Physics

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[MANUSCRIT].

1- Tractatus de Motu
2- Tractatus de maechanica
3- Appendix quaestionum de motu.

s.l., s.n., 1775.

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Physics course in Latin, manuscript dated 1775. The course is divided into three parts: the movement of bodies, general mechanics and an appendix offering corrected exercises. The seven engraved plates are after "C.H. Becker ex Lov".

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.

NOLLET, Jean-Antoine.

Leçons de physique expérimentale.

Paris, Durand, 1771-1783.

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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.

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)].

PAUCTON, Alexis-Jean-Pierre.

Théorie de la Vis d'Archimède, de laquelle on déduit celle des moulins conçus d'une nouvelle maniere. On y joint la construction d'un nouveau lock ou sillometre, & celle d'une sorte de rames très-commodes.

Paris, J.H. Butard, 1768.

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1200 €

First edition.
Unusual work in which Paucton seeks to improve and diversify the applications of the Archimedes screw. Among his innovative ideas we note the possibility of using the Archimedes screw as a means of propulsion for boats and as a propeller for windmills. By putting this propeller which he calls pterophore horizontally, he re-elaborates with genius Leonardo da Vinci's flying propeller, and even calculates the surface of canvas that it would take for a man to be able to rise in the air in this way.
A book on the origins of the helicopter.

SMITH, Robert.

Cours complet d'optique [...] contenant la Théorie, la Pratique les Usages de cette Science Avec des Additions considérables sur toutes les nouvelles découvertes qu'on a faites en cette matière depuis la publication de l'Ouvrage Anglois.

Avignon & Paris, Girard & F. Seguin & J. Aubert, 1767.

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750 €

First edition in French.
This work, one of the most of the most useful contemporary treatises of this kind, was drawn largely from Newton's work on optics.

CLAIRAUT, Alexis.

Théorie de la Lune, déduite du seul principe de l'attraction.

Paris, Dessaint & Saillant, 1765.

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1500 €

Second edition.
This second edition brings together the Theory of the Moon and the Tables of the Moon published by Clairaut in 1752 and 1754 which are the first approximate resolution of the three-body problem. Between 1747 and 1754, three of the greatest mathematicians of their time, Euler, D'Alembert and Clairaut, opposed each other on a common project: to develop new mathematical methods in order to resolve the complex problems posed by the movement of the Moon, subject to both to the gravitational pull of the Earth and the Sun. The issue was both scientific and economic since the establishment of precise astronomical tables was necessary for the reliability of navigation at sea.

FONTAINE Des BERTINS, Alexis.

Mémoires donnés à l'académie royale des sciences non imprimés dans leur temps, par M.Fontaine, de cette académie.

Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1764.

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750 €

First edition.
Twelve memories, dealing essentially with infinitesimal geometry, integral calculus, mechanics, and astronomy.

BONAVENTURE, Abat.

Amusemens philosophiques sur diverses parties des sciences, et principalement de la physique et des mathématiques.

Amsterdam / Marseille, Jean Mossy, 1763.

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200 €

First edition.

This scientific recreation book is composed of twelve chapters corresponding to different amusements, such as "Sur un miroir placé par Ptolemée Evergetes sur la tour du phared'Alexandrie" and "Recherches & conjectures sur un miroir, dans lequel l'empereur Néron voyoit les combats des gladiateurs", etc.

[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.

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.

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.

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Phisica Generalis.

s.l., s.n., 1752.

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450 €

Original manuscript in Latin.
"General physics" as it was taught (in the form of disputatio) during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Manuscript enriched with numerous figures in the text drawn with a pen in red ink.

FRANKLIN, Benjamin.

Expériences et observations sur l'électricité faites à Philadelphie en Amérique.

Paris, Durand, 1752.

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1700 €

First edition of the French translation given by François-Thomas Dalibard after the original English edition published in London in 1751.
Franklin's major scientific work, on electricity, proving that lightning is electrical and deducing the positive and negative nature of an electrical charge.
It is the correspondence between Benjamin Franklin and Peter Collinson which is at the origin of this publication.

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.

DESAGULIERS, John Theophilus.

Cours de Physique expérimentale,.... Traduit de l'anglois par le R. P. Pezenas.

Paris, Jacques Rollin & Charles-Antoine Jombert, 1751.

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900 €

First edition in French.

John Theophilus Desaguliers (1683-1744), one of the founders of modern Freemasonry.
This book, published in London between 1725 and 1727, is based on Newton's theories, of which Desaguliers was a fervent defender and propagator of his scientific, philosophical and political ideas.

MACLAURIN, Colin.

Exposition des découvertes philosophiques de M. le chevalier Newton.

Paris, Durand & Pissot, 1749.

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600 €

First french edition.

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.

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1500 €

First edition of this important work on atmospheric tides.

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.

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.

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.

[Manuscrit] GANTEAUME.

Mémoire sur le centre de gravité des corps.

Marseille, s.n., 1740.

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200 €

Transcript of a work done by Ganteaume "mechanic" to the Société des Sciences de Marseille on August 6, 1740.

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.

MORIN, Jean.

Abrégé du Mécanisme universel, en discours et questions physiques.

Chartres, J. Roux, 1735.

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150 €

First edition.

Jean Morin (1705-1764) discovered a new liquid phosphorus in 1726 and was admitted to the Paris Academy of Sciences in 1736. This book is a synthesis of his research works in physics.

REGNAULT, Noël.

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

Paris, Jacques Clouzier, 1732-1750.

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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.

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 €

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.

CASTEL, Louis-Bertrand.

Traité de physique sur la pesanteur universelle des corps.

Paris, André Cailleau, 1724.

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900 €

First edition.

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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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.

MARIOTTE, Edme.

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

Leide, Pierre Vander, 1717.

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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.).

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Physics

[MANUSCRIT].

1- Tractatus de Motu2- Tractatus de maechanica 3- Appendix quaestionum de motu.

Physics course in Latin, manuscript dated 1775. The course is divided into three parts: the movement of bodies, general mechanics and an appendix offering corrected exercises. The seven engraved plates are after "C.H. Becker ex Lov".

NOLLET, Jean Antoine Abbé.

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

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

NOLLET, Jean-Antoine.

Leçons de physique expérimentale.

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.

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.

PAUCTON, Alexis-Jean-Pierre.

Théorie de la Vis d'Archimède, de laquelle on déduit celle des moulins conçus d'une nouvelle maniere. On y joint la construction d'un nouveau lock ou sillometre, & celle d'une sorte de rames très-commodes.

SMITH, Robert.

Cours complet d'optique [...] contenant la Théorie, la Pratique les Usages de cette Science Avec des Additions considérables sur toutes les nouvelles découvertes qu'on a faites en cette matière depuis la publication de l'Ouvrage Anglois.

First edition in French. This work, one of the most of the most useful contemporary treatises of this kind, was drawn largely from Newton's work on optics.

CLAIRAUT, Alexis.

Théorie de la Lune, déduite du seul principe de l'attraction.

FONTAINE Des BERTINS, Alexis.

Mémoires donnés à l'académie royale des sciences non imprimés dans leur temps, par M.Fontaine, de cette académie.

First edition. Twelve memories, dealing essentially with infinitesimal geometry, integral calculus, mechanics, and astronomy.

BONAVENTURE, Abat.

Amusemens philosophiques sur diverses parties des sciences, et principalement de la physique et des mathématiques.

[COCHET, Jean].

La Physique expérimentale et raisonnée, qui contient en abrégé ce que cette science a de plus intéressant.

First edition.

GERDIL, Hyacinthe-Sigismond.

Dissertations sur l'incompatibilité de l'attraction et de ses différentes loix, avec les phénomènes et sur les Tuyaux capillaires.

SAVERIEN, Alexandre.

First edition.

[MANUSCRIT].

Phisica Generalis.

Original manuscript in Latin. "General physics" as it was taught (in the form of disputatio) during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.Manuscript enriched with numerous figures in the text drawn with a pen in red ink.

FRANKLIN, Benjamin.

Expériences et observations sur l'électricité faites à Philadelphie en Amérique.

MASSUET, Pierre.

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

DESAGULIERS, John Theophilus.

Cours de Physique expérimentale,.... Traduit de l'anglois par le R. P. Pezenas.

MACLAURIN, Colin.

Exposition des découvertes philosophiques de M. le chevalier Newton.

First french edition.

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.

First edition of this important work on atmospheric tides.

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

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

First edition.

COTES, Roger.

Leçons de physique expérimentale, sur l'équilibre des liqueurs, & sur la nature & les propriétés de l'air.

CASTEL, Louis Bertrand.

L'Optique des couleurs.

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.

[Manuscrit] GANTEAUME.

Mémoire sur le centre de gravité des corps.

Transcript of a work done by Ganteaume "mechanic" to the Société des Sciences de Marseille on August 6, 1740.

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.

MORIN, Jean.

Abrégé du Mécanisme universel, en discours et questions physiques.

First edition. Jean Morin (1705-1764) discovered a new liquid phosphorus in 1726 and was admitted to the Paris Academy of Sciences in 1736. This book is a synthesis of his research works in physics.

REGNAULT, Noël.

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

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.

CASTEL, Louis-Bertrand.

Traité de physique sur la pesanteur universelle des corps.

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.

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.

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.

MARIOTTE, Edme.

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

1- Tractatus de Motu
2- Tractatus de maechanica
3- Appendix quaestionum de motu.

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.

First edition in French.
This work, one of the most of the most useful contemporary treatises of this kind, was drawn largely from Newton's work on optics.

First edition.
Twelve memories, dealing essentially with infinitesimal geometry, integral calculus, mechanics, and astronomy.

Original manuscript in Latin.
"General physics" as it was taught (in the form of disputatio) during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Manuscript enriched with numerous figures in the text drawn with a pen in red ink.

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.

First edition.

Jean Morin (1705-1764) discovered a new liquid phosphorus in 1726 and was admitted to the Paris Academy of Sciences in 1736. This book is a synthesis of his research works in physics.

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.
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.