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Photo CHERUBIN D'ORLEANS, Père. 

CHERUBIN D'ORLEANS, Père. 

Effets de la force de la contiguité des corps par lesquelles on répond aux expériences de la crainte du Vuide, & à celles de la Pesanteur de l'Air. 

Paris, Etienne Ducastin, 1689.
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First edition, re-issue with cancel title (first issue 1679 with the imprint of Couterot, an other in 1689 of Lucas).
In this work, Chérubin d'Orléans discuss of the air-pump experiments of Pascal and Torricelli. He thought that vaccuum doesn't exist.

Photo [LAMY, Dom Francois]. 

[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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950 €

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.".

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 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 AMPERE, André Marie || BABINET. 

AMPERE, André Marie || BABINET. 

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

Paris, Méquignon-Marvis, 1822.
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1250 €

First edition, separately-paginated offprint of this early publication on electricity and magnetism in which Ampère and Babinet review the latest discoveries concerning electromagnetism.
Papper first published as a supplement to the French translation by Jean-René-Denis-Alexandre Riffault of the fifth edition of Thomas Thomson's Système de chimie.
Ampère notably presents his famous rule called "Ampère's rule" which describes the direction in which a magnetized needle moves near a conducting wire in which a current flows. His galvanometer, a device for measuring current intensity. As well as the idea of ​​an electric telegraph system.
Book that bears witness to the excitement caused among physicists by Oerstedt's experiment in 1820 which opened a new scientific field, electromagnetism.
A very complete copy of the last leaf (table and errata) which is usually missing.

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 PASCAL, Blaise. 

PASCAL, Blaise. 

Oeuvres de Blaise Pascal. 

La Haye [Paris], Detune, 1779.
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1500 €

First and only old collective edition,
Published by Bossut, this edition is illustrated with a portrait and 14 plates.
Among the unpublished there are many "pensée", writings on Grace, the Treaty of vacuum and and extensive correspondence.
Volumes IV and V contain the scientific works.
We found the second printing of the describing of invention of the computing machine of Descartes (TIV, pages 7-30). The first edition, certainly printed by the author, is unobtainable (only two copies known).
Also of interest here is the reprint of Pascal's 1654 paper introducing his triangle of binominal coefficients (Pascal's Triangle), included in Volume V, pages 1-54. Pascal's invention "predated the concepts of computation of the values of polynomial functions by differences.".

Photo MARIOTTE, Edme. 

MARIOTTE, Edme. 

Oeuvres de Mr Mariotte, de l'Académie royale des Sciences. 

Leide, Pierre Vander, 1717.
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1500 €

First collected edition, and first edition for the "Traité du mouvement des pendules" is published here for the first time.
Edme Mariotte was one of the pioneers of experimental physics in France and, with Newton, one of the great figures of European physics. His works bear witness to great originality and great diversity. In 1660 he undertook research on the elastic deformations of solids and laid down a law. In 1676, he also established the gas compressibility law which bears his name and formulated it in his treatise On the nature of air: at constant temperature, the volume of a gas varies inversely with pressure.
He also studied optics, hydrodynamics, fluid mechanics, as evidenced by his numerous writings on vision, colors (he opposed, like Hooke or Huygens, Newton's theory), weather forecasts , fluid movements, body shock ...
He also left his name to the "Mariotte spot", which is a part of the completely blind retina.).

Photo ALEMBERT, Jean Le Rond d’. 

ALEMBERT, Jean Le Rond d’. 

Reflexions sur la Cause generale des Vents. Piéce qui a remporté le Prix proposé par l'Académie Royale des Sciences de Berlin, pour l'Année 1746. 

Paris, David l'aîné, 1747.
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1500 €

First edition of this important work on atmospheric tides.

Photo NEWTON, Isaac. 

NEWTON, Isaac. 

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

Paris, Montalant, 1722.
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1500 €

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.

Photo GROLLIER DE SERVIÈRE, Gaspard. 

GROLLIER DE SERVIÈRE, Gaspard. 

Recueil d'ouvrages curieux de mathématique et de mécanique, ou description du cabinet de Monsieur Grollier de Servière avec des figures en taille douce. 

Lyon, David Forey, 1719.
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2200 €

First edition.
Among the mechanical inventions depicted in Grollier de Serviere's Cabinet are those for propelling ships, making elevations, various kinds of clocks, lamps, mechanical figures, mills, optical contrivances and geometrical instruments.

Photo BECQUEREL, Antoine César. 

BECQUEREL, Antoine César. 

Traité expérimental de l'électricité et du magnétisme, et de leurs rapports avec les phénomènes naturels. 

Paris, Firmin Didot, 1834-1840.
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2200 €

Rare first edition of ono of the most important work of Becquerel.

Photo PASCAL, Blaise. 

PASCAL, Blaise. 

Oeuvres de Blaise Pascal. 

La Haye [Paris], Detune, 1779.
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2500 €

The first and sole ancient collective edition, partially original.

Published by Bossut, this edition is illustrated with a portrait and 14 plates.
Among the unpublished there are many "pensée", writings on Grace, the Treaty of vacuum and and extensive correspondence.
Volumes IV and V contain the scientific works.
We found the second printing of the describing of invention of the computing machine of Descartes (TIV, pages 7-30). The first edition, certainly printed by the author, is unobtainable (only two copies known).
Also of interest here is the reprint of Pascal's 1654 paper introducing his triangle of binominal coefficients (Pascal's Triangle), included in Volume V, pages 1-54. Pascal's invention "predated the concepts of computation of the values of polynomial functions by differences.".

Photo DESCARTES, René. 

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.

Photo [VOLTA, Alessandro]. 

[VOLTA, Alessandro]. 

L'identita del fluido elettrico col cost detto fluido galvanico vittoriosamente dimostrata con nuove esperienze ed osservazioni. Memoria comunicata al Signore Pietro Configliachi Professore di Fisica sperimentale nell?Università di Pavia e da lui pubblicata con alcune note. Porta in fronte il ritratto di Volta e vi è aggiunto il Catalogo delle sue opere stampate sino a tutto l'anno 1813. 

Pavia, G. Giovanni Capelli, 1814.
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First edition on large paper.

This is Volta's latest memoir and his most important contribution to the famous controversy that occurred between the Galvanic and Voltaic theories of electricity. This memoir was submitted under the name of one of the students of Volta in 1805 during a competition organized by the "Società Italiana delle Scienze"; it was then "to explain with clarity and dignity, by offending anyone, the question of Galvanism, discussed by Giovanni Aldini (nephew of Galvani) and Alessandro Volta". No memory was rewarded at the end of this event. Nine years later, Pietro Configliachi, professor of physics and publisher of the "Giornale di fisica, chemica e storia naturale" pupil and then successor of Volta at the University of Pavia, was finally able to publish this work. The last 7 pages of this book present a detailed bibliography of Volta's works until 1813.
Beautiful rare and remarkable copy on large paper.

Photo MARAT, Jean-Paul. 

MARAT, Jean-Paul. 

Découvertes de M. Marat sur la lumière constatées par une suite d'expériences nouvelles qui ont été faites un très-grand nombre de fois sous les yeux de MM. les Commissaires de l'Académie des Sciences. 

Londres et Paris, Jombert, 1780.
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3000 €

First edition of this rare work by Marat on light.
In fact, the french revolutionary published several scientific works in his youth.
In this treatise on light, Marat discusses Newton's doctrine on the decomposition of sunlight by the prism.

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 BECQUEREL, Henri. 

BECQUEREL, Henri. 

Manuscrit autographe : Reflexions sur une théorie moderne. 

s.l., s.n., [1907].
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4000 €

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).

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