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
Berlin: Julius Springer, 1921. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS of a short letter Einstein wrote to the editors of Die Naturwissenschaften. In it, he stated that he did not author the preface of a book recently published by Lucien Fabre entitled Einstein’s Theories: A New Face in the..... 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
American Institute of Electrical Engineers, 1928. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF NYQUIST’S SAMPLING THEOREM, the process of converting a signal, here that of a telegraph, into a numerical sequence. ORIGINAL WRAPPERS. The sampling theorem, later refined by Claude Shannon and now known as the Nyquist-Shannon Theorem, is the principle by..... More
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Berlin: Julius Springer, 1932. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST OF HEISENBERG’S 3 PAPERS PRESENTING THE FINAL MATHEMATICAL MODEL OF THE ATOM. Heisenberg’s seminal work, beginning here with ‘On the Structure of the Atomic Nuclei I,’ “mark[ed] the transition to the modern view on nuclear forces” (Pais, Inward Bound..... More
Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1921. 1st Edition. First edition of the first French translation of the conference held on May 5th, 1920 at the University of Leiden. The translation was done by Maurice Solovine. Original paper wrappers. Cited in Weil and Boni catalogs. CONDITION & DETAILS: Paris: Gauthier-Villars et Cie, Imprimeurs-Editeurs. Complete..... More
1925. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL PICTORIAL WRAPPERS. Near fine condition. “This paper is an early example of a series of papers – which continued until his death – in which he explored, within the confines of general relativity, possible pathways in the direction of a unified field theory..... More
2007. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL PICTORIAL WRAPPERS OF A 2007 JOURNAL ISSUE WITH TWO INTERESTING ARTICLES: (1) In-depth article by Topper & Vincent on Einstein's 1934 presentation of the mathematical derivation of his famous E=MC2 equation. In doing their research, the authors discovered a previously unknown photograph showing..... More
1749. 1st Edition. Praga (Prague): Typis Universitatis Carolo-Ferdinandeae in Collegio Societatis Jesu ad S. Clementem, 1749. A scarce textbook of physics, mathematics, astronomy, the natural sciences. Etc.. OCLC lists only one copy--from Charles-Ferdinand University in Prague which is now named simply Charles University. This work was authored by Johann Gremner..... More
Washington DC: American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2004. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL PAPER WRAPS OF THE NOBEL PRIZE WINNING DISCOVERY OF GRAPHENE, A FORM OF CARBON JUST ONE ATOM THICK – THE THINNEST MATERIAL & FIRST TWO-DIMENSIONAL MATERIAL EVER DISCOVERED, AS WELL AS ONE OF THE..... More
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
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
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