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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 RICHERAND, Anthelme. 

RICHERAND, Anthelme. 

Histoire des progrès récens de la chirurgie. 

Paris, Bechet Jeune, 1825.
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120 €

First edition.
It should be noted that the author does not spare Desault, who is nevertheless considered the founder of the 19th century surgical school: "Desault spread his errors on the deluded crowd; deplorable errors which have outlived their author and of which we ourselves have been the dupe and the echo for too long" (p.66).

Photo POISSON, Siméon Denis || ACADÉMIE ROYALE DES SCIENCES. 

POISSON, Siméon Denis || ACADÉMIE ROYALE DES SCIENCES. 

Mémoire sur la théorie du magnétisme en mouvement . IN. Mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences de l'Institut de France. Année 1823. 

Paris, Firmin Didot, 1827.
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150 €

Contains the major work from Poisson on the wave theory.

This volume of the Mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences is incomplete of the pappers from Legendre and Ampère :


Table :
LEGENDRE. Recherches sur quelques objets d'analyse indéterminée et particulièrement sur le théorème de Fermat. (p. 1-60), MISSING
LAPLACE. Mémoires sur le développement de l'anomalie vrai et du rayon vecteur elliptique, en série ordonnées suivant les puissances de l'excentricité.
RAMO. Mémoire sur l'état de la végétation au sommet du Pic du Midi de Bagnères.
AMPÈRE. Mémoire sur la théorie mathématique des phénomènes électro-dynamiques, uniquement déduite de l'expérience, dans lequel se trouvent réunis les Mémoires que M. ampère à communiqués à l'Académie royale de sciences, dans les scéances des 4 et 26 décembre 1820, 10 juin 1822, 22 décembre 1823, 12 septembre et 23 novembre 1825. (p. 175 to 388), MISSING
NAVIER. Mémoire sur lkes lois du mouvement des fluides
POISSON :
- Mémoire sur la théorie du magnétisme en mouvement
- Mémoire sur le calcul numérique des intégrales définies.
CAUCHY. Mémoire sur les développement des fonctions en séries périodiques.

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.

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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 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.

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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 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 GALOIS, Évariste. 

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).

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.

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PELTIER, F.A. 

Notice sur le vie et les travaux scientifiques de J.C.A. Peltier. 

Paris, E. Bautruche, 1847.
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125 €

First edition of this important scientific biography of of J.C.A. Peltier (1785-1845) known for his works on electricity and the "Peltier effect".

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 BOUILLIER, Francisque. 

BOUILLIER, Francisque. 

Histoire de la philosophie cartesienne. 

Paris, Durand, 1854.
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60 €

Second enlarged edition.

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REVUE NEUROLOGIQUE. 

Lot de 13 numéros de la Revue Neurologique. 

Paris, Masson, 1856-2004.
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45 €

- Revue Neurologique, tome 94, n°1, janvier 1956.
- Revue Neurologique, tome 104, n°5, mai 1961.
- Revue Neurologique, tome 106, n°5, mai 1962.
- Revue Neurologique, tome 121, n°2, août 1969.
- Revue Neurologique, tome 122, n°2, février 1970.
- Revue Neurologique, tome 131, n°12, décembre 1975.
- Revue Neurologique, tome 132, n°8, décembre 1976.
- Revue Neurologique, volume 139, n°5, 1983.
- Revue Neurologique, volume 140, n°12, 1984.
- Revue Neurologique, volume 142, n°3, 1986.
- Revue Neurologique, volume 144, n°4, 1988.
- Revue Neurologique, volume 148, n°4, 1992.
- Revue Neurologique, tome160, n°1, 2004.

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 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 FLOURENS, Pierre. 

FLOURENS, Pierre. 

Ontologie naturelle, ou Étude philosophique des êtres. 

Paris, Garnier frères, 1861.
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50 €

First edition.
Flourens is best known for his work in neurophysiology, particularly on the brain and the nervous system. In this work, he attempts to establish an ontology based on the scientific observation of nature, opposing purely speculative conceptions. His approach is marked by a desire to reconcile science and philosophy, emphasizing the hierarchy and organization of living beings.

Photo DARWIN, Charles. 

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.

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.

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DAREMBERG, Charles. 

La médecine - histoire et doctrines. 

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

Second edition.

Photo BOUILLIER, Francisque. 

BOUILLIER, Francisque. 

Histoire de la philosophie cartésienne. 

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

Third edition.

Photo FLOURENS, Pierre. 

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.

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HEMENT, Felix. 

Menus propos sur les sciences. 

Paris, Librairie Ch. Delagrave, 1877.
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10 €

Second edition.

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 TISSANDIER, Gaston. 

TISSANDIER, Gaston. 

Causeries sur la Science. 

Paris, Hachette et Cie, 1884.
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50 €

Second edition.
Popular science book covering 23 talks on various fields of science.
Copy of Albert Tissandier, brother of the author with whom he ran the magazine La Nature until 1905.

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 [L'Ancienne France]. 

[L'Ancienne France]. 

L'Ecole et la Science jusqu'à la Renaissance. 

Paris, Firmin-Didot et Cie, [v. 1890].
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80 €
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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.

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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.

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[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.

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