‎Sciences occultes‎

‎TRUE, FREDERICK W.‎

‎A History of the first Half-Century of the National Academy of Sciences 1863-1913.‎

‎Washington, 1913. 4to. Orig. full cloth., gilt. VIII,399 pp., plates and 7 portraits in heliogravure. Clean and fine.‎

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‎"SALVINI, SALVINO (Edt.). - VIVIANI, VINCENZO.‎

‎Fasti consolari dell'accademia Fiorentina [A Biographical History of the Florentine Academy]. - Containing Viviani's ""Racconto istorico della Vita di Galileo Galilei"" [Historical Account of the Life of Galileo Galilei]. - [THE FIRST AND MOST IMPORTANT BIOGRAPHY OF GALILEI]‎

‎Firenze, Nella Stamperia S.A.R. Per Gio: Gaetano, e Sant Franchi, 1717. 4to. Contemporary full vellum with handwritten title to spine. A bit of wear to capitals and a bit of minor soiling to boards, but a fine and handsome copy. Inner hinges a bit weak. Internally nice and clean, with just a bit of light minor occasional brownspotting. Large engraved pictorial vignette (heading: Accdemia Fiorentina) to title-page. Very nice woodcut vignettes and initials throughout. XXXI, (1), 676, (2, - Approvazioni) pp. [Viviani's Galilei-biography: pp. 397-431].‎

‎First edition of this extensive work of biographies of the people of the Florentine Academy. Among the dozens of biographies in the present work, we have the first printing of Viviani's seminal biography of Galilei, the first, and by far the most important biography of the great astronomer ever written. It is from this biography that we have most of the canonical stories and anecdotes about Galilei that keep being repeated and quoted - e.g. the legend of Galilei demonstrating to his students that Aristotle was wrong about speed of fall being related to the weight of an object by dropping balls of different mass off the leaning tower in Pisa"" the stories of how he came up with the idea of the pendulum after having watched a suspended lamp swing back and forth in the cathedral of Pisa when he was still a student there - and furthermore also how his first experiments with pendulums were carried out (by his son due to his own failing eyesight), etc., etc.Vincenzo Viviani (1622-1703) considered himself Galilei's last pupil and he spent most of his life reinstating the ideas of Galilei. He was merely 20 years old when his master died, and he was present at the bedside of the dying master as well as at the removal of his body. Thus, he was a direct witness to many of the events that took place in Galilei's life, and as such he is an indispensible biographer - especially seeing that no other person had attempted a biograhy of the great astronomer. After Galielei's death, Viviani was granted a pension by the King of France, in exchange for him writing a great, massive biography of his master. This planned massive work never came about, though, - probably due to both fear of retaliation, inabilty to reconcile geometry with the dogmas of faith, and finally a general fear of what such a biography could carry with it politically, etc. (he had apparantly also been warned of this). What we have left of the massive work is that which is present in Salvini's collection of biographies of the Florentine Academy. The work is written in the form of a letter addressed to Prince Leopoldo de'Medici, and it was not printed during Viviani's lifetime, but only in 1717, in the present book. Though not as extensive as had originally been planned, and though not printed as soon as originally planned, the work is still of the greatest importance to our knowledge about Galilei and forms the foundation for all later works on the astronomer. For the student of Galilei, it is absolutely indispensible. Being the first biography of Galilei, and the only one written by a contemporary, and one who knew him very well, the work plays a greater role in the study of the master's life than any other work.Viviani may not have been a faithful chronicler or a clear interpreter, but we will have to make do with that which he can tell us about Galilei. Though not all stories may be true, almost all of the most famous anecdotes and legends that we have about Galilei stem from the present work. After having described the various marvels, discoveries, etc. of Galilei's life, Viviani ends by describing the last hours of Galilei's life: ""il Mercoledì delli 8. de Gennaio del 1641. ab Inc. a ore 4. di notte in età di settantasette anni, mesi dieci, e giorni vent, con Filosofica, e Christiana constanza, rese l'Anima al suo Creatore, inviandosi questa a godere, e rimarar più d'apresso quelle eterne maraviglie, ch'ella con tanta avidità, & impazienza aveva procurator per mezzo di fragil artifizio d'avvicinare agli occhi di noi mortali."" (p. 423) [""On the night of Jan. 8, 1641, at about 4 o'clock at night at the age of 77 years, 10 months, and 20 days, with philosophical and Christian firmness he rendered up his soul to its Creator, sending it, as he liked to believe, to enjoy and to watch from a closer vantage point those eternal and immutable marvels which he, by means of a fragile device, had brought closer to our mortal eyes with such eagerness and impatience.""] - clearly showing the sense that Viviani had for Galilei's biblically inspired faith.The work furthermore contains several hitherto unpublished treatises on men from the famous scientific academy of Florence.‎

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‎STENO (STENONIS STENSEN), NICOLAI (NIELS).‎

‎Epistolae et Epistolae ad eum Datae. Quas cum Prooemio ac Notis Germanice Scriptis. Edidit Gustav Scherz adjuvante Joanne Ræder. 2 vols.‎

‎Hafniae, 1952. Large 4to. Uncut in orig. wrappers. XXII,1028 pp. 2 portraits. One of 500 copies. Clean and fine.‎

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‎ABRAHAM, KARL.‎

‎Versuch einer Entwicklungsgeschichte der Libido auf Grund der Psychoanalyse seelischer Störungen.‎

‎Lpz., Wien, Zür., Intern. Psych. Verlag, 1924. Orig.printed wrappers. Wr.with tears. Uncut. First edition.‎

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‎"AMONTONS, (GUILLAUME). - THE INVENTION OF THE AIR PRESSURE THERMOMETER.‎

‎Discours sur quelques proprietez de l'air, & le moyen d'en connoître la temperature dans tous les climats de la terre.‎

‎(Paris, Jean Boudot, 1704). 4to. Without wrappers. Extracted from ""Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences. Année 1702"". Pp. 155-174 a. textillustrations.‎

‎First appearance of this paper in which Amontons describes his invention, construction and function of his air thermomer. He thus improves on Gallileo's design by using air pressure instead of volume. The paper is the earliest study in this field, and Amontions concludes ""that unequal masses of air under equal weights invcrease equally the force of their spring for equal degrees of heat"" Fifteen years later Gay-lussac performed the same experiments with better technique and results - the Gay-Lussac laws.The paper ""contains Amontons' account of the first thermometer with which temperature was measured by the pressure of air.""(Magie ""A Source book in Physics"", pp. 128 ff.).""His first scientific production was a Hygrometer in 1687....The other was an air thermometer independent of the atmospheric pressure. Air occupied the top of one of the branches of a U-shaped tube, and by its dilation it pushed down one of the mercury columns so that the other end ofthe branch formed a barometric chamber.""(DSB I, p. 138 a).Parkinson ""Breakthroughs"", 1702 M).‎

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‎HELMHOLTZ, HERMANN.‎

‎Populäre wissenschaftliche Vorträge. Erstes-Drittes Heft. 3 Bde. (1. u. 2. Heft in zweite neu durchgearbeitete Auflage).‎

‎Braunschweig, Vieweg und Sohn, 1876. Bound in one contemp. hcalf. Spine gilr. A tear to upper part frontjoin. Spine rubbed. VI,(1),134VIII,(1),211VI,(1),139 pp., textillustrations. Internally fine and clean.‎

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‎DROBISCH, MORITZ WILHELM.‎

‎Neue Darstellung der Logik nach ihren einfachsten Verhältnissen mit Rücksicht auf Mathematik und Naturwissenschaft. Dritte neu bearbeitete Aufl.‎

‎Leipzig, Leopold Voss, 1863. Bound with orig. printed frontwrapper in recent full fabrikoid. XXIV,240 pp.‎

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‎LÜTKEN, CHR. FR.‎

‎Almeenfattelige Naturskildringer. En Samling af populære naturvidenskabelige Afhandlinger af V. bergsøe, E. Erslev, D.F. Eschricht, C. Fogh, G. Forchhammer, P. Freuchen...J. reinhardt, H. Rink, J. Steenstrup, C. Vaupell og A.S. Ørsted. 2 Bd.‎

‎Kjøbenhavn, Gyldendal, 1863. 2 samtidige hldrbd. med rygforgyldning. (6),526,(1)(4),506 pp., tekstillustrationer og 1 litograferet Jamaica-kort.‎

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‎"COTTE, (LOUIS). - A PIONEER-WORK IN METEOROLOGY.‎

‎Mémoire sur la Météorologie, qui contient l'extrait des Observations Météorologiques, faites à Paris pendent dix ans, depuis le i. er Janvier 1763.jusu'au 31 Décembre 1772, par M. Messier de l'Academie..., avec une Méthode pour analyser ces sortes...‎

‎(Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1776). 4to. Extracts from ""Mémoires de Mathematique et de Physique, Présentés à l'Academie des Sciences par divers Savans"", Année 1773. Pp. 427-502, 16 tables in the text. Clean and fine.‎

‎First printing of an early work by one of the pioneers in meteorology, Louis Cotte.‎

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‎"BEECHY, F.W.‎

‎Report of further Observations upon the Tidal Streams of the North Sea and English Channel, with Remarks upon the Laws by which those Streams appear to be governed. Communicated to Francis Beaufort. received March 27, - Read May 15, 1851.‎

‎(London, Richard Taylor, 1851). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1851 - Part II. Pp. 703-718 a. 12 folded plans and maps.‎

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‎"DOVE, KARL.‎

‎Deutsch-Südwest-Afrika. Ergebnisse einer wissenschaftlichen Reise im südlichen Damaralande. Mit drei Karten auf einer Tafel.‎

‎Gotha, Julius Perthes, 1896. 4to. No wrappers. (6),93 pp., 3 maps on 1 plate.‎

‎(Petermann's ""Geographischen Mittheilungen"", Ergänzungsheft No 120).‎

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‎HUMBOLDT, ALEXANDER VON.‎

‎Ansichten der Natur, mit wissenschaftlichen Erläuterungen. 2 Bde.‎

‎Stuttgart u. Augsburg, Cotta'scher Verlag, 1859-60. Bound in one contemp. hcalf. Richly gilt spine. First inner hinge cracked. X,262(2),294 pp. Scattered brownspots.‎

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‎BASTHOLM, CHRISTIAN.‎

‎Philosophie for Ulærde. Andet Oplag.‎

‎København., Gyldendal, 1794. Samt. hldrbd. Rygforgyldning, forgyldt titeetiket. Papirsetiket på øverste del af ryg og forpermen. lKobberstukket titelvignet. (14),210 pp.‎

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‎"VOLTA, ALESSANDRO.‎

‎Sur le retour périodique des orages, et sur le vent très-froid et extraordinairment sec qui se fait sentir plusieurs heures aprés ceux qui sont accompagnés de gréle. Lettre de Volta au professeur Configliachi. Traduit par M. Billy.‎

‎(Paris, Crochard, 1817). No wrappers. Extract from: Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago."", Series 2, Tome 4. Pp. 245-259.‎

‎First apearance in French of Volta's paper dealing with meteorological phenomena, the causes of storms, hailstorms etc. Volta’s interest in meteorology began already in 1752 where he dealt with electricity in the atmosphere.‎

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‎OLBERS, (HEINRICH WILHELM MATTHIAS).‎

‎De l'Influence de la Lune sur les saisons.‎

‎(Paris, Crochard, 1821). No wrappers. In 'Annales de Chimie et de Physique', Volume 19, Cahier 2. Pp. 113-224. (Entire issue offered). Olber's paper: pp. 208-217.‎

‎First French edition of Olber's paper on the influence of the moon on the earth' season. Olbers, well-known for his discovery of the planets Pallas and Vesta, for discoveries of comets and asterorides, was also interested in meteorology. A crater on the moon is named after him.‎

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‎HÜBNER, JOHANN.‎

‎Curieuses und Reales Natur-Kunst-Berg-Gewerck und Handlungs-lexicon, darinne nich nur die in der Physic, Medicin, Botanic, Chymie, Anatomie, Chirurgie und Apothecker-Kunst, wie auch in der Mathematic, Astronomie, Music, Mechanic... Bau-Kunst etc. etc....‎

‎(No Place), Johann Friedrich Gleditsch, 1741. Large 8vo. Contemp. full vellum. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Engraved frontispiece. Title in red/black. (14) pp., 2352 columns (= 1176 pp.). A few brownspots. Internally clean.‎

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‎THOMSEN, JULIUS.‎

‎Vandringer paa Naturvidenskabens Gebeet.‎

‎København, Reitzel, 1856. Samt. hldrbd. med ophøjede bind på ryg. Lidt kantslid. (4),287 pp. Stempel på titelblad og dets bagside. Spredte brunpletter.‎

‎Den berømte kemikers naturvidenskabelige essays i originaludgave.‎

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‎RUMFORD, BENJAMIN COUNT (BENJAMIN THOMPSON). - DISCOVERING THE PRINCIPLES OF OCEAN CIRCULATION.‎

‎Mémoire sur la maniere dont la CHALEUR se propage dans les FLUIDES sur une loi remarquable qui s'observe dans la condensation de l'eau par le froid, lorque ce liquide approche du terme de la congélation" & sur les effets surprenans qui sont pro...‎

‎A Geneve, Biblioth. Britannique, 1797. 8vo. Contemp. marbled boards. Paperlabel with handwritten volume- title on spine. Boards rubbed. In: ""Bibliotheque Britannique"", Tome cinquieme. Sciences et Arts. A name cut from titlepage, no loss of letters. Entire volume offered. 392 pp., 4 folded tables a. 3 folded engraved plates. A faint dampstain to foot of titlepage, otherwise clean, printed on good paper. Rumford's paper: pp. 97-200 a. 1 engraved folded plate.‎

‎First printing of the founding paper on Oceanography, describing the experiments leading to the discovery of the convection currents in the sea. Cold water at depth in the tropics implies a meriodinal circulation transporting deep water from the polar regions towards the equator. Water cooled at the surface in high latitudes gets denser and hence descends. (Parkinson ""Breakthroughs"" 1797).The volume also contains the first translation of any part (into French) of JAMES HUTTON ""Theory of the Earth, &c. Théorie de la Terre, avec des preuves & des éclaircissemens"" en guatre parties. (1.-2. Extrait)."". Pp. 53-73 a. pp. 262-273.‎

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‎"L'ACADEMIE ROYALE DES SCIENCES - KÖNIGLICHE AKADEMIE DER WISSENSCHAFTEN IN PARIS.‎

‎Der Königl. Akademie der Wissenschaften in Paris Physische Abhandlungen. Erster- (Sechster Theil). Aus dem Französischen übersetzet von Wolf Balth. Adolph von Steinwehr. (Umfasst: 1. Theil 1692. 1693. 1699-1702. - 2. Theil 1703-1706. - 3. Theil 1707-1...‎

‎Breslau, Johann Jacob Korn, 1748-51. Large 8vo. Uncut in mounted orig. marbled wrappers, all 6 volumes later clotbacked. Wear to wrappers. Stamps on titlepages. Ca. 5000 pp. (each vol. separately paginated). Textillustrations and 104 engraved plates, some folding.Title-pages browned and brownspotted. Some browning and brownspots throughout.‎

‎Scarce first German translation of the pysical memoirs from the ""Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences"", containing many importent papers by the leading French scientists: Amontons, Cassini, Bernoulli, Homberg, Lemery, la Hire, Reaumur, Tournefort, Maraldi, Delisle etc. etc.Of special importence are GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ: ""Erklärung der Arithmetica binaria, die sich nur der Charakteren 0 und I bedienet, nebst Anmerkungen von ihrem Nutzen und dem verstande, den sie den alten chinesischen Figuren des Fohi giebt."", pp. 88-93 (Bd. II). Leibniz' BINARY NUMBER SYSTEM, first published 1703. And JACOB (JACQUES) CASSINI ""Abhandlung von der Grösse und Figur der Erde"", pp. 431-756 and 14 engraved plates and maps.Poggendorff II, 1000‎

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‎"TILLOCH, ALEXANDER (EDT.). - RODMAN'S ""TREPANNING INSTRUMENT""‎

‎The Philosophical Magazine: comprehending the various Branches of Science, the Liberal and Fine Arts, Agriculture, Manufactures, and Commerce. Vol. VI.‎

‎London, Davis, Taylor, and Wilks, (1800). 8vo. Contemp. boards. Spine with gilt titlelabel. A few scratches to spine. (6),378 pp. and 11 engraved plates, some folding. 2 leaves in ""Content"" and 3 leaves in the text torn with loss of some letters.‎

‎First printing, not a reprint. With the spectacular plate depicting Rodman's Trepanning Instrument accompanying his article describing its use.‎

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‎"BJERKNES, VILHELM.‎

‎Die Atmosphäre als zirkularer Wirbel. Wellentheorie der Zyklonen und Antizyklonen.‎

‎Leipzig-München, Keim und Nemnich, 1922. 4to. Orig. printed wrappers. Offprint/Sonderabdruck from ""Ergebnisse der aerologischen Tagung vom 3. bis 6 Juli 1921 im Preussischen Aeronautischen Observatorium Lindenberg"". 37 pp.‎

‎First edition, offprint issue by one of the true pioneers of meteorology, often called ""the father of modern meteorology"". According to Arnt Eliassen, ""He (Bjerknes) put forward the view that weather forecasting should be dealt with as an initial value problem of mathematical physics and carried out by numerical or graphical integration of the governing equations. This is nothing more than treating the atmosphere as a physical system, but at the time it was a revolutionary idea.""‎

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‎"BJERKNES, VILHELM und H. SOLBERG.‎

‎Zellulare Trägheitswellen und Turbulenz.‎

‎Oslo, Dybwad, 1929. Orig. printed wrappers. ""Avhandlinger utgitt av Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi"". Matem.-Naturvid. Klasse, 1929. No. 7. 29 pp.‎

‎First edition by one of the true pioneers of meteorology, often called ""the father of modern meteorology"". According to Arnt Eliassen, ""He (Bjerknes) put forward the view that weather forecasting should be dealt with as an initial value problem of mathematical physics and carried out by numerical or graphical integration of the governing equations. This is nothing more than treating the atmosphere as a physical system, but at the time it was a revolutionary idea.""‎

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‎HÜBNER, JOHANN.‎

‎Curieuses und Reales Natur-Kunst-Berg-Gewerck und Handlungs-lexicon, darinne nich nur die in der Physic, Medicin, Botanic, Chymie, Anatomie, Chirurgie und Apothecker-Kunst, wie auch in der Mathematic, Astronomie, Music, Mechanic... Bau-Kunst etc. etc....‎

‎Leipzig, Johann Friedrich Gleditsch, 1755. Lex8vo. Contemp. full vellum. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A small tear in fronhinge at top of spine. Slightly rubbed. Engraved frontispiece.Title in red/black. (24) pp., 2352 columns (= 1676 pp.). Withbound Gleditsch's Cataloque. (14) pp. Internally clean.‎

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‎LIPPMANN, EDMUND O. von.‎

‎Beiträge zur Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften und der Technik.‎

‎Berlin, Springer, 1923. Orig. hcloth. VIII,314 pp.‎

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‎L'ACADEMIE ROYALE DES SCIENCES -‎

‎Histoire de L'Academie Royale des Sciences. Année MDCCVI. Avec les Memoires de Mathematiques & de Physique, pour la même Année. Tirés des Registres de cette Academie.‎

‎Paris, Martin, Coignard, Guerin, 1731. 4to. Contemp. full mottled calf. Raised bands. Gilt spines. Hinges weakening. Spine rubbed.. (10),152,521 pp. and 25 engraved plates (some folding). Internally fine and clean.‎

‎Papers by: De la Hire, Maraldi, Varignon, Guisnee, Poupart, Chomel, Cassini, Homberg, Lemery, Dodart, Duc de Bourgogne, Mery, Rolle, de Lagny, Marchant, Du Verney, Carré, Geoffroy.‎

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