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Photo MARTIN, Benjamin. 

MARTIN, Benjamin. 

Grammaire des Sciences Philosophiques, ou Analyse abrégée de la Philosophie moderne, appuyée sur les expériences. 

Paris, Briasson, 1749.
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600 €

First french edition.

Photo [JULLIEN et al.]. 

[JULLIEN et al.]. 

Revue Encyclopédique, ou Analyse Raisonnée des Productions les Plus Remarquables dans la Littérature, les Sciences Et les Arts. 

[Paris], [Gide], 1819.
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450 €

First edition.
Head of series of this royalist gazette which will be published until 1820.

Photo BLAINVILLE, Henri-Marie || MAUPIED, FLM. 

BLAINVILLE, Henri-Marie || MAUPIED, FLM. 

Histoire des sciences de l'organisation et de leurs progrès, comme base de la philosophie. 

Paris, Perisse frères, 1845.
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250 €

First edition.
A History of Sciences which is the Sorbonne's counterpart to the History of Natural Sciences that Cuvier had published a few years earlier from the Collège de France, the two rival parisians faculties.

Photo MAUPERTUIS, Pierre Louis Moreau de. 

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, faites par ordre du Roy au cercle polaire. 

Paris, Imprimerie royale, 1738.
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First edition.
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.

Photo POINCARE, Henri. 

POINCARE, Henri. 

Sur les Rapports de la physique expérimentale et de la physique mathématique. 

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1900.
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600 €

First edition.
Offprint of this very interesting article on epistemology by Henri Poincaré in which he analyzes the relationship between the mathematical laws of physics and the data of experience: When should one be right in one and wrong in the other?
In this report which was presented to the International Congress of Physics in 1900, Poincaré discusses there in particular at the end of the text the Lorentz equations which make it possible to analyze certain physical facts but not all, which will be decided by Einstein a few years later with his special theory of relativity.
This debate is still an issue for modern physics about dark matter, should we change physical theories or improve our measurement capabilities?.

Photo FOURCROY, Antoine-François de. 

FOURCROY, Antoine-François de. 

Notice sur la vie et les travaux de Lavoisier. 

Paris, Impr. de la Feuille du cultivateur, An IV [1796].
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150 €

Bound after with separate title page and pagination : "La Mort de Lavoisier, Hyérodrame Mis en musique par le Citoyen Langlé... Paroles de Charles Désaudray". 7-(1bl.) pages.
Two brochures praising Lavoisier after he was guillotined.

Photo DORTOUS DE MAIRAN, Jean-Jacques. 

DORTOUS DE MAIRAN, Jean-Jacques. 

Éloge des académiciens de l’académie royale des sciences, morts dans les années 1741, 1742 & 1743. 

Paris, Durand, 1747.
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150 €

First edition.
Dortous de Mairan was then permanent secretary of the Academy of Sciences. Among the eulogies transcribed are those of Halley, Abbé Bignon, Lemery.
Each eulogy is accompanied by a bibliography of the scientist.

Photo PASCAL, Blaise. 

PASCAL, Blaise. 

Oeuvres de Blaise Pascal. 

La Haye [Paris], Detune, 1779.
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2500 €

First and only old collective edition.

Published by Bossut, this edition is illustrated with a portrait and 14 plates.
Among the unpublished there are many "pensée", writings on Grace, the Treaty of vacuum and and extensive correspondence.
Volumes IV and V contain the scientific works.
We found the second printing of the describing of invention of the computing machine of Descartes (TIV, pages 7-30). The first edition, certainly printed by the author, is unobtainable (only two copies known).
Also of interest here is the reprint of Pascal's 1654 paper introducing his triangle of binominal coefficients (Pascal's Triangle), included in Volume V, pages 1-54. Pascal's invention "predated the concepts of computation of the values of polynomial functions by differences.".

Photo DARWIN, Charles. 

DARWIN, Charles. 

De la Variation des Animaux et des Plantes à l'état domestique. 

Paris, C. Reinwald et Cie, 1879.
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150 €

French edition on the second english edition.
In addition to the remarks on the domestication of animals (which is a bias of unnatural selection) Darwin exposes in this book for the first time his theory of Pangenesis.
Darwin seeks there a support of hereditary information and puts forward the hypothesis of cellular buds which would transmit the characters of the parents. The hypothesis is false but we feel that genetics are in fact not very far.

Photo DARWIN, Charles. 

DARWIN, Charles. 

La Descendance de l'Homme et la sélection sexuelle. 

Paris, C. Reinwald, 1881.
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100 €

Third edition in French.

This book is Darwin's second major work on the theory of evolution after "On the Origin of Species" published in 1859.
He described the application of his theory to human evolution and specified the theory of sexual selection.

Photo SAVERIEN, Alexandre. 

SAVERIEN, Alexandre. 

Histoire des progrès de l'esprit humain dans les sciences naturelles et dans les arts qui en dépendent. 

Paris, Lacombe, 1775-1778.
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500 €

First edition.
Each volume is devoted to the history of a particular field of science with a biography of the main scientists in the discipline.
The first two volumes are devoted to the exact sciences (1776-1777), the third to the intellectual sciences (1777) and the fourth to natural history (1778). A completely new and fascinating historiographical approach to science at the time.

Photo ARAGO, François || LAMARTINE, Alphonse de. 

ARAGO, François || LAMARTINE, Alphonse de. 

Projet de décret relatif à un crédit supplémentaire de Dix mille francs pour la réimpression des Œuvres scientifiques de Laplace. 

s.l., s.n., 22 juin 1848.
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450 €

Rare document signed by Lamartine and Arago.
Draft decree to allocate 10,000 fr to continue the reprint of the Works of Laplace. This had been allocated 40,000 fr in 1842 but the initial estimate having been exceeded, money had to be added to the project.

The document is drafted by the Secretary of the Executive Power Commission and is signed by all the members of this commission: François Arago, Alphonse de Lamartine, Louis-Antoine Garnier-Pagès, Alexandre Ledru-Rollin, Pierre Marie de St Georges.
Rare testimony of this commission which lasted only for the months of May and June 1848 and which saw the Scientist and the Poet at the top of the French State.

Photo [HORLAVILLE, Gaston]. 

[HORLAVILLE, Gaston]. 

Diplôme de Bachelier ès Sciences. 

Paris, [Ministère de l'instruction publique], 1888.
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50 €

Bachelor of Science degree awarded to Gaston Horlaville. The diploma bears the handwritten signatures of Gaston Horlaville, the Rector of the Academy of Caen, the head of the office of the director of higher education and that of the minister of public education: Léopold Faye who was not minister of the third republic only for a few months.

Photo LAMARCK, Jean Baptiste de. 

LAMARCK, Jean Baptiste de. 

Systême des animaux sans vertèbres, ou tableau général des classes, des ordres et des genres de ces animaux. 

Paris, Deterville, 1801.
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4000 €

First edition.
One of the very first formulations of the concept of evolution of species (transformism), before Darwin's, and presenting as the cause of evolution (Lamarckism) the heredity of acquired characteristics.

It will take more than 50 years for Darwin's work on environmental selection pressure to contradict Lamarck's Speech.

However, we owe Lamarck the introduction in this book of the distinction between Vertebrate and Invertebrate animals, a distinction that we still use in current taxonomy.

Photo [MONTESQUIEU, Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de]. 

[MONTESQUIEU, Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de]. 

De L'Esprit des Loix. 

Amsterdam, Chatelain, 1749.
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500 €

Major work of the 18th century.
The original edition will appear in Geneva in 1748, the success was immediate and many reissues were published throughout Europe before the book was put on the index in 1751.
This 12mo edition spotted by Quérard repeats the second corrected edition published in 1749. It contains the warning which includes all the modifications made by Montesquieu to the first edition.

De l'Esprit des Loix, innovates in several areas: the adjustment of laws to human society, the separation of powers, and a theory of climates which will have effects even in the structuralism of the twentieth century.
Durkheim will see in Montesquieu's work the origins of a new science: sociology.

Photo PASCAL, Blaise. 

PASCAL, Blaise. 

Oeuvres de Blaise Pascal. 

La Haye [Paris], Detune, 1779.
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1500 €

First and only old collective edition,
Published by Bossut, this edition is illustrated with a portrait and 14 plates.
Among the unpublished there are many "pensée", writings on Grace, the Treaty of vacuum and and extensive correspondence.
Volumes IV and V contain the scientific works.
We found the second printing of the describing of invention of the computing machine of Descartes (TIV, pages 7-30). The first edition, certainly printed by the author, is unobtainable (only two copies known).
Also of interest here is the reprint of Pascal's 1654 paper introducing his triangle of binominal coefficients (Pascal's Triangle), included in Volume V, pages 1-54. Pascal's invention "predated the concepts of computation of the values of polynomial functions by differences.".

Photo [ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE]. 

[ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE]. 

L'Epopée, Centenaire de l'école polytechnique 1794-1894. 

Paris, Plon Nourrit, [1894].
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60 €

Collection of texts in the form of a sung opera, retracing a century of history of the Ecole Polytechnique.

Show that was undoubtedly given during the evening of Shadows for the centenary of Polytechnique.

Photo FRANKLIN, Alfred. 

FRANKLIN, Alfred. 

Recherches sur la bibliothèque de la Faculté de médecine de Paris d'après des documents entièrement inédits suivis d'une notice sur les manuscrits qui y sont conservés. 

Paris, Aubry, 1864.
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150 €

First edition.
Printed with 347 copies.

Photo D'ALEMBERT, Jean Le Rond. 

D'ALEMBERT, Jean Le Rond. 

Eloges lus dans les séances publiques de l'Académie Françoise. 

Paris, Panckoucke, Moutard, 1779.
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100 €

First edition.
Collection of praise that D'Alembert, then perpetual secretary of the French Academy, made of his predecessors.

Photo FLOURENS, Pierre. 

FLOURENS, Pierre. 

Recueil des éloges historiques lus dans les séances publiques de l'académie des siences. 

Paris, Garnier frères, 1856-1862.
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120 €

First edition.

"The lives of scientists are a large part of the history of the human mind; it is the express history of its discoveries, of its inventions, of its sublime and creative ideas. Who knows this spectacle, and follow it carefully, he soon finds him one of the greatest. We see the human spirit moving forward, and we see the precious men to whom it owes its progress "(extract from the preface to Volume III).

Photo CLARIS, Gaston. 

CLARIS, Gaston. 

Notre Ecole Polytechnique. 

Paris, Librairies-imprimeries réunies, 1895.
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90 €

Beautiful edition intended for former students of L'X, the author traces the history and customs of the famous school.
The eight color plates on glossy paper represent the succession of the different uniforms of the polytechnic students.

Photo LUCAS DE PESLOÜAN, Charles. 

LUCAS DE PESLOÜAN, Charles. 

N.H Abel. Sa vie et son œuvre. 

Paris, Gauthiers Villars, 1906.
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50 €

Niels Henrik Abel (1802-1829) is a Norwegian mathematician. Like Galois at the same time, he died young but left a considerable body of work.
"He is known for his work in mathematical analysis on the semiconvergence of numerical series, sequences and series of functions, on the convergence criteria of generalized integral and on the notion of elliptic integral; in algebra, on the resolution of equations . " (Accromath).

Photo ARAGO. 

ARAGO. 

Oeuvres Complètes. 

Paris, Gide, 1854-1862.
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850 €

First collective edition of the works of Arago.

Photo SARTORY, Auguste. 

SARTORY, Auguste. 

Vers le monde d'Einstein. 

Paris, Librairie Aristide Quillet, [v. 1925].
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15 €
Photo MONTUCLA, Jean Etienne. 

MONTUCLA, Jean Etienne. 

Histoire des Mathématiques, dans laquelle on rend compte de leur progrès depuis leur origine jusqu'à nos jours; où l'on expose le tableau et le développement des principales découvertes dans toutes les parties des Mathématiques, les contestations qui se sont élevées entre les Mathématiciens, et les principaux traits de la vie des plus célèbres. 

Paris, Henri Agasse, 1799-1802.
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1500 €

Most complete edition in 4 volumes.
The first edition was published in 2 volumes, Montucla was to complete it with a third but died before its publication. It is Jérôme De La Lande who will finally publish the last two volumes according to Montucla's notes.
A reference on the history of mathematics.

Photo DIDEROT & D'ALEMBERT. 

DIDEROT & D'ALEMBERT. 

Recueil de planches sur les Sciences, les arts libéraux et les arts méchnaniques avec leur explication. 

Parme, Franco Maria Ricci, 1970.
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120 €

Very nice facsimile edition of the Encyclopédie de Diderot and D'Alembert given by the Italian publisher Franco Maria Ricci. The print was made on a very good quality laid paper.
Here is the second volume of the second issue of the collection of plates from the 1763 edition at Briasson, comprising 203 plates announced.
The Facsimile is preceded by an opinion from the editor and an introduction by Roland Barthes (these two texts in Italian).

Photo DIDEROT & D'ALEMBERT. 

DIDEROT & D'ALEMBERT. 

Recueil de planches sur les Sciences, les arts liberaux et les arts méchnaniques avec leur explication. 

Parme, Franco Maria Ricci, 1970.
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120 €

Very nice facsimile edition of the Encyclopédie de Diderot and D'Alembert given by the Italian publisher Franco Maria Ricci. The print was made on a very good quality laid paper. Here is the first volume of the collection of plates from the 1762 edition at Briasson comprising 269 plates announced.

Photo LAUNAY, Louis de. 

LAUNAY, Louis de. 

Le Grand Ampère d'après des documents inédits. 

Paris, Perrin et Cie, 1925.
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30 €

First edition.
Biography of André-Marie Ampère (1775-1836) by Louis de Launay who worked on the correspondence of the famous scientist.

Photo [SCIENCES]. 

[SCIENCES]. 

Documents de travail d'un société des sciences de Marseille. 

Marseille, s.n., 1740.
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450 €

Interesting set of working documents of a Scienfitic Society from Marseille in the 18th century.
At the beginning of the eighteenth century two projects of a foundation of a Marseille Academy clashed, the first wanted to devote himself solely to Sciences, the second on the model of the French Academy, wanted to focus on Letters. It is the second project supported by the governor of Provence which won the support of Louis XV and the Academy of Belles-Lettres de Marseille was founded in 1726. It was only in a second time, in 1766, that it will open up to Sciences and the Arts.
We imagine the dismay of Marseilles scientists during the interval, and it is probably this frustration which is at the origin of the creation of the Société des Sciences de Marseille of which we present some documents here.
Lot consisting of 6 pieces:
- 3 transcripts of speeches, one of which addresses the question of the rules of the "Academy" which excluded the religious. It offers openness to abbots and monks, those with interest libraries, but seeking a solution that avoids animosities between the different orders.
- Speech by the perpetual secretary summarizing the work of the Academy during the period 1739-1740.
- Work report: Geometry of Mr Gérard, Mechanics of Mr De Pontis.
- Bundle of 10 tickets, "Tasks of the Academicians for 1741": Each academician offers on a small autograph ticket signed the scientific work they undertake to address during the year 1741. We find the names of Ganteaume, De Pontis , Pelissery, Gérard, Saint-Jacques, Roussin.

Photo [POLYTECHNIQUE]. 

[POLYTECHNIQUE]. 

Séance des Ombres des Vieux Antiques. 

Paris, A. Eymeoud, 1902.
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250 €

Songbook for the Ombres a Polytechnique evening in 1902

"Les Ombres" is a traditional performance by the École Polytechnique, the first edition of which was given in 1818. It involved the projection of satirical chineese shadows onto scenes from the life of the school and its teachers. Each projection was accompanied by a song, most often irreverent, written and sung by the students.

The Parisian group of the École Polytechnique was created in 1895 but still remains in activity today under the acronym GPX, it aims to "maintain and strengthen the bonds of camaraderie between the members of the polytechnic community. that organizing most of its events in the Paris region, the GPX welcomes all polytechnicians, regardless of their place of residence, as well as members of their family and close friends. " (site of the AX).


We join :
The Program for the Spring meeting (May 14, 1902) of the Parisian Group of the École Polytechnique, of which the Séance des Ombres des Vieux Antiques was only the 6th part - booklet (200x125 mm), 4 pages. Adorned with a Charles Pillet medallion.

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