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Photo LACROIX, Silvestre François. 

LACROIX, Silvestre François. 

Essais sur l'enseignement en général et sur celui des mathématiques en particulier. 

Paris, Bachelier, 1828.
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200 €

Third edition.

Copy from the scientific library of Richard M. Hoe (1812-1886), inventor of the rotary press and great collector of scientific literature. Our copy appears on page 41 of his library's inventory.

Photo D'OCAGNE, Maurice. 

D'OCAGNE, Maurice. 

Cours de géométrie pure et appliquée de l'école polytechnique. 

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1917-1918.
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120 €

First edition.

Presentation copy to Henri Brocard.

Henri Brocard (1845-1922), polytechnician and officer, engineering commander, he is best known for his work on the modern geometry of the triangle with Émile Lemoine and Joseph Neuberg in the 1870s-1880s. We owe him the construction of Brocard's point, circle, line and angle which have particular properties.

Photo DARBOUX, Gaston. 

DARBOUX, Gaston. 

Principes de géométrie analytique. 

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1917.
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60 €

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Gaston Darboux (1842-1917) is a French mathematician, he succeeded Chasles in 1878 as chair of higher geometry at the Paris Faculty of Sciences. His work concerns analysis (integration, partial differential equations) and differential geometry (study of curves and surfaces). They were a source of inspiration for the Cosserat brothers as well as for Élie Cartan.

Photo LEVY, Paul. 

LEVY, Paul. 

Leçons d'Analyse Fonctionnelle. 

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1922.
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Paul Lévy (1886-1971) French mathematician is among the founders of modern probability theory. In 1920, he was appointed professor of analysis at the École Polytechnique.

Photo VOLTERRA, Vito || PÉRÈS, Joseph. 

VOLTERRA, Vito || PÉRÈS, Joseph. 

Leçons sur la composition et les fonctions permutables. 

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1924.
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30 €

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Vito Volterra (1860-1940) was an Italian mathematician and physicist. He is best known for his work on integro-differential equations, dislocation statics in crystals, biomathematics and population dynamics.

Photo VOLTERRA, Vito. 

VOLTERRA, Vito. 

Leçons sur les fonctions de lignes. 

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1913.
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Vito Volterra (1860-1940) was an Italian mathematician and physicist. He is best known for his work on integro-differential equations, dislocation statics in crystals, biomathematics and population dynamics.

Photo PICARD, Emile. 

PICARD, Emile. 

Leçons sur quelques types simples d'équations aux dérivées partielles avec des applications à la physique mathématique. 

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1927.
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Émile Picard (1856-1941), is a French mathematician, specialist in mathematical analysis. He gave his name to an iterative method of solving integral equations.
Course given at the Faculty of Sciences in 1907 and revised in 1925.

Photo PICARD, Emile. 

PICARD, Emile. 

Leçons sur quelques équations fonctionnelles avec des applications à divers problèmes d'analyse et de physique mathématique. 

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1928.
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Émile Picard (1856-1941), is a French mathematician, specialist in mathematical analysis. He gave his name to an iterative method of solving integral equations.
Course given at the Sorbonne in 1911 and revised in 1927.

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 QUETIN, Victor. 

QUETIN, Victor. 

Le magasin de meubles n°2: Album complet & Reference de tous Meubles qui se fabriquent a Paris contenant environ 250 modèles, dessinés en perspective. 

Paris, Victor Quetin, [v.1865].
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250 €

First edition.
Collection of furniture designs by Victor Quetin, as required by the production of the time, the style of furniture oscillates between what would later be called the Louis-Philippe style and the Napoleon III style.

Photo LA HIRE, Philippe De. 

LA HIRE, Philippe De. 

Nouveaux élémens des sections coniques, les lieux géométriques, la construction, ou effection des équations. 

Paris, André Pralard, 1679.
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1500 €

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Philippe de La Hire (1640-1718) is a French mathematician, he is the successor of Desargues and Pascal in the geometry of conics, in that he deduces the properties of conics from the properties of the circle.
La Hire innovates compared to his two predecessors, in that he exploits to the maximum the properties of invariance of harmonic division, which allows him to reason almost exclusively in the plane (and not in space).
This approach leads him to develop the notions of poles and polars, homology, orthoptic locus, etc.

Photo VALLEE, Henri. 

VALLEE, Henri. 

Le Tir au Pistolet. 

Paris, impr. J. Oller, [1874].
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190 €

First edition.
History of the pistol, shooting companies, famous shooters...
Note the last chapter dedicated to pistol duels with the prescriptions for the conduct of the event.

Photo DORMOY, Emile. 

DORMOY, Emile. 

Théorie Mathématique des assurances sur la vie. 

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1878.
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450 €

First edition.
Emile Dormoy, a Polytechnique and mining engineer, will manage the Soleil-Vie insurance company.
He leaves us this important treatise on mathematics for the use of actuaries in which he notably devotes a chapter to the Theory of deviations.
He describes there before Wilhelm Lexis what will be known as the "Lexis Ratio".
The law of deviations subsequently developed by Bachelier will be one of the bases of financial mathematics.

Photo L’HOSPITAL, Guillaume (Marquis de). 

L’HOSPITAL, Guillaume (Marquis de). 

Traité analytique des sections coniques et de leur usage pour la résolution des équations dans les problèmes tant déterminez qu’indéterminez. 

Paris, Jean Boudot, 1707.
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1200 €

First edition.
Treatise on conic sections, which he treats both by geometric and analytical methods (equations of the form ax2 bx2 cxy dx ey f = 0) and which was very successful. Finalized in 1699, it was not published until after his death at the request of Fontenelle, then secretary of the Royal Academy.

Photo [GUENEBAULD, Jean]. 

[GUENEBAULD, Jean]. 

Le Réveil de Chyndonax, prince des Vacies, druides celtiques diionois. 

Dijon, Claude Guyot, 1621.
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800 €

First edition.
Rare first impression in Dijon at Claude Guyot.
Jean Guenebauld, a doctor from Dijon, discovered in his vineyards in 1598, a funerary urn which he believed to be of Druidic origin.
This urn is adorned with an epitaph in ancient Greek:
"Here, in the sacred land of Mithras, a mound covers the body of Chyndonax, high priest. Abstain from impiety at the sight of his redemptive tomb" (translation after W. Vollgraff)

The identity of the cult to the deity Mithras mentioned in the epitaph is still debated today, W. Vollgraff brings it closer to a cult dedicated to Aphrodite Ourania ( Vollgraff W. The awakening of Chyndonax . In: Classical Antiquity, Tome 18, Fasc. 1, 1949. pp. 55-78.).

Photo FIORAVANTI, Léonard. 

FIORAVANTI, Léonard. 

Miroir universel des arts et sciences. 

Paris, Regnault Chaudiere, 1598.
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1250 €

Rare work of spagyric medicine.
Our copy, in accordance with what the title page announces, and unlike the copy Dorbon describes, is complete with the second part "Les Caprices touching la médecine".
This last part contains the description of the philosopher's stone, the elixir of life and what will be known as the Balm of Fioravanti.
This balm was a panacea that had made its creator famous.

Photo ALBINEUS, Nathan. 

ALBINEUS, Nathan. 

Bibliotheca Chemica contracta. 

Genève, Joannis Ant. & Samuel de Tournes, 1653.
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2500 €

First edition.
Compilation of alchemical texts divided into four parts in separate pagination with particular title page for each of them. Among the treatises it contains are the Chrysopoeia and Vellus aureum of Augurelli, the Novum lumen chemicum and the De sulphure tractatus of Sendivogius, and the Aracanum hermeticae philosophiae opus of Jean d'Espagnet.
The Emerald Table (Tabula smaragdina) is included in the preface.
Albineus is the Latinized name of Nathan d'Aubigné de la Fosse, son of the famous Théodore Agrippa d'Aubigné.

Photo MONTEUX, Jerôme de. 

MONTEUX, Jerôme de. 

Conservation de santé, et prolongation de vie, livre fort utile & nécessaire non seulement aux médecins, mais aussi à toute personne qui veult avoir sa santé corporelle, sans laquelle cette vie est sans fruit. 

Paris, Simon Calvarin, à l'enseigne de la Rose blanche couronnée, 1572.
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800 €

Second french edition.
Jérôme de Monteux, lord of Miribel, gave birth to Catherine de Médicis of the future François II and was medical adviser to Henri II.
Treatise on medicine borrowing from the ancients their advice for leading a healthy life: dietetics, sleep, economy of passions.
Published in Latin in 1557, we discover implicitly what daily life could be like at the court of France in the middle of the 16th century.

Photo [WEBER, Georges Adolph]. 

[WEBER, Georges Adolph]. 

Exposition systématique de tous les médicamens qui on été soumis à l'expérience pour reconnaitre leur véritable action. 

s.l., s.n., 1831.
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1200 €

Manuscript proposing one of the first directories of homeopathic medicines in the French language through a translation of the work by Georg Adolph Weber: "Systematische Darstellung der reinen Arzneiwirkungen aller bisher geprüften Symptome" published in German in 1831.
The work will not be published in French only in 1833 with a translation by the Swiss homeopath Peschier under the title "Systematic exposition of the pure pathogenetic effects of all the remedies put to date in experience" (Geneva, Cherbuliez, 1833).
Our manuscript uses the same two-part structure as the German edition and should probably precede the French edition. The binding is typical of the 1830s, we are thus at the very beginning of the development of homeopathy in Europe under the impetus of the German school directed by Hannemahn (1755-1843) of whom Weber was a disciple.
It is in Switzerland and in Lyon that homeopathy in French language develops, Count Sébastien Des Guidi creates in 1830 the Homeopathic Society Lyonnaise and opens its consultations, there are 5 or 6 homeopaths in France in 1832 then 25 in 1833, 52 in 1835. (Cf. Bariety, "The beginnings of homeopathy in France", 1969)

Witness to the beginnings of homeopathy in France.

Photo [HISTOIRE DE LA MEDECINE]. 

[HISTOIRE DE LA MEDECINE]. 

Etat général des unions faites des biens et revenus des maladeries, leproseries, aumoneries et autres lieux pieux aux hopitaux des pauvres malades. 

Paris, Denys Thierry, 1705.
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400 €

First edition.
In order to rationalize aid to the sick, the power of Louis XIV issued numerous decrees aimed at merging the various aid centers that existed at the time. Each town, district, religious order then had its own institution. This work contains, city by city, the institutions that must meet and the list of related edicts and decrees.

Photo HIPPOCRATE || BRECHE, Jean. 

HIPPOCRATE || BRECHE, Jean. 

Les Aphorismes d'Hippocrates, prince des médecins. 

Paris, Jacques Kerver, 1550.
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2500 €

First edition in french.
These aphorisms are considered one of the founding texts of Western medicine. They contain principles and observations about health, disease and medical practice.
Each Aphorism in Latin is followed by its translation and commentary in French.
Some handwritten notes in the margins of writing from the beginning of the 17th century.

Photo DESHAIS-GENDRON, Louis Florent. 

DESHAIS-GENDRON, Louis Florent. 

Traité des maladies des yeux & des moyens & opérations propres à leur guérison. 

Paris, Herissant, 1770.
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350 €

First edition.
Deshais-Gendron was the first professor of ophthalmology in France appointed by Lamartinière at the Paris School of Surgery.
Copy signed by the author.

Photo BROCA, Paul. 

BROCA, Paul. 

Des Anévrysmes et de leur traitement. 

Paris, Labé, 1856.
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600 €

First edition.
One of the monuments of 19th century medical literature.
The physiopathological types traced by Broca, and his terminology (passive clots and active clots, simple phlenartery and varicose aneurysm, with its arterial, venous or intermediate varieties) are always used.

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 GENTY, Louis || [MAUGUE ?]. 

GENTY, Louis || [MAUGUE ?]. 

Cours de géométrie et de trigonométrie rectiligne suivant Mr Genty. 

s.l., s.n., 1800.
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600 €

Original Manuscript.
Geometry course certainly given by Louis Genty, who was then professor of Mathematics at the Ecole centrale du Loiret in Orléans. Louis Genty became known in his field for having written a book on Fermat's contributions to geometry and he became a correspondent for the Académie des Sciences in the geometry section shortly before his death in 1817.

Photo LE FEBVRE, Nicolas. 

LE FEBVRE, Nicolas. 

Traicté de la Chymie. 

Paris, Thomas Jolly, 1660.
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2500 €

First edition.
Nicolas Lefèvre [id is Le Febvre] was a chemistry teacher at the Jardin des Plantes. He then became a member of the Royal Academy in London, a city to which he had come at the request of King Charles II of England.
A skilful chemist, people in the art praise the exactness with which he describes the operations and reports their results. It also indicates the means of recognizing fraud in pharmaceutical preparations.
A great admirer of Paracelsus, he claimed to have discovered, like him, a secret for restoring or maintaining all the vigor of youth in advanced age.
His chemistry course was a great success, went through several editions and was translated into several languages.

Photo KEILL, John || [LE MONNIER, Pierre-Charles]. 

KEILL, John || [LE MONNIER, Pierre-Charles]. 

Institutions Astronomiques, ou Leçons élémentaires d'Astronomie, pour servir d'introduction à la Physique Céleste, & à la Science des Longitudes, avec de nouvelles tables d'équation corrigées; et particulièrement les tables du soleil, de la Lune & des Satellites: précédées d'un Essai sur l'Histoire de l'Astronomie Moderne. 

Paris, Hippolyte-Louis Guerin & Jacques Guérin, 1746.
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850 €

First edition.
First french translation of John Keill's Introductio ad veram astronomiuam (London: 1721) but with important additions and with new tables of the sun and moon.
The work is embellished with 2 zodiacal maps, 3 maps of the lunar craters, 1 plan of the solar system, and 9 geometric plates (numbered from I to IX).

Photo JOBLOT, Louis. 

JOBLOT, Louis. 

Observations d'histoire naturelle, faites avec le microscope. 

Paris, Briasson, 1754-1755.
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2500 €

Second edition.
Posthumous edition increased by 53 spectacular plates resulting from the observations of Louis Joblot under the microscope. The second volume is devoted to the technical evolutions of microscopes on which Joblot worked, which allowed him to explore the unknown world of protozoa.

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.

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