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Antiquarian science books are original historical works (e.g., books or technical papers) concerning science, mathematics and sometimes engineering. These books are important primary references for the study of the history of science and technology, they can provide valuable insights into the historical development of the various fields of scientific inquiry (History of science, History of mathematics, etc.)

The landmark are significant first (or early) editions typically worth hundreds or thousands of dollars (prices may vary widely based on condition, etc.).[1] Reprints of these books are often available, for example from Great Books of the Western World, Dover Publications or Google Books.

Incunabula are extremely rare and valuable, but as the Scientific Revolution is only taken to have started around the 1540s, such works of Renaissance literature (including alchemy, Renaissance magic, etc.) are not usually included under the notion of "scientific" literature. Printed originals of the beginning Scientific Revolution thus date to the 1540s or later, notably beginning with the original publication of Copernican heliocentrism. Nicolaus Copernicus' De revolutionibus orbium coelestium of 1543 sold for more than US$2 million at auctions.[2]

List of notable books

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16th century

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17th century

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18th century

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19th century

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20th century (pre-Cold War)

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  1. ^ Prices quoted were collected using sources such as http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchEntry http://www.sothebys.com http://www.christies.com
  2. ^ US$2,210,500 at a Christies auction in 2008.
  3. ^ De revolutionibus orbium coelestium , from Harvard University.
  4. ^ De Humani Corporis Fabrica online — translated with full images, from Northwestern University
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  7. ^ Polybiblio: Regiomontanus, Johannes/Santbech, Daniel, ed. De Triangulis Planis et Sphaericis libri quinque. Basel Henrich Petri & Petrus Perna 1561. First edition: De triangulis planis et sphaericis libri quinque
  8. ^ Giordano Bruno, De l'infinito, universo e mondi, a cura di Giovanni Aquilecchia, Sansoni, Firenze, 1985.
  9. ^ First edition:
  10. ^ De Magnete at Project Gutenberg.
  11. ^ Mirifici logarithmorum canonis descriptio (Edward Wright's English translation was published in 1616).
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  13. ^ First written in a letter to Mersenne in 1638, the first printed publication of the method is in the fifth volume of the "Supplementum Cursus Mathematici" (1642) written by Herigone, and only in 1679 it appears in Fermat's "Varia opera mathematica". Electronic version in latin. First edition of "Varia opera mat." at Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc.
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  18. ^ First editions of Experimenta Nova available at ILAB
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  21. ^ First editions at ILAB
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  26. ^ De vi attractiva ignis electrici (in latin)
  27. ^ Mémoire sur la théorie des déblais et des remblais De l'Imprimerie Royale.
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  30. ^ De viribus electricitatis, 1791. The International Centre for the History of Universities and Science (CIS), Università di Bologna
  31. ^ Essai sur la Théorie des Nombres (Paris: Duprat, 1798). First edition at Sophia Rare Books
  32. ^ A digitized copy of An inquiry into the causes and effects of the variola vaccine (1798), from the Posner Memorial Collection at Carnegie Mellon
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  36. ^ . First edition at Abebooks
  37. ^ Essai sur une manière de représenter des quantités imaginaires dans les constructions géométriques, 2e édition, Gauthier Villars, Paris (1874) BNF
  38. ^ . First edition at Sophia Rare Books
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  41. ^ Electronic version in archive.org
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  44. ^ First edition at Abebooks - Jeremy Norman's historyofscience Bookseller (Novato, CA, U.S.A.)
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  46. ^ Œuvres complètes d'Augustin Cauchy Académie des sciences (France). Ministère de l'éducation nationale.
  47. ^ Early edition at Abebooks (Jeremy Norman's historyofscience, Bookseller (Novato, CA, U.S.A.))
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  51. ^ Electronic version in archive.org
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  53. ^ Ada Lovelace's notes:
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  55. ^ In June 1845, Joule read his paper "On the Mechanical Equivalent of Heat" to the British Association meeting in Cambridge (Joule, J.P. (1845) "On the Mechanical Equivalent of Heat", Brit. Assoc. Rep., trans. Chemical Sect, p.31)
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  61. ^ First editions of Die cellularpathologie at ILAB
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  64. ^ First editions of Introduction à l'etude de la médicine at ILAB
  65. ^ Mendel, J. G. (1866). "Versuche über Pflanzenhybriden", Verhandlungen des naturforschenden Vereines in Brünn, Bd. IV für das Jahr, 1865, Abhandlungen: 3–47, [1]. For the English translation, see:
  66. ^ "Mendel's paper "Versuche über Pflanzenhybriden", was read at meetings of the Brunn Natural History Society on 8th February and 8th March 1865, and was published in the Verhandlungen des naturforschenden Vereines in Brünn, 4, 1865, which appeared in 1866" (Gregor Mendel, Experiments in Plant Hybridisation, Cosimo, Inc., 2008, p. 7).
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  72. ^ Published separately as: Grundlagen einer allgemeinen Mannigfaltigkeitslehre.
  73. ^ List of Poincaré writings in English translation
  74. ^ First editions at ILAB
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  77. ^ "The science absolute of space : independent of the truth or falsity of Euclid's axiom XI (which can never be decided a priori)", The Neomon, Austin, 1896
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  80. ^ Histologie du système nerveux, first edition in french, 1909
  81. ^ Translated in First edition:
  82. ^ Radio-activity (1904), 2nd ed. (1905), First edition:
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  84. ^ List of scientific publications by Albert Einstein.
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  86. ^ Annus Mirabilis papers
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  93. ^ Link "Die Grundlage Der Allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie"
  94. ^ Recherches sur la théorie des quanta (Researches on the quantum theory), Thesis, Paris, 1924, Ann. de Physique (10) 3, 22 (1925).
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  97. ^ Ways to Spaceflight (1929)
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  102. ^ Full text at MIT
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