London: William Wesley & Son, 1894. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION. EXCEPTIONALLY SCARCE. In the late 19th century, George Cornish Sutton Higgs, a British watchmaker and optician proficient in the sciences, built an extraordinary spectrograph and employed it to greatly advance the application of photography to the study of solar spectra..... More
Lancaster: American Physical Society, 1957. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF THE FIRST PRESENTATION OF THE MAXIMUM ENTROPY THEORY OF THERMODYNAMICS (MaxEnt). “These techniques are relevant to any situation requiring prediction from incomplete or insufficient data (e.g., image reconstruction, signal processing, spectral analysis and inverse problems)” (Wikipedia). Edwin..... More
1843. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF THE DISCOVERY AND DEMONSTRATION OF THE EQUIVALENCE OF HEAT AND ENERGY; all three parts of this paper are present in this volume. In this 1843 paper, a greatly expanded version of a presentation he gave before the British Association earlier in that year, Joule..... More
Munich: C.H. Beck'sche, 1968. C.H. Beck'sche Munich. [xiv], 181 text, [full index], 86 reproductions of title pages. Inscribed from the bookseller Jeremy Norman to the collector Richard Green. Second and best, expanded edition. The first was issued in 1936, but this extends and includes secondary works until 1967. Tall 4to..... More
1861. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION and appearance in French of an 1861 landmark paper marking "the invention of Spectral Analysis and the announcement of the discovery of two new elements, Cesium and Rubidium [and eventually many more] by using the new method of spectroscopy developed by Kirchhoff and Bunsen. The..... More
1897. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, OFFPRINT ISSUE, OF LARMOR’S FAMOUS PAPER INTRODUCING THE FIRST FORMULATION OF WHAT IS NOW KNOWN AS THE LORENTZ-TRANSFORMATION (or transformations), INCLUDING THE FIRST UNDERSTANDING AND PREDICTION OF THE CRUCIAL TIME DILATION & LENGTH CONTRACTION PROPERTIES INHERENT IN MAXWELL’S EQUATIONS. The transformation is “a general approach..... More
Paris: De l’Imprimerie Royale, 1778. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, LAVOISIER’S OFFICIAL EASTER MEMOIR ON THE COMPOSITION OF AIR. In this work, Lavoisier proposed that ordinary air is composed of two different gases, one “highly respirable” (that he named “oxygen”) and the other (later named nitrogen) that was unable to support..... More
FIRST EDITION OF THE 1892 PAPER IN WHICH LE CHATELIER DESCRIBES HIS INVENTION OF THE OPTICAL PYROMETER, an instrument that “provided the first reliable measurements of a number of temperatures of particular importance to science and industry” (DeWitt, Theory and Practice of Radiation Thermometry, 366). His invention measured temperature by..... More
Paris: Gauthier-Villars. 1st Edition. FOUR FIRST EDITIONS IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF LIPPMANN’S MILESTONE SERIES OF PAPERS DESCRIBING HIS NOBEL PRIZE WINNING INVENTION OF “A METHOD OF REPRODUCING COLORS PHOTOGRAPHICALLY BASED ON THE PHENOMENON OF INTERFERENCE” Nobel Prize Committee). Lippmann’s prize represents the only time this prestigious award has been given..... More
Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1891. 1st Edition. FULL VOLUME, FIRST EDITION, OF LIPPMANN’S FIRST IN A SERIES OF SEMINAL PAPERS DESCRIBING HIS NOBEL PRIZE WINNING INVENTION OF “A METHOD OF REPRODUCING COLORS PHOTOGRAPHICALLY BASED ON THE PHENOMENON OF INTERFERENCE” Nobel Prize Committee). Lippmann’s prize represents the only time this prestigious award has..... More
London: Taylor and Sons. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF JOSEPH LOCKYER'S DISCOVERY OF HELIUM. Handsomely bound extract. This was the first chemical element discovered on an extraterrestrial body before being found on the Earth. Though rare on the Earth, helium is the second most abundant element in the universe, comprising..... More
London: Harrison & Sons, 1929. 1st Edition. BOUND FIRST EDITION OF MICHELSON’S 1929 REPETITION OF THE FAMED 1887 MICHELSON-MORLEY EXPERIMENT, here “undertaken with the view of making a more accurate test than had hitherto been obtained” (Michelson, Nature Vol. 123, 1929, p. 88). “After Dayton Miller announced in 1926 that..... More
London: Taylor and Francis, 1891. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITIONS OF A NUMBER OF SIGNIFICANT PAPERS: PART I OF MICHELSON’S 1891 PAPER ON HIS NEWLY INVENTED INVESTIGATIVE TOOL, THE INTERFEROMETER also MICHELSON’S PAPER ON INTERFERENCE TECHNIQUES RELATED TO ASTRONOMICAL OBJECTS BEYOND THE RESOLUTION OF LARGE TELESCOPES also LORD RAYLEIGH’S IMPORTANT PAPER..... More
Lancaster: The American Physical Society, 1964. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF THE FIRST REPORT OF CONTINUOUS LASER ACTION IN PURE CARBON DIOXIDE. “Since its discovery, [Patel’s] laser has grown to be one of the most powerful and useful radiation sources available” (Steinfield, Laser and Coherence Spectroscopy, 25)..... More
1877. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF A PAPER BY CHARLES SANDERS PEIRCE THAT IS WIDELY CONSIDERED "THE FIRST EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY WORK IN AMERICA" (Cadwallader, 1974). This 1877 investigation into the nature of color vision made Peirce "the first modern experimental psychologist on the American continent" (The Peirce Edition Project, Vol..... More
London: Taylor and Francis, 1859. 1st Edition. First edition, disbound, near fine extract of “the first full and reliable account of the state of vision in red-green blindness” (Report of the Annual Meeting, Volume 62, p. 735). Today Pole’s work is considered to exhibit “highly ingenious reason”; at the time..... More
London: Macmillan, 1949. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITIONS OF TWO PAPERS OF SIGNIFICANCE. The first is a Nobel Prize winning paper outlining the development of photographic techniques that greatly enhanced our ability to study nuclear processes and for the resulting discovery of the pion, a subatomic particle. The prize was awarded..... More
1896. 1st Edition. John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh (1842–1919), was an English theoretical and experimental physicist who “made seminal contributions to theoretically defining the resolving power of gratings, prisms, telescopes and microscopes” (Lord Rayleigh: A Scientific Life, The Optical Society, June 2009). He was also head of the Royal..... More
New York: American Physical Society, 2000. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION ISSUES IN ORIGINAL WRAPS TWO PAPERS BY HÄNSCH & HALL FOR THEIR NOBEL PRIZE WINNING WORK ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF LASER-BASED PRECISION SPECTROSCOPY AND THEIR DEVELOPMENT OF THE FREQUENCY COMB TECHNIQUE. American physicist John Lewis "Jan" Hall and German physicist..... More
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Leipzig: Barth-Verlag, 1898. 1st Edition. IN RARE ORIGINAL WRAPS, THE 1898 FIRST COMPLETE EDITION OF RONTGEN’S ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE DISCOVERY OF THE X-RAY, INCLUSIVE OF ALL 3 PAPERS and housed in a custom cloth box. For this work, Rontgen was awarded the first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901. “Their..... More
1955. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL PAPER WRAPS OF THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE PRODUCTION & DEMONSTRATION OF THE FIRST SILICON TRANSISTOR. The journal is housed in a blue custom clamshell case, gilt-ruled on the front board and lettered at the spine. Morris Tanenbaum is an American physical chemist who..... More
London: Taylor and Francis, 1864. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION EXTRACT OF ONE OF A GROUNDBREAKING SERIES OF PAPERS (OR ‘MEMOIRS’) JOHN TYNDALL WROTE AS HE INVESTIGATED THE ABSORPTION OF RADIANT ENERGY BY GASES. In these papers, Tyndall demonstrates the first quantification and demonstration that atmospheric gases are infrared emitters, in..... More
London: Taylor and Francis, 1926. 1st Edition. Full volume FIRST EDITION OF THE VAN DER POL EQUATION – THE FIRST PRESENTATION OF OSCILLATIONS THAT ARE NOT NEARLY LINEAR. In this paper, van der Pol, a Dutch physicist, develops differential equations of coupled electrical systems that describe self-oscillating triode circuits. He..... More
London: Macmillan, 1897. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, FULL VOLUME, OF THE 1st ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF ONE OF THE MOST SIGNIFICANT AND INFLUENTIAL DISCOVERIES OF THE LATE 19th CENTURY, the Noble Prize winning discovery and announcement of the Zeeman effect: the splitting of a spectral line into complicated multiple patterns when..... More