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 about "On the Secular Variation of the Moon's Mean Motion" extracted from Philosophical...

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 about “Remarks on the Evolution of the Expanding Universe” in Physical Review 75 No. 7 April 1,...

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 about “De l'image photographique colorée du spectre solaire” AND “Recherches sur le...

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... More about Atlas Borealis, 1962

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... More about Skalnate Pleso - Atlas of the Heavens, 1950.0, 1969

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 about "Energy Production in Stars" in Physical Review, 55, 1939, pp. 103-104

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 about De causa gravitatis physica generali disquisitio experimentalis. Quae praemium à Regia...

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 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 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 about "The Mechanism of Nuclear Fission" + "Fission of Protactinium" (Bohr &...

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 about “Gravitational Bounce in General Relativity,” (Offprint) Monthly Notices of the Royal...

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 about “Physics and Cosmology” (Offprint) The Observatory, Vol. 82, No. 929, 1962, pp. 133-143

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 about “Gravitational Waves in General Relativity” in Nature, Vol. 186, pp. 535, 1960

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. In 1957 Bondi firmly established the physical reality of gravitational waves. He then set about working... More about “Gravitational Waves in General Relativity. VII. Waves from Axi-Symmetric Isolated Systems”...