Physics

Results (121 - 129) of 129

POLINIERE, Pierre.

Expériences de Physique.

Paris, Jean de Laulne, 1709.

More Details >

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”.

ROHAULT, Jacques.

Traité de Physique.

Bruxelles, Eugène Henry Fricx, 1708.

More Details >

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.

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.

More Details >

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.

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.

More Details >

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.

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.

More Details >

900 €

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

[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.

More Details >

750 €

First edition.
Book in which are presented the cosmologies of Ptolemy, Copernicus and Tycho Brahe enlightened by the theories of Descartes.

ROHAULT, Jacques.

Traité de Physique.

Paris, Veuve Charles Savreux, 1671.

More Details >

600 €

First 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.

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.

More Details >

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.

[MANUSCRIT PHYSIQUE].

Phisica generalis.

s.l., s.n., s.d.>

More Details >

150 €

Original manuscript in Latin.
"General physics" as it was taught (in the form of disputatio) during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Pretty round writing from the seventeenth century.

Results (121 - 129) of 129

About

Sell your books

Contact

Newsletter

Blog

52 rue des Ecoles 75005 Paris

tel. +33 (0)1 43 54 22 23

contact@livresanciens.com

Terms and conditions

European VAT number: FR87515091171

Physics

POLINIERE, Pierre.

Expériences de Physique.

ROHAULT, Jacques.

Traité de Physique.

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.

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.

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.

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.

[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.

First edition. Book in which are presented the cosmologies of Ptolemy, Copernicus and Tycho Brahe enlightened by the theories of Descartes.

ROHAULT, Jacques.

Traité de Physique.

DESCARTES, René.

Le Monde de Mr Descartes ou le traité de la lumière et des autres principaux objets des sens.

[MANUSCRIT PHYSIQUE].

Phisica generalis.

Original manuscript in Latin. "General physics" as it was taught (in the form of disputatio) during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Pretty round writing from the seventeenth century.

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.

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.

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

First edition.
Book in which are presented the cosmologies of Ptolemy, Copernicus and Tycho Brahe enlightened by the theories of Descartes.

Original manuscript in Latin.
"General physics" as it was taught (in the form of disputatio) during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Pretty round writing from the seventeenth century.