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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.

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.

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.

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.

MEAD, Richard.

De Imperio Solis ac Lunae in corpora Humana et Morbis inde oriundis.

Londres, Raphael Smith, 1704.

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1500 €

First edition.
Richard Mead (1673-1754), a physician and friend of Isaac Newton, attempts in this book to demonstrate the influence of gravitational forces on human health. Mesmer drew heavily on this book to write his doctoral thesis in 1766 (On the Influence of the Planets on the Human Body). The term "animal gravitation," taken from Mead, was later changed by Mesmer to "animal magnetism.".

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.

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.

NEWTON, Isaac.

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

Paris, Montalant, 1722.

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Second French edition of this important work in which Newton sets out his theory of light, the study of the refraction and diffraction of light. He observes in particular that light is composed of a multitude of colors.

This edition is more sought after than the first because the translation by Pierre Varignon was revised and supervised by Newton himself.

Handwritten note at the end: "Bookplate Musei C.Dupré. 1 quarto volume purchased on April 2, 1779"
An old handwritten note states that this copy was purchased on May 2, 1863, at the library sale... and placed to their proper place the plates that had been incorrectly inserted by the bookbinder.

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.

BELOT, Emile.

Essai de cosmogonie tourbillonnaire.

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1911.

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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.

DARLES DE LINIERE, ?.

Pompes sans cuirs.

Paris, Manufacture royale, 1768.

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400 €

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Darles de Linière presents his pump models in which the leather bladders and valves were replaced by copper pistons. The plates show models of merchant ship pumps, wheeled fire pumps (the ancestor of the fire truck), and pumps for raising water from wells.

VARIGNON, Pierre.

Projet d’une nouvelle mechanique: avec un Examen de l'opinion de M. Borelli.

Paris, Veuve d’Edme Martin, Jean Boudot & Estienne Martin, 1687.

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450 €

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[LAMY, Dom Francois].

Conjectures physiques sur deux colonnes de nüe qui ont paru depuis quelques années & sur les extraordinaires effets du tonnerre.

Paris, Veuve de Sébastien Mabre-Cramoisy, 1689.

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First edition.
Illustrated with a folding plate and four figures in the text, two of which are full-page.
Lamy studies here two "lightning strikes" that had left their mark, the first on April 26, 1676 in Soissons had left an astonishing frieze (which is reproduced on the folding plate) in the dormitory of an Abbey. The second in Lagny on July 18, 1689, where lightning had struck the altar of the Church of Saint-Sauveur and imprinted the canon of the mass on its tablecloth.
Camille Flammarion devotes an entire chapter in his book "Les Caprices de la foudre" to Lamy's observations, and tells us: "A monk, Father Lamy, of the Congregation of Saint-Maur, published in 1696 [Editor's note: 2nd ed.] an excellent pamphlet, dictated by the clearest common sense, on the curious effects of lightning, which were then the subject of the most superstitious commentaries. Voltaire could not have reasoned better.".

LA HIRE, Philippe (De).

Traité de Mécanique, où l'on explique Tout ce qui est nécessaire dans la pratique des Arts, & les propriétés des corps pesants lesquelles ont un plus grand usage dans la Physique.

Paris, Jean Anisson, 1695.

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550 €

First edition.
Numerous woodcut figures in the text.

DESCARTES, René.

Les Principes de la philosophie de René Descartes.

Paris, Nicolas Le Gras, 1681.

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Fourth edition.
"The Principles of Philosophy" by René Descartes is a fundamental work of Western philosophy. In this treatise, Descartes sets out his vision of the world, based on metaphysical and physical principles. He develops his method of doubt, his famous "cogito, ergo sum" (I think, therefore I am), and his conceptions on the nature of the soul and the body.

VARIGNON, Pierre || PUJOL (Abbé).

Traité du mouvement et de la mesure des eaux coulantes et jaillissantes.

Paris, Pissot, 1725.

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200 €

First edition.
The work is based on the posthumous manuscripts of Pierre Varignon, edited by Abbé Pujol. Varignon addresses in particular the problem of the Torricelli flow.

SIGAUD DE LA FOND, Joseph-Aignan.

Élémens de Physique théorique et expérimentale, pour servir de suite à la description & l'usage d'un cabinet de physique expérimentale.

Paris, P. Fr. Gueffier, 1777.

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650 €

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Sigaud de La Fond (1730-1810) was a French physicist and teacher who was, with his master Nollet, one of the promoters of experimental Physics and his teaching, notably by creating the first "physics cabinets".

Very good copy.

PAULIAN, Aimé-Henri.

Dictionnaire des nouvelles découvertes faites en physique, pour servir de supplément aux différentes éditions du Dictionnaire de physique.

Paris, J.J. Niel, 1787.

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Aimé Henri Paulian was professor of physics at Aix and Avignon.
First edition of this work in which Paulian presents the latest discoveries made in physics since the publication of his 'Dictionnaire de physique'.
In particular on electricity, air navigation, animal magnetism.

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.

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

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.

LECORNU, Léon.

Note sur le laboratoire aérodynamique Eiffel à Auteuil.

s.l., Comptes rendus de l'Académie des Sciences, 1914.

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Offprint from the Comptes rendus de l'Académie des Sciences..
Short presentation to the Academy of Sciences of the Eiffel laboratory in Auteuil, August 3, 1914. Created on the Champ de Mars at the foot of its tower, Gustave Eiffel's aerodynamics laboratory was moved to Auteuil in 1912. It is still in operation today, operated by the company Aérodynamique Eiffel.
This aerodynamics laboratory was used in particular to test the characteristics of the Farman military biplanes that were used during the First World War.

BOUGEANT, Guillaume Hyacinthe || GROZELIER, Nicolas.

Observations curieuses sur toutes les parties de la physique.

Paris, Bordelet Jombert, 1730-1737.

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250 €

Second edition.
Compilation of scientific facts which is mainly extracted from the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
This edition of 1730 (1737 for volume II) is given by Nicolas Grozelier.
A fourth volume was published 41 years after the third volume in 1771.
Some 18th century handwritten notes in the margins or on flying papers.

PARDIES, Ignace Gaston.

Discours du mouvement local. Avec des remarques sur le Mouvement de la Lumière.

Paris, P. Fr. Gueffier, 1674.

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Second enlarged edition.
Pardies was at the heart of the debates concerning the nature of light, corresponding with Newton, Leibniz, and Huygens. Before Huygens, he was the first to propose a detailed and well-argued theory based on the wave nature of light.
In 1670, Pardies sent a draft of his "discours sur le mouvement d’ondulation" to Huygens. This treatise was, for the Dutch scholar, who acknowledged it, an important source of inspiration in his conception of light, which he published much later, in 1690.
Pardies died on April 21, 1673, at the age of 36, from a fever contracted while visiting the sick at the Bicêtre hospice. His work on optics is known only indirectly, through the commentaries of his colleagues, but especially through the publication in 1682 by the Jesuit Father Pierre Ango of the work "Optics," inspired by the papers of Pardies that he had in his possession.
This second edition of his "Discourse on Local Movement" is interesting because it is expanded (compared to the first of 1670) with "Remarks on a letter from Mr. Descartes concerning light," in which, on p. 174, he hypothesizes that a sound would form in the sun and that the wave thus created would be transported to Earth.

[MANUSCRIT].

1- Tractatus de Motu
2- Tractatus de maechanica
3- Appendix quaestionum de motu.

s.l., s.n., 1775.

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Physics course in Latin, manuscript dated 1775. The course is divided into three parts: the movement of bodies, general mechanics and an appendix offering corrected exercises. The seven engraved plates are after "C.H. Becker ex Lov".

ROHAULT, Jacques.

Traité de Physique.

Paris, Veuve Charles Savreux, 1671.

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First edition.
Jacques Rohault was a great popularizer of Cartesian physics, he organized weekly public sessions, the "Wednesdays of Rohault" in which spectacular experiments served as a support for the explanation of physical theories.
His Treatise on Physics follows the same principle, experimentation is central and facts precede explanations.

BECQUEREL, Henri.

Manuscrit autographe : Reflexions sur une théorie moderne.

s.l., s.n., [1907].

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Original Manuscript by Henri Becquerel.

An interesting manuscript in which the discoverer of radioactivity ponders the nature of matter at the end of his life.
This manuscript, with corrections for printing, was published at the Institut de France after a reading at the session of October 25, 1907.

One of Henri Becquerel’s final works, this manuscript reflects on the revolutionary discoveries that had upended the traditional understanding of matter: the electron (discovered by Thomson in 1897), radioactivity (discovered by Becquerel himself in 1896), and radioactive decay (discovered by Rutherford in 1902).

The long-held notion of the atom as an indivisible, stable particle, as proposed by Democritus, was challenged by these groundbreaking findings. Becquerel pondered this new reality, suggesting that atoms, rather than being eternally stable, might undergo modifications over time. However, the slow pace of these transformations or the rarity of conducive conditions could create the illusion of stability.

The 15 pages offprint will be joined (covers detached).

REYNIER, Jean-Louis-Antoine.

Du Feu et de quelques-uns de ses principaux effets.

Lausanne, Mourer, 1787.

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600 €

First edition.
Reynier makes "fire" in this work, an essential constituent of the material which ensures its cohesion.
His theory announces, following Lavoisier, the replacement of the phlogiston theory by the caloric theory.
Our modern gaze would find that by replacing “fire” with “energy”, Reynier demonstrates many interesting intuitions here. As such it is often cited by Bachelard in his “Psychoanalysis of Fire”.

POLINIERE, Pierre.

Expériences de Physique.

Paris, Jean de Laulne, 1709.

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950 €

First edition.
Pierre Polinière is considered the founder of experimental physics in France. After studying mathematics with Pierre Varignon (1654 – 1722), Polinière opened a physics course at the college of Harcourt, it was one of the first public courses given in Paris. His public demonstration sessions were very successful and did much to disseminate the scientific method of experimental research. His experiments were very popular and, among the spectators, we found all of Paris, and even the young Louis XV in 1722.
In 1706 during an experiment before the Academy of Sciences, Polinière discovered electroluminescence. This discovery is contemporary but independent of that of Hauksbee in London.
The protocol of the experiment is described here in the chapter “Phosphorus through Movement”.

JAMIN, Jules Celestin.

Cours de physique de l'école polytechnique.

Paris, Gauthiers-Villars, 1885-1891.

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Fourth edition.
Physics course at the Polytechnic School divided into 12 booklets and 2 supplements (the third supplement is absent here).

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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.

CHEVREUL, Michel Eugène.

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

LAGRANGE, Joseph-Louis, comte de.

Méchanique analitique.

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

MEAD, Richard.

De Imperio Solis ac Lunae in corpora Humana et Morbis inde oriundis.

PASCAL, Blaise.

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

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

Nouvelles expériences sur la résistance des fluides.

NEWTON, Isaac.

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

HAUKSBEE, Francis.

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

BELOT, Emile.

Essai de cosmogonie tourbillonnaire.

DARLES DE LINIERE, ?.

Pompes sans cuirs.

First edition.Darles de Linière presents his pump models in which the leather bladders and valves were replaced by copper pistons. The plates show models of merchant ship pumps, wheeled fire pumps (the ancestor of the fire truck), and pumps for raising water from wells.

VARIGNON, Pierre.

Projet d’une nouvelle mechanique: avec un Examen de l'opinion de M. Borelli.

First edition.

[LAMY, Dom Francois].

Conjectures physiques sur deux colonnes de nüe qui ont paru depuis quelques années & sur les extraordinaires effets du tonnerre.

LA HIRE, Philippe (De).

Traité de Mécanique, où l'on explique Tout ce qui est nécessaire dans la pratique des Arts, & les propriétés des corps pesants lesquelles ont un plus grand usage dans la Physique.

First edition.Numerous woodcut figures in the text.

DESCARTES, René.

Les Principes de la philosophie de René Descartes.

VARIGNON, Pierre || PUJOL (Abbé).

Traité du mouvement et de la mesure des eaux coulantes et jaillissantes.

First edition.The work is based on the posthumous manuscripts of Pierre Varignon, edited by Abbé Pujol. Varignon addresses in particular the problem of the Torricelli flow.

SIGAUD DE LA FOND, Joseph-Aignan.

Élémens de Physique théorique et expérimentale, pour servir de suite à la description & l'usage d'un cabinet de physique expérimentale.

First editionSigaud de La Fond (1730-1810) was a French physicist and teacher who was, with his master Nollet, one of the promoters of experimental Physics and his teaching, notably by creating the first "physics cabinets".Very good copy.

PAULIAN, Aimé-Henri.

Dictionnaire des nouvelles découvertes faites en physique, pour servir de supplément aux différentes éditions du Dictionnaire de physique.

Aimé Henri Paulian was professor of physics at Aix and Avignon.First edition of this work in which Paulian presents the latest discoveries made in physics since the publication of his 'Dictionnaire de physique'. In particular on electricity, air navigation, animal magnetism.

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.

CURIE, Pierre || CURIE, Marie.

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

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

EIFFEL, Gustave.

La Résistance de l'air et l'aviation.

LECORNU, Léon.

Note sur le laboratoire aérodynamique Eiffel à Auteuil.

BOUGEANT, Guillaume Hyacinthe || GROZELIER, Nicolas.

Observations curieuses sur toutes les parties de la physique.

PARDIES, Ignace Gaston.

Discours du mouvement local. Avec des remarques sur le Mouvement de la Lumière.

[MANUSCRIT].

1- Tractatus de Motu2- Tractatus de maechanica 3- Appendix quaestionum de motu.

Physics course in Latin, manuscript dated 1775. The course is divided into three parts: the movement of bodies, general mechanics and an appendix offering corrected exercises. The seven engraved plates are after "C.H. Becker ex Lov".

ROHAULT, Jacques.

Traité de Physique.

BECQUEREL, Henri.

Manuscrit autographe : Reflexions sur une théorie moderne.

REYNIER, Jean-Louis-Antoine.

Du Feu et de quelques-uns de ses principaux effets.

POLINIERE, Pierre.

Expériences de Physique.

JAMIN, Jules Celestin.

Cours de physique de l'école polytechnique.

Fourth edition. Physics course at the Polytechnic School divided into 12 booklets and 2 supplements (the third supplement is absent here).

First edition.
Darles de Linière presents his pump models in which the leather bladders and valves were replaced by copper pistons. The plates show models of merchant ship pumps, wheeled fire pumps (the ancestor of the fire truck), and pumps for raising water from wells.

First edition.
Numerous woodcut figures in the text.

First edition.
The work is based on the posthumous manuscripts of Pierre Varignon, edited by Abbé Pujol. Varignon addresses in particular the problem of the Torricelli flow.

First edition

Sigaud de La Fond (1730-1810) was a French physicist and teacher who was, with his master Nollet, one of the promoters of experimental Physics and his teaching, notably by creating the first "physics cabinets".

Very good copy.

Aimé Henri Paulian was professor of physics at Aix and Avignon.
First edition of this work in which Paulian presents the latest discoveries made in physics since the publication of his 'Dictionnaire de physique'.
In particular on electricity, air navigation, animal magnetism.

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.

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

1- Tractatus de Motu
2- Tractatus de maechanica
3- Appendix quaestionum de motu.

Fourth edition.
Physics course at the Polytechnic School divided into 12 booklets and 2 supplements (the third supplement is absent here).