Nus de la Mer
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Albert Einstein: Philosopher-Scientist
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Autograph Letter [Signed “A toi”] to Louise Colet
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Albumen Photograph Signed
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A General Account of the Development of Methods of Using Atomic Energy for Military Purposes under the auspices of the United States Government 1940 - 1945 [The Smyth Report]
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Typed Letter Signed [TLS]
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The structure of the cloud of comets surrounding the Solar System and a hypothesis concerning its origin
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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
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The Ejection of Protons from Nitrogen Nuclei, Photographed by the Wilson Method With: On the Design and Use of a Double Camera for Photographing Artificial Disintegrations
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On the Influence of Magnetism on the Nature of the Light Emitted by a Substance (Parts I and II and Appendix) [Zeeman]; WITH: Radiation in a Magnetic Field [Michelson]
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The Art Institute of Chicago: 100 Masterpieces
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The Analyst; Or, A Discourse Addressed to An Infidel Mathematician… By the Author of The Minute Philosopher
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Der experimentelle Nachweis der Richtungsquantelung im Magnetfeld. WITH: Das magnetische Moment des Silberatoms
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On the Conversion of Electric Oscillations into Continuous Currents by Means of a Vacuum Valve
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The Lagrangian in Quantum Mechanics
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Autograph Letter Signed [ALS] Denouncing Racial Segregation
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Grundlagen für eine allgemeine Theorie der Functionen einer veränderlichen complexen Grösse. Eine Abhandlung, zu deren öffentlicher Vertheidigung behuf Erlangung der Doctorwürde der Verfasser bereit sein wird am 16. December 1851
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Arithmetices Principia Nova Methodo Exposita
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The Motions of Fluids and Solids relative to the Earth's Surface
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Strahlungs-Emission und -Absorption nach der Quantentheorie [Emission and Absorption of Radiation in Quantum Theory]
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Die Entstehung der Kontinente [The Origin of Continents]
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Parler Seul
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An American Exodus: A Record of Human Erosion
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