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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 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 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 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 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.
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60 €

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

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 BRILLOUIN, Marcel. 

BRILLOUIN, Marcel. 

Comparaison des coefficients d'induction. 

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1882.
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75 €

Rare thesis.

Photo CHEVREUL, Michel Eugène. 

CHEVREUL, Michel Eugène. 

Mémoire sur la vision des couleurs matérielles en mouvement de rotation et des vitesses numériques de cercles. 

Paris, Firmin-Didot, 1882 [1881].
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3000 €

First edition of Chevreul's last works on color.
A rare offprint with its own title page published by Firmin-Didot in 1882, of an article presented to the Academy of Sciences in December 1880 and January 1881 (one generally only finds the article extracted from the Mémoires de l'institut published in 1883). Chevreul is interested here in physiological optics, trying to analyze how the contrast between complementary colors is affected by movement.
In his conclusion, in which he calls himself "the dean of students in France" (he was then 95 years old), he sees a direct application of his work to signaling for train drivers.

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 BECQUEREL, Henri. Annales de Chimie et de Physique par MM. Chevreul, Dumas, Boussingault, Wurtz, Berthelot, Pasteur, avec la collaboration de Bertin. 

BECQUEREL, Henri. Annales de Chimie et de Physique par MM. Chevreul, Dumas, Boussingault, Wurtz, Berthelot, Pasteur, avec la collaboration de Bertin. 

Mémoire sur les propriétés magnétiques développées par l'influence dans divers échantillons de nickel et de cobalt, comparées à celles du fer in Annales de Chimie et de Physique - Cinquième série - Tome XVI. 

Paris, G.Masson, 1879.
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150 €

Content :
- Antoine Breguet : Recherches sur la théorie de Gramme, sur la cause de la position dissymétrique de ses frotteurs, et, incidemment, étude des écrans magnétiques.
- M. Edlund. Recherches sur l'induction unipolaire, l'électricité atmosphérique et l'aurore boréale.
- J.-N. Lockyer. Recherches sur les rapports de l'analyse spectrale avec le spectre du soleil
- L. Grandeau. De l'influence de l'électricité atmosphérique sur la nutrition des végétaux
- Henri Bequerel. Mémoire sur les propriétés magnétiques développées par l'influence dans divers échantillons de nickel et de cobalt, comparées à celles du fer.
- Léon Foucault. Instructions sur la manière de produire les interférences à grande différences de marche

Fine copy.

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 CORNU, Alfred. 

CORNU, Alfred. 

Mémoire sur la détermination de la vitesse de la lumière entre l'observatoire et Montlhéry, par M. A. Cornu. in Annales de l'Observatoire de Paris, publiées par U. -J. Le Verrier - Mémoires - Tome XIII. 

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1876.
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200 €

First edition.

Alfred Cornu (1841-1902), is famous for his three measurements of the speed of light between 1872 and 1874, made with the method of Fizeau for which he had great admiration.
The last and the best was done between the Observatory and the Montlhéry Tower. This article of 315 pages, is devoted to this last experiment.
The article "Recherches sur les observations magnétiques faites à l'observatoire de Paris de 1667 à 1872", by M. G. Rayet is bound in at the end of the volume.

Photo BUIGNET, Henri. 

BUIGNET, Henri. 

Manipulations de physique. Cours de travaux pratiques. 

Paris, J.-B. Baillière et fils, 1876.
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80 €

First edition.

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 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 TYNDALL, John. 

TYNDALL, John. 

Le son. 

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1869.
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50 €

First edition French.

Photo DAGUIN, Pierre-Adolphe. 

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.

Photo CHEVREUL, Michel Eugène. 

CHEVREUL, Michel Eugène. 

Des couleurs et de leurs applications aux arts industriels à l’aide des cercles chromatiques. Avec XXVII planches gravées sur acier et imprimées en couleurs par René Digeon. 

Paris, J.B. Baillière et Fils, 1864.
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5500 €

First edition of the rarest of Chevreul's publications on color.

Michel-Eugène Chevreul (1786-1889) is known to chemists for his research on fatty acids, saponification, and the discovery of stearin, but it is as a color theorist that his name will go down in history. Chevreul was appointed director of the Manufacture des Gobelins in 1824. Responsible for overseeing the production of dyes, he supported the work of dyers with his research on color perception. Thus, in 1839, he proposed a scientific approach to color complementarity and subsequently developed "color circles." A true "Pantone" color chart, a hundred years ahead of its time, Chevreul's color circles had the dual benefit of systematizing the production of hues (each with its own name) and making it easier to understand the concept of color complementarity. Thus, complementary colors are found on the same diameter of the color wheel, Red No. 2 corresponds to Green No. 2. "I believe I can affirm that it is possible to subject colors to a reasoned nomenclature, by relating them to types classified according to a simple method, accessible to the intelligence of all those who deal with colors" (extract from the preface). The standardization of color production was to interest first and foremost the industry then in full development, but it is undoubtedly in the Impressionist movement that Chevreul's theories found their finest accomplishment. Very early on, painters were inspired by Chevreul's work in their paintings, starting with Delacroix and then Monet. We will thus remember the fields of poppies dear to the Impressionists (Van Gogh, Monet, Pissaro...) where the red dots of the flowers burst out on complementary green backgrounds. The 27 spectacular plates were printed by René-Henri Digeon using chromochalcography, the process and difficulties of which are discussed in a paragraph in the book. Digeon appears to have presented a first edition of these plates at the 1855 World's Fair, for which he received a patent from the Empress. Several of the plates in our copy appear to be from this first edition and contain errors that have been corrected in other later copies that we have been able to consult.

Photo CHAM. 

CHAM. 

Cours de Physique. 

Paris, Maison Martinet, [v.1861].
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50 €

Cham, pseudonym of Amédée de Noé (1818-1879), is a French illustrator, caricaturist and playwright known and recognized.
This book is atypical and at the opposite of those received in schools!
It is a collection of very humorous illustrations, which are about the principles of Physics. With its simple, fast, sharp and precise style, Cham manages to make readers laugh about serious areas in the different fields of this science.

Photo POUILLET. 

POUILLET. 

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

Paris, A. Pigoreau, [ca.1860].
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40 €
Photo WERTHEIM, Guillaume. 

WERTHEIM, Guillaume. 

Mémoires de Physique mécanique. 

Paris, Bachelier, 1848.
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75 €

First edition.

This book is a collection of several texts dealing in particular with elasticity on the cohesion of metals, on the sounds produced by electric current or on the balance of homogeneous solid bodies.

Photo PELTIER, F.A. 

PELTIER, F.A. 

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

Paris, E. Bautruche, 1847.
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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 DEGUIN, Nicolas. 

DEGUIN, Nicolas. 

Cours élémentaire de physique, à l'usage des collèges et des autres établissemens d'instruction publique. 

Paris, Belin-Mandar, 1841.
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75 €

Third edition of these basic physics lessons, by Nicolas Deguin (1809-1860) who was professor of Physics at the Faculty of Science in Besançon.

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 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.
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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 CHEVREUL, Michel Eugène. 

CHEVREUL, Michel Eugène. 

De la Loi du Contraste simultané des Couleurs et de l’Assortiment des Objets colorés, considéré d’après cette Loi dans ses Rapports avec la Peinture, les Tapisseries des Gobelins, les Tapisseries de Beauvais pour Meubles, les Tapis, la Mosaïque, les Vitraux colorés, l’Impression des Étoffes, l’Imprimerie, l’Enluminure, la Décoration des Édifices, l’Habillement et l’Horticulture. 

Paris, Pitois-Levrault, 1839.
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9000 €

First edition.
One of the most influential books on art in the 19th century.
Michel-Eugène Chevreul (1786–1889) is known to chemists for his research on fatty substances (1810–1823) and on immediate organic analysis (1824), but it is as a color theorist that his name achieved lasting fame.
De la loi du contraste simultané des couleurs introduced a scientific understanding of color that had a profound and lasting impact on the painters of his time.
His “law” describes how the perception of a hue is altered by the surrounding colors, each color projecting its complementary onto its immediate environment (thus, a red object tends to cast a greenish glow on nearby surfaces, a yellow one a purplish tint, and so on). This principle is clearly illustrated in plate 7 of the Atlas, where colored dots on a white background seem to emit halos of their complementary hues.

Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863), a central figure of Romanticism, paid close attention to Chevreul’s research. According to the painter Paul Signac, Delacroix even sought to meet the chemist and acquired notes from his lectures in order to better grasp the law of simultaneous contrast. Several of his paintings feature harmonies built around complementary color pairs. For instance, The Entry of the Crusaders into Constantinople (1840) deliberately juxtaposes yellow/purple, blue/orange, and red/green to dramatize the scene—so effectively that art historian Lee Johnson called it an ideal “illustration” of Chevreul’s treatise.

But it was arguably within the Impressionist movement that Chevreul’s theories reached their highest artistic fulfillment. Claude Monet (1840–1926), in particular, used simultaneous contrast to heighten luminosity in his landscapes. He avoided black and earth tones, preferring instead to render shadows in color: purples and blues for shaded areas at sunset, accented with yellow-orange highlights in full light. This technique appears as early as Impression, Sunrise, the foundational work of the movement. One might also recall the poppy fields, a favorite motif of the Impressionists (Van Gogh, Monet, Pissarro…), where red flowers vibrantly stand out against green backgrounds.

A book heralding one of the greatest revolutions in painting.

Our copy is complete with all the color plates, most of them signed by Chevreul himself.

Photo BECQUEREL, Antoine César. 

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.

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 PEYRÉ, J.M.M. 

PEYRÉ, J.M.M. 

Cours de Physique destiné à MM. les élèves de l'école royale spéciale militaire - premier cahier. 

Paris, Anselin et Pochard, 1830.
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40 €

Rare first edition.

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".

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