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Photo KLEIN, Felix. 

KLEIN, Felix. 

Vortrage uber ausgewahlte fragen der elementargeometrie ausgearbeitet von F. Tagert. 

Leipzig, Teubner, 1895.
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250 €

First edition.
Conference during which the famous German mathematician gives a progress report on the latest work on certain famous problems of geometry: the squaring of the circle, the trisection of angles, the duplication of the cube.

Klein presents in particular the transcendence of the number π demonstrated by Lindemann a few years earlier.

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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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.

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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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 LA CAILLE, Nicolas Louis. 

LA CAILLE, Nicolas Louis. 

Leçons élémentaires de mécanique, ou traité abrégé du mouvement et de l'équilibre. 

Paris, H.L. Guérin & L.F. Delatour, 1757.
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Father De La Caille (1713-1762) was one of the main French astronomers of the 18th century.
the aim of his book was "[...] to gather in a small volume the fundamental truths of Mechanics, & to clarify the propositions which are most necessary". (extract from the warning).

Photo RAMEL, Abraham Louis. 

RAMEL, Abraham Louis. 

Système métrique, ou Instruction abrégée sur les nouvelles mesures, avec des calculs qui leur sont relatifs, et des tables de comparaison pour réduire les nouvelles mesures en anciennes et les anciennes en nouvelles; suivis d'une instruction sur les nouvelles monnaies de France, ainsi que d'une description abrégée des poids et mesures de Berne et de Lausanne. 

Neuchatel, Mme Fauche Née Borel, 1808.
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1200 €

First edition.
Book promoting the use of the metric system in Switzerland. If Switzerland received in 1801 a copy of the standard meter deposited in Paris, the metric system took several decades to be adopted in all the cantons of the confederation.

"Besides the description that my book gives of the new and old measures of Paris, it can also be considered as a complete treatise of three kinds of measures; namely, those of Neuchâtel, Bern and Lausanne: these neighboring countries will doubtless also adopt under little this system, which has simplicity as its basis" (excerpt from the preface)

Beautiful copy in contemporary morocco.

Photo PAUCTON, Alexis-Jean-Pierre. 

PAUCTON, Alexis-Jean-Pierre. 

Théorie de la Vis d'Archimède, de laquelle on déduit celle des moulins conçus d'une nouvelle maniere. On y joint la construction d'un nouveau lock ou sillometre, & celle d'une sorte de rames très-commodes. 

Paris, J.H. Butard, 1768.
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1200 €

First edition.
Unusual work in which Paucton seeks to improve and diversify the applications of the Archimedes screw. Among his innovative ideas we note the possibility of using the Archimedes screw as a means of propulsion for boats and as a propeller for windmills. By putting this propeller which he calls pterophore horizontally, he re-elaborates with genius Leonardo da Vinci's flying propeller, and even calculates the surface of canvas that it would take for a man to be able to rise in the air in this way.
A book on the origins of the helicopter.

Photo HUMBOLDT, Frédéric Alexandre. 

HUMBOLDT, Frédéric Alexandre. 

Expériences sur le Galvanisme et en général sur l'irritation des fibres musculaires et nerveuses. 

Paris, Didot Jeune Chez J.F. Fuchs, 1799.
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500 €

First edition in french.
French translation by Nicolas Jadelot of Humboldt's work on galvanism. Humboldt confirms Galvani's interpretation that animal electricity is irreducible to that of physicists. It contributes to the genesis of the idea that living beings can be described as galvanic organisms.

Photo HAÜY, René Just. 

HAÜY, René Just. 

Traité élémentaire de physique. 

Paris, Delance et Lesueur, 1803.
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300 €

First edition.
Physics work which was intended for teaching in national high schools.
However, we find there what was the main object of Haüy's research, the crystalline form of minerals and their properties.

Photo [GADROYS, Claude]. 

[GADROYS, Claude]. 

Le Systeme du Monde, selon les trois Hypotheses, ou conformement aux loix de la Mechanique l'on explique dans la supposition du mouvement de la Terre. 

Paris, Guillaume Desprez, 1675.
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750 €

First edition.
Book in which are presented the cosmologies of Ptolemy, Copernicus and Tycho Brahe enlightened by the theories of Descartes.

Photo EINSTEIN, Albert. 

EINSTEIN, Albert. 

The Meaning of Relativity, including the relativistic theory of the non-symmetric field. 

Princeton, Princeton University press, 1955.
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200 €

Fifth and last expanded edition by Einstein.
Popular work, published from his Stanford courses, which gives an overview of the theory of relativity. Published shortly after his death, this fifth edition presents for the first time the latest revision of Einstein's Theory of Gravitation.
"Shortly before his death Mr. Einstein completed a revised version of his Generalized Theory of Gravitation in which he felt he had succeeded in simplifying the derivations as well as the form of the field equations. The whole theory thereby becomes more transparent without changing its content . This simplified version is now presented here for the first time as Appendix II on the Relativistic Theory of the Non-Symmetric Field.".

Photo EDDINGTON, Arthur || EINSTEIN, Albert. 

EDDINGTON, Arthur || EINSTEIN, Albert. 

Relativitätstheorie in mathematischer Behandlung. Mit einem Anhang Eddingtons Theorie und Hamiltonsches Prinzip von Albert Einstein. 

Berlin, Springer, 1925.
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First German edition of The Mathematical Theory of Relativity published in 1923.
This German edition contains as an appendix an original article by Einstein on Eddington's theory and Hamilton's principle.
Arthur Eddington, a leading physicist, was the first to provide experimental proof of Einstein's general relativity during the solar eclipse of 1920.

Photo DESCARTES, René. 

DESCARTES, René. 

Le Monde de Mr Descartes ou le traité de la lumière et des autres principaux objets des sens. 

Paris, Jacques Le Gras, 1664.
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3000 €

First edition.
Very rare copy with title page in unlisted condition in the name of Jacques Le Gras.

Descartes wrote this treatise in 1632 and 1633. He defended in particular the heliocentric system of Copernicus, but following Galileo's condemnation, he gave up publishing this work during his lifetime. It will not be finally published, according to his will, until after his death. At the end of 1663, the Le Gras and Clerselier family will dispute the privilege of publishing the posthumous works of Descartes. For the "World" it is Jacques Le Gras who will be the first to deposit the privilege. (cf. CARTESIAN BULLETIN V. (1976). Archives de Philosophie, 39 (3), 445–494) Jacques Le Gras, the holder of the privilege, then shared it with Thomas Girard (his brother-in-law) and Michel Bobin.

Our title page is unknown to Tchermerzine and Guibert as well as to Mathias Van Otegem who in his bibliography of the works of Descartes published in 2002, after consulting the copies in public libraries, describes only four states of the title page of this edition.
Our copy therefore presents a fifth state of the still unpublished title page.
Our title page has the same typographical mark as the Thomas Girad state (6 fleurons) canonically considered to adorn the true first edition. In addition, like the copy "Thomas Girad" from the Munich library (BSB: Rar. 4594) our title page is margined shorter than the rest of the book body and printed with the same characters, which suggests an impression at the same time.
The copies having a recomposed title page with a typographical mark "à l'oiseau" only coming, according to bibliographers, in a second step.

"In Le Monde, Descartes wants to ruin the concepts of scholasticism, and 'evacuate' Aristotle's physics, by giving a physical interpretation of the new heliocentric astronomy. As opposed to traditional finalism, he envisions, in the form of a "Fable", the mechanical formation of the cosmos, from an initial state of chaos (pieces of matter of various shapes and sizes agitated by all-out movements) and only by virtue of the general laws of nature: principle of inertia, laws of the communication of movement, etc ... "Robert Maggiori, Liberation, 26.

Photo CLAIRAUT, Alexis. 

CLAIRAUT, Alexis. 

Théorie de la Lune, déduite du seul principe de l'attraction. 

Paris, Dessaint & Saillant, 1765.
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1500 €

Second edition.
This second edition brings together the Theory of the Moon and the Tables of the Moon published by Clairaut in 1752 and 1754 which are the first approximate resolution of the three-body problem. Between 1747 and 1754, three of the greatest mathematicians of their time, Euler, D'Alembert and Clairaut, opposed each other on a common project: to develop new mathematical methods in order to resolve the complex problems posed by the movement of the Moon, subject to both to the gravitational pull of the Earth and the Sun. The issue was both scientific and economic since the establishment of precise astronomical tables was necessary for the reliability of navigation at sea.

Photo BRISSON, Mathurin-Jacques. 

BRISSON, Mathurin-Jacques. 

Traité élémentaire ou principe de physique [suivi de] Elémens ou principes physico-chymiques. 

Paris, Bossange, Masson et Besson, 1800.
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Frist complete edition with the first edition of the fourth volume.
Complete homogeneous set in 4 volumes and 52 plates of this physics and chemistry course published by Mathurin-Jacques Brisson.
Assistant to Réaumur then to Nollet, Brisson became a professor of physics at the College of Navarre and then at the Ecole Centrale. He began to publish his Elementary Treaty of Physics in 1789. This third edition of 1800 was supplemented by a new volume on chemistry to serve as a follow-up to physics.

Photo POISSON, Siméon Denis. 

POISSON, Siméon Denis. 

Traité de Mécanique. 

Paris, Bachelier, 1833.
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Second edition.
Siméon Denis Poisson (1781-1840), French physicist and mathematician, it is in this Treatise on Mechanics that he introduces the coefficient which bears his name and which is one of the fundamental elements of the theory of elasticity. He demonstrated using molecular theory that this coefficient should have a value equal to 0.25. Value confirmed by measurements since most metals have a Poisson's ratio close to 0.3.

Photo STRUVE, Otto Wilhelm. 

STRUVE, Otto Wilhelm. 

Expédition chronométrique exécutée par ordre de Nicolas I entre Poulkova et Altona pour la détermination de la longitude géographique relative de l'observatoire centrale de Russie. 

St Petersbourg, Académie impériale des sciences, 1844.
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First edition.
Report of the chronometric expedition between the observatories of Poulkova (St Petersburg) and Altona (Hamburg) carried out in 1843.
It involved making chronometers travel between these two points in order to compare the relative times and thus set the finer the distance in longitudes separating the two observatories.
This data will serve as a basis for astronomical calculations.
81 chronometers (including some offered by Breguet) traveled from Russia.

Photo DUPUY, Léon. 

DUPUY, Léon. 

Exposé de la méthode de Hansen pour le calcul des perturbations spéciales des petites planètes. 

[Paris], [Baillière], [1874].
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150 €

First edition.
Article published in the Memoirs of the Physical and Natural Sciences Society of Bordeaux.TX on this fundamental problem of celestial mechanics which preoccupied mathematicians and astronomers at the end of the 19th century. Discussion on Hansen's method which is a perturbation theory approach to the three-body problem.

Photo DUBOIS, Edmond. 

DUBOIS, Edmond. 

Les Passages de Vénus sur le disque solaire. 

Paris, Gauthiers-Villars, 1873.
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150 €

First edition.
Work preparing the transit of Venus across the Sun in 1874.
The transit of Venus in 1874 was the first transit of the planet in the 19th century, eight years before the second in 1882. Like the transits of 1761 and 1769 in the previous century, these two transits give rise to numerous observations around the globe, in order to be able to precisely measure the value of the astronomical unit, the distance between the Earth and the Sun.

Photo LAVOISIER, Antoine-Laurent. 

LAVOISIER, Antoine-Laurent. 

Opuscules physiques et chimiques. 

Paris, Deterville, An IX - 1801.
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400 €

Second edition.
True second edition revised and corrected by the publisher Deterville after having published the same year a reprint of the original edition with a title announcing "second edition".
A very important book, in which Lavoisier first fave expression to his doubts on the phlogiston theory.

Photo TISSANDIER, Gaston. 

TISSANDIER, Gaston. 

La Physique sans appareils et la Chimie sans laboratoire. 

Paris, G. Masson, [1893].
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75 €

Sixth completely revised edition.
Popular science book presenting on each page an experiment to be carried out with the means present in all households.

Copy of Albert Tissandier, brother of the author with whom he ran the magazine La Nature until 1905.

Photo LORENTZ, Hendrik Antoon. 

LORENTZ, Hendrik Antoon. 

Het Relativiteitsbeginsel : drie voordrachten gehouden in Teyler's Stichting. 

Haarlem, De Erven Loosjex, 1913.
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500 €

First edition.
Publication of the lectures given at the Teylers Foundation by Lorentz on the theory of relativity.
Nobel Prize in Physics in 1902, it was thanks to Lorentz and the establishment of the "Lorentz transformations" that Einstein was able to establish his theory of special relativity.

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CASSIRER, Ernst. 

Zur Einstein'schen Relativitätstheorie. Erkenntnistheoretische Betrachtungen. 

Berlin, Bruno Cassirer, 1921.
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40 €

First edition.
Cassirer neo-Kantian philosopher, versed in the theories of contemporary physics, here reassesses the relationship of space and time in the light of Einstein's theory of relativity.

Photo EDDINGTON, Arthur. 

EDDINGTON, Arthur. 

Raum, Zeit und Schwere. Ein Umriss der allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie. 

Braunschweig, Vieweg & Sohn, 1923.
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70 €

First German edition of Space, Time and Gravitation published at Oxford in 1920. Arthur Eddington, a leading physicist, was the first to provide experimental proof of Einstein's general relativity during the solar eclipse of 1920. In this book he discusses his point of view on general relativity.

Photo [ELECTRICITE]. 

[ELECTRICITE]. 

Réflexions sur un ouvrage, où l'auteur s'efforce d'établir l'usage de l'électricité dans la Médecine. 

Rotterdam, Hermann Baskosk, 1767.
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First edition of this work on the use of electricity in medicine.
The author, who remained anonymous, writes against the theses defended by M.Paris in his book "Dissertation physico-médicinale sur l'usage de l'électricité dans la médecine". 1765.
His criticism is virulent but very substantiated. He takes up point by point the assertions of M.Paris and shows that the latter does not use any scientific argument established, as well in the literature as by the experiment.
Very rare work in a very nice contemporary binding. Rare condition for a scientific work.

Photo AMPÈRE, André Marie || BABINET. 

AMPÈRE, André Marie || BABINET. 

Exposé des nouvelles découvertes sur l’électricité et le magnétisme. 

Paris, Méquignon-Marvis, 1822.
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First edition, separately-paginated offprint of this early publication on electricity and magnetism.

It was in this work that Ampère (1775-1836) first presented his famous rule for determining the direction of deflection of a magnetized needle placed near an electric current.

A complete copy with the last leaf (table and errata) which is often missing.

The 'Exposé' is an offprint from the Supplement to the French translation of Thomas Thompson's System of Chemistry.

Photo NOLLET, Jean Antoine Abbé. 

NOLLET, Jean Antoine Abbé. 

Essai sur l'électricité des corps. 

Paris, Durand, 1771.
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200 €

Father Nollet was a professor of experimental physics and a French specialist in electricity.

Photo NOLLET, Jean Antoine Abbé. 

NOLLET, Jean Antoine Abbé. 

Lettres sur l'électricité dans lesquelles on examine les découvertes qui ont été faites sur cette matière. 

Paris, Durand, 1774-1777.
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600 €

Father Nollet was a professor of experimental physics and a French specialist in electricity.

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 CASTEL, Louis Bertrand. 

CASTEL, Louis Bertrand. 

L'Optique des couleurs. 

Paris, Briasson, 1740.
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500 €

First edition.
We find there in particular the description of an ocular harpsichord, a famous creation of Castel which would aim to play colors as one would play sounds. A synesthetic instrument that would no doubt have delighted the surrealists.

Photo [PRESTIDIGITATION]. 

[PRESTIDIGITATION]. 

Le Parfait physicien. 

Paris, Le Bailly, [v. 1870].
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