Astronomy, Cosmology, & Astrophysics
1899. 1st Edition. Rare first edition offprint in original wrappers of the first meeting of The Astronomical and Astrophysical Society of America, now called the American Astronomical Society. Collectors prize offprints because they are separately printed by journals and frequently issued in small quantities intended only for the author’s use... More
London: Taylor and Francis, 1853. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION of an important and consequential paper in which John Couch Adams announces new mathematical methods in dealing with the pertubations of the Moon, and in so doing corrects Laplace's famed 1788 memoir. Laplace studied the Moon's mean rate of motion relative... More
London: Taylor and Francis, 1859. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION EXTRACT IN FINE CONDITION. In 1850 in a letter to the Observatory, the astronomer Frederick Stratton posited a question. He asked “if modern lunar observers were familiar with the phenomenon of stellar projection and if they had some simple explanation of... More
New York: American Physical Society, 1982. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN PAPER WRAPS OF ONE OF TWO INDEPENDENT PROPOSALS FOR ‘NEW INFLATION’ (the other was by Andre Linde). “Hot big-bang cosmology depends upon special conditions for the early universe to explain the high degree of homogeneity and the nearly critical... More
Lancaster: The American Physical Society, 1949. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF THE PREDICTION BY ALPHER & HERMAN OF THE TEMPERATURE OF COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND RADIATION (CMB) TO BE 5 DEGREES K. In Big Bang cosmology, CMB is the thermal radiation left over from the time of recombination... More
Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1848. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF BECQUEREL’S FIRST REPORT OF THE FIRST PHOTOGRAPHS OF SOLAR SPECTRA. Becquerel took the photos in 1842 and they were first reported here in this volume. Included is Becquerel’s methodology in preparing silver plates so as to obtain an image of the solar... More
Bethe, H. A. [Hans] WITH Zhang, Wei-Min; Feng, Da Hsuan; Gilmore, Robert
New York: American Physical Society, 1990. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF HANS BETHE ON SUPERNOVA MECHANISMS, THE PHYSICS OF THE COLLAPSE, NEUTRINO EMISSION, THE OUTWARD SHOCK & SN 1987A. Also included is a classic review article on generalized coherent states by Zhang, et al. Hans Albrecht Bethe... More
Lancaster: American Physical Society, 1937. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS of Bethe's seminal paper work on neucleosynthesis, "Energy Production in Stars." Bethe's work on nuclear reactions relied heavily on the development of quantum mechanics, and resulted in the occurance of some classically forbidden reactions; and this same work... More
Bethe, Hans AND Szilard, Leo & Zinn, Walter H. AND Oppenheimer & Volkoff AND Tolman, Richard AND Bohr, Niels AND Anderson, Herbert L & Fermi, Enrico & Hanstein, H. B. AND Rabi, I. & Millman, S. & Kusch, P. & Zacharias, J. R.
Lancaster: American Institute of Physics, 1939. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING of Bethe's seminal papers on neucleosynthesis, "Energy Production in Stars" and "Energy Production in Stars II." Full volume inclusive of many other important papers. Bethe's work on nuclear reactions relied heavily on the development of quantum mechanics, and resulted... More
1728. 1st Edition. First Edition of George Bernhard Bilfinger’s De Causa gravitatis physica generali disquisitio experimentalis (On the General Physical Cause of Gravity) – a prize winning explanation of the cause of the weight of bodies designed to check Galileo's and Edme Mariotte's theories. In so doing, Bilfinger discusses the... More
Bloom, E.D.; Coward, D.H.; DeStaebler, H; Drees, J.; Miller, G.; Mo, L. W.; Taylor, R. E. [Richard] AND Breidenback, M.; Friedman, J. [Jerome], L.; Hartmann, G. C.; Kendall, H.W. [Henry]
Lancaster: The American Physical Society, 1969. 1st Edition. ORIGINAL WRAPS. 1969 FIRST EDITION OF TWO PAPERS PRESENTING THE FIRST EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE OF THE EXISTENCE OF QUARKS WITHIN THE ATOMIC NUCLEUS. Quarks had been predicted in 1964 by Murray Gell-Mann but until these experiments, no one had produced convincing experimental evidence... More
Bloom, E.D.; Coward, D.H.; DeStaebler, H; Drees, J.; Miller, G.; Mo, L. W.; Taylor, R. E. [Richard] AND Breidenback, M.; Friedman, J. [Jerome], L.; Hartmann, G. C.; Kendall, H.W. [Henry]
New York: The American Physical Society, 1969. 1st Edition. FULL VOLUME 1969 FIRST EDITION OF TWO PAPERS PRESENTING THE FIRST EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE OF THE EXISTENCE OF QUARKS WITHIN THE ATOMIC NUCLEUS. Quarks had been predicted in 1964 by Murray Gell-Mann but until these experiments, no one had produced convincing experimental... More
Bohr, N. & Wheeler, J. A. AND Oppenheimer, J. R. & Snyder, H.
Lancaster: American Institute of Physics, 1939. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF TWO SEMINAL PAPERS IN THE HISTORY OF PHYSICS. Bohr and Wheeler's "The mechanism of nuclear fission" is the first fully worked out theory of nuclear fission and it laid the groundwork for atomic and hydrogen bombs... More
Bohr, N. & Wheeler, J. A. AND Oppenheimer, J. R. & Snyder, H.
Lancaster: American Institute of Physics, 1939. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF THREE SEMINAL PAPERS IN THE HISTORY OF PHYSICS. BOHR & WHEELER'S "The mechanism of nuclear fission" is the first fully worked out theory of nuclear fission and it laid the groundwork for atomic and hydrogen bombs. "The paper is... More
London: 1964. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, RARE OFFPRINT OF A MAJOR PUBLICATION BY BONDI IN THE STUDY OF SPACETIME SINGULARITIES AND GRAVITATIONAL WAVES AND COLLAPSE. In 1957 and in a paper we offer separately, Hermann Bondi demonstrated that gravitation waves indeed carry energy, and furthermore that in order to carry... More
London: Royal Astronomical Society, 1969. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, RARE OFFPRINT OF BONDI ON GRAVITATIONAL BOUNCE IN GENERAL RELATIVITY. Hermann Bondi discusses the adiabatic collapse solutions of uniform density spheres under differing assumptions regarding density and central pressure. In discussing the problem of collapse and bounce, Bondi made two assumptions: “first... More
London: Harrison and Sons, 1964. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OFFPRINT of “famous import in classic astrophysics” (SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System). This paper by the Anglo-Austrian physicist Hermann Bondi studies whether redshifts could be of gravitational origin and “served as a theoretical guidepost for planetary and super-planetary relative motion calculation” (ibid)... More
1962. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, RARE OFFPRINT OF AN IMPORTANT LECTURE DELIVERED BY BONDI AT OXFORD IN MAY OF 1962; this is the first printed version. The following represent just a few scientists whose work Bondi speaks of in his lecture: Michelson-Morley, Milne, Lorentz, Einstein, Maxwell, Wheeler, Feynman, Hogarth, Penrose... More
BOUND FIRST EDITION OF HERMANN BONDI’S 1957 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT DEMONSTRATING THAT GRAVITATIONAL WAVES INDEED CARRY ENERGY, and furthermore that in order to carry energy (and momentum), gravitational waves must be nonlinear. Gravitational waves, or ripples in the fabric of spacetime, were first predicted by Einstein’s 1916 general theory of relativity... More
Bondi, Hermann; Gold, Thomas; Hoyle, Fred
London: Royal Astronomical Society, 1948. 1st Edition. RARE FIRST EDITIONS, EACH IN ORIGINAL WRAPS, OF THE FIRST PUBLISHED PAPERS PRESENTING THE ‘STEADY-STATE’ MODEL OF THE UNIVERSE. BONDI, GOLD, & HOYLE (WORKING INDEPENDENTLY) HERE PROPOSE THE MOST WELL-DEVELOPED AND LONG-LIVED STEADY-STATE THEORIES OF THE UNIVERSE. Bondi, Gold, and Hoyle’s arguments have... More
Bondi, Hermann; van der Burg, M. G. J; Metzner, A. W. K.
London: Royal Society, 1962. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF A PAPER BY BONDI, VAN DER BURG, & METZNER ANNOUNCING A NEW COORDINATE SYSTEM & APPROACH TO THE STUDY OF GRAVITATIONAL WAVES, SPECIFICALLY AXI-SYMMETRIC WAVES. I n 1957 Bondi firmly established the physical reality of gravitational waves. He then set about working... More
FIRST EDITION OF THE BRANS-DICKE THEORY OF GRAVITY, “the best-known example of the class of theories called “scalar-tensor” theories because they contain both scalars and tensors in the field equations relating the curvature of space to the matter in the universe. In Brans-Dicke, the gravitational constant becomes a variable, and... More
Canup, Robin WITH uk, M.; Stewart, S. T.
New York: AAAS, 2012. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF TWO IMPORTANT PAPERS ON THE GIANT-IMPACT THEORY, THE CURRENTLY FAVORED SCIENTIFIC HYPOTHESIS FOR THE FORMATION OF THE MOON. The Giant-Impact Theory is also know as the Giant-Impact Hypothesis, the Big Splash, and the The Impact. “The giant impact... More
Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1922. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF THE FOUR PAPERS THAT COMPRISE THE EINSTEIN-CARTAN THEORY OF GRAVIATION (ECT). “In theoretical physics, the Einstein-Cartan theory is a classical theory of gravitation similar to general relativity, but relaxing the assumption that the affine connection has vanishing antisymmetric part (torsion tensor), so... More
Paris: L’imprimerie Royale. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITIONS OF 2 IMPORTANT PAPERS: CLAIRAUT ON STELLAR ABERRATION, THE FIRST DIRECT CONFIRMATION OF THE COPERNICAN THEORY with MAUPERTUIS & HIS OFFICIAL REPORT ON THE LAPLAND EXPEDITION TO MEASURE THE SHAPE OF THE EARTH. THE TRIPS CONFIRMED NEWTON’S DYNAMIC & SUPPORTED THE OBLATE SHAPE... More
![“On the Apparent Projection of Stars upon the Moon’s Disk in Occultations” in The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Volume XXVIII [28], Read April 8, 1859, pp. 173-186. George Biddell Airy.](/pictures/thumb/544_1.jpg?v=1503861492)
!["The Steady-State Theory of the Expanding Universe,” [Bondi & Gold] in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 108, No. 3, pp. 252-270, 1948. WITH "A New Model for the Expanding Universe," [Hoyle] in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 108, No. 5, pp. 372-382, 1938. Hermann Bondi, Thomas Gold, Fred Hoyle.](/pictures/thumb/862_1.jpg?v=1503861528)
![“De l’Aberration apparente des E’toiles, causée par le mouvement progressif de la Lumiére” [Clairaut] WITH “La Figure de la Terre determinée” [Maupertuis] in Mémoires de l’Académie Royale des Sciences Année 1737, pp. 205-228 [Clairaut]; pp. 389-469 [Maupertuis], 1740. Alexis Claude de WITH Pierre Louis de Maupertuis Clairaut.](/pictures/thumb/869_1.jpg?v=1503861528)