FIRST EDITION of the first report on COBOL, the first computer programming language designed to run on all computers, regardless of make or model. With over a hundred pages of extremely rare related material. More about COBOL: Initial specifications for a COmmon Business Oriented Language
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RARE FIRST EDITION OF ABBOTT’S CLASSIC. More about Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
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FIRST PRINTINGS OF THE FOUNDATIONAL PAPERS ON THE BIG BANG AND THE ORIGIN OF THE UNIVERSE. Including a fine copy of the famous “Alpha-Beta-Gamma” paper. More about The Origin of Chemical Elements. WITH: Expanding Universe and the Origin of Elements. WITH:...
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THE ORIGINS OF ELECTROMAGNETISM. AMPÈRE’S FIRST DISCUSSION OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ELECTRIC CURRENT-FLOW AND MAGNETISM. More about <b><p style="color:SteelBlue;">“Mémoire … De l’Action mutuelle de...
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FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS, of Arrhenius's landmark discovery of the theory of electrolytic disassociation. Arrhenius was awarded the 1903 Nobel Prize in chemistry "in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered to the advancement of chemistry by his electrolytic theory of dissociation." More about Recherches sur la conductabilite galvanique des electrolytes
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EXCEPTIONALLY SCARCE FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS; PRECEDING THE APPEARANCE IN “PASSAGES FROM THE LIFE OF A PHILOSOPHER”. More about A Chapter on Street Nuisances. Extracted from “Passages from the life of a philosopher.”
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FIRST EDITIONS, journal issues, of Babbage's two most important contributions to mathematics, essentially founding the general theory of the calculus of functions. More about An essay towards the calculus of functions
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FIRST EDITION of two landmark journals documenting the revolutionary invention of the transistor: the April 1949 issue of The Bell System Technical Journal containing the first description of the invention (published simultaneously in The Physical Review), and the famous July 1949 “Semiconductor Issue” dedicated entirely to the discuss of the..... More about Physical Principles Involved in Transistor Action. WITH: The Theory of p-n Junctions in...
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FIRST EDITION of Becquerel's "definitive work", containing the full account of his investigations and discovery of radioactivity. PMM 393. Dibner 163. More about Recherches sur une Propriété Nouvelle de la Matière; Activité Radiante Spontanée ou...
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FIRST EDITION of the landmark paper marking the birth of recombinant DNA technology. Paul Berg was awarded half of the 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his fundamental studies of the biochemistry of nucleic acids, with particular regard to recombinant-DNA." More about Biochemical Method for Inserting New Genetic Information into DNA of Simian Virus 40
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EXTREMELY RARE FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS of Bergman’s study of chemical affinities, including a large fold-out table, “the finest achievement in the tradition of affinity tables,” and a major predecessor of the periodic table. More about Disquisitio de Attractionibus Electivis [Dissertation of Elective Attractions
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FIRST EDITION, OFFPRINT, of the first announcement of the successful use of anesthesia during surgical operations, one of the greatest discoveries of nineteenth-century medicine. More about Insensibility During Surgical Operations Produced by Inhalation
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ONE OF THE EARLIEST PHOTOGRAPHS OF LIGHTNING. More about Early Lightning Photograph (Massachusetts,1888
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FIRST EDITIONS OF ALL FOUR VOLUMES OF THE BOOK THAT FIRST MADE LAW INTELLIGIBLE TO THE ORDINARY PERSON. HEAVILY INFLUENCED THE FOUNDERS OF THE UNITED STATES. More about Commentaries on the Laws of England
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FIRST EDITION OFFPRINT, PRESENTATION COPY, of Bohr's first published scientific paper, written while he was a 20-year-old student at Copenhagen University. Inscribed by Bohr in Danish on front wrapper to Poul Heegaard, mathematician and professor at Copenhagen University. In original wrappers. More about Determination of the Surface-Tension of Water by the Method of Jet Vibration
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FIRST EDITION, OFFPRINT, of Bohr's 1915 paper identifying conclusive experimental evidence for his model of the atom. More about On the Quantum Theory of Radiation and the Structure of the Atom
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IMPORTANT PAPERS BY NIELS BOHR CONCERNING HIS DEBATES WITH ALBERT EINSTEIN OVER FOUNDATIONAL ISSUES IN QUANTUM MECHANICS. More about Letter to the Editor of Nature (13 July, 1935); “Can the Quantum Mechanical Description of...
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FIRST EDITION of Bohr, Kramers, and Clarke’s influential paper that “contained drastic theoretical proposals concerning the interaction of light and matter." Printed simultaneously in German in Zeitschrift fur Physik. More about The Quantum Theory of Radiation
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FIRST EDITIONS of two critical papers in developing our understanding of the atom: 1) all three parts of Bohr’s landmark work marking the definitive break from using classical physics at the atomic level, often cited as the foundation of our modern understanding of the atom; 2) both parts of Moseley's..... More about On the Constitution of Atoms and Molecules (Bohr). WITH: The High-Frequency Spectra of the...
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FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS OF BORN’S NEW MATHEMATICAL DESCRIPTION OF QUANTUM PHYSICS, INCLUDING THE FIRST USE OF THE TERM "QUANTUM MECHANICS." More about Über Quantenmechanik [On Quantum Mechanics
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FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS of the famous “three-man paper,” the first, complete, self-consistent description of quantum mechanics. More about Zur Quantenmechanik II [On Quantum Mechanics II
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FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS of the presentation of "Bose-Einstein statistics." More about Plancks Gesetz und Lichtquantenhypothese [Planck’s Law and Light Quantum Hypothesis]. WITH:...
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FIRST EDITION IN RARE ORIGINAL WRAPPERS of the presentation of de Broglie’s highly influential “pilot-wave” interpretation of quantum mechanics. More about La mécanique ondulatoire et la structure atomique de la matière et du rayonnement [Wave...
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Autograph edition, number 43 of 750 copies signed by Burroughs. Beautifully bound in publisher's morocco. More about The Writings of John Burroughs
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FIRST EDITION WITH IMPORTANT PROVENANCE OF THE FIRST REPORT ON VANNEVAR BUSH'S DIFFERENTIAL ANALYZER, THE MOST POWERFUL COMPUTING MACHINE PRIOR TO THE ELECTRONIC DIGITAL COMPUTER. More about The differential analyzer. A new machine for solving differential equations
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