Soviet Union: 1941. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL PAPER WRAPPERS OF AN IMPORTANT PAPER BY KOLMOGOROV ON CHAOS IN TURBULENCE. The title translates as "Dissipation of Energy in the Locally Isotropic Turbulence" and this work, along with another 1941 Kolmogorov paper, is generally considered to be the origin of..... More

Lynn, MA: Thos. P. Nichols & Son Co, 1915. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, OFFPRINT IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS OF VOLUME I OF LOWELL’S PREDICTION OF THE EXISTENCE OF A PLANET BEYOND THE ORBIT OF NEPTUNE, here also calculating its probable position. 9 plates are included. Lowell's 1903 hunch about the existence..... More

Braunschweig: Vieweg & Sohn. Second [expanded] edition of WEGENER’S SEMINAL THEORY OF CONTINENTAL DRIFT, the argument that in the remote past the earth's continents were not separate (as now), but formed one supercontinent which later split apart, the fragments gradually drifting away from one another. Wegener’s “theory of continental displacement..... More

New Jersey: AFIPS Press, 1970. 1st Edition. 1st editions of the three papers that collectively provide the “first comprehensive description of ARPANET that had just begun operation. "The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) was an early packet-switching network and the first network to implement the TCP/IP protocol suite. Both..... More

Leipzig: Verlag von Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1896. 1st Edition. Handsomely bound FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF BOLTZMANN’S MOST IMPORTANT WORKS. Vorlesungen über Gastheorie [Lectures on Gas Theory] is Boltzmann's “masterpiece of theoretical physics. This work can rightly be considered the peak of development achieved in the modern kinetic theory of..... More

London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., 1982. 1st Edition. Full volume. FIRST EDITION OF WOOTTERS’ & ZUREK’S NO CLONING THEOREM &THE FIRST SIGNIFICANT PAPER DISCUSSING TELEPORTATION. Note that we also offer this paper in its original paper wrappers.The no-cloning theorem is one of the earlier results in the study of quantum..... More

London: Taylor and Francis, 1874. 1st Edition. No wrappers, as extracted. First edition of a classical paper complete with 8 lithograph plates by the famous English paleontologist, biologist and comparative anatomist Richard Owen. This paper is the first in a series of ten entitled "On the Fossil Mammals of Australia."..... More

London: Taylor and Francis, 1874. 1st Edition. No wrappers, as extracted. First edition of a classical paper complete with 8 lithograph plates by the famous English paleontologist, biologist and comparative anatomist Richard Owen. This paper is the first in a series of ten entitled "On the Fossil Mammals of Australia."..... More

London: Taylor and Francis, 1872. 1st Edition. No wrappers, as extracted. First edition of a classical paper complete with 7 lithograph plates by the famous English paleontologist, biologist and comparative anatomist Richard Owen. This paper is the first in a series of ten entitled "On the Fossil Mammals of Australia."..... More

London: Taylor and Francis, 1866. 1st Edition. No wrappers, as extracted. First edition of a classical paper complete with 3 lithograph plates by the famous English paleontologist, biologist and comparative anatomist Richard Owen. This paper is the first in a series of ten entitled "On the Fossil Mammals of Australia."..... More

London: Taylor and Francis, 1859. 1st Edition. No wrappers, as extracted. First edition of a classical paper complete with 5 lithograph plates by the famous English paleontologist, biologist and comparative anatomist Richard Owen. This paper is the first in a series of ten entitled "On the Fossil Mammals of Australia."..... More

Lancaster: American Physical Society, 1960. 1st Edition. Full volume with original wrappers bound in. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF WEBER’S INVENTION OF THE FIRST GRAVITATIONAL WAVES DETECTOR. Hamiltonian formulation of the equations of general relativity now known as ADM formalism. WEBER: “The detection of gravitational waves is sometimes described..... More

New York: American Physical Society, 1973. 1st Edition. Full bound volume, 1st EDITION OF THE 1973 DISCOVERY OF ASYMPTOTIC FREEDOM, the nature of the strong force that binds quarks together in the nucleus. David Gross and Frank Wilczek (working together) and David Politzer (working independently) were the first to understand..... More