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VERY RARE FIRST EDITION OF AN IMPORTANT DOCUMENT OF 20TH-CENTURY JEWISH INTELLECTUAL AND CULTURAL HISTORY. More
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Photograph
STUNNING LARGE GELATIN SILVER LIMITED EDITION PHOTOGRAPH; one of the most iconic images of the 20th century. One of only 450 in the edition. More
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Experimental Researches in Electricity
FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS OF MICHAEL FARADAY'S MOST FAMOUS AND INFLUENTIAL PAPER, REPORTING THE FIRST PRODUCTION OF ELECTRICITY BY ELECTROMAGNETIC INDUCTION. More
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Experimental Researches in Electricity
FIRST EDITIONS IN ORIGINAL CLOTH OF ALL THREE VOLUMES OF FARADAY'S MONUMENTAL EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCHES IN ELECTRICITY, THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE RECORD OF HIS ACHIEVEMENTS. PMM 308. More
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Experimental researches in electricity – twenty-eight series. On the Lines of Magnetic Force; their definitive character; and their distribution within a Magnet and through Space. [With:] Ibid. – twenty-ninth series. On the employment of the Induced Magneto-electric Current as a test and measure of Magnetic Forces
FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS of two papers containing Faraday’s detailed investigations of the nature of the ‘lines of force’; an extension of work he had begun in his first paper (1821) on electromagnetism. These investigations laid the foundations of field theory. More
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Remarques generales sur les Températures du globe terrestre et des espaces planétaires [Fourier]. WITH: Ueber den Einfluss des atmosphärischen Kohlensäuregehalts auf die Temperatur der Erdoberfläche [Arrhenius]
RARE FIRST EDITIONS IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS OF TWO PIONEERING NINETEENTH-CENTURY PAPERS LAYING THE GROUNDWORK FOR THE MODERN SCIENTIFIC UNDERSTANDING OF GLOBAL WARMING — THE 1824 INTRODUCTION OF THE IDEA OF THE “GREENHOUSE EFFECT” AND THE FIRST QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE PHENOMENON. More
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Opere di Galileo Galilei Nobile Fiorentino
SECOND EDITION, THE FIRST “COMPLETE” EDITION, of Galileo’s collected works; an important edition containing a wealth of material (nearly all of volume 3) not included in the 1655-56 first collected edition. More
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On the correlation of physical forces: Being the substance of a course of Lectures delivered in the London Institution in the year 1843
FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE of Grove’s proposal of the conservation of energy: “the earliest general account of the principle." More
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Experimenta Nova
FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE GREAT SCIENTIFIC CLASSICS: "Describes the invention of the air pump and the famous experiment with the Magdeburg hemispheres, in which two teams of eight horses were employed in an attempt to pull apart two copper hemispheres from which the air had been withdrawn. Guericke... More
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Die Radiolarien (Rhizopoda radiolaria); WITH: Die Radiolarien (Zwitter Theil); WITH: Die Radiolarien (Dritter und Vierter Theil)
VERY RARE COMPLETE SET, WITH 141 LITHOGRAPHED FOLIO PLATES. More
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On Discontinuous Movements of Fluids
FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, in original wrappers, of what is generally recognized as the earliest paper on hydrodynamic stability. Preceded by the printing in German of the same year. More
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On the Heat Evolved by Metallic Conductors of Electricity and in the Cells of a Battery During Electrolysis
FIRST EDITION of the derivation of Joule's Law, one of the fundamental laws of electricity. More
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On the Mechanical Equivalent of Heat
FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS of Joule's most developed and complete account of the results of his famous "paddle-wheel" experiments; includes his most accurate determination of what would later be known as the "Joule." More
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Amazon Parrots
FIRST EDITION, ONE OF ONLY 70 “SPECIAL” COPIES ISSUED WITH A SIGNED AND NUMBERED HAND-COLORED ETCHING. COMPLETE WITH 27 ADDITIONAL STUNNING TIPPED-IN PLATES OF TROPICAL PARROTS. More
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On a Method of Making a Direct Comparison of Electrostatic with Electromagnetic Force; With a Note on the Electromagnetic Theory of Light
FIRST EDITION, THE EXTREMELY RARE OFFPRINT, OF THE LAST OF MAXWELL'S FIVE IMPORTANT PAPERS ON THE FOUNDATION OF ELECTROMAGNETIC THEORY PUBLISHED BETWEEN 1855 AND 1868. WITH AN EXTRAORDINARY PROVENANCE: THIS COPY FROM THE ESTEEMED CAVENDISH LABORATORY, FOUNDED IN 1874 WITH MAXWELL AS ITS FIRST DIRECTOR. More
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On Boltzmann’s Theorem on the Average Distribution of Energy in a System of Material Points
FIRST EDITION, SCARCE OFFPRINT, ONE OF MAXWELL’S MAJOR PAPERS ON GAS THEORY AND STATISTICAL MECHANICS. More
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On the Dynamical Theory of Gases
FIRST PRINTING IN RARE ORIGINAL WRAPPERS OF ONE OF MAXWELL’S MAJOR PAPERS: THE MOST DEVELOPED AND COMPLETE EXPLORATION OF HIS THEORY OF GASES. More
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A New Modification of the Cloud Method of Determining the Elementary Electrical Charge and the Most Probable Value of that Charge
FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS of the account of Millikan’s famous experiment, later known as the ‘oil-drop experiment’, in which he first provided the definitive proof that all electrical charges are exact multiples of a definite, fundamental value—the charge of the electron. More
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The High-Frequency Spectra of the Elements
FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS of both parts of Moseley's groundbreaking work providing the scientific basis for our understanding of atomic numbers and the ordering of the periodic table. PMM 407. More
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Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica
RARE 1726 THIRD EDITION OF NEWTON'S PRINCIPIA, THE LAST EDITION EDITED BY NEWTON AND THE BASIS FOR ALL SUBSEQUENT EDITIONS. ONE OF ONLY 1250 COPIES PRINTED. More
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A Treatise of Fluxions
FIRST EDITION of MacLaurin's most important work, including a strong defense of Isaac Newton and the first full presentation and development of Newton's calculus. The William Jones- Macclesfield copy. More
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Mathematicae collectiones [Books III- VIII] a Federico Commandino... in latinum conversae et commentariis illustratae
FIRST EDITION of arguably the most important source book for the works of the Greek mathematicians. The magnificent Horblit copy in contemporary (probably original) boards. More
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Sur les corpuscules organisés qui existent dans l’atmosphère: Examen de la doctrine des générations spontanées (1861)
PRESENTATION COPY AND ASSOCIATION COPY OF THE RARE AUTHOR’S OFFPRINT OF PASTEUR’S FAMOUS LECTURE DISCREDITING THE THEORY OF SPONTANEOUS GENERATION, WITH HIS AUTOGRAPH NOTES TO FELLOW-SCIENTIST JOHN TYNDALL. More
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Sickle Cell Anemia, a Molecular Disease. WITH: A Specific Chemical Difference Between the Globins of Normal Human and Sickle-Cell Anæmia Hæmoglobin.
FIRST EDITIONS, OFFPRINT ISSUES, IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS, OF PAPERS ANNOUNCING THE DISCOVERY OF THE MOLECULAR BASIS OF SICKLE-CELL ANEMIA. More
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[PROTEIN STRUCTURE]. The Structure of Proteins: Two Hydrogen-Bonded Helical Configurations of the Polypeptide Chain. WITH: The Pleated Sheet, a New Layer Configuration of Polypeptide Chains. WITH: A Three-Dimensional Model of the Myoglobin Molecule Obtained by X-Ray Analysis. WITH: Structure of Myoglobin: A Three-Dimensional Fourier Synthesis at 2 Å Resolution. WITH: Structure of Haemoglobin. A Three-Dimensional Fourier Synthesis at 5.5-Å Resolution, Obtained by X-Ray Analysis. et al.
FIRST EDITIONS, OFFPRINT ISSUES (INCLUDING ONE SIGNED COPY AND ONE SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY), OF MILESTONE PAPERS ON THE DETERMINATION OF THE STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF PROTEINS, WORK FOR WHICH PAULING, KENDREW, AND PERUTZ ALL WON NOBEL PRIZES. More
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