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Washington, DC: Carnegie Institution, 1935. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Tall quarto. Original green cloth, titles to upper board gilt. Illustrations throughout. Upper corner bumped, a little dampstain to tail of spine slightly affecting contents, minor rubbing at extremities, margins of contents toned. A very good copy. First edition, staff issue, witht he ownership inscription of seismologist Hugo Benioff. The present volume collects three years of Carnegie Institution News Service Bulletins (1933-1935), including articles and scientific papers on a variety of subjects researched by Carnegie staff members around the world (this is a staff edition copy, as opposed to the press and school editions, which do not include the "Notes on Institution Affairs"). The key article in this volume is "Machine Performs Difficult Mathematical Calculations", an account of the "Congruence Machine" (now known as a Lehmer sieve) developed to determine prime numbers by University of California…
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Machine Performs Difficult Mathematical Calculations" in Carnegie Institution of Washington News Service Bulletin Staff Edition Volume III, Nos. 1-31.
by Lehmer, Derrick
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A Machine-Oriented Logic Based on the Resolution Principle" [in] Journal of the Association for Computing Machinery, volume 12, number 1, pages 23-41.
by Robinson, J. A.
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Baltimore, MD: The Association for Computing Machinery, 1965. Quarto. Original cream wrappers printed in black. Remnants of a mailing label to the upper wrapper. Just a little rubbed and creased. Excellent condition. First publication of the resolution principle, the standard of logical deduction in AI applications. The basic computational method in logic programming, the unification algorithm, was proposed by mathematician Jacques Herbrand in 1930, but its first practical use was not discovered until Robinson introduced it in this paper as the basic operation of his resolution principle. "Robinson described his resolution principle as 'machine-oriented' in that it was particularly suitable for proofs to be performed by computer, having only one rule of inference that could be applied many times. Robinson's resolution has since been used as the standard of logical deduction in AI applications" (Hook & Norman, Origins of Cyberspace 865). "Born in Halifax, England, and having served in the RAF,…
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[Manuscript] Transport par Chemins de fer des Blesses et Malades Militaires. Deuxieme Rapport.
by Redard, Paul
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Paris: [O. Doin], 1902. Folio (305 x 201 mm). Contemporary red half morocco, marbled sides and endpapers, spine titles gilt, five raised bands. 69 pages of manuscript text in black ink, rectos only. 10 photographs and 1 printed illustration mounted on card, 26 plans and technical drawings of which 8 are printed in blue. Some wear and scuffing to the boards, primarily the edges, and a little soiling and dust affecting the binding, spotting to the edges of the text block, contents lightly toned with the occasional light spot. Photograph 9 detached from its card backing and loosely inserted. Very good condition. An elegant manuscript copy, probably made for presentation, of a report on the organisation of the French military railway hospital system by the doctor in charge of it. The text was published in book form by O. Doin of Paris in 1902. Dr. Paul Redard (d. 1917) was "a well-known orthopaedic surgeon of Paris" who "took his doctor's degree in 1879... He was the author of monographs on…
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Manx Algae. An Algal Survey of the South End of the Isle of Man. With Two Maps and 19 Plates. L.M.B.C. Memoirs on Typical British Marine Plants & Animals, Edited by James Johnstone.
by Knight, Margery & Mary W. Parke
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Liverpool: University Press of Liverpool, 1931. Octavo. Original white boards printed in black, red cloth backstrip. Folding chart, 2 maps, and 19 plates, errata slip at page 7. Binding rubbed and spotted with some wear at the ends of the spine. Very good condition. First edition, first impression of this guide by one of Britain's leading phycologists. Mary Winifred Parke (1908-1989) studied botany at Liverpool University, then joined the marine station on the Isle of Man where she studied algae under Margery Knight, who specialised in their cytology and life histories. "Together they published a handbook describing the algae of the area, Manx Algae, which appeared in 1931" (Ogilvie, Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science, p. 978). After receiving her doctorate Parke continued at the marine station. She made important discoveries about the microscopic organisms oysters that feed on, which led to a new culturing process for oyster farming. During the Second World War she and Knight designed new…
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The Mathematical Psychology of Gatry and Boole. Translated from the Language of the Higher Calculus and into that of Elementary Geometry.
by Boole, Mary Everest
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London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co. Ltd., 1897. Octavo. Original brown cloth, titles to spine gilt, black coated endpapers. Lightly rubbed at the extremities, spine a little rolled and darkened with some minor wear at the ends, contents slightly toned. A very good copy. First edition, first printing. Author Mary Everest Boole (1832-1916) was the daughter of a rector who encouraged her interest in mathematics. At eighteen the logician George Boole became her tutor, and she wrote later that it was his book on logic which made her fall in love with him. In 1855 they were married and moved to Cork, where he was teaching. George encouraged Mary "to attend his lectures and improve her knowledge of mathematics. He read his book on differential equations to her, altering it until the language was completely clear to her" (Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science). Following George's death, Mary became a matron at Queens College and developed an interested in mathematical education. "Her collected works,…
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Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History. Volume I, Parts IV and V. Part IV. A Complete Mosasaur Skeleton, Osseous and Cartilaginous. Part V. A Skeleton of Diplodocus.
by Osborn, Henry Fairfield
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New York: The Knickerbocker Press for the American Museum of Natural History,, October 25th, 1899. Folio. Original grey wrappers printed in black. 7 photographic plates on glossy paper, folding diagram, illustrations throughout the text, some from photographs. Contents unopened. Slight wear at the ends of the spine, wrappers just a little frayed and tanned at the edges, faint toning to the edges of the leaves. An excellent copy. First edition, first printing of this paper proposing that Diplodocus was not sluggish as generally believed, and that individuals might have been able to raise themselves onto two legs by balancing on their tails. An unusually fresh and attractive copy, the contents unopened. Palaeontologist Henry Fairfield Osborn (1857-1935) was president of the American Museum of Natural History for twenty-five years, during which he oversaw significant work on the discovery, description, and naming of new dinosaur species discovered in western North America, most notably Tyrannosaurus…
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Memories of Land and Sky. With Twenty-Four Illustrations.
by Bacon, Gertrude
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London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1928. Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine gilt and to upper board in blind. 8-page publisher's ads at rear. Portrait frontispiece and 15 plates from black and white photographs. Spine cocked, cloth a little rubbed at the extremities, two shallow dents in the upper board, lower corner bumped, some spotting to the contents, particularly the early leaves, and edges of the text block. Very good condition. First edition of the memoirs of the first Englishwoman to fly. Inscribed by the author, using her married name, on the title page, "(Gertrude Foggitt) Sept. 1936". Gertrude Bacon (1874-1949) was the daughter of the scientist and balloonist Rev. John Maczenzie Bacon, and she accompanied him on most of his expeditions. "Bacon became fascinated by flying and as a journalist reported on the various airships and planes being built." In August 1904 she became the first woman to fly in an airship, being a passenger in the near-disastrous first flight of an 84-foot-long…
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The Microstructure of Dinosaur Bone. Deciphering Biology with Fine-Scale Techniques.
by Chinsamy-Turan, Anusuya
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Baltimore & London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine in silver. With the dust jacket. 4 double-sided plates from colour photographs, diagrams, charts, and illustrations from black and white photos throughout the text. Excellent condition, with just a single tiny bump to the edge of the upper board and a few small scratches to the dust jacket. First edition, first printing. A superb copy of the first book devoted solely to dinosaur bone histology. Some of the earliest paleontological researchers, including Louis Agassiz and Gideon Mantell, studied the microscopic structure of fossilised bones, but it was not until the 1950s that "the systematic study of archosaur palaeohistology began in earnest with the pioneering studies of Enlow & Brown", who showed that cellular structure was preserved intact in fossils and that it "contained a wealth of information regarding the evolution and function of skeletal tissues in extinct organisms". This was…
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Minorities and Aging.
by Jackson, Jacquelyne Johnson
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Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1980. Perfect bound. Original light blue wrappers printed in black. Tables within the text. Binding lightly rubbed. upper cover creased. Very good condition. First edition, first printing of what at the time was considered the "most complete work on minority aging" ("Women in Duke Health" online exhibition, Duke University Medical Center Archives). Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the inside of the upper wrapper, "To Leslie, So that you will learn more and more each day about the graceful aging you do! Jackie". Author Jacquelyne Johnson Jackson (1932-2004) was inspired to study aging as an undergraduate when elderly friends of her family were forced to sell their home and enter public housing to afford medical care. She earned her master's degree in sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and completed her PhD at Ohio State, then joined the faculties of a number of universities including Duke, Howard, and Jackson State. She held…
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Mitosis. The Movements of Chromosomes in Cell Division.
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New York, Morningside Heights: Columbia University Press, 1949. Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine gilt. 1 double-sided plate, illustrations within the text. Very lightly rubbed at the tips, small blue sink spots on the upper edge of the text block. Excellent condition. Third printing of this influential work, originally published in 1944. From the library of molecular biologist Erwin Chargaff (1905-2002), with this ownership signature in ink on the front free endpaper. Chargaff's work elucidated key concepts about DNA and provided part of the groundwork for Watson and Crick's discovery of its structure. Chargaff's rules, as they are now known, state that the quantities of the four nucleotides are always linked - guanine matching that of cytosine and adenine with thiamine, and that the relative amounts of each vary from species to species. These observations strongly hinted that the nucleotides carried the genetic information (rather than the protein components, as had been thought…
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A Model of the Medulla Oblongata, Pons, and Midbrain of a New-Born Babe. [Reprinted from Volume IX of the Johns Hopkins Hospital Reports, Contributions to the Science of Medicine: Dedicated by His Pupils to William Henry Welch on the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of His Doctorate, pp. 925-1023. Together with Clark, "the Blood Vessels of the Human Ovary" and Young, "The Gonococcus".
by Sabin, Florence R.
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Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins, 1900]. Tall quarto. Original buff wrappers. 6 doubled-sided greyscale plates and 3 single-sided chromolithographic plates at rear accompanying the Sabin paper. 5 plates, of which 2 are folding, accompanying the Clark paper. The title page and early portion of the Clark paper seem to be lacking, perhaps due to a production error. Wrappers just a little rubbed with some short splits and creasing at the edges. The extreme edges of the contents, particularly at the front, are a little toned and creased with some nicks and short splits. Excellent, fresh condition. Offprint of physician and anatomist Florence Sabin's first major work, undertaken when she was an undergraduate and published the following year as the classic textbook An Atlas of the Medulla and Midbrain. WorldCat locates only four copies of this offprint, at King's College London, Brown University, Washington University St Louis, and the University of Sydney. Sabin was born in 1871, and attended Smith College,…
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Mushrooms and Other Common Fungi.
by Patterson, Flora W. & Vera K. Charles
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Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office for the United States Department of Agriculture, 1915. Octavo. Original cream wrappers printed in black. 38 plates from photographs. Wrappers faintly toned, mild dampstain affecting the lower corner of the wrappers and text, with some abraded areas where the corners of the leaves have stuck together, not generally affecting text. Very good condition. First edition of this well-illustrated guide to mushroom identification for the amateur collector. The first female mycologist to work at the United States Department of Agriculture, Flora Patterson (1847-1928) exhibited "the tenacity, audacity, and perspicacity of a true scientific visionary" (Reynolds, "Flora Patterson", Women in Microbiology, p. 219). She initially studied fungi as a childhood hobby, then attended several universities as a non-traditional student, taking a plant pathology course at Iowa State and completing her education at Radcliffe College, from where she was able to work in the Harvard…
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My World of Reality (An Autobiography).
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Detroit, MI: Balamp, 1973. Octavo. Original grey cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. 5 illustrations from photographs within the text. Spine very slightly rolled. An excellent copy in the jacket which is a little faded along the spine panel with a couple of minor areas of creasing and rubbing. First edition, first printing. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Mr. and Mrs. John L. Telford, you now have a most interesting world and many new problems, try to solve some of them. Hildrus A. Poindexter, July 20th, 1980". The identity of the recipients is unclear. An exceptional copy, the boards and jacket bright and fresh. Born near Memphis, Tennessee in 1901, Hildrus A. Poindexter (1901-1987) decided at the age of five that he would become a doctor. He worked his way through school, teaching himself Latin, Greek, and algebra. He specialised in tropical medicine and received his MD from Harvard in 1927, followed by his PhD in microbiology and immunology at…
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