MILAN N°169. 1996. In-16. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 116 pages. Nombreux dessins en noir et blanc dans le texte et hors texte.. . . . Classification Dewey : 843.0877-Littérature fantastique
Illustrations de Bruno Bazile. Humour Classification Dewey : 843.0877-Littérature fantastique
ZANZIBAR - MILAN. Avril 1996. In-16. Broché. Bon état, Couv. légèrement passée, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 116 pages. Nombreuses illustrations en noir et blanc, dans le texte et hors-texte par Bruno Bazile.. . . . Classification Dewey : 805.5-Poche
Classification Dewey : 805.5-Poche
Zanzibar. 1996. In-12. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Quelques rousseurs. 116 pages augmentées de quelques illustrations en noir et blanc dans le texte. Traces d'encre sur certaines pages dans le texte.. . . . Classification Dewey : 805.5-Poche
Classification Dewey : 805.5-Poche
(Paris, Bachelier, 1851-52). 4to. Later blank wrapper. Extracted from ""Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l’Académie des sciences"", Vol. 32 and vol. 35. Foucault's papers: pp. 135-138 (1851, vol. 32), pp. 421-424 (1852, vol. 35), pp. 424-427 (1852, vol. 35), pp. 469-470 (1852, vol. 35) and p. 602 (1852, vol. 35).
First appearance of the papers in which Foucault presented his discovery of the proof of the rotation of the earth by the large pendulum, called FOUCAULT'S PENDULUM. It was presented by Arago at the meeting of the Acadey of Scieces on February 3, 1851 (the first paper offered). In the third paper offered, ""Sur les phénoménes d'orientation des corps tournant entraînés par un axe fixe..."", Foucault presents his invention of the GYROSCOPE, a freely spinning flywheel, which constitutes a different method of demonstrating the rotation of the Earth"" he furthermore correctly predicts the use of the gyroscope as a compass. The word ""gyroscope"" was coined by Foucault (on p. 427 of the third paper), taken from the Greek, meaning ""to look at the rotation"".Since Léon Foucault's public demonstration of his pendulum experiment, it has played a prominent role in physics, physics education, and the history of science. The Foucault pendulum is a long pendulum suspended high above the ground and carefully set into planar motion. The phenomenon described by Foucault1 concerns the orientation of the plane of oscillation of the pendulum. ""The experiment (with the pendulum) caused great excitement at the time. Heracleides had first suggested twenty-two centuries before that the earth was rotating and Copernicus had renewed the suggestion three centuries before. Since the time of Galileo two and a half centuries before, the world of scholarship had not doubted the matter. Nevertheless, all evidence as to that rotation had been indirect, and not until Foucault's experiment could the earth's rotation actually be said to have been demonstrated rather that deduced."" ""Continuing to experiment on the mechanics of the earth's rotation, Foucault in 1852 invented the gyroscope, which, he showed, gave a clearer demonstration than the pendulum of the earth's rotation and had the property, similar to that of the magnetic needle, of maintaining a fixed direction. Foucault's pendulum and gyroscope had more than a popular significance (which continues to this day). First, they stimulated the development of theoretical mechanics, making relative motion and the theories of the pendulum and the gyroscope standard topics for study and investigation. Second, prior to Foucault's demonstrations the study of those motions on the earth's surface in which the deflecting force of rotation plays a prominent part (especially winds and ocean currents) was dominated by unphysical notions of how this force acted. Foucault's demonstrations and the theoretical treatments they inspired showed conclusively that this deflecting force acts in all horizontal directions, thus providing the sound physical insight on which Buys Ballot, Ferrel, Ulrich Vettin, and others could build. (DSB).PMM: 330 lists the offprint with the title ""Sur Divers Signes Sensibles du Mouvement Diurne de la Terre"" - Barchas Collection, 738 (the periodical version, but only the first paper) - Dibner, No. 17 (offprint version).
Paris, Bachelier, 1851-52. 4to. 2 uniform full cloth bindings. Gilt spines, gilt lettering. Gil lettering on spines: ""The Chemist's Club"". Faint marks of earlier paper labels to spine. In ""Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l’Académie des sciences"", Vol. 32 and vol. 35. Entire volumes offered. (4),1026 pp. + (4),1010 pp. A stamp on top and verso of title-pages. Foucault's papers: pp. 135-138 (1851, vol. 32), pp. 421-424 (1852, vol. 35), pp. 424-427 (1852, vol. 35), pp. 469-470 (1852, vol. 35) and p. 602 (1852, vol. 35).
First appearance of the seminal papers, in which Foucault presented his discovery of the proof of the rotation of the earth by the large pendulum, known as Foucault's Pendulum. The first papr offered here was presented by Arago at the meeting of the Acadey of Scieces on February 3, 1851. In the third paper, ""Sur les phénoménes d'orientation des corps tournant entraînés par un axe fixe..."", Foucault presents his invention of the gyroscope, a freely spinning flywheel, which constitutes a different method of demonstrating the rotation of the Earth"" he furthermore correctly predicts the use of the gyroscope as a compass and coins the word ""gyroscope"" (on p. 427), taken from the Greek, meaning ""to look at the rotation"".Ever since Léon Foucault's public demonstration of his pendulum experiment, it has played a prominent role in physics, physics education, and the history of science. The Foucault pendulum is a long pendulum suspended high above the ground and carefully set into planar motion. The phenomenon described by Foucault concerns the orientation of the plane of oscillation of the pendulum. ""The experiment (with the pendulum) caused great excitement at the time. Heracleides had first suggested twenty-two centuries before that the earth was rotating and Copernicus had renewed the suggestion three centuries before. Since the time of Galileo two and a half centuries before, the world of scholarship had not doubted the matter. Nevertheless, all evidence as to that rotation had been indirect, and not until Foucault's experiment could the earth's rotation actually be said to have been demonstrated rather that deduced."" ""Continuing to experiment on the mechanics of the earth's rotation, Foucault in 1852 invented the gyroscope, which, he showed, gave a clearer demonstration than the pendulum of the earth's rotation and had the property, similar to that of the magnetic needle, of maintaining a fixed direction. Foucault's pendulum and gyroscope had more than a popular significance (which continues to this day). First, they stimulated the development of theoretical mechanics, making relative motion and the theories of the pendulum and the gyroscope standard topics for study and investigation. Second, prior to Foucault's demonstrations the study of those motions on the earth's surface in which the deflecting force of rotation plays a prominent part (especially winds and ocean currents) was dominated by unphysical notions of how this force acted. Foucault's demonstrations and the theoretical treatments they inspired showed conclusively that this deflecting force acts in all horizontal directions, thus providing the sound physical insight on which Buys Ballot, Ferrel, Ulrich Vettin, and others could build. (DSB).PMM: 330 lists the offprint with the title ""Sur Divers Signes Sensibles du Mouvement Diurne de la Terre"" - Barchas Collection, 738 (the periodical version, but only the first paper) - Dibner, No. 17 (offprint version).
"FOUCAULT, (JEAN BERNARD LEON) - EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE FOR THE WAVE-THEORY OF LIGHT.
Reference : 44783
(1854)
Paris, Victor Masson, 1854. No wrappers. Extracted from ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique"", 3me Series - Tome 41. With titlepage to Tome 41. Pp. 120-164 and 1 large folded engraved plate showing the experimental apparatus. Some foxing throughout.
The periodical issue of Foucault's doctorial thesis in which he for the first time showed that light slows down in water, thus giving experimental evidence for the undulatory theory of light.""He...made use of his mirror method to measure the velocity of light through water and other transparent media. As long before as the time of Huygens and Newton it had been suggested that one way of settling the dispute as to whether light was a wave form or a stream of particles was by measuring its velocity in water. According to the wave theory, light should slow down in water"" according to the particle theory, it should speed up. In 1853 showed that the velocity of light was less in water than in air, a strong piece of evidence in favor of the wave theory. He presented this work as his doctoral thesis.""(Asimov).
"FOUCAULT, (JEAN BERNARD LEON) - THE FOUCAULT PENDULUM FIRST GERMAN EDITION.
Reference : 45070
(1851)
Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1851 Without wrappers as issued in ""Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von J.C. Poggendorff"", 82. Bd., 3. issue (""Heft"" No 3, 1851). Entire issue offered. Pp. 337-464. Foucault's paper: pp. 458-462. With titlepage to volume 82.
First German edition of the famous paper in which Foucault presented his discovery of the proof of the rotation of the earth by the large pendulum, called FOUCAULT'S PENDULUM. It was presented by Arago at the meeting of the Acadey of Scieces on February 3, 1851.Since Léon Foucault’s public demonstration of his pendulum experiment, it has played a prominent role in physics, physics education, and the history of science. The Foucault pendulum is a long pendulum suspended high above the ground and carefully set into planar motion. The phenomenon described by Foucault1 concerns the orientation of the plane of oscillation of the pendulum. ""The experiment (with the pendulum) caused great exitement at the time. Heracleides had first suggested twenty-two centuries before that the earth was rotating and Copernicus had renewed the suggestion three centuries before. Since the time of Galileo two and a half centuries before, the world of scholarship had not doubted the matter. Nevertheless, all evidence as to that rotation had been indirect, and not until Foucault's experiment could the earth's rotation actually be said to have been demonstrated rather that deduced."" (DSB).Parkinson ""Breakthroughs"" 1851 E.
Éd. France loisirs 2005 256 pages in4. 2005. Cartonnage éditeur. 256 pages. Traduit de Sénès Florence - Illustrations de Jankovics györgy
French édition - Le livre présente de petites marques de stockage et/ou de lecture sur la couverture et/ou les pourtours mais du reste en très bon état d'ensemble. Expédition soignée depuis la France dans un emballage adapté
Éd. France loisirs 2005 256 pages in4. 2005. Cartonnage éditeur. 256 pages.
French édition - Le livre présente des marques de stockage et/ou de lecture sur la couverture et/ou les pourtours mais reste en très bon état d'ensemble. Expédition soignée avec suivi postal dans une enveloppe à bulles depuis la France
Rmc/Radio Monte Carlo 2008 230 pages 14x23x2cm. 2008. Cartonné. 2 volume(s). 230 pages.
Très bon état intérieur frais coins légèrement frottés
Foucault Kriegel Thalamy Beguin Fortier
Reference : R100062248
(1979)
ISBN : 2870091036
Pierre Mardaga. 1979. In-8. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Papier jauni. 184 pages - nombreux plans en noir et blanc hors texte.. . . . Classification Dewey : 720-Architecture
Collection Architecture + Archives. Classification Dewey : 720-Architecture
1922 xi, 123 p., 2 folded plates, paperbound (original printed covers). Good copy.
Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1878, 2 tomes en un volume, in-4 de 269 x 206 mm, demi-chagrin à coins dos à caissons décorés, reliure signée R. Petit.Portrait gravé en frontispice, 19 planches dépliantes et nombreuses gravures dans le texte. Edition originale.Bel exemplaire.(103370)
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Paris Imprimerie Wiesener 1855 in-8 broché sous couverture imprimée
28 pp.Un seul exemplaire au CCF (BnF). Terminé par un registre d'observations qui court du 14 novembre au 12 décembre 1854.
Paris. Albert Blanchard. 2001. Fort in-8. Br. Réimpression de l'édition de 1878. 592 p. + 19 Planches. Etat neuf
FOUCAULT, LÉON. (JEAN BERNARD LEON). - THE VELOCITY OF LIGHT DETERMINED.
Reference : 49458
(1862)
Paris, Mallet-Bachelier, 1862. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l’Académie des sciences"", Vol. 55, No 12 a. 21. Pp. 481--519 a. pp. 781-803. (Entire issues offered). With title-page to vol. 55. Foucault's papers: pp. 501-503 a. pp. 792-796. Clean and fine.
First printing of Foucault's famous experiments on the velocity of light with the description of his improved equipment, the rotating mirror. Foucault's method was later developed by Michelson and Morley in their famous experiment in 1887.""Foucault’s first experiment, carried out in 1850 and written up in full in his doctoral thesis of 1853, was purely comparative"" he announced no numerical values until 1862. Then, with an improved apparatus, he was able to measure precisely the velocity of light in air. This result, significantly smaller than Fizeau’s of 1849, changed the accepted value of solar parallax and vindicated the higher value which Le Verrier had calculated from astronomical data. Foucault’s turning-mirror apparatus was the basis for the later determinations of the velocity of light by A. A. Michelson and Simon Newcomb.""(DSB).Leon Foucault, used a similar method to Fizeau. He shone a light to a rotating mirror, then it bounced back to a remote fixed mirror and then back to the first rotating mirror. But because the first mirror was rotating, the light from the rotating mirror finally bounced back at an angle slightly different from the angle it initially hit the mirror with. By measuring this angle, it was possible to measure the speed of the light. Foucault continually increased the accuracy of this method over the years. His final measurement in 1862 determined that light traveled at 299,796 Km/s. Magee ""A Source Book in Physics"", p. 342 ff. and ""Source Book in Astronomy"", p. 282 ff.
Librairie Armand Colin Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1922 Book condition, Etat : Bon broché, sous couverture imprimée éditeur bleu-verte In-8 1 vol. - 133 pages
3 planches hors-texte dépliantes (reproductions des planches originales, complet) 2eme édition chez cet éditeur, 1922 Contents, Chapitres : Avertissement, table, xi, Texte, 122 pages - 1. Mesure de la vitesse de la lumière : Foucault, notice biographie - Méthode générale pour mesurer la vitesse de la lumière - Sur les vitesses relatives de la lumière dans l'air et dans l'eau - Détermination expérimentale de la vitesse de la lumière, parallaxe du Soleil - Détermination expérimentale de la lumière, description des appareils - 2. Etude optique des surfaces : Sur un nouveau téléscope en verre argenté - Mémoire sur la construction des téléscopes en verre argenté - Sur la construction du plan optique - Sur la méthode suivie par Léon Foucault pour reconnaître si la surface d'un miroir est rigoureusement parabolique - Méthode d'autocollimation de Léon Foucault - Jean Bernard Léon Foucault, né à Paris le 18 septembre 1819 et mort à Paris le 11 février 1868, est un physicien et astronome français. Connu principalement pour son expérience démontrant la rotation de la Terre autour de son axe (pendule de Foucault), il détermina aussi la vitesse de la lumière et inventa le gyroscope. - En reprenant l'expérience abandonnée par François Arago en 1843 pour cause de cécité, il démontre en 1850, grâce à un miroir tournant de Sir Charles Wheatstone pour mesurer la vitesse des courants électriques combiné à un dispositif de miroirs concaves, que la lumière se propage plus rapidement dans l'air que dans l'eau, invalidant ainsi la théorie corpusculaire au profit de la théorie ondulatoire de la lumière, jusqu'à ce que la dualité onde-particule unifie ces concepts dans le cadre de la physique quantique. Il établit que la vitesse de la lumière varie inversement à l'indice de réfraction du milieu où elle se propage (voir l'appareillage de Fizeau-Foucault). Il obtient un titre de docteur à la faculté des sciences de Paris avec une thèse intitulée Sur les vitesses de la lumière dans l'air et dans l'eau (parue en 1853). - Après avoir doté le miroir de son dispositif de laboratoire de 1850 d'une turbine à air comprimé et multiplié les miroirs de réflexion, il établit en 1862 la vitesse de la lumière à 298 000 km/s ±500 km/s, soit 10 000 km/s de moins que la première mesure directe effectuée en 1849 par Hippolyte Fizeau à l'aide d'un dispositif à roue dentée projetant un faisceau lumineux de Suresnes à Montmartre, et à 0,6 % de marge de la valeur qui est prise désormais comme référence (299 792 458 m/s). De 1878 à 1926, en améliorant le dispositif à miroir tournant, Albert Michelson obtient 299 796 km/s ±4 km/s. - Il publie en 1865 un article sur le régulateur de James Watt, dont il a essayé de rendre la période de révolution constante, et sur un nouvel appareil de régulation de la lumière électrique. L'année suivante, il montre comment, en déposant une fine couche transparente d'argent du côté externe du verre d'un télescope, on peut regarder le soleil sans danger pour l'il. À partir de 1845, il est rédacteur en chef de la section scientifique du Journal des débats. Ses articles majeurs peuvent être trouvés dans les Comptes rendus (1847-1869). (source : Wikipedia) dos à peine jauni, quelques rousseurs sur la couverture qui est sinon en très bon état, intérieur frais et propre, papier à peine jauni, cela reste un bel exemplaire, bien complet des 3 planches hors-texte dépliante
in-8, 94pp., br. P. Delagrave 1930,
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LIBRAIRIE CH. POUSSIELGUE. 1895. In-8. Relié demi-cuir. Etat d'usage, Couv. convenable, Dos abîmé, Intérieur frais. 259 pages. Pièce de titre bordeaux. Titre, fleurons dorés sur le dos cuir marron.. . . . Classification Dewey : 840.08-XIX ème siècle
Religieuse de l'assomption. Classification Dewey : 840.08-XIX ème siècle
Librairie Ch. Poussièlgue, Paris. 1895. In-8. Broché. Etat d'usage, 2ème plat abîmé, Dos abîmé, Intérieur acceptable. 259 pages. Papier muet encollé sur le dos, le consolidant.Etiquette de code sur la couverture. Quelques tampons de bibliothèque. Traces de colle sur la couverture. Petit manque sur le coin inférieur gauche du 2e plat.. . . . Classification Dewey : 922-Religieux
Enfance. Vocation. Noviciat. Soeur Térèse, assistante du noviciat. Fondation de Montpellier. Supérieure à Bordeaux... Classification Dewey : 922-Religieux
2 vol. in-8, 238 et 264pp., br. P. Alcan 1926-27,
Phone number : 33 (0)3 85 53 99 03
Lyon, A. Storck, 1901, in-8, [2]-101 pp, [1] ff. d'errata et [1] ff. de table, Demi-chagrin vert de l'époque, dos à faux nerfs, ex-libris M[iche] C[ollée] doré en queue du dos, Thèse complémentaire latine pour le doctorat, par Marcel Foucault (1865-1947), qui présenta sa thèse principale en français sur La psychophysique. Marcel Foucault, philosophe et professeur de philosophie à la Faculté des lettres de Montpellier, fonda un laboratoire de psychologie expérimentale en 1906. Bel exemplaire. Couverture rigide
Bon [2]-101 pp., [1] ff. d'errata
Lugduni [Lyon], A. Storck 1901 103pp., 23cm., text in Latin, Doctoral Dissertation (University of Paris, original softcover (spine bit repaired and well protected by an extra transparent wrapper), stamp at verso of title page, text is clean and bright, P113288