMARKABLE” PAPER THAT WON RAMAN THE 1930 NOBLE PRIZE FOR ‘THE RAMAN EFFECT’ (Jayasooriya, An Introduction to Laser Spectroscopy, 77). In announcing the prize, the Nobel Prize Committee, noted that the prize was awarded "for his work on..... 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
London: Royal Society, 1849. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF TWO IMPORTANT PAPERS BY MICHAEL FARADAY, EACH PUBLISHED AS PART OF HIS LANDMARK TWENTY-NINE PAPER “EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCHES IN ELECTRICITY” SERIES. Also included, a significant paper by Thomas Graham on the motion of gases; also, an important paper by Gideon Mantell on..... 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
London: Harrison & Sons, 1932. 1st Edition. FULL VOLUME 1st EDITION OF CHADWICK’S CONFIRMATION OF THE EXISTENCE OF A NEUTRON. Earlier in 1932, Chadwick speculated about the "possible" existence of the neutron, a subatomic particle with no electrical charge and a mass slightly larger than that of a proton. When..... 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
FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING of Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle, one of the most significant discoveries in all of modern physics and “one of the most famous and important aspects of quantum mechanics,” (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). From the moment of publication, the Uncertainty Principle marked the end to deterministic theories of physics..... More
New York: The New York Times, 1945. 1st Edition. First edition of the August 14th, 1945 issue of the New York Times, complete with “Certificate of Authentication” by the Historic Newspaper Archives. The certificate is #379910; it is signed and includes the seal of the archive. Einstein’s article appears in..... 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
New York: New York Times, 1931. 1st Edition. First edition of the October 19th, 1931 issue of the New York Times, complete with “Certificate of Authentication” by the Historic Newspaper Archives. The certificate is #379912; it is signed and includes the seal of the archive. Einstein was asked to contribute..... 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
Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1921. 1st French. FRENCH TRANSLATIONS of this “popular” exposition of the theory of relativity, The Theory of Restricted and General Relativity. Also included is Einstein's Relativity and the Space Problem. CONDITION & DETAILS: 1954. Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1954. Ex-libris from The Franklin Institute with no spine markings. Rebacked with..... More