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Religion Saint-Simonienne. Politique industrielle. Système de la Méditerranée; par Michel Chevalier. Articles extraits du Globe.
1832 Paris, aux bureaux du Globe, rue Monsigny, no 6, mars 1832. 56+[2] pages. Un volume in-8° (126 x 201 mm), demi-reliure de lépoque en veau bleu, dos lisse orné de filets. Tiré à part des quatre articles parus dans Le Globe entre janvier et février 1832. «Les saint-simoniens, les principaux représentants du socialisme utopique français avec les fouriéristes, sont célèbres pour leur progressisme industriel et leur féminisme. Pourtant, ils défendirent lidée dune confédération méditerranéenne fondée sur le mariage de lOrient et de lOccident. Dès 1832, les saint-simoniens regroupés autour de Prosper Enfantin tournent leurs regards vers lOrient, en direction de lEgypte en particulier. Entre le 20 janvier et le 12 février 1832, Michel Chevalier, le directeur du journal saint-simonien Le Globe, écrit une série darticles sur la paix entre lOrient et lOccident. Peu après, il réunit ces articles dans une brochure quil intitule le Système de la Méditerranée». (Jérome Debrune: «Le Système de la Méditerranée de Michel Chevalier», in «Confluences Méditerranée», Paris, no 36, hiver 2000 2001, pages 187-194). «... Le petit texte de Michel Chevalier est fameux pour sa vision utopique du rapprochement souhaitable des deux rives de la Méditerranée, la chrétienne et le musulmane. Mais lingénieur saint-simonien, futur conseiller économique de Napoléon III, ne se borne pas à y évoquer en termes lyriques cette perspective dune Pax Mediterranea moderne. Il forme aussi et surtout le projet des infrastructures susceptibles de lasseoir par lintégration des économies du Sud à celles du Nord, Angleterre, Allemagne et Autriche-Hongrie comprises, via un rôle central de plaque tournante dévolu à la France ...». (Philippe Régnier: «Le Système de la Méditerranée de Michel Chevalier: un manifeste-programme de la géopolitique du saint-simonisme enfantinien», in «La Méditerranée du XIXe siècle: identité, patrimoine, représentations», Montpellier, mai 2011, pages 189-214). Relié avec: 1) Mémoire sur le sirop de digitale de M. Labélonye, pharmacien à Paris. S. l. [Paris], s. n. e., s. d. [1844]. 16+[2] pages; 2) Nouveau mémoire sur lemploi des dragées ferrugineuses de Gélis et Conté. Paris, chez Labélonye, pharmacien, rue Bourbon-Villeneuve, no 19, Place du Caire, s. d. [vers 1840]. 16 pages; 3) Rapport fait à lAcadémie royale de Médecine, en sa séance du 4 février 1840, sur lemploi des dragées et pastilles de lactate de fer de Gélias et Conté. Extrait du Bulletin de lAcadémie royale de Médecine, Tome IV, no 10, 29 février 1840. 8+[2] pages; 4) Le triomphe de la vie et de la sagesse sur la mort, ou le correcteur de la sensualité déréglée qui conduit lhomme au tombeau; ouvrage très moral, très-utile aux pères et aux mères de famille, aux maîtres et maîtresses de pension, et surtout aux jeunes gens; par Etienne Garde, médecin et accoucheur à Bordeaux []. A Bordeaux, chez Lavalle jeune, imprimeur-libraire, allées de Tourny, no 20, 1818. XII+24 pages; 5) Exposition des produits des beaux-arts - Explication des ouvrages exposés dans les salles de lancien évêché. S. l. [La Rochelle], s. n. e., s. d. [ca 1840]. 20 pages; 6) Orthopédie. Examen pratique des difformités osseuses. De leur traitement, par L. Bienaimé, orthopédiste breveté, inventeurs de divers appareils orthopédiques, fondateur de la maison spéciale pour le traitement à domicile des déviations de la taille et des membres, 3, passage Violet, à Paris. Paris, chez les principaux libraires, et chez lauteur, 3, passage Violet, 1841. 39+[1] pages, 18 figures gravées dans le texte; 7) La société philomathique aux habitants de Bordeaux. A Bordeaux, de limprimerie et lithographie de Henry Faye, rue du Cabernan, no 44, 1837. 15+[1bl] pages; 8) Réfutation raisonnée de linstrument du Dr Guérin, de Bordeaux, pour lopération de la cataracte; lettre à un médecin, avec une planche. Par A. P. Bancal, médecin à Bordeaux. Bordeaux, imprimerie de Ch. Lawalle neveu, libraire, allée de Tourny, no 20, 1831. 35+[1] pages, 1 planche dépliante; 9) Ordonnance du roi sur la prolongation des brevets de M. Tapie, pharmacien à Bordeaux Essai sur le lichen dIslande [par Tapie], s. l., s. n. e., s. d. [ca 1840]. [2]+5-14 pages; 10) Rapport de MM. Barruel et Cottereau, professeurs à la Faculté de Médecine de Paris, et observations des autres professeurs de cette Faculté et des médecins des hôpitaux de Paris sur les préparations pectorales composées avec le fruit de nafé dArabie. Librairie Louis Janet, 59, rue Saint-Jacques, s. d. [ca 1840]; 16 pages; 11) Opuscule touchant la déplorable catastrophe du 13 juillet 1842, dédié à Sa Majesté Louis-Philippe, roi des Français, par M. Daries, bachelier ès-lettres. Bordeaux, Henry Faye, imprimeur en lettres et en lithographie, rue du Cadernan, 44, 1842. [2]+17+[1bl] pages. [Relatif à la mort, dune chute de cheval, du prince héritier Ferdinand dOrléans]; 12) Chambre des Pairs, session de 1841-1842: discours de M. le duc Decazes, pair de France, sur une pétition de propriétaires de vignobles de la Gironde. Séance du 23 mai 1842. S. l., s. n. e., s. d. [1842]. 10 pages; 13) Rapport fait à lAcadémie royale de Médecine, sur les recherches sur le lactucarium par H. Aubergier, docteur ès-sciences, professeur à lEcole de Médecine de Clermont-Ferrand. S. l. [Clermont-Ferrand], s. n. e., s. d. [ca 1843]. 8 pages.
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BOISSIER DE SAUVAGES, François / NICOLAS, Jean-François (éd.)
Reference : 6519
(1771)
NOSOLOGIE METHODIQUE, dans laquelle les maladies sont rangées par classes, suivant le système de Sydenham, & l'ordre des Botanistes.
1771 Paris, Hérissant, 1771. Complet en 3 vol. in-8: 13 x 20.5 cm. I/ xl-800 pp.; II/ viii-759 pp.; III/ [4] ff., 608-108 pp. Première traduction française de la "Nosologia methodica" dont la version définitive latine est publiée en 1763. Édition augmentée de notes en forme de commentaires par son traducteur, Nicolas, lui-même chirurgien. Reliures de l'époque en veau moucheté. Dos à 5 nerfs avec pièces de titre en maroquin rouge, pièces de tomaison en maroquin noir, caissons à motifs floraux dorés. Tranches rouges. Pièces de tomaison frottées, petit travail de vers à la gouttière du vol. 3, et quelques rousseurs sans gravité.
François Boissier de Sauvages de Lacroix (1706-1767) est le premier à proposer un système nosologique cohérent et apparemment satisfaisant pour la pratique médicale. Il s'inspire de la méthodologie clinique de Giorgio Baglivi, des principes de Sydenham, des apports de la botanique et de la physique de Newton. Il élabore notamment un système de classification des maladies psychique (Classe VIII de sa nosologie) sur le modèle des classifications botaniques. Son système prend en compte 2400 espèces de maladies réparties en dix classes, subdivisées en sections et genres. Contenu des volumes: I/ Les vices, les fièvres, Inflammations, Spasmes II/ Les anhélations, Faiblesses, Douleurs, Maladies extravagantes et folies; III/Les flux, les difformités. Biblio.: Graesse, VI/1, 277
Pour la Science - Hubert Curien - A. Cameron - George Wetherill - John Lewis - Anny Cazenave et André Brahic - Jean-François Minster - David Schramm et Robert Clayton - Gordon Pettengill, Donald Campbell et Harold Masursky - Gerald Schubert et Curt Covey - Claude Allègre - Raymond Arvidson, Alan Binder et Kenneth Jones - Norman Horowitz - Andrew Ingersoll - James Pollack et Jeffrey Cuzzi - Tobias Owen - Bruce Murray - John Wood - Joseph Veverka - Laurence Soderblom - Torrence Johnson - George Wetherill - E. Parker - J. Gosling et A. Hundhausen - Fred Whipple - James van Allen
Reference : 101271
(1982)
Le système solaire , (La genèse du système solaire - L'origine et l'évolution du système solaire - La formation de la terre par accrétion de planétoïdes - La chimie du système solaire - L'effet des marées dans le système solaire - L'âge du système solaire - Une supernova a-t-elle engendré le système solaire ? - Les planètes actives et les planètes géantes - La surface de Vénus - L'atmosphère de Vénus - Les premiers jours de la Terre - La surface de Mars -La vie sur Mars - Jupiter et Saturne - Les anneaux dans le système solaire - Titan - Les planètes mortes et les petits corps - Mercure - La lune - Phobos et Deimos - Les satellites Galiléens et Jupiter - Les satellites de Saturne - Les objets Apollo - Le soleil et l'espace interplanétaire - Le Soleil - Les ondes dans le vent solaire - La rotation des comètes - Champs et particules interplanétaires)
Belin , Bibliothèque Pour la Science Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1982 Book condition, Etat : Bon relié, cartonnage éditeur blanc, illustré par la couronne solaire observée de l'espace ( photo NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center) In-4 1 vol. - 288 pages
très nombreuses illustrations dans le texte en noir et blanc, quelques-unes en couleurs nouvelle édition française, 1982 Contents, Chapitres : Hubert Curien : Préface - 1. La genèse du système solaire : A. Cameron : L'origine et l'évolution du système solaire - George Wetherill : La formation de la terre par accrétion de planétoïdes - John Lewis : La chimie du système solaire - Anny Cazenave et André Brahic : L'effet des marées dans le système solaire - Jean-François Minster : L'âge du système solaire - David Schramm et Robert Clayton : Une supernova a-t-elle engendré le système solaire ? - 2. Les planètes actives et les planètes géantes : Gordon Pettengill, Donald Campbell et Harold Masursky : La surface de Vénus - Gerald Schubert et Curt Covey : L'atmosphère de Vénus - Claude Allègre : Les premiers jours de la Terre - Raymond Arvidson, Alan Binder et Kenneth Jones : La surface de Mars - Norman Horowitz : La vie sur Mars - Andrew Ingersoll : Jupiter et Saturne - James Pollack et Jeffrey Cuzzi : Les anneaux dans le système solaire - Tobias Owen : Titan - 3. Les planètes mortes et les petits corps : Bruce Murray : Mercure - John Wood : La lune - Joseph Veverka : Phobos et Deimos - Laurence Soderblom : Les satellites Galiléens et Jupiter - Torrence Johnson : Les satellites de Saturne - George Wetherill : Les objets Apollo - 4. Le soleil et l'espace interplanétaire : E. Parker : Le Soleil - J. Gosling et A. Hundhausen : Les ondes dans le vent solaire - Fred Whipple : La rotation des comètes - James van Allen : Champs et particules interplanétaires - Index et Bibliographie cartonnage légèrement jauni, coin inférieur gauche du plat inférieur à peine émoussés, légères tâches de rousseurs sur les deux premières et dernières pages, sinon en bon état, intérieur propre, papier à peine jauni
Système social, ou principes naturels de la morale et de la politique, avec un examen de l'influence du gouvernement sur les moeurs. Par l'Auteur du Systême de la Nature [Mirabaud]. 3 Tomes. - [THE SYSTEM OF NATURE CONTINUED... THE SOCIAL SYSTEM]
London [recte: Amsterdam, M.M. Rey], 1773. 8vo. Bound in one beautiful contemporary full mottled calf binding with five raised bands to richly gilt spine triple gilt line-borders to boards and inner gilt dentelles. Edges of boards with single gilt line. All edges gilt. Corners abit bumped and a bit of overall wear. Inner hinges a bit weak. Internally very fine and clean. All in all a very fine copy indeed. (4), 210176" 167 pp. With all three half-titles, all three title-pages and all three indexes, as well as the introduction.
The rare first edition, first issue (though Tchermerzine mentions an unknown 2-volume-edition form the same year - this edition has never been verified), of one of d'Holbach's most important works, his influential ""social"" and political continuation of his seminal main work ""Systeme de la nature"" - the bible of materialism. D'Holbach (1723-1789), who was raised by a wealthy uncle, whom he inherited, together with his title of Baron, in 1753, maintained one of the most famous salons in Paris. This salon became the social and intellectual centre for the Encyclopédie, which was edited by Diderot and d'Alembert, whom he became closely connected with. D'Holbach himself also contributed decisively to the Encyclopédie, with at least 400 signed contributions, and probably as many unsigned, between 1752 and 1765. The ""Côterie holbachique"" or ""the café of Europe"", as the salon was known, attracted the most brilliant scientists, philosophers, writers and artists of the time (e.g. Diderot, d'Alembert, Helvetius, Voltaire, Hume, Sterne etc, etc.), and it became one of the most important gathering-places for the exchange of philosophical, scientific and political views under the ""ancient régime"". Apart from developing several foundational theories of seminal scientific and philosophical value, D'Holbach became known as one of the most skilled propagators and popularizers of scientific and philosophical ideas, promoting scientific progress and spreading philosophical ideas in a new and highly effective manner. D'Holbach was himself the most audacious philosophe of this circle. During the 1760's he caused numerous anticlerical tracts (written in large, but not entirely, by himself) to be clandestinely printed abroad and illegally circulated in France. His philosophical masterpiece, the ""Système de la nature, ou des lois du monde physique et du monde moral"", a methodological and intransigent affirmation of materialism and atheism, appeared anonymously in 1770"" (D.S.B. VI:468), as did the social and political follow-up of it, the famous ""Systême social"" in 1773. That is to say, Mirabeau whom he had used as the author on the ""System of Nature"" in 1770 is not mentioned in the ""Social System"", on the title-page of which is merely stated ""By the Author of ""Systême de la Nature"". As the theories of d'Holbach's two systematic works were at least as anticlerical and unaccepted as those of his smaller tracts, and on top of that so well presented and so convincing, it would have been dangerous for him to print any of them under his own name, and even under the name of the city or printer. Thus, ""Systême de la Nature"" appeared pseudonomously under the name of the secretary of the Académie Francaise, J.B. Mirabaud, who had died 10 years earlier, and under a fictive place of printing, namely London instead of Amsterdam. ""He could not publish safely under his own name, but had the ingenious idea of using the names of recently dead French authors. Thus, in 1770, his most famous book, ""The System of Nature"", appeared under the name Jean-Baptiste Mirabaud."" (PMM 215), and so the next ""System"" also appeared in the same manner three years later.In his ""Systême de la Nature"", d'Holbach had presented philosophical materialism in an actual system for the first time and had created a work that dared unite the essence of all the essential material of the English and French Enlightenment and incorporate it into a closed materialistic system"" on the basis of a completely materialistic and atheistic foundation, he provided the modern world with a moral and ethic philosophy, the effects of which were tremendous. It is this materialism and atheism that he continues three years later in his next systematic work ""Systême social"", through which politics, morality, and sociology are also incorporated into his system and take the place of the Christianity that he had so fiercely attacked earlier on. In this great work he extends his ethical views to the state and continues the description of human interest from ""Systême de la Nature"" by developing a notion of the just state (by d'Holbach calle ""ethocracy"") that is to secure general welfare. ""Système social (1773"" ""Social System"") placed morality and politics in a utilitarian framework wherein duty became prudent self-interest."" (Encyclopaedia Brittanica). ""Holbach's foundational view is that the most valuable thing a person seeking self-preservation can do is to unite with another person: ""Man is of all beings the most necessary to man"" (Sysème social, 76"" cf. Spinoza's Ethics IVP35C1, C2, and S). Society, when it is just, unites for the common purpose of preservation and the securing of welfare, and society contracts with government for this purpose."" (SEP).As the ""Systême de la Nature"" had been condemned to burning in the year of its publication, so the ""Systême social"" was on the list of books to be confiscated already in 1773, and it was placed on the Index of the Church in August 1775. As the ""Systême de la Nature"", the ""Systême social"" is thus also of great scarcity. Another edition of the work appeared later the same year, in 12mo. Tchermerzine says that ""Il ya une édition, que nous ne connaissons pas, en 2 vol. in-8. C'est sans doute l'originale."" The present edition was reprinted the following year, in 1774.Tschermerzine VI:246" Graesse III:317 Barbier IV:622 (only listing later editions).
Systeme de la Nature ou Des Loix du Monde Physique & du Monde Moral. 2 vols. - [""MAN IS OF ALL BEINGS THE MOST NECESSARY TO MAN""]
London, 1774. 8vo. 2 volumes uniformly bound in contemporary half calf with gilt ornamentation to spine. Spines with wear of boards miscoloured. Internally fine and clean. (16) 397 pp."" (4), 500, (3) pp. Wanting the frontispiece.
Later edition, published four years after the original, comprising ""The System of Nature"" - one of the most important works of natural philosophy ever written and the work that is considered the main work of materialism - and ""The Social System"", being d'Holbach's seminal ""social"" and political continuation of that groundbreaking work. D'Holbach (1723-1789), who was raised by a wealthy uncle, whom he inherited, together with his title of Baron, in 1753, maintained one of the most famous salons in Paris. This salon became the social and intellectual centre for the Encyclopédie, which was edited by Diderot and d'Alembert, whom he became closely connected with. D'Holbach himself also contributed decisively to the Encyclopédie, with at least 400 signed contributions, and probably as many unsigned, between 1752 and 1765. The ""Côterie holbachique"" or ""the café of Europe"", as the salon was known, attracted the most brilliant scientists, philosophers, writers and artists of the time (e.g. Diderot, d'Alembert, Helvetius, Voltaire, Hume, Sterne etc, etc.), and it became one of the most important gathering-places for the exchange of philosophical, scientific and political views under the ""ancient régime"". Apart from developing several foundational theories of seminal scientific and philosophical value, D'Holbach became known as one of the most skilled propagators and popularizers of scientific and philosophical ideas, promoting scientific progress and spreading philosophical ideas in a new and highly effective manner. As the theories of d'Holbach's two systematic works were at least as anticlerical and unaccepted as those of his smaller tracts, and on top of that so well presented and so convincing, it would have been dangerous for him to print any of them under his own name, and even under the name of the city or printer. Thus, ""Systême de la Nature"" appeared pseudonomously under the name of the secretary of the Académie Francaise, J.B. Mirabaud, who had died 10 years earlier, and under a fictive place of printing, namely London instead of Amsterdam. ""He could not publish safely under his own name, but had the ingenious idea of using the names of recently dead French authors. Thus, in 1770, his most famous book, ""The System of Nature"", appeared under the name Jean-Baptiste Mirabaud"" (PMM 215), and so the next ""System"" also appeared in the same manner three years later. D'Holbach was himself the most audacious philosophe of this circle. During the 1760's he caused numerous anticlerical tracts (written in large, but not entirely, by himself) to be clandestinely printed abroad and illegally circulated in France. His philosophical masterpiece, the ""Système de la nature, ou des lois du monde physique et du monde moral"", a methodological and intransigent affirmation of materialism and atheism, appeared anonymously in 1770"" (D.S.B. VI:468), as did the social and political follow-up of it, the famous ""Systême social"" in 1773. That is to say, Mirabeau whom he had used as the author on the ""System of Nature"" in 1770 is not mentioned in the ""Social System"", on the title-page of which is merely stated ""By the Author of ""Systême de la Nature"". In his main work, the monumental ""Système de la Nature"", d'Holbach presented that which was to become one of the most influential philosophical theories of the time, combined with and based on a complex of advanced scientific thought. He postulated materialism, and that on the basis of science and empiricism, on the basis of his elaborate picture of the universe as a self-created and self-creating entity that is constituted by material elements that each possess specific energies. He concludes, on the basis of empiricism and the positive truths that the science of his time had attained, that ideas such as God, immortality, creation etc. must be either contradictory or futile, and as such, his materialism naturally also propounded atheism"" his theory of the universe showed that nature is the product of matter (eternally in motion and arranged in accordance with mechanical laws), and that reality is nothing but nature. Thus, having in his ""Systême de la Nature"" presented philosophical materialism in an actual system for the first time and having created a work that dared unite the essence of all the essential material of the English and French Enlightenment and incorporate it into a closed materialistic system, d'Holbach had provided the modern world with a moral and ethic philosophy, the effects of which were tremendous. It is this materialism and atheism that he continues three years later in his next systematic work ""Systême social"", through which politics, morality, and sociology are also incorporated into his system and take the place of the Christianity that he had so fiercely attacked earlier on. In this great work he extends his ethical views to the state and continues the description of human interest from ""Systême de la Nature"" by developing a notion of the just state (by d'Holbach called ""ethocracy"") that is to secure general welfare. ""Système social (1773"" ""Social System"") placed morality and politics in a utilitarian framework wherein duty became prudent self-interest."" (Encyclopaedia Brittanica). ""Holbach's foundational view is that the most valuable thing a person seeking self-preservation can do is to unite with another person: ""Man is of all beings the most necessary to man"" (Sysème social, 76"" cf. Spinoza's Ethics IVP35C1, C2, and S). Society, when it is just, unites for the common purpose of preservation and the securing of welfare, and society contracts with government for this purpose."" (SEP). Both works had a sensational impact. For the first time, philosophical materialism is presented in an actual system, and with the second of them, this system also comprised politics and sociology, a fact which became essential to the influence and spreading of this atheistic scientific-philosophical strand. The effects of the works were tremendous, and the consequences of their success were immeasurable, thus, already in the years of publication, both works were confiscated. The ""Système de la Nature"" was condemned to burning by the Parisian parliament in the year of its publication"" the ""Système social"" was on the list of books to be confiscated already in 1773, and it was placed on the Index of the Church in August 1775. Both works are thus scarce. In spite of their condemnation, and in spite of the reluctance of contemporary writers to acknowledge the works as dangerous (as Goethe said in ""Dichtung und Wahrheit"": ""Wir begriffen nicht, wie ein solches Buch gefährlich sein könnte. Es kam uns so grau, so todtenhaft vor""), the ""Systems"" and d'Holbach's materialism continued its influence on philosophic, political and scientific thought. In fact, it was this materialism that for Marx became the social basis of communism. ""In the ""Système"" Holbach rejected the Cartesian mind-body dualism and attempted to explain all phenomena, physical and mental, in terms of matter in motion. He derived the moral and intellectual faculties from man's sensibility to impressions made by the external world, and saw human actions as entirely determined by pleasure and pain. He continued his direct attack on religion by attempting to show that it derived entirely from habit and custom. But the Systeme was not a negative or destructive book: Holbach rejected religion because he saw it as a wholly harmful influence, and he tried to supply a more desirable alternative. ""(Printing and the Mind of Man, 215). ""In keeping with such a naturalistic conception of tings, d'Holbach outlined an anticreationalist cosmology and a nondiluvian geology. He proposed a transformistic hypothesis regarding the origins of the animal species, including man, and described the successive changes, or new emergences, of organic beings as a function of ecology, that is, of the geological transformation of the earth itself and of its life-sustaining environment. While all this remained admittedly on the level of vague conjecture, the relative originality and long-term promise of such a hypothesis -which had previously been broached only by maillet, Maupertuis, and Diderot- were of genuine importance to the history of science. Furthermore, inasmuch as the principles of d'Holbach's mechanistic philosophy ruled out any fundamental distinction between living an nonliving aggregates of matter, his biology took basic issue with both the animism and the vitalism current among his contemporaries...This closely knit scheme of theories and hypotheses served not merely to liberate eighteenth-century science from various theological and metaphysical empediments, but it also anticipated several of the major directions in which more than one science was later to evolve. Notwithstanding suchprecursors as Hobbes, La Mttrie, and Diderot, d'Holbach was perhaps the first to argue unequivocally and uncompromisingly that the only philosophical attitude consistent with modern science must be at once naturalistic and antisupernatural."" (D.S.B. VI:469).
