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

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

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

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

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

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: 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

Oxford: Clarendon Press. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF THE FIRST SEPARATE PRINTING OF THE ENGLISH VERSION OF MAX PLANCK’S FAMOUS NOBEL PRIZE ADDRESS. The wraps are housed in a custom clamshell case, gilt-lettered at the spine. Max Planck was awarded the 1918 Nobel Prize in Physics (received in 1919)"in..... More

FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS. Gerard Bond and his colleagues identify a pervasive millennial-scale climate cycle operating independently of the glacial-interglacial climate state. Based on geologic tracers of drift ice in the North Atlantic, they postulate the theory of 1470-year climate cycles in the Late Pleistocene and Holocene eras. CONDITION..... More

Amsterdam: Mortier, 1747. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF D’ARCY’S PROPOSED AN EARLY VERSION OF THE CONCEPT OF CONSERVATION OF ANGULAR MOMENTUM FOR ORBITING BODIES. Extract in fine condition housed in a custom pamphlet case; text block complete. “In physics, angular momentum is the rotational equivalent of linear momentum. It is..... More

New York: 1924. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS OF “ONE OF THE FOUNDATIONS OF INFORMATION THEORY” (Claude Shannon, A Mathematical Theory of Communication, 1948). Beginning with this lengthy twenty-two page paper (see Origins of Cyberspace 163), Nyquist’s nascent work ferreting out the necessary bandwidth requirements for the transmission..... More