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 about Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica

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RARE FIRST EDITION OF PLANCK'S QUANTUM THEORY: THE FOUNDING DOCUMENT THAT REVOLUTIONIZED MODERN PHYSICS. More about Zur Theorie des Gesetzes der Energieverteilung im Normalspectrum

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EXTREMELY RARE FIRST PRINTING IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS OF ONE OF THE DEFINING DOCUMENTS OF QUANTUM THEORY: THE FIRST PRESENTATION OF PLANCK’S LAW OF BLACKBODY RADIATION: "a discovery that opened the way to the development of the quantum theory and provided the initial formulation for that theory”. More about Ueber eine Verbesserung der Wien’schen Spectralgleichung [On an improvement of Wien's...

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FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, IN EXTREMELY RARE ORIGINAL WRAPPERS of Planck’s introduction of his universal “Planck” constant. More about Über irreversible Strahlungsvorgänge [On Irreversible Radiation Processes], Part V

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FIRST EDITIONS IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS of Poincaré’s masterwork, his two papers containing, among other important discoveries, his theory of relativity (developed independently and simultaneously with Einstein). Includes the “note” in Comptes Rendus and the long “memoir” in the rare journal Rendiconti Circolo Matematico di Palermo. More about Sur la Dynamique de l’Electron [On the Dynamics of the Electron

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SCARCE FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS OF ARTHUR EDDINGTON’S REPORT CONFIRMING EINSTEIN’S GENERAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY. More about A Determination of the Deflection of Light by the Sun’s Gravitational Field, from Observations...

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THE FIRST INTRODUCTION OF EINSTEIN’S GENERAL RELATIVITY TO THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING WORLD. The groundbreaking first edition (1918), with the second edition (1920), containing the account of Eddington’s 1919 expedition proving Einstein’s theory, both in original wrappers. More about Report on the Relativity Theory of Gravitation

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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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INSCRIBED BY EINSTEIN on front free endpaper in German: “Dir dies zu senden hätt ich nicht gewagt, nun thu ich's doch, weil's die Weibsen gesagt. Herzliche grüsse”; English translation: “To send you this I wouldn't have dared / if the wife hadn't so declared / Best wishes / from /..... More about The Universe and Dr. Einstein. With a Foreword by Albert Einstein

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SIGNED BY EINSTEIN ON THE TITLE-PAGE: “Albert Einstein”. Second Revised Edition. More about Einstein’s Theories of Relativity and Gravitation: A Selection of Material from the Essays...

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FIRST EDITIONS of all three parts of one of Bohr's most influential works: his groundbreaking paper on the "correspondence principle." More about On the Quantum Theory of Line-Spectra

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FIRST EDITION of the definitive collection of the work of Thomas Young, containing many original discoveries and the first full description of his famous double-slit experiment. Complete with 58 plates (two hand-colored). More about A Course of Lectures on Natural Philosophy and the Mechanical Arts

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FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS of Bohr’s statement of his ‘complementarity’ principle, the basis of what became known as the ‘Copenhagen interpretation’ of quantum mechanics. (The paper was published essentially simultaneously in Danish, English, French and German.). More about The Quantum Postulate and the Recent Development of Atomic Theory

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