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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 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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550 €

First edition.
Numerous woodcut figures in the text.

Photo KALLARD, Thomas. 

KALLARD, Thomas. 

Exploring Laser Light - Laboratory exercises and lecture demonstrations performed with low-power helium-neon gas lasers. 

New York, Optosonic press, 1977.
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40 €

First edition.

Photo JOUAUST, Raymond. 

JOUAUST, Raymond. 

Le Ferro-Magnétisme, applications industrielles. 

Paris, Octave Doin, 1911.
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30 €

First edition.
Raymond Jouaust (1875-1949) was one of the pioneers of the applications of radioelectricity to astronomy and chronometry (Obituary notice by B. Decaux, Annales Francaises de Chronometrie, vol. 20, pp. 134-136, 1950 ).

Photo JAMIN, Jules Celestin. 

JAMIN, Jules Celestin. 

Cours de physique de l'école polytechnique. 

Paris, Gauthiers-Villars, 1885-1891.
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200 €

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

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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500 €

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 HIRN, Gustave Adolphe || HALLAUER, Octave. 

HIRN, Gustave Adolphe || HALLAUER, Octave. 

Thermodynamique appliquée -
Réfutations critique de M.G. Zeuner. 

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1881.
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120 €

Rare first edition.

Photo HERTZ, Heinrich. 

HERTZ, Heinrich. 

- Ueber sehr schnelle electrische Schwingungen.
- Nachtrag zu der Abhandlung über shr schnelle electrische Schwingungen.
- Ueber einen Einfluss des ultravioletten Lichtes auf die electrische Entladung. 

Leipzig, Ambrosius Barth, 1887.
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900 €

First edition.
Trois articles written by Hertz and published in Annalen der Physik und Chemie vol.31 en 1887.
These are the first three articles devoted to electromagnetic waves by Hertz. He discovered how to produce electrical discharges, which laid the foundations for the transmission of electrical waves without wires.
- Ueber sehr schnelle electrische Schwingungen.
- Nachtrag zu der Abhandlung über shr schnelle electrische Schwingungen.
- Ueber einen Einfluss des ultravioletten Lichtes auf die electrische Entladung.

In the same volume we find, two articles by Boltzman :
"Einige kleine Nachträge und Berichtigungen"
"Ueber die Wirling des Magnetismus auf electrische Entladungen in verdünnten Gasen"

And a work by Max Planck :
"Ueber dans Princip der Vermehrung des Entropie. Zweite Abhandlung : Gesetze der Dissociation gasförmiger Verbindungen.".

Photo HERTZ, Heinrich. 

HERTZ, Heinrich. 

- Ueber die Einwirkung einer geradlinigen Schwingung auf eine benachbarte Strombahn.
- Ueber Inductionserscheinungen, hervorgerufen durch die electrischen Vorgänge in Isolatoren.
- Ueber die Ausbreitungsgeschwindingkeit der electrodynamischen Wirkungen
- Ueber electrodynamische Wellen in Luftraume und deren Reflexion. 

Leipzig, Ambrosius Barth, 1888.
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200 €

First edition.
Four articles written by Hertz and published in Annalen der Physik und Chemie vol.34 en 1888.
- Bemerkung zu dem Gesetz von Eötvös
"Remarks on Eötvös's law"

- Eine Heung zwischen dem elastischen verhalten und der spezifischen Wärme bei festen Körpern mit einatomigen Molekül
"A relationship between elastic behavior and specific heat in solid bodies with monatomic molecules"

- Bemerkungen zu den P. Hertzschen Arbeiten: "Über die mechanischen Grundlagen der Thermodynamik"
Remarks on the work of P. Hertz: "On the mechanical foundations of thermodynamics"

- Bermerkungen zu meiner Arbeit: "Eine Beziehung zwischen dem elastischen verhalten..."
Remarks on my work: "A relationship between elastic behavior..."

- Berichtigung zu meiner Arbeit: “Eine neue Bestimmung der Moleküldimensionen”
Correction of my work: “A new determination of molecular dimensions”.

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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350 €

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 HERIVEL, John. 

HERIVEL, John. 

Joseph Fourier Face Aux Objections Contre Sa Theorie De La Chaleur: Lettres Inedites, 1808-1816. 

Paris, Bibliothèque nationnale, 1980.
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50 €
Photo HAÜY, René Just. 

HAÜY, René Just. 

Traité élémentaire de physique. 

Paris, Delance et Lesueur, 1803.
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300 €

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 HAUKSBEE, Francis. 

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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600 €

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.

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 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 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 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 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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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 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.

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 EIFFEL, Gustave. 

EIFFEL, Gustave. 

La Résistance de l'air et l'aviation. 

Paris, Imprimerie de la Cour d'Appel, 1911.
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70 €

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.

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 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 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 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 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 DESCARTES, René. 

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.

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 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.

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