Germany: Hale Observatory, 1973. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION: Two large multicolor celestial charts/star maps of the northern & southern hemispheres, each with rotating star chart overlays. The charts measure 16.5 x 16.5 inches and are bound together on hardboard with a black and white pictorial cover; when opened, the Northern..... 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: The Royal Society, 1853. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION EXTRACT. 2 plates; 1 large fold-out plate. The plates are toned; there is very slight toning at the edges of the paper; minor. Very good condition. Airy was an English mathematician and astronomer as well as Lucasian professor at Cambridge and Astronomer..... More
Paris: Hermann & Cie, 1930. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL PAPER WRAPPERS OF ANTONIADI’S MOST IMPORTANT WORK ON MARS. “An impressive” and beautifully illustrated publication, La Planète Mars is the comprehensive denouement of Antoniadi’s Martian work. [In it], he presents a series of comparative drawings of the planet, all..... More
Praha: Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, 1962. 1962 HAND-DRAWN 6-COLOR CELESTIAL ATLAS COMPLETE WITH 16 CELESTIAL CHARTS (PLATES). Very large (elephant) oblong folio. 3rd edition. A less elaborate 1st edition appeared in 1948. Original cream linen binding. At publication and for a few decades to follow, Atlas of the Heavens Atlas..... More
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." GOOD CONDITION ONLY. 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..... 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
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
Lancaster: American Institute of Physics, 1939. 1st Edition. Single Journal Issue in Original Wrappers, 1st edition. Offered here is Bohr and Wheeler’s November 1939 paper confirming their predictions in the September "The Mechanism of Nuclear Fission” paper (which we offer separately). While this work is one of Bohr’s three major..... More
American Institute of Physics, 1939. 1st Edition. ORIGINAL WRAPS, NEAR FINE CONDITION. 1st EDITION OF TWO (within a single journal issue) SEMINAL PAPERS IN THE HISTORY OF PHYSICS, one by Bohr & Wheeler and one by Oppenheimer & Snyder. BOHR & WHEELER'S "The Mechanism of Nuclear Fission" is the first..... 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 paper 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 SEMINAL 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..... More
London: Macmillan, 1960. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, full volume, OF A “SEMINAL” HERMANN BONDI PAPER PRESENTING “A NEW APPROACH TO THE STUDY OF GRAVITATIONAL WAVES IN EINSTEIN’S THEORY OF GENERAL RELATIVITY” (Mädler, Bondi-Sachs Formalism, 2). Bondi’s new approach was based upon the outgoing null rays along which the waves traveled..... 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
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 FIVE 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
Oxford: Clarendon Press. Complete set, all three volumes. Profusely illustrated with plates and in-text illustrations. George Frederick Chambers (1841-1915) was one of Britain’s leading amateur astronomers and “one of the most influential figures in the history of British amateur astronomy” (SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data Systems, Harvard, 12). CONDITION & DETAILS: Oxford..... 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
Amsterdam: Pierre Mortier, 1741. 1st Amsterdam Printing. FIRST AMSTERDAM PRINTINGS 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..... More
London: Macmillan, 1878. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF GEORGE DARWIN’S FISSION THEORY OF THE FORMATION OF THE MOON. The history of modern lunar origin theory dates to this paper. A reprint of this paper was published in the 1879 Philosophical Transactions; that paper is sometimes misidentified as a first edition..... More
London: Taylor and Francis, 1862. 1st Edition. COMPLETE, FULL VOLUME FIRST EDITION DE LA RUE’S BAKERIAN LECTURE PRESENTING HIS GROUNDBREAKING ASTRONOMICAL PHOTOGRAPHY OF THE SOLAR ECLIPSE OF 1860. ALSO PRESENT IS JOHN TYNDALL’S CLASSICAL PAPER ON RADIANT HEAT. DE LA RUE: Of this volume’s 25 plates, 13 are specific to..... More