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NAVIER, Henri. 

Résumé des leçons données a l'Ecole Royale des Ponts et Chaussées, sur l'application de la mécanique a l'établissement des constructions et des machines. 

Paris, Firmin Didot, 1826.
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Claude Louis Marie Henri Navier (1785-1836) was a French engineer and physicist, known for his contributions to fluid mechanics and elasticity theory. A member of the Institut, he taught at the École Royale des Ponts et Chaussées. This work is a collection of his lectures on the application of mechanics to construction, with sections on material resistance and machinery.

First part only —the only part published during the author's lifetime—contains the lectures on the strength of materials and on the construction of earthen, masonry, and timber-framed structures.

It was not until 1833 that the publisher Carilan-Goeury released the second edition of this first part, followed in 1838 by the first editions of the second and third parts.

Presentation copy.

Photo GIRARDIN, Jean Pierre Louis. 

GIRARDIN, Jean Pierre Louis. 

Leçons de chimie élémentaire appliquée aux arts industriels. 

Paris, Masson, 1872-1880.
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Jean Pierre Louis Girardin (1803-1884) was a French chemist and agronomist, and a corresponding member of the Institut. He was a professor at the Faculty of Sciences in Clermont. This work is a chemistry manual that applies the principles of elementary chemistry to industrial arts, illustrating the link between scientific research and technology in the 19th century.

Photo ARAGO, François. 

ARAGO, François. 

Biographie de Gaspard Monge. 

Paris, Firmin Didot, 1853.
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François Arago (1786-1853), permanent secretary of the Academy of Sciences, was a leading French physicist, astronomer, and politician. This biography of Gaspard Monge (1746-1818), founder of descriptive geometry, is a tribute to one of the major figures of the French Revolution and 18th-century science. Monge's work, a former member of the Academy, is highlighted by Arago, who himself contributed to the advancement of science.

Photo LA HIRE, Philippe (de) || MAUDUIT, Antoine-René. 

LA HIRE, Philippe (de) || MAUDUIT, Antoine-René. 

Les élémens des sections coniques, démontrées par synthèse. Ouvrage dans lequel on a renfermé le petit traité des sections coniques de M. de La Hire. 

Paris, Desaint, Saillant, 1757.
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First work by the mathematician Antoine-René Mauduit (1731-1815) who continued the work of La Hire on conic sections.

Photo MARIE, Maxime Charles. 

MARIE, Maxime Charles. 

Histoire des Sciences Mathématiques et Physiques. 

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1883-1888.
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300 €

First edition.
From Thalès to Abel.

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WAIPY, Jean. 

Le bref usage de l'arithmetique, par la plume & par les iettons. 

Verdun, Louis Le Géant, 1631.
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300 €

First edition.
Rare arithmetic learning manual printed in Verdun.

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FIGUIER, Louis. 

Vies des savants illustres depuis l'Antiquité jusqu'au dix-neuvième siècle. 

Paris, Lacroix / Hachette, 1866-1877.
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300 €

Complete series with the five volumes of this important work by Figuier on the history of scholars, from antiquity to the eighteenth century.

Photo CHAPTAL, Jean-Antoine. 

CHAPTAL, Jean-Antoine. 

Chimie appliquée aux arts. 

Paris, Deterville, 1807.
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Jean-Antoine Chaptal (1756-1832) was a French chemist and statesman, a member of the Institut and a professor at the École de Médecine. He played an important role in the development of the chemical industry in France. This work applies the principles of chemistry to practical fields such as dyeing and manufacturing. It illustrates the link between scientific research and industrialization.

Some old annotations in volume 4 on some margins and on 4 added leaves.

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[ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE]. 

Livre Du Centenaire 1794-1894. 

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1894-1897.
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First edition.

Photo BERTRAND, Louis. 

BERTRAND, Louis. 

Élémens de géométrie. 

Paris et Genève, J.J. Paschoud, 1812.
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First edition under this title, but actually the second edition of the second part of his work "Développement nouveau de la partie élémentaire des mathématiques ...", 1778.

In it, he provides a proof of Euclid's postulate, which enjoyed some success until the advent of non-Euclidean geometries.

Louis Bertrand (1731-1812), born in Geneva, was a Swiss geologist and mathematician. He was a student of Euler and became his close friend.

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ARAGO. 

Oeuvres Complètes. 

Paris, Gide, 1854-1859.
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First collective edition of the works of Arago.

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LEVY, Paul. 

Oeuvres de Paul Levy. 

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1973-1980.
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First edition.

Paul Lévy (1886-1971) was a French mathematician.
He is among the founders of modern probability theory. He is also known for his important work on the stable stochastic distributions that bear his name, as well as on martingales.

Photo DESTOUCHES, Jean-Louis. 

DESTOUCHES, Jean-Louis. 

Principes Fondamentaux de Physique Théorique. 

Paris, Hermann, 1942.
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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.

Photo CARTAN, Elie. 

CARTAN, Elie. 

Oeuvres complètes de Elie Cartan. 

Paris, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 1984.
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Élie Cartan (1869 – 1951) was a French mathematician who made fundamental contributions to Lie group theory and its geometric applications.

He also made significant contributions to mathematical physics, differential geometry, differential equations, group theory, and quantum mechanics.

He is widely regarded as one of the greatest mathematicians of the 20th century.

Photo CARTAN, Elie. 

CARTAN, Elie. 

Oeuvres - Collected works. 

Berlin - New-York, Springer-Verlag, 1979.
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250 €

Edited by R. Remmert and J.-P. Serre. Text in french.
Élie Cartan (1869 – 1951) was a French mathematician who made fundamental contributions to Lie group theory and its geometric applications.

He also made significant contributions to mathematical physics, differential geometry, differential equations, group theory, and quantum mechanics.

He is widely regarded as one of the greatest mathematicians of the 20th century.

Photo DARCY, Henry. 

DARCY, Henry. 

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

Paris, Mallet, 1857.
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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).

Photo BIOT, Jean-Baptiste. 

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.

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DU BOURGUET, Jean-Baptiste-Estienne. 

Traités élémentaires de calcul différentiel et de calcul intégral, indépendans de toutes notions de quantités infinitésimales et de limites. 

Paris, Courcier, 1810-11.
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Jean-Baptiste-Estienne Du Bourguet (1767-1845) was a French mathematician and naval officer. He was a professor of mathematics at the Lycée Impérial. This work is a manual on differential and integral calculus, notable for its pedagogical approach that seeks to bypass notions of limits and infinitesimals for beginners, focusing instead on practical applications in science.

Photo MONGE, Gaspard. 

MONGE, Gaspard. 

Application de l'analyse à la géométrie. 

Paris, Bachelier, 1850.
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The first edition appeared in 1795 under the title 'Feuilles d'analyse appliquée à la géométrie'. In this work, Monge "assembled, along with general considerations regarding the theory of surfaces and the geometric interpretation of partial differential equations, monographs on about twenty families of surfaces defined by their mode of generation." (DSB [IX p. 476]).
In 1802, working with Hachette, he prepared a brief exposition, of analytic geometry that was designed to replace, the few remarks on the subject contained in the Feuilles. Entitled 'Application de l’algèbre à l’analyse', it was published separately in 1805; in 1807 edition and also for the fourth 1809 edition, it became, the first part of the final version of 'Feuilles d’analyse', now entitled 'Application de l'Analyse à la Géométrie.'
It's an, important work, in which, "The authors show that every plane section of a second degree surface is a second degree curve, and that parallel planes cut out similar and similarly placed curves. These results parallel Archimedes' geometric theorems. The authors also show that the hyperboloid of one sheet and the hyperbolic paraboloid are ruled surfaces, that is, each can be generated in two different ways by the motion of a line or each surfiace is formed by two systems of lines. The result on the one-sheeted hyperboloid was known by 1669 to Christopher Wren, who said that this figure could be Senerated by revolving a line about another not in the same plane. With the work of Euler, Lagrange, and Monge, analytic geometry became an independent and full-fledged branch of mathematics." (Kline in. Mathematical ... p. 547).

Fifth edition augmented by Joseph Liouville, who added substantial notes, as well as a translation of Carl Friedrich Gauss's key memoir (Disquisitiones generales circa superficies curvas, 1827) on the general theory of curved surfaces.

Photo BERTRAND, Louis. 

BERTRAND, Louis. 

Développement nouveau de la partie élémentaire des mathématiques, prise dans toute son étendue. 

Genève, Aux dépens de l'auteur, 1778.
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250 €

First edition.
Professor of mathematics at the academy of Geneva, Louis Bertrand proposes in this book a proof of the postulate of Euclid.
A book that had a strong impact until the appearance of non-Euclidean geometry.

Photo COMTE, Auguste. 

COMTE, Auguste. 

Cours de philosophie positive. 

Paris, J. B. Baillière et Fils, 1864.
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Second edition with an expanded preface by Émile Littré, his main disciple.
Auguste Comte (1798-1857) is the founder of positivism and sociology. His Cours de philosophie positive, originally published in six volumes between 1830 and 1842, is his major work, which sets out the whole of his philosophical and scientific thought. Volume I: General Preliminaries and Mathematical Philosophy. Volume II: Astronomical Philosophy and the Philosophy of Physics. Volume III: Chemical Philosophy and Biological Philosophy. Volume IV: The Dogmatic Part of Social Philosophy. Volume V: The Historical Part of Social Philosophy in Everything Concerning the Theological and Metaphysical States. Volume VI: The Complement of Social Philosophy and General Conclusions.

Photo CURIE, Pierre || CURIE, Marie. 

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

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HACHETTE, Jean. 

Traité de géométrie descriptive, comprenant les applications de cette géométrie aux ombres, à la perspective et à la stéréotomie. 

Paris, Corby, 1822.
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250 €

First edition.

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DE BROGLIE, Louis. 

Découvertes et conceptions nouvelles de la Physique Contemporaine. 

Paris, Les Centraux Bibliophiles, 1937.
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Edition limited to 130 copies.
Our number 110 printed for Louis Hubert.

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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.

Photo POINCARÉ, Henri. 

POINCARÉ, Henri. 

Des fondements de la géométrie. 

Paris, Etienne Chiron, [1921].
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Henri Poincaré (1854-1912) was a French mathematician, physicist, philosopher of science, and engineer, considered one of the last "universal scholars." His work spanned many fields. This work is a philosophical reflection on the nature of mathematics and geometry, in which he explores the fundamental concepts of space and the foundations of non-Euclidean geometries.

Photo MAXWELL, James Clerk. 

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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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.

Photo VOLTERRA, Vito. 

VOLTERRA, Vito. 

Leçons sur la Théorie Mathématique de la Lutte pour la Vie. 

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1931.
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Vito Volterra (1860-1940) was a world-renowned Italian mathematician and physicist, a member of the Institute and professor at the University of Rome. His Leçons sur la Théorie Mathématique de la Lutte pour la Vie (Lectures on the Mathematical Theory of the Struggle for Life), edited by Marcel Brelot and published in the "Cahiers Scientifiques" collection directed by Gaston Julia, is a pioneering work in biomathematics. Volterra is considered one of the founders of the mathematical study of biological interactions, particularly predator-prey relationships and population dynamics. This book presents his famous differential equations (Lotka-Volterra equations), which model these interactions. It is a seminal work at the intersection of mathematics and biology.

Photo ADHÉMAR, Joseph-Alphonse. 

ADHÉMAR, Joseph-Alphonse. 

Traité des ombres. 

Paris, Mathias, 1852.
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Second edition.
Complete copy with his atlas.

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HERMITE, Charles. 

Oeuvres de Charles Hermite. 

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1905-1917.
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First edition of the works of Charles Hermite, compiled posthumously by Emile Picard.
Charles Hermite (1822–1901) was a French mathematician. His work focused primarily on number theory, quadratic forms, orthogonal polynomials, elliptic functions, and differential equations. Several mathematical entities are named Hermitian in his honor. He is also known as one of the first to use matrices.
His works were collected and published after his death by his son-in-law Émile Picard.

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