2000. 1st Edition. Tsien Hsue-shen (1911-2009) was a scientist who made important contributions to the missile and space programs of both the United States and the People’s Republic of China. NASA documents commonly refer to him at H. S. Tsien. During the 1940s, Tsien was one of the founders of..... More
London: Royal Society, 1827. 1st Edition. Handsomely bound full volume of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 117, 1827, Parts I & II. The volume includes 15 plates and is fully indexed by both author and subject. Papers by the following are included: William Snow Harris, Davies Gilbert..... More
American Microscopical Society. 1st Edition. 138 ISSUES IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF THE TRANSACTIONS OF THE AMERICAN MICROSCOPICAL SOCIETY, these published from 1950 to 1986 (volumes 69-105, missing only 6 issues with those noted below). The papers published in the Transactions cover every facet of microscopy as it relates to every..... More
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
London: Macmillan, 1972. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, BOUND, OF “THE FIRST EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATION OF NEAR-FIELD MICROSCOPY” (Wolf, Progress in Optics, 151). Using electromagnetic radiation (microwaves with A = 3cm), E. A. Ash and G. Nicholls describe in detail the first experimental realization of a super-resolution microscope (Wiesendanger, Scanning Probe Microscopy..... More
FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF THE INVENTION OF THE DOUBLE FOCUSING SPECTROMETER. In 1936, Kenneth Bainbridge and Edward Jordan built a double focusing spectrometer at Harvard University. In 1919 Aston developed the first really good mass spectrograph, an instrument for measuring the masses of isotopes; his apparatus gave accuracies..... More
Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1845. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION of the first experimental verification of the Doppler effect with sound waves. For this paper, “acoustic tests on the Dutch railway plus remarks on the theory of Professor Doppler,” “Buys” Ballot, a Dutch chemist and meteorologist, put a group of musicians..... More
Washington DC: The American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2006. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL PICTORIAL WRAPPERS OF A NOBEL PRIZE WINNING PAPER BY ERIC BETZIG. In 2014, Betzig, along with Stefan Hell and William Moerner, won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for figuring out a way to..... More
London: Taylor and Francis, 1904. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF THE BRACE EXPERIMENT, "THE FIRST OPTICAL EXPERIMENT MEASURING THE RELATIVE MOTION OF EARTH AND THE LUMINIFEROUS AETHER WHICH WERE SUFFICIENTLY PRECISE TO DETECT MAGNITUDES OF SECOND ORDER TO V/C" (Wikipedia). Brace's results were negative, "which was of gret importance for..... More
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1934. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF NATURE’S SPECIAL 11 PAGE SUPPLEMENT ON LIQUID CRYSTALS BY NOBEL PRIZE WINNER SIR WILLIAM BRAGG. This is the first time “a coherent story has been made of the optical principles [of liquid crystals] by which their characteristic behaviour is exhibited” (Editors..... More
1829. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION of the second paper Robert Brown wrote on the subject of Brownian motion, the random motion of microscopic particles suspended in a liquid. Brownian motion is sometimes referred to as particle theory. In this paper, Brown discusses the observations of others, describes additional observations that..... More
New York: AAAS, 1970. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST PICTURES OF INDIVIDUAL ATOMS WITHIN A MOLECULAR STRUCTURE. Note that this paper includes those photographs. “Although individual atoms [had] been produced by field ion microscopes, there previously had been no way to reveal a single atom within a molecular..... More
Philadelphia: Franklin Institute, 1853. 1st Edition. 1853 PAPER BY MICHAEL FARADAY (reprinted from the London Athenaeum) PROVING THAT THE SUPERNATURAL PHENOMENA OF TABLE-TURNING HAPPENS AS THE RESULT OF PARTICIPANTS UNCONSCIOUSLY MOVING THE TABLES THEMSELVES. This remains the accepted explanation today. “Table-turning was among the many supernatural phenomena that caught the public’s..... More
Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1855. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF A “SEMINAL” WORK, FICK’S CLASSICAL EQUATION OF DIFFUSION (Philibert, Fick, Einstein, Before and Beyond, 2005, 3). The laws Fick presents in this paper remain “the empirical foundations of many phenomena in the macroscopic world” and were of significant import to..... 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
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London: Macmillan and Co., 1948. 1st Edition. BOUND FIRST EDITION OF THREE SIGNIFICANT PAPERS: (1) GABOR PAPER: Gabor’s initial announcement of the “invention and development of the holographic method”; at that time, he called his new technology an ‘electron interference microscope’ (Nobel Prize; Gabor, Nature, 161, 1948, p. 778). “The..... More
London: Royal Society, 1949. 1st Edition. BOUND FIRST EDITION OF GABOR’S FIRST EXTENSIVE PRESENTATION OF HIS 1971 NOBEL PRIZE WINNING “INVENTION & DEVELOPMENT OF THE HOLOGRAPHIC METHOD” (Nobel Prize). This work includes Gabor’s first use of the word ‘hologram’ as well as three photographic plates. In 1948 Gabor sent a...... More
London: Harrison & Sons. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITIONS of Francis Galton’s important 1890 and 1891 papers providing a scientific basis and model for fingerprint identification and analysis, offered here in separate leather bound volumes. Galton provides a detailed statistical model of fingerprint analysis and identification and encourages its use; the..... More
1963. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF THE 2 Volumes including ROY GLAUBER'S TWO NOBLE PRIZE WINNING PAPERS PRESENTING HIS QUANTUM THEORY OF OPTICAL COHERENCE -- the quantum mechanical basis of different types of light. “No real in-depth theory of light based on quantum theory existed before Roy Glauber established the..... More
Lancaster: American Physical Society, 1954. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL PAPER WRAPS OF THE NOBEL PRIZE WINNING CONSTRUCTION OF THE FIRST AMPLIFICATION AND GENERATION OF ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES BY STIMULATED EMISSION -- THE FIRST AMMONIA MASER. Townes coined the word 'maser' for this device, an acronym for microwave amplification by..... 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
London: John William Parker, 1839. 1st Edition. THREE ILLUSTRATED FIRST EDITION ARTICLES ON THE DIVING BELL. The illustrations, respectively, are titled “Man Equipped in Klingert’s Armour Preparatory to Diving,” “Dr. Halley’s Diving Bell,” and “Spalding’s Diving Bell.” “Dr. Halley’s Diving Bell” appears as the cover illustration. Diving bells designed by John Taisnier..... More
London: The Royal Society, 1845. 1st Edition. BOUND 1st EDITION OF AN IMPRESSIVE COMPILATION OF 1845 PAPERS, among them significant papers by JW Herschel, Michael Faraday, W.R. Grove, and Carlo Matteucci. HERSCHEL’S PAPERS present “the 'modern' milestone for observing fluorescence” (Heinrichs, Milestones, Nature RMCB, 2009). In them he notes “that..... More
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