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Photo ACADÉMIE ROYALE DES SCIENCES || FANTET DE LAGNY, Thomas. 

ACADÉMIE ROYALE DES SCIENCES || FANTET DE LAGNY, Thomas. 

Analyse générale ou méthodes nouvelles pour résoudre les problèmes de tous les genres et de tous les degrez à l'infini.
Mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences. Depuis 1666 jusqu'à 1699. Tome XI. 

Paris, Compagnie des Libraires, 1733.
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400 €

This volume contains the first edition of the treatise of Lagny.
There is an other issue with a different title page, at the same date.

Photo ACADÉMIE ROYALE DES SCIENCES || ROBERVAL, Gilles Personne de || PICARD, Jean. 

ACADÉMIE ROYALE DES SCIENCES || ROBERVAL, Gilles Personne de || PICARD, Jean. 

Mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences. Depuis 1666 jusqu'à 1699. Tome VI. 

Paris, Compagnie des Libraires, 1730.
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250 €

This volume contains articles from Roberval :
- Observations sur la composition des mouvemens & sur le moyen de trouver les touchantes des lignes courbes.
- Traité des indivisibles.
- De Trochoide ejusque spatio.

Photo [ALBUM 14-18]. 

[ALBUM 14-18]. 

Souvenirs des chars de l'Artillerie Spéciale. 

s.l., s.n., [v.1918].
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950 €

Album created by Jacques Duboin, volunteered during the First World War, in 1917 he was appointed chief of maintenance service for the Special Artillery (then in the 81st Heavy Artillery Regiment, then in the general staff of the 500th 'Special Artillery). He is therefore a privileged witness to the deployment of the first French tanks which were part of these regiments.
Of the 75 photos in the album, we note in particular:
- 26 photos of tank maneuvers where we can recognize the Saint-Chamond and Schneider CA1 models as well as the wreckage of a Renault tank which exploded on a minefield.
- Various photos of medal ceremonies and review of the troops.
- 3 photos of the Hungarian prison camps in Ligny en Barrois.
- 4 cyanotypes of a diorama representing tanks.

Snapshots probably taken near the end of the conflict.

Photo APPERT, Nicolas. 

APPERT, Nicolas. 

L'Art de conserver, pendant plusieurs années, toutes les substances animales et végétales. 

Paris, Patris et Cie, 1810.
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800 €

First edition.
Book which discloses to the public the "Appertization" process, consisting of enclosing food in a glass bottle, then placing this bottle in a vase filled with boiling water for eight to ten minutes, heating in a closed container destroying the fermentation germs. Until then, only salting, sugaring and drying were known as methods of preserving meat and fish. Although the book was a great success and was republished many times, giving rise to the creation of the conservation industry, Nicolas Appert did not benefit from it and died poor in 1841.
Copy signed by the author.

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 ASSOCIATION FRANCAISE POUR L'AVANCEMENT DES SCIENCES. 

ASSOCIATION FRANCAISE POUR L'AVANCEMENT DES SCIENCES. 

L'intermédiaire de l'AFAS. 

Paris, Au secrétariat de l'association, 1896-1897-1898-1899.
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90 €

First édition, four years, all published

"L'intermédiaire de l'AFAS" is the journal published between 1896 and 1899 by "l'Association française pour l'avancement des sciences".
It is based on the publication of questions and answers written by the members of the association.
All areas of science are discussed except mathematics.

Photo [BAILLET, Pierre], DESCARTES. 

[BAILLET, Pierre], DESCARTES. 

La vie de Monsieur Descartes. 

Paris, Daniel Horthemels, 1691.
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2000 €

First edition. The best biography of Descartes, written by one of his contemporaries.

Rare in its contemporary morocco with arms on covers.

Photo BOREL, Émile. 

BOREL, Émile. 

Notice sur les travaux scientifiques de M. Émile Borel. 

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1912.
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35 €

First edition.

Photo BOSSUT, Charles. 

BOSSUT, Charles. 

Essai sur l'histoire génerale des Mathematiques. 

Paris, Louis, 1802.
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250 €

First edition of Charles Bossut's important history of mathematics.
Very good copy.
Untouched copy. As issued.

Photo BOUILLIER, Francisque. 

BOUILLIER, Francisque. 

Histoire de la philosophie cartésienne. 

Paris, Ch. Delagrave et Cie, 1868.
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80 €

Third edition.

Photo BOUILLIER, Francisque. 

BOUILLIER, Francisque. 

Histoire de la philosophie cartesienne. 

Paris, Durand, 1854.
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60 €

Second enlarged edition.

Photo BROGLIE, L. || FOEX, G. || BLOCH, E. || DUNOYER, L. || RIBAUD, G. || Lt- colonel JULLIEN || BLOCH, L. || KAMMERER, V. || MESNY, R. 

BROGLIE, L. || FOEX, G. || BLOCH, E. || DUNOYER, L. || RIBAUD, G. || Lt- colonel JULLIEN || BLOCH, L. || KAMMERER, V. || MESNY, R. 

Conférences d'actualités scientifiques et industrielles - Année 1929. 

Paris, Librairie scientifique Hermann et Cie, 1930.
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50 €

First edition.

This book contains the first nine lectures in the collection of "Conférences d'actualités scientifiques et industrielles" gathering by The Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers de Paris.

Photo BRUNET, Pierre. 

BRUNET, Pierre. 

Les physiciens hollandais et la méthode expérimentale en France au XVIIIè siècle. 

Paris, Librairie Scientifique Albert Blanchard, 1926.
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75 €

First edition.
Fine copy bound by Montecot.

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BRUNHES. 

Esquisse des progrès de la physique dus aux savants de la Bourgogne. 

Paris, s.n., [1891].
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50 €

Rare offprint.

Photo CAUCHY, Augustin Louis || ACADÉMIE ROYALE DES SCIENCES. 

CAUCHY, Augustin Louis || ACADÉMIE ROYALE DES SCIENCES. 

Mémoires sur la théorie des nombres . IN. Mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences de l'Institut de France. Tome XVII. 

Paris, Firmin Didot, 1840.
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950 €

Mémoire sur la Théorie des Nombres, Présenté a l'Académie des Sciences, le 31 Mai 1830, par M. Augustin Cauchy.
First edition of this important memoir (pp/ 249 to 768 of this volume of memoirs of the academy of sciences).

The writing of this memoir is quite abrupt, with a succession of formulas difficult to relate to each other, and it will be criticized by Biot in particular.
However, Jenny Boucard, after an in-depth study of Cauchy's work, concluded that Cauchy exposes a coherent method around the quadratic forms 4p^μ=x²+ny² which he applies in different cases, depending on whether n is prime or compound. (Boucard, p.365).

This volume of the Mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences contains :

PONCELET : Théorie des effets mécaniques de la turbine Fourneyron.
TURPIN :
- Mémoire sur les différences qu'offrent les tissus cellulaires de la pomme et de la poire ...
- Mémoire sur la cause et les effets de la fermentation alcoolique et acéteuse.
- Recherches microscopiques sur divers laits ...
BECQUEREL : Nouvelles recherches sur le dégagement de la chaleur dans le frottement
CAUCHY. Mémoires sur la théorie des nombres.
BIOT. Mémoire sur l'existence d'une condition physique qui assigne à l'atmosphère terrestre une limite supérieure d'élévation qu'elle ne peut dépasser.
CHEVREUL. Recherches physico chimiques sur la teinture
And the Flourens' historical praise of Jussieu and Arago's praise of James Watt.

Photo CHELINI, Dominico. 

CHELINI, Dominico. 

In Memorium Dominico Chelini. Collectanea Mathematica. Nunc Primum Edita cura et studio L.Cremona et E.Beltrami. 

Naples, Ulrici Hoepli, 1881.
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350 €

First edition,
Copy of the mathematician Amédée Mannheim (binding with his name gilt on the back).

Photo CLAUDIUS || [RUELLE, Charles]. 

CLAUDIUS || [RUELLE, Charles]. 

La science populaire de Claudius ; Simples discours sur toutes choses : Histoire de l'électricité. 

Paris, Jules Renouard, 1836.
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45 €

First edition.

Photo CONRING, Hermann. 

CONRING, Hermann. 

Introductio in universam artem medicam. 

Halae & Lipsiae, Ernest. Gottlieb. Crugium, 1726.
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275 €

Third and best edition.

Photo COUSIN, Victor. 

COUSIN, Victor. 

Fragments de Philosophie Cartésienne. 

Paris, Charpentier, 1845.
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100 €

First edition.

This book by Victor Cousin (1792-1867) consists in several texts dealing with Cartesian Philosophy, as well as letters between Malebranche and Mairan, and between Malebranche and Leibnitz (unpublished).
Victor Cousin is a French philosopher, leader of the "École Éclectique". He edited the works of Descartes, translated Plato and Proclus, wrote a "Histoire de la philosophie au XVIIIème siècle" in 1829, "Du Vrai, du Beau et du Bien" in 1853, and several monographs on famous women of the seventeenth century.
He is considered in France as the founder of the tradition of history studies of Philosophy and the reformer of philosophical teaching in high schools.

Photo CRUVEILHIER, Jean. 

CRUVEILHIER, Jean. 

Vie de Dupuytren. 

Paris, Bechet Jeune, 1841.
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60 €

First edition.
A student from Limousin and successor in Paris to his compatriot Guillaume Dupuytren, Jean Cruveilhier is currently better known by anatomists and anatomopathologists than by surgeons. Guillaume Dupuytren (1771-1835) was immediately admired by his intern Jean Cruveilhier who, developing the ideas of his boss, quickly became a master in anatomopathology. He was the first to devote a biography to his master.

Photo CUVIER, Georges. 

CUVIER, Georges. 

Recueil des éloges historiques lus dans les séances publiques de l'Institut de France. Nouvelle édition. 

Paris, Firmin Didot, 1861.
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150 €

Second enlarged edition.

Photo CZYNSKI, Jean. 

CZYNSKI, Jean. 

Kopernik et ses travaux. 

Paris, Jules Renouard et Cie, 1847.
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250 €

First edition.

This book deals with the researches and life of the famous Polish astronomer, Nicolas Copernicus (1473-1543), who was at the origin of the theory of heliocentrism (the Earth revolves around the Sun and not the opposite).

The author, Jean Czynski (1801-1867) was a Polish lawyer, writer, political essayist, independence activist, utopian socialist and radical democrat and a strong supporter of Polish culture.

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 DAREMBERG, Charles. 

DAREMBERG, Charles. 

La médecine - histoire et doctrines. 

Paris, Didier et Cie - J.-B. Baillière, 1865.
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30 €

Second edition.

Photo DE BREMOND, François. 

DE BREMOND, François. 

Transactions Philosophiques de la Société Royale de Londres - années 1731-1732. 

Paris, Piget, 1741.
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200 €

Edition translated by Brémond, from the Académie Royale des Sciences.

The frontispiece of this book is an engraving by Bouchardon.

Photo DECLOS, Daniel. 

DECLOS, Daniel. 

La bombe atomique.
Vers la destruction totale ou le paradis terrestre ?. 

Paris, Pierre Ardent, 1945.
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20 €

First edition.

Photo DESCARTES, René. 

DESCARTES, René. 

Specimina Philosophiae: Seu Dissertatio de Methodo Recte regendæ rationis, & veritatis in scientiis investigandæ: Dioptice, et Meteora. 

Amsterdam, Ludovicum Elzevirium, 1644.
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3000 €

First latin edition of the Discours de la Méthode.

Milestone in the history of science which marked an epistemological rupture.
The Latin translation of the Discourse on the Method was first undertaken by Etienne de Courcelles but Descartes revised it, modified it and introduced variants compared to the French text of 1637. We find there for the first time the phrase (page 31) : "cogito, ergo sum".
The scientific texts following the Discourse are illustrated with numerous woods in the text.

Photo DESCOTES, Dominique. Colectif. 

DESCOTES, Dominique. Colectif. 

Courrier du Centre International Blaise Pascal. 

Clermont-Ferrand, s.n., 1989.
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15 €

N°11.

Photo DESCOTES, Dominique. Colectif. 

DESCOTES, Dominique. Colectif. 

Courrier du Centre International Blaise Pascal. 

Clermont-Ferrand, s.n., 1987.
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20 €

N°9.

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).

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