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Photo EDDINGTON, Arthur. 

EDDINGTON, Arthur. 

Raum, Zeit und Schwere. Ein Umriss der allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie. 

Braunschweig, Vieweg & Sohn, 1923.
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70 €

First German edition of Space, Time and Gravitation published at Oxford in 1920. Arthur Eddington, a leading physicist, was the first to provide experimental proof of Einstein's general relativity during the solar eclipse of 1920. In this book he discusses his point of view on general relativity.

Photo AMPERE, André Marie || BABINET. 

AMPERE, André Marie || BABINET. 

Exposé des nouvelles découvertes sur l’électricité et le magnétisme. 

Paris, Méquignon-Marvis, 1822.
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2500 €

First edition, separately-paginated offprint of this early publication on electricity and magnetism in which Ampère and Babinet review the latest discoveries concerning electromagnetism.
Papper first published as a supplement to the French translation by Jean-René-Denis-Alexandre Riffault of the fifth edition of Thomas Thomson's Système de chimie.
Ampère notably presents his famous rule called "Ampère's rule" which describes the direction in which a magnetized needle moves near a conducting wire in which a current flows. His galvanometer, a device for measuring current intensity. As well as the idea of ​​an electric telegraph system.
Book that bears witness to the excitement caused among physicists by Oerstedt's experiment in 1820 which opened a new scientific field, electromagnetism.
A very complete copy of the last leaf (table and errata) which is usually missing.

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 POINCARE, Henri. 

POINCARE, Henri. 

Sur les Rapports de la physique expérimentale et de la physique mathématique. 

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1900.
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600 €

First edition.
Offprint of this very interesting article on epistemology by Henri Poincaré in which he analyzes the relationship between the mathematical laws of physics and the data of experience: When should one be right in one and wrong in the other?
In this report which was presented to the International Congress of Physics in 1900, Poincaré discusses there in particular at the end of the text the Lorentz equations which make it possible to analyze certain physical facts but not all, which will be decided by Einstein a few years later with his special theory of relativity.
This debate is still an issue for modern physics about dark matter, should we change physical theories or improve our measurement capabilities?.

Photo CASTEL, Louis Bertrand. 

CASTEL, Louis Bertrand. 

L'Optique des couleurs. 

Paris, Briasson, 1740.
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500 €

First edition.
We find there in particular the description of an ocular harpsichord, a famous creation of Castel which would aim to play colors as one would play sounds. A synesthetic instrument that would no doubt have delighted the surrealists.

Photo [PRESTIDIGITATION]. 

[PRESTIDIGITATION]. 

Le Parfait physicien. 

Paris, Le Bailly, [v. 1870].
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75 €
Photo PASCAL, Blaise. 

PASCAL, Blaise. 

Oeuvres de Blaise Pascal. 

La Haye [Paris], Detune, 1779.
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2500 €

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 VARIGNON, Pierre. 

VARIGNON, Pierre. 

Traité du mouvement des eaux coulantes et jaillissantes. Avec un traité préliminaire du mouvement général. 

Paris, PIssot, 1725.
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750 €

First edition.
Posthumous work published by Abbé Pujol, pupil of Varignon. Pierre Varignon was the first to use differential calculus in certain areas of physics. He is one of the fathers of modern kinematics.

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 [COCHET, Jean]. 

[COCHET, Jean]. 

La Physique expérimentale et raisonnée, qui contient en abrégé ce que cette science a de plus intéressant. 

Paris, Claude Herissant, 1756.
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250 €

First edition.

Photo REGNAULT, Noël. 

REGNAULT, Noël. 

Les Entretiens physiques d'Ariste et d'Eudoxe, ou physique nouvelle en dialogues. 

Paris, Jacques Clouzier, 1732-1750.
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400 €

Popular book of knowledge in various fields of science of the time.
First published in 1729, in three volumes, this book was a great success and had several reissues. It was increased by a fourth volume in 1732.
In our copy the first four volumes are from the 1732 edition, the fifth is dated 1750.

Complete copy of all the plates.

Photo SIGAUD DE LA FOND, Joseph-Aignan. 

SIGAUD DE LA FOND, Joseph-Aignan. 

Dictionnaire de physique. 

Paris, Rue et Hotel serpente, 1781-1782.
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750 €

First edition.
Commplete copy with the supplement published in 1782 and the 17 folding plates.

Photo BONNEFOY, Jean Baptiste. 

BONNEFOY, Jean Baptiste. 

De l'Application de l'électricité à l'art de guérir. 

Lyon, Aimé de la Roche, 1782.
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180 €

Rare first edition. Not in Wheeler"s Gift.
Jean Baptiste Bonnefoy (1756-1790) Boy surgeon, then surgeon at the Hôtel-Dieu de Lyon, member of the College of Surgery, is the author of various medical memoirs. He had some relations with mesmerism whose ideas he shared, which is particularly evident in this work.

Bound after:
BONNEFOY, De l'influence des passions de l'âme dans les maladies chirurgicales, [Sl], 1786. 88 pages.

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 D'ALEMBERT, Jean Le Rond dit ) || CONDORCET, Nicolas de || BOSSUT, Charles. 

D'ALEMBERT, Jean Le Rond dit ) || CONDORCET, Nicolas de || BOSSUT, Charles. 

Nouvelles expériences sur la résistance des fluides. 

Paris, Claude-Antoine Jombert, 1777.
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300 €

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.

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 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 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 DULONG, Pierre || PETIT, Alexis. 

DULONG, Pierre || PETIT, Alexis. 

Recherches sur quelques points importans de la théorie de la chaleur (publiés dans Annales de Chimie et de physique - Tome X). 

Paris, Crochard, 1819.
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650 €

First edition.
Research of prime importance in which the authors experimentally measure the specific heats of many compounds which will allow them to deduce what will become the law of Dulong and Petit which links molar mass and heat capacity and the constant of ideal gases.

In the same volume another important scientific publication: Fresnel, Memoir on the action that polarized rays of light exert on each other. Major Fresnel work.
And a Fourier paper on insurances.
There are also articles by Breguet (precision of a tourbillon chronometer and astronomical measuring tool, the plate illustrating this invention is missing), Pelletier (discovery of strychnine).

Photo SAVARY, Félix. 

SAVARY, Félix. 

Mémoire sur l'Aimantation (publié dans Annales de Chimie et de Physique - Tome XXXIV). 

Paris, Crochard, 1827.
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80 €

First edition.
Memoir read at the Academy of Sciences on July 31, 1826. Savary works on electrodynamics and in particular on the law of Biot and Savart.

We find in the same volume an article by Antoine Becquerel, "Chemical decompositions operated with electric forces at very low voltage".

Photo AMPERE, André Marie. 

AMPERE, André Marie. 

Suite du mémoire de M. Ampère sur une nouvelle expérience électro-dynamique, sur son application à la formule qui représente l'action mutuelle de deux élémens de conducteurs voltaïques, et sur de nouvelles conséquences déduites de cette formule. (publié dans Annales de Chimie et de Physique - Tome XXX). 

Paris, Crochard, 1825.
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600 €

First edition.
Major article in the work of Ampère and more generally for the history of science. He describes there one of the fundamental laws of electrodynamics (a field which finds its foundation in these works) and which will become Ampère's law.
Second part of the Memoir that Ampère will publish in the Annales de Chimie et de Physique in two parts (volume XXIX and volume XXX) before its original edition in 1827 in his "Mathematical theory of electro-dynamic phenomena only deduced from experience".

In the same volume we find articles by Faraday, Gay-Lussac, Savart.

Photo FRESNEL, Augustin. 

FRESNEL, Augustin. 

Lettre de M. Fresnel à M. Arago sur l'influence du mouvement terrestre dans quelques phénomènes d'optique (publiés dans Annales de Chimie et de physique - Tome IX). 

Paris, Crochard, 1818.
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300 €

First edition.
Fresnel's work on certain questions of astronomical observations which had to take into account the existence of an immobile ether surrounding the Earth.

In the same volume we find articles by Faraday, Dalton, Thénard.

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 DULONG, Pierre || PETIT, Alexis. 

DULONG, Pierre || PETIT, Alexis. 

Recherches sur la mesure des températures et sur les lois de la communication de la chaleur (publiés dans Annales de Chimie et de physique - Tome VII). 

Paris, Crochard, 1817.
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450 €

First edition.
First work by Dulong and Petit which will lead to the establishment of the thermodynamic law with the same name.
This work was rewarded with the physics prize of the Académie des Sciences in 1818.

In the same volume, articles by Gay-Lussac, Humboldt, Dalton.

Photo BONAVENTURE, Abat. 

BONAVENTURE, Abat. 

Amusemens philosophiques sur diverses parties des sciences, et principalement de la physique et des mathématiques. 

Amsterdam / Marseille, Jean Mossy, 1763.
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200 €

First edition.

This scientific recreation book is composed of twelve chapters corresponding to different amusements, such as "Sur un miroir placé par Ptolemée Evergetes sur la tour du phared'Alexandrie" and "Recherches & conjectures sur un miroir, dans lequel l'empereur Néron voyoit les combats des gladiateurs", etc.

Photo CASTEL, Louis-Bertrand || [NEWTON - DESCARTES}. 

CASTEL, Louis-Bertrand || [NEWTON - DESCARTES}. 

Le vrai système de physique générale de M. Isaac Newton exposé et analysé en parallèle avec celui de Descartes. 

Paris, Claude-François Simon, 1743.
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950 €

First edition.

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 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 CORNU, Alfred. 

CORNU, Alfred. 

Mémoire sur la détermination de la vitesse de la lumière entre l'observatoire et Montlhéry, par M. A. Cornu. in Annales de l'Observatoire de Paris, publiées par U. -J. Le Verrier - Mémoires - Tome XIII. 

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1876.
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200 €

First edition.

Alfred Cornu (1841-1902), is famous for his three measurements of the speed of light between 1872 and 1874, made with the method of Fizeau for which he had great admiration.
The last and the best was done between the Observatory and the Montlhéry Tower. This article of 315 pages, is devoted to this last experiment.
The article "Recherches sur les observations magnétiques faites à l'observatoire de Paris de 1667 à 1872", by M. G. Rayet is bound in at the end of the volume.

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.

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