‎Otto Wagner, Adolf Loos, and the Road to Modern Architecture ‎

‎, Cambridge University Press, 2002 Hardcover with dusjacket, 282 pages, Illustrated. 17.78 x 1.75 x 25.4 cm. ISBN 9780521623469.‎

‎Contemporary architectural theory emphasizes the importance of 'tectonics', the term used to articulate the relationship between construction, structure and architectural expression. Despite the term's currency, little consideration has been given to its origins or historical significance. In this 2002 study, Werner Oechslin examines the attempts by early modern theoreticians of architecture to grapple with the relationship between appearance and essence, which is crucial to the discourse of tectonics. Referring to the writings of Joseph Lux, Karl B tticher, and Adolf Loos, Oechslin follows this development from theories of a classical architecture without columnar orders to a Modern architecture upholding the 'truth'of its own architectural expression. Oechslin locates the culmination of this discourse in the work of Adolf Loos and in Le Corbusier's frequent references to Ancient Greece as the precedent of Modern architecture's honesty. This volume includes an anthology of primary texts by several theorists published in English‎

‎Les isolants en électrotechnique [Edition originale de la traduction française ]‎

‎Traduit de l'allemand par A. Halphen, 1 vol. in-8 reliure éditeur pleine percaline bordeaux, Librairie Polytechnique Ch. Béranger, Successeur de Baudry et Cie, Paris, 1909, 2 ff., II-181 pp. et 8 pp. (catalogue de livres sur l'électricité).‎

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‎Bon état‎

‎MÉMOIRES DE PHYSIQUE MÉCANIQUE ‎

‎Paris Bachelier, imprimeur-libraire 1848 in 8 (22x14) 1 volume reliure demi percaline bleue (reliure de la seconde moitié du XIXème siécle). recueil de 9 mémoires: 1°/ Mémoire sur l'élasticité et la cohésion des métaux ; 2°/ Mémoire sur l'élasticité et la cohésion des alliages; 3°/ Mémoire sur l'influence du courant galvanique et de l'éléctromagnétisme sur l'élasticité des métaux (114 pages, une planche gravée dépliante); 4°/ Mémoire sur les sons produits par le courant électrique (26 pages); 5°/ Note sur l'élasticité et sur la cohésion des différentes espèces de verre, par MM. E. Chevandier et G. Wertheim (12 pages); 6°/ Mémoire sur l'équilibre des corps solides homogènes (43 pages, une planche gravée dépliante); 7°/ Mémoire sur la vitesse du son dans les liquides (43 pages, deux planches gravées dépliantes); 8°/ Mémoire sur les propriétés mécaniques du bois, par MM. E. Chevandier et G. Wertheim (135 pages); 9°/ Mémoire sur l'élasticité et la cohésion des principaux tissus du corps humains (30 pages), anciens cachets d'une société d'encouragement. Bel exemplaire ‎

‎Bon Reliure ‎

‎Guide de tests parapsychologiques‎

‎Nizet 1940 32 pages in8. 1940. Agrafé. 32 pages. traduction et préface de Robert Amadou‎

‎Bon Etat ensemble jauni bonne tenue texte frais premier plat un peu déchiré‎

‎Luminosity Effects and Colour-Equivalents as Measured in Short Stellar Spectra. III. Summary of classification criteria Investigation of the region of the open cluster in Coma Berenices. With 16 figures in the text.‎

‎ Stockholm, Almqvist & Wiksells 1953, 305x230mm, 50pages, paperback. ‎

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‎Schatz aus den Tr mmern. Der Silberschrein von Nivelles und die europ ische Hochgotik.‎

‎, Locher, K ln 1996, 1996 Softcover, 415 seiten, Deutsch, 305 x 220 mm, mit viele abbildungen, . ISBN 9783930054213.‎

‎ Eine Ausstellung des Schn tgen-Museums, K ln vom 24. November 1995 bis 11. Februar 1996 in der C cilienkirche und der R union des Mus es Nationaux vom 12. M rz bis 10. Juni 1996 im Mus e National du Moyen Age-Thermes de Cluny, Paris.‎

‎The Construction of Modern Science - Mechanisms and Mechanics‎

‎Cambridge University Press , The Cambridge History of Science Series Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1982 Book condition, Etat : Bon paperback, editor's illustrated (screw-shapes pieces) black wrappers, title in blue In-8 1 vol. - 184 pages‎

‎few black and white text-figures reprinted edition, 1982 Contents, Chapitres : Preface, Contents, xiii, texte, 171 pages - Celestial dynamics and terrestrial mechanics - Mechanical philosophy - Mechanical science - Mechanical chemistry - Biology and the mechanical philosophy - Organization of the scientific enterprise - Science of mechanics - Newtonian dynamics - Further reading and index - Richard S. Westfall (22 avril 1924 21 août 1996) est un biographe et historien des sciences américain. Il est notamment connu pour sa biographie de Isaac Newton et son travail sur la révolution scientifique du xviie siècle. near fine copy, no markings, few foxings on the right part, inside remains clean‎

‎Gl ckliches K ln. Graphische Kunst aus 10 Jahrhunderten.‎

‎Koln, Wienand Verlag , 1992 Hardcover, 239 seiten , Deutsche sprache, 325 x 245 mm, Leineneinband mit Schutzumschlag, Die Ausgabe ist limitiert auf 2000 Exemplare. Dieses Exemplar tr gt die Nummer 1390. ISBN 9783879092475.‎

‎Zeichnungen und Wiegendrucke f hren ins K lner Mittelalter. F r B rger, Theologen und Humanisten rings um den Dom: Graphik und Buchillustration als Schl ssel zum K ln des renaissance-Zeitalters. Bilderlust und Bilderware: Graphische Erinneungen an das barocke K ln und seine Bewohner. Spiegel einer neuen Zeit: K ln im 19. Jh., vergegenw rtigt durch Zeichnungen, Aquarelle und Drucke. Zwischen Einzelwerk und Massenauflage: K ln-Bilder des 20. Jh. Die graphischen K nste unserer Zeit. 238 S. Mit zahlreichen, teils farb. Abbildungen. Schmuckschuber praktisch ohne Gebrauchsspuren, sauber, Umschlag, Einband und R cken ebenso, Schnitt (Kopfschnitt vergoldet) und Seiten sauber, sehr guter Zustand‎

‎Franz West: Biennale di Venezia 1990, Austrian Exhibition ‎

‎Austria, , 1990 Softcover, 93 pages, Illustrated. text in German. ISBN 9783854150831.‎

‎Franz West: Biennale di Venezia 1990, Austrian Exhibition West, Franz And Hans Hollein‎

‎Le grand livre des épices‎

‎ ,Paris, Editions M.C. 1987, 63 pp., 1 vol. in 4 relié cartonnage illustré éditeur, illustrations in et hos-texte en couleurs‎

‎Reference data for radio Engineers. Fourth edition‎

‎International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation 1956 Reliure éditeur pleine toile verte, 1121 pp., figures dans le texte. Bon exemplaire.‎

‎ Bon état d’occasion ‎

‎Une Cité Prophétique: Les Asiles John Bost.-‎

‎Avec illustrations. Laforce. Direction des Asiles John Bost. Paris. Librairie Protestante. s.d. (Vers 1930). Gd in-8 br. couverture illustrée un peu salie, 158pp. Qq. illustrations photo h.-t.‎

‎Les méthodes modernes d'éclairage. Technique de l'utilisation de la lumière. 2e édition revue et augmentée.‎

‎ P., Eyrolles, 1931, grand in 8° broché, 191 pages ; illustrations et figures ; couverture fanée. ‎

‎Cours professé à l'école spéciale des travaux publics. ...................... Photos sur demande ..........................‎

‎Latijn van toen tot nu. Opstellen, vertalingen en teksten van Prof. Andries Welkenhuysen gebundeld naar aanleiding van zijn emeritaat. ‎

‎Leuven, Universitaire Pers, 1995 Hardback, Nederlands, originele uitgeversomslag, 16x24 cm., 400 pp. ISBN 9789061866770.‎

‎ Symbolae Facultatis Litterarum Lovaniensis - Series A (hardcover) : 18. ‎

‎LA BIODIVERSITE DE CRISE EN CRISE‎

‎ALBIN MICHEL. 2014. In-8. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 300 pages. . . . Classification Dewey : 500-SCIENCES DE LA NATURE ET MATHEMATIQUES‎

‎Préface d Allain Bougrain Dubourg Classification Dewey : 500-SCIENCES DE LA NATURE ET MATHEMATIQUES‎

‎Die Metra der alten Griechen und Römer in Massen des deutschen Reichs übersichtlich dargestellt. ‘Programm d. K. Studienanst. Straubing’.‎

‎Straubing, Lechner, 1881, in-8vo, 64 S., Broschüre o. Umschl.‎

‎Temps, espace, matière. Leçons sur la théorie de la relativité. Traduites sur la quatrième édition allemande par G. Juvet et R. Leroy -- PREMIERE EDITION FRANCAISE‎

‎P., Blanchard, 1922, un volume in 8, broché, couverture imprimée (légèrement défraîchie), 8pp., 290pp.‎

‎---- PREMIERE EDITION FRANCAIS ---- "H. Weyl, the most universal mathematicians of his generation, had an important role in the development of mathematical physics, the field to which his most famous books, Raum, Zeit und Materie (1918), on the theory of relativity, and Gruppentheorie und Quantenmechanik, are devoted". (DSB XIV pp. 281/285)**5283/‎

‎Temps, espace, matière. Leçons sur la théorie de la relativité générale‎

‎Paris, Librairie scientifique Albert Blanchard, 1958, 17,5 x 23,5, 290 pages cousues sous couverture imprimée.Traduites sur la quatrième édition allemande.‎

‎Petits défauts à la couverture, insolée. Papier jauni.‎

‎Les thèses de doctorat à l’Université de Fribourg depuis sa fondation en 1889 jusqu’au 1er Mars 1936.‎

‎ Fribourg, St-Paul 1936, 245x170mm, 128pages, broché. Bel exemplaire.‎

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‎Les affinités astrologiques. Collection : L'avenir sans peine.‎

‎Paris, Le Grand Livre du Mois, 1994. 15 x 21, 364 pp., broché, très bon état.‎

‎bijdrage tot de kennis van ladingsoverdrachtverschijnselen aan halfgeleideroppervlakken door elektrochemische methodes : Studie van elektrochemische processen aan het oppervlak van ZnO-eenkristallen.‎

‎, Brussel, Paleis der Academien, 1971., Gebrocheerd, originele uitgeversomslag, 18x26cm, 97 p., fig., tab.‎

‎Verhandelingen van de Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie voor Wetenschappen, Letteren en Schone Kunsten van Belgie. Klasse der Natuurwetenschappen, tweede reeks, n? 121.‎

‎History of the Inductive Sciences. From the Earliest to the Present Times. In three volumes. + The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, Founded upon their History. In two volumes. Five volumes in all. - [COINING THE TERM ""SCIENTIST""]‎

‎London, 1837 + London, 1840. Five volumes 8vo. Bound in five contemporary, uniform brown half calf bindings (The Philosophy...-volumes slightly darker brown) with raised bands and gilt spines. Marbled edges. A bit of light edge-wear, but overall very fine and fresh. Some marginal pencil markings to first part of vol. 1 of ""The Philosophy..."", otherwise also internally very nice and clean. All five volumes with the same engraved amorial bookplate to inside of front boards. A very nice, uniform set of the five volumes that make up the two works. XXXVI, 437, (3)" XI, (1), VI pp., pp. (7)-534, (2) XII, 624 pp. + CXX, 523, (1)" IV, 586 pp. + folded plate. ‎

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‎Uncommon first editions of both these splendid works (the ""Philosophy"" is particularly scarce), Whewell's two main works, both seminal in the history of science and philosophy of science. The first of the two works, the ""History"" is considered ""one of the important surveys of science from the Greeks to the nineteenth century"" (DSB), and it is in the second of them, ""The Philosophy..."" - ""one of the masterpieces of Victorian philosophy of science"" (DSB) - that he coins the word ""scientist"", to describe a cultivator of science in general. “William Whewell (1794–1866) was one of the most important and influential figures in nineteenth-century Britain. Whewell, a polymath, wrote extensively on numerous subjects, including mechanics, mineralogy, geology, astronomy, political economy, theology, educational reform, international law, and architecture, as well as the works that remain the most well-known today in philosophy of science, history of science, and moral philosophy. He was one of the founding members and a president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, a fellow of the Royal Society, president of the Geological Society, and longtime Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. In his own time his influence was acknowledged by the major scientists of the day, such as John Herschel, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell and Michael Faraday, who frequently turned to Whewell for philosophical and scientific advice, and, interestingly, for terminological assistance. Whewell invented the terms “anode,” “cathode,” and “ion” for Faraday. In response to a challenge by the poet S.T. Coleridge in 1833, Whewell invented the English word “scientist""” before this time the only terms in use in that language were “natural philosopher” and “man of science”.” (SEP). ""First published in 1840, this two-volume treatise by Cambridge polymath William Whewell (1794-1886) remains significant in the philosophy of science. The work was intended as the 'moral' to his three-volume History of the Inductive Sciences (1837)... Building on philosophical foundations laid by Immanuel Kant and Francis Bacon, Whewell opens with the aphorism 'Man is the Interpreter of Nature, Science the right interpretation'. Volume 1 contains the majority of Whewell's section on 'ideas', in which he investigates the philosophy underlying a range of different disciplines, including pure, classificatory and mechanical sciences. Whewell's work upholds throughout his belief that the mind was active and not merely a passive receiver of knowledge from the world. A key text in Victorian epistemological debates, notably challenged by John Stuart Mill and his System of Logic, Whewell's treatise merits continued study and discussion in the present day."" (Cambridge University Press). ""From the late 1830's until his death, Whewell worked mainly in the history and philosophy of science. His three-volume ""History of the Inductive Sciences"" appeared in 1837" in 1838 he was appointed professor of moral philosophy" and the first edition of his two-volume ""The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, Founded Upon Their History"" was published in 1840. Both the ""History"" and the ""Philosophy"" were ambitious works, and together they constitute Whewell's major scholarly achievement. The ""History"" had no rivals in its day and remains, despite unevenness, one of the important surveys of science from the Greeks to the nineteenth century. Whewell appreciated the importance of Greek science, especially astronomy, but showed typical disregard for the contributions of medieval scientists. His assessment of the importance of contributions of such major figures as Galileo and Descartes suffers from a heavy intrusion of religious and philosophical biases. But his treatment of Newton and other modern mathematical scientists is fair and sometime brilliant, and is based throughout upon detailed considerations of texts. Wheweel's ""Philosophy"" stimulated major philosophical exchanges between its author and Sir John Herschel, Augustus De Morgan, Henry L. Mansel, and John Stuart Mill. Alongside Mill's ""System of Logic"" and Herschel's ""Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy"", the work ranks as one of the masterpieces of Victorian philosophy of science. Whewell's effort in these works was unique in his attempt to derive a philosophy of science from the general features of the historical development of empirical science. The importance of this attempt has not been fully appreciated. Whewell thought that the history of science displayed a progressive movement from less to more general theories, from imperfectly understood facts to basic sciences built upon a priori foundations that he called ""Fundamental Ideas."" All science was theoretical in that no body of data comes to us selforganized"" even collection of data involves the imposition of a guiding interpretive idea. Major advances in science occur in what Whewell called an ""Inductive Epoch,"" a period in which the basic ideas of a science are well understood by one or more scientists, and in which the generality and explanatory power of a science are seen to be much more illuminating than those of rival theories. Each such ""Epoch"" had a ""Prelude,"" a period in which older theories experienced difficulties and new ideas were seen to be required, and a ""Sequel,"" a period in which the new theory was applied and refined. Largely ignoring the British tradition of empiricist philosophy and methodology, Whewell erected a philosophy of science upon his understanding of history that derived partly from Kant and Plato, and partly from an anachronistic theological position. Like his British predecessors, he thought that induction was the basic method of science. He understood induction not as a form of inference from particulars to generalizations, but as a conceptual act of coming to see that a group of data can best be understood and organized (his term was ""colligated"") under a certain idea. Furthermore, induction was demonstrative in that it yields necessary truths, propositions the logical opposites of which cannot be clearly conceived. The zenith of the inductive process was reached when a ""consilience of inductions"" took place-when sets of data previously considered disjoint came to be seen as derivable from the same, much richer theory. Although Whewell thought that the paradigm form of a scientific theory was deductive, he departed from the orthodox hypothetico-deductivist view of science by claiming that tests of the acceptability of given theories are extraevidential, based on considerations of simplicity and consilience. He made some attempt to justify the necessity of the conclusions that induction yields by arguing for the identity of facts and theories, and for the theological view that we know the world the way it is because that is the way God made it. In physical astronomy Whewell's work on the tides ranks second only to that of Newton. Also of great importance was his lifelong effort to modernize and improve science education at Cambridge. The achievement in history and philosophy of science probably is less significant, although recent revival of interest in Whewell has centered mainly upon his insights in philosophy of science and methodology. Interest is growing in the interrelations of history and philosophy of science"" and so long as this interest continues to be fruitful, it will be well worthwhile considering what Whewell had to say on the nature of scientific discovery, inductive methodology, and the characteristics of scientific progress."" (DSB, XIV, pp 293-94) ‎

‎A Manual of the British Algae‎

‎HARVEY W. H., A manual of the British Algae : containing generic and specific descriptions of all the known British species of sea-weeds, and of conferae, both marine and fresh-water. London, Van Voorst, 1841. In-8, [1] f., lvii-229 pp., og. green cloth-binding. Assez bon état, légère usure, presque exempt de rousseur. Fairly good condition, minor wear, barely no foxing.‎

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‎LA PLANETE TERRE. LES TEMPETES‎

‎TIME-LIFE. 1983. In-4. Cartonné. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur acceptable. 169 pages. Nombreuses photos et illustrations en noir et blanc et en couleurs dans le texte et hors texte. Ouvrage de bibliothèque avec une couverture plastique transparente sur la couverture originale.Tampons de bibliothèque sur la page de titre. Une étiquette de code en pied du dos.. . . . Classification Dewey : 500-SCIENCES DE LA NATURE ET MATHEMATIQUES‎

‎ Classification Dewey : 500-SCIENCES DE LA NATURE ET MATHEMATIQUES‎

‎Histoire de la lutte entre la science et la théologie. Traduit et adapté par MM. H. De Varigny et G. Adam -- PREMIERE EDITION FRANCAISE‎

‎P., Guillaumin, 1899, un volume in 8 relié en demi-chagrin vert (reliure de l'époque), (dos passé), 536pp.‎

‎---- PREMIERE EDITION FRANCAISE ---- DSB XIV pp. 297/298. De la création à l'évolution - L'évolution de l'astronomie - Des signes et présages à la loi des cieux - De la genèse à la géologie - L'antiquité de l'homme devant l'égyptologie et l'assyriologie, devant l'archéologie préhistorique - La chute de l'homme et l'anthropologie - La chute de l'homme et l'ethnologie - La chute de l'homme devant l'histoire - De la magie à la chimie et à la physique - Des miracles à la médecine - De la possession diabolique à l'aliénation mentale - ETC**5284/‎