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Photo FAIDEAU, Ferdinand. 

FAIDEAU, Ferdinand. 

La science curieuse et amusante - curiosités, récréations et fantaisies sur les sciences et leurs applications. 

Paris, Montgrédien et Cie, [vers 1900].
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50 €

Recreation book on science that includes topics such as kites and spinning tops, machinism, phonograph and telephone, atmospheric phenomena, means of transport or spontaneous combustion.

Photo FISCHER, Ernst Gottfried. 

FISCHER, Ernst Gottfried. 

Physique Mécanique avec des notes et un appendice sur les anneaux colorés, la double réfraction, la polarisation de la lumière et le magnétisme tant en repos qu'en mouvement par M. Biot. 

Paris, Mme Ve Courcier, 1819.
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300 €

Third enlarged edition, sought for Biot's notes on the polarization of light.
Biot is known for having studied and established the laws of rotation of the plane of polarization of the light passing through a liquid solution just before this edition, in 1815.

Photo FONTAINE Des BERTINS, Alexis. 

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.

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 GROLLIER DE SERVIÈRE, Gaspard. 

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.

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.

Photo HAÜY, René Just. 

HAÜY, René Just. 

Traité élémentaire de physique. 

Paris, Delance et Lesueur, 1803.
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300 €

First edition.
Physics work which was intended for teaching in national high schools.
However, we find there what was the main object of Haüy's research, the crystalline form of minerals and their properties.

Photo HERIVEL, John. 

HERIVEL, John. 

Joseph Fourier Face Aux Objections Contre Sa Theorie De La Chaleur: Lettres Inedites, 1808-1816. 

Paris, Bibliothèque nationnale, 1980.
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50 €
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".

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 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 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 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 JOUAUST, Raymond. 

JOUAUST, Raymond. 

Le Ferro-Magnétisme, applications industrielles. 

Paris, Octave Doin, 1911.
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30 €

First edition.
Raymond Jouaust (1875-1949) was one of the pioneers of the applications of radioelectricity to astronomy and chronometry (Obituary notice by B. Decaux, Annales Francaises de Chronometrie, vol. 20, pp. 134-136, 1950 ).

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 LA HIRE, Philippe (De). 

LA HIRE, Philippe (De). 

Traité de Mécanique, où l'on explique Tout ce qui est nécessaire dans la pratique des Arts, & les propriétés des corps pesants lesquelles ont un plus grand usage dans la Physique. 

Paris, Jean Anisson, 1695.
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550 €

First edition.
Numerous woodcut figures in the text.

Photo LAGRANGE, Joseph-Louis, comte de. 

LAGRANGE, Joseph-Louis, comte de. 

Méchanique analitique. 

Paris, Veuve Desaint, 1788.
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10000 €

First edition of Lagrange's masterpiece, the foundation of modern mechanics, second in importance to Newton's Principia.

Photo [LAMY, Dom Francois]. 

[LAMY, Dom Francois]. 

Conjectures physiques sur deux colonnes de nüe qui ont paru depuis quelques années & sur les extraordinaires effets du tonnerre. 

Paris, Veuve de Sébastien Mabre-Cramoisy, 1689.
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First edition.
Illustrated with a folding plate and four figures in the text, two of which are full-page.
Lamy studies here two "lightning strikes" that had left their mark, the first on April 26, 1676 in Soissons had left an astonishing frieze (which is reproduced on the folding plate) in the dormitory of an Abbey. The second in Lagny on July 18, 1689, where lightning had struck the altar of the Church of Saint-Sauveur and imprinted the canon of the mass on its tablecloth.
Camille Flammarion devotes an entire chapter in his book "Les Caprices de la foudre" to Lamy's observations, and tells us: "A monk, Father Lamy, of the Congregation of Saint-Maur, published in 1696 [Editor's note: 2nd ed.] an excellent pamphlet, dictated by the clearest common sense, on the curious effects of lightning, which were then the subject of the most superstitious commentaries. Voltaire could not have reasoned better.".

Photo LAPLACE, Pierre Simon. 

LAPLACE, Pierre Simon. 

Sur la Rotation de la Terre || Sur la figure de la Terre, et la Loi de la pesanteur à sa surface (publiés dans Annales de Chimie et de physique - Tome VIII). 

Paris, Crochard, 1818.
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150 €

First edition.
Two articles by Laplace on celestial mechanics published in the Annales de Chimie et de physique.

In the same volume, articles by Gay-Lussac, Berthollet, Haüy.

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 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 LORENTZ, Hendrik Antoon. 

LORENTZ, Hendrik Antoon. 

Het Relativiteitsbeginsel : drie voordrachten gehouden in Teyler's Stichting. 

Haarlem, De Erven Loosjex, 1913.
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500 €

First edition.
Publication of the lectures given at the Teylers Foundation by Lorentz on the theory of relativity.
Nobel Prize in Physics in 1902, it was thanks to Lorentz and the establishment of the "Lorentz transformations" that Einstein was able to establish his theory of special relativity.

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 [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 [MANUSCRIT DE PHYSIQUE]. 

[MANUSCRIT DE PHYSIQUE]. 

Physique. 

s.l., s.n., 1926-27.
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25 €
Photo [MANUSCRIT DE PHYSIQUE]. 

[MANUSCRIT DE PHYSIQUE]. 

Physique. 

s.l., s.n., [1925-26].
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25 €
Photo [Manuscrit] GANTEAUME. 

[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.

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 MARAT, Jean-Paul. 

MARAT, Jean-Paul. 

Oeuvres de Marat.
I. Recherches Physiques sur l'Electricité.
II. Mémoire sur l'électricité médicale. 

Paris, Clousier - Méquignon, 1782-1784.
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950 €

First edition of two rare books from Marat on electricity.

I. "Recherces Physiques sur l'Electricité". Paris. Clousier. 1782.
II. "Mémoire sur l'électricité médicale". Paris. Méquignon. 1784.

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