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DESCOTES, Dominique. Colectif.

Courrier du Centre International Blaise Pascal.

Clermont-Ferrand, s.n., 1989.

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15 €

N°11.

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).

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.

DU PASQUIER, Louis-Gustave.

Leonard Euler et Ses Amis. Avec un portrait de Leonard Euler.

Paris, Librairie Scientifique J. Hermann, 1927.

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55 €

First edition.

[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.

EIFFEL, Gustave.

La Résistance de l'air et l'aviation.

Paris, Imprimerie de la Cour d'Appel, 1911.

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70 €

Rare offprint of an article by Gustave Eiffel written for the Hommage à Louis Olivier.
This choral book was written on the occasion of the death of Louis Frédéric Olivier (1854-1910), a scientist passionate about technical, scientific and cultural progress.
Beautiful full-margin printing on laid paper.

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).

FLOURENS, Pierre.

G. Cuvier - Éloges historiques.

Paris, Paul Ducrocq, [v. 1870].

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35 €

Book containing praises of Cuvier, Daubenton, Priestley, Adanson, Fourcroy, Cavendish, Pallas, Parmentier and Rumford, Haüy, Bertholet and Davy.

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).

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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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.

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.

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.

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).

GAULTIER DE BIAUZAT, Jean François.

Projet motivé d'articles additionnels à la loi, du 19 janvier 1791. Relative à l'organisation des Ponts & Chaussées.

Paris, Imprimerie nationale, 1791.

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120 €

First edition.
Proposed amendments to the law of January 19, 1791, which created the Corps of Ponts et Chaussées.

GEISON, Gerald L.

Michael Foster and the Cambridge School Of Physiology - The scientific enterprise in late victorian society.

Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1978.

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20 €

A book that highlights the English physiologist Sir Michael Foster (1836-1907) and his work.

GRISON, Emmanuel.

L'étonnant parcours du républicain JH Hassenfratz (1755-1827), du faubourg Montmartre au Corps des Mines.

Paris, Presses de l'Ecole des Mines, 1996.

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25 €

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GUILLY, Paul - DUCHENNE de BOULOGNE.

Duchenne de Boulogne.

Paris, J.B. Baillere, 1936.

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120 €

Presentation copy.

GUYENOT, Emile.

Les sciences de la vie aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles - L'Idée d'Evolution.

Paris, Albin Michel, 1957.

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30 €

Book by Émile Guyénot (1885-1963, French biologist) which deals with progress in the knowledge and classification of living beings, Anatomy, physiology and biology of organisms, the problem of generation and transformation.

HARRIS, Charles R. S.

The heart and vascular system in ancient Greek medicine from Alcmaeon to Galen.

Oxford, Clarendon press, 2001.

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25 €

HEMENT, Felix.

Menus propos sur les sciences.

Paris, Librairie Ch. Delagrave, 1877.

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10 €

Second edition.

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).".

HERIVEL, John.

Joseph Fourier Face Aux Objections Contre Sa Theorie De La Chaleur: Lettres Inedites, 1808-1816.

Paris, Bibliothèque nationnale, 1980.

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50 €

HOMMAGE ANDRE NEYRAUD.

André Neyraud - Interne en médecine 1888-1910.

Limoges, Ducourtieux & Gout, 1910.

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50 €

First edition.

HOMMAGE || MAZARD, E.

Couronnement d'une longue carrière médicale - célébration d'un cinquantenaire.

Limoges, Chatras et Cie, 1894.

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25 €

First edition.
Presentation copy.

[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.

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.

INAUGURATION MONUMENT AUX MORTS.

Inauguration du monument élevé à la mémoire des internes et anciens internes des Hôpitaux de Paris morts pour la patrie 1914-1918.

Paris, Arnette, 1922.

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20 €

First edition.

[INSTITUT DE FRANCE].

Académie des sciences. Procès verbaux des séances de l'Académie tenues depuis la fondation de l'Institut jusqu'au mois d'Août 1835.

Paris, Imprimerie nationale, 1979.

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[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.

KOURILSKY, Raoul.

Plaquette en l'hommage à Raoul KOURILSKY.

s.l., Edition R. Dacosta, 1970.

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60 €

Presentation copy.

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History of science

DESCOTES, Dominique. Colectif.

Courrier du Centre International Blaise Pascal.

N°11.

DIDEROT & D'ALEMBERT.

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

DORTOUS DE MAIRAN, Jean-Jacques.

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

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.

DU PASQUIER, Louis-Gustave.

Leonard Euler et Ses Amis. Avec un portrait de Leonard Euler.

First edition.

[ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE].

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

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.

EIFFEL, Gustave.

La Résistance de l'air et l'aviation.

FABRE D’OLIVET, Dioclès.

Un Médecin d’autrefois.

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).

FLOURENS, Pierre.

G. Cuvier - Éloges historiques.

Book containing praises of Cuvier, Daubenton, Priestley, Adanson, Fourcroy, Cavendish, Pallas, Parmentier and Rumford, Haüy, Bertholet and Davy.

FLOURENS, Pierre.

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

FOURCROY, Antoine-François de.

Notice sur la vie et les travaux de Lavoisier.

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.

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.

First edition.Printed with 347 copies.

FREIND, John.

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

First edition in French. Very good copy.

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.

GAULTIER DE BIAUZAT, Jean François.

Projet motivé d'articles additionnels à la loi, du 19 janvier 1791. Relative à l'organisation des Ponts & Chaussées.

First edition.Proposed amendments to the law of January 19, 1791, which created the Corps of Ponts et Chaussées.

GEISON, Gerald L.

Michael Foster and the Cambridge School Of Physiology - The scientific enterprise in late victorian society.

A book that highlights the English physiologist Sir Michael Foster (1836-1907) and his work.

GRISON, Emmanuel.

L'étonnant parcours du républicain JH Hassenfratz (1755-1827), du faubourg Montmartre au Corps des Mines.

First edition.

GUILLY, Paul - DUCHENNE de BOULOGNE.

Duchenne de Boulogne.

Presentation copy.

GUYENOT, Emile.

Les sciences de la vie aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles - L'Idée d'Evolution.

Book by Émile Guyénot (1885-1963, French biologist) which deals with progress in the knowledge and classification of living beings, Anatomy, physiology and biology of organisms, the problem of generation and transformation.

HARRIS, Charles R. S.

The heart and vascular system in ancient Greek medicine from Alcmaeon to Galen.

HEMENT, Felix.

Menus propos sur les sciences.

Second edition.

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".

HERIVEL, John.

Joseph Fourier Face Aux Objections Contre Sa Theorie De La Chaleur: Lettres Inedites, 1808-1816.

HOMMAGE ANDRE NEYRAUD.

André Neyraud - Interne en médecine 1888-1910.

First edition.

HOMMAGE || MAZARD, E.

Couronnement d'une longue carrière médicale - célébration d'un cinquantenaire.

First edition. Presentation copy.

[HORLAVILLE, Gaston].

Diplôme de Bachelier ès Sciences.

HUARTE, Jean.

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

INAUGURATION MONUMENT AUX MORTS.

Inauguration du monument élevé à la mémoire des internes et anciens internes des Hôpitaux de Paris morts pour la patrie 1914-1918.

First edition.

[INSTITUT DE FRANCE].

Académie des sciences. Procès verbaux des séances de l'Académie tenues depuis la fondation de l'Institut jusqu'au mois d'Août 1835.

[JULLIEN et al.].

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

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

KOURILSKY, Raoul.

Plaquette en l'hommage à Raoul KOURILSKY.

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.

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.

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).

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.

First edition.
Printed with 347 copies.

First edition in French.
Very good copy.

First edition.
Proposed amendments to the law of January 19, 1791, which created the Corps of Ponts et Chaussées.

First edition.
Presentation copy.

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.

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