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DELAUNAY, Charles-Eugène.

Cours élémentaire de mécanique théorique et appliquée.

Paris, Garnier, 1867.

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30 €

LAGRANGE, Joseph-Louis, comte de.

Méchanique analitique.

Paris, Veuve Desaint, 1788.

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6000 €

First edition of Lagrange's masterpiece, the foundation of modern mechanics, second in importance to Newton's Principia.

A precious copy that belonged to Gaspard de Prony (1755-1839), with his bookplate on the title page and on the first leaf of volume 2.
Following the death of Lagrange, who had already printed the first sheets, Gaspard de Prony was entrusted with overseeing the printing of the second volume of the second edition of the'Méchanique analitique'.

His copy of Lagrange's work was bound in two volumes, with a blank leaf added to each page.
Only the leaf following page 14 was used for taking notes. There are also a few rare notes in pencil directly onto the text.
Some notes were trimmed during the binding process (second half of the nineteenth century). (Writer unidentified).

BECQUEREL, Antoine Henri.

Recherches sur une propriété nouvelle de la matière : activité radiante spontanée ou radioactivité de la matière.

Paris, Firmin Didot, 1903.

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1800 €

First edition.
Discovery of radioactivity.
Article published in volume 46 of the Mémoires de l'Académie des Sciences, which is entirely devoted to him, in which Henri Becquerel gathered all his experiments on radioactivity since 1896.
The first part is devoted to his work on uranium radiation during the years 1896 and 1897. The second, his work since 1898, which was fueled by the discoveries of Pierre and Marie Curie, on Polonium and Radium.
The three scientists will share the Nobel Prize in Physics that same year, 1903.
The third part of the work is a bibliography of more than 200 works on radioactivity.

POISSON, Siméon-Denis.

Nouvelle théorie de l'action capillaire, servant d'introduction à un Traité de physique mathématique.

Paris, Bachelier père et fils, 1831.

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1500 €

First edition.
Prize copy for Concours général of Paris.

CARNOT, Lazare.

Essai sur les machines en général. [Bound after:] Principes fondamentaux de l'équilibre et du mouvement.

Dijon, Defay, 1786.

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1500 €

First edition, second issue.
Only two copies of the first edition, dated 1782, are known. This 'Nouvelle édition' is, in fact, the first edition, second issue: it differs from the first only by a cancel title and the addition (in some copies) of an errata leaf.

The Essay was a precursor to the concept of conservation of work (or "motive power"), predating the formal formulation of the first law of thermodynamics.
The Essay on Machines, by the father, is the crucible in which Sadi Carnot, the son, would found a new science in 1824: thermodynamics.

Bound with :
- CARNOT, Principes fondamentaux de l'équilibre et du mouvement, Paris, Deterville, 1803
xxii-262-(1) pages et 2 planches.
- BIOT, Analyse du traité de mécanique céleste de P.S. Laplace, Paris, Duprat, An IX [1801]
(2)-93 pages.
- BIOT, Essai sur l'histoire générale des sciences pendant la révolution française, Paris, Duprat, 1803
(4)-83 pages
- Discours prononcé à l'ouverture du lycée de Clérmont, Clermont, Landriot, 8 février 1808
23 pages.

NEWTON, Isaac.

Traité d'optique sur les réflexions, réfractions, inflexions et les couleurs de la lumière.

Amsterdam, Humbert, 1720.

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1500 €

First french edition.
Work in which Newton sets forth his theory of light, the study of refraction and diffraction of light. It notably includes his famous experiments on the decomposition of light through a prism, establishing that white light is composed of a multitude of colours.

MOUCHOT, Augustin.

La Chaleur solaire et ses applications industrielles.

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1869.

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1200 €

First edition.
Pioneering book on solar energy, one of the first entirely devoted to the subject.
Augustin Mouchot (1825-1912) was a French inventor and engineer, a pioneer in solar energy. His book La chaleur solaire et ses applications industrielles (Solar Heat and Its Industrial Applications) is a major work detailing his research and inventions for capturing and utilizing solar energy. Mouchot is famous for developing solar collectors and steam engines powered by solar energy, thus anticipating the importance of renewable energy by several decades. This book, illustrated with 35 engravings, is an essential resource for the history of solar technology and 19th-century engineering, presenting concepts that are still relevant today.

Presentation copy to Jean Gustave Bourbouze (1825-1889).

FOURIER, Jean Baptiste Joseph || DARBOUX, Gaston.

Oeuvres de Fourier publiées par les soins de M. Gaston Darboux, sous les auspices du Ministère de l'Instruction Publique.

Paris, Gauthier-Villars et Fils, 1888-1890.

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1000 €

First edition of the works of Fourier.

MAXWELL, James Clerk.

Traité d'électricité et de magnétisme.

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1885-1887.

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900 €

First french edition.
Maxwell's equations which he exposes in his Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism revolutionized physics. They provide a mathematical framework for the study of electromagnetic waves and therefore are the basis of all 20th century physics, including Einstein's special relativity.
Major work in the history of science.
Our copy has been enriched with dozens of notes on loose paper or in the margins by Emmanuel Carvallo (1856–1945). A member of the French Mathematical Society (Société mathématique de France) and the French Physical Society (Société française de physique), Carvallo taught electricity courses at the Practical School of Industrial Electricity (École pratique d’électricité industrielle), and was Director of Studies (directeur d’études) at the École Polytechnique between 1909 and 1920.

DELUC, Jean-André.

Introduction a la physique terrestre par les fluides expansibles, précédée de deux mémoires sur la nouvelle théorie chymique.

Paris, Vve Nyon, 1803.

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750 €

First edition.
Full margin copy, as issue.

Jean-André de Luc (1727-1817) was a Genevan physicist and geologist who worked on expansible fluids and hygrometry. A member of the Royal Society of London, he was known for his work on atmospheric physics and the measurement of altitude. This work is a study of terrestrial physics through the prism of gases and fluids, focusing on atmospheric phenomena.
Deluc strenuously opposed the new chemical theory associated with Lavoisier and in this work attempted to show "that meteorological phenomena strongly militate against it and in general that the hypothesis of the composition of water (the fundamental point in the theory) has maintained itself only by numerous other hypotheses which are in contradiction with known facts." (D.S.B.).

OZANAM, Jacques.

Récréations mathématiques et physiques, qui contiennent plusieurs problèmes d'arithmétique, de géométrie, d'optique, de gnomonique, de cosmographie, de mécanique, de pyrotechnie, & de physique. Avec un traité nouveau des horloges élémentaires.

Paris, Jean Jombert, 1698.

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750 €

Third edition.
This book on mathematics and physics deals with various problems in arithmetic, geometry, music, optics, gnomonics, cosmography, mechanics, acoustics, pyrotechnics, physics, water clocks, natural phosphors, perpetual lamps, etc.

GAY-LUSSAC, Joseph Louis || POUILLET, Claude.

Leçons de physique de la Faculté des Sciences de Paris, recueillies et rédigées par M. Grosselin.

Paris, Grosselin, 1828.

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600 €

First edition.
- Part One: Lessons taught by Gay-Lussac.
Lessons 19 to 25 are devoted to the expansion of liquids and gases, a field in which Gay-Lussac made a major advance.
- Part Two: Lessons taught by Pouillet.

PAULIAN, Aimé-Henri.

Dictionnaire de physique, dédié à Monseigneur le duc de Berry.

Paris, Louis Chambeau, 1761.

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550 €

First edition.
The original edition of this encyclopedic dictionary by Aimé-Henri Paulian (1722-1801), a Jesuit priest and professor of physics at the College of Avignon.

The work was highly successful, seeing numerous re-editions throughout the 18th century. It is aimed at a general science audience, providing a didactic popularization of the knowledge of the time, particularly the Newtonian system, while covering a broad spectrum of topics from arithmetic to the "divining rod" and early balloon experiments.

EIFFEL, Gustave.

La résistance de l'air et l'aviation expériences effectuées au laboratoire du champ-de-mars.

Paris, Dunod et Pinat, 1910.

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400 €

First edition.
After experimental aerodynamic tests obtained by free fall from the second floor of the tower he had built on the Champ de Mars in Paris, Gustave Eiffel had a wind tunnel built there in 1909. It was made up of a vein of tests of 3 meters in diameter over a length of 2.5 meters. The flow, generated by a propeller driven by a 70hp engine, could vary between 5 and 20 meters per second. The installation was enclosed in a 240 square meter hangar so as not to be influenced by the outside wind. This installation was used, in particular, for testing the Eiffel wing profiles which would equip a large number of French aircraft from the First World War. It was moved to Auteuil in 1912 and is still in operation today, operated by the Aérodynamic Eiffel company.

Copy with the stamp "Hommage de G. Eiffel" on the half title.

LAPLACE, Pierre-Simon de.

Exposition du Système du Monde.

Paris, Duprat, An VII [1798].

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500 €

Second edition.

Mathematician and Physicist, Laplace (1749-1827) this "French Newton" is one of the most influential scientists of the Napoleonic period.
The work was very successful and was reissued five times with each reissue some modifications by the author. In this second edition, Laplace introduces for the first time the metric system that he had helped to adopt.

In this second edition of the Exposition du Système du Monde we find also the first time the hypothesis of the existence of black holes. This "weird" hypothesis will be deleted in the further editions.

MAUPERTUIS, Pierre Louis Moreau (de).

La Figure de la Terre, déterminée par les observations de messieurs De Maupertuis, Clairaut, Camus, Le Monnier, de l'Académie royale des sciences et de M. L'Abbé Outhier, correspondant de la même académie, accompagnés de M. Celsius, professeur d'astronomie à Upsal.

Paris, s.n., 1739.

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450 €

New edition with figures in text.
Results of Maupertuis' expedition to Lapland to measure the Earth's median and experimentally confirm Newton's hypothesis that the Earth is flattened at the poles.

D'ALEMBERT, Jean Le Rond || CONDORCET, Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat de.

Nouvelles expériences sur la résistance des fluides.

Paris, Claude-Antoine Jombert, 1777.

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450 €

First edition.
Collection of hydrodynamic experiments carried out in a basin of the Military School by D'Alembert, Condorcet and Bossut. Turgot had commissioned them to look for ways to improve river navigation. The results of these experiments led to establish what will become the D'Alembert paradox, which will only be solved with the theory of wakes.
Indeed, according to the hydrodynamic equations of the time, "a body should be able to progress in a fluid without experiencing any resistance or, which amounts to the same thing, that a bridge pier plunged into the course of a river should not. Undergo no pushing on his part ", which the experiments carried out denied.
Beyond the treatise on hydrodynamics, this book bears witness to a science in progress which intricates theory and experience.

French copy, full margin, as issue.

SAVERIEN, Alexandre.

Dictionnaire universel de Mathématique et de Physique, où l'on traite de l'origine, du progrès de ces deux Sciences des Arts qui en dépendent, des diverses révolutions qui leur sont arrivées jusqu'à notre temps; avec l'exposition de leurs Principes, l'analyse des sentimens des plus célèbres Auteurs sur chaque matière.

Paris, Jacques Rollin, 1753.

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450 €

First edition.

BECQUEREL, Edmond.

La Lumière, ses causes et ses effets.

Paris, Firmin Didot frères, 1867-1868.

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450 €

First edition.
The first part is devoted to light sources, in which Becquerel discusses his work on luminescence. The second part deals with the effects of light, with a long chapter on color reproduction through photography. Becquerel is now considered the creator of the first color photograph in 1848.

CURIE, Marie.

Radioactivité.

Paris, Hermann, 1935.

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450 €

First edition.

GUYOT, Edme-Gilles.

Nouvelles récréations physiques et mathématiques.

Paris, Gueffier, 1786.

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400 €

Third edition.
This book is one of the most complete and certainly the most beautifully illustrated works of popular science that developed in the late eighteenth century (Ozanam, Nollet, ...).
The first volume deals with mathematics, magnetism, and electricity. The second volume deals with geometry, optics, catoptrics, dioptrics, fire, air and water. The last volume is organized around the following themes: numbers, hand addresses and card tricks.

CAMUS, François-Joseph de.

Traité des forces mouvantes.

Paris, Claude Jombert, 1722.

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300 €

First edition.
François-Joseph de Camus (1672-1732) is a French technician and inventor in mechanical science. This book is one of his most important texts, including a significant number of his inventions.

POINCARÉ, Henri.

Leçons sur la théorie de l'élasticité.

Paris, Georges Carré, 1892.

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300 €

First edition.
Lectures given by Henri Poincaré and written by Borel and Drach on the mathematical foundations of elasticity problems. Foundations which will serve as the basis for Poincaré's development of an elastic theory of light in which the propagation of light is described by the elastic compression-decompression of the ether.

ARAGO.

Oeuvres Complètes.

Paris, Gide, 1854-1859.

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300 €

First collective edition of the works of Arago.

DESTOUCHES, Jean-Louis.

Principes Fondamentaux de Physique Théorique.

Paris, Hermann, 1942.

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300 €

First edition.
Jean-Louis Destouches (1909-1980) was a French theoretical physicist and philosopher of science. This book addresses the epistemological and methodological issues underlying theoretical physics, a central topic in the development of 20th-century physics. Numbered copy, no. 5.

DARCY, Henry.

Recherches expérimentales relatives au mouvement de l'eau dans les tuyaux.

Paris, Mallet, 1857.

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250 €

First edition.
Henry Darcy (1803-1858), inspector general of the Ponts et Chaussées, was a French engineer whose work was fundamental to hydraulics.
This book presents his famous experiments that led to the Darcy-Weisbach equation for head loss in pipes and Darcy's law, which describes fluid flow through porous media.
Without the 12 plates that were published with the text in the 'Mémoires présentés par divers savants à l'Académie des sciences' (Vol. XV. 1858).

BIOT, Jean-Baptiste.

Traité de Physique Expérimentale et Mathématique.

Paris, Deterville, 1816.

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250 €

First edition.
Jean-Baptiste Biot (1774-1862) was a French physicist, astronomer, and mathematician, a member of the French Academy of Sciences and a professor at the Collège de France and the Faculty of Sciences in Paris. His work was extensive, covering areas such as the polarization of light, birefringence, magnetism, and geodesy. He is particularly known for the Biot-Savart law in electromagnetism.

CURIE, Pierre || CURIE, Marie.

Oeuvres de Pierre Curie. Publiées par les Soins de la Societe Francaise de Physique.

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1908.

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First edition.
First edition of the works of Pierre Curie. His wife Marie Curie signs the preface here.

POINCARÉ, Henri.

Cinématique et mécanismes. Potentiel et mécanique des fluides.

Paris, Carré et Naud, 1899.

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250 €

First edition.
This volume is the transcription (edited by A. Guillet) of a course taught by Henri Poincaré (1854–1912) at the Sorbonne in 1899.

MAXWELL, James Clerk.

La chaleur leçons élémentaires sur la thermométrie, la calorimétrie, la thermodynamique, et la dissipation de l’énergie.

Paris, Tignol, 1891.

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250 €

First french edition.
French translation of James Clerk Maxwell's work, entitled in English Theory of Heat (first published in 1871). In it, he summarizes the advances in science on the concept of heat, notably burying the theory of caloric.

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Physics

DELAUNAY, Charles-Eugène.

Cours élémentaire de mécanique théorique et appliquée.

LAGRANGE, Joseph-Louis, comte de.

Méchanique analitique.

BECQUEREL, Antoine Henri.

Recherches sur une propriété nouvelle de la matière : activité radiante spontanée ou radioactivité de la matière.

POISSON, Siméon-Denis.

Nouvelle théorie de l'action capillaire, servant d'introduction à un Traité de physique mathématique.

First edition.Prize copy for Concours général of Paris.

CARNOT, Lazare.

Essai sur les machines en général. [Bound after:] Principes fondamentaux de l'équilibre et du mouvement.

NEWTON, Isaac.

Traité d'optique sur les réflexions, réfractions, inflexions et les couleurs de la lumière.

First french edition.Work in which Newton sets forth his theory of light, the study of refraction and diffraction of light. It notably includes his famous experiments on the decomposition of light through a prism, establishing that white light is composed of a multitude of colours.

MOUCHOT, Augustin.

La Chaleur solaire et ses applications industrielles.

FOURIER, Jean Baptiste Joseph || DARBOUX, Gaston.

Oeuvres de Fourier publiées par les soins de M. Gaston Darboux, sous les auspices du Ministère de l'Instruction Publique.

First edition of the works of Fourier.

MAXWELL, James Clerk.

Traité d'électricité et de magnétisme.

DELUC, Jean-André.

Introduction a la physique terrestre par les fluides expansibles, précédée de deux mémoires sur la nouvelle théorie chymique.

OZANAM, Jacques.

Récréations mathématiques et physiques, qui contiennent plusieurs problèmes d'arithmétique, de géométrie, d'optique, de gnomonique, de cosmographie, de mécanique, de pyrotechnie, & de physique. Avec un traité nouveau des horloges élémentaires.

Third edition.This book on mathematics and physics deals with various problems in arithmetic, geometry, music, optics, gnomonics, cosmography, mechanics, acoustics, pyrotechnics, physics, water clocks, natural phosphors, perpetual lamps, etc.

GAY-LUSSAC, Joseph Louis || POUILLET, Claude.

Leçons de physique de la Faculté des Sciences de Paris, recueillies et rédigées par M. Grosselin.

First edition.- Part One: Lessons taught by Gay-Lussac. Lessons 19 to 25 are devoted to the expansion of liquids and gases, a field in which Gay-Lussac made a major advance. - Part Two: Lessons taught by Pouillet.

PAULIAN, Aimé-Henri.

Dictionnaire de physique, dédié à Monseigneur le duc de Berry.

EIFFEL, Gustave.

La résistance de l'air et l'aviation expériences effectuées au laboratoire du champ-de-mars.

LAPLACE, Pierre-Simon de.

Exposition du Système du Monde.

MAUPERTUIS, Pierre Louis Moreau (de).

La Figure de la Terre, déterminée par les observations de messieurs De Maupertuis, Clairaut, Camus, Le Monnier, de l'Académie royale des sciences et de M. L'Abbé Outhier, correspondant de la même académie, accompagnés de M. Celsius, professeur d'astronomie à Upsal.

New edition with figures in text.Results of Maupertuis' expedition to Lapland to measure the Earth's median and experimentally confirm Newton's hypothesis that the Earth is flattened at the poles.

D'ALEMBERT, Jean Le Rond || CONDORCET, Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat de.

Nouvelles expériences sur la résistance des fluides.

SAVERIEN, Alexandre.

First edition.

BECQUEREL, Edmond.

La Lumière, ses causes et ses effets.

CURIE, Marie.

Radioactivité.

First edition.

GUYOT, Edme-Gilles.

Nouvelles récréations physiques et mathématiques.

CAMUS, François-Joseph de.

Traité des forces mouvantes.

First edition.François-Joseph de Camus (1672-1732) is a French technician and inventor in mechanical science. This book is one of his most important texts, including a significant number of his inventions.

POINCARÉ, Henri.

Leçons sur la théorie de l'élasticité.

ARAGO.

Oeuvres Complètes.

First collective edition of the works of Arago.

DESTOUCHES, Jean-Louis.

Principes Fondamentaux de Physique Théorique.

First edition.Jean-Louis Destouches (1909-1980) was a French theoretical physicist and philosopher of science. This book addresses the epistemological and methodological issues underlying theoretical physics, a central topic in the development of 20th-century physics. Numbered copy, no. 5.

DARCY, Henry.

Recherches expérimentales relatives au mouvement de l'eau dans les tuyaux.

BIOT, Jean-Baptiste.

Traité de Physique Expérimentale et Mathématique.

CURIE, Pierre || CURIE, Marie.

Oeuvres de Pierre Curie. Publiées par les Soins de la Societe Francaise de Physique.

First edition.First edition of the works of Pierre Curie. His wife Marie Curie signs the preface here.

POINCARÉ, Henri.

Cinématique et mécanismes. Potentiel et mécanique des fluides.

First edition.This volume is the transcription (edited by A. Guillet) of a course taught by Henri Poincaré (1854–1912) at the Sorbonne in 1899.

MAXWELL, James Clerk.

La chaleur leçons élémentaires sur la thermométrie, la calorimétrie, la thermodynamique, et la dissipation de l’énergie.

First french edition.French translation of James Clerk Maxwell's work, entitled in English Theory of Heat (first published in 1871). In it, he summarizes the advances in science on the concept of heat, notably burying the theory of caloric.

First edition.
Prize copy for Concours général of Paris.

First french edition.
Work in which Newton sets forth his theory of light, the study of refraction and diffraction of light. It notably includes his famous experiments on the decomposition of light through a prism, establishing that white light is composed of a multitude of colours.

Third edition.
This book on mathematics and physics deals with various problems in arithmetic, geometry, music, optics, gnomonics, cosmography, mechanics, acoustics, pyrotechnics, physics, water clocks, natural phosphors, perpetual lamps, etc.

First edition.
- Part One: Lessons taught by Gay-Lussac.
Lessons 19 to 25 are devoted to the expansion of liquids and gases, a field in which Gay-Lussac made a major advance.
- Part Two: Lessons taught by Pouillet.

New edition with figures in text.
Results of Maupertuis' expedition to Lapland to measure the Earth's median and experimentally confirm Newton's hypothesis that the Earth is flattened at the poles.

First edition.
François-Joseph de Camus (1672-1732) is a French technician and inventor in mechanical science. This book is one of his most important texts, including a significant number of his inventions.

First edition.
Jean-Louis Destouches (1909-1980) was a French theoretical physicist and philosopher of science. This book addresses the epistemological and methodological issues underlying theoretical physics, a central topic in the development of 20th-century physics. Numbered copy, no. 5.

First edition.
First edition of the works of Pierre Curie. His wife Marie Curie signs the preface here.

First edition.
This volume is the transcription (edited by A. Guillet) of a course taught by Henri Poincaré (1854–1912) at the Sorbonne in 1899.

First french edition.
French translation of James Clerk Maxwell's work, entitled in English Theory of Heat (first published in 1871). In it, he summarizes the advances in science on the concept of heat, notably burying the theory of caloric.