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Photo EIFFEL, Gustave. 

EIFFEL, Gustave. 

La résistance de l'air et l'aviation expériences effectuées au laboratoire du champ-de-mars. 

Paris, Dunod et Pinat, 1910.
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400 €

First edition.
After experimental aerodynamic tests obtained by free fall from the second floor of the tower he had built on the Champ de Mars in Paris, Gustave Eiffel had a wind tunnel built there in 1909. It was made up of a vein of tests of 3 meters in diameter over a length of 2.5 meters. The flow, generated by a propeller driven by a 70hp engine, could vary between 5 and 20 meters per second. The installation was enclosed in a 240 square meter hangar so as not to be influenced by the outside wind. This installation was used, in particular, for testing the Eiffel wing profiles which would equip a large number of French aircraft from the First World War. It was moved to Auteuil in 1912 and is still in operation today, operated by the Aérodynamic Eiffel company.


Copy with the stamp "Hommage de G. Eiffel" on the half title.

Photo DESCARTES || TANNERY, Paul. 

DESCARTES || TANNERY, Paul. 

Oeuvres de Descartes. 

Paris, Vrin, 1974.
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500 €
Photo BOREL, Emile. 

BOREL, Emile. 

Oeuvres de Emile Borel. 

Paris, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 1972.
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500 €

First edition.
Émile Borel (1871-1956) was a French mathematician and professor at the Faculty of Sciences in Paris.
He is known for his fundamental work in the fields of measure theory and probability.

Photo PASCAL, Paul || BAUD, Pascal. 

PASCAL, Paul || BAUD, Pascal. 

Traité de chimie minérale. 

Paris, Masson, 1931-1934.
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500 €

First edition of this monumental treatise published under the direction of Paul Pascal, presenting the state of knowledge at the time on the subject.

Photo LAPLACE, Pierre-Simon de. 

LAPLACE, Pierre-Simon de. 

Exposition du Système du Monde. 

Paris, Duprat, An VII [1798].
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500 €

Second edition.

Mathematician and Physicist, Laplace (1749-1827) this "French Newton" is one of the most influential scientists of the Napoleonic period.
The work was very successful and was reissued five times with each reissue some modifications by the author. In this second edition, Laplace introduces for the first time the metric system that he had helped to adopt.

In this second edition of the Exposition du Système du Monde we find also the first time the hypothesis of the existence of black holes. This "weird" hypothesis will be deleted in the further editions.

Photo PTOLEMEE, Claude. 

PTOLEMEE, Claude. 

Almageste.
Composition mathématique traduite pour la première fois du Grec en Français ... par M. Halma, et suivie des notes de M. Delambre. 

Paris, [J. Hermann], [1927].
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450 €

Old reprint of the two parts first published in 1813 and 1816.
Contains the Greek text the translation in franch by Halma and the notes by Delambre.

Photo MAUPERTUIS, Pierre Louis Moreau (de). 

MAUPERTUIS, Pierre Louis Moreau (de). 

La Figure de la Terre, déterminée par les observations de messieurs De Maupertuis, Clairaut, Camus, Le Monnier, de l'Académie royale des sciences et de M. L'Abbé Outhier, correspondant de la même académie, accompagnés de M. Celsius, professeur d'astronomie à Upsal. 

Paris, s.n., 1739.
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450 €

New edition with figures in text.
Results of Maupertuis' expedition to Lapland to measure the Earth's median and experimentally confirm Newton's hypothesis that the Earth is flattened at the poles.

Photo D'ALEMBERT, Jean Le Rond || CONDORCET, Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat de. 

D'ALEMBERT, Jean Le Rond || CONDORCET, Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat de. 

Nouvelles expériences sur la résistance des fluides. 

Paris, Claude-Antoine Jombert, 1777.
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450 €

First edition.
Collection of hydrodynamic experiments carried out in a basin of the Military School by D'Alembert, Condorcet and Bossut. Turgot had commissioned them to look for ways to improve river navigation. The results of these experiments led to establish what will become the D'Alembert paradox, which will only be solved with the theory of wakes.
Indeed, according to the hydrodynamic equations of the time, "a body should be able to progress in a fluid without experiencing any resistance or, which amounts to the same thing, that a bridge pier plunged into the course of a river should not. Undergo no pushing on his part ", which the experiments carried out denied.
Beyond the treatise on hydrodynamics, this book bears witness to a science in progress which intricates theory and experience.

French copy, full margin, as issue.

Photo BAILLY, Jean-Sylvain. 

BAILLY, Jean-Sylvain. 

Traité de l'astronomie indienne et orientale, ouvrage qui peut servir de suite à l'histoire de l'astronomie ancienne. 

Paris, Debure l'ainé, 1787.
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450 €

First edition.
The Treatise on Indian and Oriental Astronomy is an important work by Jean-Sylvain Bailly (1736-1793), astronomer and major political figure of the early French Revolution (he was the first mayor of Paris). Published in 1787, it constitutes the continuation and culmination of his monumental History of Astronomy, begun in 1775. In this treatise, Bailly explores non-European astronomical systems, focusing particularly on the astronomy of the Indians.

Photo SAVERIEN, Alexandre. 

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, Jacques Rollin, 1753.
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450 €

First edition.

Photo BECQUEREL, Edmond. 

BECQUEREL, Edmond. 

La Lumière, ses causes et ses effets. 

Paris, Firmin Didot frères, 1867-1868.
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450 €

First edition.
The first part is devoted to light sources, in which Becquerel discusses his work on luminescence. The second part deals with the effects of light, with a long chapter on color reproduction through photography. Becquerel is now considered the creator of the first color photograph in 1848.

Photo CURIE, Marie. 

CURIE, Marie. 

Radioactivité. 

Paris, Hermann, 1935.
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450 €

First edition.

Photo DUHEM, Pierre. 

DUHEM, Pierre. 

Le système du monde. 

Paris, Hermann, 1973-1974.
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400 €

When Pierre Duhem died in 1916, he was working on the tenth volume of his monumental System of the World, of which only five volumes had been printed.

It was then necessary to wait some forty years before, thanks to the Academy of Sciences and the CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research), the following five volumes were published, beginning in 1954.

Complete series of all volumes. The last three are in their first edition.

Vol. 1. no date (new printing) / Vol. 2. 1974 / Vol. 3. 1958 / Vol. 4. 1973 / Vol. 5. 1979 / Vol. 6. 1973 / Vol. 7. 1976 / Vol. 8. 1958 / Vol. 9. 1958 / Vol. 10. 1959.

Photo JORDAN, Camille. 

JORDAN, Camille. 

Oeuvres de Camille Jordan. 

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1961-1964.
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400 €

First edition of the collective works.
Camille Jordan (1838-1922) was a French mathematician, known both for his foundational work in group theory and for his textbook Cours d'analyse de l'École polytechnique.

Photo GUYOT, Edme-Gilles. 

GUYOT, Edme-Gilles. 

Nouvelles récréations physiques et mathématiques. 

Paris, Gueffier, 1786.
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400 €

Third edition.
This book is one of the most complete and certainly the most beautifully illustrated works of popular science that developed in the late eighteenth century (Ozanam, Nollet, ...).
The first volume deals with mathematics, magnetism, and electricity. The second volume deals with geometry, optics, catoptrics, dioptrics, fire, air and water. The last volume is organized around the following themes: numbers, hand addresses and card tricks.

Photo L'HOSPITAL, Guillaume François Antoine. 

L'HOSPITAL, Guillaume François Antoine. 

Analyse des infiniment petits, suivie d'un nouveau commentaire pour l'intelligence des endroits les plus difficiles de cet ouvrage. 

Avignon, Girard, 1768.
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400 €

The text of the Hospital, one of the first promoters of differential calculus, is followed by "a new commentary for the understanding of the most difficult places of this work" by the abbot Aime Henry Paulian, printed for the first time.

Photo CARNOT, Lazare. 

CARNOT, Lazare. 

De la corrélation des figures de géométrie. 

Paris, Crapelet, 1801.
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400 €

First edition.

Photo BELIDOR, Bernard Forest de. 

BELIDOR, Bernard Forest de. 

Nouveau cours de mathématique, à l'usage de l'Artillerie et du Génie, Où l'on applique les parties les plus utiles de cette science à la théorie & à la pratique des différens sujets qui peuvent avoir rapport à la guerre. 

Paris, Nyon, 1757.
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380 €

New edition augmented.

Photo CONDORCET, Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de. 

CONDORCET, Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de. 

Esquisse d'un tableau historique des progrès de l'esprit humain. 

Paris, Agasse, An III [1795].
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375 €

Second edition.
Reprint of the original edition published the same year, with a new title page. Condorcet's work marks the birth of the idea of ​​Progress, which would become the credo of the 19th century.

Photo APPELL, Paul. 

APPELL, Paul. 

Traité de mécanique rationnelle. 

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1926-1937.
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350 €

Professor and later dean of the Faculty of Sciences in Paris, French mathematician Paul Émile Appell (1855-1930) was also a member of the Academy of Sciences. His mathematical work encompassed projective geometry, algebraic functions, differential equations, and complex analysis.
A mixed edition set as follows: Volume 1: 1926, 5th ed., Volume 2: 1924, 4th ed., Volume 3, 1921, 3rd ed., Volume 4 - fasc 1, 1932, 2nd ed., Volume 4 - fasc 2, 1937, 2nd ed., Volume 5, 1933, 2nd ed.

Photo DENJOY, Arnaud. 

DENJOY, Arnaud. 

Mémoire sur la Dérivation et son Calcul Inverse. 

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1954.
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350 €

Firs edition of htis compilation of these four important pappers of Denjoy.

Photo LAUTMAN, Albert. 

LAUTMAN, Albert. 

Essai sur les Notions de Structure et d'Existence en Mathématiques :
- Les Schémas de Structure.
- Les Schémas de Génèse. 

Paris, Hermann, 1938.
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350 €

First edition.
Albert Lautman (1908-1944) was a French philosopher of mathematics whose work had a considerable posthumous influence. This essay, published in the "Le Progrès de l'Esprit" collection edited by Léon Brunschvicg, is a profound exploration of the relationship between mathematics and philosophy. Lautman develops the idea that mathematical theories are not mere arbitrary creations but are based on ideal "structural schemas," linking mathematics to metaphysics. His work is a landmark in the philosophy of science of the interwar period, tragically cut short by his death in deportation.

Photo DUPIN, Charles. 

DUPIN, Charles. 

Développements de géométrie, avec des applications à la stabilité des vaisseaux, aux déblais et remblais, au défilement, à l'optique, etc. 

Paris, Courcier, 1813.
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350 €

First edition.

Photo CAMUS, François-Joseph de. 

CAMUS, François-Joseph de. 

Traité des forces mouvantes. 

Paris, Claude Jombert, 1722.
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300 €

First edition.
François-Joseph de Camus (1672-1732) is a French technician and inventor in mechanical science. This book is one of his most important texts, including a significant number of his inventions.

Photo POINCARÉ, Henri. 

POINCARÉ, Henri. 

Leçons sur la théorie de l'élasticité. 

Paris, Georges Carré, 1892.
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300 €

First edition.
Lectures given by Henri Poincaré and written by Borel and Drach on the mathematical foundations of elasticity problems. Foundations which will serve as the basis for Poincaré's development of an elastic theory of light in which the propagation of light is described by the elastic compression-decompression of the ether.

Photo GIRARDIN, Jean Pierre Louis. 

GIRARDIN, Jean Pierre Louis. 

Leçons de chimie élémentaire appliquée aux arts industriels. 

Paris, Masson, 1872-1880.
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300 €

Jean Pierre Louis Girardin (1803-1884) was a French chemist and agronomist, and a corresponding member of the Institut. He was a professor at the Faculty of Sciences in Clermont. This work is a chemistry manual that applies the principles of elementary chemistry to industrial arts, illustrating the link between scientific research and technology in the 19th century.

Photo ARAGO, François. 

ARAGO, François. 

Biographie de Gaspard Monge. 

Paris, Firmin Didot, 1853.
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300 €

First edition.
François Arago (1786-1853), permanent secretary of the Academy of Sciences, was a leading French physicist, astronomer, and politician. This biography of Gaspard Monge (1746-1818), founder of descriptive geometry, is a tribute to one of the major figures of the French Revolution and 18th-century science. Monge's work, a former member of the Academy, is highlighted by Arago, who himself contributed to the advancement of science.

Photo LA HIRE, Philippe (de) || MAUDUIT, Antoine-René. 

LA HIRE, Philippe (de) || MAUDUIT, Antoine-René. 

Les élémens des sections coniques, démontrées par synthèse. Ouvrage dans lequel on a renfermé le petit traité des sections coniques de M. de La Hire. 

Paris, Desaint, Saillant, 1757.
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300 €

First edition.
First work by the mathematician Antoine-René Mauduit (1731-1815) who continued the work of La Hire on conic sections.

Photo MARIE, Maxime Charles. 

MARIE, Maxime Charles. 

Histoire des Sciences Mathématiques et Physiques. 

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1883-1888.
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300 €

First edition.
From Thalès to Abel.

Photo WAIPY, Jean. 

WAIPY, Jean. 

Le bref usage de l'arithmetique, par la plume & par les iettons. 

Verdun, Louis Le Géant, 1631.
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300 €

First edition.
Rare arithmetic learning manual printed in Verdun.

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