Pierre Rémond de Montmort (1678-1719) was a French mathematician who is considered a pioneer of probability theory. He is best known for Essay d'a...

The making and decoration of dials. William Leybourn (1627-1716) was a well-respected mathematician, surveyor, and private tutor. First published i...

The father of 3d movies. Descriptive geometry is the science of presenting a three dimensional object on a two dimensional plane. Gaspard Monge inv...

First publication of the standard algorithm for logical deduction in artificial intelligence. First edition of the first publication of the resolut...

Introducing uniform analytic methods to the study of mechanics. First edition of 'Euler's famous work on mechanics in which he introduced the use o...

First popular appearance of the word 'googol', handsomely bound. Tenth edition of this surprise hit, first published in 1940 and described by scien...

Galileo rehabilitated. The first collected edition of Galileo's (1564-1642) works to include his famous Dialogo defending Copernicus' heliocentric ...

Important mathematics and physics published by a leading italian intellectual society. The 5 complete volumes of the Miscellanea Taurinensis, all f...

The most influential work in the history of capitalism. Second edition of 'the first great general work on mathematics printed' (Smith, Rara arithm...

An attractive set of nineteenth-century scientific and mathematical treatises, bound to match.. I) First edition of Avogadro's magnum opus, contain...

Second edition of this important work by Adrien Marie Legendre (1752-1833), first printed in 1797-98, complete with the first supplement published...

First edition. The first edition of the Memoirs of Science and the Arts, an edited collection of scientific discoveries and experiments of general ...

Newton's protégé. First edition, very rare in commerce, of Maclaurin's first book, dedicated to Newton and bearing his imprimatur as president of t...