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KOENIG (John-Franklin)]
J.-F. Koenig.
Seattle Seattle Art Museum 1970 1 vol. broché in-4, broché, couverture en couleurs, 147 pp., nombreuses reproductions en noir et en couleurs. Textes et légendes en anglais. Bonne condition.
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Lettre d'un Inconnu à un Inconnu à l'occasion de la fameuse dispute entre Mr. Maupertius et Mr. Koenig (+) Academie des Graces Par Mr. L. Le Me***. - [""PERHAPS THE UGLIEST OF ALL FAMOUS SCIENTIFIC DISPUTES"" ]
(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).
Frédéric KOENIG et L'INVENTION DE LA PRESSE MECANIQUE traduit de l'allemand avec l'autorisation et l'approbation de l'auteur par P. Schmidt. OUVRAGE CONTENANT LES DESSINS DES PREMIERES PRESSES MECANIQUES et LE PORTRAIT DE L'INVENTEUR gravé à l'eau-forte -- PREMIERE EDITION FRANCAISE -- PREMIERE EDITION FRANCAISE
P., Schmidt, 1885 un volume in 8 relié en demi-chagrin bordeaux à coins, dos orné de filets dorés (reliure de l'époque, 1 PORTRAIT gravé de KOENIG, 15pp., 373pp., figures dans le texte, demi-chagrin bordeaux à coins, dos orné de filets dorés.
---- PREMIERE EDITION FRANCAISE ---- "Frédéric KOENIG, mécanicien allemand 1775/1833), est l'inventeur de la presse typographique mécanique" ---- Son enfance, son adolescence, son apprentissage - Acquisition d'une imprimerie à Mayence - Construction de presses et stéréotypie - Voyages à Vienne, Dresde, Wurzburg, Saint-Pétersbourg et à Londres - Liaison avec Bensley - Achèvement de la première machine et premières impressions - Sa construction et son importance - Koenig expose dans le Times la marche de son invention - Originalité de son invention - Description de la machine à imprimer avec cylindre - Projet d'une machine à impressions multiples - Machines du Times et leur construction - Premier tirage du Times sur la machine de Koenig - Description de la machine de MM; Bacon et Bryan Donkin - Machine à retiration - Projet de Koenig d'introduire ses machines en Amérique - Nicholson considéré comme inventeur de la machine à imprimer - Voyage de Koenig à Paris - La Révolution de Juillet en France ; destruction des presses mécaniques - Machines à deux couleurs - Projet d'une machine pour l'impression de papier sans fin - etc**2924/Q5AR
Phantomas 86. Théodore Koenig
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
J.-F. Koenig : Quelques oeuvres de 1969 à 1971 : J.F. Koenig / J.R. Arnaud, dialogue
Paris Galerie Arnaud 1971
in-8 carré, illustré de planches (reproductions noir/couleurs et portrait en frontispice par Feito), n.p. Couverture illustrée couleurs, titrée John Franklin Koenig. :: Catalogue d'expo. Texte de l'entrevue, dialogue avec son galeriste, en francais et en anglais. :: Broché. Bon état.
Examen de la dissertation de M. le Professeur Koenig, inseree dans les actes de Leipzig, pour le mois de mars 1751. (Examination of the dissertation of Professor Koenig inserted into the Acts of Leipzig for the month of March 1751) (+) Essay d'une D...
(Berlin, Haude et Spener, 1753). 4to. No wrappers, as issued in ""Mémoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres"", tome VII, Année 1751. Pp. 221-245 and pp. 246-254 a. 1 engraved plate.
First editions. The first paper concerns the Argument over the principle of least action, relating to the famous controversy - and one of the ugliest scientific controversies - between Koenig and Maupertuis. ""In 1751 a sensational new argument began when S. König published some critical remarks on Maupertuis’s principle of least action (1744) and cited a letter of Leibniz in which the principle was, in König’s opinion, formulated more precisely. Submitting to Maupertuis, the Berlin Academy rose to defend him and demanded that the original of Leibniz’ letter (a copy had been sent to König from Switzerland) be presented. When it became clear that the original could not be found, Euler published, with the approval of the Academy, ""Exposé concernant l’examen de la lettre de M. de Leibnitz"" (1752), where, among other things, he declared the letter a fake. The conflict grew critical when later in the same year Voltaire published his Diatribe du docteur Akakia, médecin du pape, defending König and making laughingstocks of both Maupertuis and Euler.""(DSB) - Enestrom No. 199.The second paper - Enestrom No. 200.
