Categories
FREE SHIPPING WORLWIDE
WE ACCEPT
Visa Mastercard

Physics

Results (91 - 120) of 140
TilesList
Photo CAUCHY, Augustin Louis || ACADÉMIE ROYALE DES SCIENCES. 

CAUCHY, Augustin Louis || ACADÉMIE ROYALE DES SCIENCES. 

Mémoires sur la théorie des nombres . IN. Mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences de l'Institut de France. Tome XVII. 

Paris, Firmin Didot, 1840.
More Details >
950 €

Mémoire sur la Théorie des Nombres, Présenté a l'Académie des Sciences, le 31 Mai 1830, par M. Augustin Cauchy.
First edition of this important memoir (pp/ 249 to 768 of this volume of memoirs of the academy of sciences).

The writing of this memoir is quite abrupt, with a succession of formulas difficult to relate to each other, and it will be criticized by Biot in particular.
However, Jenny Boucard, after an in-depth study of Cauchy's work, concluded that Cauchy exposes a coherent method around the quadratic forms 4p^μ=x²+ny² which he applies in different cases, depending on whether n is prime or compound. (Boucard, p.365).

This volume of the Mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences contains :

PONCELET : Théorie des effets mécaniques de la turbine Fourneyron.
TURPIN :
- Mémoire sur les différences qu'offrent les tissus cellulaires de la pomme et de la poire ...
- Mémoire sur la cause et les effets de la fermentation alcoolique et acéteuse.
- Recherches microscopiques sur divers laits ...
BECQUEREL : Nouvelles recherches sur le dégagement de la chaleur dans le frottement
CAUCHY. Mémoires sur la théorie des nombres.
BIOT. Mémoire sur l'existence d'une condition physique qui assigne à l'atmosphère terrestre une limite supérieure d'élévation qu'elle ne peut dépasser.
CHEVREUL. Recherches physico chimiques sur la teinture
And the Flourens' historical praise of Jussieu and Arago's praise of James Watt.

Photo LECORNU, Léon. 

LECORNU, Léon. 

Note sur le laboratoire aérodynamique Eiffel à Auteuil. 

s.l., Comptes rendus de l'Académie des Sciences, 1914.
More Details >
Sold

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.

Photo PELTIER, F.A. 

PELTIER, F.A. 

Notice sur le vie et les travaux scientifiques de J.C.A. Peltier. 

Paris, E. Bautruche, 1847.
More Details >
125 €

First edition of this important scientific biography of of J.C.A. Peltier (1785-1845) known for his works on electricity and the "Peltier effect".

Photo POUILLET. 

POUILLET. 

Notions générales de physique et de météorologie à l'usage de la jeunesse. 

Paris, A. Pigoreau, [ca.1860].
More Details >
40 €
Photo BRISSE, Charles || ANDRÉ, Charles. 

BRISSE, Charles || ANDRÉ, Charles. 

Nouveau cours de physique à l'usage des élèves de la classe de mathématiques spéciales. 

Paris, Bernard Tignol, 1886.
More Details >
60 €

Second edition, in accordance with the last physics program taught at the École Polytechnique at the end of the 19th century.

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.
More Details >
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 BOUGEANT, Guillaume Hyacinthe || GROZELIER, Nicolas. 

BOUGEANT, Guillaume Hyacinthe || GROZELIER, Nicolas. 

Observations curieuses sur toutes les parties de la physique. 

Paris, Bordelet Jombert, 1730-1737.
More Details >
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.

Photo PEYROUX, Jean ||LEIBNITZ Godefroi-Guillaume. 

PEYROUX, Jean ||LEIBNITZ Godefroi-Guillaume. 

Oeuvre concernant la physique, suivi d'extraits de la méthode du maximum et du minimum de Fermat. De la dioptrique et des principes de Descartes. Traduit pour la première fois du latin par Jean Peyroux. 

Paris, Blanchard, 1985.
More Details >
50 €
Photo PASCAL, Blaise. 

PASCAL, Blaise. 

Oeuvres de Blaise Pascal. 

La Haye [Paris], Detune, 1779.
More Details >
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 PASCAL, Blaise. 

PASCAL, Blaise. 

Oeuvres de Blaise Pascal. 

La Haye [Paris], Detune, 1779.
More Details >
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 MARAT, Jean-Paul. 

MARAT, Jean-Paul. 

Oeuvres de Marat.
I. Recherches Physiques sur l'Electricité.
II. Mémoire sur l'électricité médicale. 

Paris, Clousier - Méquignon, 1782-1784.
More Details >
950 €

First edition of two rare books from Marat on electricity.

I. "Recherces Physiques sur l'Electricité". Paris. Clousier. 1782.
II. "Mémoire sur l'électricité médicale". Paris. Méquignon. 1784.

Photo MARIOTTE, Edme. 

MARIOTTE, Edme. 

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

Leide, Pierre Vander, 1717.
More Details >
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 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.
More Details >
Sold

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

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.
More Details >
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 [MANUSCRIT DE PHYSIQUE]. 

[MANUSCRIT DE PHYSIQUE]. 

Physique. 

s.l., s.n., 1926-27.
More Details >
25 €
Photo [MANUSCRIT DE PHYSIQUE]. 

[MANUSCRIT DE PHYSIQUE]. 

Physique. 

s.l., s.n., [1925-26].
More Details >
25 €
Photo DARLES DE LINIERE, ?. 

DARLES DE LINIERE, ?. 

Pompes sans cuirs. 

Paris, Manufacture royale, 1768.
More Details >
400 €

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 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.
More Details >
450 €

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.
More Details >
150 €

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

Photo MARAT, Jean-Paul. 

MARAT, Jean-Paul. 

Recherches physiques sur le Feu. 

Paris, Ant. Jombert, 1780.
More Details >
650 €

One of the best known of the scientific books by the infamous French revolutionary Marat. In the Recherches physiques sur le Feu", he sets forth his theory of "fluide ignée", a mechanical explanation of the phenomenon of heat, based on 166 experiments in two of which he demonstrates an increase in weight of metals after calcination (pp. 29-31).
Fine copy.

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.
More Details >
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 OZANAM, Jacques. 

OZANAM, Jacques. 

Récréations mathématiques et physiques, qui contiennent plusieurs problèmes d'arithmétique, de géométrie, de musique, d'optique, de gnomonique, de cosmographie, de mécanique, de pyrotechnie, & de physique. Avec un traité des horloges élémentaires. 

Paris, Claude Jombert, 1723.
More Details >
900 €

New edition, revised, corrected and augmented since the first one published in 1694.
The first edition with 136 plates.
This book on mathematics and physics deals with various problems in arithmetic, geometry, music, optics, gnomonics, cosmography, mechanics, acoustics, pyrotechnics, physics, water clocks, natural phosphors, perpetual lamps, etc.

Photo ABRAHAM, Henri. 

ABRAHAM, Henri. 

Recueil d'expériences élémentaires de Physique (Première et seconde parties). 

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1904.
More Details >
200 €

First edition.

Henri Abraham (1868 -1943) is a French physicist, professor at the École Normale Supérieure and at the University of Paris, who had an important part in the early days of radio-electricity
This book is his first publication.
The first part (uncommon) deals with workshop work, geometry and mechanics, hydrostatics and heat. The second deals with acoustics, optics, electricity and magnetism.

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.
More Details >
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 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.
More Details >
1500 €

First edition of this important work on atmospheric tides.

Photo AMPERE, André Marie. 

AMPERE, André Marie. 

Suite du mémoire de M. Ampère sur une nouvelle expérience électro-dynamique, sur son application à la formule qui représente l'action mutuelle de deux élémens de conducteurs voltaïques, et sur de nouvelles conséquences déduites de cette formule. (publié dans Annales de Chimie et de Physique - Tome XXX). 

Paris, Crochard, 1825.
More Details >
600 €

First edition.
Major article in the work of Ampère and more generally for the history of science. He describes there one of the fundamental laws of electrodynamics (a field which finds its foundation in these works) and which will become Ampère's law.
Second part of the Memoir that Ampère will publish in the Annales de Chimie et de Physique in two parts (volume XXIX and volume XXX) before its original edition in 1827 in his "Mathematical theory of electro-dynamic phenomena only deduced from experience".

In the same volume we find articles by Faraday, Gay-Lussac, Savart.

Photo LAPLACE, Pierre Simon. 

LAPLACE, Pierre Simon. 

Sur la Rotation de la Terre || Sur la figure de la Terre, et la Loi de la pesanteur à sa surface (publiés dans Annales de Chimie et de physique - Tome VIII). 

Paris, Crochard, 1818.
More Details >
150 €

First edition.
Two articles by Laplace on celestial mechanics published in the Annales de Chimie et de physique.

In the same volume, articles by Gay-Lussac, Berthollet, Haüy.

Photo POISSON, Siméon Denis || ACADÉMIE ROYALE DES SCIENCES. 

POISSON, Siméon Denis || ACADÉMIE ROYALE DES SCIENCES. 

Sur la Théorie des Ondes; Lu le 2 octobre et le 18 décembre 1815. IN. Mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences de l'Institut de France. Année 1816. 

Paris, Firmin Didot, 1818.
More Details >
250 €

Contains the major work from Poisson on the wave theory.

This volume of the Mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences contains :

POISSON :
- Mémoire sur la variation des constantes arbitraires dans les question de mécanique
- Mémoire sur la théorie des ondes.
GIRARD :
- Mémoire sur l'écoulement linéaire de diverses substances liquides par des tubes capillaires de verre,
- Mémoire sur l'écoulement de l'éther
BIOT, [Jean-Baptiste] :
- Mémoire sur l'utilité des lois de la polarisation de la lumière, pour reconnaitre l'état de cristallisation et de combinaison, dans grand nombre de cas où la système cristallin n'est pas immédiatement observable.
And the section on the history of the academy by Delambre for the mathematics and notices on Fleurieu Charles Bossut, Leveque and Tenon and by Cuvier for Physics.

Photo POINCARE, Henri. 

POINCARE, Henri. 

Sur les Rapports de la physique expérimentale et de la physique mathématique. 

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1900.
More Details >
600 €

First edition.
Offprint of this very interesting article on epistemology by Henri Poincaré in which he analyzes the relationship between the mathematical laws of physics and the data of experience: When should one be right in one and wrong in the other?
In this report which was presented to the International Congress of Physics in 1900, Poincaré discusses there in particular at the end of the text the Lorentz equations which make it possible to analyze certain physical facts but not all, which will be decided by Einstein a few years later with his special theory of relativity.
This debate is still an issue for modern physics about dark matter, should we change physical theories or improve our measurement capabilities?.

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.
More Details >
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.

Results (91 - 120) of 140
TilesList
About
Sell your books
Contact
Newsletter
Blog
Facebook Français English
52 rue des Ecoles   75005 Paris
tel. +33 (0)1 43 54 22 23
Terms and conditions
European VAT number: FR87515091171
© Eric Zink, Antiquarian Bookseller