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 about Sirius, Sternkarte. Carte celeste: Aequinoctium 2000. 0, Hans Suter-Haug, 1973 [TWO 16.5 INCH...

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 about On the eclipses of Agathocles, Thales and Xerxes, Vol. 143, pp. 179-200, Received Dec. 15, 1859....

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... More about “The Absolute Photographic Magnitude of Supernovae” (Baade, pp. 285-304) WITH “Photographic...

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 about Antonín Atlas of the Heavens Atlas Coeli 1950.0, 1962

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... More about Atlas of the Heavens Atlas Coeli 1950.0, 1958

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 about “Supernova Mechanisms” (Bethe, pp. 801-867) WITH “Coherent States: Theory and Some...

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 about "Energy Production in Stars" (Bethe) with "Energy Production in Stars II"...

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 about "High-Energy Inelastic e-p Scattering at 6(deg) and 10(deg)" (Bloom et al., pp....

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 about "The Mechanism of nuclear fission" (Bohr and Wheeler) AND "On continued...

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 about “The Contraction of Gravitating Spheres” (Offprint) Proceedings of the Royal Society, A,...

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 about “Massive spheres in general relativity,” Proceedings of the Royal Society, A, 282, 1964, pp....

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 about “Plane gravitational waves in general relativity” in Nature 179, May 25, 1957, pp. 1072–1073

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 about "The Steady-State Theory of the Expanding Universe,” [Bondi & Gold] in Monthly Notices...