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Photo GALOIS, Évariste. 

GALOIS, Évariste. 

Oeuvres mathématiques d'Évariste Galois. In Journal de Mathématiques pures et appliquées ou Recueil mensuel de mémoires sur les diverses parties des mathématiques, Année 1846, Tome XI. 

Paris, Bachelier, 1846.
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6500 €

First edition of collected mathematical works of Evariste Galois given by Liouville in this volume of the Journal de Mathématiques pures et appliquées .

A brilliant mathematician, misunderstood in his day and with a tragic fate (he died at the age of 20 in a gallant duel), Galois created the notion of group, and his work has inspired generations of mathematicians.
A brilliant student, he was misunderstood by his contemporaries. Poisson rejected the work he wanted to present to the Paris Academy of Sciences.
In 1832, on the eve of his fatal duel, Galois wrote his mathematical will, which he entrusted to a friend.
It was not until 1846 that Liouville published them in this volume of the Journal des mathématiques, and not until 1870 that Jordan recognized their importance.

"When, yielding to the wish of Evariste's friends, I gave myself up, as it were under the eyes of his brother, to the attentive study of all the printed or manuscript pieces he left behind, I therefore thought I had to propose as my sole aim to seek out, to unravel, to then bring out as best I could, what was new in these productions.

My zeal was soon rewarded, and I was delighted when, after filling in a few small gaps, I recognized the complete accuracy of the method by which Galois proves, in particular, this beautiful theorem: For an irreducible equation of prime degree to be solvable by radicals, it is necessary and sufficient that all the roots be rational functions of any two of them'.
This method, truly worthy of the attention of geometers, would alone suffice to secure our compatriot a place among the small number of scientists who have earned the title of inventor." (Liouville p.382).

Photo [GADROYS, Claude]. 

[GADROYS, Claude]. 

Le Systeme du Monde, selon les trois Hypotheses, ou conformement aux loix de la Mechanique l'on explique dans la supposition du mouvement de la Terre. 

Paris, Guillaume Desprez, 1675.
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750 €

First edition.
Book in which are presented the cosmologies of Ptolemy, Copernicus and Tycho Brahe enlightened by the theories of Descartes.

Photo EINSTEIN, Albert. 

EINSTEIN, Albert. 

The Meaning of Relativity, including the relativistic theory of the non-symmetric field. 

Princeton, Princeton University press, 1955.
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200 €

Fifth and last expanded edition by Einstein.
Popular work, published from his Stanford courses, which gives an overview of the theory of relativity. Published shortly after his death, this fifth edition presents for the first time the latest revision of Einstein's Theory of Gravitation.
"Shortly before his death Mr. Einstein completed a revised version of his Generalized Theory of Gravitation in which he felt he had succeeded in simplifying the derivations as well as the form of the field equations. The whole theory thereby becomes more transparent without changing its content . This simplified version is now presented here for the first time as Appendix II on the Relativistic Theory of the Non-Symmetric Field.".

Photo EIFFEL, Gustave. 

EIFFEL, Gustave. 

Les Observations courantes en météorologie et comparaison des stations de Beaulieu, Sèvres et Vacquey. 

Paris, Imprimerie de la bourse de commerce, 1905.
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600 €

First edition.
Off-print of a conference made at Société astronomique de France on 4 janvier 1905.
Presentation copy signed by Eiffel on cover.

Photo EDDINGTON, Arthur || EINSTEIN, Albert. 

EDDINGTON, Arthur || EINSTEIN, Albert. 

Relativitätstheorie in mathematischer Behandlung. Mit einem Anhang Eddingtons Theorie und Hamiltonsches Prinzip von Albert Einstein. 

Berlin, Springer, 1925.
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400 €

First German edition of The Mathematical Theory of Relativity published in 1923.
This German edition contains as an appendix an original article by Einstein on Eddington's theory and Hamilton's principle.
Arthur Eddington, a leading physicist, was the first to provide experimental proof of Einstein's general relativity during the solar eclipse of 1920.

Photo DESCARTES, René. 

DESCARTES, René. 

Le Monde de Mr Descartes ou le traité de la lumière et des autres principaux objets des sens. 

Paris, Jacques Le Gras, 1664.
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3000 €

First edition.
Very rare copy with title page in unlisted condition in the name of Jacques Le Gras.

Descartes wrote this treatise in 1632 and 1633. He defended in particular the heliocentric system of Copernicus, but following Galileo's condemnation, he gave up publishing this work during his lifetime. It will not be finally published, according to his will, until after his death. At the end of 1663, the Le Gras and Clerselier family will dispute the privilege of publishing the posthumous works of Descartes. For the "World" it is Jacques Le Gras who will be the first to deposit the privilege. (cf. CARTESIAN BULLETIN V. (1976). Archives de Philosophie, 39 (3), 445–494) Jacques Le Gras, the holder of the privilege, then shared it with Thomas Girard (his brother-in-law) and Michel Bobin.

Our title page is unknown to Tchermerzine and Guibert as well as to Mathias Van Otegem who in his bibliography of the works of Descartes published in 2002, after consulting the copies in public libraries, describes only four states of the title page of this edition.
Our copy therefore presents a fifth state of the still unpublished title page.
Our title page has the same typographical mark as the Thomas Girad state (6 fleurons) canonically considered to adorn the true first edition. In addition, like the copy "Thomas Girad" from the Munich library (BSB: Rar. 4594) our title page is margined shorter than the rest of the book body and printed with the same characters, which suggests an impression at the same time.
The copies having a recomposed title page with a typographical mark "à l'oiseau" only coming, according to bibliographers, in a second step.

"In Le Monde, Descartes wants to ruin the concepts of scholasticism, and 'evacuate' Aristotle's physics, by giving a physical interpretation of the new heliocentric astronomy. As opposed to traditional finalism, he envisions, in the form of a "Fable", the mechanical formation of the cosmos, from an initial state of chaos (pieces of matter of various shapes and sizes agitated by all-out movements) and only by virtue of the general laws of nature: principle of inertia, laws of the communication of movement, etc ... "Robert Maggiori, Liberation, 26.

Photo CLAIRAUT, Alexis. 

CLAIRAUT, Alexis. 

Théorie de la Lune, déduite du seul principe de l'attraction. 

Paris, Dessaint & Saillant, 1765.
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1500 €

Second edition.
This second edition brings together the Theory of the Moon and the Tables of the Moon published by Clairaut in 1752 and 1754 which are the first approximate resolution of the three-body problem. Between 1747 and 1754, three of the greatest mathematicians of their time, Euler, D'Alembert and Clairaut, opposed each other on a common project: to develop new mathematical methods in order to resolve the complex problems posed by the movement of the Moon, subject to both to the gravitational pull of the Earth and the Sun. The issue was both scientific and economic since the establishment of precise astronomical tables was necessary for the reliability of navigation at sea.

Photo CHAPTAL, Jean-Antoine. 

CHAPTAL, Jean-Antoine. 

Mémoires de chimie. 

Montpellier, Jean Martel Aîné, 1781.
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950 €

First edition of the first work of Chaptal.
First volume, only published.
After three years spent in Paris (1777-1780), Chaptal was offered in 1780 a chair of chemistry at the Royal Society of Sciences of Montpellier.
"It was from this moment that Chaptal's brilliant career in science began.
The revolution in chemistry was at hand. However, the old doctrine of phlogiston still prevailed and it was this doctrine that Chaptal taught at first and in his first courses that he took up in his first work. He then quickly rallied to the ideas developed by Lavoisier. "(Flourens. Eloge de Chaptal. 1835)
Rare (missing from the main collections on chemistry : Duveen, Ferguson, Neville ...)

Bound with :
- POULLE. Positiones chemico-medicae de Aere Vitali. Montpellier, Picot, 1784. 64 pages (a lack in the margin of page 41). Rare work on the chemical and medical properties of oxygen and its preparation. First edition.
- BERTHOLON. Des avantages que la physique et les arts qui en dépendent peuvent retirer des globes aérostatiques...Montpellier, Jean Martel Aîné, 1784. 82 pages. First edition.
- LAFFECTEUR. Rapport sur l'analyse du Rob Antisyphillitique. 1779. Ph. D. Pierres, Paris. 24 pages. First edition.
- GUER. [Dissertation physique & botanique sur la maladie nephretique et sur son véritable spécifique, le Raisin d'Ours]. 1768, Bauer, Strasbourg. 98 pages and 1 folding plate. Bound without the title page and the privilege.
- GOUBERT. Description et usage des baromètres, thermomètres et autres instrumens météorologiques. 1781. Jombert, Paris. 52 pages and 1 folding table. First edition

A presentation copy to the botanist of Dijon Jean-François Durande, for the second work (Poulle).

Photo BRISSON, Mathurin-Jacques. 

BRISSON, Mathurin-Jacques. 

Traité élémentaire ou principe de physique [suivi de] Elémens ou principes physico-chymiques. 

Paris, Bossange, Masson et Besson, 1800.
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600 €

Frist complete edition with the first edition of the fourth volume.
Complete homogeneous set in 4 volumes and 52 plates of this physics and chemistry course published by Mathurin-Jacques Brisson.
Assistant to Réaumur then to Nollet, Brisson became a professor of physics at the College of Navarre and then at the Ecole Centrale. He began to publish his Elementary Treaty of Physics in 1789. This third edition of 1800 was supplemented by a new volume on chemistry to serve as a follow-up to physics.

Photo AGNESI, Maria Gaetana. 

AGNESI, Maria Gaetana. 

Traités élémentaires de calcul différentiel et de calcul intégral. Traduits de l'italien de Mademoiselle Agnesi, avec des additions. 

Paris, Claude-Antoine Jombert, 1775.
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2000 €

First edition in french.
Agnesi is according to DSB : "the first woman in the Western world who can accurately be called a mathematician".
Rare treatise on algebra and analysis which met a great success.
It was considered as the clearest, the more methodical and the most comprehensive work on the subject.

Photo SAVARY, Jacques. 

SAVARY, Jacques. 

Le Parfait Négociant ou instruction générale pour ce qui regarde le commerce. 

Paris, Jean Guignard, 1675.
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3500 €

First edition.
A famous merchant born in 1622 in Doué (Anjou) from a noble family, Savary became a wealthy merchant and retired from business at the age of 36. He was chosen by Colbert to be one of the writers of the commercial code of 1673 which was called "Code Savary". He wrote in 1675 the "Perfect trader" which is the compilation of the knowledge he had gathered for the drafting of the ordinance. The legal solutions are clear, sensible, practical, honest. The book is a business bible whose importance Max Weber underlined. This work became a classic, reprinted many times and translated into German, English and Italian.

Photo BIOT, Jean-Baptiste. 

BIOT, Jean-Baptiste. 

Notions élémentaires de statique destinées aux jeunes gens qui se préparent pour l'École Polytechnique. 

Paris, Bachelier, 1829.
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50 €

Jean-Baptiste Biot (1774-1862) was a French physicist, astronomer and mathematician, pioneer in the use of polarized light to study solutions.

Photo LAURENT, Hermann. 

LAURENT, Hermann. 

Théorie des jeux de hasard. 

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, [1893].
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30 €

First edition.

Photo HERMITE, Charles || PICARD, Emile. 

HERMITE, Charles || PICARD, Emile. 

Oeuvres de Charles Hermite. 

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1905-1917.
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250 €

First edition.
Charles Hermite (1822-1901), his work mainly concerns number theory, quadratic forms, orthogonal polynomials, elliptic functions and differential equations. Several mathematical entities are described as 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.

Photo CHASLES, Michel. 

CHASLES, Michel. 

Traité de géométrie supérieure. 

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1880.
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150 €

Second edition.
Major book of the famous mathematician Chasles.

Photo LACEPEDE, Etienne de. 

LACEPEDE, Etienne de. 

Histoire naturelle des quadrupèdes ovipares et des serpens. 

Paris, Hotel de Thou, 1788-1789.
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800 €

First edition.
Buffon at the end of his life had commissioned Count Lacépède to continue his immense Natural History by completing it with oviparous quadrupeds and snakes, the second part of which was published after Buffon's death.

Photo EIFFEL, Gustave. 

EIFFEL, Gustave. 

Études Pratiques de Météorologie et observations comparées des Stations de Beaulieu, Sévres et Vacquey pour L'Année 1903. Atlas des Planches. 

Paris, L. Maretheux, 1905.
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80 €

First edition.
Atlas of plates for this report of meteorological records carried out by Gustave Eiffel's network of observatories. Some curves printed on tracing paper to facilitate comparisons.

Photo MAILLET, Edmond. 

MAILLET, Edmond. 

Introduction à la Théorie des Nombres Transcendants et des propriétés arithmétiques des fonctions. 

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1906.
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300 €

First edition.
Edmond Théodore Maillet (1865-1938) is one of the rare French mathematicians of the 19th century working in algebraic number theory.

Photo TANNERY, Jules. 

TANNERY, Jules. 

Leçons d'arithmétique théorique et pratique. 

Paris, Armand Colin & Cie, 1894.
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50 €

First edition.
Jules Tannery (1848-1910), was a French mathematician whose efforts are mainly directed towards the study of the foundations of mathematics and the philosophical ideas implicit in mathematical thought.

Photo CAHEN, Eugène. 

CAHEN, Eugène. 

Éléments de la théorie des nombres : Congruences, Formes Quadratiques, Nombres Incommensurables. 

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1900.
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75 €

First edition.

Presentation copy.

Photo LAISANT, Charles-Ange. 

LAISANT, Charles-Ange. 

Introduction à la méthode des quaternions. 

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1881.
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75 €

First edition.
This book offers an in-depth and accessible exploration of the quaternion method, a branch of mathematics that has long fascinated math enthusiasts. Laisant makes this complex method more easily understandable to a wider audience, providing clear illustrations and numerous examples. Readers will be able to learn how to solve complex math problems in a new and exciting way with this book.

Photo MERAY, Charles. 

MERAY, Charles. 

Nouveaux Éléments de Géométrie. 

Dijon, p. jobard, 1903.
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50 €

New edition augmented.

Photo LAME, Gabriel. 

LAME, Gabriel. 

Leçons sur les fonctions inverses des transcendantes et les surfaces isothermes. 

Paris, MALLET-BACHELIER, 1857.
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100 €

First edition
Gabriel Lamé (1795-1870) was a French mathematician and engineer known for his significant contributions to mathematics and mechanics. He made important contributions in several areas of mathematics and physics, including elasticity theory, number theory, and complex analysis.

Photo COURNOT, Antoine Augustin. 

COURNOT, Antoine Augustin. 

Traité élémentaire des fonctions et du calcul infinitésimal. 

Paris, L. Hachette, 1857.
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100 €

Second revised and corrected edition.
Cournot, 19th-century French mathematician and philosopher. This treatise is one of his important works and deals with mathematical concepts related to functions and calculus, which is a branch of mathematics dealing with limits, derivatives, and integrals, among other topics.

Photo EIFFEL, Gustave. 

EIFFEL, Gustave. 

Installation d'un laboratoire d'Aérodynamique. 

Paris, 19 rue blanche, 1910.
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750 €

First edition.
Off-print from mémoires de la société des ingéneurs civil de France.
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.

Presentation copy signed by Eiffel on cover.

Photo CHASLES, Michel. 

CHASLES, Michel. 

Traité des Sections Coniques, faisant suite au Traité de Géométrie Supérieure. Première Partie [all published]. 

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1865.
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220 €

First edition.

Photo POISSON, Siméon Denis. 

POISSON, Siméon Denis. 

Traité de Mécanique. 

Paris, Bachelier, 1833.
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125 €

Second edition.
Siméon Denis Poisson (1781-1840), French physicist and mathematician, it is in this Treatise on Mechanics that he introduces the coefficient which bears his name and which is one of the fundamental elements of the theory of elasticity. He demonstrated using molecular theory that this coefficient should have a value equal to 0.25. Value confirmed by measurements since most metals have a Poisson's ratio close to 0.3.

Photo DARBOUX, Gaston. 

DARBOUX, Gaston. 

Leçons sur la théorie générale des surfaces et les applications géométriques du calcul infinitésimal. 

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1887-1896.
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350 €

First edition.
Book compiling the lessons given at the Sorbonne by Gaston Darboux.

Photo SAURI, Jean. 

SAURI, Jean. 

Cours complet de Mathématiques. 

Paris, Ruault, 1774.
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350 €

First edition.
Popularization manual by Abbot Saury, a polymath close to the encyclopedists who went into exile in India after his embattlement.
Complete work in 5 volumes and 32 plates.

Photo [ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE]. 

[ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE]. 

Programmes de l'enseignement de l'Ecole Royale Polytechnique. 

Paris, Imprimerie royale, 1833.
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80 €

First edition.
Teaching program for the 1833-1834 school year at the Ecole Polytechnique decided by the improvement council and approved by the Minister of War on whom the School depended.

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