‎Valery (Paul)‎
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‎Recherches sur les lois de l'affinité. (+) Suite des Recherches... (+) Suite des Recherches... (+) Suite des Recherches... (+) Suite des recherches.. (5 Parts).‎

‎Paris, Chez Fuchs, An IX(1801). Boundin 3 contemp. hcalf. Gilt spuines. Light wear along edges. In: ""Annales de Chimie, ou Recueil de Mémoires concernant la Chemie"" Tome 36, 37 and 38. (Entire volumes offered). 336"330,(2)"334,(2) pp. and 5 engraved plates. Berthollet's paper: pp. 302-317, pp. 151-181, 221-252, pp. 3-29, 113-134.‎

‎Together with the memoir printed at the same time in ""Mémoires de l'Institut.."" this is the first appearance of B's groundbreaking work on the nature of chemical affinity and the fact that many factors influence chemical reactions, comparing chemical affinity to the force of gravity. The paper was at the end of the year published separately.The theory set forth here ""led directly to Prout's investigations which yielded a knowledge of definite chemical proportions and thus played a very importent part in preparing the way for the development of the Atomic Theory on which the whole modern chemistry is based.""(Duveen, p. 75).""Berthollet read a memoir on the general theory of affinities while he was still in Egypt. This was the starting point of his complete new system of chemistry, first briefly sketched in Recherches sur les lois de l’affinité (1801) and later developed into the comprehensive, two volume Essai de statique chimique. Here he attempted to provide a proper basis for chemistry, so that its experimental results could be viewed in the light of theoretical first principles. Berthollet developed a theory and a model adequate for the understanding and the interpretation of the rapidly growing body of chemical knowledge in his time. He was aware that the positive work of constructing a new theory had yet to be performed after the shock of Lavoisier’s criticism of the old chemistry.(DSB).Parkinson ""Breakthroughs"", 1801 C.‎

‎Heptameron francais ou les Nouvelles de Marguérite, reine de Navarre....Suite of engravings for this work.‎

‎(Paris, 1780-81). 8vo. Bound in a very fine full red longgrained morocco with raised bands, richly gilt backs. Covers with triple gilt ornamental borders and with large gilt floral stamps in corners. All edges gilt. Inside gilt borders. (Binding from ab. 1920, unsigned). Engraved frontispiece after Dunker by Eichler and 73 fine engraved plates after Freudenberg by Guttenberg (2), Halbou (24), henriquez (1), de Launay jeune (1), de Longueil (22), Le Roy (16), Mmes Duflos and Thibault (6) and one without signature.‎

‎First edition of this esteemed suite of plates belonging to the Heptameron francais 3 vols. Paris 1780-81, without the text. The suite seems to be a separate issue, printed on special and larger paper, each measuring 18,2 x 12,5 cm and all with tissue-guards.""Figures...très jolies et gravées avec une finesse remarquable."" (Cohen 680). - Lewine p. 338-39. - Brunet III:1418.‎

‎Essai D'une Classification naturelle pour les Corps simples. (+) Suire De l'Essai i d'une Classification naturelle pour les Corps simples. (+) Suire D'une Classification naturelle pour les Corps simples. Suite du II. (+) Suite...Suite du II. (...‎

‎(Paris, Crochard, 1816) No wrappers as extracted fron 'Annales de Chimie et de Physique', Volume 1 and 2 (2e Series). Pp. 295-308 a. pp. 373-394 (Vol. 1), pp. 5-32 a. pp. 105-125 (Vol. 2). With both halftitles to vols. 1 a. 2. Htitles shaved in inner margins, no loss of letters. All 4 papers having some scattered brownspots.‎

‎First appearance of Ampere's notable memoir (issued in 4 parts) in which he tries to set up a classification system for the elementary entities in chemistry tieing the elements together in a natural classification, a dim foreshadowing of the periodic table.""Here (in the paper offered) he drew attention to the similarities between Lavoisier's and his fellowers classification of elements in terms of their reactions with oxygen and Linnaeus' classification of plants in terms of their sexual organs. Bernard de Jussieu had successfully challenged Linnaeus with a natural system that took the whole plant into account and sought affinities between all parts of the plant, not just the flowers, as the basic classification. Ampère now wished to do the same thing for chemistry. By discovering a natural classification, i.e., one that tied the elements together by real and rather than artificial relations, Ampère hoped to prove a new insight into chemical reactions. His classificatory scheme, therefore, was not merely an ordering ofthe elements but, like the later periodic table of Dimitri Mendeleev, a true instrument of chemical research. Ampères system was as artificial as Lavoisier's...Thepapermay be noted, however, as an early attempt to find relationships between elements that would bring some order into the constantly growing number of elementary bodies.""(DSB I, p. 143).‎

‎Élements de la geometrie de L'Infini. Suite des Memoires de l'Academie des Sciences.‎

‎Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1727. 4to. Fine contemp. full calf. Raised bands. Richly gilt spine. Tome- and titlelabels with gilt lettering. Gilt borders on covers. A small nick in leather at upper compartmen. Light wear to foot of spine. (26),548, pp., 1 folded engraved plate. Clean and fine. The offered item includes the entire volume of ""Histoire de L'Academie Royale des Sciences. Années MDCCXXV. Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1727"", of which the memoir of Fontenelle is printed as a ""suite"". With the engraved frontispiece. (6),154,354,(2) pp., 14 partly folded engraved plates. (Original papers by: Maraldi, Petit, Nicole, Winslow, du Fay, Pitot, Delisle d'Aine, Geoffroy le Cadet, Reaumur, Nicole, Cassini, de Mairan, Saurin, de Lagny, Fizes).‎

‎First edition. ""In 1727, as a ""Suite des mémoires de l’Académie royale des sciences,"" he published the Élémens de la géométrie de l’infini. Some doubted whether it was really the work of a mathematician, but the author believed it was and attached great value to it. He had worked on it for a long time, probably since the period of his preface to the Analyse des infiniment petits. The term élémens is to be understood in the sense of ""first principles."" According to Fontenelle, none of the geometers who had invented or employed the calculus of infinity had given a general theory of it"" that is what he proposed to do. The work is divided into a preface relating the history of this branch of calculus and into two main parts: ""Système général de l’infini"" and ""Différentes applications ou remarques."" The author discusses ""the infinite in series or in progressions of numbers"" and then examines ""the infinite in straight and curved lines,"" in the words of the Abbé Terrasson, who reviewed the work in the Journal des sçavans (July-October 1728)."" There was a great deal of discussion in the scientific community about this work, in which mathematicians found numerous paradoxes. Johann I Bernoulli, for example, in his correspondence with Fontenelle allowed his criticisms to show through his praise: he did not understand what was meant by finis indéterminables. Fontenelle attempted to defend his theory and above all his distinction between metaphysical infinity and geometric infinity: one must ignore the metaphysical difficulties in order to further geometry, and the finis indéterminables ought to be considered ""as a type of hypothesis necessary until now in order to explain several phenomena of the calculus"" (letter to Johann I Bernoulli, 29 June 1729). ""The orders of infinite and indeterminable quantities, like the magnitudes that they represent, are only purely relative entities, hypothetical and auxiliary. The subject matter of mathematics is only ideal,"" according to the terms of a ""Projet de rapport"" of Dortous de Mairan to the Academy on this work."" (DSB).‎

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‎Editions Théâtrales 2003 15x21x1cm. 2003. Broché. 125 pages. Bon Etat intérieur propre‎