Livre de Poche Sans date. Labyrinth Hotel est un thriller américain écrit par Laird Koenig maître du genre connu pour une écriture structurée en séquences cinématographiques et un suspense typique des romans policiers. Le livre est traduit de l'américain par Claude Yelnick (titre original : Rockabye)
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Le Livre de Poche 2003 2003. Viviane Koenig: Au pays des dieux égyptiens/ Le Livre de Poche jeunesse 2003
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2004 2004. Viviane Koenig - Au pays des Dieux Egyptiens / Le Livre de Poche 2004
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Sans date. Laird Koenig - La petite fille au bout du chemin / Le Livre de Poche
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(No place, nor printer), 1753 & Paris, Aux depens de la Societe, 1755. 8vo. In contemporary half calf with four raised bands with gilt lettering and ornamentation to spine. Traces from old paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Light wear to extremities, boards with scratches. Previous owner's name in contemporary hand to title-page. Internally nice and clean. [Academie... :] XVI, 142 pp. [Lettre d'un Inconnu... :] 44 pp.
Rare first edition of this work related to the 'König affair,' the renowned controversy over the principle of least action, described as ""perhaps the ugliest of all the famous scientific disputes"" (DSB VII: 442). The main figures in this highly publicized affair, which led to numerous pamphlets supporting one side or the other, were the mathematicians and scientists P. L. Moreau de Maupertuis (1698-1759), then head of the Prussian Academy of Sciences, and Johann Samuel Koenig (1712-1757), a member of this Academy. In 1751 Koenig presented his ""Law of least Action"". The law states that the kinetic energy of a system of mass points is equal to the sum of the kinetic energy of the motion of the system relative to the center of gravity and of the kinetic energy of the total mass of the system considered as a whole, which moves as the center of gravity of the system. ""While still in Franeker, Koenig wrote the draft of his important essay on the principle of least action, which was directed against Maupertuis. The controversy touched off by this work, which was published in March 1751, resulted in perhaps the ugliest of all the famous scientific disputes. Its principal figures were Koenig, Maupertuis, Euler, Frederick II, and Voltaire" and, as is well known, it left an unseemly stain on Euler’s otherwise untarnished escutcheon. The quarrel occupied Koenig’s last years almost completely" moreover, he had been ill for several years before it started. Koenig emerged the moral victor from this affair, in which all the great scientists of Europe—except Maupertuis and Euler—were on his side. The later finding of Kabitz testifies to Koenig’s irreproachable character.""(DSB).
"KOENIG (KÖNIG), SAMUEL. - GIVING RISE TO ONE OF THE UGLIEST SCIENTIFIC CONTROVERSIES.
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Leipzig, Gleditsch & Lanckis, 1751. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Nova Acta Eruditorum, Anno MDCCLI"", March- Issue, Pars I-II. Entire issue in 2 parts offered. With titlepage to the volume 1751. Pp. 97-192. Koenig's paper: pp. 125-135 a. pp. 162-176. With 2 engraved plates. Titlepage with 2 stamps and a bit soiled. Leaves as usual a bit browned.
First printing of this important paper in which Koenig set forth his ""Law of least Action"". The law states that the kinetic energy of a system of mass points is equal to the sum of the kinetic energy of the motion of the system relative to the center of gravity and of the kinetic energy of the total mass of the system considered as a whole, which moves as the center of gravity of the system.""While still in Franeker, Koenig wrote the draft of his important essay on the principle of least action, which was directed against Maupertuis. The controversy touched off by this work, which was published in March 1751, resulted in perhaps the ugliest of all the famous scientific disputes. Its principal figures were Koenig, Maupertuis, Euler, Frederick II, and Voltaire" and, as is well known, it left an unseemly stain on Euler’s otherwise untarnished escutcheon. The quarrel occupied Koenig’s last years almost completely" moreover, he had been ill for several years before it started. Koenig emerged the moral victor from this affair, in which all the great scientists of Europe—except Maupertuis and Euler—were on his side. The later finding of Kabitz2 testifies to Koenig’s irreproachable character.""(DSB).
Bruxelles Directeur Théodore Koenig 1969 In-8 agrafé, couverture illustrée Edition originale
16e année, juin 1969. Texte de Théodore Koenig : Poèmes restreints et proses concises. Illustrations de Ailk Cavalière Très bon exemplaire 0
Sans date. Alexeï fou amoureux de Natacha lui construit la plus belle isba du village pour la séduire. Mais Natacha disparaît laissant Alexeï le cœur brisé
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Le livre de poche / Thrillers 1979 317 pages poche. 1979. broché. 317 pages.
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Le livre de poche 1979 317 pages poche. 1979. broché. 317 pages.
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France loisirs 1981 317 pages in8. 1981. Relié. 317 pages.
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