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Astronomy, Relativity Theory
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ALFONSO X (1221-1284), KING OF CASTILE AND LEON.
Paris: Christian Wechel, 1545. A very good copy of the work which is responsible for Alfonso X’s “lasting scientific fame” (DSB), in a handsome strictly contemporary London or Cambridge binding. The ‘Alphonsine Tables’, as they became known, were a standard work of reference for astronomers, cosmographers, astrologers and navigators for... Item #2608
[Item #2608]
Price: €2,800.00
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APOLLONIUS OF PERGA (MEMO, Giovanni Battista, ed.)
First edition. Venice: Bernardinus Bindonus, 1537. Very rare editio princeps of Apollonius’ Conics, the basic treatise on the subject, “which recognized and named the ellipse, parabola, and hyperbola” (Horblit 4, on the later edition of 1566). This is one of the three greatest mathematical treatises of antiquity, alongside those of... Item #3075
[Item #3075]
Price: €48,000.00
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ARCHIMEDES of Syracuse.
Palermo: Cyllenius Hesperius, 1685. First edition of Maurolico’s translation of Archimedes, one of the two most important versions of the sixteenth century (the other being Commandino’s). Francesco Maurolico (1494-1575) “ranked with Commandino as a first-rate student of Archimdes, and indeed these two … were the outstanding interpreters of Archimedes in... Item #2684
[Item #2684]
Price: €4,500.00
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ARISTARCHUS.
First seperate edition. Pesaro: Franciscanus, 1572. This treatise is the sole extant work of Aristarchus - the first proponent of a heliocentric system - and marks “the first attempt to determine astronomical distances and dimensions by mathematical deductions based upon a set of assumptions.” (DSB). Aristarchus “was the first to... Item #2425
[Item #2425]
Price: €14,000.00
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BARLOW, William.
London: Edward Griffin for Timothy Barlow, 1616. First edition, very rare, containing Barlow’s fundamental discovery, the directional properties of the compass-needle. In this book the English word magnetism (and also magneticall) is used for the first time (OED). Horblit 83; Streeter 19 [same copy]. Barlow “designed navigating instruments, polar charts, and... Item #2926
[Item #2926]
Price: €18,000.00
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BESSEL, Friedrich Wilhelm.
First edition. Konigsberg: Gebruder Borntrager, 1841-42. “Bessel's measurements of positions for about 50,000 stars and rigorous methods of observation (and correction of observations) took astronomy to a new level of precision. He was the first to accurately measure the parallax, and hence the distance, of star other than the Sun... Item #2657
[Item #2657]
Price: €1,000.00
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BESSEL, Friedrich Wilhelm.
First edition. Konigsberg: Friedrich Nicolovius, 1818. A fine copy of this work which “constitutes a milestone in the history of astronomical observations, for until then positions of stars could not be given with comparable accuracy: through Bessel’s work, Bradley’s observations were made to mark the beginning of modern astrometry” (Walter... Item #2660
[Item #2660]
Price: €2,200.00
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BETTINI, Mario. [BETTINUS, Marius].
First edition. Bologna: G.B. Ferroni, 1648. An outstanding copy of this rare compendious scholastic mathematical work by the Jesuit mathematician Mario Bettini (1582-1657), encompassing all the major fields of mathematics, but paying special attention to geometry. Bettini’s Aerarium covers a wealth of information not just in mathematics but also astronomical... Item #2435
[Item #2435]
Price: €15,000.00
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The Inverse-Square Law of Attraction
BOULLIAU, Ismael.
Paris: Simeonis Piget, 1645. First edition, very rare, of “the first treatise after Kepler’s Rudolphine Tables to take elliptical orbits as a basis for calculating planetary tables” (The Cambridge Companion to Newton), and the first astronomy work to state that the planetary moving force “should vary inversely as the square... Item #2952
[Item #2952]
Price: €16,000.00
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BRACE, DeWitt Bristol.
First edition. London: Taylor & Francis, 1904. Rare offprint issue of the Brace experiment - the first optical experiment measuring the relative motion of Earth and the luminiferous aether which was sufficiently precise to detect magnitudes of second order to v/c. The Brace experiment was of great importance for the... Item #2990
[Item #2990]
Price: €2,200.00
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BRAHE, Tycho.
Nuremberg: Levinus Hulsius, 1602. First trade edition, a fine copy with provenance, of one of Brahe’s most important works, a description of his famous astronomical instruments (the most advanced in the world for their time), his globe, and his observatory on the island of Hven. “Brahe’s observations formed the basis... Item #2752
[Item #2752]
Price: €48,000.00
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CASSINI, Giovanni Domenico.
Rome: Fabio di Falco, 1665. First editions of these two exceptionally rare Cassini publications on the comet of 1664-5. Cassini observed the comet “in the presence of Queen Christina [to whom the first work is dedicated] and formulated on this occasion a new theory (in agreement with the Tychonian system)... Item #3076
[Item #3076]
Price: €38,000.00
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COPERNICUS, Nicolaus.
Amsterdam: Willem Janszoon Blaeu, 1617. The important third edition of Copernicus’s De revolutionibus (first printed 1543), but the first to contain a commentary. This edition was extensively corrected and annotated by Mulerius, and includes (for the first time) Copernicus’s biography. Nicholaus Muller, or Mulerius (1564-1630) was a professor of mathematics... Item #3053
[Item #3053]
Price: €45,000.00
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DESCARTES, Rene.
First edition. Leiden: Jan Maire, 1637. A very fine and exceptionally large copy, entirely unrestored, in its original Dutch vellum binding - the birth of analytical or co-ordinate geometry, designated by John Stuart Mill as “the greatest single step ever made in the progress of the exact sciences”. PMM 129;... Item #2849
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Price: €140,000.00
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THE CONFIRMATION OF GENERAL RELATIVITY
EDDINGTON, Arthur Stanley; Frank Watson DYSON; C.R. DAVIDSON.
London: Harrison & Sons, 1920. First edition, journal issue. Among the experimental results predicted by Einstein’s 1915 theory of general relativity was the bending of light by massive bodies due to the curvature of space-time in their vicinity. To test this prediction, the astronomers Eddington and Dyson organized two expeditions-one... Item #2856
[Item #2856]
Price: €2,000.00
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EINSTEIN, Albert.
[Zurich or Berlin: ca. 1912-1916]. A fascinating Einstein manuscript showing the master at work. While most Einstein autograph material on the market is in the form of letters to friends or colleagues, or drafts of papers to be published, the present manuscript gives us a glimpse of Einstein doing what... Item #3070
[Item #3070]
Price: €37,500.00
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EINSTEIN, Albert.
Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1916. First separate edition of Einstein’s paper announcing his epochal theory of general relativity (PMM 408). This is not an offprint of the journal issue in the Annalen der Physik, but a completely new setting of type with significant additions and revisions, including an introduction published... Item #2914
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Price: €5,000.00
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EINSTEIN, Albert.
First edition, first printing, journal issue. Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1916. A fine copy in unrestored wrappers, as it originally appeared in the May issue of Annalen der Physik. Grolier/Horblit 26c; Norman 695; PMM 408; Weil 80. There are three different issues of this famous paper (which are often confused)... Item #3063
[Item #3063]
Price: €12,000.00
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EINSTEIN, Albert.
First edition. Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1905. A very fine and completely unsophisticated copy, without stamps or any other markings in strictly contemporary cloth binding, Einstein’s groundbreaking 1905 paper, the introduction and derivation of the most famous equation in modern physics: E=mc2. “A few months after first publishing the theory... Item #3039
[Item #3039]
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Offprints of the four papers in which Einstein announced his completion and verification of general relativity in November 1915
EINSTEIN, Albert.
First edition. Berlin: Verlag der Koniglichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1915. An exceptional collection of the very rare offprint issues of which the perihelion-paper is the copy that Einstein presented to his son Hans Albert. In these four papers, Einstein announced his final breakthrough after ten years of struggling to incorporate... Item #3108
[Item #3108]
Price: €36,000.00
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EINSTEIN, Albert.
First edition. Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1905. A very fine and completely unsophisticated copy without stamps or any other markings in strictly contemporary cloth binding. “One of the most remarkable volumes in the whole scientific literature. It contains three papers by Einstein, each dealing with a different subject and each... Item #2991
[Item #2991]
Price: €17,000.00
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EINSTEIN, Albert. & FOKKER, Adriaan Daniel.
First edition, author's presentation offprint issue. Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1914. Inscribed offprint of the Einstein-Fokker paper which is of “considerable interest in the history of general relativity because it contains Einstein’s first treatment of a gravitation theory in which general covariance is strictly obeyed ... and particularly notable for... Item #2413
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Price: €2,800.00
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FIRMICUS MATERNUS, Julius [ARATUS SOLENSIS; MARCUS MANILIUS; PROCLUS DIADOCHUS; and other Greek and Roman commentators].
Venice: Aldus Manutius, 1499. First edition of this famous and beautiful collection of ancient astronomical texts, including the first editions in Greek of Aratus’ Phaenomena and Proclus’ Sphaera. This is one of the few illustrated books issued by the Aldine Press. The text also provides invaluable information concerning 4th century... Item #3098
[Item #3098]
Price: €12,000.00
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GALILEI, Galileo.
Florence: G.G. Tartini & Santi Franchi, 1718. Second collected edition of the works of Galileo containing nearly 500 pages of writings, not included in the first collected edition in two volumes from 1656-55, and previously unpublished. In the third volume of the present edition appears here for the first time... Item #2706
[Item #2706]
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[GAUSS, Carl Friedrich] ENCKE, Johann Franz.
First edition. Berlin: Koniglichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1828. First printing of what is now called the Gauss-Newton interpolation formula; which enables one to predict the value of a quantity given a finite number of observations. Gauss had lectured on the interpolation formula at Gottingen in 1812; his then student Encke... Item #2983
[Item #2983]
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