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Photo NOLLET, Jean Antoine Abbé. 

NOLLET, Jean Antoine Abbé. 

Lettres sur l'électricité dans lesquelles on examine les découvertes qui ont été faites sur cette matière. 

Paris, Durand, 1774-1777.
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600 €

Father Nollet was a professor of experimental physics and a French specialist in electricity.

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 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 ULLMO, Jean. 

ULLMO, Jean. 

Les idées d'Eddington sur l'intéraction électronique et le nombre 137. 

Paris, Hermann, 1934.
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20 €
Photo REGNAULT, Noël. 

REGNAULT, Noël. 

Les Entretiens physiques d'Ariste et d'Eudoxe. Ou Physique nouvelle en dialogues, qui renferme précisément ce qui s'est découvert de plus curieux & de plus utile dans la nature. 

Paris, C. L. & C. C. Thiboust père & fils - J. T. Herissant, 1737.
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Third edition, revised and corrected, in four volumes.

Book of popularization of the knowledge acquired in various scientific domains of that time.
First published in 1729, in three volumes, this book was a great success and had several reissues. It was increased by a fourth volume in 1732.

Fine copy and richly illustrated by plates.

Photo REGNAULT, Noël. 

REGNAULT, Noël. 

Les Entretiens physiques d'Ariste et d'Eudoxe, ou physique nouvelle en dialogues. 

Paris, Jacques Clouzier, 1732-1750.
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400 €

Popular book of knowledge in various fields of science of the time.
First published in 1729, in three volumes, this book was a great success and had several reissues. It was increased by a fourth volume in 1732.
In our copy the first four volumes are from the 1732 edition, the fifth is dated 1750.

Complete copy of all the plates.

Photo NOLLET, Jean-Antoine. 

NOLLET, Jean-Antoine. 

Leçons de physique expérimentale. 

Paris, Durand, 1771-1783.
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750 €

Jean Antoine Nollet (1700-1770) was an experimental physicist prominent member of the Academy of Sciences in Paris.

Nollet spent considerable time on the power and became one of the authorities of his time.

Mixed edition as often.

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 ANDRADE, Jules. 

ANDRADE, Jules. 

Leçons de mécanique physique. 

Paris, Société d'éditions scientifiques, 1898.
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400 €

First edition.
Inscribed copy.

Photo CASTEL, Louis-Bertrand || [NEWTON - DESCARTES}. 

CASTEL, Louis-Bertrand || [NEWTON - DESCARTES}. 

Le vrai système de physique générale de M. Isaac Newton exposé et analysé en parallèle avec celui de Descartes. 

Paris, Claude-François Simon, 1743.
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950 €

First edition.

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 TYNDALL, John. 

TYNDALL, John. 

Le son. 

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1869.
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50 €

First edition French.

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 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 CAUCHY, Augustian-Louis. 

CAUCHY, Augustian-Louis. 

La théorie de la lumière. 

Paris, De Bure Frères, 1830.
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750 €

Rare original edition of this first memory of Cauchy on the propagation of light.

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 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 [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 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 TYNDALL, John. 

TYNDALL, John. 

La lumière - six leçons faites en Amérique dans l'hiver de 1872-1873. 

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1875.
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50 €

First edition in French.

Photo ROUSSET, Auguste. 

ROUSSET, Auguste. 

La diffusion de la lumière par les molécules rigides. 

Paris, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 1947.
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70 €

First edition.
Important study on light and Raman specter. . (Flügge. Light and Matter p.787).

Photo TYNDALL, John. 

TYNDALL, John. 

La chaleur, mode de mouvement. 

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1887.
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50 €

Second French edition, translated from the fourth English edition, by M. The Abbot Moigno.

Photo CASTEL, Louis Bertrand. 

CASTEL, Louis Bertrand. 

L'Optique des couleurs. 

Paris, Briasson, 1740.
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500 €

First edition.
We find there in particular the description of an ocular harpsichord, a famous creation of Castel which would aim to play colors as one would play sounds. A synesthetic instrument that would no doubt have delighted the surrealists.

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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2950 €

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 NOLLET, Jean-Antoine. 

NOLLET, Jean-Antoine. 

L'art des expériences ou avis aux amateurs de physique, sur le choix, la construction et l'usage des instruments; sur la préparation et l'emploi des drogues qui servent aux expériences. 

Paris, P.E.G. Durand, 1770.
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400 €

First edition. Second issue with new title page "Seconde edition".
Fine copy.
The first volume deals with the production of mathematical instruments, the choice and preparation of drugs, and the preparation and use of various varnishes for wood and metals.
In the second volume deals with various experimental physics experiments are described.
The last volume is about particular opinions on the experiences of the lessons contained in previous volumes.

Nollet spent a lot of time on electricity and became one of the authorities of his time. ["Nollet became the chief of the European electricians" (DSB, X p. 146)].

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 LORENTZ, Hendrik Antoon. 

LORENTZ, Hendrik Antoon. 

Het Relativiteitsbeginsel : drie voordrachten gehouden in Teyler's Stichting. 

Haarlem, De Erven Loosjex, 1913.
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500 €

First edition.
Publication of the lectures given at the Teylers Foundation by Lorentz on the theory of relativity.
Nobel Prize in Physics in 1902, it was thanks to Lorentz and the establishment of the "Lorentz transformations" that Einstein was able to establish his theory of special relativity.

Photo BERTIN-SANS, Dr Henri. 

BERTIN-SANS, Dr Henri. 

Guide des travaux pratiques de physique de la faculté de médecine de Montpellier. Pesanteur - Optique. 

Montpellier, Camille Coulet, 1891.
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65 €

Second edition.

Photo MACLAURIN, Colin. 

MACLAURIN, Colin. 

Exposition des découvertes philosophiques de M. le chevalier Newton. 

Paris, Durand & Pissot, 1749.
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600 €

First french edition.

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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2500 €

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.

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