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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 PERRIN, Jean. 

PERRIN, Jean. 

Traité de chimie physique. Les principes. 

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1903.
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60 €

First edition of this physiqal and chemical course of Perrin.
Perrin received the Nobel price in 1926 for his work on the discontinuous structure of matter.

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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".

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PECLET, E. 

Traité élémentaire de physique-Atlas seul. 

Paris, L.Hachette, 1847.
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30 €

The Atlas alone.

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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150 €

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 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.

Photo PASCAL, Blaise. 

PASCAL, Blaise. 

Oeuvres de Blaise Pascal. 

La Haye [Paris], Detune, 1779.
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2500 €

The first and sole ancient collective edition, partially original.

Published by Bossut, this edition is illustrated with a portrait and 14 plates.
Among the unpublished there are many "pensée", writings on Grace, the Treaty of vacuum and and extensive correspondence.
Volumes IV and V contain the scientific works.
We found the second printing of the describing of invention of the computing machine of Descartes (TIV, pages 7-30). The first edition, certainly printed by the author, is unobtainable (only two copies known).
Also of interest here is the reprint of Pascal's 1654 paper introducing his triangle of binominal coefficients (Pascal's Triangle), included in Volume V, pages 1-54. Pascal's invention "predated the concepts of computation of the values of polynomial functions by differences.".

Photo PASCAL, Blaise. 

PASCAL, Blaise. 

Oeuvres de Blaise Pascal. 

La Haye [Paris], Detune, 1779.
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1500 €

First and only old collective edition,
Published by Bossut, this edition is illustrated with a portrait and 14 plates.
Among the unpublished there are many "pensée", writings on Grace, the Treaty of vacuum and and extensive correspondence.
Volumes IV and V contain the scientific works.
We found the second printing of the describing of invention of the computing machine of Descartes (TIV, pages 7-30). The first edition, certainly printed by the author, is unobtainable (only two copies known).
Also of interest here is the reprint of Pascal's 1654 paper introducing his triangle of binominal coefficients (Pascal's Triangle), included in Volume V, pages 1-54. Pascal's invention "predated the concepts of computation of the values of polynomial functions by differences.".

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 OZANAM, Jacques. 

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.
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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.

Photo OZANAM, Jacques. 

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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900 €

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.

Photo NOLLET, Jean-Antoine. 

NOLLET, Jean-Antoine. 

Leçons de physique expérimentale. 

Paris, Durand, 1771-1783.
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750 €

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.

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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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)].

Photo NOLLET, Jean Antoine Abbé. 

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.

Photo NEWTON, Isaac. 

NEWTON, Isaac. 

Traité d'optique sur les réflexions, réfractions, inflexions et les couleurs de la lumière. 

Paris, Montalant, 1722.
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1500 €

Second French edition of this important work in which Newton sets out his theory of light, the study of the refraction and diffraction of light. He observes in particular that light is composed of a multitude of colors.

This edition is more sought after than the first because the translation by Pierre Varignon was revised and supervised by Newton himself.

Handwritten note at the end: "Bookplate Musei C.Dupré. 1 quarto volume purchased on April 2, 1779"
An old handwritten note states that this copy was purchased on May 2, 1863, at the library sale... and placed to their proper place the plates that had been incorrectly inserted by the bookbinder.

Photo MORIN, Jean. 

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.

Photo MASSUET, Pierre. 

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.

Photo MARIOTTE, Edme. 

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.).

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.

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. 

Recherches physiques sur le Feu. 

Paris, Ant. Jombert, 1780.
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650 €

One of the best known of the scientific books by the infamous French revolutionary Marat. In the Recherches physiques sur le Feu", he sets forth his theory of "fluide ignée", a mechanical explanation of the phenomenon of heat, based on 166 experiments in two of which he demonstrates an increase in weight of metals after calcination (pp. 29-31).
Fine copy.

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 [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]. 

[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 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 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.

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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 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 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.

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