London: Royal Society, 1877. 1877. ADAMS' & DAYS DEMONSTRATION THAT ELECTRICITY COULD BE PRODUCED FROM LIGHT WITHOUT MOVING PARTS AND LED TO THE MODERN SOLAR CELL” (Wikipedia). William Grylls Adams and Richard Evans Day write of their discovery of a completely new phenomenon – “that light had caused a flow..... More

London: The Royal Society, 1856. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION EXTRACT. This Airy paper contains the results of examination of the compass in two iron-built ships, and a general theory of the effect of the transient induced magnetism of iron in disturbing the direction of the compass-needle. Other than small tear..... More

1883. 1st Edition. Second, deluxe edition of “Ampère’s greatest work,” Theorie Mathematique… or Memoir on the Mathematical Theory of Electrodynamic Phenomena, Uniquely Deduced from Experience (DSB). Widely referred to as “the Principia of Electrodynamics,” with this work Ampère founded the science of electrodynamics, now known as electromagnetism. “Volta’s invention of..... More

London: Taylor & Francis, 1919. 1st Edition. HANDSOMELY BOUND FIRST EDITION OF FRANCIS ASTON’S INVENTION OF THE MASS SPECTOGRAPH, AN INSTRUMENT USED OBTAIN & RECORD THE SPECTRAL CONTENT OF LIGHT. Aston was awarded the 1922 Nobel Prize in Chemistry “"for his discovery, by means if his mass spectrograph, of isotopes..... More

Berlin: Julius Springer, 1930. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, FULL VOLUME, OF BLOCH’S SEMINAL INTRODUCTION OF THE SPIN-WAVE (MAGNONS) THEORY OF FERROMAGNETS. Also included is an important paper by Estermann and Stern, wherein they are “the first to demonstrate wave properties of particles larger than an electron… using crystal diffraction methods..... More

Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1890. 1st Edition. ORIGINAL PAPER WRAPS, FIRST EDITION, OF THE DISCOVERY OF THE BRANLY EFFECT & THE INVENTION OF THE ‘COHERER’, THE FIRST WIDELY USED SIGNAL DETECTOR FOR RADIO COMMUNICATION. The paper offered here is housed in a custom pamphlet case. Note that we offer Bose's "iron-mercury-iron coherer..... More

1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRESENTATION of 'Brewster's Angle, "one of Brewster's most important contributions to the science of physics" (Molecular Expressions Website). David Brewster's work on polarization of light by reflection and biaxial crystals "is important for several reasons" (Young, Optics and Lasers, 241)."First, many lasers use Brewster windows..... More

London: Macmillan, 1932. 1st Edition. FULL VOLUME 1st EDITION of James Chadwick’s initial speculation 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, three months later, Chadwick affirmed his discovery, his assertion rewrote then..... More

London: Royal Society, 1823. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION EXTRACT of one in a series of papers on electromagnetism published by the British chemist Humphry Davy between 1821 and 1826. Davy’s experiments were based on Oersted's discovery of the relationship between electricity and magnetism in 1820, as well as Wollaston and..... More

Lancaster: American Physical Society, 1967. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION of Bryce DeWitt’s first paper on quantum gravity, including the introduction of both the Wheeler-DeWitt equation and canonical quantum gravity. Quantum gravity attempts to unify quantum mechanics (which describes the behavior of electromagnetism, the weak interaction and the strong interaction) with..... More

Lancaster: American Physical Society, 1959. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS. In this paper, Dirac began to apply his methods to the gravitational field. “As a result of simplifications which he introduced [here], it became easy to show that the fourth dynamical constraint is consistent with the others, and..... More

Berlin: Sitzungsberichten der Preussischen Akademie der Wiss. 1922. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OFFPRINT IN ORIGINAL WRAPS, EINSTEIN’S THEORY OF THE LIGHT PROPAGATION IN DISPERSIVE MEDIA. WEIL 120. Collectors prize offprints because they are separately printed by journals and frequently issued in small quantities intended only for the author’s use and..... More

Braunschweig: Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn, 1915. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, FULL BOUND VOLUME, OF THE EINSTEIN-DE HAAS EFFECT -- an experimental observation that illustrates the relationship between magnetism and angular momentum and in which a change in the magnetic moment causes the rotation of a free body. In this 1915..... More