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Photo DESCARTES, René. 

DESCARTES, René. 

Les Principes de la philosophie de René Descartes. 

Paris, Nicolas Le Gras, 1681.
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250 €

Fourth edition.
"The Principles of Philosophy" by René Descartes is a fundamental work of Western philosophy. In this treatise, Descartes sets out his vision of the world, based on metaphysical and physical principles. He develops his method of doubt, his famous "cogito, ergo sum" (I think, therefore I am), and his conceptions on the nature of the soul and the body.

Photo VARIGNON, Pierre || PUJOL (Abbé). 

VARIGNON, Pierre || PUJOL (Abbé). 

Traité du mouvement et de la mesure des eaux coulantes et jaillissantes. 

Paris, Pissot, 1725.
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200 €

First edition.
The work is based on the posthumous manuscripts of Pierre Varignon, edited by Abbé Pujol. Varignon addresses in particular the problem of the Torricelli flow.

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 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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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 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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2500 €

The true third edition with the privilège dated 28 avril 1668.

Photo CURIE, Pierre || CURIE, Marie. 

CURIE, Pierre || CURIE, Marie. 

Oeuvres de Pierre Curie. Publiées par les Soins de la Societe Francaise de Physique. 

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1908.
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250 €

First edition.
First edition of the works of Pierre Curie. His wife Marie Curie signs the preface here.

Photo EIFFEL, Gustave. 

EIFFEL, Gustave. 

Etudes sur l'hélice aérienne faites au laboratoire d'Auteuil. 

Paris, Librairie aéronautique, [1921].
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1200 €

First edition.
Last book published by Gustave Eiffel on his aeronautical research.

"It is the whole of the results which is presented in the current work where I have recast my old works with the new ones, eliminating what seemed to me to be the least interesting and even correcting some of the results relating to the powers and efficiencies that I had given on the aerial propellers, according to the first tests of the Auteuil Laboratory" (extract from the foreword).

Photo EIFFEL, Gustave. 

EIFFEL, Gustave. 

La Résistance de l'air et l'aviation. 

Paris, Imprimerie de la Cour d'Appel, 1911.
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Rare offprint of an article by Gustave Eiffel written for the Hommage à Louis Olivier.
This choral book was written on the occasion of the death of Louis Frédéric Olivier (1854-1910), a scientist passionate about technical, scientific and cultural progress.
Beautiful full-margin printing on laid paper.

Photo LECORNU, Léon. 

LECORNU, Léon. 

Note sur le laboratoire aérodynamique Eiffel à Auteuil. 

s.l., Comptes rendus de l'Académie des Sciences, 1914.
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Offprint from the Comptes rendus de l'Académie des Sciences..
Short presentation to the Academy of Sciences of the Eiffel laboratory in Auteuil, August 3, 1914. Created on the Champ de Mars at the foot of its tower, Gustave Eiffel's aerodynamics laboratory was moved to Auteuil in 1912. It is still in operation today, operated by the company Aérodynamique Eiffel.
This aerodynamics laboratory was used in particular to test the characteristics of the Farman military biplanes that were used during the First World War.

Photo BOUGEANT, Guillaume Hyacinthe || GROZELIER, Nicolas. 

BOUGEANT, Guillaume Hyacinthe || GROZELIER, Nicolas. 

Observations curieuses sur toutes les parties de la physique. 

Paris, Bordelet Jombert, 1730-1737.
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250 €

Second edition.
Compilation of scientific facts which is mainly extracted from the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
This edition of 1730 (1737 for volume II) is given by Nicolas Grozelier.
A fourth volume was published 41 years after the third volume in 1771.
Some 18th century handwritten notes in the margins or on flying papers.

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 [MANUSCRIT]. 

[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".

Photo ROHAULT, Jacques. 

ROHAULT, Jacques. 

Traité de Physique. 

Paris, Veuve Charles Savreux, 1671.
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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.

Photo BECQUEREL, Henri. 

BECQUEREL, Henri. 

Manuscrit autographe : Reflexions sur une théorie moderne. 

s.l., s.n., [1907].
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4000 €

Original Manuscript by Henri Becquerel.

An interesting manuscript in which the discoverer of radioactivity ponders the nature of matter at the end of his life.
This manuscript, with corrections for printing, was published at the Institut de France after a reading at the session of October 25, 1907.

One of Henri Becquerel’s final works, this manuscript reflects on the revolutionary discoveries that had upended the traditional understanding of matter: the electron (discovered by Thomson in 1897), radioactivity (discovered by Becquerel himself in 1896), and radioactive decay (discovered by Rutherford in 1902).

The long-held notion of the atom as an indivisible, stable particle, as proposed by Democritus, was challenged by these groundbreaking findings. Becquerel pondered this new reality, suggesting that atoms, rather than being eternally stable, might undergo modifications over time. However, the slow pace of these transformations or the rarity of conducive conditions could create the illusion of stability.

The 15 pages offprint will be joined (covers detached).

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 POLINIERE, Pierre. 

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 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 PLANCK, Max. 

PLANCK, Max. 

Ueber den Beweis des Maxwell'schen Geschwindigkeitsvertheilungsgesetzes unter Gasmolecülen. 

Leipzig, Ambrosius Barth, 1895.
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150 €

First edition.
Trois articles written by Hertz and published in Annalen der Physik und Chemie vol.55 en 1895.
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 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 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 EINSTEIN, Albert. 

EINSTEIN, Albert. 

- Die Plancksche Theorie der Strahlung und die Theorie der spezifischen Wärme
- Über die Gütligkeitsgrenze des Satzes vom thermodynamischen Gleichgewicht und über die Möglichkeit einer neuen Bestimmung der Elementarquanta. 

Leipzig, Ambrosius Barth, 1907.
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350 €

First edition.
Two articles written by Albert Einstein and published in Annalen der Physik vol.22 en 1907.
- Die Planckche Theorie der Strahlung und die Theorie der spezifischen Wärme.
Einstein's first article on quantum theory .

- Über die Gütligkeitsgrenze des Satzes vom thermodynamischen Gleichgewicht und über die Möglichkeit einer neuen Bestimmung der Elementarquanta
One of Einstein's rare forays into experimental physics , to detect very weak voltage fluctuations, he designed a new type of electrometer that he called his Maschinchen.

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 ROHAULT, Jacques. 

ROHAULT, Jacques. 

Traité de Physique. 

Bruxelles, Eugène Henry Fricx, 1708.
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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.

Photo POISSON, Siméon Denis || ACADÉMIE ROYALE DES SCIENCES. 

POISSON, Siméon Denis || ACADÉMIE ROYALE DES SCIENCES. 

Mémoire sur la théorie du magnétisme en mouvement . IN. Mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences de l'Institut de France. Année 1823. 

Paris, Firmin Didot, 1827.
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Contains the major work from Poisson on the wave theory.

This volume of the Mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences is incomplete of the pappers from Legendre and Ampère :


Table :
LEGENDRE. Recherches sur quelques objets d'analyse indéterminée et particulièrement sur le théorème de Fermat. (p. 1-60), MISSING
LAPLACE. Mémoires sur le développement de l'anomalie vrai et du rayon vecteur elliptique, en série ordonnées suivant les puissances de l'excentricité.
RAMO. Mémoire sur l'état de la végétation au sommet du Pic du Midi de Bagnères.
AMPÈRE. Mémoire sur la théorie mathématique des phénomènes électro-dynamiques, uniquement déduite de l'expérience, dans lequel se trouvent réunis les Mémoires que M. ampère à communiqués à l'Académie royale de sciences, dans les scéances des 4 et 26 décembre 1820, 10 juin 1822, 22 décembre 1823, 12 septembre et 23 novembre 1825. (p. 175 to 388), MISSING
NAVIER. Mémoire sur lkes lois du mouvement des fluides
POISSON :
- Mémoire sur la théorie du magnétisme en mouvement
- Mémoire sur le calcul numérique des intégrales définies.
CAUCHY. Mémoire sur les développement des fonctions en séries périodiques.

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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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 KLEIN, Felix. 

KLEIN, Felix. 

Vortrage uber ausgewahlte fragen der elementargeometrie ausgearbeitet von F. Tagert. 

Leipzig, Teubner, 1895.
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250 €

First edition.
Conference during which the famous German mathematician gives a progress report on the latest work on certain famous problems of geometry: the squaring of the circle, the trisection of angles, the duplication of the cube.

Klein presents in particular the transcendence of the number π demonstrated by Lindemann a few years earlier.

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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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 POISSON, Siméon Denis || ACADÉMIE ROYALE DES SCIENCES. 

POISSON, Siméon Denis || ACADÉMIE ROYALE DES SCIENCES. 

Sur la Théorie des Ondes; Lu le 2 octobre et le 18 décembre 1815. IN. Mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences de l'Institut de France. Année 1816. 

Paris, Firmin Didot, 1818.
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Contains the major work from Poisson on the wave theory.

This volume of the Mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences contains :

POISSON :
- Mémoire sur la variation des constantes arbitraires dans les question de mécanique
- Mémoire sur la théorie des ondes.
GIRARD :
- Mémoire sur l'écoulement linéaire de diverses substances liquides par des tubes capillaires de verre,
- Mémoire sur l'écoulement de l'éther
BIOT, [Jean-Baptiste] :
- Mémoire sur l'utilité des lois de la polarisation de la lumière, pour reconnaitre l'état de cristallisation et de combinaison, dans grand nombre de cas où la système cristallin n'est pas immédiatement observable.
And the section on the history of the academy by Delambre for the mathematics and notices on Fleurieu Charles Bossut, Leveque and Tenon and by Cuvier for Physics.

Photo RAMEL, Abraham Louis. 

RAMEL, Abraham Louis. 

Système métrique, ou Instruction abrégée sur les nouvelles mesures, avec des calculs qui leur sont relatifs, et des tables de comparaison pour réduire les nouvelles mesures en anciennes et les anciennes en nouvelles; suivis d'une instruction sur les nouvelles monnaies de France, ainsi que d'une description abrégée des poids et mesures de Berne et de Lausanne. 

Neuchatel, Mme Fauche Née Borel, 1808.
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1200 €

First edition.
Book promoting the use of the metric system in Switzerland. If Switzerland received in 1801 a copy of the standard meter deposited in Paris, the metric system took several decades to be adopted in all the cantons of the confederation.

"Besides the description that my book gives of the new and old measures of Paris, it can also be considered as a complete treatise of three kinds of measures; namely, those of Neuchâtel, Bern and Lausanne: these neighboring countries will doubtless also adopt under little this system, which has simplicity as its basis" (excerpt from the preface)

Beautiful copy in contemporary morocco.

Photo PAUCTON, Alexis-Jean-Pierre. 

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.

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