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On a New Method in Elementary Number Theory Which Leads to An Elementary Proof of the Prime...

On a New Method in Elementary Number Theory Which Leads to An Elementary Proof of the Prime Number Theorem in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 35 pp. 374-384, 1949 [PRIME NUMBER THEORM]

Erdös, Paul

Easton: National Academy of Sciences, 1949. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, bound full volume, of ERDÖS’ PRIME NUMBER THEOREM, a paper which led to Erdös' 1952 Cole Prize from the American Mathematical Society. Erdös’ elementary proof shows that prime numbers become less frequent as numbers grow large. It is ‘elementary’ in..... More

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Causality and Complementarity in Philosophy of Science 4 No. 3 pp. 289-298, July 1937 WITH On the...

Causality and Complementarity in Philosophy of Science 4 No. 3 pp. 289-298, July 1937 WITH On the Notions of Causality and Complementarity in Dialectica 2 No. 3/4 pp. 312-319, August 15 - Nomember 15, 1948 [BOHR’S CONCEPT OF COMPLEMENTARITY]

Bohr, Niels

1st Edition. FIRST EDITIONS IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF TWO PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAYS BY BOHR ON HIS CONCEPT OF COMPLEMENTARITY. Bohr’s concept of complementarity was a key underpinning of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics. The concept includes the idea of wave-particle duality and that wave function collapse is linked to the..... More

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The Sequence of the Human Genome in Science 291, Issue 5507, pp. 1304-1351, February 16, 2001....

The Sequence of the Human Genome in Science 291, Issue 5507, pp. 1304-1351, February 16, 2001

Venter JC, Adams MD, Myers EW, Li PW, Mural RJ, Sutton GG, et al.

New York: AAAS, 2001. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, JOURNAL ISSUE IN ORIGINAL PRINTED WRAPS OF THE 1st PUBLICATION & ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE 1st COMPLETE GENOME SEQUENCE OF A LIVING SPECIES, inclusive of Venter’s poster of the genome sequence itself. The genome sequence of Haemophilus influenzae used a newly developed technique..... More

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Apollo 11 Mission Control Commentary. July 20, 1969, CDT, 20:34… Part I: First Moon Landing...

Apollo 11 Mission Control Commentary. July 20, 1969, CDT, 20:34… Part I: First Moon Landing WITH Part II: First Steps on the Moon. Houston: NASA, 1969 [1st EDITIONS OF BOTH TRANSCRIPTS IN THEIR ORIGINAL FORM & AS ISSUED]

NASA

NASA, 1969. 1st Edition. RARE 1st EDITIONS OF NASA’s ORIGINAL TRANSCRIPTS FROM THE APOLLO 11 MISSION CONTROL TAPES RECORDING BOTH THE LANDING & THE MOON WALK -- the first issued TEN minutes after the lunar module landed, the second just following the moon walk itself. Very few of these were..... More

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On a Self-recovering Coherer and the Study of the Cohering Action of different Metals in...

On a Self-recovering Coherer and the Study of the Cohering Action of different Metals in Proceedings of the Royal Society 65 No. 416 pp. 166-171, July 14, 1899 [BOSE COHERER LATER ADOPTED WITHOUT ATTRIBUTION BY MARCONI]

Bose, Jagadis Chunder [J.C.]

London: The Royal Society, 1899. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS (housed in a custom case) OF THE BOSE COHERER PAPER. Bose’s invention improved on Branly’s 1890 invention of the coherer. Note that we offer the Branly paper separately. The coherer is the radio signal detector used in the..... More

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R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots);: A Play in Three Acts and an Epilogue. Translated from the...

R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots);: A Play in Three Acts and an Epilogue. Translated from the Czech by P. Selver; adapted for the English stage by Nigel Playfair. London: Oxford University Press, 1923 [INTRODUCTION OF THE WORD 'ROBOT']

Capek, Carel [Kapek]

London: Oxford University Press, 1923. 1st English Language Edition. FIRST PRINTING, 1st EDITION OF THE 1st ENGLISH EDITION of a Science Fiction classic and THE FIRST USE OF THE WORD “ROBOT.” The R.U.R. of the title stands for Rossum’s Universal Robots. It is interesting to note that “The first recorded..... More

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Sirius, Sternkarte. Carte celeste: Aequinoctium 2000. 0, Hans Suter-Haug, 1973 [TWO 16.5 INCH...

Sirius, Sternkarte. Carte celeste: Aequinoctium 2000. 0, Hans Suter-Haug, 1973 [TWO 16.5 INCH STAR CHARTS WITH ROTATING OVERLAYS]

Germany: Hale Observatory, 1973. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION: Two large multicolor celestial charts/star maps of the northern & southern hemispheres, each with rotating star chart overlays. The charts measure 16.5 x 16.5 inches and are bound together on hardboard with a black and white pictorial cover; when opened, the Northern..... More

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The Boy Who Wasn't Too Bright, in DC Comics’ Superman No. 55, November-December 1948 [FIRST...

The Boy Who Wasn't Too Bright, in DC Comics’ Superman No. 55, November-December 1948 [FIRST MENTION OF EINSTEIN IN A COMIC BOOK]

[Einstein, Albert]

1948. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST MENTION OF ALBERT EINSTEIN IN A COMIC. The Superman comic is housed in a custom clamshell box lettered and bound in colors that mimic the front of the comic itself. “He may be best known for laying down the theories of the..... More

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Morse Inequalities for a Dynamical System in Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society 66 No....

Morse Inequalities for a Dynamical System in Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society 66 No. 1 pp. 43-49, January 1960 WITH Differentiable Dynamical Systems in Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society 73 No. 6 pp. 747-817, November 1967 WITH Finding a Horseshoe on the Beaches of Rio The Mathematical Intelligencer 20 No. 1 pp. 39-44, Winter 1998 [SMALE’S HORSESHOE & CHAOS THEORY]

Smale, Stephen

1st Edition. THREE FIRST EDITIONS IN ORIGINAL WRAPS DOCUMENTING STEPHEN SMALE’S INVENTION OF THE SMALE HORSESHOE, A MAP THAT BEAUTIFULLY CAPTURES THE MATHEMATICS OF CHAOS THEORY. This important grouping of documents includes Smale’s two seminal papers on his horseshoe as well as a paper by Smale describing how he discovered..... More

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On a case of superficial colour presented by a homogeneous liquid internally colourless...

On a case of superficial colour presented by a homogeneous liquid internally colourless (Herschel, pp. 143-145) & On the epip lic dispersion of light, being a supplement to a paper entitled, On a case of superficial colour presented by a homogeneous liquid internally colourless (Herschel, pp. 147-153) WITH On the Liquefaction and Solidification of Bodies Generally Existing as Gases (Faraday, pp. 155-179) WITH On the Gas Voltaic Battery. Voltaic Action of Phosphorus, Sulphur and Hydrocarbons (Grove, pp. 351-361) WITH Electro-Physiological Researches. 1st, 2nd, & 3rd Memoir (Matteucci, pp. 283-319) in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Volume 135, 1845

Herschel, John Frederick William; Faraday, Michael; Grove, W. R.; Matteucci, Carlo

London: The Royal Society, 1845. 1st Edition. BOUND 1st EDITION OF AN IMPRESSIVE COMPILATION OF 1845 PAPERS, among them significant papers by JW Herschel, Michael Faraday, W.R. Grove, and Carlo Matteucci. HERSCHEL’S PAPERS present “the 'modern' milestone for observing fluorescence” (Heinrichs, Milestones, Nature RMCB, 2009). In them he notes “that..... More

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Letter From the Secretary of the Treasury, Transmitting, in Obedience to a Resolution of the...

Letter From the Secretary of the Treasury, Transmitting, in Obedience to a Resolution of the House of the 29th of June Last, Information in Relation to Steam-Engines, &c [STEAM ENGINE EXPLOSIONS]

Woodbury, Levi [Secretary of the Treasury]

Washington, DC: Thomas Allen, Printer, 1839. Impressive assemblage of information compiled for the 25th Congress by the Select Committee on the Subject of Steam Engines, a 472 page report containing a detailed investigation of the principles, construction, installation, use and power of steam engines. An epidemic of explosions beginning in..... More

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On the Chemical Action of the Rays of the Solar Spectrum on Preparations of Silver and other...

On the Chemical Action of the Rays of the Solar Spectrum on Preparations of Silver and other Substances, both metallic and non-metallic, and on some Photographic Processes, (Herschel, pp. 1-59) WITH Experimental Researches in Electricity--Sixteenth Series; Experimental Researches in Electricity--Seventeenth Series (Faraday, pp. 61-91 & pp. 93-127); WITH On the Minute Structure and Movements of Voluntary Muscle...In a Letter addressed to Robert Bently Todd (Bowman, pp. 257-503); WITH An Account of Experiments on the Reflecting Telescope (Bowman pp. 503-527); WITH An Account of Experiments on the Reflecting Telescope (Parsons, pp. 503-528) in The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Parts I & II, Volume 130, MDCCCXL (1840)

Herschel, John; Faraday, Michael; Bowman, William; Bell, Charles; Hunt, Robert; Parsons, William [Rosse]

London: The Royal Society, 1840. 1st Edition. BOUND 1st EDITION, PARTS I & II TOGETHER HOUSING FIRST EDITIONS OF MANY IMPORTANT PAPERS IN A WIDE VARIETY OF FIELDS: THE SCIENCE OF PHOTOGRAPHY, ELECTRICITY, PHYSIOLOGY, & ASTRONOMY. Fine condition; 30 plates. HERSCHEL'S: Herschel’s seminal paper is by far his most elaborate..... More

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Astronomical Observations Relating to the Mountains of the Moon [With] The Following Additional...

Astronomical Observations Relating to the Mountains of the Moon [With] The Following Additional Memoranda of the Manner in Which Mr. Herschel Made his Observations are Taken From a Letter of His to the Rev. Dr. Maskelyne, Astronomer Royal (pp.-507-527) AND Astronomical Observations on the Periodical Star in Collo Ceti (PP. 338-344) in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 70, 1780, Parts I & II [HERSCHEL’S FIRST PUBLISHED DESCRIPTION OF HIS NEWLY HANDBUILT TELESCOPE]

Herschel, William

London: The Royal Society, 1780. 1st Edition. BOUND FULL VOLUME (Parts I & II): 1ST EDITIONS OF WILLIAM HERSCHEL’S SCIENTIFIC DEBUT, HIS 1ST TWO PUBLISHED PAPERS -- BOTH ASTRONOMICAL – WITH HIS FIRST PUBLISHED DESCRIPTION OF HIS NEWLY HANDBUILT TELESCOPE. “The first paper dealt with a periodical star [Collo Ceti]..... More

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De gli automati, ouero machine se mouenti libri due, tradotti dal greco da Bernardino Baldi,...

De gli automati, ouero machine se mouenti libri due, tradotti dal greco da Bernardino Baldi, Bertolini, Venice, 1601 [AUTOMATA, SELF-OPERATING MACHINES]

Hero of Alexandria [Erone di Alessandria Heron (Alexandrinus)]

Venice: Bertolini, 1601. SECOND ITALIAN EDITION OF HERO OF ALEXANDRIA’S AUTOMATA, AN EARLY WORK ON THE ENGINEERING DETAILS OF SELF-OPERATING MACHINES (be they mechanical or pneumatic), complete with 22 illustrations. “In the pantheon of ancient experimenters and scientists, [Hero was] an unparalleled inventor and producer of the earliest automatic and..... More

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Statistical Thermodynamics. Course of Seminar Lectures. Delivered in January - March 1944, at the...

Statistical Thermodynamics. Course of Seminar Lectures. Delivered in January - March 1944, at the School of Theoretical Physics, 1944 [SCARCE HECTOGRAPHIC PRINTING]

Schrodinger, Erwin [Schroedinger; Schrödinger]

Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1944. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION SCARCE PRE-PUBLICATION HECTOGRAPHED TYPESCRIPT, housed in a custom case. OCLC cites only a handful of these specific printings: “very small edition of the lectures was published in hectograph form by the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies” (University of St..... More

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Les fondements de la théorie de la Relativité générale. Theorie unitaire de la gravitation et...

Les fondements de la théorie de la Relativité générale. Theorie unitaire de la gravitation et de l'electricité. Sur la structure cosmologique de l'espace, 1933. [THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE THEORY OF GENERAL RELATIVITY with THE UNIFIED THEORY OF GRAVITATION AND ELECTRICITY with ON THE COSMOLOGICAL STRUCTURE OF SPACE]

Einstein, Albert

Paris: Hermann, 1933. 1st Edition. First French edition of three Einstein essays, translation by Maurice Solorine. The contents include “Les fondements de la Théorie de la relativité générale,” (64pp) “Théorie unitaire de la Gravitation et de l’Electricité,” (26pp) and “Sur la structure cosmologique de l’espace” (10pp). Included in both Weil’s..... More

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Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Star Atlas of Reference Stars and Nonstellar Objects, The...

Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Star Atlas of Reference Stars and Nonstellar Objects, The MIT Press, 1969

Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory; Ashbrook, J.

The MIT Press, 1969. 1st Edition. The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Star Atlas has been prepared by the staff of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. Available in this atlas are magnitude, spectral class (in most cases), precise coordinates, proper motion, and Durchmusterung number. The total number of atlas stars slightly exceeds 260,000..... More

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1859 GASSIOT PAPER: CATHODE RAYS, PARTICLES, STRATIFICATION, & THE ROOTS OF EARLY TELEVISION]: On...

[1859 GASSIOT PAPER: CATHODE RAYS, PARTICLES, STRATIFICATION, & THE ROOTS OF EARLY TELEVISION]: On the Stratifications in Electrical Discharges as Observed in Torricellian and other Vacua -- SECOND Communication [extracted from] The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 149, Received Dec.9, 1858. Read Jan 13, 1859, [1859 publication], pp. 137-160

Gassiot, John Peter

London: Taylor and Francis, 1859. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION (1859 extract) of GASSIOT’S FINAL PAPER REPORTING HIS CONCLUSIONS ON IMPORTANT EXPERIMENTS IN WHICH HE OBSERVED DEFLECTIONS OF CATHODE RAYS BY ELECTROSTATIC CHARGES & MAGNETISM. “Gassiot's work was particularly important in the demise of the contact theory of voltaic electricity” (Wikipedia)..... More

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ALL FOUR IMPORTANT GASSIOT PAPERS, 1839-1859: CATHODE RAYS, PARTICLES, STRATIFICATION & THE ROOTS...

[ALL FOUR IMPORTANT GASSIOT PAPERS, 1839-1859: CATHODE RAYS, PARTICLES, STRATIFICATION & THE ROOTS OF EARLY TELEVISION]: An Account of Experiments Made with the View of Ascertaining the Possibility of Obtaining a Spark before the Circuit of the Voltaic Battery is Completed [extracted from] The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Vol 130, Received Oct. 11, 1839. Read Dec. 19, 1839, [1840 publication], pp. 183-192 WITH A Description of an Extensive Series of the Water Battery; With an Account of Some Experiments Made in Order to Test the Relation of the Electrical and the Chemical Actions Which Take Place Before and After Completion of the Voltaic Circuit [extracted from] The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Vol 134, Received Dec. 7, 1843. Read Jan. 25, 1844, [1844 publication], pp. 39-52 WITH The Bakerian Lecture. On the Stratifications and Dark Band in Electrical Discharges as Observed in Torricellian Vacua [extracted from] The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Vol 148, Received Jan. 6, 1858. Read March 4, 1858 [1858 publication], pp. 1-16 WITH On the Stratifications in Electrical Discharges as Observed in Torricellian and other Vacua -- Second Communication [extracted from] The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 149, Received Dec.9, 1858. Read Jan 13, 1859, [1859 publication], pp. 137-160

Gassiot, John Peter

London: Taylor and Francis. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITIONS OF 4 GASSIOT PAPERS (1839, 1844, 1858, & 1859 extracts) LEADING TO & CONCLUDING WITH IMPORTANT EXPERIMENTS IN WHICH HE OBSERVED DEFLECTIONS OF CATHODE RAYS BY ELECTROSTATIC CHARGES & MAGNETISM. “Gassiot's work was particularly important in the demise of the contact theory..... More

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Reaching Agreements in the Presence of Faults in Journal of the ACM 27 No. 2 pp. 228-234, April...

Reaching Agreements in the Presence of Faults in Journal of the ACM 27 No. 2 pp. 228-234, April 1980 (Pease, Shostak, and Lamport) WITH The Byzantine Generals Problem in ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems 4 No. 3 pp. 382-401, July 1982 (Pease, Shostak, and Lamport) WITH Pricing via Processing for Combatting Junk Mail in Advances in Cryptology - CRYPTO '92 pp. 139-147, 1993 (Dwork and Naor) WITH Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance in Third Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation pp. 173-186, 1999 (Castro and Liskov) FOUR PAPERS: THE FOUNDATIONS OF BITCOIN’S BLOCKCHAIN ALGORITHM

Pease, Marshall; Shostak, Robert; Lamport, Leslie WITH Dwork, Cynthia; Naor, Moni WITH Castro, Miguel; Liskov, Barbara

FIRST EDITIONS IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF THE FOUNDATIONS OF BITCOIN’S BLOCKCHAIN ALGORITHM, INCLUDING THE CONCEPTS OF BYZANTINE FAULTS, THE BYZANTINE GENERALS PROBLEM, PROOF-OF-WORK, & SOFTWARE ABLE TO TOLERATE BYZANTINE FAULTS. The creation of a system like Bitcoin -- one both distributed and reliable -- is exceptionally problematic. The issues that..... More

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On a General Method in Analysis (Boole, pp. 225-282) WITH Observations on some of the nebulae...

On a General Method in Analysis (Boole, pp. 225-282) WITH Observations on some of the nebulae (Parsons, pp. 321-324) In Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 134, 1844

Boole, George WITH Parsons, William [Earl of Rosse]

London: The Royal Society, 1844. 1st Edition. FULL VOLUME BOUND FIRST EDITION WITH BOOLE’S IMPORTANT CONTRIBUTION TO THE THEORY OF LINEAR DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS & ROSSE’S OBSERVATIONS OF ‘CRAB NEBULA’ AS WELL AS HIS WELL KNOWN RENDERING. GEORGE BOOLE: “The English mathematician and philosopher George Boole (1815-1864) was one of the..... More

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Das Problem der Wettervorhersage, betrachtet vom Standpunkte der Mechanik und der Physik [The...

Das Problem der Wettervorhersage, betrachtet vom Standpunkte der Mechanik und der Physik [The problem of weather prediction as seen from the standpoint of mechanics and physics] in Meteorologische Zeitschrift 21 pp. 1-7, 1904 [BOUND FULL VOLUME]

Bjerknes, Vilhelm

Wien: Ed. Hölzel, 1904. 1st Edition. Bound volume. 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 paper offered here, and in so doing, pioneered numerical weather forecasting..... More

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On the Equilibrium of Heterogeneous Substances. Abstract by the Author in The American Journal of...

On the Equilibrium of Heterogeneous Substances. Abstract by the Author in The American Journal of Science and Arts 16 pp. 441-458, 1878 [GIBB’S EQUILIBRIUM]

Gibbs, J. [Josiah] Willard

New Haven: J. D. & E. S. Dana, 1878. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF A SEMINAL & LENGTHY ABSTRACT OF “A FOUNDATION TREATISE ON PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY”, GIBB’S EQUILIBRIUM, “CONSIDERED ONE OF THE GREATEST ACHIEVEMENTS IN PHYSICAL SCIENCE IN THE 19TH CENTURY (Grolier/Horblit 40; Nobel Prize Web Portal). Gibbs' “interpretation of..... More

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The Resonating valence bond state in la-2CuO-4 and superconductivity (Anderson) in Science 235,...

The Resonating valence bond state in la-2CuO-4 and superconductivity (Anderson) in Science 235, pp. 1196-1198, March 6, 1987 WITH The discovery of a class of high-temperature superconductors (Bednorz and Müller) in Science 237, pp. 1133-1139, September 4, 1987

Anderson, P. W. [Paul Warren] WITH Bednorz, Georg; Müller, Alex

New York: AAAS, 1987. 1st Edition. TWO 1st EDITION PAPERS (in two separate issues, both in original wraps) OF IMPORT IN THE HISTORY OF SUPERCONDUCTIVITY, THE FIRST PROPOSING THE THEORY OF HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTIVITY, AND THE SECOND CONTRIBUTING TO THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR ITS AUTHORS. Working at Princeton and in..... More

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Esperienze Intorno alla Generazione Deglinsetti Fatte da Francesco Redi Accademia della Crusca, e...

Esperienze Intorno alla Generazione Deglinsetti Fatte da Francesco Redi Accademia della Crusca, e scritte in una letters, 1674

Redi, Francesco

Florence: Onofri, 1674. THIRD EDITION OF FRANCESCO REDI'S MASTERPIECE REFUTING SPONTANEOUS REGENERATION, first published in 1668. "A milestone in the history of modern science," Redi's book outlines the first series of experiments to disprove 'spontaneous generation' -- "a theory also known as Aristotelian abiogenesis" (Wikipedia). Redi's seminal work includes 39..... More

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