SYMBOLIC LOGIC
First edition of Venn's treatise on symbolic logic, discussing for the first time in book form his famous innovations in diagrammatic representation.
First edition of Venn's treatise on symbolic logic, discussing for the first time in book form his famous innovations in diagrammatic representation.
Sixth edition ("forty-third thousand") overall — and the first to use the term "evolution" to describe the mechanism of natural selection that Darwin introduced in the book.
Midcentury edition of this wildly amusing survey of mathematical and scientific paradoxes and paradoxers, the uncommon 1954 unabridged reprint of the 1915 second edition, with a new introduction by Ernest Nagel.
First edition of the first American scientific book illustrated with a photograph, an exploration of fossilized dinosaur tracks (what Warren calls "footsteps of an unknown animal") inscribed to fellow surgeon and Benjamin Franklin's great-grandson, Franklin Bache.
First edition of this dissertation on the use of ice packs to treat various mental illnesses, defended at the University of Leipzig.
First edition of this comprehensive study of chemistry as occupation, profession, and discipline in America over a 100-year period, issued as part of the publisher's "CHEMISTS AND CHEMISTRY" series.