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Paris Flammarion 1994 Un fort volume in-8 broché, couverture illustrée, 892 pages. Corrections au stylo d'un universitaire spécialiste d'épistémologie sur les 70 premières pages...
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Astronomiae Physicae & Geometricae Elementa. - [WITH THE FIRST PRINTING OF NEWTON'S ""LUNAE THEORIA"" AND THE FIRST UNVEILING OF NEWTON'S CALSSICAL SCHOLIA]
Oxoniae (Oxford), E Theatro Sheldoniano, 1702. Folio. Contemporary full calf, raised bands, rectangular blindtooled frames and central panel ""mirror"" on covers, Cambridge-style binding. leather at joints cracked, but cords intact so that covers not loose. Corners a bit bumped. Light wear to spine ends. Spine a bit rubbed. Pastedowns and flyleaves with browning. Title-page with large engraved vignette (Sheldon Theater). (12),494,(2) pp. With numerous textdiagrams. Very light browning to titlepage and a few marginal brownspots to last leaf, a fine clean copy, printed on good paper with wide margins.On the verso of the title-page is pasted the book plate of Sir William Baird of Newbaith. He habitually pasted his armorial bookplate on the verso of the title-pages of the books in his large and fine library.
First edition of the first text book of astronomy based on Newtonian principles. Apart from its importance in the remodeling of astronomy in conformity with physical theory, the work is of the utmost importance as a source book - it contains the FIRST PRINTING OF NEWTON'S PAPER ON LUNAR THEORY (""Lunae Theoria Newtoniana"", pp. 332-336) as well as the FIRST EXPOSITION OF NEWTON'S CLASSICAL SCHOLIA, which Newton himself considered an important part of his philosophy.Gregory, a Scottish mathematician, who taught at Edinburgh and Oxford, was one of Newton's closest friends and associates. Newton thought highly of his work and communicated for insertion it in his Lunar Theory. He also permitted Gregory to use the material of that which is known as his ""Classical Scholia"", which are incorporated into Gregory's preface. ""Newtonian scholars have long been aware of a set of draft Scholia to Propositions IV to IX of Book III of the ""Principia"". These were composed in the 1690's, as part of an unimplemented plan for a second edition of the work. Since they describe supposed anticipation of Newton's doctrines in the thought of Greco-Roman antiquity, they have been known as the 'classical' Scholia..... Newton's thoughts on these matters were not, however, kept completely concealed. HE PERMITTED DAVID GREGORY TO USE THE MATERIAL EXTENSIVELY in a long historical preface to his ""Astronomiae Physicae & Geometricae Elementa"" (1702), IF WITHOUT ATTRIBUTION. (It was also available to Maclaurin for his much later work)."" (McGuire & Rattansi in ""Newton and the Pipes of Pan"", 1966).""It was the first textbook composed on gravitational principles, and remodeling astronomy in conformity with physical theory. Newton thought highly of it, and communicated for insertion in it (p. 332)) his 'lunar theory', long the guide of practical astronomers in determining the Moon's motions. The discussion in the preface, in which the doctrine of gravitation was brought into credit on the score of its antiquity, likewise emanated from Newton."" (DNB).""His thick folio text on foundations of astronomy, Astronomiae...elementa (1702) is a well-documented but unimaginative attempt to graft the gravitational synthesis propounded in the first book and especially the third book of Newton's Principia onto the findings of traditional astronomy. While respected as a source book it is now chiefly remembered for the remarks by Newton on the prisca sapientia of the ancients and their ""knowledge"" of the inverse-square law of universal gravitation and for the Latin version of Newton's short paper on lunar theory which it reproduces."" (DSB).Babson No. 71. - Houzeau & Lancaster 9240.
La méthode des fluxions et des suites infinies par M. Le Chevalier Newton, traduction de M. De Buffon (Reprint en fac-similé parue chez Debure en 1710) , (De analysi per aequationes numero terminorum infinitas (or On analysis by infinite series, On Analysis by Equations with an infinite number of terms, or On the Analysis by means of equations of an infinite number of terms)
Librairie Scientifique Albert Blanchard , (Debure) Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1966 Book condition, Etat : Bon broché, sous couverture imprimée éditeur grise In-4 1 vol. - 182 pages
quelques figures dans le texte en noir et blanc Reprint 1996 de l'édition de 1740 (le texte est initalement paru en 1669 en Angleterre) Contents, Chapitres : Préface de Buffon, xxx, errata, ii, Texte, 148 pages, privilège du Roy, ii - Isaac Newton, 1642-1727, est un mathématicien, physicien, philosophe, alchimiste, astronome et théologien anglais, puis britannique. Figure emblématique des sciences, il est surtout reconnu pour avoir fondé la mécanique classique, pour sa théorie de la gravitation universelle et la création, en concurrence avec Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, du calcul infinitésimal. En optique, il a développé une théorie de la couleur basée sur l'observation selon laquelle un prisme décompose la lumière blanche en un spectre visible. Il a aussi inventé le télescope à réflexion composé d'un miroir primaire concave appelé télescope de Newton. - En 1669, il rédige un compte rendu sur les fondements du calcul infinitésimal quil appelle « méthode des fluxions ». Newton a fondé ainsi lanalyse mathématique moderne. - En plus de ses contributions à la physique, Newton, parallèlement à Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, élabore les principes fondateurs du calcul infinitésimal. Alors que Newton ne fait rien éditer sur sa méthode des infiniment petits ou des fluxions et les suites infinies avant 1687, Leibniz publie ses travaux en 1684. Si le problème de priorité de l'invention s'est posé, Newton dans son uvre Principia publiée en 1687 rend hommage à la découverte de Leibniz en reconnaissant qu'il est parvenu aux mêmes résultats que lui par une méthode analogue à la sienne. Malgré cela, des membres de la Royal Society dont Newton est membre accusent Leibniz de plagiat, finissant par créer un différend en 1711. C'est ainsi que la Royal Society proclame dans une étude que Newton est le vrai découvreur de la méthode et Leibniz un imposteur. Ceci entache aussi bien la vie de Newton que celle de Leibniz, jusqu'à sa mort en 1716. (source : Wikipedia) - De analysi per aequationes numero terminorum infinitas (or On analysis by infinite series, On Analysis by Equations with an infinite number of terms, or On the Analysis by means of equations of an infinite number of terms), is a mathematical work by Isaac Newton (1669). Contents : The exponential series, i.e. tending toward infinity, was discovered by Newton and is contained within the Analysis. The treatise contains also the sine series and cosine series and arc series, the logarithmic series and the binomial series. (source : Wikipedia) "infimes traces de pliures aux coins des plats de la couverture sans gravité, quelques rousseurs sur la couverture, intérieur sinon frais et propre, cela reste un bon exemplaire - minor folding tracks on the corners of the wrappers which remains clean and unmarked, few foxings on the wrappers, inside is fine, no markings, it remains a near fine copy of this reprint (1966) from the 1740's translation by Buffon of Newton's famous paper ""De analysi per aequationes numero terminorum infinitas"". (1669)."
Introduction to Isaac Newton's Principia
Cambridge University Press Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1978 Book condition, Etat : Bon paperback, editor's full white printed wrappers, illustrated by a marble portrait of Newton, title in orange grand In-8 1 vol. - 408 pages
16 plates out of text with Newton's manuscript fac-simile, few text-figures Second reprinted edition, 1978 (first was 1971) Contents, Chapitres : Preface, xxviii, texte, 380 pages - preface - 1. An edition of the Principia with variant readings : Interest in the development of the Principia - The plan of the present edition with variant readings and the problems of Newtonian Scholarship - 2. The writing and first publication of the Principia : Steps towards the Principia - Writing the Principia - The completion and printing of the Principia - 3. Revising the Principia : First critical evaluations of the Principia - Revisions, chiefly of the 1690s, and plans for a second edition - Steps toward a second edition) - 4. The second and third editions of the Principia : Second edition - The eception of the second edition, the two reprints - The third edition of the Principa - 5. Supplements : Some autobiographical statements by Newton about the composition of the Principia - Humphrey Newton and the Principia - Newton's professorial lectures - Newton's Lucasian lectures - The resistance of spherical bodies - Newton's system of the world - A critique by Halley of a preliminary version of the Principia - The tract De quadratura and the Prncipia - Newton's Lemmas and proposition on the Horary motion of the Lunar apogee - Bibliography and index - Ierome Bernard Cohen (connu sous le nom de Bernard Cohen), né le 1er mars 1914 à Long Island, New York, et mort le 20 juin 2003 à Waltham dans le Massachusetts, est un historien des sciences américain, professeur à Harvard. Spécialiste et traducteur de Newton, il a consacré de nombreuses publications à lhistoire de la physique, de linformatique et au rôle des sciences aux États-Unis. Il fut l'éditeur en chef de la revue Isis de 1952 à 1958. near fine copy, wrappers very lightly yellowing with minor folding tracks on the corners, inside is clean, no markings, a rather very good copy of this master work on Newton's Principia
Revue d'Histoire des Sciences sur Isaac Newton - Pierre Costabel - Georges Barthélemy - François de Gandt - Christiane Vilain - Michel Blay - John Greenberg - Efthymios Nicolaidis- Catherine Chevalley - Jean Dhombres sur Leonhard Euler
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(1987)
Revue d'Histoire des Sciences - Tome XL - n°3/4 - Juillet-décembre 1987 - Les Principia de Newton - Questions et commentaires , (Les Principia Mathematica de Newton et leurs colonnes d'Hercule - De la force accélératrice dans les Principia - François de Gandt : Le problème inverse (Prop. 39-41) - Newton et le modèle mécaniste de la réfraction - Le traitement newtonien du mouvement des projectiles dans les milieux résistants - Isaac Newton et la théorie de la figure de la Terre - 118 pages sur les Principes Mathématiques de la Philosophie Naturelle)
Presses Universitaires de France - P.U.F. , Centre International de Synthèse - Revue d'Histoire des Sciences Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1987 Book condition, Etat : Bon broché, sous couverture imprimée éditeur blanche, titre en bleu et noir grand In-8 1 vol. - 167 pages
quelques figures dans le texte en noir et blanc 1ere édition, 1987 Contents, Chapitres : 1. Articles : Pierre Costabel : Les Principia de Newton et leurs colonnes d'Hercule - Georges Barthélemy : De la force accélératrice dans les Principia - François de Gandt : Le problème inverse (Prop. 39-41) - Christiane Vilain : Newton et le modèle mécaniste de la réfraction - Michel Blay : Le traitement newtonien du mouvement des projectiles dans les milieux résistants - John Greenberg : Isaac Newton et la théorie de la figure de la Terre - 2. Documentation : Efthymios Nicolaidis : Les livres qui ont introduit les sciences dans le monde grec au Siècle des Lumières - Catherine Chevalley : L'optique des Jésuites et celle des médecins - Jean Dhombres : A l'occasion du bicentenaire de la mort de Leonhard Euler, 1707-1783 - Comptes rendus - En 1687, Isaac Newton publie donc son uvre majeure : Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, (Principes mathématiques de la philosophie naturelle). Cette uvre marque le début de la mathématisation de la physique. En effet, Newton y expose le principe dinertie, la proportionnalité des forces et des accélérations, légalité de laction et de la réaction, les lois du choc, il y étudie le mouvement des fluides, les marées, etc. Mais il expose aussi et surtout sa théorie de lattraction universelle. Les corps sattirent avec une force proportionnelle au produit de leur masse et inversement proportionnelle au carré de la distance qui les sépare. La simplicité et l'efficacité de cette théorie aura une très forte influence sur les autres sciences au xviiie siècle, particulièrement les sciences sociales comme nous le verrons. Toutefois, sur le moment, si le livre est bien accueilli en Grande-Bretagne, sur le continent la réaction est hostile. (source : Wikipedia) couverture à peine jaunie avec quelques rousseurs discrètes, sinon bel exemplaire, intérieur frais et propre - paginé 249 à 415 dont les pages 249 à 366 sur les Principia de Newton (118 pages, et quelques figures)
La Methode des Fluxions, et des Suites Infinies Par le Chevalier Newton. (Translated by G. Louis Le Clerc, ount de Buffon). - [THE CALCULUS - THE INFINITESIMAL METHOD]
Paris, De Bure, 1740. 4to. Contemporary half calf, raised bands, richly gilt spine and and red speckled edges. Leather title-label to spine. Corners neatly repaired. Title in red/black. (2), III-XXX, (2) Errata, 148 pp., many diagrams. The ""Preface"" and the first 18 leaves of the text with a foxing to lower margin and right corners. The ""Preface"" is an historical account of Newton's method ""la sublime méthode"", written by Buffon. Without the leaf ""Extrait des Registres"".
The influential first French edition of Newton's important work, which constitutes the most extensive description of the mathematical method he used in his famous ""Principia"", the method of infinitesimals, which was already written about 1671, but not published until 1736, i.e. posthumously, with the title ""Method of Fluxions and Infinite Series..."". In this work ""Newton stated clearly the fundamental problem of the calculus: the relation of quantities being given, to find the relation of the fluxions of these, and conversely. In conformity with this problem and the new notation, Newton then gave examples of his method....In this book Newton introduced his characteristic notation and conceptions. He regarded his variable quantities as generated by the continuous motion of points, lines and planes, rather than as aggregates of infinitesimal elements, the view which had appeared in ""De analysi""...The rate of generation Newton called a ""fluxion"", designating it by means of a letter with a dot over it, a ""pricked letter"", the quantity generates he called a ""fluent"".( Boyer, The History of the Calculus.).Colson (in his preface to the first edition from 1736) says: ""I gladly embraced the opportunity that was put into my hands, of publishing this posthumous work, because I found it had been composed with that view and design. And that my own Country-men might first enjoy the benefit of this publication, I resolved upon giving it an English translation, with some additional remarks of my own, I thought it highly injurious to the memory and reputation of the real Author, as well as invidious to the glory of our own Nation, that so curious and useful a piece should be any longer suppress'd and confined to a few private hands, which ought to be communicated to all the learned World for general Instruction.It was through the French translations of his works that Newton came to play the seminal role as the most important of mathematicians that he did in France, and particularly the years around 1740, when the present work appeared in French for the first time were seminal to the scientific development in France, where the likes of Voltaire had only just made the nation acquinted with the work of the great mathematician. Gray No 236. Babson No 173.
