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Photo BERTHELOT, Marcellin. 

BERTHELOT, Marcellin. 

Sur quelques phénomènes de dilatation forcée des liquides.
Sur un procédé simple et sans danger pour démontrer la liquéfaction des gaz et celle de l'acide carbonique en particulier. 

Paris, s.n., [v.1850].
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Rare offprint from the "Annales de Chimie et de Physique, 3rd series, vol. XXX").
The first scientific paper by the famous French chemist Marcelin Berthelot.
This papper, written when he was still a young research student, has been largely ignored in the various accounts of his lasting contributions to chemistry.
The probable reason for this is that this paper is concerned with a method of subjecting a liquid to tension, and it is more appropriate to regard it as a paper on physics rather than on chemistry.

It is, however, a most important paper because, although virtually ignored for a long time, Berthelot's original method was again 'rediscovered ' in the 1940s and since then has been developed into a most fruitful line of research.

Berthelot showed that liquids contained in his ' Berthelot tube ' could withstand a considerable tension; and he is the first person to have observed cavitation, a phenomenon which has been studied so widely this century.

A presentation copy offered by Berthelot to the chemist Michel-Eugène Chevreul.

Photo CURIE, Marie. 

CURIE, Marie. 

Traité de Radioactivité. 

Paris, Gauthiers-Villars, 1910.
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3500 €

First edition.

Published the year before Curie received her 1911 Nobel Prize in chemistry for her discovery of the elements radium and polonium, the Traité de la radioactivité is a summary of all work on radiochemistry up to that point.
Most importantly, Curie describes in detail the theory of nuclear transformations and its consequences. (Neville)

"This work represents all the lessons which have constituted during these last years the course of Radioactivity taught at the Sorbonne. The writing of these lessons has been supplemented by some developments which could not find place in the teaching" (Excerpt of the intro).

Marie Curie has been a professor at the Sorbonne since 1906, the year following the publication of her Treatise on Radioactivity, in 1911, she will receive the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
She remains to this day the only woman to have won two Nobel Prizes.

Photo CURIE, Pierre || CURIE, Marie. 

CURIE, Pierre || CURIE, Marie. 

Oeuvres de Pierre Curie. Publiées par les Soins de la Societe Francaise de Physique. 

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1908.
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250 €

First edition.
First edition of the works of Pierre Curie. His wife Marie Curie signs the preface here.

Photo SOMERVILLE, Mary. 

SOMERVILLE, Mary. 

De la connexion des sciences physiques ou Exposé simple et rapide de tous les principaux phénomènes astronomiques, physiques, chimiques, géologiques et météorologiques: accompagné des découvertes et expériences les plus remarquables des savans modernes tant français qu'étrangers. 

Paris, F.-G. Levrault, 1837.
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300 €

First edition in french.
Mary Somerville, scientific writer, moved in a brilliant intellectual circle. At age fifty-one she "embarked on a professional career as a scientific expositor by translating Laplace's Treatise on Celestial Mechanics.
Her second work, 'On the Connection of the Physical Sciences', was a great success.
Her discussion of a hypothetical planet perturbing Uranus, in the sixth edition of (1842), led John Couch Adams to search for and discover the planet Neptune.

Photo MARTIN, Louis-Aimé. 

MARTIN, Louis-Aimé. 

Lettres à Sophie sur la physique, la chimie, et l'histoire naturelle. 

Paris, Lefèvre, 1822.
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New edition wit 6 colored plates.
Scientific pedagogical work written by letter addressed to the young Sophie H. Louis-Aimé Martin wants to be a continuator of the Studies of Nature of Bernardin de Saint Pierre.

Photo GAY-LUSSAC Louis & POUILLET Claude. 

GAY-LUSSAC Louis & POUILLET Claude. 

Instruction sur les Paratonnerres adoptée par l'Académie des Sciences :
- 1re partie, 1823 : M. Gay-Lussac, rapporteur
- 2e partie, 1854 : M. Pouillet, rapporteur
- 3e partie, 1867 : M. Pouillet, rapporteur. 

Paris, Gauthier-villars, 1874.
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Photo DANNE, Jacques. 

DANNE, Jacques. 

Le Radium, sa préparation et ses propriétés. 

Paris, Librairie Polytechnique Ch. Béranger, 1904.
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65 €

First edition.

Jacques Danne, a French physicist, was a research assistant to Pierre Curie at ESPCI and later at the Radium Institute.

With Pierre Curie and André-Louis Debierne, he discovered induced radioactivity and measured the electrical charge of the radiation emitted by radioactive materials.

Photo KIRCHHOFF, Gustav. 

KIRCHHOFF, Gustav. 

Du rapport entre le pouvoir émissif et le pouvoir absorbant des Corps pour la Chaleur et la Lumière. In: Annales de chimie et de physique. Troisième série. Tome 62. 

Paris, Victor Masson, 1861.
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First French edition of this fundamental paper in which he formulated the "Kirchhoff's Law,"

This volume of the Annals of Chemistry also includes another remarkable and important article in the development of photography.
POITEVIN, Alphonse. De l'action chimique de la lumière sur les substances organiques. Son emploi à l'impression photographique.

Photo PERRIN, Jean. 

PERRIN, Jean. 

Les Atomes. 

Paris, Librairie Félix Alcan, 1913.
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30 €

Second edition.

Photo EINSTEIN, Albert. 

EINSTEIN, Albert. 

L'Ether et la théorie de la relativité. 

Paris, Gauthier villars, 1921.
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First french edition.
In his work L'Éther et la Théorie de la Relativité (Ether and the Theory of Relativity), Albert Einstein (1879-1955) addresses the concept of the ether, which dominated 19th-century physics, and explains how his theory of relativity replaced this notion.

This book, based on a lecture delivered at Leiden University in 1920, is a key text for understanding the transition from classical to modern physics. The French translation by Maurice Solovine (1875-1958) enabled French-speaking scientists to grasp the implications of relativity.

Photo CURIE, Marie. 

CURIE, Marie. 

L'isotope et les éléments isotopes. 

Paris, Société le journal de physique, 1924.
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100 €

First edition.
The purpose of this work is to represent as completely as possible the birth and evolution of the now fundamental concept of isotopy.

Photo JOLIOT-CURIE, Frédéric. 

JOLIOT-CURIE, Frédéric. 

La constitution de la matière et la radioactivité artificielle. 

Paris, Eyrolles, 1927.
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50 €

First edition.

Photo CURIE, Irène || JOLIOT, Frédéric. 

CURIE, Irène || JOLIOT, Frédéric. 

La projection de noyaux atomiques par un rayonnement très pénétrant. L'existence du neutron. 

Paris, Hermann, 1932.
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30 €

First edition.

Photo JACOTOT, Pierre. 

JACOTOT, Pierre. 

Elémens de Physique expérimentale, de chimie et de minéralogie, suivis d'un Abrégé d'Astronomie, à l'usage des Lycées et autres établissemens d'instruction publique. Seconde édition, totalement refondue et augmentée de plus d'un tiers. 

Paris, Crapart, Caille et Ravier, An XIII - 1804.
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100 €

Second edition. Text volumes only. Without the atlas.
The first volume deals mainly with physics and related subjects, and the second volume is entirely chemical and throws light on the contents of a course of chemistry at the turn of the nineteenth century.

Photo JULIA DE FONTENELLE, Jean-Sébastien-Eugène || MALEPEYRE F. || [MANUEL RORET]. 

JULIA DE FONTENELLE, Jean-Sébastien-Eugène || MALEPEYRE F. || [MANUEL RORET]. 

Nouveau manuel complet de physique amusante ou Nouvelles récréations physiques, contenant une suite d'expériences curieuses, instructives et d'un exécution facile, ainsi que diverses applications aux arts et à l'industrie. 

Paris, Librairie Encyclopedique de Roret, 1860.
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40 €
Photo EINSTEIN, Albert. 

EINSTEIN, Albert. 

La Géométrie et l'Expérience. 

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1921.
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First french edition.

Photo DELAUNAY, Charles-Eugène. 

DELAUNAY, Charles-Eugène. 

Cours élémentaire de mécanique théorique et appliquée. 

Paris, Garnier, 1867.
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30 €
Photo LAGRANGE, Joseph-Louis, comte de. 

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.


A precious copy that belonged to Gaspard de Prony (1755-1839), with his bookplate on the title page and on the first leaf of volume 2.
Following the death of Lagrange, who had already printed the first sheets, Gaspard de Prony was entrusted with overseeing the printing of the second volume of the second edition of the'Méchanique analitique'.

His copy of Lagrange's work was bound in two volumes, with a blank leaf added to each page.
Only the leaf following page 14 was used for taking notes. There are also a few rare notes in pencil directly onto the text.
Some notes were trimmed during the binding process (second half of the nineteenth century). (Writer unidentified).

Photo BECQUEREL, Antoine Henri. 

BECQUEREL, Antoine Henri. 

Recherches sur une propriété nouvelle de la matière : activité radiante spontanée ou radioactivité de la matière. 

Paris, Firmin Didot, 1903.
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First edition.
Discovery of radioactivity.
Article published in volume 46 of the Mémoires de l'Académie des Sciences, which is entirely devoted to him, in which Henri Becquerel gathered all his experiments on radioactivity since 1896.
The first part is devoted to his work on uranium radiation during the years 1896 and 1897. The second, his work since 1898, which was fueled by the discoveries of Pierre and Marie Curie, on Polonium and Radium.
The three scientists will share the Nobel Prize in Physics that same year, 1903.
The third part of the work is a bibliography of more than 200 works on radioactivity.

Photo POISSON, Siméon-Denis. 

POISSON, Siméon-Denis. 

Nouvelle théorie de l'action capillaire, servant d'introduction à un Traité de physique mathématique. 

Paris, Bachelier père et fils, 1831.
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1500 €

First edition.
Prize copy for Concours général of Paris.

Photo CARNOT, Lazare. 

CARNOT, Lazare. 

Essai sur les machines en général. [Bound after:] Principes fondamentaux de l'équilibre et du mouvement. 

Dijon, Defay, 1786.
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First edition, second issue.
Only two copies of the first edition, dated 1782, are known. This 'Nouvelle édition' is, in fact, the first edition, second issue: it differs from the first only by a cancel title and the addition (in some copies) of an errata leaf.

The Essay was a precursor to the concept of conservation of work (or "motive power"), predating the formal formulation of the first law of thermodynamics.
The Essay on Machines, by the father, is the crucible in which Sadi Carnot, the son, would found a new science in 1824: thermodynamics.

Bound with :
- CARNOT, Principes fondamentaux de l'équilibre et du mouvement, Paris, Deterville, 1803
xxii-262-(1) pages et 2 planches.
- BIOT, Analyse du traité de mécanique céleste de P.S. Laplace, Paris, Duprat, An IX [1801]
(2)-93 pages.
- BIOT, Essai sur l'histoire générale des sciences pendant la révolution française, Paris, Duprat, 1803
(4)-83 pages
- Discours prononcé à l'ouverture du lycée de Clérmont, Clermont, Landriot, 8 février 1808
23 pages.

Photo NEWTON, Isaac. 

NEWTON, Isaac. 

Traité d'optique sur les réflexions, réfractions, inflexions et les couleurs de la lumière. 

Amsterdam, Humbert, 1720.
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First french edition.
Work in which Newton sets forth his theory of light, the study of refraction and diffraction of light. It notably includes his famous experiments on the decomposition of light through a prism, establishing that white light is composed of a multitude of colours.

Photo MOUCHOT, Augustin. 

MOUCHOT, Augustin. 

La Chaleur solaire et ses applications industrielles. 

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1869.
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1200 €

First edition.
Pioneering book on solar energy, one of the first entirely devoted to the subject.
Augustin Mouchot (1825-1912) was a French inventor and engineer, a pioneer in solar energy. His book La chaleur solaire et ses applications industrielles (Solar Heat and Its Industrial Applications) is a major work detailing his research and inventions for capturing and utilizing solar energy. Mouchot is famous for developing solar collectors and steam engines powered by solar energy, thus anticipating the importance of renewable energy by several decades. This book, illustrated with 35 engravings, is an essential resource for the history of solar technology and 19th-century engineering, presenting concepts that are still relevant today.

Presentation copy to Jean Gustave Bourbouze (1825-1889).

Photo FOURIER, Jean Baptiste Joseph || DARBOUX, Gaston. 

FOURIER, Jean Baptiste Joseph || DARBOUX, Gaston. 

Oeuvres de Fourier publiées par les soins de M. Gaston Darboux, sous les auspices du Ministère de l'Instruction Publique. 

Paris, Gauthier-Villars et Fils, 1888-1890.
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First edition of the works of Fourier.

Photo MAXWELL, James Clerk. 

MAXWELL, James Clerk. 

Traité d'électricité et de magnétisme. 

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1885-1887.
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First french edition.
Maxwell's equations which he exposes in his Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism revolutionized physics. They provide a mathematical framework for the study of electromagnetic waves and therefore are the basis of all 20th century physics, including Einstein's special relativity.
Major work in the history of science.
Our copy has been enriched with dozens of notes on loose paper or in the margins by Emmanuel Carvallo (1856–1945). A member of the French Mathematical Society (Société mathématique de France) and the French Physical Society (Société française de physique), Carvallo taught electricity courses at the Practical School of Industrial Electricity (École pratique d’électricité industrielle), and was Director of Studies (directeur d’études) at the École Polytechnique between 1909 and 1920.

Photo DELUC, Jean-André. 

DELUC, Jean-André. 

Introduction a la physique terrestre par les fluides expansibles, précédée de deux mémoires sur la nouvelle théorie chymique. 

Paris, Vve Nyon, 1803.
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750 €

First edition.
Full margin copy, as issue.

Jean-André de Luc (1727-1817) was a Genevan physicist and geologist who worked on expansible fluids and hygrometry. A member of the Royal Society of London, he was known for his work on atmospheric physics and the measurement of altitude. This work is a study of terrestrial physics through the prism of gases and fluids, focusing on atmospheric phenomena.
Deluc strenuously opposed the new chemical theory associated with Lavoisier and in this work attempted to show "that meteorological phenomena strongly militate against it and in general that the hypothesis of the composition of water (the fundamental point in the theory) has maintained itself only by numerous other hypotheses which are in contradiction with known facts." (D.S.B.).

Photo OZANAM, Jacques. 

OZANAM, Jacques. 

Récréations mathématiques et physiques, qui contiennent plusieurs problèmes d'arithmétique, de géométrie, d'optique, de gnomonique, de cosmographie, de mécanique, de pyrotechnie, & de physique. Avec un traité nouveau des horloges élémentaires. 

Paris, Jean Jombert, 1698.
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Third edition.
This book on mathematics and physics deals with various problems in arithmetic, geometry, music, optics, gnomonics, cosmography, mechanics, acoustics, pyrotechnics, physics, water clocks, natural phosphors, perpetual lamps, etc.

Photo GAY-LUSSAC, Joseph Louis || POUILLET, Claude. 

GAY-LUSSAC, Joseph Louis || POUILLET, Claude. 

Leçons de physique de la Faculté des Sciences de Paris, recueillies et rédigées par M. Grosselin. 

Paris, Grosselin, 1828.
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600 €

First edition.
- Part One: Lessons taught by Gay-Lussac.
Lessons 19 to 25 are devoted to the expansion of liquids and gases, a field in which Gay-Lussac made a major advance.
- Part Two: Lessons taught by Pouillet.

Photo PAULIAN, Aimé-Henri. 

PAULIAN, Aimé-Henri. 

Dictionnaire de physique, dédié à Monseigneur le duc de Berry. 

Paris, Louis Chambeau, 1761.
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550 €

First edition.
The original edition of this encyclopedic dictionary by Aimé-Henri Paulian (1722-1801), a Jesuit priest and professor of physics at the College of Avignon.

The work was highly successful, seeing numerous re-editions throughout the 18th century. It is aimed at a general science audience, providing a didactic popularization of the knowledge of the time, particularly the Newtonian system, while covering a broad spectrum of topics from arithmetic to the "divining rod" and early balloon experiments.

Photo EIFFEL, Gustave. 

EIFFEL, Gustave. 

La résistance de l'air et l'aviation expériences effectuées au laboratoire du champ-de-mars. 

Paris, Dunod et Pinat, 1910.
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After experimental aerodynamic tests obtained by free fall from the second floor of the tower he had built on the Champ de Mars in Paris, Gustave Eiffel had a wind tunnel built there in 1909. It was made up of a vein of tests of 3 meters in diameter over a length of 2.5 meters. The flow, generated by a propeller driven by a 70hp engine, could vary between 5 and 20 meters per second. The installation was enclosed in a 240 square meter hangar so as not to be influenced by the outside wind. This installation was used, in particular, for testing the Eiffel wing profiles which would equip a large number of French aircraft from the First World War. It was moved to Auteuil in 1912 and is still in operation today, operated by the Aérodynamic Eiffel company.


Copy with the stamp "Hommage de G. Eiffel" on the half title.

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