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FABRY, Charles.

Œuvres Choisies publiées à l'occasion de son Jubilé Scientifique.

Paris, Gauthier-villars, 1938.

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Charles Fabry was a French physicist born in Marseille on June 11, 1867, and died in Paris on December 11, 1945. His work was almost exclusively devoted to optics, particularly interferometry, spectroscopy, and photometry. Upon reaching retirement age, a scientific jubilee was organized in his honor on December 3, 1937, at the Sorbonne.
This is one of 350 copies printed on luxury paper, number 338.

DE BROGLIE, Louis.

Une nouvelle théorie de la Lumière.

Paris, Hermann, 1940-1942.

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Louis de Broglie (1892-1987), Nobel laureate in physics, was a leading French theoretical physicist. This work is a major contribution to quantum physics and the theory of light. In it, he develops a new theory, the photon wave, which extends his own wave-particle duality theory for electrons.

PLANCK, Max.

Ueber den Beweis des Maxwell'schen Geschwindigkeitsvertheilungsgesetzes unter Gasmolecülen.

Leipzig, Ambrosius Barth, 1895.

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150 €

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Trois articles written by Hertz and published in Annalen der Physik und Chemie vol.55 en 1895.
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.".

ALENCE, Joachim d'.

Traitté de l'aiman. Divisé en deux parties. La premiére contient les expériences; & la seconde les raisons que l'on en peut rendre. Par M. D***.

Amsterdam, Henry Wetstein, 1687.

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900 €

First edition of this complete treatise on magnets.
Beautiful 33 engravings by Adriaan Schoonebeek, the pupil of Romeyn de Hooghe.

PASCAL, Blaise.

Traitez de l'équilibre des liqueurs et de la pesanteur de la masse d'air.

Paris, Guillaume Desprez, 1663.

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Milestone in the history of science in which Pascal discovers atmospheric pressure.

The famous experiment, carried out by his brother-in-law in Auvergne, consisted of comparing the height of a column of mercury in Clermont-Ferrand and then at the top of Puy-de-Dôme.
The question of the weight of the air was already under discussion in Descartes and Galileo, but it is Pascal with this experience who provides the proof. He thus broke with nearly 2000 years of Aristotelian physics: "Nature abhors a vacuum", more than a popular maxim then took the place of the only physical principle of hydrostatics.

"Nature has no repugnance for emptiness; she makes no effort to avoid it; all the effects that have been attributed to this horror proceed from the gravity and pressure of the air; she is the only one. real cause, and, lack of knowing it, we had invented this imaginary horror of emptiness on purpose, to make it right." (extract from chapter II)

Then pascal (Pa) will be adopted as the international unit of measurement of pressure.

POILLON, Léon.

Traité théorique et pratique des Pompes et Machines à élever les Eaux.

Paris, E. Bernard & Cie, 1888.

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150 €

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GUILLAUME, Charles-Édouard.

Traité pratique de la thermométrie de précision.

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1889.

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150 €

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Guillaume was a Swiss physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1920 in recognition of the service he had rendered to precision measurements in physics by his discovery of anomalies in nickel steel alloys. In this earlier work, he draws on his experience as the head of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures and the thermostatic measurements and experiments he made at the Observatoire de Paris.

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.

HAÜY, René Just.

Traité élémentaire de physique.

Paris, Delance et Lesueur, 1803.

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300 €

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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.

PÉCLET, Jean-Claude Eugène.

Traité élémentaire de physique.

Paris, L. Hachette, 1832.

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40 €

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Jean-Claude Eugène Péclet (1793-1857) was a French physicist, lecturer in physics at the École Normale and professor of physics at the École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures. His Traité élémentaire de physique (Elementary Treatise on Physics) was a very popular and influential textbook in the 19th century, intended for physics education. The work covered various fields of physics of the time, from mechanics to optics, as well as heat and electricity. He is particularly known for his work on heat and heat transfer, which led to the concept of the Péclet number in fluid dynamics.

HAÜY, René-Just.

Traité élémentaire de physique.

Paris, Vve Courcier, 1806.

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120 €

Second 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.

PECLET, E.

Traité élémentaire de physique-Atlas seul.

Paris, L.Hachette, 1847.

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30 €

The Atlas alone.

DAGUIN, Pierre-Adolphe.

Traité élémentaire de physique théorique et expérimentale.

Paris, Edouard Privat, 1861-1862.

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150 €

Second edition augmented.

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.

PECLET, Eugène.

Traité Élémentaire de Physique - Planches.

Paris, Hachette, [v. 1850].

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30 €

Volume of plates alone.

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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400 €

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VARIGNON, Pierre || PUJOL (Abbé).

Traité du mouvement et de la mesure des eaux coulantes et jaillissantes.

Paris, Pissot, 1725.

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200 €

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The work is based on the posthumous manuscripts of Pierre Varignon, edited by Abbé Pujol. Varignon addresses in particular the problem of the Torricelli flow.

VARIGNON, Pierre.

Traité du mouvement des eaux coulantes et jaillissantes. Avec un traité préliminaire du mouvement général.

Paris, PIssot, 1725.

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750 €

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Posthumous work published by Abbé Pujol, pupil of Varignon. Pierre Varignon was the first to use differential calculus in certain areas of physics. He is one of the fathers of modern kinematics.

CAMUS, François-Joseph de.

Traité des forces mouvantes.

Paris, Claude Jombert, 1722.

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200 €

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François-Joseph de Camus (1672-1732) is a French technician and inventor in mechanical science. This book is one of his most important texts, including a significant number of his inventions.

CAMUS, François-Joseph de.

Traité des forces mouvantes.

Paris, Claude Jombert, 1722.

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300 €

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François-Joseph de Camus (1672-1732) is a French technician and inventor in mechanical science. This book is one of his most important texts, including a significant number of his inventions.

ROHAULT, Jacques.

Traité de Physique.

Paris, Veuve Charles Savreux, 1671.

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600 €

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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.

ROHAULT, Jacques.

Traité de Physique.

Bruxelles, Eugène Henry Fricx, 1708.

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450 €

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.

CASTEL, Louis-Bertrand.

Traité de physique sur la pesanteur universelle des corps.

Paris, André Cailleau, 1724.

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900 €

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Louis Bertrand Castel (1688-1757) was a Jesuit, mathematician, physicist and French journalist.
This book is one of the first scientific treatises published by this author. He explains his theory according to which all the phenomena of the universe are explicable according to two principles, which are: the gravity of the bodies, which makes everything tend to rest, and the activity of the spirits, which incessantly creates the movement.
In France, he was one of the main opponents of Newton's theory of gravitation.

BIOT, Jean-Baptiste.

Traité de Physique Expérimentale et Mathématique.

Paris, Deterville, 1816.

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250 €

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Jean-Baptiste Biot (1774-1862) was a French physicist, astronomer, and mathematician, a member of the French Academy of Sciences and a professor at the Collège de France and the Faculty of Sciences in Paris. His work was extensive, covering areas such as the polarization of light, birefringence, magnetism, and geodesy. He is particularly known for the Biot-Savart law in electromagnetism.

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 €

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Numerous woodcut figures in the text.

RIVARD, Dominique-François.

Traité de la Sphère, seconde édition, revue, corrigée & augmentée par l'Auteur, dans laquelle on a ajouté un Traité du Calendrier.

Paris, Desaint & Saillant, 1743.

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100 €

Second edition augmented with Traité du calendrier.
The Traité du Calendrier has a separate title-page and is separately paginated.

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".

PÉCLET, Jean-Claude-Eugène.

Traité de la chaleur, et de ses applications aux arts et aux manufactures.

Paris, Mahler, 1828.

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60 €

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Peclet will lend his name to the "Peclet number", a dimensionless number used in heat transfer and mass transfer, which represents the ratio of transfer by forced convection and transport by diffusion (heat or mass).

PÉCLET, Eugène.

Traité de la chaleur considérée dans ses applications.

Paris, G. Masson, 1878.

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200 €

LABOULAYE, Charles.

Traité de cinématique théorique et pratique ou Théorie des mécanismes.

Paris, Librairie du Dictionnaire des Arts et Manufactures, 1878.

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Charles Laboulaye (1813-1896) was a French engineer, known for his work on applied mechanics. His Traité de cinématique théorique et pratique ou Théorie des mécanismes (Treatise on Theoretical and Practical Kinematics or Theory of Mechanisms) is a fundamental textbook for the study of kinematics, the branch of mechanics that describes the motion of bodies without considering the forces that produce them.
It was an essential resource for students and professionals interested in the design and analysis of mechanisms.

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Physics

FABRY, Charles.

Œuvres Choisies publiées à l'occasion de son Jubilé Scientifique.

DE BROGLIE, Louis.

Une nouvelle théorie de la Lumière.

PLANCK, Max.

Ueber den Beweis des Maxwell'schen Geschwindigkeitsvertheilungsgesetzes unter Gasmolecülen.

ALENCE, Joachim d'.

Traitté de l'aiman. Divisé en deux parties. La premiére contient les expériences; & la seconde les raisons que l'on en peut rendre. Par M. D***.

First edition of this complete treatise on magnets. Beautiful 33 engravings by Adriaan Schoonebeek, the pupil of Romeyn de Hooghe.

PASCAL, Blaise.

Traitez de l'équilibre des liqueurs et de la pesanteur de la masse d'air.

POILLON, Léon.

Traité théorique et pratique des Pompes et Machines à élever les Eaux.

First edition.Volumes of plates alone.

GUILLAUME, Charles-Édouard.

Traité pratique de la thermométrie de précision.

BECQUEREL, Antoine César.

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

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

HAÜY, René Just.

Traité élémentaire de physique.

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.

PÉCLET, Jean-Claude Eugène.

Traité élémentaire de physique.

HAÜY, René-Just.

Traité élémentaire de physique.

Second 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.

PECLET, E.

Traité élémentaire de physique-Atlas seul.

The Atlas alone.

DAGUIN, Pierre-Adolphe.

Traité élémentaire de physique théorique et expérimentale.

Second edition augmented.

DAGUIN, Pierre-Adolphe.

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

Third edition.

PECLET, Eugène.

Traité Élémentaire de Physique - Planches.

Volume of plates alone.

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.

Secoond edition.

VARIGNON, Pierre || PUJOL (Abbé).

Traité du mouvement et de la mesure des eaux coulantes et jaillissantes.

First edition.The work is based on the posthumous manuscripts of Pierre Varignon, edited by Abbé Pujol. Varignon addresses in particular the problem of the Torricelli flow.

VARIGNON, Pierre.

Traité du mouvement des eaux coulantes et jaillissantes. Avec un traité préliminaire du mouvement général.

First edition.Posthumous work published by Abbé Pujol, pupil of Varignon. Pierre Varignon was the first to use differential calculus in certain areas of physics. He is one of the fathers of modern kinematics.

CAMUS, François-Joseph de.

Traité des forces mouvantes.

First edition.François-Joseph de Camus (1672-1732) is a French technician and inventor in mechanical science. This book is one of his most important texts, including a significant number of his inventions.

CAMUS, François-Joseph de.

Traité des forces mouvantes.

First edition.François-Joseph de Camus (1672-1732) is a French technician and inventor in mechanical science. This book is one of his most important texts, including a significant number of his inventions.

ROHAULT, Jacques.

Traité de Physique.

ROHAULT, Jacques.

Traité de Physique.

CASTEL, Louis-Bertrand.

Traité de physique sur la pesanteur universelle des corps.

BIOT, Jean-Baptiste.

Traité de Physique Expérimentale et Mathématique.

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.

First edition.Numerous woodcut figures in the text.

RIVARD, Dominique-François.

Traité de la Sphère, seconde édition, revue, corrigée & augmentée par l'Auteur, dans laquelle on a ajouté un Traité du Calendrier.

Second edition augmented with Traité du calendrier.The Traité du Calendrier has a separate title-page and is separately paginated.

HERSCHEL, John Frederick William.

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

PÉCLET, Jean-Claude-Eugène.

Traité de la chaleur, et de ses applications aux arts et aux manufactures.

First edition.Peclet will lend his name to the "Peclet number", a dimensionless number used in heat transfer and mass transfer, which represents the ratio of transfer by forced convection and transport by diffusion (heat or mass).

PÉCLET, Eugène.

Traité de la chaleur considérée dans ses applications.

LABOULAYE, Charles.

Traité de cinématique théorique et pratique ou Théorie des mécanismes.

First edition of this complete treatise on magnets.
Beautiful 33 engravings by Adriaan Schoonebeek, the pupil of Romeyn de Hooghe.

First edition.
Volumes of plates alone.

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.

Second 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.

First edition.
The work is based on the posthumous manuscripts of Pierre Varignon, edited by Abbé Pujol. Varignon addresses in particular the problem of the Torricelli flow.

First edition.
Posthumous work published by Abbé Pujol, pupil of Varignon. Pierre Varignon was the first to use differential calculus in certain areas of physics. He is one of the fathers of modern kinematics.

First edition.
François-Joseph de Camus (1672-1732) is a French technician and inventor in mechanical science. This book is one of his most important texts, including a significant number of his inventions.

First edition.
François-Joseph de Camus (1672-1732) is a French technician and inventor in mechanical science. This book is one of his most important texts, including a significant number of his inventions.

First edition.
Numerous woodcut figures in the text.

Second edition augmented with Traité du calendrier.
The Traité du Calendrier has a separate title-page and is separately paginated.

First edition.
Peclet will lend his name to the "Peclet number", a dimensionless number used in heat transfer and mass transfer, which represents the ratio of transfer by forced convection and transport by diffusion (heat or mass).