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

Photo EINSTEIN, Albert. 

EINSTEIN, Albert. 

Eine Theorie der Grundlagen der Thermodynamik. 

Leipzig, Ambrosius Barth, 1903.
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300 €

First edition.
Fourth article written by Albert Einstein and published in Annalen der Physik vol.11 in 1903 Einstein continued the work of Botlzman and Maxwell on the conditions for realizing the second law of thermodynamics according to probabilistic mathematics.

Photo HAÜY, René Just. 

HAÜY, René Just. 

Traité élémentaire de physique. 

Paris, Delance et Lesueur, 1803.
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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 D'ALEMBERT, Jean Le Rond dit ) || CONDORCET, Nicolas de || BOSSUT, Charles. 

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.

Photo FRESNEL, Augustin. 

FRESNEL, Augustin. 

Lettre de M. Fresnel à M. Arago sur l'influence du mouvement terrestre dans quelques phénomènes d'optique (publiés dans Annales de Chimie et de physique - Tome IX). 

Paris, Crochard, 1818.
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First edition.
Fresnel's work on certain questions of astronomical observations which had to take into account the existence of an immobile ether surrounding the Earth.

In the same volume we find articles by Faraday, Dalton, Thénard.

Photo POUILLET, Claude-Servais-Matthias. 

POUILLET, Claude-Servais-Matthias. 

Élémens de physique expérimentale et de météorologie. 

Paris, Béchet jeune, 1827-28-29-30.
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First edition.

Claude Pouillet (1790-1868) was a French physicist and politician, renowned for his scientific research and physics courses he gave jointly with Joseph Gay-Lussac (1778-1850, French chemist and physicist) at the University of the Sorbonne in Paris.
This book gathers together all the lessons given, whose subjects are the main fields of study of physics such as heat, gravity, magnetism, electricity, the actions of molecules, the structure of bodies, elasticity , sound, optics, etc.

Photo FISCHER, Ernst Gottfried. 

FISCHER, Ernst Gottfried. 

Physique Mécanique avec des notes et un appendice sur les anneaux colorés, la double réfraction, la polarisation de la lumière et le magnétisme tant en repos qu'en mouvement par M. Biot. 

Paris, Mme Ve Courcier, 1819.
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Third enlarged edition, sought for Biot's notes on the polarization of light.
Biot is known for having studied and established the laws of rotation of the plane of polarization of the light passing through a liquid solution just before this edition, in 1815.

Photo PRONY, Gaspard de. 

PRONY, Gaspard de. 

Mémoire sur le jaugeage des eaux courantes

Relié à la suite :
- SMEATON. Recherches expérimentales sur l'eau et le vent. 1827
- BELANGER. Essai sur la solution numérique de quelques problèmes relatifs au mouvement permanent des eaux courantes. 1828. 

Paris, Imprimerie de la république, 1802.
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Bound together three hydraulics work in french.
First edition for the Prony an Belanger and second french edition for Smeaton.

Photo EINSTEIN, Albert. 

EINSTEIN, Albert. 

- Die Plancksche Theorie der Strahlung und die Theorie der spezifischen Wärme
- Über die Gütligkeitsgrenze des Satzes vom thermodynamischen Gleichgewicht und über die Möglichkeit einer neuen Bestimmung der Elementarquanta. 

Leipzig, Ambrosius Barth, 1907.
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First edition.
Two articles written by Albert Einstein and published in Annalen der Physik vol.22 en 1907.
- Die Planckche Theorie der Strahlung und die Theorie der spezifischen Wärme.
Einstein's first article on quantum theory .

- Über die Gütligkeitsgrenze des Satzes vom thermodynamischen Gleichgewicht und über die Möglichkeit einer neuen Bestimmung der Elementarquanta
One of Einstein's rare forays into experimental physics , to detect very weak voltage fluctuations, he designed a new type of electrometer that he called his Maschinchen.

Photo REGNAULT, Noël. 

REGNAULT, Noël. 

Les Entretiens physiques d'Ariste et d'Eudoxe. Ou Physique nouvelle en dialogues, qui renferme précisément ce qui s'est découvert de plus curieux & de plus utile dans la nature. 

Paris, C. L. & C. C. Thiboust père & fils - J. T. Herissant, 1737.
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Third edition, revised and corrected, in four volumes.

Book of popularization of the knowledge acquired in various scientific domains of that time.
First published in 1729, in three volumes, this book was a great success and had several reissues. It was increased by a fourth volume in 1732.

Fine copy and richly illustrated by plates.

Photo HERSCHEL, John Frederick William. 

HERSCHEL, John Frederick William. 

Traité de la lumière, traduit de l'anglais avec notes par MM. P.-F. Verhulst et A. Quetelet. 

Paris, Malher et Cie-L. Hachette, 1829-1833.
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First edition in French of Herschel's treatise on light: "Light", published in 1827 in "Encyclopaedia Metropolitana".

The major delay due to the change of editor in 1833 allowed the translator, Quetelet, to write an important supplement in the second volume, pages 333 to 602. He introduced new discoveries such as the phenakistiscope of Plateau, at origin of the cinematograph (pages 471 to 489).
"John Herschel was a mathematician as well as an astronomer, was the first to take a photograph onto glass and gave us the terms, ‘photography’, ‘negative’, ‘positive’, and snapshot’. His researches extended into corneal irregularities and astigmatism and he realised that in these cases vision could be improved by neutralising the cornea. Herschel suggested the making of moulds of the eye with gelatine although there is no evidence that this was actually done. He included these observations in his article on ‘Light’ in 1827".

Photo BRUN, Charles-Marie. 

BRUN, Charles-Marie. 

Étude sur la théorie mécanique de la chaleur. 

Paris, Librairie militaire de L. Baudoin, 1893-1895.
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Rare first edition.
Only one copy of the first volume in public libraries (Bibliothèque polytechnique. ccfr. Only the second volume in worldcat).

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[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".

Photo REGNAULT, Noël. 

REGNAULT, Noël. 

Les Entretiens physiques d'Ariste et d'Eudoxe, ou physique nouvelle en dialogues. 

Paris, Jacques Clouzier, 1732-1750.
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Popular book of knowledge in various fields of science of the time.
First published in 1729, in three volumes, this book was a great success and had several reissues. It was increased by a fourth volume in 1732.
In our copy the first four volumes are from the 1732 edition, the fifth is dated 1750.

Complete copy of all the plates.

Photo NOLLET, Jean-Antoine. 

NOLLET, Jean-Antoine. 

L'art des expériences ou avis aux amateurs de physique, sur le choix, la construction et l'usage des instruments; sur la préparation et l'emploi des drogues qui servent aux expériences. 

Paris, P.E.G. Durand, 1770.
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First edition. Second issue with new title page "Seconde edition".
Fine copy.
The first volume deals with the production of mathematical instruments, the choice and preparation of drugs, and the preparation and use of various varnishes for wood and metals.
In the second volume deals with various experimental physics experiments are described.
The last volume is about particular opinions on the experiences of the lessons contained in previous volumes.

Nollet spent a lot of time on electricity and became one of the authorities of his time. ["Nollet became the chief of the European electricians" (DSB, X p. 146)].

Photo BOSSUT, Charles. 

BOSSUT, Charles. 

Traité élémentaire d'hydrodynamique : Ouvrage dans lequel la théorie et l'expérience s'éclairent ou se suppléent mutuellement ; avec deux notes sur plusieurs endroits qui ont paru mériter d'être appronfondis. 

Paris, Claude-Antoine Jombert, 1775.
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Secoond edition.

Photo ANDRADE, Jules. 

ANDRADE, Jules. 

Leçons de mécanique physique. 

Paris, Société d'éditions scientifiques, 1898.
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First edition.
Inscribed copy.

Photo OZANAM, Jacques. 

OZANAM, Jacques. 

Dictionnaire Mathématique, ou idée Générale des Mathématiques.
Dans lequel sont contenus les termes de cette science, outre plusieurs termes des Arts & des autres sciences, avec des raisonnemens qui conduisent peu à peu l'esprit à une connoissance universelle des Mathématiques. 

Amsterdam, Huguetan, 1691.
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A reprint of the first edition, published the same year by Michallet in Paris.
The dictionnary is divided into sections dealing with subjects such as arithmetic, algebra, geometry, cosmography, astronomy, navigation, optics, perspective, mechanics, hydrostatics, architecture, fortification and music.

Photo BERTHELOT, Marcelin. 

BERTHELOT, Marcelin. 

Essai de mécanique chimique fondée sur la thermochimie. 

Paris, Dunod, 1879.
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First edition, with the rare supplement.
"A monumental work in which Berthelot "laid the foundation of thermochemistry" (Zeitlinger). His researches began a new epoch, and in this work he introduced the terms exo- and endo-thermic. Although a number of chemists before him had made contributions regarding the evolution and absoption of heat in chemical reactions, it was Berthelot whose experimental determinations cover almost the whole range of chemical reaction." ... "Most copies lack the important and rare Supplément" (Neville).

Photo DARLES DE LINIERE, ?. 

DARLES DE LINIERE, ?. 

Pompes sans cuirs. 

Paris, Manufacture royale, 1768.
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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.

Photo ROHAULT, Jacques. 

ROHAULT, Jacques. 

Traité de Physique. 

Bruxelles, Eugène Henry Fricx, 1708.
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Second french 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.

Photo DULONG, Pierre || PETIT, Alexis. 

DULONG, Pierre || PETIT, Alexis. 

Recherches sur la mesure des températures et sur les lois de la communication de la chaleur (publiés dans Annales de Chimie et de physique - Tome VII). 

Paris, Crochard, 1817.
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First edition.
First work by Dulong and Petit which will lead to the establishment of the thermodynamic law with the same name.
This work was rewarded with the physics prize of the Académie des Sciences in 1818.

In the same volume, articles by Gay-Lussac, Humboldt, Dalton.

Photo LENDY. 

LENDY. 

Dissertations sur quelques points de physique, ou nouvel exposé des causes de plusieurs phénomènes dont la solution est encore problématique. 

Paris, Madame Huzard, An X [1802].
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Rare work. Only two copies located in French libraries (ccfr).
The book contains two essays. The first on capillarity the second on how the sun warm us.
We joint a letter from the author.

Photo VARIGNON, Pierre. 

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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First edition.

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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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 LORENTZ, Hendrik Antoon. 

LORENTZ, Hendrik Antoon. 

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

Haarlem, De Erven Loosjex, 1913.
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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.

Photo CASTEL, Louis Bertrand. 

CASTEL, Louis Bertrand. 

L'Optique des couleurs. 

Paris, Briasson, 1740.
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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 MASSUET, Pierre. 

MASSUET, Pierre. 

Élémens de Philosophie moderne qui contiennent la pneumatique, la métaphysique, la physique expérimentale, le système du monde, suivant les nouvelles découvertes. 

Amsterdam, Z. Chatelain et fils, 1752.
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First edition of this work, which deals mainly with physics, presented in the form of questions / answers.
Metaphysics, mathematics and therefore physical: of bodies (matter and vacum, porosity, hardness, ..., movement, inertia, shocks, mechanics, friction, pulley levers, gravity, Newtonian attraction , Electricity, fluids, optics, telescopes, planets, etc.).
Fine copy of this richly illustrated book with two frontispieces and 29 plates.

Photo LA HIRE, Philippe (De). 

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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First edition.
Numerous woodcut figures in the text.

Photo REYNIER, Jean-Louis-Antoine. 

REYNIER, Jean-Louis-Antoine. 

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

Lausanne, Mourer, 1787.
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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”.

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