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FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT BOOKS IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE: FRANCIS BACON’S ARGUMENT FOR AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD. A BEAUTIFUL COPY. More
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FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT BOOKS IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE: FRANCIS BACON’S ARGUMENT FOR AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD. A BEAUTIFUL COPY. More
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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
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FIRST EDITION OF BERNOULLI'S FOUNDATIONAL WORK ON PROBABILITY THEORY. PMM 179. More
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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
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FIRST EDITION, monograph issue in original wrappers, of Einstein's General Theory of Relativity. PMM 408. More
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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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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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FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS of one of the seminal discoveries of the twentieth-century: the invention of the “Fleming Valve”, or vacuum tube, often cited as the beginning of the field of electronics. PMM 396. More
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FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH in original cloth of Hertz's collected papers on electromagnetic waves; the foundation for wireless communication. More
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FIRST PRINTING of Hertz's first three papers on electromagnetic waves; the foundation for wireless communication. More
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RARE FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL CLOTH OF ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL WORKS IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE. More
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FIRST PRINTING IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS OF THE FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE DISCOVERY OF NUCLEAR FISSION. A FINE COPY. PMM 422B. More
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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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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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RARE FIRST EDITION OF THE FULL EXPRESSION OF PLANCK’S QUANTUM THEORY; THE FOUNDING DOCUMENT THAT REVOLUTIONIZED MODERN PHYSICS. THE HORBLIT COPY. More
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FIRST PRINTING, RARE OFFPRINT in original wrappers of Rontgen's announcement of the discovery of the X-ray. More
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First complete edition of Rontgen’s announcement of the discovery of the X-Ray. More
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FIRST COMPLETE, FIRST ILLUSTRATED, AND MOST SOUGHT AFTER EDITION OF THE FIRST MODERN HISTORY OF ART. [The Second Edition overall.] An exceptional copy, very handsomely bound. More
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FIRST EDITION IN A MODERN LANGUAGE AND ONE OF THE FINEST ILLUSTRATED BOOKS OF THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE. More
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