Washington DC: American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2005. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS – Heath et al report on findings in Europe that increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere reduced sequestration of root-derived carbon in the soil and raises concerns about what is happening in other..... More
FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS OF MEEHL & TEBALDI’S 2004 CLIMATE MODEL PREDICTING THE STRENGTHING OF HEAT WAVE INTENSITY AND FREQUENCY IN THE FUTURE. This issue bears the address label of Gary L. Bennett, an American scientist and engineer, specializing in aerospace and energy and whose “professional career has included..... More
Princeton University Press, 2008. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS OF THE CELEBRATED GREEN-TAO THEOREM. The theorem states that the prime numbers contain arbitrary long arithmetic progressions. For example, 5, 11, 17, 23, 29 is a sequence of five primes equally spaced, and so in arithmetic progression, the Green-Tao..... More
Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1864. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, 2 bound volumes of THE MOST IMPORTANT CONTEMPORANEOUSLY PUBLISHED PAPERS ON THE FALL OF THE ORGUEIL METEORITE. In 1864 the Orgueil meteorite fell in southwestern France. “ The fall itself was a spectacular event observed all over the western part of the country..... More
London: Macmillan, 1871. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, bound volume, LORD KELVIN’S SUGGESTION THAT LIFE ON EARTH WAS SEEDED BY METEORITES, “MOSS-GROWN FRAGMENTS FROM THE RUINS OF ANOTHER WORLD” (Kelvin, p. 270). The lengthy speech is an address to the British Association for the Advancement of Science and is printed here..... More
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
Paris: Mallet-Bachelier, 1913. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS OF SAGNAC’S “TWO SEMINAL PAPERS” DEMONSTRATING THE SAGNAC EFFECT (Dictionary of Scientific Biography XII). The effect is most simply described as a phenomenon encountered in interferometry; elicited by rotation, it is a phase shift showing “the difference in travel time..... 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
Princeton University Press, 2005. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS OF THE FIRST PROOF OF THE KEPLER CONJECTURE. Complete issue. In 1611, Johannes Kepler speculated that a pyramid was the most efficient arrangement of spherical objects. The Kepler or honeycomb conjecture “is a mathematical theorem that states that no..... 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
Leipzig: 1899. 1st Edition. 1st EDITION OF A SEMINAL PAPER BY FINSTERWALDER ON GLACIER PHOTOGRAMMETRY, the science of making measurements from photographs. The input to photogrammetry is photographs, and the output is typically a map, a drawing, a measurement. MODERN SATELLITE POSITIONING TECHNIQUES IN CLIMATE RESEARCH ARE BUILT ON THE..... 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
London: Taylor and Francis, 1875. 1st Edition. VERY SCARCE FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST SYSTEMATIC SURVEY OF GIANT TORTOISES by Albert Gunther of the British Museum, complete with Gunther's 13 accompanying plates. In all, the volume, inclusive of Parts I & II of Volume 165, includes 68 plates]. Gunther was..... 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
Baltimore: Association for Computing Machinery, 1960. 1st Edition. Bound full volume FIRST EDITION (with front wraps of each issue bound in) OF McCARTHY’S A SEMINAL PAPER INTRODUCING HIS COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE “LISP” & A CLASSIC PAPER BY McILROY ON THE DESIGN OF MACRO PROCESSORS. McCARTHY: “In 1960, John McCarthy published..... 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 Haven: 1907. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF THE 1st PUBLISHED DESCRIPTION OF THE USE OF RADIOMETRIC DATING (Boltwood) & THE FIRST IDENTIFICATION OF THE 1st GREAT GLACIATION OF EARTH (Coleman). BOLTWOOD: Boltwood’s use of radiometric dating remains “the principal source of information about the absolute age of rocks and..... 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
McGraw-Hill, 1946. 1st Edition. IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS, THE FIRST PUBLICATION BY EINSTEIN OF THE FAMILIAR EQUATION, E = mc2, IN THAT SPECIFIC FORM. Eight months after Hiroshima, the editors of Science Illustrated turned to Albert Einstein to explain “the form of the energy that destroyed Hiroshima;” “to explain in his..... 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
Econometric Society, 1952. 1st Edition. Complete issue. FIRST EDITION, ORIGINAL WRAPS of the 1st PAPER DESCRIBING THE PIONEERING USE OF LINEAR PROGRAMMING TO OPTIMIZE THE OUTPUT OF A REFINERY. Charnes, Cooper, and Mellon formulated the blending of blending aviation gasolines as a linear programming problem. Their work, presented in the..... 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: Linnean Society, 1909. 1st Edition. This is the original issuance preceding a 1909 far shorter reprinting. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS OF THE 1908 DARWIN-WALLACE CELEBRATION: The 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE PRESENTATION OF TWO SEMINAL PAPERS BY CHARLES DARWIN & ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE TO THE LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON..... 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