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Photo CLÉMENT & DÉSORMES, BECQUEREL. 

CLÉMENT & DÉSORMES, BECQUEREL. 

Détermination expérimentale du Zéro absolu de la chaleur et du caloriques spécifique des Gaz in. "Journal de Physique, de chimie, d'histoire naturelle et des arts, avec des planches et des arts". 

Paris, Vve Courcier, 1819.
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Important memory of Clement and Désormes : "Détermination expérimentale du Zéro absolu de la chaleur et du calorique spécifique des Gaz".
This work was submitted to the Academy of Sciences in 1812, but didn't win the price and wasn't printed in the memory of the academy. It thus appears here for the first time .
It deal with the determination of the absolute zero and the specific heat of gas.
Presentation copy of Antoine César Becquerel to his grandson Henry with this : "Donné à mon petit fils henry, qu'il conserve cela en souvenir de mes trois premiers mémoires publiés en 1819 et du tendre attachement que je lui porte".
These three memories on mineralogy are in pages 235-240, 308-309, 462-467.

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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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 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, Rollin & Jombert, 1753.
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650 €

First edition.

Photo MARAT, Jean-Paul. 

MARAT, Jean-Paul. 

Recherches physiques sur le Feu. 

Paris, Ant. Jombert, 1780.
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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 COTES, Roger. 

COTES, Roger. 

Leçons de physique expérimentale, sur l'équilibre des liqueurs, & sur la nature & les propriétés de l'air. 

Paris, David fils, 1742.
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700 €

First edition in French.

Roger Cotes (1682-1716) was an English mathematician, closed to Isaac Newton with whom he shared the discovery of the Newton-Cotes method of numerical analysis, which generally extended the trapezoidal method and Simpson's method for calculating integrals.
This book was first published posthumously in 1738 under the title "Hydrostatical and Pneumatic Lectures", and it contains the first French translation of Newton's scale of degrees of heat, his law of cooling.

Photo [GADROYS, Claude]. 

[GADROYS, Claude]. 

Le Systeme du Monde, selon les trois Hypotheses, ou conformement aux loix de la Mechanique l'on explique dans la supposition du mouvement de la Terre. 

Paris, Guillaume Desprez, 1675.
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750 €

First edition.
Book in which are presented the cosmologies of Ptolemy, Copernicus and Tycho Brahe enlightened by the theories of Descartes.

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 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 SMITH, Robert. 

SMITH, Robert. 

Cours complet d'optique [...] contenant la Théorie, la Pratique les Usages de cette Science Avec des Additions considérables sur toutes les nouvelles découvertes qu'on a faites en cette matière depuis la publication de l'Ouvrage Anglois. 

Avignon & Paris, Girard & F. Seguin & J. Aubert, 1767.
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750 €

First edition in French.
This work, one of the most of the most useful contemporary treatises of this kind, was drawn largely from Newton's work on optics.

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 CAUCHY, Augustian-Louis. 

CAUCHY, Augustian-Louis. 

La théorie de la lumière. 

Paris, De Bure Frères, 1830.
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750 €

Rare original edition of this first memory of Cauchy on the propagation of light.

Photo NOLLET, Jean-Antoine. 

NOLLET, Jean-Antoine. 

Leçons de physique expérimentale. 

Paris, Durand, 1771-1783.
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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 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 DESAGULIERS, John Theophilus. 

DESAGULIERS, John Theophilus. 

Cours de Physique expérimentale,.... Traduit de l'anglois par le R. P. Pezenas. 

Paris, Jacques Rollin & Charles-Antoine Jombert, 1751.
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900 €

First edition in French.

John Theophilus Desaguliers (1683-1744), one of the founders of modern Freemasonry.
This book, published in London between 1725 and 1727, is based on Newton's theories, of which Desaguliers was a fervent defender and propagator of his scientific, philosophical and political ideas.

Photo CASTEL, Louis-Bertrand. 

CASTEL, Louis-Bertrand. 

Traité de physique sur la pesanteur universelle des corps. 

Paris, André Cailleau, 1724.
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900 €

First edition.

Louis Bertrand Castel (1688-1757) was a Jesuit, mathematician, physicist and French journalist.
This book is one of the first scientific treatises published by this author. He explains his theory according to which all the phenomena of the universe are explicable according to two principles, which are: the gravity of the bodies, which makes everything tend to rest, and the activity of the spirits, which incessantly creates the movement.
In France, he was one of the main opponents of Newton's theory of gravitation.

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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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 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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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 ALENCE, Joachim d'. 

ALENCE, Joachim d'. 

Traitté de l'aiman. Divisé en deux parties. La premiére contient les expériences; & la seconde les raisons que l'on en peut rendre. Par M. D***. 

Amsterdam, Henry Wetstein, 1687.
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900 €

First edition of this complete treatise on magnets.
Beautiful 33 engravings by Adriaan Schoonebeek, the pupil of Romeyn de Hooghe.

Photo POLINIERE, Pierre. 

POLINIERE, Pierre. 

Expériences de Physique. 

Paris, Jean de Laulne, 1709.
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950 €

First edition.
Pierre Polinière is considered the founder of experimental physics in France. After studying mathematics with Pierre Varignon (1654 – 1722), Polinière opened a physics course at the college of Harcourt, it was one of the first public courses given in Paris. His public demonstration sessions were very successful and did much to disseminate the scientific method of experimental research. His experiments were very popular and, among the spectators, we found all of Paris, and even the young Louis XV in 1722.
In 1706 during an experiment before the Academy of Sciences, Polinière discovered electroluminescence. This discovery is contemporary but independent of that of Hauksbee in London.
The protocol of the experiment is described here in the chapter “Phosphorus through Movement”.

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 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 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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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 CHERUBIN D'ORLEANS, Père. 

CHERUBIN D'ORLEANS, Père. 

Effets de la force de la contiguité des corps par lesquelles on répond aux expériences de la crainte du Vuide, & à celles de la Pesanteur de l'Air. 

Paris, Etienne Ducastin, 1689.
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First edition, re-issue with cancel title (first issue 1679 with the imprint of Couterot, an other in 1689 of Lucas).
In this work, Chérubin d'Orléans discuss of the air-pump experiments of Pascal and Torricelli. He thought that vaccuum doesn't exist.

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 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 CLAIRAUT, Alexis. 

CLAIRAUT, Alexis. 

Théorie de la Lune, déduite du seul principe de l'attraction. 

Paris, Dessaint & Saillant, 1765.
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1500 €

Second edition.
This second edition brings together the Theory of the Moon and the Tables of the Moon published by Clairaut in 1752 and 1754 which are the first approximate resolution of the three-body problem. Between 1747 and 1754, three of the greatest mathematicians of their time, Euler, D'Alembert and Clairaut, opposed each other on a common project: to develop new mathematical methods in order to resolve the complex problems posed by the movement of the Moon, subject to both to the gravitational pull of the Earth and the Sun. The issue was both scientific and economic since the establishment of precise astronomical tables was necessary for the reliability of navigation at sea.

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 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 ALEMBERT, Jean Le Rond d’. 

ALEMBERT, Jean Le Rond d’. 

Reflexions sur la Cause generale des Vents. Piéce qui a remporté le Prix proposé par l'Académie Royale des Sciences de Berlin, pour l'Année 1746. 

Paris, David l'aîné, 1747.
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1500 €

First edition of this important work on atmospheric tides.

Photo FRANKLIN, Benjamin. 

FRANKLIN, Benjamin. 

Expériences et observations sur l'électricité faites à Philadelphie en Amérique. 

Paris, Durand, 1752.
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1700 €

First edition of the French translation given by François-Thomas Dalibard after the original English edition published in London in 1751.
Franklin's major scientific work, on electricity, proving that lightning is electrical and deducing the positive and negative nature of an electrical charge.
It is the correspondence between Benjamin Franklin and Peter Collinson which is at the origin of this publication.

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