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Photo DORTOUS DE MAIRAN, Jean-Jacques. 

DORTOUS DE MAIRAN, Jean-Jacques. 

Eloges 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 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 LORIA, Gino Benedetto. 

LORIA, Gino Benedetto. 

Le Scienze Esatte nell'Antica Grecia. 

Milan, Ulrico Hoepli, 1914.
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150 €

Second edition.
Presentation copy to Emile Picard from the Institut de France.

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 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 POISSON, Siméon Denis || ACADÉMIE ROYALE DES SCIENCES. 

POISSON, Siméon Denis || ACADÉMIE ROYALE DES SCIENCES. 

Sur la Théorie des Ondes; Lu le 2 octobre et le 18 décembre 1815. IN. Mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences de l'Institut de France. Année 1816. 

Paris, Firmin Didot, 1818.
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250 €

Contains the major work from Poisson on the wave theory.

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

POISSON :
- Mémoire sur la variation des constantes arbitraires dans les question de mécanique
- Mémoire sur la théorie des ondes.
GIRARD :
- Mémoire sur l'écoulement linéaire de diverses substances liquides par des tubes capillaires de verre,
- Mémoire sur l'écoulement de l'éther
BIOT, [Jean-Baptiste] :
- Mémoire sur l'utilité des lois de la polarisation de la lumière, pour reconnaitre l'état de cristallisation et de combinaison, dans grand nombre de cas où la système cristallin n'est pas immédiatement observable.
And the section on the history of the academy by Delambre for the mathematics and notices on Fleurieu Charles Bossut, Leveque and Tenon and by Cuvier for Physics.

Photo [POLYTECHNIQUE]. 

[POLYTECHNIQUE]. 

Séance des Ombres des Vieux Antiques. 

Paris, A. Eymeoud, 1902.
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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.

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 SAVERIEN, Alexandre. 

SAVERIEN, Alexandre. 

Histoire des progrès de l'esprit humain dans les sciences naturelles et dans les arts qui en dépendent; savoir : L'Espace, le Vuide, le Temps, le Mouvement et le Lieu. La Matière ou les Corps. La Terre. L'Eau. L'Air. Le Son. Le Feu. La Lumière et les Couleurs. L'Electricité. L'Astronomie. Le Globe terrestre. L'Economie Animale. La Chimie. La Verrerie. La Teinture. Avec un Abrégé de la Vie des plus célèbres Auteurs dans ces Sciences. 

Paris, Lacombe, 1775.
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250 €

The second, complete in itself, of the four volumes published by Savérien on sciences.
First edition.
Fine copy.

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 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 MANUSCRIT de mathématiques. 

MANUSCRIT de mathématiques. 

Mathématiques. 

s.l., s.n., [v. 1800].
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250 €

Manuscript of the late eighteenth,early nineteenth century of elementary mathematics.
Well written, it deals with arithmetic (operations on numbers and fractions), divisibility, greatest common divisor, proportion, complex numbers (operations on weight).
We also found it a very interesting chapter on the new measures, conversions francs / pounds and the introduction of the metric system. The definition of the franc corresponds to that of 15 August 1795.

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 HUARTE, Jean. 

HUARTE, Jean. 

L’Examen des esprits pour les sciences. Où se montrent les différences d’esprits qui se trouvent
parmy les hommes, et à quelle sorte de science chacun est propre en particulier. 

Paris, Jean Guignard, 1650.
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300 €

The work published in 1575 by a Spanish physician, Juan Huarte de San Juan (1529–1530?–1580) under the title Examen de ingenios para las sciencias... had a considerable impact throughout learned Europe. More than thirty editions in the main European languages ​​have appeared since then.
Some old handwritten notes on the first fly leaf and at the verso of the title page.

Photo FABRE D’OLIVET, Dioclès. 

FABRE D’OLIVET, Dioclès. 

Un Médecin d’autrefois. 

Paris, Ambroise Dupont, 1838.
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300 €

Second edition.
Biography of Paracelsus written by the son of the famous occultist Antoine Fabre d'Olivet (to whom this work is often mistakenly credited).

Photo LEPECQ DE LA CLOTURE, Louis. 

LEPECQ DE LA CLOTURE, Louis. 

Observations sur les maladies épidémiques. Ouvrage rédigé d'après le tableau des épidémiques d'Hippocrate et dans lequel on indique la meilleur méthode d'observer ce genre de maladies. 

Paris, Vincent, 1776.
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350 €

First edition.
Work which relates the epidemics of fever which occurred in Normandy at Gros-Theil and Louviers during the year 1770.

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 HENNEQUIN, René. 

HENNEQUIN, René. 

Avant les photographies - Les portraits au physionotrace gravés de 1788 à 1830 - Catalogue nominatif, biographique et critique illustré des deux premières séries de ces portraits comprenant les 1800 estampes cotées de "1" à " R 27". 

Troyes, J.-L. Paton, 1932.
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400 €

A physiognotrace or physionotrace is an instrument designed to trace a person's physiognomy, most specifically the profile in the form of a silhouette: it originated in France where it is known as the physionotrace. It was invented by Gilles-Louis Chrétien in 1785.

This book consists in two series, which are : "1ère série - La société parisienne à la veille de la Révolution : portraits dessinés par Quenedey et gravés par Chrétien (1788-1789)" and "2ème série - Au temps de la Révolution. Citadins de Paris et parisiens par occasions : portraits dessinés et gravés par Quenedey (1789-1796).".

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 [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 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 [POLYTECHNIQUE]. 

[POLYTECHNIQUE]. 

Chansons des Ombres. 

s.l., s.n., 1898.
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Songbook for the Ombres a Polytechnique evening in 1898

"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.
Uncommon document, witness to the traditions and jargon of this prestigious school.

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 [Société philomathique]. 

[Société philomathique]. 

Bulletin des sciences n°1 à 16. 

Paris, Du Pont, 1797 à 1798.
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450 €

The Philomatic Society is a scholarly society dedicated to the publication and dissemination of scientific articles. A sort of antechamber of the Academy of Sciences she took over during the revolutionary period when the Academies were closed.
The Bulletin of Sciences is the second bulletin published by the philomatic society after the end of the Bulletin of the Philomathitic Society.
There are many items from Cuvier, Geoffroy, Lacpèce, Laplace.

Photo LE CLERC, Daniel. 

LE CLERC, Daniel. 

Histoire de la médecine. 

La Haye, Isaac van der Kloot, 1729.
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480 €

Important book for the History of Medecine, at the 18th century, by Daniel Le Clerc (1652-1728), who is known as a pioneer in this field.

Photo [POLYTECHNIQUE]. 

[POLYTECHNIQUE]. 

Programmes de l'enseignement polytechnique de l'Ecole centrale des travaux publics. 

Paris, Imprimerie nationale, Pluviose An III ( janvier 1795).
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500 €

First edition.
First use of the adjective "Polytechnique" which will be used a few months later to give its new name to the "Ecole centrale des travaux publics" which will become the "École polytechnique".
Here are the detailed programs of the courses that will be taught during the creation of the School.

Photo FREIND, John. 

FREIND, John. 

Histoire de la médecine depuis Galien, jusqu'au commencement du seizième siècle. 

Leyde, Jean Arn. Langerak, 1727.
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First edition in French.
Very good copy.

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 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 [QUESNAY, François]. 

[QUESNAY, François]. 

Recherches critiques et historiques sur l'origine, sur les divers états et sur les progrès de la Chirurgie en France. 

Paris, Charles Osmont, 1744.
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650 €

First edition published at the same date than a 4to edition.
One of the first history of french surgery.

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