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POINCARÉ, Henri. 

Leçons sur les hypothèses cosmogoniques. 

Paris, A. Hermann et fils, 1913.
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Henri Poincaré (1854-1912) was a French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher. His work covered multiple fields and influenced 20th-century physics. This work is a compilation of his lectures on astronomy and cosmogonic hypotheses, which are theories about the formation of celestial bodies. The book is based on the notes from his courses at the Sorbonne.

Photo GOURSAT, Édouard Jean-Baptiste. 

GOURSAT, Édouard Jean-Baptiste. 

Leçons sur le problème de Pfaff. 

Paris, J. Hermann, 1922.
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Édouard Goursat (1858-1936) was a French mathematician, a member of the Institut, and a professor at the Faculty of Sciences in Paris. He is best known for his work on functions of a complex variable and partial differential equations. This work is a series of lectures on the Pfaff problem, a problem in differential geometry that has applications in theoretical physics.

Photo SMITH, Percey Franklin || LONGLEY, William Raymond. 

SMITH, Percey Franklin || LONGLEY, William Raymond. 

Éléments de mécanique rationnelle. 

Paris, Vuibert, 1941.
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Percey F. Smith (1867-1956) and William Raymond Longley (1880-1946) were American mathematicians and professors at Yale University. Their work is recognized in the teaching of higher mathematics. This work, translated into French, is a didactic manual on the fundamental principles of rational mechanics, a branch of theoretical mechanics that uses mathematics to describe the motion of bodies.

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MORIN, Arthur. 

Leçons de mécanique pratique : Notions fondamentales de mécanique et données d'expérience. 

Paris, Hachette et cie, 1855.
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MORIN, Arthur. 

Leçons de mécanique pratique notions fondamentales de mécanique et données d’expérience. 

Paris, Hachette et cie, 1860.
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Third edition.

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FLAMANT, Alfred-Aimé. 

Encyclopédie des travaux publics: Hydraulique. 

Paris, Librairie Polytechnique, 1900.
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Second edition.

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THOMPSON, Silvanus. 

L’électro-aimant et l’électro-mécanique. 

Paris, J. Fritsch, 1895.
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MORIN, Arthur Jules. 

Aide-mémoire de mécanique pratique. 

Paris, Hachette, 1860.
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Fourth edition.

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BOUR, Edmond. 

Cours de mécanique et machines professé à l'école polytechnique. 

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1887.
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Second edition.
Text volume only, atlas are missing.

Photo ABRAHAM, Henri || SACERDOTE, Paul. 

ABRAHAM, Henri || SACERDOTE, Paul. 

Recueil de Constantes Physiques. 

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1913.
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This work is a collection of fundamental physical data and constants, published under the auspices of the French Physical Society and authored by renowned physicists such as Henri Abraham and Paul Sacerdote, with the collaboration of a hundred contributors. It served as an essential reference tool for physicists and engineers in the early 20th century, particularly for the standardization and dissemination of experimental values. The publication of this type of compendium played a crucial role in the development of modern physics and applied engineering.

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BAUER, Edmond. 

Critique des notions d'Éther, d'Espace et de Temps. Cinématique de la Relativité. 

Paris, Hermann, 1932.
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Edmond Bauer (1882-1956) was the deputy director of the Laboratory of Experimental Physics at the Collège de France and a renowned physicist. This work, published in the "Actualités Scientifiques et Industrielles" collection and edited by Paul Langevin, is the proceedings of the Second Synthesis Week on relativity. It presents a critique of the classical notions of ether, space, and time, and an introduction to the kinematics of relativity.

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JEANS, James. 

A Travers l'Espace et le Temps. 

Paris, Hermann, 1935.
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Sir James Jeans (1877-1946) was a British physicist, astronomer, and mathematician. His work ' A Travers l'Espace et le Temps ' (Through Space and Time) is a popular science book that explores the mysteries of the universe, from cosmology to the nature of time.

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JEANS, James. 

Les Nouvelles Bases Philosophiques de la Science. 

Paris, Hermann, 1935.
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In this work, Sir James Jeans (1877-1946) explores the philosophical implications of 20th-century physics discoveries, including relativity and quantum mechanics. Translated by André Lalande, the book examines how modern science has challenged traditional conceptions of reality, causality, and matter, and proposes a philosophical framework for interpreting these new theories.

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POINCARÉ, Henri. 

Thermodynamique. 

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1923.
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Henri Poincaré (1854-1912) was a French mathematician, physicist, engineer, and philosopher of science, a member of the Institute, considered one of the last "universalists." His Thermodynamique (Thermodynamics), derived from his lectures at the Faculty of Sciences of Paris and edited by J. Blondin, is a fundamental text in mathematical physics. Poincaré presents the principles of thermodynamics with his characteristic rigor, addressing the laws of heat, energy, and entropy. This work is essential for understanding the state of thermodynamics in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a crucial period for the development of physics.

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FERRIER, R. 

Quelques idées sur l'Électrodynamique. 

Paris, Blanchard, 1927.
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R. Ferrier, an engineer of the Ponts et Chaussées, is the author of this work on electrodynamics. The preface was written by Paul Painlevé (1863-1933), an eminent French mathematician and statesman, a member of the Institute. The book explores ideas on electrodynamics during a transitional period in physics, where classical theories were confronted with new discoveries in quantum physics.

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EYDOUX, Denis. 

Hydraulique générale et appliquée. 

Paris, Librairie J.-B. Baillière et Fils, 1921.
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Denis Eydoux (1876-1933) was an engineer from the Ponts et Chaussées, substitute professor at the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, and a doctor of science. His work Hydraulique générale et appliquée (General and Applied Hydraulics), published under the direction of M. Mesnager (member of the Institute and Inspector General of Ponts et Chaussées), is part of the "Encyclopedia of Civil Engineering and Public Works" collection. This manual is a reference for the study of hydraulics for engineering purposes, covering both theoretical principles and their practical applications in public works. The preface by M. Blondel (member of the Institute) and the patronage of the Société Hydrotechnique de France attest to its importance in the field.

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PICARD, Émile. 

Mélanges de Mathématiques et de Physique. 

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1924.
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Émile Picard (1856-1941) was an exceptional French mathematician, Permanent Secretary of the Académie des Sciences, known for his major work in analysis, particularly on differential equations and analytic functions.

Photo EINSTEIN, Albert. 

EINSTEIN, Albert. 

La Géométrie et l'Expérience. 

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1921.
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PERRIN, Francis. 

La Dynamique Relativiste et l'Inertie de l'Énergie. 

Paris, Hermann, 1932.
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First edition.
Francis Perrin (1901-1992), assistant at the faculty and son of the Nobel laureate physicist Jean Perrin, was himself a physicist and High Commissioner for Atomic Energy.

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PÉRÈS, Joseph. 

Cours de Mécanique des Fluides (Fluides Parfaits. Aile Portante. Résistance.). 

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1936.
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Joseph Pérès (1890-1962), professor at the Sorbonne, was a leading French mathematician and fluid mechanician, a member of the Institute. His Cours de Mécanique des Fluides (Course in Fluid Mechanics), published with the collaboration of L. Malavard (civil engineer in Aeronautics) and prefaced by Henri Villat, is an essential textbook for training in hydrodynamics and aerodynamics. The work, produced under the auspices of the Institute of Fluid Mechanics in Paris (founded by the Ministry of Air), addresses crucial topics for engineering of the time, such as perfect fluids, lift, and drag. It demonstrates the importance of fluid mechanics for the development of aviation.

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BLOCH, Léon. 

Précis d'Électricité Théorique. 

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1933.
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Léon Bloch (1876-1947), Doctor of Science and agrégé of the University, was a renowned French physicist known for his work in electricity and atomic physics. His Précis d'Électricité Théorique (Treatise on Theoretical Electricity) is a concise and rigorous textbook that explains the fundamental principles of electricity and magnetism.

Photo EINSTEIN, Albert || SOLOVINE, Maurice. 

EINSTEIN, Albert || SOLOVINE, Maurice. 

Quatre Conférences sur la Théorie de la Relativité. Faites à l'Université de Princeton. 

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1955.
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New printing in 1955, the year of Einstein's death. Albert Einstein (1879-1955), world-renowned theoretical physicist and Nobel Prize winner, revolutionized physics with his theory of relativity. His book Four Lectures on the Theory of Relativity is a collection of his lectures at Princeton University in 1921. It is an educational and accessible introduction to the theories of special and general relativity. The French translation by Maurice Solovine played a key role in popularizing Einstein's ideas in France.

Photo CHEVREUL, Michel Eugène. 

CHEVREUL, Michel Eugène. 

De la Loi du Contraste simultané des Couleurs et de l’Assortiment des Objets colorés, considéré d’après cette Loi dans ses Rapports avec la Peinture, les Tapisseries des Gobelins, les Tapisseries de Beauvais pour Meubles, les Tapis, la Mosaïque, les Vitraux colorés, l’Impression des Étoffes, l’Imprimerie, l’Enluminure, la Décoration des Édifices, l’Habillement et l’Horticulture. 

Paris, Pitois-Levrault, 1839.
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One of the most influential books on art in the 19th century.
Michel-Eugène Chevreul (1786–1889) is known to chemists for his research on fatty substances (1810–1823) and on immediate organic analysis (1824), but it is as a color theorist that his name achieved lasting fame.
De la loi du contraste simultané des couleurs introduced a scientific understanding of color that had a profound and lasting impact on the painters of his time.
His “law” describes how the perception of a hue is altered by the surrounding colors, each color projecting its complementary onto its immediate environment (thus, a red object tends to cast a greenish glow on nearby surfaces, a yellow one a purplish tint, and so on). This principle is clearly illustrated in plate 7 of the Atlas, where colored dots on a white background seem to emit halos of their complementary hues.

Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863), a central figure of Romanticism, paid close attention to Chevreul’s research. According to the painter Paul Signac, Delacroix even sought to meet the chemist and acquired notes from his lectures in order to better grasp the law of simultaneous contrast. Several of his paintings feature harmonies built around complementary color pairs. For instance, The Entry of the Crusaders into Constantinople (1840) deliberately juxtaposes yellow/purple, blue/orange, and red/green to dramatize the scene—so effectively that art historian Lee Johnson called it an ideal “illustration” of Chevreul’s treatise.

But it was arguably within the Impressionist movement that Chevreul’s theories reached their highest artistic fulfillment. Claude Monet (1840–1926), in particular, used simultaneous contrast to heighten luminosity in his landscapes. He avoided black and earth tones, preferring instead to render shadows in color: purples and blues for shaded areas at sunset, accented with yellow-orange highlights in full light. This technique appears as early as Impression, Sunrise, the foundational work of the movement. One might also recall the poppy fields, a favorite motif of the Impressionists (Van Gogh, Monet, Pissarro…), where red flowers vibrantly stand out against green backgrounds.

A book heralding one of the greatest revolutions in painting.

Our copy is complete with all the color plates, most of them signed by Chevreul himself.

Photo CHEVREUL, Michel Eugène. 

CHEVREUL, Michel Eugène. 

Des couleurs et de leurs applications aux arts industriels à l’aide des cercles chromatiques. Avec XXVII planches gravées sur acier et imprimées en couleurs par René Digeon. 

Paris, J.B. Baillière et Fils, 1864.
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First edition of the rarest of Chevreul's publications on color.

Michel-Eugène Chevreul (1786-1889) is known to chemists for his research on fatty acids, saponification, and the discovery of stearin, but it is as a color theorist that his name will go down in history. Chevreul was appointed director of the Manufacture des Gobelins in 1824. Responsible for overseeing the production of dyes, he supported the work of dyers with his research on color perception. Thus, in 1839, he proposed a scientific approach to color complementarity and subsequently developed "color circles." A true "Pantone" color chart, a hundred years ahead of its time, Chevreul's color circles had the dual benefit of systematizing the production of hues (each with its own name) and making it easier to understand the concept of color complementarity. Thus, complementary colors are found on the same diameter of the color wheel, Red No. 2 corresponds to Green No. 2. "I believe I can affirm that it is possible to subject colors to a reasoned nomenclature, by relating them to types classified according to a simple method, accessible to the intelligence of all those who deal with colors" (extract from the preface). The standardization of color production was to interest first and foremost the industry then in full development, but it is undoubtedly in the Impressionist movement that Chevreul's theories found their finest accomplishment. Very early on, painters were inspired by Chevreul's work in their paintings, starting with Delacroix and then Monet. We will thus remember the fields of poppies dear to the Impressionists (Van Gogh, Monet, Pissaro...) where the red dots of the flowers burst out on complementary green backgrounds. The 27 spectacular plates were printed by René-Henri Digeon using chromochalcography, the process and difficulties of which are discussed in a paragraph in the book. Digeon appears to have presented a first edition of these plates at the 1855 World's Fair, for which he received a patent from the Empress. Several of the plates in our copy appear to be from this first edition and contain errors that have been corrected in other later copies that we have been able to consult.

Photo CHEVREUL, Michel Eugène. 

CHEVREUL, Michel Eugène. 

Mémoire sur la vision des couleurs matérielles en mouvement de rotation et des vitesses numériques de cercles. 

Paris, Firmin-Didot, 1882 [1881].
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First edition of Chevreul's last works on color.
A rare offprint with its own title page published by Firmin-Didot in 1882, of an article presented to the Academy of Sciences in December 1880 and January 1881 (one generally only finds the article extracted from the Mémoires de l'institut published in 1883). Chevreul is interested here in physiological optics, trying to analyze how the contrast between complementary colors is affected by movement.
In his conclusion, in which he calls himself "the dean of students in France" (he was then 95 years old), he sees a direct application of his work to signaling for train drivers.

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LAGRANGE, Joseph-Louis, comte de. 

Méchanique analitique. 

Paris, Veuve Desaint, 1788.
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First edition of Lagrange's masterpiece, the foundation of modern mechanics, second in importance to Newton's Principia.

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PASCAL, Blaise. 

Traitez de l'équilibre des liqueurs et de la pesanteur de la masse d'air. 

Paris, Guillaume Desprez, 1663.
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Milestone in the history of science in which Pascal discovers atmospheric pressure.

The famous experiment, carried out by his brother-in-law in Auvergne, consisted of comparing the height of a column of mercury in Clermont-Ferrand and then at the top of Puy-de-Dôme.
The question of the weight of the air was already under discussion in Descartes and Galileo, but it is Pascal with this experience who provides the proof. He thus broke with nearly 2000 years of Aristotelian physics: "Nature abhors a vacuum", more than a popular maxim then took the place of the only physical principle of hydrostatics.

"Nature has no repugnance for emptiness; she makes no effort to avoid it; all the effects that have been attributed to this horror proceed from the gravity and pressure of the air; she is the only one. real cause, and, lack of knowing it, we had invented this imaginary horror of emptiness on purpose, to make it right." (extract from chapter II)

Then pascal (Pa) will be adopted as the international unit of measurement of pressure.

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D'ALEMBERT, Jean Le Rond dit || CONDORCET, Nicolas de || BOSSUT, Charles. 

Nouvelles expériences sur la résistance des fluides. 

Paris, Claude-Antoine Jombert, 1777.
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Collection of hydrodynamic experiments carried out in a basin of the Military School by D'Alembert, Condorcet and Bossut. Turgot had commissioned them to look for ways to improve river navigation. The results of these experiments led to establish what will become the D'Alembert paradox, which will only be solved with the theory of wakes.
Indeed according to the hydrodynamic equations of the time, "a body should be able to progress in a fluid without experiencing any resistance or, which amounts to the same thing, that a bridge pier plunged into the course of a river should not. undergo no pushing on his part ", which the experiments carried out denied.
Beyond the treatise on hydrodynamics, this book bears witness to a science in progress which intricates theory and experience.

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HAUKSBEE, Francis. 

Experiences physico-mechaniques sur différens sujets, et principalement sur la lumiere et l'electricité, produites par le frottement des corps. 

Paris, Veuve Cavelier, 1754.
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First french edition.
Binding with gilt arms of de La Rochefoucauld on the top of the spines.

Translation by Brémont and prefaced by Desmarets of the experiments of Francis Hauksbee (1660-1713) English physicist who worked in particular on static electricity.
He is one of the pioneers of electroluminescence and the majority of the work is devoted to his experiences of light production by the friction of various materials (including various phosphorus) on his static electricity production machine.

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BELOT, Emile. 

Essai de cosmogonie tourbillonnaire. 

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1911.
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First edition.
Émile Belot (1857-1944), graduate of the École Normale Supérieure, agrégé de philosophie, and chief engineer of the State Manufactures. Passionate about astronomy, he was a member of the Société astronomique de France from 1904. In this work, Belot proposes a theory of the formation of the solar system in which he hypothesizes a nebulous proto-sun entering into violent contact with a larger nebula and explains that such an encounter is at the origin of planetary systems and their organization according to a logarithmic spiral on the diagram in which the planets of this system are distributed by vortical absorption and concretion of the dust of the jostled nebula.

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