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The American Journal of Cardiology: Official Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Volume 2 [II], July to December, 1958

by Dack, Simon, editor

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New York, 1958. 1st Edition. 1st edition of the second volume issued. NOT ex-library. Plates and in-text illustrations throughout. Tightly bound in blue buckram with slight scuffing at the edge tips; gilt-lettered at the spine. Dozens of papers, fully indexed. Nice red-speckled text-block. Minor toning to the endpapers, some minor spotting. One page has a light pen mark. Largely bright and very clean. 794pp.
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The American Journal of Cardiology: Official Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Volume 3 [III], January to June, 1959

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New York, 1959. 1st Edition. 1st edition of the third volume issued. NOT ex-library. Plates and in-text illustrations throughout. Tightly bound in blue buckram with slight scuffing at the edge tips; gilt-lettered at the spine. Dozens of papers, fully indexed. Nice red-speckled text-block. Slight toning and spotting to the endpapers. Largely bright and very clean. 848pp.
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The American Journal of Cardiology: Official Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Volume 7 [VII] , January to June, 1961

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New York, 1961. 1st Edition. 1st edition of the seventh volume issued. NOT ex-library. Plates and in-text illustrations throughout. Tightly bound in blue buckram with slight scuffing at the edge tips; gilt-lettered at the spine. Dozens of papers, fully indexed. Nice red-speckled text-block. Slight toning and spotting to the endpapers; underlining in one paper. Largely bright and very clean. pp. 898.
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The American Journal of Cardiology: Official Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Volume 1 [I] , January to June 1958

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New York, 1958. 1st Edition. 1st edition of the first volume issued. NOT ex-library. Plates (some color) and in-text illustrations throughout. Tightly bound in blue buckram with slight scuffing at the edge tips; gilt-lettered at the spine. Dozens of papers, fully indexed. Nice red-speckled text-block. Minor toning to the endpapers, some minor spotting. Largely bright and clean. 794pp.
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The American Journal of Cardiology: Official Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Volume 5 [V] , January to December, 1960

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New York, 1960. 1st Edition. 1st edition of the fifth volume issued. NOT ex-library. Plates and in-text illustrations throughout. Tightly bound in blue buckram with slight scuffing at the edge tips; gilt-lettered at the spine. Dozens of papers, fully indexed. Nice red-speckled text-block. Slight toning and spotting to the endpapers. Largely bright and very clean. pp. 878.
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The American Journal of Cardiology: Official Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Volume 9 [IX] , January to June, 1962

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New York, 1962. 1st Edition. 1st edition of the ninth volume issued. NOT ex-library. Plates and in-text illustrations throughout. Tightly bound in blue buckram with slight scuffing at the edge tips; gilt-lettered at the spine. Nice red-speckled text-block. Dozens of papers, fully indexed. Slight toning and spotting to the endpapers; underlining in one paper. Largely bright and very clean. pp. 898.
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The American Journal of Cardiology: Official Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Volume 4 [IV] , July to December, 1959

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New York, 1959. 1st Edition. 1st edition of the fourth volume issued. NOT ex-library. Plates and in-text illustrations throughout. Tightly bound in blue buckram with slight scuffing at the edge tips; gilt-lettered at the spine. Dozens of papers, fully indexed. Nice red-speckled text-block. Slight toning and spotting to the endpapers; 3 light check marks in index, 1 interior one. Largely bright and very clean. pp. 838.
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On the Analysis of -Meson Data and the Nature of the -Meson in The Philosophical Magazine, Vol....

On the Analysis of -Meson Data and the Nature of the -Meson in The Philosophical Magazine, Vol. XLIV, 1953, pp. 1068-1080 WITH Decay of Mesons of Known Charge in The Physical Review, 94, 4, May 15, 1954, pp. 1046-1052

by Dalitz, D. H. [Richard Henry (Dick]

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1st Edition. FIRST EDITIONS, ONE IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF DALITZ'S 1953 & 1954 PAPERS ANNOUNCEMENT & DEVELOPMENT OF THE ‘DALITZ PLOT' — A MAJOR BREAKTHROUGH IN 20TH CENTURY PARTICLE PHYSICS. The Physical Review issue is in original wraps; the Phil Mag paper is a bound volume. The Dalitz plot is part of the vocabulary of physics. The Dalitz plot "is a ternary plot often used in particle physics to represent the relative frequency of various (kinematically distinct) manners in which the products of certain (otherwise similar) three-body decays may move apart. Dalitz plots play a central role in the discovery of new particles in current high-energy physics experiments, including Higgs boson research, and are tools in exploratory efforts that might open avenues beyond the standard model. While studying particle physics and ‘strange' particles produced in cosmic-ray collisions, Dalitz "started to think particularly about the nature of one of these, the 'tau meson', or K+, as it is now known. R.H.… Read More
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On the supposed Chemical Affinity of the Elements of Atmospheric Air: with Remarks upon Dr....

On the supposed Chemical Affinity of the Elements of Atmospheric Air: with Remarks upon Dr. Thomson's Observations on the Subject, (Dalton) with Osteological Description of the one-horned Rhinoceros (Cuvier) with Account of an Aerostatic Voyage performed by Messrs. Guy-Lussac and Biot (Guy-Lussac and Biot) in The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science, 1804, pp. 79-83; pp. 350-354; pp. 371-379

by Dalton, John; Guy-Lussac, Louis-Joseph; Biot, Jean-Baptiste; Cuvier, Georges

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London: Alexander Tilloch, 1804. 1st Edition. BOUND FIRST EDITION OF A LETTER ON THE ATOMIC THEORY IN CHEMISTRY FROM JOHN DALTON to Alexander Tilloch, founder of the journal in which this paper is published. Also included are papers of import by Gay-Lussac, Biot, and Cuvier. John Dalton (1766-1844) was an English chemist, meteorologist, and physicist best known for his pioneering work in the development of modern atomic theory, the atomic theory in chemistry. "Dalton applied the Laws of Conservation of Mass and Definite Composition to explain his Atomic Theory. He developed the chemical theory in 1803 and told Thomas Thomson, University of Edinburgh, about it in 1804" (Greenberg, A Chemical History, 172). This paper is Dalton's response to a conclusion the chemist and professor Thomas Thomson leveled regarding Dalton's Atomic Theory; specifically: in the 2nd edition of his influential A System of Chemistry, Thomson wrote "that air is a chemical compound"; he then offered four reasons for his… Read More
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Observations on the Law of the Expansion of Water at Temperatures below 42° extracted from The...

Observations on the Law of the Expansion of Water at Temperatures below 42° extracted from The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science, 1802, pp. 255-257

by Dalton, John

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1802. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION EXTRACT OF AN EXPERIMENT BY DALTON, "one of a series of very accurate experiments and observations on the power of fluids to conduct heat" (Monthly Magazine, Volume 14, 153). The paper is part of a much larger paper, "The Power of Fluids to Conduct Heat" that was published in the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society. This section of the paper, "Observations on the Law of the Expansion of Water at Temperatures below 42°", was of particular import so The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science published it separately and it is that section that is offered here. "Mr. Dalton found that water is of the greatest density at 42.5° Fahrenheit's thermometer - that from 41° to 40° the variation is so small as to be barely perceptible on the scale - but that, above and below those degrees, the expansion has an increasing ratio, and at 32° it amounts to 160th part of the whole expansion from 42.5 to 212. He also found that the… Read More
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Telegraphing Without Wires: A Possibility of Electrical Science in McClure's Magazine 8 No. 5 pp....

Telegraphing Without Wires: A Possibility of Electrical Science in McClure's Magazine 8 No. 5 pp. 383-392, March 1897 [EARLY WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY. RADIOTELEGRAPHY. INTERVIEW WITH MARCONI]

by Dam, H. J. W. [Henry]

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1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS OF A LENGTHY ILLUSTRATED ARTICLE ON THE EMERGING TECHNOLOGY OF WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY, then an experimental technology for transmitting telegraphy signals without wires (including radiotelegraphy). THE ARTICLE INCLUDES AN INTERVIEW WITH MARCONI. The article also describes the experiments of Hertz and Bose. Single issue housed in custom case. In the late 19th century, the distance between the transmitter and receiver progressively increased "to the point that the inventor's assistants finally found themselves at the upslope of the Celestini Hill (Fig. 4), situated about one mile from Villa Griffone. According to what was reported in an interview published in 1897 by English journalist H. J. W. Dam, Marconi declared that in September 1895, one of his receivers, which had been placed on the other side of the hill, reacted to the signals transmitted from Villa Griffone. During 1896, Marconi moved to Great Britain, where on June 2, he filed a patent entitled… Read More
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On the Significance of Solving Linear Programming Problems with Some Integer Variables Econometrica 28 No. 1 pp. 30-44, January 1960 [DANTZIG ON INTEGER PROGRAMMING]

by Dantzig, George Bernard

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Econometric Society, 1960. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL PAPER WRAPS OF DANTZIG'S PAPER ON COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY. Dantzig's work on the use of computational complexity aims to categorize problems by their solution difficulty is considered foundational (New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics). George Bernard Dantzig (1914-2005) was an American mathematician who made important contributions to operations research, computer science, industrial engineering, economics, and statistics. In the paper offered here, "he [presents] a number of techniques for expressing various types of complex constraints as systems of linear inequalities in which some variables are constrained to be integers. The constraints include dichotomies, k-fold alternatives, selection from many pairs of regions, discrete variable problems, conditional constraints and finding a global minimum of a concave function. In particular, he showed that the fixed charge problem, the traveling salesman problem, the orthogonal Latin… Read More
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Probleme de Dynamique in Suite des Memoires de Mathematique et de Physique pp. 504-532, Annee...
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Probleme de Dynamique in Suite des Memoires de Mathematique et de Physique pp. 504-532, Annee 1747 [CONSERVATION OF ANGULAR MOMENTUM]

by D'Arcy, Patrick [Patrice Darcy] [Chevalier Patrice D'Arci]

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Amsterdam: Mortier, 1747. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF D'ARCY'S PROPOSED AN EARLY VERSION OF THE CONCEPT OF CONSERVATION OF ANGULAR MOMENTUM FOR ORBITING BODIES. Extract in fine condition housed in a custom pamphlet case; text block complete. "In physics, angular momentum is the rotational equivalent of linear momentum. It is an important quantity in physics because it is a conserved quantity—the total angular momentum of a closed system remains constant" (Wikipedia). "Seen another way, a rotational analogue of Newton's first law of motion might be written, "A rigid body continues in a state of uniform rotation unless acted by an external influence." Thus with no external influence to act upon it, the original angular momentum of the system remains constant" (BK101). Patrick D'Arcy (1725-1779) was an Irish mathematician whose proposal of the concept of conservation of angular momentum included two postulates. "The first is a generalization of Kepler's second law. D'Arcy proposed that the areal… Read More
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The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication

The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication

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New York: Orange Judd, 1868. 1st American Edition. Two volume FIRST AMERICAN EDITION of "ONE OF DARWIN'S MOST INFLUENTIAL AND WIDE-RANGING BOOKS. IT IS ALSO HIS LONGEST AND MOST DETAILED WORK" (Freeman, The Works of Charles Darwin, 879). It is also "the only section of Darwin's big book on the origin of species which was printed in his lifetime and corresponding to its first two intended chapters" (ibid). Darwin's intent was "to provide overwhelming evidence for the ubiquity of variation" (Oxford Dictionary of National Biography). "This work is notable not only for Darwin's prodigious amassing of facts concerning artificial selection of traits to demonstrate an analogy for natural selection. It also advances his hypothesis of pangenesis and gemmules, as the agents of the inheritance of characteristics" (DSB). Darwin's hypothesis of pangenesis, "here expounded for the first time" (Freeman). Was the by "means of which [he] tried to frame an explanation of hereditary resemblance, inheritance of… Read More
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The Botanic Garden; A Poem, in Two Parts. Part I. Containing The Economy of Vegetation. Part II....
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The Botanic Garden; A Poem, in Two Parts. Part I. Containing The Economy of Vegetation. Part II. The Loves of the Plants, 1791

by Darwin, Erasmus

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London: J. Johnson. THE FIRST OF DARWIN'S FOUR MAJOR WORKS, THE BOTANIC GARDEN" IS OFFERED HERE IN TWO HANDSOMELY BOUND VOLUMES (Dictionary of Scientific Biography, III, 578-579). Erasmus Darwin (1732-1802) was a remarkable polymath, working as a physician, naturalist, medical botanist, and inventor. He was also Charles Darwin's grandfather. The Botanic Garden is an annotated scientific poem in Augustan couplets. It appeared in two parts, of which the second, The Loves of the Plants (1789), was published before the first, The Economy of Vegetation (1791). "Darwin decided to publish the second part of the work first because it was better suited "to entertain and charm." The first part of the work is more ambitious than the second, covering all natural philosophy, and embodying many of the researches and inventions of Wedgwood, Watt, Boulton, and others. The design of the totality was, Darwin wrote, ‘To enlist Imagination under the banner of Science... to induce the ingenious to cultivate the… Read More
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On the Procession of a Viscous Spheroid in Nature, Volume 18, 1878, pp. 580-582 [LEATHER BOUND. GEORGE DARWIN'S FISSION THEORY OF THE FORMATION OF THE MOON]

by Darwin, G. H.

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London: Macmillan, 1878. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF GEORGE DARWIN'S FISSION THEORY OF THE FORMATION OF THE MOON. The history of modern lunar origin theory dates to this paper. A reprint of this paper was published in the 1879 Philosophical Transactions; that paper is sometimes misidentified as a first edition, but it is not. This paper, the one appearing in 1878 in Nature is the true first. "Before Kuiper revived the double planet thesis, George Darwin, son of the famous British naturalist, had in 1878 advanced an attractive alternative. Drawing on the pronounced tidal effects exerted between the earth and moon, Darwin speculated that the moon's mass had been ejected from a fluid and rapidly spinning protoearth when centrifugal force and solar tides, acting on matter in the earth's equatorial plane, exceeded the force of gravity. In time, the moon moved out to its present orbit and attained its coincident period of rotation and revolution as a result of tidal interactions between the two… Read More
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The Scattering of Electrons by a Single Crystal of Nickel [Davisson & Germer, pp. 558-560] WITH Diffraction of Cathode Rays by a Thin Film [Thomson & Reid, p. 890] WITH The Continuous Spectrum of -Rays [Ellis & Wooster, pp. 563-564] WITH Physical Aspects of Quantum Mechanics [Born, pp. 354-357] WITH Supplement to Nature: The Bicentenary of Newton's Death [Bound in pp. 1-100] in Nature 119, 1927

by Davisson, C. J.; Germer, L. H. WITH Thomson, George; Reid, G. WITH Ellis, C. D.; Wooster, W. A. WITH Born, M. [Max]

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London: Macmillan, 1927. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITIONS OF FOUR VERY IMPORTANT PHYSICS PAPERS, TWO OF WHICH CONFIRMED DE BROGLIE'S HYPOTHESIS ON THE WAVE NATURE OF MATTER. Davisson and Thomson shared the 1937 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the experimental discovery of the diffraction of electrons by crystals" (Nobel Prize Portal). (1) DAVISSON & GERMER'S 1927 confirmation of de Broglie's hypothesis --the first observation of the wave nature of electrons. de Broglie's wave-particle duality hypothesis and this 1927 confirmation were major steps forward in the experimental confirmation of quantum mechanics. Though Davisson's discovery was somewhat "accidental", it is considered the "definitive confirmation of de Broglie's hypothesis" (L'Annunziata, Radioactivity, 428; Brush, Making 20th Century Science, 224). (2) THOMSON & REID's purposefully set out to prove de Broglie's hypothesis, the wave nature of the electron. Together they designed an instrument to observe diffraction effects, specifically using… Read More
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The Diffraction of Electrons by a Crystal of Nickel in The Physical Review, Vol. 30, No. 6,...

The Diffraction of Electrons by a Crystal of Nickel in The Physical Review, Vol. 30, No. 6, December 1927, pp. 705-741

by Davisson, C. and Germer, L. H.

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Minneapolis: American Physical Society, 1927. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS of Davisson and Germer's famous 1927 experiment confirming de Broglie's hypothesis on matter waves, a key pillar of the emerging theories of quantum mechanics. The Davisson-Germer experiment demonstrated the wave-like nature of electrons by showing that they could be diffracted by a nickel crystal, and in so doing, provided important experimental support for de Broglie's theory of 'matter waves,' Bohr's theory of complementarity and Schrodinger's theory of wave mechanics. Their experiment did not begin as a test of the wave theory. They 'were studying the surface of a piece of metallic nickel by bombarding it with electrons, and observing how many electrons were scattered at various angles. During the experiment an accident occurred. Air entered the vacuum tube containing the nickel target, so that an oxide film formed on its surface. To reduce the oxide on the target the two experimenters heated the nickel… Read More
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On the Fire-Damp of Coal Mines, and on Methods of Lighting the Mines So as to Prevent Its...

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1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND DESCRIPTION of an invention some have argued rescued the Industrial Revolution, Humphrey Davy's Safety Lamp (this published prior to Davy's own 1818 book on the subject). "Two great events amazed Britain in 1815: the victory of Wellington over Napoleon and the victory of Davy over mine gases. The Industrial Revolution was in danger of stalling in the early 19th c. due to the dangers in mining with contemporary lamps that used flame and ignited explosions. A disaster near Newcastle in 1812 killed 101 miners, and more than two-thirds of the coal mines in England were considered too dangerous to work because of their levels of coal gas. "In 1815 Davy was invited by the Chairman of a 'Society for Preventing Accidents in Coal Mines' to invent a solution... Davy had earlier studied flames and their propagation and noted that flames could not propagate through small holes. Thus his solution was merely to surround the lamp with a cylinder of wire… Read More
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On a New Phenomenon of Electro-Magnetism, extracted from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal...

On a New Phenomenon of Electro-Magnetism, extracted from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Vol. 113, 1823, pp. 153-159

by Davy, Humphry

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London: Royal Society, 1823. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION EXTRACT of one in a series of papers on electromagnetism published by the British chemist Humphry Davy between 1821 and 1826. Davy's experiments were based on Oersted's discovery of the relationship between electricity and magnetism in 1820, as well as Wollaston and Faraday's studies. In this paper, Davy experiments on how mercury responds to the electrical field produced by a battery. The extract has been handsomely bound in half calf over marbled paper boards. Following Faraday's "ingenious experiments on electromagnetic rotation, that if mercury could be made to revolve by electromagnetism, [Davy believed] some new light might be thrown upon the subject, as the motions of that substance could not be affected by the disadvantages attending mechanical suspension" (Annals of Philosophy, Volume 5, 1823, 303). First Davy experimented with the effect of the action of a magnet upon mercury connected in the electric circuit. In this work, he… Read More
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