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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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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).

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.

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 €

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Printed with 347 copies.

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.

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).

FLOURENS, Pierre.

G. Cuvier - Éloges historiques.

Paris, Paul Ducrocq, [v. 1870].

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

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).

EIFFEL, Gustave.

La Résistance de l'air et l'aviation.

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

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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.

[ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE].

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

Paris, Plon Nourrit, [1894].

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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.

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 €

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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.

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).

DESCOTES, Dominique. Colectif.

Courrier du Centre International Blaise Pascal.

Clermont-Ferrand, s.n., 1989.

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15 €

N°11.

DESCOTES, Dominique. Colectif.

Courrier du Centre International Blaise Pascal.

Clermont-Ferrand, s.n., 1987.

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20 €

N°9.

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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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.

DESCARTES, René.

Discours de la méthode pour bien conduire sa raison et chercher la vérité dans les sciences.
Plus la Dioptrique et les Météores qui sont des essais de cette méthode.

Paris, Michel Bobin & Nicolas Le Gras, 1668.

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The true third edition with the privilège dated 28 avril 1668.

DECLOS, Daniel.

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

Paris, Pierre Ardent, 1945.

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20 €

First edition.

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.

DARWIN, Charles.

De l'Origine des espèces ou des lois du progrès chez les êtres organisés.

Paris, Guillaumin et Cie, 1862.

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1750 €

First edition in French.
This first French translation, of one of the most important books in modern science, was controversial as soon as it was published. Indeed, translator Clémence Royer (1830-1902, philosopher and scientist) added a preface and numerous footnotes in which she gave her interpretation of the text and commented on it.

DAREMBERG, Charles.

La médecine - histoire et doctrines.

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

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30 €

Second edition.

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.

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.

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.

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.

COUSIN, Victor.

Fragments de Philosophie Cartésienne.

Paris, Charpentier, 1845.

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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.

CONRING, Hermann.

Introductio in universam artem medicam.

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

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275 €

Third and best edition.

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.

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).

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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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.

BRUNHES.

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

Paris, s.n., [1891].

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50 €

Rare offprint.

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History of science

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.

FREIND, John.

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

First edition in French. Very good copy.

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.

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.

FLOURENS, Pierre.

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

FLOURENS, Pierre.

G. Cuvier - Éloges historiques.

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

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).

EIFFEL, Gustave.

La Résistance de l'air et l'aviation.

[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.

DU PASQUIER, Louis-Gustave.

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

First edition.

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.

DIDEROT & D'ALEMBERT.

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

DESCOTES, Dominique. Colectif.

Courrier du Centre International Blaise Pascal.

N°11.

DESCOTES, Dominique. Colectif.

Courrier du Centre International Blaise Pascal.

N°9.

DESCARTES, René.

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

DESCARTES, René.

Discours de la méthode pour bien conduire sa raison et chercher la vérité dans les sciences. Plus la Dioptrique et les Météores qui sont des essais de cette méthode.

The true third edition with the privilège dated 28 avril 1668.

DECLOS, Daniel.

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

First edition.

DE BREMOND, François.

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

Edition translated by Brémond, from the Académie Royale des Sciences. The frontispiece of this book is an engraving by Bouchardon.

DARWIN, Charles.

De l'Origine des espèces ou des lois du progrès chez les êtres organisés.

DAREMBERG, Charles.

La médecine - histoire et doctrines.

Second edition.

D'ALEMBERT, Jean Le Rond.

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

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

CZYNSKI, Jean.

Kopernik et ses travaux.

CUVIER, Georges.

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

Second enlarged edition.

CRUVEILHIER, Jean.

Vie de Dupuytren.

COUSIN, Victor.

Fragments de Philosophie Cartésienne.

CONRING, Hermann.

Introductio in universam artem medicam.

Third and best edition.

CLAUDIUS || [RUELLE, Charles].

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

First edition.

CHELINI, Dominico.

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

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

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.

BRUNHES.

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

First edition in French.
Very good copy.

First edition.
Printed with 347 copies.

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.

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).

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.

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.

Discours de la méthode pour bien conduire sa raison et chercher la vérité dans les sciences.
Plus la Dioptrique et les Météores qui sont des essais de cette méthode.

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

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

The frontispiece of this book is an engraving by Bouchardon.

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

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