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O Kulcie Jednostki I Jego Nastepstwach [The Personality Cult and its Consequences]
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O Kulcie Jednostki I Jego Nastepstwach [The Personality Cult and its Consequences]

by KHRUSHCHEV, NIKITA SERGEYEVICH

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1956. first edition. Original wrappers, custom box. Very Good. SCARCE FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE of Khrushchev's 'Secret Speech' Which Attacked Stalinism and Changed the Course of World History. On February 14, 1956 the twentieth congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union assembled in Moscow for their first meeting following the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953. Almost nothing was said about the deceased leader until, in a closed session on February 25th, 1,500 delegates and visitors with special passes listened to a shocking speech by First Secretary of the party Nikita Khrushchev entitled The Personality Cult and its Consequences. In this speech Khrushchev denounced Stalin, seeking to destroy the beloved image and legacy of the late dictator. Guests and members of the press were excluded, and the Polish translation was the only version circulated during the Cold War. We have on offer the scarce first printing of the Polish text which included the recorded interjections which were edited out… Read More
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Observationes anatomicae
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Observationes anatomicae

by Santorini, Giovanni Domenico

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Venice: Giovanni Battista Recurti. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition, with three engraved folding plates, of Santorini's most important contribution to medical science, containing the "major discoveries for which Santorini is known eponymically" (Garrison-Morton). "This work records a number of new anatomical discoveries and corrects many errors of earlier anatomists. Santorini's skill and expertise were so outstanding that his name lives on in such anatomical structures as the accessory pancreatic ducts, risorius muscle, arytenoid cartilages, and duodenal papillae, several of which are described in this book. The text is accompanied by three folding copperplates which beautifully illustrate the musculature of the face, the pelvic musculature and genitalia of a sixteen-year-old girl with a tubal pregnacy, the external muscles of the ear, and detailed anatomy of the male genitalia and larynx" (Heirs of Hippocrates). Garrison-Morton 392; Norman 1887; Waller… Read More
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Om Atomernes Bygning [On the Structure of Atoms]
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Om Atomernes Bygning [On the Structure of Atoms]

by BOHR, NIELS

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Copenhagen: Jul. Gjellerup. FIRST EDITION, OFFPRINT ISSUE. Softcover, original wrappers. Very Good. FIRST EDITION, OFFPRINT ISSUE, INSCRIBED BY NIELS BOHR, of Bohr's Nobel Prize lecture, delivered on the occasion of Bohr's acceptance of the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physics. An association copy: Inscribed to J.A. Christiansen, noted scientist and student of Bohr. Inscribed in ink on the half-title by Bohr (in Danish): "Hr. Docent Dr. phil J.A. Christiansen med venlig Hilsen fra Forfatteren." [English translation: "Mr. Dr. Phil J.A. Christiansen with friendly greetings from the author"]. The recipient, Dr. Jens Anton Christiansen (1888-1969) "received his Ph.D from the Technical University of Denmark in 1921 and studied with Niels Bohr. He was the first to publish the term 'chain reaction,' which appeared in his doctoral thesis, Studies in Reaction Kinetics. Dr. Christiansen became Professor of Chemistry at the Technical University in 1931 and Head of the… Read More
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On Boltzmann's Theorem on the Average Distribution of Energy in a System of Material Points
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On Boltzmann's Theorem on the Average Distribution of Energy in a System of Material Points

by MAXWELL, JAMES CLERK

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Cambridge: Cambridge University, 1879. First edition offpring. modern wrappers. Fine. FIRST EDITION, SCARCE OFFPRINT, ONE OF MAXWELL'S MAJOR PAPERS ON GAS THEORY AND STATISTICAL MECHANICS. "Maxwell's enthusiastic follower Ludwig Boltzmann had published two superb papers on gas theory in 1868 and 1872. Taking Maxwell's idea of the velocity distribution of molecules in a gas, he had derived a more general law for their energy distribution-now known as the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution. He had also generalised Maxwell's principle for the equipartition of energy, showing that it should be divided equally not only between modes of linear and rotational movement but among all the independent components of motion in a system. "Maxwell had inspired Boltzmann; now he was inspired in turn. The new results were wonderful... Maxwell responded with a masterful paper, On Boltzmann's Theorem on the Average Distribution of Energy in a System of Material Points. This work, more… Read More
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On a Method of Making a Direct Comparison of Electrostatic with Electromagnetic Force; With a...
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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

by MAXWELL, JAMES CLERK

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London: Taylor & Francis, 1868. First edition offprint. Original wrappers. Very Good. 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. In "On a Method of Making a Direct Comparison of Electrostatic with Electromagnetic Force", Maxwell finally gives experimental proof that light consists of electromagnetic waves, which he had postulated in his fourth paper, the epoch-making "A dynamical theory of the electromagnetic field" (1865). "[Michael] Faraday (1791-1867) had abandoned the notion of 'action at a distance' for the concept of the 'fields of force' surrounding bodies by which they act upon one another electromagnetically ... Clerk Maxwell (1831-79), who may well be judged the greatest theoretical physicist of the nineteenth century, was happy… Read More
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On the Conversion of Electric Oscillations into Continuous Currents by Means of a Vacuum Valve
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On the Conversion of Electric Oscillations into Continuous Currents by Means of a Vacuum Valve

by FLEMING, JOHN AMBROSE

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London: The Royal Society, 1905. First edition. Original wrappers. Very Good. 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. In 1884, Thomas Edison had demonstrated that "if a metal plate is sealed into an electric light bulb and joined to the positive end of the filament a considerable current will pass. If the plate is joined to the negative terminal, however, no current will pass. This was known as the 'Edison effect' and in 1890 Fleming, an electrical engineer who had worked with the Edison company in London and was now a Professor at University College, began a careful study of this phenomenon in carbon filament lamps. In 1904 he was able to demonstrate that this occurred not only with electric waves but also with wireless waves. He thus introduced the basic principle of the modern wireless valve, which permits only unilateral… Read More
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On the Criterion that a Given System of Deviations from the Probable in the Case of a Correlated...

On the Criterion that a Given System of Deviations from the Probable in the Case of a Correlated System of Variables is such that it Can Reasonably Be Supposed to have Arisen from Random Sampling

by Pearson, Karl

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London: Taylor & Francis. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine. FIRST EDITION of one of the most important papers in the history of statistics, introducing the 'chi-squared' test of goodness of fit, "one of the most useful of all statistical tests" and "one of Pearson's greatest single contributions to statistical methodology" (DSB). "Specification or stochastic modeling of data is an important step in statistical analysis of data. Karl Pearson was the first to recognize this problem and introduce criterion, in a paper published in 1900, to examine whether the observed data support a given specification. He called it chi-squared goodness-of-fit test, which motivated research in testing of hypotheses and estimation of unknown parameters and led to the development of statistics as a separate discipline... In an article entitled "Trial by Number", [Ian] Hacking says that the goodness of fit chi-square test introduced by Karl Pearson (1900) 'ushered in a… Read More
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On the Constitution of Atoms and Molecules (Bohr). WITH: The High-Frequency Spectra of the...
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On the Constitution of Atoms and Molecules (Bohr). WITH: The High-Frequency Spectra of the Elements (Moseley)

by BOHR, NIELS; MOSELEY, HENRY GWYN JEFFREYS

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London: Taylor & Francis, 1913. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 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 groundbreaking work providing the scientific basis for our understanding of atomic numbers and the ordering of the periodic table. PMM 407 (Moseley). BOHR: "'On the constitution of atoms and molecules' was seminally important to physics. Besides proposing a useful model of the atom, it demonstrated that events that take place on the atomic scale are quantized: that just as matter exists as atoms and particles in a state of essential graininess, so also does the process. Process is discontinuous and the 'granule' of process- of electron motions within the atom, for example- is Plank's constant. The older mechanistic physics was… Read More
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On the Dynamical Theory of Gases
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On the Dynamical Theory of Gases

by MAXWELL, JAMES CLERK

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London: Taylor & Francis, 1867. First edition. Original wrappers. Very Good. FIRST PRINTING IN RARE ORIGINAL WRAPPERS OF ONE OF MAXWELL'S MAJOR PAPERS: THE MOST DEVELOPED AND COMPLETE EXPLORATION OF HIS THEORY OF GASES. "Ever since his brilliant but flawed paper of 1860 on gas theory, Maxwell had been mulling over new ideas on the topic. In 1866 he brought them to fruition in a paper, On the Dynamical Theory of Gases. His earlier paper had given the world its first statistical law of physics-the Maxwell distribution of molecular velocities-and had predicted that the viscosity of a gas was independent of its pressure," but significant problems remained. Although Maxwell's earlier theory of gases predicted that the viscosity of a gas varied with the square root of absolute temperature, his own experimental evidence contradicted his theory. "The fault seemed to lie in Maxwell's original assumption that when molecules collided they behaved like billiard balls, int other words that they were perfectly… Read More
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On the Heat Evolved by Metallic Conductors of Electricity and in the Cells of a Battery During...

On the Heat Evolved by Metallic Conductors of Electricity and in the Cells of a Battery During Electrolysis

by Joule, James Prescott

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London: Richard and John E. Taylor. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine. FIRST EDITION of the derivation of Joule's Law, one of the fundamental laws of electricity. Joule, "in the paper now under consideration, was the first to announce the definite law that 'when a current of voltaic electricity is propagated along a metallic conductor, the heat evolved in a given time is proportional to the resistance of the conductor multiplied by the square of the electric intensity,' i.e. electric current. In the same paper he showed that the law applies, when proper allowance is made for certain disturbances, to heat produced in electrolytes. The paper also contained the first reference to a 'standard of resistance;' this consisted of a coil of ten feet of copper wire .024 inch in thickness. "These experiments contained the germs of Joule's second great discovery, the equivalence of heat and energy, which he fully developed later. But he had already made it clear that the energy… Read More
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On the Influence of Magnetism on the Nature of the Light Emitted by a Substance (Parts I and II...

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]

by ZEEMAN, PIETER; MICHELSON, ALBERT

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Leiden: various, 1896. First edition. Very Good. FIRST APPEARANCE IN ENGLISH IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS OF THE DISCOVERY ("THE ZEEMAN EFFECT") THAT EARNED ZEEMAN THE SECOND EVER NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSICS; WITH MICHELSON'S REPORT (IN OFFPRINT FORM) OF ONE OF THE EARLIEST OBSERVATIONS OF QUANTUM EFFECTS, "THE ANOMALOUS ZEEMAN EFFECT." Although it was not entirely unexpected following the work of Faraday, Zeeman was the first to observe the influence of a magnetic field on spectral emission lines - what would quickly become known as the Zeeman effect. "Initially, in late October 1896, Zeeman could only observe a diffuse line broadening that had actually been predicted by Joseph Larmor's electron theory... [But by] the spring of 1897, Zeeman first recorded distinct splittings of spectral lines into doublets and triplets." (Hentschel). Although the result may have been anticipated, Zeeman shared his observations with Hendrik Lorentz, "who showed Dr. Zeeman that the widening could be predicted from Lorentz's… Read More
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On the Mechanical Performance of Logical Inference [The Logical Piano]
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On the Mechanical Performance of Logical Inference [The Logical Piano]

by JEVONS, WILLIAM STANLEY

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London: Taylor & Francis, 1870. First edition. Original wrappers. Fine. A LANDMARK IN COMPUTER SCIENCE: FIRST EDITION OF JEVONS'S PRESENTATION AND EXPLANATION OF HIS "LOGICAL PIANO", THE FIRST MACHINE TO SOLVE A MATHEMATICAL PROBLEM AT SUPERHUMAN SPEED. Jevons invented a "logical piano" (so named because it resembled a small upright piano) that could perform, through a sequence of switches, various types of logical calculations. In doing so, he became "the first person to construct a machine with sufficient power to solve a complicated problem faster than the problem could be solved without the machine's aid" (Goldstine, The Computer from Pascal to von Neumann ). "From his thinking on the processes of logical inference, [Jevons] developed the idea that these might be performed mechanically. As early as 1865 he was trying to build a 'reasoning machine, or logical abacus' (Papers, 4.69), which evolved through several stages into a 'logical… Read More
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On the Mechanical Equivalent of Heat

On the Mechanical Equivalent of Heat

by JOULE, JAMES PRESCOTT

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London: Richard and John E. Taylor. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. 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." "Joule began work about 1845 on a fourth method for determining the mechanical value of heat. His latest efforts received a polite but unremarkable reception at the Cambridge meeting of the British Association. This time the experiments involved a paddle wheel placed in a can filled with water. Weights attached over pulleys working in opposite directions communicated motion to the paddle wheel. Joule argued that 'the force spent in revolving the paddle wheel produced a certain increment in the temperature of the water'..." Although Joule's work with the paddle wheel was largely ignored throughout the late 1840's, he continued to work on the experiments… Read More
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On the Origin of Great Nebulae. WITH: Energy Production in Red Giants
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On the Origin of Great Nebulae. WITH: Energy Production in Red Giants

by GAMOW, GEORGE; TELLER, EDWARD

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Lancaster and New York: American Institute of Physics. FIRST EDITION OFFPRINTS. nb. Very Good. RARE FIRST EDITION OFFPRINTS of Gamow and Teller's early papers on cosmology, including "a kind of blueprint" for Gamow's later theory of the Big Bang. In "On the Origin of Great Nebulae," "written jointly with Edward Teller, his friend and colleague at George Washington University, Gamow dealt for the first time explicitly with the Friedmann-Lemaitre equations. The two authors concluded that, 'our theory of nebular formation requires that the velocity of expansion remains nearly constant while the distances between nebulae increase by a factor of 600.' In the last section, they considered the cosmological consequences which they discussed from the form of the fundamental (Friedmann-Lemaitre) equation for the expanding universe as given by Richard Tolman in his important textbook of 1934… [and concluded]: 'Thus in order to understand the formation of… Read More
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On the Quantum Theory of Radiation and the Structure of the Atom

On the Quantum Theory of Radiation and the Structure of the Atom

by BOHR, NIELS

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London: Taylor and Francis, 1915. First edition. Original binding. Very Good. FIRST EDITION, OFFPRINT, of Bohr's 1915 paper identifying conclusive experimental evidence for his model of the atom. "The central assumption [in the Bohr model] that 'stationary electron orbits' exist in atoms (and molecules) received justification in the crucial experiments of James Frank (1882-1964) and Gustav Hertz (1878-1975) in Berlin" although at the time the authors misinterpreted their results. They noted that "electrons in mercury vapor undergo elastic collisions with the molecules until they obtain a critical velocity, [and this] velocity is equivalent to the one obtained by electrons that have gone through a potential of 4.9 volts... "Though the authors claimed until 1916 that the 4.9 V represented the ionization potential of mercury, [in the paper being offered] Bohr argued rather: 'It seems that their experiments may possibly be consistent with the assumption that this voltage corresponds only to the… Read More
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On the correlation of physical forces: Being the substance of a course of Lectures delivered in...
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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

by GROVE, WILLIAM ROBERT

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London: Charles Skipper. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE of Grove's proposal of the conservation of energy: "the earliest general account of the principle." In 1842, "Sir W.R. Grove, English judge and man of science, known by his invention of a voltaic cell, explained in a lecture the idea of the interrelation of natural powers, an elaborated it in a book published in 1846 under the title of The Correlation of Physical Forces. This and the independent study in 1847 by the great German physiologist, physicist and matematician H.L.F. von Helmholtz, Ueber die Erhaltung der Kraft, contained the earliest general account of the principle now known as the 'conservation of energy'" (Dampier, A History of Science). "In this essay... Grove argued that all physical forces such as electricity, heat, light, magnetism, and so forth, should be regarded as being correlated, or mutually inter-related. Any one of these forces could be used to… Read More
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Opera Mathematica
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Opera Mathematica

by WALLIS, JOHN [NEWTON, ISAAC]

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Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1693. First collected edition. Contemporary calf. Very Good. SCARCE FIRST EDITION OF THE COLLECTED WORKS of one of Newton's most important precursors, John Wallis, Savilian Professor (1649-1703), containing the first printed appearance of Newton's ideas on fluxions. A staunch promoter of English mathematicians, Wallis repeatedly urged Newton to publish his theories before others laid claim to he work, for the sake of "your Reputation (& that of the nation)" (Gjertsen, Newton Handbook, 605). While Newton resisted for many years, in 1693 Wallis published several letters from Newton in Vol. II of his Opera, thereby introducing the concept of fluxional notation-pricked and dotted letters. In the preface to Vol. I (1695), Wallis refers briefly to Newton's claim to the discovery of Fluxions, while Vol II (1693) has the first full account of Newton's invention of calculus. 
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Opérations chirurgicales [Manuscript on The Hand]
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Opérations chirurgicales [Manuscript on The Hand]

by LÉPINE, FRÉDÉRIC

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[Dijon]: n.p., 1845. First edition. Boards. Very Good. AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF AN UNPUBLISHED SURGICAL TRACT WITH HAND-DRAWN ANATOMICAL FIGURES. The manuscript contains sections largely concerning the amputation and disarticulation of hands and fingers, with chapters on various methods of incision and one titled "Amputations particulières" [Particular amputations]. The accompanying illustrations, "delin[eavit] ad nat[uram]" [drawn from nature] by Dr Frédéric Lépine, depict hands, forearms and digits in various poses (some delineated with incision marks), bone fragments and skeletal sections as well as surgical equipment. The two pages of medical implements also records the names of each device's inventor: Sedillot, Dupierris, Roux, Guyot and Colombat. One tipped-in leaf, titled "Main prisé dans un engrenage de Battoir à Blé" [Hand caught in a gear of a wheat thresher], presents a case study of a mangled hand with two semi-graphic depictions of the injured patient before and after surgery.… Read More
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The Origin of Chemical Elements. WITH: Expanding Universe and the Origin of Elements. WITH:...
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The Origin of Chemical Elements. WITH: Expanding Universe and the Origin of Elements. WITH: Thermonuclear reactions in the expanding universe. WITH: Neutron-capture theory of the formation and relative abundance of the elements. WITH: On the relative abundance of the elements

by ALPHER, RALPH; BETHE, HANS; GAMOW, GEORGE; ET AL.

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Lancaster and New York: The Physical Review; American Physcial Society; American Institute of Physics, 1948. First edition. original wrappers. Very Good. 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. The Origin of Chemical Elements: "With the experimental and theoretical information now available it is possible to give a tentative description of the structure and evolution of the universe.." Physicist George Gamow "was interested in the Big Bang in relation to nucleosynthesis- the formation of atomic nuclei. Gamow wanted to see whether nuclear physics and the Big Bang could explain the observed atomic abundances," specifically, "whether the early moments of the Big Bang could be responsible for our universe being dominated by hydrogen and helium." With his graduate student Ralph Alpher, Gamow began constructing an ingenius mathematical model that attempted to explain the nuclear processes… Read More
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Other Voices, Other Rooms

by Capote, Truman

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New York: Random House, 1948. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. FIRST EDITION of Truman Capote's first novel. Published in 1948, when Capote was only 23 years old, "Other Voices almost immeditaely jumped onto the New York Times best-seller list, where it remained for nine weeks. It sold more than 26,000 copies... Although many other novels of 1948, including Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead and Irwin Shaw's The Young Lions, outsold it several times over, no other was so much discussed, or became so controversial. Truman's reputation, which had been building among literary people since "Miriam," exploded in all directions. People who had never walked into a bookstore suddenly knew the name and, most certainly, the face of Truman Capote" (Clarke, Capote). New York: Random House, 1948. Octavo, original cloth, original dust jacket. Book fine; dust jacket clean and bright with light toning to spine and a few tiny abrasions. A very attractive copy.
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