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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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1250 €

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.

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 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 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 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.

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POLINIERE, Pierre. 

Expériences de Physique. 

Paris, Jean de Laulne, 1709.
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950 €

First edition.
Pierre Polinière is considered the founder of experimental physics in France. After studying mathematics with Pierre Varignon (1654 – 1722), Polinière opened a physics course at the college of Harcourt, it was one of the first public courses given in Paris. His public demonstration sessions were very successful and did much to disseminate the scientific method of experimental research. His experiments were very popular and, among the spectators, we found all of Paris, and even the young Louis XV in 1722.
In 1706 during an experiment before the Academy of Sciences, Polinière discovered electroluminescence. This discovery is contemporary but independent of that of Hauksbee in London.
The protocol of the experiment is described here in the chapter “Phosphorus through Movement”.

Photo BRUN, Charles-Marie. 

BRUN, Charles-Marie. 

Étude sur la théorie mécanique de la chaleur. 

Paris, Librairie militaire de L. Baudoin, 1893-1895.
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350 €

Rare first edition.
Only one copy of the first volume in public libraries (Bibliothèque polytechnique. ccfr. Only the second volume in worldcat).

Photo BERTHELOT, Marcelin. 

BERTHELOT, Marcelin. 

Essai de mécanique chimique fondée sur la thermochimie. 

Paris, Dunod, 1879.
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400 €

First edition, with the rare supplement.
"A monumental work in which Berthelot "laid the foundation of thermochemistry" (Zeitlinger). His researches began a new epoch, and in this work he introduced the terms exo- and endo-thermic. Although a number of chemists before him had made contributions regarding the evolution and absoption of heat in chemical reactions, it was Berthelot whose experimental determinations cover almost the whole range of chemical reaction." ... "Most copies lack the important and rare Supplément" (Neville).

Photo BELOT, Emile. 

BELOT, Emile. 

Essai de cosmogonie tourbillonnaire. 

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1911.
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120 €

First edition.
Émile Belot (1857-1944), graduate of the École Normale Supérieure, agrégé de philosophie, and chief engineer of the State Manufactures. Passionate about astronomy, he was a member of the Société astronomique de France from 1904. In this work, Belot proposes a theory of the formation of the solar system in which he hypothesizes a nebulous proto-sun entering into violent contact with a larger nebula and explains that such an encounter is at the origin of planetary systems and their organization according to a logarithmic spiral on the diagram in which the planets of this system are distributed by vortical absorption and concretion of the dust of the jostled nebula.

Photo BRUNHES. 

BRUNHES. 

Esquisse des progrès de la physique dus aux savants de la Bourgogne. 

Paris, s.n., [1891].
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50 €

Rare offprint.

Photo SIGAUD DE LA FOND, Joseph-Aignan. 

SIGAUD DE LA FOND, Joseph-Aignan. 

Élémens de Physique théorique et expérimentale, pour servir de suite à la description & l'usage d'un cabinet de physique expérimentale. 

Paris, P. Fr. Gueffier, 1777.
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650 €

First edition

Sigaud de La Fond (1730-1810) was a French physicist and teacher who was, with his master Nollet, one of the promoters of experimental Physics and his teaching, notably by creating the first "physics cabinets".

Very good copy.

Photo POUILLET, Claude-Servais-Matthias. 

POUILLET, Claude-Servais-Matthias. 

Élémens de physique expérimentale et de météorologie. 

Paris, Béchet jeune, 1827-28-29-30.
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300 €

First edition.

Claude Pouillet (1790-1868) was a French physicist and politician, renowned for his scientific research and physics courses he gave jointly with Joseph Gay-Lussac (1778-1850, French chemist and physicist) at the University of the Sorbonne in Paris.
This book gathers together all the lessons given, whose subjects are the main fields of study of physics such as heat, gravity, magnetism, electricity, the actions of molecules, the structure of bodies, elasticity , sound, optics, etc.

Photo MASSUET, Pierre. 

MASSUET, Pierre. 

Élémens de Philosophie moderne qui contiennent la pneumatique, la métaphysique, la physique expérimentale, le système du monde, suivant les nouvelles découvertes. 

Amsterdam, Z. Chatelain et fils, 1752.
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550 €

First edition of this work, which deals mainly with physics, presented in the form of questions / answers.
Metaphysics, mathematics and therefore physical: of bodies (matter and vacum, porosity, hardness, ..., movement, inertia, shocks, mechanics, friction, pulley levers, gravity, Newtonian attraction , Electricity, fluids, optics, telescopes, planets, etc.).
Fine copy of this richly illustrated book with two frontispieces and 29 plates.

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 CHERUBIN D'ORLEANS, Père. 

CHERUBIN D'ORLEANS, Père. 

Effets de la force de la contiguité des corps par lesquelles on répond aux expériences de la crainte du Vuide, & à celles de la Pesanteur de l'Air. 

Paris, Etienne Ducastin, 1689.
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950 €

First edition, re-issue with cancel title (first issue 1679 with the imprint of Couterot, an other in 1689 of Lucas).
In this work, Chérubin d'Orléans discuss of the air-pump experiments of Pascal and Torricelli. He thought that vaccuum doesn't exist.

Photo REYNIER, Jean-Louis-Antoine. 

REYNIER, Jean-Louis-Antoine. 

Du Feu et de quelques-uns de ses principaux effets. 

Lausanne, Mourer, 1787.
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600 €

First edition.
Reynier makes "fire" in this work, an essential constituent of the material which ensures its cohesion.
His theory announces, following Lavoisier, the replacement of the phlogiston theory by the caloric theory.
Our modern gaze would find that by replacing “fire” with “energy”, Reynier demonstrates many interesting intuitions here. As such it is often cited by Bachelard in his “Psychoanalysis of Fire”.

Photo LENDY. 

LENDY. 

Dissertations sur quelques points de physique, ou nouvel exposé des causes de plusieurs phénomènes dont la solution est encore problématique. 

Paris, Madame Huzard, An X [1802].
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450 €

Rare work. Only two copies located in French libraries (ccfr).
The book contains two essays. The first on capillarity the second on how the sun warm us.
We joint a letter from the author.

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 PARDIES, Ignace Gaston. 

PARDIES, Ignace Gaston. 

Discours du mouvement local. Avec des remarques sur le Mouvement de la Lumière. 

Paris, P. Fr. Gueffier, 1674.
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900 €

Second enlarged edition.
Pardies was at the heart of the debates concerning the nature of light, corresponding with Newton, Leibniz, and Huygens. Before Huygens, he was the first to propose a detailed and well-argued theory based on the wave nature of light.
In 1670, Pardies sent a draft of his "discours sur le mouvement d’ondulation" to Huygens. This treatise was, for the Dutch scholar, who acknowledged it, an important source of inspiration in his conception of light, which he published much later, in 1690.
Pardies died on April 21, 1673, at the age of 36, from a fever contracted while visiting the sick at the Bicêtre hospice. His work on optics is known only indirectly, through the commentaries of his colleagues, but especially through the publication in 1682 by the Jesuit Father Pierre Ango of the work "Optics," inspired by the papers of Pardies that he had in his possession.
This second edition of his "Discourse on Local Movement" is interesting because it is expanded (compared to the first of 1670) with "Remarks on a letter from Mr. Descartes concerning light," in which, on p. 174, he hypothesizes that a sound would form in the sun and that the wave thus created would be transported to Earth.

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 SAVERIEN, Alexandre. 

SAVERIEN, Alexandre. 

Dictionnaire universel de Mathématique et de Physique, où l'on traite de l'origine, du progrès de ces deux Sciences des Arts qui en dépendent, des diverses révolutions qui leur sont arrivées jusqu'à notre temps; avec l'exposition de leurs Principes, l'analyse des sentimens des plus célèbres Auteurs sur chaque matière. 

Paris, Rollin & Jombert, 1753.
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650 €

First edition.

Photo OZANAM, Jacques. 

OZANAM, Jacques. 

Dictionnaire Mathématique, ou idée Générale des Mathématiques.
Dans lequel sont contenus les termes de cette science, outre plusieurs termes des Arts & des autres sciences, avec des raisonnemens qui conduisent peu à peu l'esprit à une connoissance universelle des Mathématiques. 

Amsterdam, Huguetan, 1691.
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400 €

A reprint of the first edition, published the same year by Michallet in Paris.
The dictionnary is divided into sections dealing with subjects such as arithmetic, algebra, geometry, cosmography, astronomy, navigation, optics, perspective, mechanics, hydrostatics, architecture, fortification and music.

Photo PAULIAN, Aimé-Henri. 

PAULIAN, Aimé-Henri. 

Dictionnaire des nouvelles découvertes faites en physique, pour servir de supplément aux différentes éditions du Dictionnaire de physique. 

Paris, J.J. Niel, 1787.
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150 €

Aimé Henri Paulian was professor of physics at Aix and Avignon.
First edition of this work in which Paulian presents the latest discoveries made in physics since the publication of his 'Dictionnaire de physique'.
In particular on electricity, air navigation, animal magnetism.

Photo SIGAUD DE LA FOND, Joseph-Aignan. 

SIGAUD DE LA FOND, Joseph-Aignan. 

Dictionnaire de physique. 

Paris, Rue et Hotel serpente, 1781-1782.
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750 €

First edition.
Commplete copy with the supplement published in 1782 and the 17 folding plates.

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 MARAT, Jean-Paul. 

MARAT, Jean-Paul. 

Découvertes de M. Marat sur la lumière constatées par une suite d'expériences nouvelles qui ont été faites un très-grand nombre de fois sous les yeux de MM. les Commissaires de l'Académie des Sciences. 

Londres et Paris, Jombert, 1780.
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3000 €

First edition of this rare work by Marat on light.
In fact, the french revolutionary published several scientific works in his youth.
In this treatise on light, Marat discusses Newton's doctrine on the decomposition of sunlight by the prism.

Photo BULOS, Jean Antonin. 

BULOS, Jean Antonin. 

De la chaleur dans ses applications aux arts et aux manufactures. 

Paris, Urbain Canel, 1825.
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60 €

First edition.

Photo BONNEFOY, Jean Baptiste. 

BONNEFOY, Jean Baptiste. 

De l'Application de l'électricité à l'art de guérir. 

Lyon, Aimé de la Roche, 1782.
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180 €

Rare first edition. Not in Wheeler"s Gift.
Jean Baptiste Bonnefoy (1756-1790) Boy surgeon, then surgeon at the Hôtel-Dieu de Lyon, member of the College of Surgery, is the author of various medical memoirs. He had some relations with mesmerism whose ideas he shared, which is particularly evident in this work.

Bound after:
BONNEFOY, De l'influence des passions de l'âme dans les maladies chirurgicales, [Sl], 1786. 88 pages.

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