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Edité par S.n., 1887
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couverture souple. - S.n., s.l. 1887, divers, 11 pages sur 7 feuillets pour les manuscrits + 4 feuillets pour la transcription. - | Uniques archives en mains privées du fondateur du libéralisme et de la science économique moderne | Exceptionnel ensemble d'archives manuscrites et imprimées - le dernier en mains privées - du fondateur du libéralisme et de la science économique moderne, Léon Walras, conservées et annotées par William Jaffé. L'un des 5 plus importants ensembles d'archives de celui que Schumpeter considérait comme le « plus grand de tous les économistes ». Cet ensemble de 42 documents d'importance, comprenant des manuscrits autographes complets, des épreuves corrigées, des tirés à part abondamment annotés, et des ouvrages imprimés enrichis, fut adressés par Aline Walras puis Gaston Leduc à William Jaffé qui ajouta sur certain ses notes autographes et établit grâce à eux la première traduction des Eléments d'Economie politique Pure. Léon Walras, inventeur de la théorie de l'équilibre économique, a en effet bouleversé la conception classique en imposant des équations mathématiques pour expliquer et influencer l'économie. Concomitamment avec Jevons et Menger, il fonde la théorie marginaliste, qui deviendra un pilier de la Science économique du XXeme siècle, comme le notait déjà à Milton Friedman, dans son essai consacré à Léon Walras à l'occasion de la traduction par Jaffé des Elements of Pure Economics : « it belongs on [any student's] "five foot shelf." [.] A person is not likely to be a good economist who does not have a firm command of Walrasian economics » (Milton Friedman) Malgré l'importance de la pensée de Léon Walras, les documents originaux, autographes ou imprimés du fondateur de l'Ecole de Lausanne, sont d'une extrême rareté, tant en mains privées, qu'en ventes publiques ou en institutions. *** PROVENANCE ET HISTOIRE DES ARCHIVES WALRAS Fondateur de la Science économique avec Stanley Jevons et Carl Menger, on lui attribue la paternité du Libéralisme, omettant généralement son engagement social et humaniste. La théorie de l'équilibre économique élaborée par Walras a en effet bouleversé la conception classique de l'Economie qui, depuis Smith, Riccardo et Marx fonde la valeur sur le travail nécessaire à la production et sur l'opposition des classes sociales. Malgré l'importance de la production de Léon Walras, les documents originaux, autographes ou imprimés de l'un des plus importants économistes de la fin du XIXème siècle sont d'une extrême rareté, tant en mains privées, qu'en ventes publiques ou en institutions. Cette extrême rareté a contribué à une méconnaissance du nom de Walras, cependant que les co-fondateurs de la théorie marginale, sont souvent présentés comme ses prédécesseurs. Or comme l'écrit l'historien de la pensée économique Mark Blaug : « La Théorie de l'économie politique de Jevons (1871) n'a pas été bien accueillie lors de sa parution, mais elle a été lue. Les Principes d'économie de Menger (1871) furent à la fois lus et bien accueillis, du moins dans son propre pays. Mais l'ouvrage en deux parties de Walras, Éléments d'économie pure (1844-1877), fut monstrueusement négligé partout. (.] Walras s'est fixé une tâche qui allait au-delà de Jevons et Menger, ses co-découvreurs de la théorie de l'utilité marginale, à savoir écrire et résoudre le premier modèle multi-équationnel d'équilibre général sur tous les marchés. De plus, Walras allait bien au-delà de Jevons en employant un mode d'exposition mathématique, ce qui suffisait à effrayer la plupart de ses lecteurs contemporains. Mais alors que Jevons et Menger sont désormais considérés comme des monuments historiques, rarement lus uniquement pour eux-mêmes, l'appréciation posthume de l' uvre monumentale de Walras s'est si nettement développée depuis les années 1930 qu'il est peut-être aujourd'hui l'économiste du XIXe siècle le plus lu après Ricardo et Marx, notamment depuis la traduction des Éléments en anglais en 1954. » (1) Ce n'est en effet que gr.
Edité par for the author, Paris, 1588
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First edition. DIBNER 173: RENAISSANCE MECHANICAL ENGINEERING A LANDMARK IN BOOK DESIGN. First edition, in a beautiful contemporary binding, of one of the most famous illustrated books of the sixteenth century and a landmark in book design. "The military engineer Agostino Ramelli produced a remarkable illustrated book in 1588 describing a large number of machines that he devised. Called Le diverse et artificiose machine del Capitano Agostino Ramelli (The various and ingenious machines of Captain Agostino Ramelli); this work had a great impact in the field of mechanical engineering. The book contains 195 superb engravings of various machines along with detailed descriptions of each one in both French and Italian" (Brashear). About half of the engravings depict hydraulic devices, the rest showing military machines as well as fountains, bridges, cranes, foundry equipment, etc., and a smattering of innovative devices such as the famous 'reading wheel' or the bouquet with artificial singing birds. In addition to weapons, 13 chapters are devoted to machines for breaking and entering - forcing doors, lifting doors off their hinges, cutting through metal fences - and all of which Ramelli insists can be accomplished without the perpetrator being discovered! "The plates in Ramelli's treatise are artistically as well as technologically superb, the bilingual text beautifully printed, and both plates and text surrounded by handsome borders of typographic ornaments. The reasons for this sumptuousness were twofold: first Ramelli had dedicated the book to his patron Henri III; and second, he had previously had several designs stolen from him by a trusted associate (probably Ambroise Bachot, later engineer to Henri IV), who published them in corrupt and mutilated form and claimed them as his own. As a result of this experience Ramelli planned his treatise as a particularly lavish work that would be difficult to counterfeit, and produced and published it from his own house where he could maintain absolute control over the project" (Norman). Together with Agricola's De Re Metallica (1556), Ramelli's work was the most influential and copied of all the early illustrated manuals of inventions and machines. Its influence was felt in such later works as Böckler's Theatrum machinarum (1662), and it was even copied in China, where it had been taken by Jesuit missionaries. Provenance: Girolamo Cosmi Rovereto (Ownership signature on the title); Roger Paultre (small label on fly leaf - see his Catalogue, Grands siècles et grandes images, 1993, no. 247). "Ramelli was born in northern Italy, probably in 1531. As a young man he served under the famous Italian warlord, Gian Giacomo de' Medici, Marquis of Marignano, and became trained in mathematics and military engineering. His reputation grew and he eventually left for France to serve under the Duke of Anjou, later King Henry III. His year of death is unknown and usually given as 'circa 1600,' but since documents exist to show that he was still alive in 1608, circa 1610 is a more realistic approximation. "Ramelli was greatly influenced by the increasing importance placed on mathematics and geometry as an important tool for engineers and artists, and particularly by the writings of Guidobaldo del Monte (1545-1607) and Petrus Ramus (1515-1572). Ramelli's interest in mathematics is demonstrated in the preface to his book, 'On the excellence of mathematics in which is shown how necessary mathematics are for learning all the liberal arts.' Ramelli also wanted to make his book accessible to many engineers so, as an Italian living in France, he produced both Italian and French descriptions of the machines. "The book itself is a fine example of the exquisite work of late sixteenth-century French printers and artists. It is a large book in folio format thus allowing great detail to be placed in the numerous engraved plates which total 195 in all (although plates 148 and 149 are combined into one image). Twenty of the plates are two-page spreads. Ramelli's bilingual descriptions are much more detailed than those found in previous illustrated books of machines (popularly called 'theaters of machines') by Jacques Besson (Theatrum instrumentorum et machinarum, 1569) and Jean Errard de Bar-le-Duc (Le premier livre des instruments mathématiques mechaniques, 1584). "Ramelli's book had a great influence on future mechanical engineering as can be see in Georg Andreas Böckler's work, Theatrum machinarum novum, 1662, where he copied eighteen of Ramelli's plates. Ramelli's influence can also be seen in the well-known works of Grollier de Servière (Recueil d'ouvrages curieux de mathematique et de mecanique, 1719) and Jacob Leupold (the multi-volume set Theatrum machinarum, 1724-1739). Leupold's work helped pass along Ramelli's ideas to a large population of eighteenth-century engineers. "Of the 195 machines pictured in the book, the majority are of devices designed to raise water. The breakdown is as follows: 110 Water-raising machines 21 Grain mills 4 Other mills 10 Cranes 7 Machines for dragging large objects 2 Machines to raise excavated earth 2 Cofferdams 4 Fountains and artificial bird-calls 1 Book wheel 15 Military bridges 14 Screw jacks and other breaking devices 4 Hurling engines 1 Gunner's quadrant "Bachot was an apprentice and assistant to Ramelli, eventually becoming an architect and engineer to King Henry IV. As described in Gnudi's introduction to her translation of Ramelli, during the sixteen years he spent with Ramelli, Bachot learned a great deal about engineering but had a falling out with the elder engineer and attempted to pass off some of Ramelli's machine designs as his own in an attempt to gain patronage. These designs were published in 1587 in a book by Bachot, Le Timon, and the similarity in style between Bachot's engravings and Ramelli's is impressive. After intense research, Gnudi concluded that Bachot engraved the plates for his own work and most of those produced for Ramelli's.
Edité par Jan Paedts Jacobsz, Leyden, 1608
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Hardcover. First edition. Double-entry bookkeeping. Very rare first edition in French of this collection of works, which was published almost simultaneously in Dutch, French and Latin. They deal, among other topics, with geometry, trigonometry, perspective, and double-entry book-keeping - Stevin was one of the first authors to compose a treatise on governmental accounting. The Appendice Algébraique, which Sarton called 'one of Stevin's most important publications,' is the first published general method of solving algebraic equations; it uses what is now called the 'intermediate value theorem,' a remarkable anticipation, as it was not rigorously formulated by mathematicians until the nineteenth century. All the works appearing in this volume were first published in this collection (with one exception, where the version here is the earliest extant - see below). Stevin (1548-1620) was perhaps the most original scientist of the second half of the 16th century (the major works of Galileo did not appear until the 17th century). "He was involved in geometry, algebra, arithmetic (pioneering a system of decimals), dynamics and statics, almost all branches of engineering and the theory of music" (Kemp, p. 113). "Stevin unconditionally supported [the Copernican system], several years before Galileo and at a time when few other scientists could bring themselves to do likewise" (DSB XIII: 48). In 1593 Prince Maurice of Nassau (1567-1625) appointed Stevin quartermaster-general of the Dutch armies, a post he held until his death. From 1600 Stevin organized the mathematical teaching at the engineering school attached to Leiden University. "The Prince used to carry manuscripts of [Stevin's lectures] with him in his campaigns. Fearing that he might lose them, he finally decided to have them published, not only in the original Dutch text [Wisconstighe Gedachtenissen] . but also in a Latin translation by Willebrord Snel [Hypomnemata mathematica] . and in a French translation by Jean Tuning [offered here]" (Sarton, p. 245). The Dutch and Latin editions were published in five parts, of which the fourth consisted principally of reprints of his works on statics that had appeared separately in 1586. This fourth part was not translated into French because, we are told at the beginning of the fifth part, of the printer's impatience - he was tired of keeping the sheets already printed and suggested that additional materials could be published later when the author had prepared them. The printer's impatience also accounts for the fact that several works that are announced on the title pages of the individual volumes did not in fact appear in the Dutch, French or Latin editions. The only other complete copy of this French edition listed by ABPC/RBH is the De Vitry copy, in a nineteenth-century binding (Sotheby's, April 11, 2002, lot 779, £15,200 = $21,935). OCLC lists Columbia, Harvard and UCLA only in US. Provenance: L. Cundier, early inscription on title-pages, i.e., Louis Cundier (c. 1615- 1681), French geometer, surveyor and engraver. He was professor of mathematics at Aix, and was responsible for a Carte géographique de Provence, published about 1640. Contemporary marginal annotation on R6v of final part. The first part of the work, entitled Cosmographie (1608), is a treatise on the trigonometrical techniques used in the observation of the heavens, together with extensive tables of sines, tangents and secants. "The first to use the term trigonometry seems to have been Pitiscus, whose book Trigonometria made its first appearance in 1595, but in 1608, when Stevin's book appeared, the term had not yet been generally accepted. The book consists of four parts, the first dealing with the construction of goniometrical tables, the second with plane triangles, and the remaining two parts with spherical trigonometry . It is mainly of interest to those who wish to see what trigonometry was like in the sixteenth century, long before Euler, in 1748, introduced the present notation. It also has some distinction as the first complete text on trigonometry written in Dutch; and one of the first - if not the first - written in any vernacular" (Works, IIb, p. 751). Part II, De la Practique de Géométrie (1605) [in Dutch, De Meetdaet], "is primarily a textbook for the instruction of those who, like Prince Maurice, wanted to learn some of the more practical aspects of geometry. The course was not one for beginners, knowledge of Euclid's Elements being a prerequisite, while the reader was also supposed to know something about the measurement of angles and Stevin's own calculus of decimal fractions . Parts of the contents were taken from the Problemata Geometrica, the book which Stevin published in 1583, but to which he, curiously enough, never refers. Other parts show the influence of Archimedes and of contemporary writers such as Del Monte and Van Ceulen. Although in accordance with the title strong emphasis is laid on the practical applications of geometry, many theoretical problems are discussed. For Stevin theory and application always went hand in hand. "The Meetdaet appeared in 1605, but it was drafted more than twenty years before. Already in the Problemata Geometrica Stevin refers to a text on geometry, 'which we hope shortly to publish' and in which the subject was to be treated by a method parallel to that used in arithmetic. At that time Stevin's L'Arithmétique was either finished or well advanced. We get the impression that in this period, 1583-85, Stevin decided to publish his full text on arithmetic, but of his text on geometry only those parts which he considered novel. The general outline of the two texts was laid out at the same time, and in close parallel. When at last the Meetdaet appeared, it had undergone many changes, resulting partly or wholly from lengthy discussions with the Prince of Orange. The underlying idea, however, remained the same. "In the introduction to the Meetdaet Stevin explains what he means by this parallelism of arithm.
Edité par Gérard Morrhy and Jean Pierre, Paris, 1532
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First edition. A MASTERPIECE OF ILLUSTRATED BOOK PRODUCTION - THE RICCATI COPY. First edition, the Riccati family copy, of this beautiful book, Finé's masterpiece of illustrated book production. One of the handsomest scientific books of the period, this work is especially remarkable for the fact that the author designed its illustrations himself. Although Finé had published a few works before 1532, and edited others, "it was only with the publication of the Protomathesis that he revealed himself as the inventor of a new kind of scientific book" (Pantin, p. 289). The first two parts of the Protomathesis deal with arithmetic and geometry, the third with cosmography, and the fourth with gnomonics. The part on cosmography provides a valuable account of the state of astronomy in the decade immediately preceding the Copernican revolution. A great variety of astronomical instruments are shown along with tables used in calculation (several of the instruments are shown with their composite pieces separated so that an instrument could be made from them, and in some copies of this book - but not this one! - the pieces have been cut out). "The Protomathesis is Oronce Finé's magnum opus, a work published shortly after his appointment as Lecteur royal en mathématiques, in order to set out his contribution (present and future) for the advancement of mathematics in France. As the first holder of a newly created and highly prestigious position, Oronce Finé (1494-1555) had worked towards a twofold end. He had wished to demonstrate his own mastery in the different fields of mathematics, and to expound his views on the discipline, as well as his teaching program. Thus, his Protomathesis - a collection of four textbooks - resembled a monumental epitome. Its content was relatively original and, above all, it adopted a new style in illustration and typographical design. No French mathematician had ever published such an ambitious work before. Moreover, the different elements of the book would become more or less the basis of the main part of Finé's abundant subsequent publications. For example, the third part, Cosmographia, served as a prototype for the many De mundi sphaera that Finé was later to publish: on the occasion of each new release, he introduced changes, but the original model was still recognizable. For all these reasons, the Protomathesis played an important role in establishing what can be called a Parisian tradition of mathematical textbooks" (ibid., p. 287). Provenance: Jacopo Francesco Riccati (1676-1754), Venetian mathematician after whom the 'Riccati equation' is named (bookplate on pastedown and title verso); likely by descent to his son Vincenzo (1707-75), Jesuit mathematician who introduced hyperbolic functions and contributed to the theory of differential equations, and thus to:) - Collegio di San Francesco Saverio in Bologna (inscription on title, where Vincenzo Riccati taught for 30 years). The Protomathesis (a Latin transcription of a Greek word meaning 'first instruction') begins with De arithmetica practica. Finé takes up, both in the dedicatory letter to François I and in the first section of the Arithmetica, the question of the utility of mathematics, and asks: "What would exist without mathematics? Without numbers we would have no music, no geometry, no philosophy, and no laws. Mathematics is thus not only useful, it is necessary" (Marr, p. 174). Thus, the Arithmetica served as a necessary introduction to the rest of the work. Its four books deal respectively with integers, common fractions, sexagesimal fractions, and proportion. Finé "considered the theory of proportion a crucial aspect of the mathematics of nature . It is notable that some major seventeenth century figures, such as Galileo and Kepler, thought in the same way, even after the appearance of Viète's symbolic algebra and Fermat's and Descartes's mathematics" (ibid., p. 175). Finé did not treat algebra in the Protomathesis; its introduction into French university instruction was left to Finé's three famous pupils, Jacques Peletier du Mans, Petrus Ramus and Pierre Forcadel. The second work in the volume, De geometria, "starts with an introduction dealing with the definition and the principles of geometry, that is with the theoretical basis of the subject. Book 1 contains definitions of figures (points, lines, surfaces, angles), general properties and axioms. It also deals with sinuses, chords and arcs (including a table). Book 2, which is properly practical, addresses the art of measuring lines, surfaces and bodies according to Euclid, before going on to elucidate the method of building a geometrical square or quadrant. The remaining chapters explain how to measure distances using the quadrant, staffs, Jacob's staff, and the geometrical square; how to measure surfaces (triangles, parallelograms, figures with multiple angles such as the pentagon or hexagon, and circles); how to demonstrate (according to the method of Archimedes) the relation between the circumference and the diameter of the circle; how to square the circle; and finally how to measure solid bodies (columns, pyramids, spheres, dodecahedrons, etc., the rhomb or 'almond' [that is, barrels]" (ibid., p. 57). Finé's 'proof' that the circle can be squared was, of course, incorrect - the circle cannot be 'squared' in the sense Finé intended, although this was not proved until the nineteenth century. Finé was certainly not alone among sixteenth-century (and later) mathematicians in his attempt to square the circle, but the errors in his attempt in the Protomathesis led to a series of attacks, first by the Portuguese mathematician Pedro Nunes, then by the Frenchman Jean Borel, the Italian Niccolò Tartaglia, and the Dutchman Adrian van Roomen. "Oronce Finé was no stranger to polemics. On the contrary, harsh criticism and the attacks of adversaries seem to have been frequent during his life. It is known that he was in prison for some time in 1523-1525 [probably for practising jud.
Edité par In aedib. viduae Durerianae|[Hieronymus Andreae], 1532
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Couverture rigide. - In aedib. viduae Durerianae [Hieronymus Andreae], Norimbergae [Nürimberg] 1532, in-folio (20,5x32cm), (80) f. - Signatures : A-E?, F?, G-N?, O?, relié. - Édition originale de la traduction latine établie par Joachim Camerarius l'Ancien, l'ouvrage a paru en allemand en 1528 sous le titre Vier Bücher von menschlicher Proportion. Notre édition contient les deux premiers livres, les deux suivants seront publiés en 1534 sous le titre De varietate figurarum et flexuris partium ac gestibus imaginum. Il faudra attendre 1557 pour que la traduction française de Louis Meigret voie le jour. Notre édition est illustrée de 85 grands bois hors-texte et de beaucoup d'autres petits in-texte, les mêmes que ceux employés dans l'édition originale allemande. Page de titre présentant le célèbre monogramme de Dürer. Texte en gothique. Le dernier feuillet blanc, manquant dans la plupart des exemplaires, est ici présent. Exemplaire grand de marges, d'une grande fraîcheur. Reliure postérieure en plein vélin à lacets. Très bel exemplaire du plus recherché des ouvrages techniques d'Albrecht Dürer. Les illustrations nécessitèrent l'examen de plusieurs centaines de modèles hommes, femmes et - chose plus rare pour l'époque - enfants. De ces analyses extrêmement précises résultèrent d'impressionnants dessins anthropométriques montrant le corps humain dans son ensemble, mais également en détails (mains, pieds, têtes.). Chaque dessin, quadrillé ou coté en marge permet une reproduction facile des modèles, l'ouvrage étant destiné à éviter les erreurs de proportions chez les jeunes artistes. La traduction latine de Joachim Camerarius - humaniste et proche ami de l'auteur - eut à l'époque un rôle primordial?: elle conféra à l' uvre de Dürer, jusqu'alors rédigée dans un allemand archaïque, une importante audience ; sans Camerarius, Michel-Ange n'aurait par exemple jamais eu connaissance de la théorie des proportions de Dürer. Dürer - dont le parrain Anton Koberger édita en 1493 La Chronique de Nuremberg - fréquenta très tôt le monde de l'impression et de la gravure et contrairement à son contemporain florentin Léonard de Vinci qui ne publia rien, il donna pour sa part plusieurs traités théoriques. C'est à l'occasion d'un voyage en Italie en 1494 qu'il rencontre Jacopo de'Barbari (1445-1516) qui l'initie au rôle des mathématiques dans la perspective et à l'étude des proportions du corps humain. De retour en Allemagne, il ouvre un atelier, devient peintre de l'empereur Maximilien Ier de Habsbourg et intègre le Grand Conseil de la ville de Nuremberg. La reconnaissance est complète et Dürer devient alors un artiste internationalement connu, au savoir et à la capacité de réflexion appréciés. Dans les dernières années de sa vie, n'abandonnant pour autant pas les arts picturaux, Dürer, encouragé par ses amis humanistes, passe la plupart de son temps à écrire. Déterminé à laisser à la postérité le fruit de ses longues réflexions théoriques, il publie plusieurs traités?: Instruction sur la manière de mesurer (1525), Instruction relative aux fortifications des bourgs, villes et châteaux (1527) et enfin Traité des proportions du corps humain (1528). En totale adéquation avec les considérations artistiques de la Renaissance, le dessein de cet ultime traité est d'établir une base scientifique (géométrique et arithmétique) appliquée à l'esthétique et de fournir ainsi des directives pratiques visant à atteindre la perfection anatomique. Véritable testament artistique, cet ouvrage emblématique aura une influence considérable sur l'histoire de l'art occidental. [ENGLISH TRANSLATION FOLLOWS] Alberti Dureri clarissimi pictoris et geometræ. De sym[m]etria partium in rectis formis hu[m]anorum corporum In aedibviduae Durerianae [Hieronymus Andreae] | Norimbergae [Nuremberg] 1532 | folio (20.5 x 32 cm) | (80) f. (A-E6, F4, G-N6, O4) | full parchment First edition of the Latin translation created by Joachim Camerarius, the work appeared in German in 1528 under the title Vier Büc (80) f. - Signatures : A-E?, F?, G-N?, O?.
Edité par Elzevier, 1628
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Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. 1628-1630. Two parts in one volume. Large folio (540 x 405 mm). Engraved title, portrait of the author, preliminaries including a dedication leaf to emperor and princes, 9 leaves of engraved plates showing the coats-of-arms of the dedicatees, privilege leaf of King Louis XIII and the States-General of the Netherlands, additional imperial privilege leaf of Ferdinand II in Latin, epigramma and applausus leaf; an unnumbered leaf "Advertissement au lecteur" with colophon bound at end, 46 plates of fencing (45 double-page and mounted on stub) interleaved with explanatory text, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces. The work is divided into 33 sections in the first part, and 13 sections in the second, each separately paginated and preceded by an engraved plate. Bound in early 19th century half red morocco over marbled boards, blind-tooled and gilt-lettered spine (extremities rubbed, corners worn and bumped, leather and paper over boards little cratched), marbled endpapers. Text with little uneven browning, minor occasional spotting, plate II in the second part incorrectly bound and inserted after plate II in the first part, plate I of second part slightly smaller in size, clean tear and small hole in plate VI of part II, short clean tear in plate XXXIII of part I repaired, long clean tear in plate XIII of part 2 repaired, plate XX (part I) and plate XI (part II) with light water staining to lower corners, 3 leaves (Latin privilege, epigramma and colophon) with paper repairs to blank margins. Provenance. from a private Swedish collection (bookplate to front pastedown). Complete with the 15 preliminary leaves, the final advert/colophon leaf and 46 engraved plates. ---- FIRST EDITION, AND EXCEPTIONALLY RARE IF COMPLETE AS HERE. Berghman, after 20 years of research, could only identify 5 copies, all defective (Berghman 687). "Can be reckoned, without exception, the most elaborate treatise on swordsmanship, and probably one of the most marvellous printed works extant" (Castle). Brunet gives the place of publication as Anvers, but the name of printer and place of impression can be found in the colophon leaf which also gives the year of publication with 1630 (the title page is dated 1628). On this leaf, there is also the announcement of the death of the author. The part of the work relating to the exercise on horseback was never published. Our copy well conforms to the digitized copy at Biblioteca Patrimonial of Universitat de Barcelona. The Academie de l'Espee is the finest publication of the Elzevir press, and one of the 17th-century's most lavish publications. Gerard Thibault was born at Antwerp around 1574 and followed other members of his family into the wool trade. In about 1603, he was living at Sanlucar de Barrameda, south of Seville, where he learned the mathematical method of fencing taught by the famous Luis Pacheco de Narvaez. Thibault further refined and elaborated on this system and, soon after returning to Flanders in 1611, presented himself and his system to the Dutch fencing masters assembled at Rotterdam for a competition. After further demonstrations to Prince Maurice and Prince Henry, he conceived of the idea for his book. Thibault's system is based on the 'mystic circle', a diagram drawn on the floor within a circle, the radius of which is in accurate proportion to the stature of the fencer and the length of his sword. The circle was marked according to the probabilities of strokes and parries, and one contestant was intended to traverse from one intersection to the next. If this stepping was done correctly, the result was a foregone victory, and if both contestants followed the system, they could fence without fear of injury. The book was produced during a period when the Italian rapier (or epee) held sway. . . Visit our website for further reading and images!.
Edité par various places various publishers -1841, 1810
Vendeur : Shapero Rare Books, London, Royaume-Uni
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11 vols in all, comprising: I) Fisica de' Corpi Ponderabili: first edition; 4 vols, thick 8vo; 18 folding plates, scattered light foxing, slight toning to leaves; II) Opuscoli Matematici e Fisici: first edition; 2 vols in one, 4to; 2 folding plates, scattered light foxing; III) Mémoire sur la Dispersion de la Lumière: first edition; 4to; numerous tables to text, many full-page, some browning to leaves; IV) Traité des fonctions elliptiques et des intégrales eulériennes: first edition; 3 vols, 4to; 4 folding plates, lacking portrait of Euler in volume 2, some leaves browned, scattered light foxing; V) Géométrie Descriptive: fifth edition; 4to; 28 folding plates, light dampstaining to prelims, scattered light foxing; VI) Mécanique Analytique: first edition; 4to; 4 folding plates, scattered light foxing, light dampstaining to plates; contemporary half vellum (7 vols) and full vellum (4 vols), bound to match, red and green morocco title labels with gilt lettering, gilt tooling to spines, light wear to extremities, overall an attractive set. An attractive set of nineteenth-century scientific and mathematical treatises, bound to match. I) First edition of Avogadro's magnum opus, containing the first announcement of 'Avogadro's Number'. A major treatise containing Avogadro's famous hypothesis that the number of integral molecules in any gas is always the same for equal volumes, or always proportional to the volumes. This was of great importance for nineteenth-century chemistry in effectively distinguishing between atoms and molecules. Avogadro first published this hypothesis in 1811, but it was largely ignored for another half century, partly because it was published first in Italian (when Italy was at the periphery of scientific research) and subsequently only in minor French, German and English scientific journals. II) First edition of this rare publication, considered an important scientific journal above all for being the means of dissemination of the mathematical theories of A.L. Cauchy in Italy. The second volume contains some of Cauchy's fundamental works translated into Italian, including Sulla meccanica celeste. III) First publication of Cauchy's equation, which determined the relationship between the wavelength of light and the refractive index of a material the light passes through. Cauchy produced this publication, which consisted of his own papers, in 1835 and 1836. This memoir was issued as eight parts of his periodical Nouveaux Exercices de Mathématiques, and was a successor to his earlier Exercices de Mathématiques, published from 1826 to 1830. A prolific and rigorous mathematician, Cauchy's works covered refraction and polarization of light, mechanics, elasticity, number theory and complex functions. IV) Rare first edition of Legendre's great work on the theory of elliptic functions, its application to geometry and mechanics, methods of constructing elliptical tables, Eulerian integrals, etc. This copy is complete with the three supplements published successively in 1828, 1829 and 1832. 'Legendre's research covers all areas of mathematics, including celestial mechanics, but his favourite subjects are elliptic functions and number theory. From 1786, he worked with elliptic integrals. His Exercices de calcul intégral (1811-1816) and the three volumes of his monumental Traité des fonctions elliptiques et des intégrales eulériennes (1825-1828), followed by three supplements in which he expounded the work of Abel and Jacobi, made him the undisputed specialist.' (from the French text) V) Fifth edition of this classic work on geometry. 'Monge should be considered the true creator of descriptive geometry, for it was he who elegantly and methodically converted the group of graphical procedures used by practitioners into a general uniform technique based on simple and rigourous geometric reasoning and methods. Within a few years this new discipline was being taught in French scientific and technical schools and had spread to several other Continental countries' (DSB). VI) First edition of this apparently unfinished work on analytical mechanics. Statics and dynamics were to have been augmented with hydrostatics and hydrodynamics, and possibly a fifth part giving applications. Scarce - the two parts are not often found bound together. Norman 89; Honeyman 168 (for Avogadro).
Edité par J. Jacquin, Paris, 1630
Vendeur : SOPHIA RARE BOOKS, Koebenhavn V, Danemark
Membre d'association : ILAB
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Hardcover. First edition. THE FIRST FRENCH TRANSLATION AND EXPOSITION OF VIÈTE. First edition, very rare, and in an unrecorded 1629 issue (usually dated 1630), of the first vernacular translation and exposition of Viète's In artem analyticum isagoge (Tours, 1591), the earliest work on symbolic algebra, here bound with a first edition of Vaulezard's translation of Viète's Zeteticorum libri quinque (Tours, 1593), which gives examples of the application of his 'analytic art' to problems from Diophantus' Arithmetica. The third work is a scathing criticism by Vaulezard of a later translation of the Isagoge, published in 1630, by Anthoine Vasset (generally believed to be a pseudonym for Claude Hardy); in a lengthy introduction to his translation, L'algèbre nouvelle de Mr. Viète (Paris: Rocolet, 1630), Vasset criticized Vaulezard's translation, to which Vaulezard responded in his Examen (thus, Vasset's translation definitely post-dates Vaulezard's). The greatest French mathematician of the sixteenth century, François Viète (1540-1603) was "the first extensively to use letters of the alphabet to represent numerical quantities" (Hutchinson's DSB, p. 690), and "the first mathematician of his age to think occasionally as mathematicians habitually think today" (Bell, p. 99). Viète used letters "both for known . and for unknown quantities" and "this innovation, considered one of the most significant advances in the history of mathematics, prepared the way for the development of algebra" (DSB); it earned him the sobriquet "the father of algebra" (ibid.). Zetetica is a Greek word meaning "those things to be sought out", and zetetics is the process of transforming a problem into an equation. In his preface to Les cinq livres des Zetetiques, Vaulezard tells us that in addition to the Zetetica he has added the second and third part of the Isagoge, i.e., the sections dealing with poristics (proving theorems through equations) and exegetics (solving equations), and that he has printed Viète's words in italic and his own commentary in Roman so that the difference may easily be seen. The first edition of In artem analyticem isagoge is among the rarest of the important works in the history of mathematics, and is hardly ever seen on the market. A copy was offered a few years ago by a prominent New York dealer for $450,000, and another copy sold at a German auction at about the same time for â 200,000 (plus premium), exemplifying Haskell Norman's dictum that rare books come in twos; we know of no other copy on the market since a copy offered by Sotheran in the 1920s (later in the Turner Collection at Keele University and now in private hands). The present works are almost as rare on the market, and are in fact even rarer than the Isagoge in institutional collections. ABPC/RBH records only one other copy (Macclesfield) of Les cinq livres (Sotheby's, November 25, 2005, lot 2049, £3,120 = $5,506) and no other copies of the other two works. OCLC lists, in the US, Brown, Harvard, Michigan, & NYPL for Introduction en l'art analytic and Les cinq livres; and Brown & Harvard only for Examen. There is no copy of any of the three offered works on COPAC, which lists five copies of the Isagoge. In artem analyticum isagoge is "a text in which Viète proposed nothing short of a complete refashioning of algebra as it was then understood . Rather than viewing algebra merely as the search for solutions of particular equations, he understood it as the analysis of an actual theory of equations" (Katz & Parshall, pp. 236-237). "The most important of Viète's many works on algebra . [It] introduced the use of letters both for known quantities, which were denoted by the consonants B, C, D, and so on, and for unknown quantities, which were denoted by the vowels. Furthermore, in using A to denote the unknown quantity x, Viète sometimes employed A quadratus, A cubus . to represent x2, x3, . This innovation, considered one of the most significant advances in the history of mathematics, prepared the way for the development of algebra" (DSB). "If this seems reminiscent in principle of our modern notation of x, y, and z for unknowns and a, b, c, etc. for indeterminate magnitudes, a convention which we owe to René Descartes in the seventeenth century, it is important to recognize that Viète's symbols or 'species', unlike ours, carried explicit geometrical meaning. They had dimension, and only expressions of the same dimension were commensurate . To Viète's way of thinking, then, the addition of a one-dimensional unknown A to a one-dimensional indeterminate B was denoted simply by A + B (we would write x + b), but in two dimensions, the sum appeared as A square + B plane (or our x2 + b) and in three dimensions as A cube + B solid (or our x3 + b)" (Katz & Parshall, pp. 238-239). Perhaps the most important part of the work is chapter 4, in which "he presents a mode of calculation carried out completely in terms of 'species' of numbers and calls it logistice speciosa - in contrast with calculation using determinate numbers, which is logistice numerosa. Of significance for the formation of the concepts of modern mathematics, Viète devotes the logistice speciosa to pure algebra, understood as the most comprehensive possible analytic art, applicable indifferently to numbers and to geometric magnitudes" (DSB). Viete's 'Analytic Art' comprises three stages. At the first stage, zetetics, a problem, whether of arithmetic or geometry, is translated into Viète's newly created symbol system or logistice speciosa in the form of an equation. At the second stage, poristics, equations are transformed according to rules into canonical forms; and finally at the third, exegetics, a solution to the problem is found on the basis of the derived equation. As Viète himself emphasizes, at this third stage the analyst turns either geometer, 'by executing a true construction,' or arithmetician, 'solving numerically whatever powers, whether pure or affected, are exhibited.' "In 1593 Viète published.
Date d'édition : 1910
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Pas de couverture. - Zurich 21 juin 1910, 9x14cm, une carte postale. - | Einstein écrit à « l'ami des plus grands génies de son temps » | Carte postale autographe signée d'Albert Einstein adressée à Ludwig Hopf, 18 lignes écrites au verso et recto, adresse également de la main d'Einstein. Tampon postal indiquant la date du 21 juin 1910. Publiée dans The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Volume 5: The Swiss Years: Correspondence, 1902-1914, Princeton University Press, 1993, n°218, p. 242. *** Exceptionnelle et très esthétique carte d'Albert Einstein à « l'ami des plus grands génies de son temps » - selon Schrödinger - le mathématicien et physicien Ludwig Hopf, qui permit la rencontre d'Einstein avec un autre génie du XXe siècle : Carl Jung. Le maître invite ici son élève à un dîner comptant au nombre des invités le scientifique Max Abraham, futur grand rival des années zurichoises et fervent opposant à la théorie de la relativité d'Einstein. Le destinataire de cette carte, Ludwig Hopf, rejoint Einstein en 1910 en tant qu'assistant et élève à ses séminaires de physique et de théorie cinétique à l'Université de Zürich. Ils signent deux articles fondamentaux sur les aspects statistiques de la radiation et donnent leurs noms à la force de résistance « Einstein-Hopf ». Leurs échanges épistolaires retracent le complexe cheminement des travaux d'Einstein sur la relativité et la gravitation, témoignant de leur grande complicité et du précieux apport de Hopf dans les recherches du maître. Quelques mois après l'écriture de cette missive, Hopf trouvera même une erreur dans les calculs d'Einstein sur les dérivées de certaines composantes de la vitesse que ce dernier corrigera dans un article l'année suivante. Ils forment également un duo musical et interprètent les grands génies de la musique, Hopf accompagnant au piano le violon du maître sur des morceaux de Bach et Mozart. Einstein invite par cette carte son élève et ami Hopf à un dîner avec Max Abraham, à l'aube d'une controverse scientifique majeure qui les opposera à partir de 1911. La théorie de la relativité restreinte selon Abraham ne convaincra pas Einstein qui soulignera le peu de moyens de vérification par l'observation et son manque de prédiction de la courbure gravitationnelle de la lumière. En 1912, leur différend deviendra public par publications interposées. Abraham ne reconnaîtra jamais la validité de la théorie einsteinienne. Au cours de leurs brillants échanges artistiques et intellectuels, Hopf a sans doute réussi là où Freud avait échoué comme il lui avouera dans une lettre : « Je romprai avec vous si vous vous glorifiez d'avoir converti Einstein à la psychanalyse. Une longue conversation que j'ai eue avec lui il ya quelques années m'a montré que l'analyse lui était tout aussi hermétique que peut m'être la théorie de la relativité. » (Vienne, 27 septembre 1931). Fervent adepte de la psychanalyse, Hopf est en effet connu pour avoir présenté le célèbre psychanalyste Carl Jung à Einstein. Hopf et son maître partiront tous deux pour l'Université Karl-Ferdinand de Prague en 1911, où ils fréquenteront l'écrivain Franz Kafka et son fidèle ami Max Brod dans le salon de Mme Fanta. Avec l'avènement du régime nazi, les destins de ces deux théoriciens de la mécanique du monde seront marqués par les persécutions et l'exil, Einstein se réfugiant tout d'abord en Belgique, Hopf en Grande-Bretagne après sa mise à pied en 1934 de l'université d'Aix-la-Chapelle à cause de ses origines juives. Les deux savants continueront à entretenir une prolifique correspondance au c ur de la tourmente, Einstein suggérant à Hopf l'ouverture d'une université à l'étranger pour les étudiants allemands exilés. Hopf s'éteindra peu de temps après avoir pris la chaire de mathématiques du Trinity College de Dublin en juillet 1939. Précieuse invitation du grand physicien à l'ultime dîner réunissant la "vieille école" scientifique symbolisée par Max Abraham, à l'aube de la publication de la théorie de la relativité.
Edité par Tipografia delle Scienze Mathematiche e Fisiche, Rome, 1862
Vendeur : Michael Laird Rare Books LLC, Lockhart, TX, Etats-Unis
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Etat : Very good. 2 vols., folio. Numerous diagrams; occasional light spotting and foxing. Modern brown morocco, uncut. In slipcases. EDITIO PRINCEPS OF THE WRITINGS OF FIBONACCI, THE GREATEST MATHEMATICIAN OF THE MIDDLE AGES, STILL THE ONLY COMPLETE EDITION PUBLISHED. IN THE HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS THIS UNABRIDGED EDITION OF THE LATIN TEXT IS ESSENTIAL, AND WAS THE VEHICLE BY WHICH FIBONACCI'S WORKS WERE DISSEMINATED THROUGHOUT MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY CULTURE. Rare in private ownership. Sold at Sotheby's forty years ago, ours is ONLY copy that has ever appeared at auction according to Rare Book Hub which currently lists more than 13 million records in the Rare Book Transactions database; furthermore, it is the only copy currently available on the market. Leonardo of Pisa (ca. 1170-1250), a.k.a. Fibonacci, is justly considered to be the most important mathematician of the Middle Ages, if only for being the first Christian mathematician to systematically explain Arabic numerals. Indeed, the mathematical renaissance in the West began with him according to George Sarton. The first volume contains the the 'Liber Abaci,' devoted to problems of computation including algebraic quadratic problems; here Fibonnaci here introduces Arabic numerals, the fraction bar, and the numerical approach to square roots and cube roots. The second volume contains the 'Practica Geometriae,' devoted to the application of algebra to geometric problems; 'Flos,' written for Frederick II in answer to a number of mathematical problems posed by Magister Johannes; "Letter to Magister Theodorus" developing a general method for the solution of indeterminate problems; and finally the great "Liber quadratorum," described by Vogel as "a first-rate scientific achievement and showing Fibonacci as "a major number theorist." Vogel continues to assert (correctly) that Fibonacci was far ahead of his time, without a successor until 1621, when Bachet made the text of Diophantus available which in turn stimulated Fermat in founding number theory. "In addition to the antique manuscripts, there also undeniably exists, however, a vehicle that, notwithstanding the inadequate and problematic access to the manuscript sources, has spread the text of the Fibonaccian treatise throughout modern and contemporary culture: the well known Italian mathematician and historian of science Baldassarre Boncompagni Ludovisi, in fact, in his brilliant far-reaching project which brought into focus the personality of Fibonacci, as well as his surviving works, realized and published in Rome in 1857 [i.e. THIS EDITION] what can with ample justification be defined the editio princeps of the entire treatise." (Germano). Despite the flaws in Boncompagni's work, "it of course was a noteworthy editorial operation, especially as it made available in print to a vast number of interested parties a work which had almost fallen into oblivion and that up to that time could be consulted only from its manuscript sources, with all the difficulties and inconvenience which this could entail." (Germano). It is fair to say that Fibonacci's contributions to mathematics languished unappreciated until the rediscovery of his texts and their presentation in the present -- surprisingly rare -- volumes. Despite its flaws, Boncompagni's edition serves as the basis for only complete translation of the Liber Abici made into a modern language thus far, namely Lawrence E. Sigler's "Fibonacci's Liber Abaci. A Translation into Modern English of Leonardo Pisano's Book of Calculation" (2002). Whereas Sigler corrected some errors he introduced many others, usually on account of inability to understand and effectively translate the Renaissance Latin text. Before Boncompagni's edition, only the "Prologus" and Chapter XV of Fibonacci's Liber Abaci had received a respectful circulation in print that was due to G. Libri's "Histoire des sciences mathématiques en Italie, dépuis la renaissance des lettres, jusqu'à la fin du dixseptième siècle" (Paris, 1838) vol. II, respectively pp. 287-290 and 307-476. REFERENCES: Giuseppe Germano, "The Modern Dissemination in Print of the 'Liber Abaci' and its Pitfalls," Part 3 of his New Editorial Perspectives on Fibonacci's Liber Abaci (in: Reti Medievali Rivista, 14:2 [Firenze University Press, 2013], pp. 161-163 and passim). George Sarton, Introduction to the History of Science II, p. 611 et seq. On Boncompagni, see V. Cappelletti's in DBI, XI, pp. 704-709. M. Mazzotti, "For Science and for the Pope-King: Writing the History of the Exact Sciences in 19th-century Rome" in: British Journal for the History of Science, 33 [2000], pp. 257-282, especially pp. 259-265. On the strengths and weaknesses of Boncompagni's edition see R.E. Grimm, "The Autobiography of Leonardo Pisano" in: The Fibonacci Quarterly, 11 [1973], pp. 99-104. John D. Stanitz, Sources of Science and Technology: an Exhibit of One Hundred and One Books and Documents (Kent State, 1972) no. 14 (this copy). PROVENANCE: John D. Stanitz, (his sale Sotheby's New York, 25 April 1984, lot 268, with , with Sotheby's label on the slipcase of vol. II) --> Messrs. Bernard Quaritch (June 1984 Mathematics list, $3,000) --> James M. Vaughn (1939-2022), enigmatic American philanthropist and bibliophile who assembled the finest mathematics collection ever formed by a private individual: 125 rare and foundational books in the history of mathematics were donated to the Harry Ransom Center in 2021; our volume was kept in Vaughn's home in River Oaks, Houston, and sold to us by his estate. Vaughn funded the Mathematical Association of America and helped support the solution of the 300-year-old math puzzle, Fermat's Last Theorum; it is therefore meaningful that he owned this copy of the Editio Princeps of the complete works of Fibonacci. With J.M.V. bookplate in each volume.
Edité par Cotta,, 1834
Vendeur : Librairie Voyage et Exploration, Cerny, France
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Couverture rigide. Etat : Bon. Edition originale. Stuttgart & Tubingue, Cotta, 1834-1839. 2 volumes in-8 de [1] f., xvi-474-[1] pp., 4 planches dépliantes ; [1] f., 588 pp. Premier tome relié en demi-basane brune, dos lisse, titre doré, date en queue (reliure moderne) et second tome broché, couverture d attente, inscriptions manuscrites sur la couverture ("à Monsieur M. Barucchi - Directeur du Musée égyptien, professeur d'histoire à l'Université de Turin), dos usé avec qqs fentes. Les deux volumes réunis dans un emboîtage toilé bleu moderne. Très légères mouillures claires par endroits. Rarissime première édition typographique toutes langues confondues (le texte existait jusqu'alors uniquement en manuscrit) du Livre des Mutations ou Livre des Changes, connu sous le nom de I Chin ou Y-King, l'une des uvres les plus influentes et les plus importantes dans la culture chinoise l'histoire de la pensée chinoise et la pensée mondiale, notamment pour la conception du calcul moderne. Elle précède de plus de 40 ans la première impression du texte en Chine. Révélé à l'empereur Fu Hsi il y a 5000 ans, le Y-King enseigne la science du changement et du mouvement en accord avec les processus de la nature ("Tao"). Fu Hsi a découvert les 8 trigrammes originaux vers 3000 avant notre ère ; le roi Wen (fondateur de la dynastie Zhou) a inventé les 64 hexagrammes vers 1000 avant notre ère ; et les "dix ailes" ou commentaires ont été ajoutés au texte vers 300 avant notre ère. Outre les principes divinatoires basés sur l'interprétation de 64 hexagrammes possibles, le texte a donc développé au fil des siècles une série de commentaires philosophiques qui ont fini par intégrer le corpus, reconnu par l'Empire, des cinq classiques du confucianisme et par influencer le taoïsme, le bouddhisme et, après sa transmission à l'Europe, la science et les mathématiques occidentales. Cet ouvrage conforta Leibniz dans ses théories de l'arithmétique binaire et influença Carl Jung dans sa théorie de l'intuition. Leibniz semble avoir nourri l'idée du nombre binaire pendant quelques décennies, mais il semble que ses pensées se soient concrétisées et affirmées à la suite d'une correspondance sur le I Ching entamée par le jésuite Joachim Bouvet (mathématicien jésuite français entré au service de l empereur Kangxi en 1690 comme professeur, cartographe et légat de Louis XIV), qui avait reçu en 1697 un exemplaire de "Novissima Sinica" un recueil de lettres et d'essais jésuites relatifs à la Chine et édité par Leibniz. En février 1701, Bouvet reçut une lettre de Leibniz qui lui décrivait son principe des mathématiques binaires, et il y vit une similitude avec la structure des hexagrammes du I Ching. Il répondit à Leibniz, en lui envoyant une gravure sur bois de "l'ancienne carte céleste" de Shao Yong en mettant en valeur la logique binaire inhérente et en la comparant directement au propre système de Leibniz. La lettre, reçue 17 mois plus tard, fut une véritable révélation pour Leibniz qui publia en 1703 son célèbre article sur l'arithmétique binaire en citant "les anciennes figures chinoises de Fohy [Fu Hsi]". Cette édition est basée sur la traduction antérieure non publiée entreprise entre 1707 et 1723 par Jean Baptiste REGIS (qui avait accompagné Bouvet lors de sa mission en Chine) et deux autres érudits jésuites. La traduction de Regis a attendu plus d'un siècle avant d'être publiée sous la direction de Julius (ou Jules) Mohl, orientaliste française d'origine allemande. Dans les temps pré-modernes, son symbolisme et sa numérologie ont été appliqués à l'explication d'un large éventail de sciences - de la physique et de l'astronomie à la biologie, la chimie et la géologie - et les adeptes du livre cherchent aujourd'hui à appliquer son texte à l'étude de l'informatique et du séquençage de l'ADN. Le premier volume ne comporte pas, comme souvent, le demi-titre mentionné par Cordier. Très bon exemplaire, en reliure hétérogène mais bien conservés dans les 2 cas et dont le second volume est broché tel que paru. (Cordier 645.) Édition d'une insigne rareté, surtout complet des deux volumes (seulement 4 exemplaires présentés en vente publique en quarante ans), de ce texte ancestral fondamental, aux sources de notre société numérique actuelle.
Edité par Apud Bernardum Juntam, Io Baptistam Ciottum & socios, 1609
Vendeur : Rossignol, Paris, France
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Couverture rigide. Etat : Bon État. 1ere Édition. Venetiis, Apud Bernardum Iuntam, Io. Baptistam Ciottum, & Socios. MDCVIIII. Superiorum permissu. Reliure plein velin, dos à nerfs avec titres manuscrits. Dimensions: 22,5 x 33,8 cm. 1(f), titre avec vignette gravée, 1 feuille d'introduction, 4 feuilles d'index, 128 feuilles, 1(f). Erreur de numérotation de la feuille 17 à la feuille 40. Exemplaire complet de cette première édition, illustrée de très nombreuses gravures in texte. Habile restauration dans la marge du feuillet 22. Ouvrage prépondérant du maitre et ami de Galilée, Guidobaldo del Monte, ou Guidobaldi, ou encore Guido d'Ubalde1 (né le 11 janvier 1545 à Pesaro dans la province des Marches - mort le 6 janvier 1607 dans son château de Montebaroccio), Marquis del Monte, était un mathématicien, philosophe et astronome italien du XVIe siècle. Ses travaux de statique annoncèrent la notion de travail mécanique. Il développa de nouvelles méthodes de calcul du centre de gravité pour des surfaces et des volumes variés. Il était sûrement, d'après Galilée lui-même, un des plus grands spécialistes de mécanique et mathématiques du 16ème siècle. Size: In Folio.
Edité par Paris: David l'aîne, 1743 & 1744, 1744
Vendeur : Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, Royaume-Uni
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First editions of both the work outlining what is now known as d'Alembert's Principle, and its much lengthier companion volume, published a year later and rarely found together. The Traité de dynamique, "d'Alembert's magnum opus, was one of the first to give a unified view of mechanics. It started out from a minimum of principles, one of which came to be named after him" (Landmark Writings in Western Mathematics). The Principle states that the internal force of inertia must be equal and opposite to the forces that produce acceleration. "D'Alembert's Principle seems to have been recognized before him by A. Fontaine, and in some measure by Johann Bernoulli and I. Newton. D'Alembert gave it a clear mathematical form and made numerous applications of it. It enabled the laws of motion and the reasonings depending on them to be represented in the most general form, in analytical language" (Cajori, p. 242). The principle is based on the three laws of motion that d'Alembert presents earlier in this work, the law of inertia, the parallelogram of motion, and the law of equilibrium and the conservation of momentum; "he actually assumed the conservation of momentum and defined mass accordingly. This fact was what made his work a mathematical physics rather than simply mathematics' (DSB). This work was the foundation for Lagrange's classic book on analytical mechanics which codified the laws governing the motions of any systems of bodies. d'Alembert is also credited with laying to rest, in the Traité, the vis viva controversy by investigating its philosophical basis and dismissing its ontological reality. 'In this way d'Alembert was clearly a precursor of positivistic science'" (ibid.). In the companion volume, Traité de l'équilibre et du mouvement des fluides, d'Alembert uses his principle to describe fluid motion and mechanics. His treatment was an alternative to that already published by Daniel Bernoulli in his Hydrodynamica (1738), and d'Alembert often arrives at the same conclusion. Cajori, A History of Western Mathematics, p. 242; En Français dans le Texte 147; Landmark Writings in Western Mathematics pp. 159-167; Norman 31 and 33; Parkinson p. 159; PMM 195; Poggendorff I, col. 28; Roberts and Trent p. 7; Roller and Goodman I, p. 26; Trente livres de mathématiques qui ont changé le monde, pp. 193-201. 2 works bound in 1 volume, quarto (213 x 162 mm). Contemporary speckled calf, rebacked preserving parts of the original spine, spine with raised bands, decorated in gilt in compartments, red morocco label, blindstamp rule border to boards, marbled endpapers and edges. With 4 folding engraved plates in first work, 10 folding plates in second work. Early 19th-century book label of J. B. Tailhand to front pastedown, early signature to initial binder's blank, and early inscription to title page with an annotation below the imprint "c'est un tribut rendu aux connoissances et pas moins aux qualités du coeur de Monsieur." folded in. Binding firm with light rubbing, corners restoreddarkening to rear cover, sporadic light browning and foxing, all folding plates without tears with a few plate numbers a little cropped, light dampstaining in upper inner margin towards end of second work with terminal binder's blank and rear free endpaper loosening a little at head. Very good copies.
Edité par Pierre Giffart (I & II), Jean Marriet (III), Paris
Vendeur : Richard Smith, Aldershot, Royaume-Uni
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Hardcover. Etat : Fine. First Edition. Vols. I & II 1714, Vol. 3 1725. Three volumes bound as two. 4to (252 x 180 mm.), contemporary full mottled calf, spines with raised bands richly gilt in compartments, red morocco lettering-pieces, marbled endpapers, red speckled edges, arms of the aristocrat and collector Joseph Bonnier de la Mosson on upper covers, his name within scroll on lower covers, all gilt. Pp. Vol. I: [2](title-page), [4](dedication), [x](prelims.), 504. Plates: multi-folding map of South America, 17 other full-page plates, of which 7 folding, smaller copper plates and diagrams in text. Vol. II: [2](title-page), [vi](contents), pages 505-702 with 7 plates, of which 1 folding, diagrams in text, pages703-767 (Histoire des Plantes Medecinales), [1](corrigenda), with 50 plates. Vol. III: [2](title-page), [2](dedication), xxxix(preface), [1], 426, [4](contents), with 6 plates, of which 2 folding, xlix, [1], 71, [v](Histoire des Plantes Medecinales, with 50 plates. (Total full-page/folding plates, including many maps, 131) Occasional tanning and spotting, but generally clean. Provenance, Hayhurst Collection. Overall a fine set including the later volume, scarce thus, with the full complement of plates. More images available on request.
Edité par Bachelier, Paris, 1846
Vendeur : SOPHIA RARE BOOKS, Koebenhavn V, Danemark
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First edition. THE FIRST PUBLICATION OF GALOIS' MOST IMPORTANT WORKS. First edition, a remarkable copy uncut in the original printed wrappers and very rare thus, of Galois' collected mathematical works, for the most part previously unpublished. Their posthumous publication was due to Joseph Liouville, editor of the leading French journal on pure and applied mathematics. "There have been few mathematicians with personalities as engaging as that of Galois, who died at the age of twenty years and seven months from wounds received in a mysterious duel. He left a body of work - for the most part published posthumously - of less than 100 pages, the astonishing richness of which was revealed in the second half of the nineteenth century. Far from being a cloistered scholar, this extraordinarily precocious and exceptionally profound genius had an extremely tormented life. A militant republican, driven to revolt by the adversity that overwhelmed him and by the incomprehension and disdain with which the scientific world received his works, to most of his contemporaries he was only a political agitator. Yet in fact, continuing the work of Abel, he produced with the aid of group theory a definitive answer to the problem of the solvability of algebraic equations, a problem that had absorbed the attention of mathematicians since the eighteenth century; he thereby laid one of the foundations of modern algebra. The few sketches remaining of other works that he devoted to the theory of elliptic functions and that of Abelian integrals and his reflections on the philosophy and methodology of mathematics display an uncanny foreknowledge of modern mathematics" (DSB). "Évariste Galois created mathematics which changed the direction of algebra. His revolutionary ideas date from around May 1829 to June 1830, the twelve to thirteen months surrounding his eighteenth birthday. An article published in June 1830 created the theory of Galois imaginaries, a fore-runner of what are now known as finite fields; his so-called Premier Mémoire created group theory and Galois Theory-the modern version of the theory of equations. The Lettre testamentaire, the letter that he wrote to his friend Auguste Chevalier on 29 May 1832, the eve of the duel, is an extraordinary summary of what he had achieved and what he might have achieved had he lived to develop and expound more of his mathematical ideas" (Neumann, p. vii). The Oeuvres were considered definitive until 1906; in addition to the memoirs published in Galois's lifetime (except for the last) and the letter to Auguste Chevalier, this edition contains the following previously unpublished memoirs: 'Mémoire sur les conditions de résolubilité des équations par radicaux,' pp. 417-433; and 'Des équations primitives qui sont solubles par radicaux,' pp. 434-444. "Galois's terse style, combined with the great originality of his thought and the modernity of his conceptions, contributed as muchas the delay in publication to the length of time that passed before Galois's work was understood, recognized at its true worth, and fully developed . It was only with the publication in 1866 of the third edition of Alfred Serret's Cours d'algébre supérieure and, in 1870, of Camille Jordan's Traité des substitutions that group theory and the whole of Galois's oeuvre were truly integrated into the body of mathematics" (DSB). "In 1828 [Galois] began to study certain recent works on the theory of equations, number theory, and the theory of elliptic functions. This was the period of his first memorandum, published in March 1829 in Gergonne's Annales de mathématiques pures et appliquées; making more explicit and demonstrating a result of Lagrange's concerning continuous fractions, it reveals a certain ingenuity but does not herald an exceptional talent. "By his own account, in the course of 1828 Galois wrongly believed-as Abel had eight years earlier-that he had solved the general fifth-degree equation. Rapidly undeceived, he resumed on a new basis the study of the theory of equations, which he pursued until he achieved the elucidation of the general problem with the help of group theory. The results he obtained in May 1829 were communicated to the Académie des Sciences by a particularly competent judge, Cauchy. But events were to frustrate these brilliant beginnings and to leave a deep mark on the personality of the young mathematician. First, at the beginning of July came the suicide of his father, who had been persecuted for his liberal opinions. Second, a month later he failed the entrance examination for the École Polytechnique, owing to his refusal to follow the method of exposition suggested by the examiner. Seeing his hopes vanish for entering the school which attracted him because of its scientific prestige and liberal tradition, he took the entrance examination for the École Normale Supérieure (then called the École Préparatoire), which trained future secondary school teachers. Admitted as the result of an excellent grade in mathematics, he entered this institution in November 1829; it was then housed in an annex of the Collège Louis-le-Grand, where he had spent the previous six years. At this time, through reading Férussac's Bulletin des sciences mathématiques, he learned of Abel's recent death and, at the same time, that Abel's last published memoir contained a good number of the results he himself had presented as original in his memoir to the Academy. "Cauchy, assigned to report on Galois's work, had to counsel him to revise his memoir, taking into account Abel's researches and the new results he had obtained. (It was for this reason that Cauchy did not present a report on his memoir.) Galois actually composed a new text that he submitted to the Academy at the end of February 1830, hoping to win the grand prix in mathematics. Unfortunately this memoir was lost upon the death of Fourier, who had been appointed to examine it. Brusquely eliminated from the competition, Galois believed himself to be the obj.
Edité par Gauthier-Villars, Paris, 1870
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First edition. THE FOUNDATION WORK OF MODERN GROUP THEORY. First edition, very rare, of "the book that established group theory as a subject in its own right in mathematics" (Gray, p. 149). "Jordan's monumental work, Traité des Substitutions et des Équations algébriques, published in 1870, is a masterpiece of mathematical architecture. The beauty of the edifice erected by Jordan is admirable" (Van der Waerden, A History of Algebra, p. 117). "In 1870, Jordan gathered all his results on permutation groups for the previous ten years in a huge volume, Traité des Substitutions, which for thirty years was to remain the bible of all specialists in group theory. His fame had spread beyond France, and foreign students were eager to attend his lectures; in particular Felix Klein and Sophus Lie came to Paris in 1870 to study with Jordan" (DSB)â . "An instant classic, his Traité set a new research agenda of creating a theory of groups as opposed to the older agenda of devising ways to calculate the solutions of polynomial equations" (Katz & Parshall, p. 316). "The title of this comprehensive work of 667 quarto pages is excessively modest and therefore misleading. The work represents not only the definitive solution of the problem formulated by Galois, but also a review of the whole of contemporary mathematics from the standpoint of group-theoretic thinking" (Wussing, pp. 141-142). "Jordan's place in the tradition of French mathematics is exactly halfway between Hermite and Poincaré. Like them he was a 'universal' mathematician who published papers in practically all branches of the mathematics of his time . [but] it is chiefly as an algebraist that he reached celebrity when he was barely thirty; and during the next forty years he was universally regarded as the undisputed master of group theory. When Jordan started his mathematical career, Galois's profound ideas and results (which had remained unknown to most mathematicians until 1846) were still very poorly understood, despite the efforts of Serret and Liouville to popularize them; and before 1860 Kronecker was probably the only first-rate mathematician who realized the power of these ideas and who succeeded in using them in his own algebraic research. Jordan was the first to embark on a systematic development of the theory of finite groups and of its applications in the directions opened by Galois . He also was the first to investigate the structure of the general linear group and of the 'classical' groups over a prime finite field, and he very ingeniously applied his results to a great range of problems; in particular, he was able to determine the structure of the Galois group of equations having as roots the parameters of some well-known geometric configurations (the twenty-seven lines on a cubic surface, the twenty-eight double tangents to a quartic, the sixteen double points of a Kummer surface, and so on)" (ibid.). This is an extremely rare book on the market, and very uncommon even in institutional collections. ABPC/RBH list only the two copies in the Duarte sale in 1977. It has been suggested that most copies of the book were destroyed in a fire at the publisher's warehouse during the violent suppression of the Paris Commune early in 1871, and that the marginal browning seen in many of the surviving copies was caused by the heat of the fire. Évariste Galois (1811-32) published a few short papers in his lifetime, but his most important works were posthumous. He first set down his ideas on the relationship between what we call group theory and the solvability of polynomial equations in his most important work, 'Mémoire sur les conditions de résolubilité des équations par radicaux,' usually called the 'Premier Mémoire,' which he submitted to the Paris Académie des Sciences but which they rejected and returned to the author on 4 July 1831. He followed this with 'Des équations primitives qui sont solubles par radicaux,' also known as the Second Mémoire. Both Mémoires were published for the first time, together with Galois's other works, by Joseph Liouville in his Journal de Mathématiques pures et appliquées in 1846, and it was through this publication that Galois's works became known to the wider mathematical world. "The publication of Galois's work in Liouville's Journal was a challenge to all mathematicians to understand it, extend it, and apply it. Ultimately, it stimulated the emerging generation of mathematicians, as Wussing has described. He noted an initial period in which Betti, Kronecker, Cayley, Serret, and some others filled in holes in Galois's presentation of the idea of a group. These modest yet difficult pieces of work established the connection between group theory and the solvability of equations by radicals [i.e., by expressions involving the sums, differences, products and quotients of whole numbers and their square, cube and higher roots], and then explored the solution of equations by other means than radicals. The implicit idea of a group was expressed in terms of permutations of a finite set of objects, amalgamating Cauchy's presentation of the theory of permutation groups in 1844-46 and Galois's terminology. "The crucial presentations of the idea of permutation groups were made by Jordan in his 'Commentaire sur Galois' [Mathematische Annalen 1 (1869), 141-160] and his Traité des Substitutions et des Équations algébriques (1870). Jordan's systematic theory of permutation groups was much more abstract; he spoke of abstract properties such as commutativity, conjugacy, centralizers, transitivity, 'normal' subgroups (and, one might say obliquely, of quotient groups), group homomorphisms and isomorphisms. So much so that one can argue that Jordan came close to possessing the idea of an abstract group. Jordan said (Traité, p. 22), 'One will say that a system of substitutions form a group if the product of two arbitrary substitutions of the system belongs to the system itself.' He spoke (Traité, p. 56) of isomorphisms (which he called an isom.
Date d'édition : 1946
Art / Affiche / Gravure Edition originale Signé
Pas de couverture. - s.d. (1946-1947), 25x34cm, une feuille. - Dessin original à l'encre et à l'aquarelle, sur papier fort, signé à l'encre en bas à droite du monogramme d'Henri Michaux «?HM?». Un infime accroc sans manque en tête de la feuille. Le dessin a été authentifié par M. Franck Leibovici, ayant-droit d'Henri Michaux, et sera intégré au catalogue raisonné en préparation. L' uvre apparaît au catalogue de l'exposition Michaux à la Galerie Drouin de 1948, et appartient à la période «?Meidosem?» ou «?psychologisme?» de Michaux, pseudo-mouvement artistique dont il était à la fois l'initiateur et l'unique disciple. «?C'est en 1946, dans la préface de Peintures et dessins intitulée «?En pensant au phénomène de la peinture?», que Michaux explique les règles de cet art visant à faire «?le portrait des tempéraments 15?». En effet, pour lui, peindre un visage consiste à projeter, sur le papier ou sur la toile, l'essence?: «?Il y a un certain fantôme intérieur qu'il faudrait pouvoir peindre et non le nez, les yeux, les cheveux qui se trouvent à l'extérieur. souvent comme des semelles.?» (in Rosaline Deslauriers, Les Meidosems d'Henri Michaux?: émergences du dedans, résurgences orientales Littérature et mathématiques Numéro 68, hiver 2002) Provenance : Henri Michaux puis Jean Sainjon. Beau et rare dessin à l'encre, parfaitement conservé. [ENGLISH TRANSLATION FOLLOWS] Henri MICHAUX [Meidosems] Untitled. Ink and watercolor drawing [1946-1947] | 25 x 34 cm | one drawing Original ink on cartridge paper, signed in ink on the lower right with Henri Michaux's monogram "HM." A tiny tear, causing no effect, at the top of the leaf. The drawing has been authenticated by M. Franck Leibovici, Henri Michaux's beneficiary, and will be entered into the catalogue raisonné in preparation. The work appeared in the Michaux exhibition catalogue at the Galerie Drouin in 1948, and belongs to Michaux's "Meidosem" or "psychologism" period, an artistic pseudo-movement of which he was both the initiator and the only follower. "It is in 1946, in the preface to Peinture et Dessins, entitled 'Thinking about the phenomenon of painting ,' that Michaux explains the rules of this art, aiming to paint 'the portrait of temperaments 15.'" Indeed, for him, to paint a face is to project the essence on to the paper or canvas: "There is a certain inner ghost that you should be able to paint and not just the nose, the eyes, the hair that we can see on the outside. often as tough as old boots." (In Rosaline Deslauriers, Les Meidosems d'Henri Michaux : émergences du dedans, résurgences orientales, Littérature et mathématiques, Numéro 68, Winter 2002). Beautiful and rare ink drawing, perfectly preserved.
Edité par J. Macock, 1658
Vendeur : Bruce Marshall Rare Books, Cheltenham, Royaume-Uni
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Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. London, Printed by J. Macock, 1658. 4to, First Edition, First Issue, 6 engraved plates, one folding, woodcut diagrams, 4to, 4 parts in 1, Contemporary polished calf. Rarely found complete, in the first issue (with title dated 1658), John Collins (1625 1683), mathematician, was the son of a nonconformist divine, and was born at Wood Eaton in Oxfordshire, 5 March 1625. Apprenticed at the age of sixteen to Thomas Allam, a bookseller, living outside the Turl Gate of Oxford, he was driven to quit the trade by the troubles of the time, and accepted a clerkship in the employment of John Marr, clerk of the kitchen to the Prince of Wales. From Marr he derived some instruction in mathematics, but the outbreak of civil war drove him to sea for seven years, 1642-9, most of which time he spent on board an English merchantman, engaged by the Venetians as a ship of war in their defence of Candia against the Turks. He devoted his leisure to the study of mathematics and merchants accounts, and on leaving the service set up in London as a teacher. In 1652 he published An Introduction to Merchants Accounts, originally drawn up for the use of his scholars. He next wrote The Sector on a Quadrant, or a Treatise containing the Description and Use of three several Quadrants. Also, an appendix touching Reflected Dyalling, from a Glass however posited (London, 1658); and The Description and Uses of a general Quadrant, with the Horizontal Projection upon it Inverted (1658). Collins built up an extensive network of correspondents spanning the British Isles and continental Europe, through which he disseminated and exchanged mathematical news and procured the latest publications. Among the members of his epistolary circle were to be found John Pell, James Gregory, Wallis, Isaac Newton, G. W. Leibniz, and R. F. de Sluse. Such was the pivotal role he came to play in the scientific life of Restoration England, that contemporaries called him Mersennus Anglus . His extensive collection of letters was seen by the Royal Society as an important source of evidence for establishing Newton s claim in the priority dispute with Leibniz over discovery of the calculus Wing C5381; Tomash & Williams C122 Provenance: Owen Phillips (ink name on title and B1); John Carter att ye signe of ye Bible without Compter barr att ye corner of Essex Street (ink inscription on rear pastedown).
Edité par Bachelier, Paris, 1846
Vendeur : SOPHIA RARE BOOKS, Koebenhavn V, Danemark
Membre d'association : ILAB
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First edition. THE FIRST PUBLICATION OF GALOIS' MOST IMPORTANT WORKS. First edition of Galois' collected mathematical works, for the most part previously unpublished. Their posthumous publication was due to Joseph Liouville, editor of the leading French journal on pure and applied mathematics. "There have been few mathematicians with personalities as engaging as that of Galois, who died at the age of twenty years and seven months from wounds received in a mysterious duel. He left a body of work - for the most part published posthumously - of less than 100 pages, the astonishing richness of which was revealed in the second half of the nineteenth century. Far from being a cloistered scholar, this extraordinarily precocious and exceptionally profound genius had an extremely tormented life. A militant republican, driven to revolt by the adversity that overwhelmed him and by the incomprehension and disdain with which the scientific world received his works, to most of his contemporaries he was only a political agitator. Yet in fact, continuing the work of Abel, he produced with the aid of group theory a definitive answer to the problem of the solvability of algebraic equations, a problem that had absorbed the attention of mathematicians since the eighteenth century; he thereby laid one of the foundations of modern algebra. The few sketches remaining of other works that he devoted to the theory of elliptic functions and that of Abelian integrals and his reflections on the philosophy and methodology of mathematics display an uncanny foreknowledge of modern mathematics" (DSB). "Évariste Galois created mathematics which changed the direction of algebra. His revolutionary ideas date from around May 1829 to June 1830, the twelve to thirteen months surrounding his eighteenth birthday. An article published in June 1830 created the theory of Galois imaginaries, a fore-runner of what are now known as finite fields; his so-called Premier Mémoire created group theory and Galois Theory-the modern version of the theory of equations. The Lettre testamentaire, the letter that he wrote to his friend Auguste Chevalier on 29 May 1832, the eve of the duel, is an extraordinary summary of what he had achieved and what he might have achieved had he lived to develop and expound more of his mathematical ideas" (Neumann, p. vii). The Oeuvres were considered definitive until 1906; in addition to the memoirs published in Galois's lifetime (except for the last) and the letter to Auguste Chevalier, this edition contains the following previously unpublished memoirs: 'Mémoire sur les conditions de résolubilité des équations par radicaux,' pp. 417-433; and 'Des équations primitives qui sont solubles par radicaux,' pp. 434-444. "Galois's terse style, combined with the great originality of his thought and the modernity of his conceptions, contributed as muchas the delay in publication to the length of time that passed before Galois's work was understood, recognized at its true worth, and fully developed . It was only with the publication in 1866 of the third edition of Alfred Serret's Cours d'algébre supérieure and, in 1870, of Camille Jordan's Traité des substitutions that group theory and the whole of Galois's oeuvre were truly integrated into the body of mathematics" (DSB). "In 1828 [Galois] began to study certain recent works on the theory of equations, number theory, and the theory of elliptic functions. This was the period of his first memorandum, published in March 1829 in Gergonne's Annales de mathématiques pures et appliquées; making more explicit and demonstrating a result of Lagrange's concerning continuous fractions, it reveals a certain ingenuity but does not herald an exceptional talent. "By his own account, in the course of 1828 Galois wrongly believed-as Abel had eight years earlier-that he had solved the general fifth-degree equation. Rapidly undeceived, he resumed on a new basis the study of the theory of equations, which he pursued until he achieved the elucidation of the general problem with the help of group theory. The results he obtained in May 1829 were communicated to the Académie des Sciences by a particularly competent judge, Cauchy. But events were to frustrate these brilliant beginnings and to leave a deep mark on the personality of the young mathematician. First, at the beginning of July came the suicide of his father, who had been persecuted for his liberal opinions. Second, a month later he failed the entrance examination for the École Polytechnique, owing to his refusal to follow the method of exposition suggested by the examiner. Seeing his hopes vanish for entering the school which attracted him because of its scientific prestige and liberal tradition, he took the entrance examination for the École Normale Supérieure (then called the École Préparatoire), which trained future secondary school teachers. Admitted as the result of an excellent grade in mathematics, he entered this institution in November 1829; it was then housed in an annex of the Collège Louis-le-Grand, where he had spent the previous six years. At this time, through reading Férussac's Bulletin des sciences mathématiques, he learned of Abel's recent death and, at the same time, that Abel's last published memoir contained a good number of the results he himself had presented as original in his memoir to the Academy. "Cauchy, assigned to report on Galois's work, had to counsel him to revise his memoir, taking into account Abel's researches and the new results he had obtained. (It was for this reason that Cauchy did not present a report on his memoir.) Galois actually composed a new text that he submitted to the Academy at the end of February 1830, hoping to win the grand prix in mathematics. Unfortunately this memoir was lost upon the death of Fourier, who had been appointed to examine it. Brusquely eliminated from the competition, Galois believed himself to be the object of a new persecution by the representatives of official science and of soc.
Date d'édition : 1930
Livre Edition originale Signé
couverture souple. - s.d., 21,4x27,2cm, 9 pages sur 8 feuillets. - Manuscrit autographe complet d'Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. 9 pages sur 8 feuillets à l'encre noire. Traces de pli horizontaux et verticaux. Un petit manque au centre de deux feuillets. Exceptionnel manuscrit inédit de Saint-Exupéry, à rapprocher de ses réflexions politico-économiques publiées dans les Carnets (1989, p. 43). Alors que les effets de la crise de 1929 se font ressentir en France, celui qu'on a surnommé "l'écrivain autodidacte", se passionne ici pour l'économie et apporte des hypothèses de réforme. A grands renforts de formules mathématiques et d'équations, il noircit de sa légendaire écriture des pages « Pour rendre les idées claires sur aujourd'hui » (feuillet 1), sur le fonctionnement économique de l'Etat et le marché du travail. Ces lignes inédites témoignent de la grande curiosité intellectuelle de Saint-Exupéry, son insatiable besoin d'innovation dans tous les domaines du savoir : mécanique, technologique, politique, économique. Saint-Exupéry tente ici de réformer le système capitaliste dont il faisait la critique et qu'il personnifiera en la figure du businessman dans Le Petit Prince. Dans ce texte, il élabore des théories où l'Etat se fait unique employeur, banquier et gestionnaire de la production : « Si l'Etat paie tous les salaires y compris ceux des administrations et se considère comme propriétaire de tous les produits (rien à changer au système capitaliste en ce sens qu'il peut payer aux administrations des primes spéciales rentrant dans leurs salaires et fonction de la qualité ainsi que la quantité. Il débourse une somme X. Il vend (ayant taxé ses stocks de façon à ce qu'ils expriment Y) ». Sa réflexion fait suite aux conséquences du krach boursier qui avait eu raison de l'Aéropostale, colosse aux pieds d'argile où Saint-Exupéry avait déployé ses talents d'aviateur-écrivain. On se souvient également des sublimes lignes tirées de Terre des Hommes précisant l'opinion de l'écrivain sur la valeur du travail : « La grandeur d'un métier est peut-être, avant tout, d'unir des hommes: il n'est qu'un luxe véritable, et c'est celui des relations humaines ». Soucieux d'une meilleure répartition des richesses, il forme au fil des pages une théorie à mi-chemin entre Keynes et Marx, sur le marché du travail et le régime des retraites. L'écrivain était bien au fait du labeur de l'ouvrier, lui qui passa de longues heures, penché sur la mécanique de ses carlingues. Il détaille ses vues sur les durées de travail « Soit en fin de compte 5 heures de travail par exemple pour produire - par homme - tout ce qui est nécessaire à l'homme. Avec un travail faible et il est possible d'alimenter les hommes de tout ce qui leur est - et peut avec l'augmentation du luxe - leur devenir nécessaire », et fait des calculs sur les épargnes, les retraites, le pouvoir d'achat. Ses réflexions autour du travail inondent ses chefs-d' uvre littéraires ainsi que ses écrits personnels, aspirant à un monde meilleur et une communauté humaine plus égalitaire : « À côté du poète le nez dans les étoiles (ce qu'il pouvait être parfois), de l'enfant piégé dans une grande carcasse d'homme qui regretta toujours le paradis perdu de sa jeunesse, de l'humaniste mystique de Citadelle, facettes d'un être infiniment complexe, Saint-Exupéry était aussi un homme de son temps, passionné par la modernité, en particulier technique, et qui essaya sans cesse de réfléchir à tous les problèmes qui se posaient à elle. D'où ces carnets, notes, feuillets épars innombrables qu'il noircissait sans relâche et transportait toujours dans ses poches et ses malles, et dont il aurait peut-être un jour fait un livre. » (Jean-Claude Perrier) Rares pages d'une personnalité profondément humaniste, d'un homme aux dons multiples d'aviateur, de romancier, de combattant politique et penseur économique. Saint-Exupéry pose ici les fondations d'une société idéale, et tente de calculer les facteurs à l'origine d'un ordre social harmonieu.
Edité par R. Meietti, Venise, 1598
Vendeur : Librairie La Jument Verte, Strasbourg, France
Membre d'association : ILAB
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Etat : Très bon. Edition originale. Venise, R. Meietti, 1598.In-8 de 8 ff.n.ch. + 228 pp.Demi-veau marbré à coins, plats recouverts d'un papier marbré du XVIIIe siècle à motifs symétriques, dos lisse orné de frises et de fleurons dorés, pièce de titre havane, tranches rouges. Reliure de la fin du XVIIe siècle.Édition originale d'une grande rareté. Il s'agit là d'une somme des connaissances en astronomie, en cosmographie, en mathématiques et utilisation d'instruments scientifiques par Paolo Galucci. "An handsome treatise on the fabrication and use of astronomical and navigational instruments" (Shirley 199).L'ouvrage est composé d'une page de titre gravée sur acier avec encadrements décoratifs (instruments et édifices) et d'un très grand nombre de gravures bois dans le texte et à pleine page dont une dépliante et de trois volvelles (gravures tournantes) à pleine page. L'exemplaire est splendide.Prix sur demande.
Edité par Henrichum Petri, [1571], Basel, 1571
Vendeur : Hugues de Latude, Villefranche de Lauragais, France
Membre d'association : ILAB
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*** Première édition illustrée et première édition des commentaires et de la traduction latine de l'humaniste Xylander, professeur à l'université d'Heidelberg. Edition recherchée de la "Géographie" de Strabon, pour la correction de son texte et son illustration. Elle comprend 8 cartes dans le texte d'après Mercator et 27 cartes sur double-page, qui sont les mêmes bois gravés par Sébastien Munster, pour son édition de Ptolémé (1540). L'humaniste Guilielmus Xylander (1532 - 1576) a été nommé professeur de grec de l'Université de Heidelberg à l'âge de vingt-cinq ans. Il édita et traduisit de nombreuses Å"uvres de l'Antiquité, dont les "Eléments" d'Euclide, et apporta d'importantes contributions à la diffusion des mathématiques. Texte grec et latin sur deux colonnes. Marque de l'imprimeur sur le titre et le dernier feuillet. Bel exemplaire dans une élégante reliure de l'époque. Adams S-1907. USTC 694731. *** In-folio de (116), 977, (3) pp. Vélin, dos à nerfs, encadrement à froid avec fleurons au coins et grands fleurons dorés au centre. (Reliure de l'époque.) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * First illustrated edition and first edition of the commentary and the Latin translation by Guilielmus Xylander, professor at the University of Heidelberg. Xylander's edition of Strabo. Illustrated by 8 maps in text after Mercator and 27 double-page woodcut maps by Sebastian Münster, used in his edition of Ptolemy. - -.
Edité par Lyon (i.e. Geneva), Barth'elemy Vincent, 1578
Vendeur : Hellmut Schumann Antiquariat, Zurich, Suisse
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Architectural title-page with classical figures, grotesques and geometric forms. With 60 engraved plates by Jacques Androuet du Cerceau the Elder, unsigned, elaborate grotesque head- and tail-pieces, and initials. Text in Roman and Italic types. [40] pp. (some spotting on title and light foxing in following leaves). Folio (390 x 270 mm). Modern vellum imitating the old style, with ornamentation in blind tooling on sides and back. Lyon (i.e. Geneva), Barth'elemy Vincent, 1578. First edition, second issue. According to the catalogue of the BnF this issue was preceded by a slightly different one printed in the same year by the same publisher, where the title-page is in French and dated in Roman numerals MDLXXVIII. Our copy has a bilingual title-page Latin and French, and is dated in modern spelling 1578. Both editions are augmented with text in French by François Béroalde de Verville. This book is one of the most important pictorial works on machines and opened the type of "Theatra machinarum". An elegant encyclopaedia of different inventions, ranging from musical instruments, hoists, pulleys, fountains, water-wheels, excavation and construction equipment to fire-fighting apparatus, etc. by Jacques Besson (1510-1576), professor of mathematics and engineer to the king. All the illustrations show great detail in the depiction of the human figures working the engines and the landscapes in which they are situated. The edition retains the description in Latin text engraved at the top of each plate.- A nice copy. - Cf. Brunet I, 829-830; Adams B-841; USTC 141612; no copy in BL London or BSB Munich; cf. Mortimer 56 & 57. SCIENCE:INSTRUMENTS ; SCIENCE:TECHNOLOGY ; GRAPHIC ARTS:ILLUSTRATED BOOKS ;
Vendeur : Antiquariaat FORUM BV, Houten, Pays-Bas
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117, [3 blank]; XIV, [2], 139, [2], [1 blank]; XVI, 208 pp.Three important 18th-century mathematical first editions, together in one volume.Ad 1: First (and only?) edition of a text book on infinitesimal geometry by Guiseppe Torelli (1721-1781), a wide-ranging Veronese scholar best known for his works on geometry. His De nihilo geometrico presents a new basis for infinitesimal analysis, which had been started but not exhaustively treated by Newton and Leibniz. His rejection of the concept of limits and his support of the ideas of Bernard Nieuwentijt against Leibniz caused his work to be largely ignored in modern times. Ad 2: First and only edition of another work on infinitesimal geometry, the first major work of the Italian mathematician Girolamo Saladini (1731-1813), with full references to Newton and Leibniz. Saladini's work is divided into three parts, the first giving axioms and theorems, and the other two with 16 and 18 propositions respectively, the last part closing with three "scholia". Though little known today, Saladini together with Vicenzo Riccati published the first extensive treatise on integral calculus in their Institutiones analyticae (1765-1767), pre-dating Euler.Ad 3: First edition of the mathematical works of Lazare Carnot (1753-1823), much better known than the treatises of Torelli and Saladini above. The book begins with his "Essai sur les machines en général", which contains his famous theorem on the loss of kinetic energy during inelastic collisions. Divided into two parts, the book contains all the elements of engineering mechanics: the first truly theoretical work on the subject. The last 80 pages present his "Réflexions sur la métaphysique du calcul infinitésimal", an interesting philosophical discussion of differential calculus. With occasional minor foxing and a few slightly browned leaves, but still in very good condition and with generous margins. The binding is slightly scuffed around the extremities, with a small crack at the head of the back hinge, but otherwise also very good. A collection of 18th-century mathematical first editions, especially interesting for the discussion of infinitesimals.l Ad 1: G.T. Bagni, "Un intuizione dell infinitesimo attuale: De nihilo geometrico (1758) .", in: Didattica delle scienze XXIII (1998): ICCU UFIE003084; Riccardi II, 538; ad 2: ICCU UFIE003018; for Saladini also DSB XI, pp. 401-402; ad 3: DSB III, p. 78.
Edité par Jean Maire, Leiden, 1649
Vendeur : Milestones of Science Books, Ritterhude, Allemagne
Livre Edition originale
Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. 4to (204 x 156 mm). [12], 336, [4] pp., including final blank leaf, title printed in red and black, woodcut text diagrams, woodcut initials and tailpieces. Signatures: *4 **2 A-2T4 2V2. Bound in contemporary vellum with yapp edges, ink lettering on spine, blue sprinkled edges, original endpapers (vellum cleaned except for hand-lettered spine area, slight bending of lower board). Text with light even browning, occasional pale waterstaining to outer margins. Provenance: Ex Bibliotheca Viennensi (stamp and old ink monogram to title). ---- RARE FIRST LATIN EDITION. Although the original French version was published some years earlier, it was this Latin translation by Frans van Schooten which disseminated Descartes' treatise to the scientific community in Europe. Descartes originally published La Géométrie as an appendix to his Discourse on Method (1637) which he had entrusted to the same printer, Jean Maire. The Latin version and the commentaries of Frans van Schooten, his fervent disciple, received the approval of the master, hardly accommodating to those who considered the treatise rather obscure ("Et pour ceux qui se mêlent de médire de ma Géométrie sans l'entendre, je les méprise" (And for those who meddle in slandering my Geometry without hearing it, I despise them). The influence of the translation commented on by Schooten and Florimond de Beaune was immense: It became the fundamental work in which all of Europe was educated (ref. René Poirier). Descartes professes that algebraic problems can be represented by geometry. He explains how to solve quadratic equations with the ruler and the compass; those of a higher degree involving the intersection of geometric curves. He also introduced modern algebraic notation: x, y, z, for unknowns, as well as exponential notation for any exponent (a2, a3, .). Thus, Cartesian geometry, independently of Fermat, contributed to create by a decisive impetus what we will call, around 1800, "analytical geometry." References: Chemerzine II, p. 796; Samueli & Boudenot, Trente livres de mathématiques qui ont changé le monde, 2006, pp. 65-69; Guibert, Descartes. Bibliographie des ?uvres publiées au XVIIe siècle, 1976, pp. 27-29. René Poirier, L'ouvrage fondamental où toute l'Europe s'est instruite. - Visit our website to see more images!.
Edité par the author & Forest; Bachelier, Nantes; Paris, 1836
Vendeur : SOPHIA RARE BOOKS, Koebenhavn V, Danemark
Membre d'association : ILAB
Edition originale
First edition. MIDY'S THEOREM ON REPEATING DECIMALS. First edition, presentation copy, extremely rare, of the privately printed proof of Midy's Theorem. "It is well known that a real number is rational if and only if its decimal expansion is a repeating decimal. For example, 2/7 = .285714285714 . Many students also know that if n/m is a rational number reduced to lowest terms (that is, n and m relatively prime), then the number of repeated digits (we call this the length of period) depends only on m. Thus all fractions with denominator 7 have length of period 6. A sharp-eyed student may also notice that when the period (that is, the repeating digits) for 2/7 is split into its two half-periods 285 and 714, then the sum 285 + 714 = 999 is a string of nines. A little experimentation makes it appear likely that this is always true for a fraction with the denominator 7, as well as for fractions with denominators 11, 13, or 17. A natural conjecture is that all primes with even length of period (note that many primes, such as 3 and 31, have odd length of period) will have a similar property. This conjecture is, in fact, true but it is unfortunately not a criterion for primeness, since many composite numbers (such as 77) also have the property. The relevant theorem appears not to be well known, although it was discovered many years ago. (L. E. Dickson attributes the result to E. Midy, Nantes, 1836)" (Leavitt). Midy's Theorem languished in obscurity until 2004, when Yale student Brian Ginsberg published an extension of it in his paper 'Midy's (nearly) secret theorem -- an extension after 165 years' (College Mathematics Journal 35 (2004), pp. 26-30).Ginsberg showed that Midy's theorem can be extended to the case in which the period is divided into k-digit numbers, in which case they sum to 10k - 1 (Midy's theorem being the case k = 3). Very little is known about Midy (ca. 1775-1850), a professor of mathematics at the college de Nantes, apart from the fact that he also taught at the Colleges of Cahors and d'Orleans, and that he published a handful of brief mathematical and stenographic works at his own expense in the 1830s.OCLC lists five copies worldwide (Bibliotheque Nationale, Bordeaux, Toulouse, Columbia and NYPL). Provenance: Presentation Copy, inscribed by Midy to Alexandre-Edouard Baudrimont (1806-80) on the front wrapper: 'A M. Baudrimont Professeur a la Faculté des Sciences de Bordeaux. Hommage de l'auteur E. Midy, 10 Novembre 1861.' Baudrimont was professor of chemistry at the University of Bordeaux from 1848-1880 and author of works on industrial chemistry and the Basque language. "Midy's name is spelledMeidy in some records.He was probably already teaching when Napoléoninstituted the lycées,in 1802.Midy himself advertised he had taughtmathématiques spécialesat Cahors (1821-1826) and Orléans (1826-1832) before moving to Nantes. "At theCollège Royal de Nantes(the futureLycée Clémenceau)Midy taught mathématiques élémentaires from 1833 to 1837.That post was entrusted to a young normalien(Alexandre Lepord, ENS1834)when Midy was promoted to teach mathématiques spécialesagain in 1837-1838 (after M.Dorveau resigned).Midy would be replaced in this capacity by M. Gascheau (previously, professor ofphysics)when a ministerial decree(1838-11-17)allowed him to retire. "In Nantes,Etienne Midy livedat 3, rue Richebourg, next to his workplace" (). Since Ginsberg's work, a number of mathematicians have published further generalizations of Midy's Theorem, including Gupta and Sury ('Decimal expansion of 1/p and subgroup sums,' Integers: Electronic Journal of Combinatorial Number Theory 5 (2005)); Gil and Winer ('On cyclic numbers and an extension of Midy's theorem,' http: ///pdf/math.NT/);Lewittes ('Midy's theorem for periodic decimals,' Integers: Electronic Journal of Combinatorial Number Theory 7 (2007)); Hamarsheh ('On Ginsberg theorem in Base b,' International Journal of Contemporary Mathematics 8 (2013), pp. 633-636) andKemeny ('The Secret Theory of M. E. Midy - Casting in Nines,' A Mispelt Blog. John , 6 Sep. 2007. Leavitt, 'A theorem on repeating decimals' (/mathfacpub/48/). 4to (261 x 208 mm), pp. 21 (light dampstain in one corner). Original pink printed wrappers (light soiling, splits in upper and lower spine, faint withdrawal stamp from Library of Congress on rear endpaper).
Edité par Imprimerie Royale, Paris, 1693
Vendeur : Hugues de Latude, Villefranche de Lauragais, France
Membre d'association : ILAB
Edition originale
*** Première édition. Elle comprend 31 essais, la plupart en édition originale par Roberval, Huygens, Picard, Frénicle de Bessy, Auzout, Ole Römer and Mariotte : 9 par Roberval, 8 par Huygens, 5 par Picard, 4 par Frénicle de Bessy, 2 par Auzout, 2 par Ole Römer et 1 par Mariotte. Après la mort de Frénicle et Roberval, leurs ouvrages, restés manuscrits, furent confiés à Picard. Ce dernier, étant mort en 1682, tous ces manuscrits passèrent entre les mains de La Hire, qui les a publiés dans le présent ouvrage, avec ceux de Picard et quelques mémoires de Huygens. Roberval n'a publié que deux ouvrages de son vivant. On trouve ici ses mémoires les plus importants, qui n'avaient jamais été encore publiés: - Observations sur la composition des mouvements. - Projet d'un livre de méchanique, traitant des mouvements composés. - Traité des indivisibles. - De Trochoïde ejusque spatio. DSB 11, 486-490. Ce volume contient aussi : Frénicle de Bessy: - Méthode pour trouver la solution des problèmes par exclusions. - Abrégés des combinaisons. - Des carrés ou tables magiques. DSB 5, 158. Picard: - De la pratique des grands cadrans par le calcul. - De mensuris. - De mensura liquidorum & aridorum. -Fragmens de dioptrique. DSB 10, 395. Huygens: - De la cause de la pesanteur. - Démonstration de l'équilibre de la balance. - Construction d'un problème d'optique. L'ouvrage s'achève sur un mémoire de Mariotte: - Règles pour les jets d'eau, qui est suivi de deux courts mémoires de Römer. Nombreuses figures dans le texte. Exemplaire aux armes de Louis XIV sur les plats (Olivier 2494, fer 10) et son fleuron entre les nerfs. L'Académie des Sciences fut fondée par Colbert en 1666 et reçut l'approbation de Louis XIV en 1699. Toutes petites piqûres de vers (de la taille d'une épingle) dans la marge intérieure, quelques feuillets brunis en début d'ouvrage, très discrètes restaurations à la reliure. Très bel exemplaire de ce livre fort rare. *** In-folio de (6), 518, (1) pp. Veau marbré, dos à nerfs orné, armes de Louis XIV dorées sur les plats, tranches mouchetées. (Reliure de l'époque.) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * First edition of this collection of texts by Roberval, Huygens, Picard, Frénicle de Bessy, Auzout, Ole Römer and Mariotte. Most of them are published for the first time. Contemporary binding with the arms of Louis XIV. - -.
Edité par Paris, Duprat, An VII (1799) - An VII - An XIII (1799-1805), 1792
Vendeur : H. PICARD ET FILS, depuis 1902, PARIS, France
Livre Edition originale
Couverture rigide. Etat : Bon. Edition originale. Ensemble 5 volumes in-4 (26,2 x 21 cm), veau havane, dos lisse orné, pièces de titre et tomaison maroquin rouge et vert, triple filet à froid d'encadrement à froid sur les plats, tranches mouchetées (reliure de l'époque). Ouvrage complet du supplément (65 pp.) du Xe Livre du Traité de mécanique céleste, avec une planche dépliante, mais sans le supplément au 3e volume (24 pp.). Un 5e volume (absent ici) contenant les Livres XI, XII, XIII, XIV et XV, a été publié en 4 parties, de 1823 à 1825 (Brunet). "Traité d'astronomie, puisque M. de La Place en donnera l'ampleur dans la Mécanique céleste, l'Exposition du système du monde est déterminant quant à l'avènement définitif des mathématiques dans le champ de l'astronomie, de La Place y démontre surtout sa position philosophique, celle d'un déterminisme absolu". Bon exemplaire, malgré quelques défauts d'usage.
Edité par P., David, 1761-1780, 1761
Vendeur : LIBRAIRIE Bernard MAILLE, PARIS, France
Edition originale
Couverture rigide. Etat : Très bon. Edition originale. ---- EDITION ORIGINALE ---- TRES BEL EXEMPLAIRE DE CET OUVRAGE DE D'ALEMBERT EXTREMEMENT RARE ET BIEN COMPLET DE SES 8 TOMES ---- P., David, 1761-1780, 8 TOMES reliés en 4 volumes in 4, plein veau marbré, tranches rouges, dos ornés de fers et caissons dorés, étiquettes rouges et vertes, tranches rouges (reliures de l'époque), T. 1 : 14 pp., 1fff.n.ch. (table des mémoires), 303pp., (1pp.), 7 planches dépliantes, T.2 : 2 feuillets non chiffrés (titre + table des mémoires), 328pp., 2 feuillets non chiffrés (errata + privilège), 2 planches dépliantes, T.3 : 17pp., 420pp., 1 planche dépliante, T.4 : 16pp., 380pp., 1pp., 2 planches dépliantes, (le feuillet 7-8 de l'avertissement a été relié avant le feuillet 5-6), T.5 : 20pp., 520pp., 4 planches dépliantes, T.6 : 12pp., 443pp., (1pp.), 4 planches dépliantes, (habile restauration dans la marge supérieure de la page 132), T.7 : (2), 8pp., 397pp., (1pp.), 5 planches dépliantes, T.8 : (2), 4pp., 399pp., 5 planches dépliantes, (le carton Gii (51-52) du tome 8 annoncé dans l'avis au relieur au tome 7 semble n'avoir jamais été imprimé. En effet ce carton n'existe pas aux trois exemplaires que nous avons consultés) ---- "D'ALEMBERT'S CHIEF OUTPUT AFTER 1760 WAS HIS OPUSCULES MATHEMATIQUES, eight volumes of which appeared from 1761 to 1780. These collections of mathematical essays were a mixed bag, ranging from theories of achromatic lenses to purely mathematical manipulations and theorems. INCLUDED WERE MANY NEW SOLUTIONS TO PROBLEM HE HAD ATTACKED INCLUDING A NEW PROOF OF THE LAW OF INERTIA". (DSB I p. 115) ---- Recherches sur les vibrations des cordes sonores - Du mouvement d'un corps de figure quelconque animé par des forces quelconques - Recherches sur les oscillations d'un corps quelconque qui flotte sur un fluide - Réflexions sur les lois du mouvemens des fluides - Démonstration du principe de la composition des forces - Sur les logarithmes des quantités négatives - Remarques sur quelques questions concernant l'attraction - Doutes sur différentes questions d'optique - Supplément à l'art. 174 du TRAITE DE DYNAMIQUE nouvelle édition - Réflexion sur le calcul des probabilités - Sur l'application du calcul des probabilités à l'inoculation de la petite vérole - Application de ma solution du problème des trois corps à la théorie des comètes - Réflexions sur la comète de 1682 & 1759 - Réflexions sur le problème des trois corps, avec de nouvelles tables de la lune, d'un usage très simple et très facile - Essais sur les moyens de perfectionner les verres optiques - Recherches sur les aires de rotation d'un corps de figure quelconque qui n'est animé par aucune force accélératrice - Du mouvement d'un corps de figure quelconque - Nouvelles recherches sur les verres optiques - Réflexions sur la théorie de la lune et en général sur le problème des trois corps - Nouvelles recherches sur la théorie des fluides - Nouvelles recherches sur différens points importants d'astronomie physique - Recherches sur la figure de la terre - Réflexions sur la théorie des ressorts - Nouvelles recherches sur le mouvement des fluides dans des vases - etc**1761/17610/ARB5.
Edité par Amsterdam, J. Janssonius 1670. 1670, 1670
Vendeur : JF LETENNEUR LIVRES RARES, Saint Briac sur mer, France
Membre d'association : ILAB
Edition originale
1 vol in-folio (400 x 255 mm) de : 1 titre frontispice gravé ; [7] ff. (dont titre, préface, table) ; portrait de Kircher manquant (pas toujours présent pour cette édition) ; 367 pp. ; [12] pp. (table) ; 24 planches hors texte dont 2 cartes (certaines sur double-page ou dépliantes) ; très nombreuses vignettes gravées sur cuivre dans le texte. Mention manuscrite sur la page de titre : "D Arminy". Plein veau d époque, dos à nerfs orné et titré avec pièce de maroquin rouge, roulette sur les coupes. Première édition de la traduction française (édition originale de 1667) de l'un des travaux anciens les plus importants sur la Chine dû à Athanase Kircher (1602 - 1680), illustrant la fascination européenne pour ce pays à la fin du XVIIème siècle. Cette traduction française est due à François-Savinien d'Alquié et elle est augmentée des réponses du P. Johann Grüber, qui voyagea en Chine, et d'un dictionnaire chinois-français. Athanase Kircher est un des savants allemands les plus célèbres du XVIIe siècle parfois surnommé «le dernier homme de la Renaissance». Cet érudit, doté d'une mémoire prodigieuse et d'un esprit visionnaire, a passé sa vie à collecter et cataloguer les connaissances du monde, en utilisant un vaste réseau de correspondants pour recueillir des informations. Son uvre écrite est considérable et traite de sujets très diversifiés dans lesquels il a apporté de nombreuses contributions: l orientalisme, les mathématiques, la physique, la médecine, la philosophie, etc. "China Monumentis" est rapidement réédité et traduit en néerlandais, anglais et français, correspondant au présent ouvrage. Magnifiquement illustré, il couvre des sujets très variés: la langue chinoise, l'histoire, la religion, le gouvernement, l'architecture, les arts mécaniques et les merveilles naturelles de cette contrée. Il contient la première description de Lhassa et du Tibet central, par Dorville et Gruebe ainsi que la première mention dans une publication européenne du royaume du Népal. Le travail de Kircher sur la Chine a attiré l'attention d'un grand nombre d'Occidentaux sur les merveilles et les curiosités de l'Extrême-Orient, notamment la coutume des pieds bandés, le confucianisme, la Grande Muraille, la laque, la célèbre soupe "Nid d'hirondelle" et le thé. Ce livre représente une étape importante dans l'étude de la langue chinoise. Kircher a appris du missionnaire Michael Boym la désormais célèbre inscription nestorienne à His-an fu, qui montrait que les missionnaires chrétiens avaient atteint la Chine en 781. La transcription et la translittération de l'inscription His-an fu, imprimée ici pour la première fois, constitue le premier vocabulaire chinois jamais imprimé en Occident qui est également le texte le plus couramment utilisé pour l'étude du chinois jusqu'au XIXe siècle. L illustration se compose d un titre-frontispice, de 2 cartes dépliantes de la Chine ainsi que de 24 planches et de très nombreuses vignettes gravées dans le texte représentant des caractères asiatiques, des costumes, des divinités, des animaux, des plantes et les 10 fabuleuses incarnations de dieux hindous. Comme pour d autres exemplaires de cette édition, il n y a pas de portrait de Kircher. Bel exemplaire conservé dans sa reliure d origine. 1 vol. in-folio (400 x 255 mm) with : 1 engraved frontispiece title; [7] ff. (including title, preface, table); portrait of Kircher missing (not always present for this edition) ; 367 pp.; [12] pp. (table); 24 plates out of text including 2 maps (some on double-page or folding); numerous copper-engraved vignettes in the text. Handwritten note on title page: "D'Arminy". Contemporary full calf, spine ribbed, decorated and titled with red morocco, roulette on the edges. First edition of the French translation (original edition 1667) of one of the most important early works on China by Athanase Kircher (1602 - 1680), illustrating European fascination with the country in the late 17th century. This French translation was written by François-Savinien d'Alquié, and is enhanced by replies from Fr. Johann Grüber, who traveled in China, and a Chinese-French dictionary. Athanasius Kircher is one of the most famous German scholars of the 17th century, sometimes referred to as "the last Renaissance man". This scholar, endowed with a prodigious memory and a visionary mind, spent his life collecting and cataloguing the world's knowledge, using a vast network of correspondents to gather information. His written output is considerable, covering a wide range of subjects to which he made many contributions: orientalism, mathematics, physics, medicine, philosophy and more. "China Monumentis" was rapidly republished and translated into Dutch, English and French, corresponding to the present work. Magnificently illustrated, it covers a wide range of subjects: the Chinese language, history, religion, government, architecture, the mechanical arts and the natural wonders of this land. It contains Dorville and Gruebe's first description of Lhasa and central Tibet, as well as the first mention in a European publication of the kingdom of Nepal. Kircher's work on China drew the attention of many Westerners to the wonders and curiosities of the Far East, including the custom of bound feet, Confucianism, the Great Wall, lacquerware, the famous "Swallow's Nest" soup and tea. This book represents a milestone in the study of the Chinese language. Kircher learned from missionary Michael Boym the now-famous Nestorian inscription at His-an fu, which showed that Christian missionaries had reached China in 781. The transcription and transliteration of the His-an fu inscription, printed here for the first time, constitutes the first Chinese vocabulary ever printed in the West, and is also the most commonly used text for the study of Chinese until the 19th century. The illustrations include a title-frontispiece, 2 fold-out maps of China and 24 plates and numerous vignettes engraved in the text, depicting Asian characters, costumes, deit.