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Santa Monica, CA: Rand Corporation, 1958. Bellman, R.E.; Glicksberg, I. and O.A. Gross. U.S. Air Force Project Rand. Some aspects of the mathematical theory of control processes. January 16, 1958. R-313. Santa Monica: Rand Corporation, 1958. 234 x 155 mm. Original printed wrappers with the stamp of Paul Oliver on the front wrapper. xix, 244 pp. Figs. Text-illust. Equations, graphs, tables. Very good+. .

1874. Kronecker, Leopold (1823-91). (1) Uber Schaaren von quadratischen und bilinearen Formen. Offprint from Monatsbericht der K. Akad. Wissensch. Berlin (Jan.-Mar. 1874). 55, [1]pp. (2) Uber die congruenten Transformationen der bilinearen Formen. Offprint from ibid. (April 1874). 53, [1]pp. Together 2 offprints, 8vo. 226 x 137 mm. Original tan printed wrappers, a little dust-soiled. Light toning, but very good. First Separate Editions. Kronecker was part of a formidable group of Berlin mathematicians whose members also included Kummer, Borchardt and Weierstrass. "Kronecker's greatest mathematical achievements lie in his efforts to unify arithmetic, algebra, and analysis, and most particularly in his work on elliptical functions. His boundary formulas are particularly noteworthy in this regard, since they laid bare the deepest relationships between arithmetic and elliptical functions and provided the basis for Erich Hecke's later analytic-arithmetical investigations. Kronecker also introduced a… Read More

1879. Freud, Sigmund (1856-1939). Uber Spinalganglien und Ruckenmark des Petromyzon. In Sitzb. der k. Akad. d. Wissenschaften, 3 Abth., 78 (1879): 81-167. 4 plates by F. Schima after Freud. Whole volume, 8vo. v, [1], 289pp. Plates. 244 x 156 mm. (uncut & unopened). Original printed wrappers. Slight foxing but fine. First Edition. Freud's third paper published as a medical student continued his research on the large Reissner cells in the spinal cord of the fish Petromyzon, which he had undertaken at the direction of the eminent physiologist Ernst Brucke, under whom he was studying. Freud determined these cells to be "nothing else than spinal ganglion cells which, in these low vertebrates. . . remain within the spinal cord." Freud was aided in this research by his improved methods of tissue preparation: "By the use of a gold maceration technique it was possible to make a complete survey of the spinal ganglia of Petromyzon" (Freud, Standard Edition III, p. 229). Freud made a major contribution to… Read More

Berlin, 1930.

Leipzig: Barth, 1912. Offprint from "Annalen der Physik," 4th series, 38. 473-506pp. Original printed wrappers, "Uberricht vom Verfasser" printed in upper right corner. From the library of Theodore von Karman, with his characteristic docketing on the front wrapper.

Berlin, 1938. First edition. Very Good. Whole number. Original printed wrappers (detached). Stamp of the Wright Field Library, Dayton, on the front wrapper and first leaf. First edition of an important paper on a discovery immediately preceding the unexpected achievement of uranium fission. "By co-precipitating with barium a solution of the product of the bombardment of uranium with neutrons, O. Hahn and F. Strassmann obtains what thwy thought were isotopes of radium, and after B-ray decay, products of these were precipitated with lanthanum, and hence regarded as actinium isotopes" (Partington, History of Chemistry, IV, p. 966).

1926. Weil 153. Offprint from S. preuss. Akad. Wiss.

1929. First edition. Fine. Relationship of Information to the Physical World Szilard, Leo (1898-1964). Über die Entropieverminderung in einem thermodynamischen System bei Eingriffen intelligenter Wesen. In Zeitschrift für Physik 53 (1929): 840-856. Whole volume. vii, 889pp. Text illustrations. 223 x 152 mm. Library buckram. Fine. Embossed library stamp of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Mount Wilson Laboratory on the front free endpaper, library call number on spine. Boxed. First Edition of the founding document of information theory. In "Über die Entropieverminderung in einem thermodynamischen System bei Eingriffen intelligenter Wesen" [On the reduction of entropy in a thermodynamic system by the intervention of intelligent beings], Szilard described a theoretical model that served both as a heat engine and an information engine, establishing the relationship between information (manipulation and transmission of bits) and thermodynamics (manipulation and transfer of energy and entropy).… Read More

1906. Einstein, Albert (1879-1955). Über eine Methode zur Bestimmung des Verhältnisses der transversalen und longitudinalen Masse des Elektrons. In Annalen der Physik 21 (1906). 583-586pp. Figs. Text-illust. (214 x 140 mm.) Laid-in item: notecard with penciled notes, probably in the hand of Lord Rayleigh. Red cloth, gilt spine. Frontis, portrait of P. Curie (d. 1906). [Whole volume: viii, 1056pp. 9 plates (5 b/w silver photos, 4 folding)]. Small cut on spine, starting approximately two inches from the head, and is about three inches in length -very thin-, otherwise Very Good. First Edition, Whole Volume. In his landmark 1905 paper on special relativity, Einstein used the velocity-dependent concepts of transverse and longitudinal mass for the moving electron (these terms have now been replaced with the concept of relativistic mass, first defined by Lewis and Tolman in 1909). In the present paper Einstein proposed an experimental method for determining the ratio of the transverse to the… Read More

1935. Heisenberg, Werner (1901-76). Udviklingen af Kvanteteoriens principielle efter 1925. Offprint from Fysisk Tidsskrift 33 (1935). 96-101pp. 235 x 156 mm. Original printed wrappers, slightly sunned, one corner chipped. Very good. First Edition, Offprint Issue. On the development of quantum theory after 1925. Cassidy & Baker, Werner Heisenberg: A Bibliography of his Writings, 1935c. .

Jena: Gustav Fischer, 1903. Johannsen, Wilhelm Ludvig (1857-1927). Ueber Erblichkeit in Populationen und in reinen Linien. [6], 68pp. Text diagrams. Jena: Gustav Fischer, 1903. 242 x 165 mm. (unopened and uncut). Original orange printed wrappers. Fine. The Haskell F. Norman copy. First Edition in German. With his pure line theory, Johannsen proved experimentally that Galton's law of regression to the mean applied only for offspring produced by self-fertilization from a single parent plant, as in peas, beans and other self-fertilizers. Johannsen called the offspring and descendants of such a plant a "pure line," as he believed them to be genetically identical to the parent; therefore, any variation in the offspring of a pure line must be due to non-heritable factors such as environmental change. Johannsen's work provided important experimental evidence for de Vries's mutation theory, as Darwininan selection could not apply in a pure line whose fluctuations were caused only by non-heritable factors.… Read More

Freiburg: J. C. B. Mohr, 1892. [2], 33pp. Without wrappers. Baumler is best known for his classic account of pericarditis epistenocardiaca; see Garrison-Morton 2772.

Bonn: Emil Strauss, 1878. Pflüger, Eduard F. W. (1820-1910). Ueber Wärme und Oxydation der lebendigen Materie. Offprint from Pflüger's Archiv für die gesammte Physiologie 18 (1878). 247-380pp. 231 x 156 mm. Original printed wrappers, small piece torn from front wrapper, slight soiling. Some discoloration from acidic wrappers, but very good. First Edition, Offprint Issue. Pflüger, a pupil of Müller and du Bois-Reymond, made important contributions to our knowledge of the physiology of respiration. "The most effective work of Pflüger and his pupils is the proof that the essential seat of respiration is not in the blood, but in the tissues. This was accomplished in his important memoirs on the gasometry of the blood (1866), on the cause of dyspnea, apnea, and the mechanism of respiration (1868), on the origin and rational of the oxidative processes in the animal organism (1872), and on the heat production and oxidation of living matter (1878)" (Garrison, History of Medicine, p. 607).… Read More

Leipzig: Hirschfeld, 1886. His, Wilhelm, Jr. (1863-1934). Ueber das Stoffwechselproduct des Pyridins (Arbeiten aus dem Laboratorium für experimentelle Pharmakologie zu Strassburg). 8pp. Leipzig: J. B. Hirschfeld, 1886. 235 x 157 mm. Original printed wrappers, creased vertically, a little darkened at edges. Very good. Presentation Copy, inscribed by His to Carl Ludwig (1816-95) on the front wrapper: "Herrn Prof. Ludwig als Zeigen der Dankbarkeit und Verehrung, vom Verf." Stamps of the Ludwig Collection and of Lewis Hill Weed (1886-1952). First Edition, preceding the paper's publication in the Archiv für experimentelle Pathologie und Pharmakologie 22 (1887). While a medical student at the University of Strasbourg, His discovered the body's ability to methylate organic compounds when he isolated N-methyl-pyridinium hydroxide from the urine of dogs that had been dosed with pyridine acetate. The son of noted anatomist and embryologist Wilhelm His Sr. (1831-1904), the younger His went on make a notable… Read More

Berlin, 1836. First edition. Whole numbers, 8vo. lxv-clx, 305-385; clxi-ccxxxvi, 385-389pp. 2 plates. Fine copies. From the library of medical historian Walter Pagel.

Wurzburg: Richter, 1845.

Berlin: bey dem Verfasser, 1801. Soldner, Johann Georg von (1776-1833). Ueber die Ablenkung eines Lichtstrals von seiner geradlinigen Bewegung, durch die Attraktion eines Weltkörpers . . . In Astronomisches Jahrbuch für das Jahr 1804 (1801): 161-172. Whole volume, 8vo. [4], 268pp. 2 folding plates. Berlin: bey dem Verfasser, und in Commission bey G. A. Lange, 1801. 200 x 115 mm. Half sheep, marbled boards ca. 1801, minor worming in front cover, lightly rubbed but sound. Fine copy. Small ownership stamp on title, occasional marginal annotations. First Edition. Soldner's paper represents "the earliest work on the deflection of light in the gravitation field of the sun . . . On the assumptions that light has weight, and that it is deflected according to Newton's law of gravitation, [Soldner] computed the bending of a ray passing the limb of the sun." (Wylie, "The path of light in a gravitational field," Am. Math. Monthly 32 [1925]: 404). Soldner's calculations "are based on Newton's emission theory,… Read More

Leipzig, 1902. Lenard, Philipp (1862-1947). Ueber die lichtelektrische Wirkung. In Annalen der Physique , 4th ser., 8 (1902): 149-198. Plate. [With:] Einstein, Albert (1879-1955). Ueber die thermodynamische Theorie der Potentialdifferenz zwischen Metallen und vollstandig dissociierten Losungen ihrer Salze und uber eine elektrische Methode zur Erforschung der Molecularkrafte. In ibid.: 798-814. Whole volume, 8vo. viii, 928pp. 7 plates. 211 x 140 mm. Early 20th cent. cloth, spine faded, slight wear. Very good copy. First Editions. Lenard's paper on the photoelectric effect contains a crucial discovery: "as the intensity of the light increases the number of electrons set free rises, but their velocity remains unaffected: the velocity depends solely on wavelength" (DSB). This observation became an integral part of Einstein's hypothesis of light quanta, published in the Annalen der Physique in 1905; see Pais, pp. 380-81. In the same year, Lenard received the Nobel Prize in physics for his cathode ray… Read More

Graz: Leuschner & Lubensky, 1868. 69pp. 233 x 154 mm. (uncut and unopened). Original printed wrappers. Light foxing but fine. First edition.

1881. Basch, Samuel S. von (1837-1905). (1) Ueber die Messung des Blutdrucks am Menschen. Offprint from Zeitschr. f. klin. Med. 2 (1881). 18pp. Text illustrations. (2) Die volumetrische Bestimmung des Blutdrucks am Menschen. Offprint from Med. Jahrb¸cher (1876). 30pp. 3 folding plates. Vienna: Carl Ueberreuter, 1876. (3) Ueber den Einfluss der Athmung von comprimirter und verd¸nnter Luft auf den Blutdruck des Menschen. Offprint from Med. Jahrb¸cher (1877). 11pp. Plate. Vienna: Carl Ueberreuter, 1877. (4) Einige Ergebnisse der Blutdruckmessung an Gesunden und Kranken. Offprint from Zeitschr. f. klin. Med. 3 (1882?). 35pp. Text illustration. Together 4 items, 8vo. Various sizes. Original printed wrappers, front wrapper of (1) detached but present, minor wear & chipping. From the library of Johann Friedrich Miescher (1844-95), discoverer of nucleoprotein; see G-M 695. Miescher's stickers on front wrappers and his stamp on the first leaf of each offprint. First Separate Editions. Garrison-Morton 2784… Read More