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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 CLAUDIUS || [RUELLE, Charles]. 

CLAUDIUS || [RUELLE, Charles]. 

La science populaire de Claudius ; Simples discours sur toutes choses : Sur la chaleur. 

Paris, Jules Renouard, 1840.
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20 €

First edition.

Photo CLÉMENT & DÉSORMES, BECQUEREL. 

CLÉMENT & DÉSORMES, BECQUEREL. 

Détermination expérimentale du Zéro absolu de la chaleur et du caloriques spécifique des Gaz in. "Journal de Physique, de chimie, d'histoire naturelle et des arts, avec des planches et des arts". 

Paris, Vve Courcier, 1819.
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Important memory of Clement and Désormes : "Détermination expérimentale du Zéro absolu de la chaleur et du calorique spécifique des Gaz".
This work was submitted to the Academy of Sciences in 1812, but didn't win the price and wasn't printed in the memory of the academy. It thus appears here for the first time .
It deal with the determination of the absolute zero and the specific heat of gas.
Presentation copy of Antoine César Becquerel to his grandson Henry with this : "Donné à mon petit fils henry, qu'il conserve cela en souvenir de mes trois premiers mémoires publiés en 1819 et du tendre attachement que je lui porte".
These three memories on mineralogy are in pages 235-240, 308-309, 462-467.

Photo [COCHET, Jean]. 

[COCHET, Jean]. 

La Physique expérimentale et raisonnée, qui contient en abrégé ce que cette science a de plus intéressant. 

Paris, Claude Herissant, 1756.
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250 €

First edition.

Photo COPPEL, Th. || FOURNIER, Georges || YOVANOVITCH, D. K. 

COPPEL, Th. || FOURNIER, Georges || YOVANOVITCH, D. K. 

Quelques suggestions concernant la Matière et le Rayonnement. 

Paris, Albert Blanchard, 1928.
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150 €

Rare work in which the authors evoke a non-archimedean geometry to study intra-atomic phenomena.

Photo CORNU, Alfred. 

CORNU, Alfred. 

Mémoire sur la détermination de la vitesse de la lumière entre l'observatoire et Montlhéry, par M. A. Cornu. in Annales de l'Observatoire de Paris, publiées par U. -J. Le Verrier - Mémoires - Tome XIII. 

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1876.
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200 €

First edition.

Alfred Cornu (1841-1902), is famous for his three measurements of the speed of light between 1872 and 1874, made with the method of Fizeau for which he had great admiration.
The last and the best was done between the Observatory and the Montlhéry Tower. This article of 315 pages, is devoted to this last experiment.
The article "Recherches sur les observations magnétiques faites à l'observatoire de Paris de 1667 à 1872", by M. G. Rayet is bound in at the end of the volume.

Photo COTES, Roger. 

COTES, Roger. 

Leçons de physique expérimentale, sur l'équilibre des liqueurs, & sur la nature & les propriétés de l'air. 

Paris, David fils, 1742.
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700 €

First edition in French.

Roger Cotes (1682-1716) was an English mathematician, closed to Isaac Newton with whom he shared the discovery of the Newton-Cotes method of numerical analysis, which generally extended the trapezoidal method and Simpson's method for calculating integrals.
This book was first published posthumously in 1738 under the title "Hydrostatical and Pneumatic Lectures", and it contains the first French translation of Newton's scale of degrees of heat, his law of cooling.

Photo [COURS DE PHYSIQUE]. 

[COURS DE PHYSIQUE]. 

Cours de physique. 1ère Section, suivi d'un Cours de 2ème Division. 

s. l, s. n, [vers 1912].
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50 €

Lithographic course of General Physics, with a lot of diagrams.

The course of physics of 1st Section is organized around the following parts: Units of measurement, Notions of mechanics, Gravity, Hydrostatic, The density of solid and liquid bodies, Areometry, Hydrodynamics, Compressibility of gases, Acoustics, The notions of potential, The measurement of surfaces and angles, Heat, Calorimetry, The notions of thermodynamics, Changes of state of bodies and Steam.

The 2nd division physics course has the following plan: Gas liquefaction, hygrometry, meteorology, sound, optics, refraction of light, optical instruments, radiation studies , Photometry and Notions of Physical Optics.

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CROS, G. 

Cours de physique pour les classes de Mathématiques A et B. Programme du 14 mai 1912. 

s.l., s.n., 1912.
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20 €
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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300 €

First edition.
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 DAGUIN, Pierre-Adolphe. 

DAGUIN, Pierre-Adolphe. 

Traité élémentaire de physique théorique et expérimentale avec les applications à la météorologie et aux arts industriels. 

Toulouse / Paris, Édouard Privat / Tandou et Cie / Delagrave et Cie, 1867-1868.
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120 €

Third edition.

Photo DE BROGLIE, Louis. 

DE BROGLIE, Louis. 

La mésomérie. Réunions d'études et de mises au point tenues sous la présidence de L. De Broglie. 

Paris, Edition de la revue d'optique théorique et instrumentale, 1947.
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25 €

First edition.
Charles Dufraisse : La mésomérie au point de vue du chimiste organicien - Paul Rumpf : L'étude expérimentale des conditions dans lesquelles se produit l'effet de mésomérie - A. Pacault : Relations entre la magnétochimie et la mésomérie - Paul Meunier : L'intervention de l'effet de mésomérie dans l'étude des vitamines - Raymond Daudel : Etude théorique de la mésomérie - Jean Cabannes : La mésomérie mise en évidence par l'analyse spectrale - Alberte Pullman: L'utilisation des méthodes de la mésomérie dans l'étude des composés cancérigènes et de leurs antagonistes - Jean Guy : Bases théoriques et conditions de la mésomérie - Jean-Louis Destouches : Difficultés théoriques rencontrées dans l'étude de la mésomérie.

Photo DEGUIN, Nicolas. 

DEGUIN, Nicolas. 

Cours élémentaire de physique, à l'usage des collèges et des autres établissemens d'instruction publique. 

Paris, Belin-Mandar, 1841.
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75 €

Third edition of these basic physics lessons, by Nicolas Deguin (1809-1860) who was professor of Physics at the Faculty of Science in Besançon.

Photo DELILLE, Jacques. 

DELILLE, Jacques. 

Les trois règnes de la Nature. 

Paris, H. Nicolle-Giguet et Michaud, 1808.
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150 €

First edition.

Jacque Delille (1738-1813) published a treatise on verse physics, a type of didactic poetry to which his name is attached.
It is composed of eight parts: Light and fire, air, water, earth, mineral kingdom, vegetable kingdom, animal kingdom and the following of animal kingdom part. The notes are important because they are by Cuvier, Libes, and Lefèbre-Gineau.

Photo DESAGULIERS, John Theophilus. 

DESAGULIERS, John Theophilus. 

Cours de Physique expérimentale,.... Traduit de l'anglois par le R. P. Pezenas. 

Paris, Jacques Rollin & Charles-Antoine Jombert, 1751.
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900 €

First edition in French.

John Theophilus Desaguliers (1683-1744), one of the founders of modern Freemasonry.
This book, published in London between 1725 and 1727, is based on Newton's theories, of which Desaguliers was a fervent defender and propagator of his scientific, philosophical and political ideas.

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 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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450 €

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 DULONG, Pierre || PETIT, Alexis. 

DULONG, Pierre || PETIT, Alexis. 

Recherches sur quelques points importans de la théorie de la chaleur (publiés dans Annales de Chimie et de physique - Tome X). 

Paris, Crochard, 1819.
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650 €

First edition.
Research of prime importance in which the authors experimentally measure the specific heats of many compounds which will allow them to deduce what will become the law of Dulong and Petit which links molar mass and heat capacity and the constant of ideal gases.

In the same volume another important scientific publication: Fresnel, Memoir on the action that polarized rays of light exert on each other. Major Fresnel work.
And a Fourier paper on insurances.
There are also articles by Breguet (precision of a tourbillon chronometer and astronomical measuring tool, the plate illustrating this invention is missing), Pelletier (discovery of strychnine).

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 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 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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350 €

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 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 FAIDEAU, Ferdinand. 

FAIDEAU, Ferdinand. 

La science curieuse et amusante - curiosités, récréations et fantaisies sur les sciences et leurs applications. 

Paris, Montgrédien et Cie, [vers 1900].
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50 €

Recreation book on science that includes topics such as kites and spinning tops, machinism, phonograph and telephone, atmospheric phenomena, means of transport or spontaneous combustion.

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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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300 €

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 FONTAINE Des BERTINS, Alexis. 

FONTAINE Des BERTINS, Alexis. 

Mémoires donnés à l'académie royale des sciences non imprimés dans leur temps, par M.Fontaine, de cette académie. 

Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1764.
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750 €

First edition.
Twelve memories, dealing essentially with infinitesimal geometry, integral calculus, mechanics, and astronomy.

Photo FRANKLIN, Benjamin. 

FRANKLIN, Benjamin. 

Expériences et observations sur l'électricité faites à Philadelphie en Amérique. 

Paris, Durand, 1752.
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1700 €

First edition of the French translation given by François-Thomas Dalibard after the original English edition published in London in 1751.
Franklin's major scientific work, on electricity, proving that lightning is electrical and deducing the positive and negative nature of an electrical charge.
It is the correspondence between Benjamin Franklin and Peter Collinson which is at the origin of this publication.

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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300 €

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 [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 GERDIL, Hyacinthe-Sigismond. 

GERDIL, Hyacinthe-Sigismond. 

Dissertations sur l'incompatibilité de l'attraction et de ses différentes loix, avec les phénomènes et sur les Tuyaux capillaires. 

Paris, Desaint et Saillant, 1754.
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900 €

Born in Savoy, in 1718 Gerdil was appointed Cardinal in 1777, and could have been Pope after the death of Pie VI, without the Austrian veto who does not want a French Pope.
This is not only a theologian, a philosopher, a moralist, a jurist, but also a mathematician and physicist. He has published several essays on the highest questions of mathematics and physics.

In "Essays on the incompatibility ...", are explained, according Montucla, the best objections against the Newtonian theory on attraction.
Not more than Fontenelle and Mairan, Gerdil rejects Newton's calculations, but it pushes the cause he assigns to the phenomena.

At this "dark and mysterious" attraction he opposes the clarity with which the tendency to conceive of bodies towards each other, under the mass of material, by which the motion is communicated successively and continuously from one to another.

RARE FIRST EDITION. Very good copy.

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.

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