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‎Ueber die Bestimmung der Richtung der durch elektrodynamische Vertheilung erregten galvanischen Ströme.‎

‎(Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1834). Without wrappers as issued in ""Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg.von Poggendorff"", 1. Bd., No. 31. Pp. 481-496 (entire. No 31 offered), Lenz's paper: pp. 483-494. Clean and fine.‎

‎First appearance of the fundamental statement of Lenz's Law, which says that the direction of a current produces by electrodynamic induction is always such as to oppose by its electromagnetic action the flux change which gave rice to it. The memoir appeared at the same time in ""Mémoires and Bulletin"" of the St. Petersburg Academie of Sciences.""Lenz's name survives in the history of physics as the result of his discovery of two fundamental physical laws - soon seen as special cases of the law of conservation of energy - and a great many empirical quantitative relationships of electromagnetic, electrothermal, and electrochem,ical phenomena...His application of Ohm's law and Gauss's method of least squares and his graphical representation of various laws have distinguished his work from the scientific papers of most of his contemporaries.In November 1833, Lenz read his paper Ueber die Bestimmung der Richtung der durch elektrodynamische Vertheilung erregten galvanischen Ströme"" before the St. Petersburg Academy. It established Lenz's Law, relating the phenomena of induction to those of the ponderomotive interaction of currents and magnets discovered by Oersted and Ampère. Lenz's Law states that the induced current is in such a direction as to oppose, by its electromagnetic action, the motion of the magnet or coil that produces the induction. F. Neumann's derivation of the mathematical expression for the electromotive force of induction (1846) and Helmholtz's proof of the law of conservation of energy (1847) were based on Lenz's Law. This law also includes the principle of invertibility of motor and generator, which lenz demonstrated on Pixii's magnetoelectric machine in 1838.""(DSB VIII, p. 187-188).Lenz was born on February 12, 1804 in Dorpat, and died in Rome on februray 10, 1865. He became professor of physics at the University of St. Petersburg. He investigated the conductivity of many materials for electricity and the effect of temperature on conductivity. he also studied the heat produced by the current and discovered the law which is known by the name of Joule.(Magie ""A Source Book of Physics"" pp.511-13).‎

‎Ableitung des Stefan'schen Gesetzes, betreffend die Abhängigkeit der Warmestrahlung von der Temperatur aus der electromagnetischen Lichttheorie.‎

‎Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1884. Without wrappers as issued in ""Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von G. Wiedemann."", Neue Folge Bd. 22, 6. Heft (= No 6). Titlepage to vol. 22. Pp. 145-304 (entire issue offered ""Heft"" 6). Boltzmann's paper: pp. 291-294. Small stamp to titlepage and verso of.‎

‎First appearance of this importent paper in which Boltzmann uses the second law of thermodynamics and Maxwell's electromagnetic theory to derive theoretically, based on Stefan's experimental observations, the proportionality of the radiation emitted from a body and the fourth power of the temperature of the body in Kelvin units. ""The law show a possible connection between thermodynamics and electromagnetism that was exploited in the later quantum theory. In the 1920s it was applied by Edington and others in explaining the equilibrium of stellar atmospheres.""(DSB II, p. 266).""The law states that the total energy radiated per unit surface area of a black body per unit time (known variously as the black-body irradiance, energy flux density, radiant flux, or the emissive power), is directly proportional to the fourth power of the black body's thermodynamic temperature T (also called absolute temperature).The Stefan Boltzmann law was experimentally discovered in the year 1879 by Josef Stefan and deduced 1884 by Ludwig Boltzmann theoretically by thermodynamic considerations from the classical electromagnetic theory of the radiation. In the year 1900, thus 21 years after the Stefan Boltzmann law, discovered Max Planck the Planck radiation law designated after it, from which the Stefan Boltzmann law follows simply by integration over all directions and wavelengths. The Planck radiation law could attribute the Stefan Boltzmann constant also for the first time with the introduction of the quantum of action h to fundamental natural constants.""Parkinson ""Breakthroughs"" 1883 P. ‎

‎Recherches thermo-chimique" (Extrait du Bulletin scientifique publié par l'Academie imperiale des Sciences de Saint-Petersbourg, tome VII)‎

‎Paris, Fortin, Masson et Cie, 1840. Contemp. hcloth. Gilt lettering to spine. In ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique"", 2me Series - Tome 75. 447,(1) pp. a. 1 plate. (Entire volume offered). Hess's paper: pp. 80-103. The first and last leaves somewhat brownspotted.‎

‎First edition in French of Hess' first fundamental law in thermodynamic: ""the law of heat formation"" (1840), anticipating a specific example of the ""LAW OF THE CONSERVATION OF ENERGY"", 2 years before Julius Robert Mayer elucidated the more general principle in 1842 - claiming that ""the heat developed in chemical change is constant, whether the change occurs directly or indirectly in several stages""Germain Henri Hess is noted today for two fundamental principles of thermochemistry: the law of constant summation of heat (known simply as Hess's law) and the law of thermoneutrality. These discoveries were remarkable in that they were postulated without any supporting theoretical framework and took place in a field of study almost totally neglected by his contemporaries. Hess's law is of immense practical importance and is used to this day to determine heats of reaction when their direct measurements are difficult or impossible. (Chemistry Encyclopedia).""Numerous men, notably Lavoisier and Laplace had measured the heats evolved in various reactions, but thermochemistry received its first importent advance at the hands ofgermain Henri Hess, who showed that the heat evolved in a reaction is the same regardless of whether the reaction is carried out directly or in a number of steps. This generalization, known now as ""Hess's Law"", makes possible the calculation of heats for many reactions where direct measurement are impracticable.""(Leicester & Klickstein, A Source Book..., p329.""The thermochemical work of Hess was continued extensively in the second half of the nineteenth century through the studies of Thomsen and Berthelot. Both Berthelot’s principle of maximum work and the thermodynamic theories of affinity which came to prevail were clearly foreshadowed in the work of Hess. In addition to his internationally known research in thermochemistry, Hess was very influential in the development of chemistry in Russia. His text Osnovania chistoy khimii (Fundamentals of Pure Chemistry) went through seven editions and did much to establish the chemical nomenclature of the Russian language. He was always interested in technological questions, and many of his students later contributed to Russia’s industrial development."" (DSB).Parkinson ""Breakthroughs"", 1840 C. - Leicester & Klickstein, A Source Book, p 329. ‎

‎Recherches sur la probabilité des jugements, principalement en matière criminelle. (+) Note sur la loi des grands nombres. (2 Papers).‎

‎(Paris, Bachelier), 1835-36. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome 1, Séance du Lundi 14 Décembre 1835 and tome 2, Séance Lundi 11 Avril 1836. Pp. (467-) 498 and (355-) 386. (2 entire issues offered. Poisson's papers: pp. 473-495 (1835) a. pp. 377-380 (1836).‎

‎First appearance of 2 importent paper in probability theory, serving as a preamble to Poissons's famous work published two years later, and with nearly the same title ""Recherches sur la probabilité des jugements en matiere criminelle et en matiere civile"" (1837). The paper offered introduces THE LAW OF LARGE NUMBERS (Loi universelle des Grandes nombres, pp. 478-79), a key concept in probability theory. Poisson states that all events of a moral as well as of a physical nature are subject to this universal law. His definition (in English translation) on p. 478 reads ""Things of every kind obey a universal lw that we may call the law of large numbers. Its essence is that if we observe a very large number of events of the same nature, which depend on constant causes and on causes that vary irregularly, sometimes in another, 1.e., not progressively in any determined sense, then almost constant proportions will be found among numbers"" (p. 478 in the first memoir).""Prior to the publication of the ""Rechearces"", Poisson presented his principal results and philosophical views to the Academie des Sciences in papers read at the sessions of 14 december 1835 and 11 April 1836. The first memoir became the ""Préambule"" of the ""Rechearches"" and outlined Poisson's criticism of Laplace's approach to the probability judgements, the universal applicability of the law of large numbers, and some of the results based on the Ministry of Justice's statistics.... Poisson's second memoir discussed his ""Law of Large Numbers"", with special attentuion to how it differed from bernoulli's theorem and how it was particularly well suited for applications to the moral sciences..."" (Lorraine Daston ""Classical Possibility in the Emlightment"", pp. 364-65).""In Recherches sur la probabilité des jugements en matière criminelle et en matière civile (1837"" (Research on the Probability of Criminal and Civil Verdicts), an important investigation of probability, the Poisson distribution appears for the first and only time in his work. Poisson’s contributions to the law of large numbers (for independent random variables with a common distribution, the average value for a sample tends to the mean as sample size increases) also appeared therein."" Encl. Britannica). - In fact the law appears here, two years before, in the offered paper."" (Encl. Britannica). ‎

‎De Lachende Law, de Treurende Actonist en de Smekende Mercurius, 1720 - planche extraite de : [La Grande Scène de la Folie, montrant la montée, le progrès et la chute de l'action, des négociations de bulles et de vent en France, en Angleterre et aux Pays-Bas engagées au cours de l'année MDCCXX]."Het Groote tafereel der dwaasheid vertoonende de opkomst, voortgang en ondergang der actie, bubbel en windnegotie, in Vrankryk, Engeland an Nederlanden, gepleegt in der jaars MDCCXX, zynde een verzameling van alle de conditien en projecten van de opgeregte companien van assurantie navigatie, commercie... in Nederland... ,1720 : [S.l.] : Gedrukt tot waarschouwinge voor de Nakomelingen, in't noodlottige Jaar voor veel Zotte en Wyse,(receuil de planches avec légendes sur le système de Law)‎

‎ 1720 1 estampe gravée en taille-douce à l'eau-forte en noir sur papier vergé ligné, format : 31 x 37 cm, planche extraite de : [La Grande Scène de la Folie, montrant la montée, le progrès et la chute de l'action, des négociations de bulles et de vent en France, en Angleterre et aux Pays-Bas engagées au cours de l'année MDCCXX]."Het Groote tafereel der dwaasheid vertoonende de opkomst, voortgang en ondergang der actie, bubbel en windnegotie, in Vrankryk, Engeland an Nederlanden, gepleegt in der jaars MDCCXX, zynde een verzameling van alle de conditien en projecten van de opgeregte companien van assurantie navigatie, commercie... in Nederland... ,1720 : [S.l.] : Gedrukt tot waarschouwinge voor de Nakomelingen, in't noodlottige Jaar voor veel Zotte en Wyse,(receuil de planches avec légendes sur le système de Law),‎

‎EXPLICATION DE LA GRAVURE : Théâtre avec la Loi qui rit, l'Actoniste en deuil et le Mercure mendiant. À gauche, un John Law rieur remplit ses coffres, au milieu un marchand de vent désespéré, à droite Mercure supplie les dieux de restaurer la marine marchande. En arrière-plan, des références aux projets en mer du Sud et à Vianen. Au premier plan diables, notes d'action, etc. Avec légende en trois colonnes .... Sujet : Law (Système), 1720 ..... RARE ..... en trés bel état (very good condition). en trés bon état ‎

‎Démonstration de la relation découverte par Mariotte, entre les volumes des gaz et les pressions qu'ils supportent à une même température. Lu a l'Institut, le 24 janvier 1814.‎

‎Paris, Crochard, 1815. Contemp. hcalf. Spine gilt. Slightly rubbed. A few scratches to binding. Wear to top of spine. Small stamps on verso of titlepage.In: ""Annales de Chimie, ou Recueil de Mémoires concernant la Chemie"" Tome 94. 336 pp. a. 1 plate (the plate in facs., not belonging to Ampere's paper). Ampere's paper: pp. Some scattered brownspots.‎

‎First appearance of Amperes second paper on molecular physics.""The noumenal aspect of chemistry fascinated Ampère. Although his derivation of Avogadro’s law came three years after Avogadro had enunciated it, the law is known today in France as the Avogadro-Ampère law. This was Ampère’s first excursion into molecular physics, and was followed almost immediately by a second. In 1815 he published a paper demonstrating the relation between Mariotte’s (Boyle’s) law and volumes and pressures of gases at the same temperature. The paper is of some interest as a pioneer effort, along with Laplac’s great papers on capillarity, in the application of Mathematical analysis to the molecular realm.""(DSB).The volume contains 3 importent papers by Jean-Baptiste Biot on polarisation of light and Berzelius ""Experiences pour déterminer les proportions définies, dans lequelles les élémens de la nature organique sont combinés"" + ""Suite..."" 1-2, pp. 5-33, pp. 170-190 a. pp. 296-232‎

‎Recherches sur les quantités de chaleur dégagées dans les combinaisons chimiques. (Lettre à M. Arago).‎

‎Paris, Fortin, Masson et Cie, 1840. 8vo. Contemp. hcalf. Spine gilt and with gilt lettering. Some scratches to spine. In: ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique"", 2e series, tome 74. 448 pp., 1 folded plate. Hess' paper: pp. 325-335. Stamps on verso of titlepage. Internally clean.‎

‎First edition of Hess's most famous paper, in which he outlined his law on thermochemistry. His principle, a progenitor for the first law of thermodynamics, came to be called Hess's law. It states that in a series of chemical reactions, the total energy gained or lost depends only on the initial and final states, regardless of the number or path of the steps. This is also known as the law of constant heat summation. Hess described here his newly discovered law, known as Hess's Law, in form of a letter to Arago. (The letter was also published in Comptes Rendus in a slightly modified form). ""Here thermochemistry received its first importent advance at the hands of Germain Hess, who showed that the heat evolved in a reaction is the same regardless of whether the reaction is carried out directly or in a number of steps..."" (Leicester & Klickstein ""A Source Book in Chemistry"", pp. 329-332). This paper preceded the larger papers also published in ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique"" and the original (and larger) paper in ""Bulletin scientifique, Academie impériale des Sciences (St. Petersbourg, 1840)"". The volume contains also papers by Laurent, Biot, Mulder, Melloni etc.Parkinson ""Breakthroughs"" 1840 C.‎

‎Considérations sur le commerce et l'argent‎

‎ La Haye, Jean Neaulme, 1720. In-12, [8]-187-[19] pp. 1 pl., veau marbré fauve de l'époque, triple filet doré en encadrement sur les plats cantonnés de fleurons dorés, dos lisse orné de caissons et fleurons dorés, pièce de titre rouge, tranches dorées (coiffe arasée, mors fendus, épidermures, quelques rousseurs, dernier cahier relié dans le désordre). ‎

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‎Première édition française de ce traité de Law dans lequel il expose son fameux système. Elle est ornée en frontispice d'un portrait de John Law, contrôleur général des finances, gravé par F. Desrochers. Après une première tentative échouée, en 1704, d'être reçu par Louis XIV, Law finit par rencontrer le duc d'Orléans en 1714, futur régent, qu'il convainc du bien-fondé de ses idées. À la mort de Louis XV, Law a désormais l'appui décisif du Régent pour mettre en place son système financier. Il repose notamment sur l'abondance des liquidités pour soutenir le commerce. Il créé une banque privée en 1716, la Banque générale, qui deviendra la Banque royale en 1719 et diffuse du papier-monnaie qui sera garanti par le Roi. Malheureusement pour Law, à peine cet ouvrage publié, son système s'écroule et il doit fuir la France pour sa sécurité. L'économie française aura profondément été affectée par ses réformes, de même que la théorie monétaire moderne. L'ouvrage comprend in fine un catalogue de Jean Neaulme, qui se trouve être le premier conservé pour cet éditeur. Voir photographie(s) / See picture(s) * Membre du SLAM et de la LILA / ILAB Member. La librairie est ouverte du lundi au vendredi de 14h à 19h. Merci de nous prévenir avant de passer,certains de nos livres étant entreposés dans une réserve. ‎

‎Recherches expérimentales sur la mouvement des liquides de nature différente dans les tubes de très-petits diamètres.‎

‎Paris, Victor Masson, 1847. Contemp. hcalf, raised bands, gilt spine. Light wear along edges.Three small stamps on verso of titlepage. In ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique"", 3ieme Series, tome 21. 512 pp. a. 6 plates. (Entire volume offered). Poiseuille's paper: pp. 76-110. 3 small stamps on verso of titlepage. A small stamp on verso of plates.‎

‎First printing of the paper in which - after being persuated by a committee lead by Arago to make further experiments - Poiseuille generalized the law named after him, first announced in 1840. He studied experimentally the flow of different liquids through capillary tubes, and found the law named after him, that relates the flow to the pressure, the diameter and the lenght of the tube and to the viscosity of the liquid. Poiseuille's investigations are fundamental in blood viscosimetry. ""Poiseuille's work represents a major advance in blood pressure measurements""(Gedeon p. 189).""Poiseuille’s paper (the 1840-paper) was reviewed by a committee consisting of Arago, Piobert, and Regnault. They persuaded him to make further experiments with ether and mercury, and these investigations were published in 1847 (the paper offered). He found that ether yielded the same law as distilled water, whereas mercury obeyed a different law. In 1870 Emil Gabriel Warburg found that mercury obeys the Poiseuille law, except for certain anomalies caused by amalgamation in metal tubes.""(DSB). The paper was also printed at the same time in ""Comptes Rendues"".The volume contains other notable papers by August Laurent, Matteucci, Bravais, Senarmont ""Mémoire sur la Conductibilité des Substances cristallisées pour la Chaleur"", pp. 457-470.‎

‎Ueber die bewegende Kraft der Wärme und die Gesetze, welche sich daraus für die Wärmelehre selbst ableiten lassen.‎

‎Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1850. Contemp. marbled boards. Gilt spine, titlelabel with gilt lettering. Light wear to spineends, corners and edges. Stamps on title-page (Gusstahlfabrik Fried. Krupp). In ""Annalen der Physik und Chemie"", Dritte Reihe, 19. Band (79. Band der ganzen Reihe). IX,(1),580 pp. and 3 folded engraved plates. (Entire volume offered). Endpapers and the first and last few leaves with brownspots. Clausius's paper: pp. 368-397 a. pp. 500-524. Internally clean.‎

‎First edition of this monumental, famous paper in thermodynamics in which Clausius for the first time states the Second Law of Thermodynamics, one of the most importent laws of Nature having a huge impact on the development of physical theory, cosmology, communications and information theory. The law states that a) the energy of the Universe is constant, and b) the Entropy of the Universe tends to a maximum.""Clausius' contribution to thermostatics is comparable to those of Newton and Maxwell to mechanics and electromagnetism, respectively. In the obituary J.W. Gibbs remarked that Clausiu's first memoir ""marks an epoch in the history of physics....."""" (Chowdhury and Stauffer in ""Principles of Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics"").In ""The Nature of the Physical World"" Eddington writes: ""The Law that entropy increases - the Second Law of Thermodynamics - holds, I think, the supreme position among the laws of Nature. If someone points out to you that your pet theory of the Universe is in disagreement with Maxwell's equations - then so much the worse for Maxwell's equations. If it is found to be contradicted by observation - well, these experimentalists do bungle things sometimes. But if your theory is found to be against the Second Law of Thermodynamics I can give You no hope"" there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation."".Parkinson ""Breakthroughs"", 1850 P.‎

‎Ode.‎

‎ 1725 4 pp. in-4, manuscrites. s.l., s.d. (ca. 1725)‎

‎Féroce poème anonyme , peut-être l'œuvre d'un spéculateur échaudé, sur Philippe d'Orléans et Law, en vers octosyllabiques. " On ne dira plus sur la terre,C'est un Néron, c'est un TibèreMais c'est un prince d'Orléans "."… c'est Law, c'est Law maudit.Il fomenta mille crimes : Mégère dicte & Law écrit ". ‎

‎La voie de la science divine, ou développement des principes et des bases fondamentales de cette science, indépendant de toute opinion et de tout système particulier. En trois dialogues, traduits librement de langlois de W. Law. Précédés de La Voix qui crie dans le désert, par Lodoïk.‎

‎ 1805 A Paris, chez Levrault et Schoell, imprimeurs-libraires, an XIII, 1805. Un volume in-8° (128 x 201 mm) de XV+[1bl]+76+280+[2] pages. Reliure de lépoque en demi-basane marron, dos lisse orné de filets, tranches mouchetées. Charnière supérieure un peu fendue aux extrémités.‎

‎RARE EDITION ORIGINALE. La «Voie de la science divine ... en trois dialogues» est une adaptation de louvrage du théologien mystique William Law (1686-1761), intitulé: «The way to divine knowledge, being several dialogues between Humanus, Academicus, Rusticus, and Theophilus, as preparatory to a knew edition of the works of Jacob Behmen[le théosophe allemand Jakob Böhme (1575-1624)]; and the right use of them», Londres, Innys & Richardson, 1752. Sa traduction de 1805 est due à Louis-Marie-François de Laforest, comte de Divonne (1765-1838), chevalier de Malte, officier aux régiments dArtois et de La Fère, adepte et héritier spirituel de Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin (1743-1803), dit «le philosophe inconnu», émigré en 1791, aide-major général de larmée de Condé, rentré en France en 1800; maréchal de camp (1814) et enfin pair de France (1827). Cest également lui qui rédige, sous le pseudonyme de Lodoïk, «La Voix qui crie dans le désert».Caillet: Bibliographie des sciences psychiques,no 3170: «... Ce livre de Law donne au lecteur attentif la vraie clé de la théosophie de Boehme. Armé de cette doctrine, on peut aborder sans crainte le texte hébreu de Moyse et lever toutes les difficultés que Fabre dOlivet a laissé subsister dans ses notes de la Langue hébraïque restituée et dans ses commentaires de Caïn. Le présent ouvrage de Law est une lumière(Stanislas de Guaita) Lodoïk est le pseudonyme du comte de Divonne, ami du Philosophe inconnu, Claude De St-Martin, et comme lui disciple de Pasquallys de Martinetz [alias Martinez de Pasquali]». Bon ‎

‎RECU DU 11 JANVIER 1809 DE MAITRE BERTRAND DONNE A MR LAW LAURISTON (SUITE AU CONTRAT D'ACQUET DE L'HÔTEL LANGEVIN rue Voltaire PAR MONSIEUR LAW-LAURISTON d'avec Monsieur et Madame LANGEVIN - 8 Janvier 1809) ‎

‎ Nantes 1809 un document Original d'1 pages , manuscrit à l'encre brune sur papier velin ligné filigrané bleu, format 22,8 x 20,5 cm, fait à Nantes le 11 janvier 1809, signature manuscrite de BERTRAND, Notaire de Mr Law-Lauriston,‎

‎en parfait état (very good condition). trés bon état ‎

‎Canon Law Abstracts - A half-yearly review of periodical literature in Canon Law ; collection of 64 issues [complete series from nr.5 (1960) till nr.68 (1992-2)]‎

‎, Canon Law Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1960-1992 set of 64 volumes (nrs.5 to 68), (each issue: 50 à 70pp.), stamp on cover of some issues, else very good, R28748‎

‎Bestimmung der Absorption des rothen Lichts in farbigen Flüssigkeiten.‎

‎(Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1852). Without wrappers as issued in ""Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von J.C. Poggendorff"", 86. Bd., 1. issue (""Heft"" No 5, 1852). Entire issue offered. Pp. 1-160 a. 1 engraved plate. Beer's paper: pp.. 78-90. Clean and fine.‎

‎First appearance of this importent law in is modern form. It is widely used in meteorology, in chemical analysis an, in meauring radiation etc.The law was discovered by Pierre Bouguer before 1729. It is often mis-attributed to Johann Heinrich Lambert, who cited Bouguer's Essai d'Optique sur la Gradation de la Lumiere (Claude Jombert, Paris, 1729) , and even quoted from it in his Photometria in 1760. Much later, August Beer extended the exponential absorption law. (1852).The issue offered also contains Plücker's large memoir on Diamagnetismus ""Ueber die Theorie des Diamagnetismus, die Erklärung des ueberganges magnetischen Verhaltens in diamagnetidches und mathematisches Begründung der bei Krystallen beobachteten Erscheinungen"". Pp. 1-34.The law is used widely in infra-red spectroscopy for analysis of polymer degradation and oxidation. The carbonyl group absorption at about 6 micrometres can be detected quite easily, and degree of oxidation of the polymer calculated.‎

‎Mémoire sur la Loi des modifications que la réflexion imprime à la lumière polarisée. (Lu a l'Academie, le 7 janvier 1823).‎

‎Paris, Crochard, 1831. No wrappers. In: ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago."", tome 46, Cahier 3. Titlepage to vol. 46. Pp. 225-336 a. 1 folded engraved plate. (The entire issue offered). Fresnel's paper: pp. 225-264.‎

‎Fist printing of this importent paper in which Fresnel formulates a theory of reflection and refraction referring them to the dynamical properties of the luminiferous media and stating the two laws that bears his name, the ""Sine-law"" and the ""Tangent-law"".This memoir was for some time considered lost, it was presented to the Academy in 1823, but found later in the papers of Fourier. ""Ce Mémoire, qu'on ecroyait égaré, vient d'étre retrouvé dans les papiers de M. Fourier. Comme il n'est connu que par des extraits tout-è-fait insuffisand (voyez Ann.. t. XXIX, p. 175), nous nous empressons d'en enrichir les Annales.""(Editor's footnote).In the memoir ""He adopts Young's principle, that reflection and refraction are due to differences in the inertia of the aether in different material bodies, and supposes (as in the memoir on aberration) that the inertia is proportional to the inverse square of the velocity of propagation of light in the medium. The conditions which he proposes to satisfy at the interface between two media are that the displacements of the aadjacent molecules, resolved parallell to this interface, shall be equal in the two media"" and that the energy of the reflwected and refracted waves together shall be equal to that of the incident wave.""(Whittaker ""A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity"" I, p.123).‎

‎Betrachtungen über die Polarisation des Lichts. (+) Ueber die Gesetzt der Modificationen, welche die Reflexion dem polarisirten Lichte einprägt. (2 Papers).‎

‎(Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1831). Without wrappers as issued in ""Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von J.C. Poggendorff"", Bd. 22 (98) Fünftes Stück. Pp. 1-160. (The entire issue offered). Fresnel's papers: pp. 68-89 and pp. 90-125. Clean and fine.‎

‎First appearance in German of two importent memoirs on polarized light, refraction and reflexion of light.The first paper unites two of his earlier papers on polarization as an introduction to the second paper. Having mastered the wave theory, Fresnel tackled the phenomena of polarization and of double refraction, and he obtained results which amazed the scientific world. These results survived the criticism of his contemporaries and of his succcessors, and are still accepted today.The second paper offered contains the first German edition of the importent paper in which Fresnel formulates a theory of reflection and refraction referring them to the dynamical properties of the luminiferous media and stating the two laws that bears his name, the ""Sine-law"" and the ""Tangent-law"".This memoir was for some time considered lost, it was presented to the Academy in 1823, but found later in the papers of Fourier. ""Diese Abhandlung ist bereits am 7. Jan. 1823 in der Pariser Academie vorgelesen, nach der Zeit aber abhanden gekommen, und erst kürzlich unter den Papieren des verwigten Fourier wieder aufgefunden""(Editors footnote).In the memoir ""He adopts Young's principle, that reflection and refraction are due to differences in the inertia of the aether in different material bodies, and supposes (as in the memoir on aberration) that the inertia is proportional to the inverse square of the velocity of propagation of light in the medium. The conditions which he proposes to satisfy at the interface between two media are that the displacements of the aadjacent molecules, resolved parallell to this interface, shall be equal in the two media"" and that the energy of the reflwected and refracted waves together shall be equal to that of the incident wave.""(Whittaker ""A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity"" I, p.123).‎

‎Beiträge zur Quantentheorie"‎

‎Braunschweig, Vieweg & Sohn, 1914. No wrappers. ""Verhandlungen der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft im Jahre 1914. Hrsg. von Karl Scheel."", 16. Jahrgang, Nr. 16. Pp. (765-) 834. (Entire issue offered). With the general titlepage to 16. Jahrg. Titlepage stamped at foot. Einstein paper pp. 820-828.‎

‎First edition. In this paper ""Contributions to quantum theory"" two considerations are given which are interrelated by a common goal, inasmuch as it is attempted to derive two of the most importent achievementss of quantum theory, viz. Planck's radiation law and Nernst's third law of thermodynamics, in a new manner. The proofs do not involve Boltzmann's equation and are thus based enterely on macroscopic thermodynamics. They do introduce, however, the quantum hupothesis. (Einstein points out that the alleged 'proofs' which try to derive the theorem of Nernst from the mere fact that the heat capacity of all substances goes to zero at absolute zero temterature, are not genuine). (Cornelius Lanczos).Weil No 67.‎

‎Mémoire sur la Loi des modifications que la réflexion imprime à la lumière polarisée. (Lu a l'Academie, le 7 janvier 1823).‎

‎Paris, Crochard, 1831. No wrappers. In: ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago."", tome 46, Cahier 3. Titlepage to vol. 46. Pp. 225-336 a. 1 folded engraved plate. (The entire issue offered). Fresnel's paper: pp. 225-264. Some scattered brownspots.‎

‎Fist printing of this importent paper in which Fresnel formulates a theory of reflection and refraction referring them to the dynamical properties of the luminiferous media and stating the two laws that bears his name, the ""Sine-law"" and the ""Tangent-law"".‎

‎Recherches sur la probabilité des jugements, principalement en matière criminelle. (+) Note sur la loi des grands nombres. (+) Note sur le calcul des probabilités. (+) Formules relatives aux probabilités qui dépendent de très grands nombres. (3 papers).‎

‎(Paris, Bachelier), 1835-36. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome 1, Séance du Lundi 14 Décembre 1835 and tome 2, Séance Lundi 11 Avril 1836 + Séance Lundi 27 Juin 1836 + Séance du Lundi 18 Avril 1836. + Pp. (467-) 498, (355-) 386, (387-) 402 a. pp. (601-) 630. (4 entire issues offered. Poisson's papers: pp. 473-495 (1835), pp. 377-380, pp. 395-400 and pp. 603-13. (1836). Clean and fine.‎

‎First appearance of 3 importent paper in probability theory, serving as a preamble to Poissons's famous work published two years later, and with nearly the same title ""Recherches sur la probabilité des jugements en matiere criminelle et en matiere civile"" (1837). The paper offered introduces THE LAW OF LARGE NUMBERS (Loi universelle des Grandes nombres, pp. 478-79), a key concept in probability theory. Poisson states that all events of a moral as well as of a physical nature are subject to this universal law. His definition (in English translation) on p. 478 reads ""Things of every kind obey a universal law that we may call the law of large numbers. Its essence is that if we observe a very large number of events of the same nature, which depend on constant causes and on causes that vary irregularly, sometimes in another, 1.e., not progressively in any determined sense, then almost constant proportions will be found among numbers"" (p. 478 in the first memoir).‎

‎On Oxalic Acid. Read January 14th, 1808. (Thomson) (+) On Super-acid and Sub-acid Salts. Read January 28, 1808. (Wollaston). 2 Papers.‎

‎(London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1808). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1808 - Part I. Pp. 63-95 (Thomson) and pp. 96-102 (Wollaston:). Clean and fine.‎

‎First appearance of these two historical papers in chemistry in which Thomson and Wollaston, independently, presents experimental proofs of John Dalton's ""Law of Multiple Proportions"", and thereby laying the foundations of the Atomic Theory. - These demonstrations went far to influence chemists favorably toward Dalton's atomic theory. ""In January 1808 Thomson was the first to submit an experimental illustration of the law of multiple proportions, doing so at least four months before the publication of Dalton's ""New System of Chemistry Philosophy"" (1808). This paper, ""On Oxalic Acid"" also established a usefull method of determining empirical formulas.""(DSB XIII, p. 373).""This paper is also importent as he here introduces quantified chemical symbolism for compounds, a compound with, for instance, two parts oxygen (w) and one part carbon (c) being denoted by 2w + c."" (Parkinson in ""Breakthroughs"", 1808 C).""In 1808 he (Wollaston) described his experiments on carbonates, sulfates, and oxalates, which proved that the composition of these substances was regulated by the law of multiple proportions. These additional instances of the law were easely verifiable and were often mentioned as standard examples. Wollaston accepted that his findings were merely particular instances of Dalton's assertion that the atoms of elements united one to one, or by simple multiple relation.""(DSB XIV, p.488).‎

‎On Oxalic Acid. Read January 14th, 1808. (Thomson) (+) On Super-acid and Sub-acid Salts. Read January 28, 1808. (Wollaston). 2 Papers.‎

‎London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1808. 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1808 - Part I. Pp. 63-95 (Thomson) and pp. 96-102 (Wollaston:). Clean and fine. With titlepage to 1808, Part I.‎

‎First appearance of these two historical papers in chemistry in which Thomson and Wollaston, independently, presents experimental proofs of John Dalton's ""Law of Multiple Proportions"", and thereby laying the foundations of the Atomic Theory. - These demonstrations went far to influence chemists favorably toward Dalton's atomic theory. ""In January 1808 Thomson was the first to submit an experimental illustration of the law of multiple proportions, doing so at least four months before the publication of Dalton's ""New System of Chemistry Philosophy"" (1808). This paper, ""On Oxalic Acid"" also established a usefull method of determining empirical formulas.""(DSB XIII, p. 373).""This paper is also importent as he here introduces quantified chemical symbolism for compounds, a compound with, for instance, two parts oxygen (w) and one part carbon (c) being denoted by 2w + c."" (Parkinson in ""Breakthroughs"", 1808 C).""In 1808 he (Wollaston) described his experiments on carbonates, sulfates, and oxalates, which proved that the composition of these substances was regulated by the law of multiple proportions. These additional instances of the law were easely verifiable and were often mentioned as standard examples. Wollaston accepted that his findings were merely particular instances of Dalton's assertion that the atoms of elements united one to one, or by simple multiple relation.""(DSB XIV, p.488).‎

‎The Amazing Life of John Law. The Man Behind the Mississippi Bubble.‎

‎New York Payson & Clarke 1928 1 vol. relié bradel toile rouge éditeur, 362 pp., portrait-frontispice. Première édition américaine issue de la traduction de "La très curieuse vie de Law" par Georges Oudard. Monographie en anglais sur les inventions de John Law inventeur en France du billet de banque, de la Bourse et de la Compagnie du Mississippi, une des première sociétés à avoir une quotation en Bourse. Cartonnage très légèrement sali, sinon bonne condition.‎

‎Dix-huit ans de bagne‎

‎ "Petite bibliothèque du Malséant" Egrégores Editions (2005) - Broché de 112 pages - Couverture photo - Etat neuf‎

‎Figure anarchiste méconnue, Jacob LAW publiera son récit en 1926 aux éditions libertaires de l'Insurgé et sera expulsé par la suite du territoire français. Texte tombé dans l'oubli et introuvable en édition originale aujourd'hui, témoignage capital sur le bagne, deux bonnes raisons de rééditer Jacob LAW. ‎

‎Arrest du Conseil d'Estat du Roy, concernant les actions de la Compagnie des Indes, et les billets de banque. Du 21 may 1720 ‎

‎Paris Imprimerie royale 1720 in-4 dérelié, dernier feuillet sali ‎

‎8 pp.Wroth & Annan 797 et 798 pour les deux éditions de l'Imprimerie Royale (8 et 4 pp.) Important document publié l'année même de la banqueroute et de la fuite de Law.En effet, cet arrêt du Conseil: 1. Ordonne la réduction des actions de la Compagnie des Indes - 2. Ordonne la réduction des billets de banque - 3. Prévoit la possibilité pour les porteurs de sommes importantes en billets de banque, de les convertir en actions de la Compagnie - 4. Ordonne enfin que les lettres de change tirées ou endossées dans les pays étrangers pour être payées en France, y soient acquittées en billets de banque suivant le cours et la valeur des dits billets.Vingt-huit lignes liminaires présentent l'état de l'économie du royaume avant la création de la banque de Law, et mentionnent le rapport de ce dernier au Conseil d'État, cause directe des mesures exposées dans les quatre articles de l'arrêt.C'est la dernière phase de l'aventure de John Law (1671-1729), fondateur en 1716 de la première banque privée ayant le droit d'émettre des billets, puis de la Compagnie d'Occident (1718), et créateur enfin d'un système monétaire unissant la banque, la Compagnie et l'État, qui eut le contrôle du commerce extérieur et des grandes entreprises du royaume. Après une brève période d'animation, l'imprudence des émissions, la fièvre spéculative et la concurrence (celle des frères Pâris notamment) finirent par provoquer la banqueroute ‎