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Rome: American Institute of Physics, 1972. 1st Edition. BOUND FIRST EDITION OF OSHEROFF, RICHARDSON, & LEE'S NOBEL PRIZE WINNING DISCOVERY OF SUPERFLUIDITY IN HELIUM 3. Superfluidity is one "of the greatest physics discoveries in the first half of the 20th century" (Donnelly, The Discovery of Superfluidity, Physics Today, July 1995, 30). The discovery of superfluidity in helium 3 was very unexpected - so unexpected that the paper submitted by Osheroff et al. was initially rejected by Physical Review Letters; it simply wasn't believed. This volume also contains Leggett's very significant paper on the superfluidity of helium-3 (see below). Leggett's paper was a "particularly importation contribution...in the interpretation of the discovery [by Osheroff et al]" (Nobel Prize Portal). Leggett also received the Nobel Prize for his pioneering work on superfluids. "Superfluidity is a condition observed in liquid helium when it is chilled very close to absolute zero (about minus 459.67 degrees Fahrenheit"… Read More

London: Macmillan, 1995. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF OSTRIKER & STEINHARDT'S CASE FOR A POSITIVE COSMOLOGICAL CONSTANT DERIVED FROM THEIR META ANALYSIS. Three years later their findings were verified by supernova observations. In "the 1990s, issues surrounding the age of the universe and new astronomical measurements of large-scale structure led scientists to propose a role for a positive cosmological constant" (History of Physics: The Wenner Collection). In this paper, Jeremiah (Jerry) Paul Ostriker and Paul J. Steinhardt make their case based on a much broader array of observational data than had yet been accomplished. Ostriker and Steinhardt argue that "observations are providing progressively tighter constraints on cosmological models advanced to explain the formation of large-scale structure in the Universe" (Ostriker & Steinhardt, 1995, 600). By reviewing the current observational constraints, then, they show those constraints "can work in concert to determine the… Read More

London: Taylor and Francis, 1866. 1st Edition. No wrappers, as extracted. First edition of a classical paper complete with 3 lithograph plates by the famous English paleontologist, biologist and comparative anatomist Richard Owen. This paper is the first in a series of ten entitled "On the Fossil Mammals of Australia." NOTE: We offer other Owen papers separately, including almost all papers in his "On the Fossil Mammals of Australia" series. "Thylacoleo has been described as a carnivore, a bone crusher, a scavenger or perhaps even an herbivore. It was first described by Sir Richard Owen as 'one of the fellest and most destructive of predatory beasts'" (The Australian Museum; Owen 1859). Thylacoleo carnifex is the last and largest member of the Thylacoleonidae ('marsupial lions'). As this paper elucidates, "Thylacoleo carnifex had a wide, heavy, short-snouted skull with a bony bar (postorbital bar), as in primates, behind the orbits. It has the longest shearing tooth of the thylacoleonids as well as… Read More

London: Taylor and Francis, 1859. 1st Edition. No wrappers, as extracted. First edition of a classical paper complete with 5 lithograph plates by the famous English paleontologist, biologist and comparative anatomist Richard Owen. This paper is the first in a series of ten entitled "On the Fossil Mammals of Australia." NOTE: We offer other Owen papers separately, including almost all papers in his "On the Fossil Mammals of Australia" series. "Thylacoleo has been described as a carnivore, a bone crusher, a scavenger or perhaps even an herbivore. It was first described by Sir Richard Owen as 'one of the fellest and most destructive of predatory beasts'" (The Australian Museum; Owen 1859). Thylacoleo carnifex is the last and largest member of the Thylacoleonidae ('marsupial lions'). Owen "distinguished himself with his powers of organization and deduction. At the same time he showed himself to be a peerless anatomist with instincts for reconstruction almost on a par with the great Cuvier in Paris.… Read More

London: Taylor and Francis, 1876. 1st Edition. No wrappers, as extracted. First edition of a classical paper complete with 13 lithograph plates by the famous English paleontologist, biologist and comparative anatomist Richard Owen. This paper is the first in a series of ten entitled "On the Fossil Mammals of Australia." NOTE: We offer other Owen papers separately, including almost all papers in his "On the Fossil Mammals of Australia" series. Family macropodidæ: mandibular dentition and parts of the skeleton of palorchestes; additional evidences of macropus titan, sthenurus, and procoptodon: First appearance of a classical paper in which Owen presents and illustrates "The evidences of these extinct Mammals which have been made known through the ‘Transactions' of the Royal Society have stimulated the search and transmission of additional fossils, from which are selected for the present com-munication those tending to complete the restoration of the gigantic kind of Kangaroo indicated by the… Read More

London: Taylor and Francis, 1874. 1st Edition. No wrappers, as extracted. First edition of a classical paper complete with 8 lithograph plates by the famous English paleontologist, biologist and comparative anatomist Richard Owen. This paper is the first in a series of ten entitled "On the Fossil Mammals of Australia." NOTE: We offer other Owen papers separately, including almost all papers in his "On the Fossil Mammals of Australia" series. Family Macropodidae; Genera Macropus, Pachysiagon, Leptosiagon, Procoptodon, and Palorcheste: First appearance of a classical paper in which Owen describes the finds of the remains of some of the extinct Kangaroos - Macropodidae, meaning "large foot". "In illustration of certain fossils from the freshwater beds of the Queensland province, showing the hindmost mandibular molars with characters of the general type of those of the Macropus Titan, but with modifications indicative of specific difference, it appears requisite to premise figures and descriptions of… Read More

London: Taylor and Francis, 1874. 1st Edition. No wrappers, as extracted. First edition of a classical paper complete with 8 lithograph plates by the famous English paleontologist, biologist and comparative anatomist Richard Owen. This paper is the first in a series of ten entitled "On the Fossil Mammals of Australia." NOTE: We offer other Owen papers separately, including almost all papers in his "On the Fossil Mammals of Australia" series. Family Macropodidae: Genera Macropus, Osphranter, Phascolagus, .Sthenurus, and Protemnodon: describes the finds of the remains of the extinct Kangaroos. " Through the adventurous journeys of John Gould, F. R. S., in the wilds of Australia, and by the noble works in which he has given the results of his zoological observations in that continent and the adjoining island of Tasmania, we mainly know the extent and kinds of variation under which the Kangaroos there exist. The present communication gives part of the researches into the forms of those saltatory… Read More

London: Royal Society, 1859. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION as extracted, complete with 2 lithographed plates. In this paper, on the largest known terrestrial lizard, the famous English paleontologist, biologist and comparative anatomist Richard Owen identifies and names extinct giant lizard bones: Megalania prisca. Disappearing approximately 40,000 years ago, Megalania Prisca inhabited southern Australia during the Pleistocene. Owen coins his giant lizard bones: Megalania Prisca. The name is made up of two Greek words: Mega - "great", "big", and lania - "roam". The word "prisca", in Greek, means "ancient" and the full name can be translated as a "ancient great roamer." Owen "distinguished himself with his powers of organization and deduction. At the same time he showed himself to be a peerless anatomist with instincts for reconstruction almost on a par with the great Cuvier in Paris. He became such an expert on the anatomy of animals that he was granted first refusal on any animal that died at the… Read More

London: Taylor and Francis, 1872. 1st Edition. No wrappers, as extracted. First edition of a classical paper complete with 7 lithograph plates by the famous English paleontologist, biologist and comparative anatomist Richard Owen. This paper is the first in a series of ten entitled "On the Fossil Mammals of Australia." NOTE: We offer other Owen papers separately, including almost all papers in his "On the Fossil Mammals of Australia" series. Genus Phascolomys, Owen here describes the finds of the remains of a possible extinct hairy-nosed wombat, here specifically the sinus area and some dentary. Owen "distinguished himself with his powers of organization and deduction. At the same time he showed himself to be a peerless anatomist with instincts for reconstruction almost on a par with the great Cuvier in Paris. He became such an expert on the anatomy of animals that he was granted first refusal on any animal that died at the London Zoological Gardens, and these he would invariably have delivered… Read More

London: Royal Society, 1886. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION as extracted, complete with 3 lithographed plates. In 1858 and in a paper we offer separately, the famous English paleontologist, biologist and comparative anatomist Richard Owen identifies and names extinct giant lizard bones: Megalania prisca. Disappearing approximately 40,000 years ago, Megalania prisca inhabited southern Australia during the Pleistocene. In this paper, written in 1886, 28 years later, Owen uses newly received fossil bones from the Gowrie Creek, Darling Downs, Queensland" to again concentrates on Megalania Prisca, this time on the sacrum and foot bones. Owen coined the term Megalania Prisca (Species: prisca; Genus: Megalania.) The name is made up of two Greek words: Mega - "great", "big", and lania - "roam". The word "prisca", in Greek, means "ancient" and the full name of the species can be translated as a "ancient great roamer." Owen "distinguished himself with his powers of organization and deduction. At the same time… Read More