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...
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.....
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...
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1938. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF BAADE’S 1938 PAPER, PROPOSING THAT SUPERNOVAE WOULD BE USEFUL STANDARD CANDLES FOR MEASURING ACCURATE COSMIC DISTANCES (Lee, Modern Supernova Search, Astronomy, SEES, 1). In a separate paper also in this volume, “Baade and Zwicky [give] the first description of...
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.....
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...
Praha: Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, 1962. 1962 HAND-DRAWN 6-COLOR CELESTIAL ATLAS COMPLETE WITH 24 CELESTIAL CHARTS (PLATES), as issued. Very large (elephant) oblong folio. Includes “all stars with known precise positions”. Original cream linen binding. At publication and for a few decades to follow, Atlas Borealis was widely used by professional...
Praha: Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, 1958. 1958 HAND-DRAWN 6-COLOR CELESTIAL ATLAS COMPLETE WITH 16 CELESTIAL CHARTS (PLATES). Very large (elephant) oblong folio. 2nd 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 Coeli...
Cambridge: Sky Publishing, 1969. 1969 CELESTIAL ATLAS COMPLETE WITH 16 CELESTIAL CHARTS (PLATES), loose in black and white (unbound as issued). Folio. Handsomely printed. Fine condition. At publication and for a few decades to follow, Atlas of the Heavens Atlas Coeli was widely used by professional astronomers with many observatories...
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...
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...
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...
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.....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.....
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).....
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...
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.....
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.....
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...
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.....
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