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"(FONTENELLE, BERNARD de).Livre Rare Book

Élements de la Geometrie de L'Infini. Suite des Memoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences. Paris, De L'Imprimerie Royale, 1727.

Henry Timberlake; Jean Baptiste Louis Joseph Billecocq; Le Suire; Cioranescu; Bernard Le Bovier de FontenelleBiblio.com

Voyages du lieutenant Henri Timberlake qui fut charge dans l'annee 1760 de conduire in Angleterre trois sauvages de la tribu des Cherokees; renfermant des details interessans sur cette peuplade d'habitans du Nord de L'Amerique sur leurs moeurs leurs usages leur forme de gouvernement leurs principes religieux et politiques AND Histoire des Oracles; Poesies Pastorales

17972105270019Paris Impr. de Hautbout l'aine an v 1797. First French edition. Hardcover. Good. The French and Indian War: Cherokee Indians 3 works bound as one. 12mo 15 cm. Bound in contemporary 1/4 calf. 2 viii 187 1 pages. Lacking frontispiece. Early ink doodle on verso of title page lion but clean besides. French translation by Billecocq of the 1765 London edition of "The memoirs of Lieut. Henry Timberlake." Timberlake was a Virginian from Hanover county who fought for the English against the Cherokees in the French and Indian War. Tensions had been raised by the execution of 22 Cherokee in South Carolina in 1760 at Fort Prince George. As a result Overhill Cherokee attempted to expel British settlers. Timberlake was part of Colonel William Byrd / Adam Stephen's forces sent to suppress the Americas Indians in the Virginia / Tennessee region. Timberlake served as a lieutenant and a hostage to the Cherokees in 1761-1762 and visited many of their settlements. Later he was accompanied by three Cherokee leaders including the Chief Ostenaco on a diplomatic mission to England. The mission met with King George III and attempted to halt westward expansion by British colonists. One a second mission to England in 1765 Timberlake was imprisoned for debts owed for the lodging in London. He presumably wrote this journal while in debtor's jail and died in prison in 1765. His journal was published posthumously. His accounts of the Cherokee provide an early and fairly accurate depiction of the people before their displacement. Sabin 95837. Also includes two other works bound with this one: M. de Fontenelle "Histoire des Oracles" "Poesies Pastorales." 2 212 142 pages. London 1785; "Confessions de Clement Marot." 6 197 pages. Paris 1798. Paris, Impr. de Hautbout l'aine, an v hardcover

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(FONTENELLE, BERNARD LE BOUYER de).Biblio.com

Élements de la geometrie de L'Infini. Suite des Memoires de l'Academie des Sciences.

172759036Paris L'Imprimerie Royale 1727. 4to. Fine contemp. full calf. Raised bands. Richly gilt spine. Tome- and titlelabels with gilt lettering. Gilt borders on covers. A small nick in leather at upper compartmen. Light wear to foot of spine. 26548 pp. 1 folded engraved plate. Clean and fine. The offered item includes the entire volume of "Histoire de L'Academie Royale des Sciences. Années MDCCXXV. Paris L'Imprimerie Royale 1727" of which the memoir of Fontenelle is printed as a "suite". With the engraved frontispiece. 61543542 pp. 14 partly folded engraved plates. Original papers by: Maraldi Petit Nicole Winslow du Fay Pitot Delisle d'Aine Geoffroy le Cadet Reaumur Nicole Cassini de Mairan Saurin de Lagny Fizes. First edition. "In 1727 as a "Suite des mémoires de l’Académie royale des sciences" he published the Élémens de la géométrie de l’infini. Some doubted whether it was really the work of a mathematician but the author believed it was and attached great value to it. He had worked on it for a long time probably since the period of his preface to the Analyse des infiniment petits. The term élémens is to be understood in the sense of "first principles." According to Fontenelle none of the geometers who had invented or employed the calculus of infinity had given a general theory of it; that is what he proposed to do. The work is divided into a preface relating the history of this branch of calculus and into two main parts: "Système général de l’infini" and "Différentes applications ou remarques." The author discusses "the infinite in series or in progressions of numbers" and then examines "the infinite in straight and curved lines" in the words of the Abbé Terrasson who reviewed the work in the Journal des sçavans July-October 1728." There was a great deal of discussion in the scientific community about this work in which mathematicians found numerous paradoxes. Johann I Bernoulli for example in his correspondence with Fontenelle allowed his criticisms to show through his praise: he did not understand what was meant by finis indéterminables. Fontenelle attempted to defend his theory and above all his distinction between metaphysical infinity and geometric infinity: one must ignore the metaphysical difficulties in order to further geometry and the finis indéterminables ought to be considered "as a type of hypothesis necessary until now in order to explain several phenomena of the calculus" letter to Johann I Bernoulli 29 June 1729. "The orders of infinite and indeterminable quantities like the magnitudes that they represent are only purely relative entities hypothetical and auxiliary. The subject matter of mathematics is only ideal" according to the terms of a "Projet de rapport" of Dortous de Mairan to the Academy on this work." DSB. hardcover

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FONTENELLE, Bernard Le Bovier (1657-1757).Biblio.com

Elements de la Geometrie de l'Infini. Suite des memoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences.

1727RW1716Paris:: L'Imprimerie Royale 1727. 1727. 4to. xxvi 548 pp. Title-page vignette tailpieces headpieces 1 engraved chapter vignette 1 engraved initial 1 engraved folding plate occasional light foxing or browning. Full contemporary mottled calf blind-ruled covers raised bands red and brown leather spine labels gilt decorated spine all edges red marbled end papers leather separation at top of spine all edges red marbled end-papers; leather separation at top of spine hint of worming but strong lightly rubbed. A very clean and tight copy. Fine. FIRST EDITION of an extensive treatise on the principles of calculus by Bernard Fontenelle the distinguished French philosopher and scientist who is famous for his book on the plurality of worlds. Through his friend Varignon Fontenelle made the acquaintance of the Parisian scientific circle and became friends with Nicolas de Malezieu and l'Hopital. Fontenelle wrote the preface to l'Hopital's Analyse des infiniment petits pour l'intelligence des lignes courbes 11690. "In it he displayed his interest in the notion of infinity and his talent as a historian; in a few pages he retraces the history of the mathematical study of curved lines from Archimedes to Newton and Leibniz . . . In 1727 he published his Elements de la geometrie de l'infini which he had worked on for a long time probably since the period of his preface to the Analyse des infiniment petits . . . According to Fontenelle none of the geometers who had invented or employed the calculus of infinity had given a general theory to it; that is what he proposed to do. The work is divided into a preface relating to the history of this branch of calculus and into two main part . . . 'the infinite series or in progression of numbers' and then examines 'the infinite in straight and curved lines . . . " DSB. / Bernard Fontenelle was born at Rouen and pursued a literary career. Fontenelle dabbled in poetry and writing for the stage but it is better known for his work as secretary to the Academy of Sciences. Among his published works are Entretiens sur la pluralite des mondes 1686 the Histoire du renouvellement de l'Academie des Sciences 1708-1722 and a number of eloges of the members. REFERENCES: DSB V pp. 57-63; Poggendorf 1 col. 770 Zeitlinger 1360. L'Imprimerie Royale, 1727. hardcover

Jeff Weber Rare Books · Suisse1 350,00 $US≈ 1 142,23 €

FONTENELLE Bernard Le Bovier.ABAA

Elements de la Geometrie de l'Infini. Suite des memoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences.

1727SW1717Paris:: L'Imprimerie Royale 1727. 1727. 4to. xxvi 548 pp. Title-page vignette tailpieces headpieces 1 engraved chapter vignette 1 engraved initial 1 engraved folding plate; occasional light foxing or browning. Full contemporary mottled calf blind-ruled covers raised bands red and brown leather spine labels gilt decorated spine all edges red marbled end-papers; leather separation at top of spine all edges red marbled end-papers; leather separation at top of spine hint of worming but strong lightly rubbed. A very clean and tight copy. Fine. FIRST EDITION of an extensive treatise on the principles of calculus by Bernard Fontenelle the distinguished French philosopher and scientist who is famous for his book on the plurality of worlds. Through his friend Varignon Fontenelle made the acquaintance of the Parisian scientific circle and became friends with Nicolas de Malezieu and l'Hopital. Fontenelle wrote the preface to l'Hopital's Analyse des infiniment petits pour l'intelligence des lignes courbes 11690. "In it he displayed his interest in the notion of infinity and his talent as a historian; in a few pages he retraces the history of the mathematical study of curved lines from Archimedes to Newton and Leibniz. . . In 1727 he published his Elements de la geometrie de l'infini which he had worked on for a long time probably since the period of his preface to the Analyse des infiniment petits. . . . According to Fontenelle none of the geometers who had invented or employed the calculus of infinity had given a general theory to it; that is what he proposed to do. The work is divided into a preface relating to the history of this branch of calculus and into two main part. . . 'the infinite series or in progression of numbers' and then examines 'the infinite in straight and curved lines. . . .'" DSB. / Bernard Fontenelle was born at Rouen and pursued a literary career. Fontenelle dabbled in poetry and writing for the stage but it is better known for his work as secretary to the Academy of Sciences. Among his published works are Entretiens sur la pluralite des mondes 1686 the Histoire du renouvellement de l'Academie des Sciences 1708-1722 and a number of eloges of the members. DSB V pp. 57-63; Poggendorf I col. 770; Zeitlinger 1360. L'Imprimerie Royale, 1727. hardcover books

Jeff Weber Rare Books · Suisse1 350,00 $US≈ 1 142,23 €

FONTENELLE, Bernard le Bouvier deBiblio.com

Oeuvres de Fontenelle . Nouvelle édition augmentée de plusieurs pièces relatives a l'auteur mise pour la première fois par ordre des matières et plus correcte que toutes les précédentes.

17903002018Paris: Jean-Francois Bastien 1790. One or two joints slightly weak. Eight volumes octavo engraved portrait frontispiece in volume 1 and a folding plate in vol. 2; a fine set in contemporary French polished marbled calf; flat spines ornately gilt with double red labels. A very attractive set of Fontenelle's works including his enormously popular Entretiens sur la Pluralité des Mondes: this utopian analysis of the universe took Europe by storm and was precursor and inspiration to scores of imitations. It was first published in 1686 and first translated into English by Aphra Behn only two years later. Although the Entretiens clearly owes a tremendous debt to the astronomical traditions of Galileo and Brahe Fontenelle's sensational tale of the inhabitants in "other planets in other galaxies and even on comets could hardly fail to captivate" Nina Rattner Gelbart Introduction to the Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds. In the form of an elegant dialogue between a scientist and a Marquise it takes as its starting point that "Toute la philosophie n'est fondée sur deux choses: sur ce qu'on a l'esprit curieux et les yeux mauvais": that is that if we had a perfect understanding we would not need science because all would be spontaneously revealed. Meant as a quick summation of scientific discovery but also as pure speculation on the possibilities of the universe it suggests that as it has taken six millennia for Europeans to cross the Atlantic Ocean to America it may take a little longer for the inhabitants of other worlds to cross the far greater expanses of space. This set also includes "Dialogues des Morts anciens" and "Histoire des Oracles" works which exemplify Fontenelle's desire to propagate philosophical thinking. Voltaire described Fontenelle as having the most universal mind produced by the era of Louis XIV. . Jean-Francois Bastien unknown

Hordern House Rare Books · Australie2 100,00 $AU≈ 1 384,11 €

FONTENELLE, Bernard Le Bouvier deBiblio.com

Oeuvres diverses de M. de Fontenelle de l’Academie Françoise. Nouvelle edition augmentée & enrichie de figurés gravées par Bernard Picart le Romain. 1-3.

110169The Hague chez Gosse & Neaulme 1728-29. Folio. Engr. front 10 376 pp. 3 engr. plates; 8 440 pp. engr. plate; 6 434 pp. engr. plate. Titles printed in red and black with 174 engr. vignettes in text of which one pasted and all pages printed within typographical borders. Stain in inner margin on the last four leaves in part one and last two in part two a small spot pp 263-264 in part one. Worn contemporary full calf richly gilt spines with raised bands and red labels boards with gilt frames red edges. Three volumes joints cracked. Bookplate of Chataud de Chemilly â€Ancient conseiller de la cour des Aides de Parisâ€. Cohen-DeRicci col. 407-08 â€Superbes illustrationsâ€. Lewine p. 191. First complete edition of Fontenelleâ€™s work in the more rare folio format with borders around the text and with the fine engraved plates by Bernhard Picart one with the portrait of Fontenelle after Rigaud and with engraved head- and tail-pieces by Picart throughout. Bernard Le Bouvier de Fontenelle 1657-1757 was both author of dramas and of scientific treaties and he is considered one of the most important members of the early enlightenment.Contains in part 1:Dialogue des morts Entretiens sur la pluralitÃ© des mondes Histoire des oracles De lâ€™origine des fables De lâ€™existence de Dieu. Part 2: Poesie pastoral Discours sur la nature de la lâ€™egloue Digression sur les anciens & les modernes Thetis et PelÃ©e EnÃ©e et Lavinie tragedie en musique Recueil de poÃ«sis diverses Lettres galantes de Mr le chevalier dâ€™Her Oeuvre melÃ©es. Part 3: Histoire du renouvellement de lâ€™Academie Royale des Sciences. Eloges des academiciens de lâ€™Academie Royale des Science morts depuis lâ€™an 1699. hardcover

Centralantikvariatet · Suède15 000,00 SEK≈ 1 536,00 €

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier de] (1657-1757)Livre Rare Book

Théorie des tourbillons cartésiens ; avec des Réflexions sur l'attraction.

17528548Chez Hippolyte-Louis Guérin 10 x 16,5 Paris 1752 In-12, reliure plein veau raciné de l'époque, dos à cinq nerfs orné de cinq grenades dorées encadrées de filets dorés, pièce de titre de maroquin lavallière, titre doré, tranches rouges, roulette dorée sur les coupes, XXXI-[1]-215-[5] pp. Edition originale sans nom d'auteur. Fontenelle a 95 ans lorsqu'il commet sa "Théorie des tourbillons cartésiens." Il apparait en 1752 comme un des derniers défenseurs de la thèse que Descartes avait exposée près d'un siècle plus tôt dans "Les principes de la philosophie", parus en 1644-1647, à savoir que "la matière du ciel est liquide" et que "Les planètes tournent sans cesse en rond ainsi qu'un tourbillon qui aurait le soleil en son centre". Fontenelle avait participé dès 1686 à la diffusion du cartésianisme. Le frontispice de ses "Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes" présentait un système solaire environné de multiples tourbillons. Or au même moment (1687) paraissaient à Londres les "Principia" de Newton (1643-1727) qui démontraient de manière rigoureuse l'attractivité universelle des corps et l'incompatibilité de la théorie des tourbillons avec les lois de Kepler. Dans les années 1720-1740, le cartésianisme fait toujours la loi en France, malgré la lente diffusion des théories de Newton, à laquelle participa Voltaire par ses "Eléments de la philosophie de Neuton" parus en 1738. Pour mémoire la première traduction française à partir du texte latin des "Principia" par Emilie du Chatelet date de 1759. Fontenelle en 1752, sous couverture de l'anonymat, descend à nouveau dans l'arène, qui oppose à l'époque "cartésiens" et "newtoniens", "impulsionnistes" et "attractionnistes." Le petit volume se présente comme une synthèse. Son angle d'attaque, en s'appuyant sur Kepler et la force centrifuge de Huguens [Huygens], est contenu en fait dans la deuxième partie du titre "avec des réflexions sur l'attractivité", qui occupent le dernier chapitre (p. 185). Newton a expliqué les phénomènes célestes par la force de la gravitation, mais il est accusé (cf. la préface de l'éditeur écrite par un des proches de Fontenelle, Camille Falconet) de revenir aux "qualités occultes" de la scholastique pour expliquer la cause de cette gravitation. Coiffe supérieure abimée, coins légèrement émoussés, dos agréable, intérieur frais, bon exemplaire. Peu fréquent.(Bbis6) PHOTOS NUMERIQUES DISPONIBLES PAR EMAIL SUR SIMPLE DEMANDE-DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPS MAY BE AVAILABLE ON REQUEST

Histoire et Société · Bordeaux, France1 700,00 €

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier de] (1657-1757)Livre Rare Book

Théorie des tourbillons cartésiens ; avec des Réflexions sur l'attraction.

Histoire et Société · Bordeaux, France1 700,00 €

Fontenelle Bernard le Bovier Sieur deABAA

CONVERSATIONS ON THE PLURALITY OF WORLDS . Translated from the Last Paris Edition. Wherein are Many Improvements Throughout; and Some New Observations on Several Late Discoveries Which Have Been Made in the Heavens. By William Gardiner Esq

1715160304London: Printed for A. Bettesworth 1715. 12mo pp. 1-12 1-192; collates A 6 B-I 12 frontispiece eighteenth-century brown leather front and rear panels ruled and tooled in blind four raised bands on spine panel no title label. The first printing of the Gardiner edition. Fontenelle's ENTRETIENS SUR LA PLURALITE DES MONDES his most famous and frequently reprinted and translated book was first published in 1686. It is "the first example in French of a learned work placed within the reach of an educated but non specialized public." - DSB V 59. A popular account of the systems of Ptolemy Copernicus and Tycho Brahe in dialogue form the treatise "awakened general interest in astronomy and popularized the scientific system of inquiry; it also emphasized the small space occupied by man and this planet relatively to the rest of the universe. The work was ridiculed by Voltaire though it suggested his MICROMEGAS." - The Oxford Companion to French Literature 1959 p. 278. The first of the three seventeenth-century English translations was A DISCOURSE OF THE PLURALITY OF WORLDS . Translated into English by Sir W. D. Knight. Dublin: Printed by Andr. Crook and Sam. Helsham for William Norman 1687. The first edition of the Glanvill translation containing five dialogues was published in 1688 the same year Aphra Behn's translation of Fontenelle's book A DISCOVERY OF NEW WORLDS was published in London by William Canning. This Gardiner translation first published in 1715 is the first edition to include a translation of Fontenelle's sixth dialogue. "In all the literature of the cosmic voyage there was no book more popular than Fontenelle's CONVERSATIONS OF THE PLURALITY OF WORLDS. Translated again and again it seemed to the British peculiarly their own book read for at least a century both by men and by those 'ladies' of whom we have many a description one of whom would read it aloud to others who were busily engaged in making strawberry jam. This was a book indeed that warranted a subtitle I once discovered in an eighteenth-century popularization of astronomy: 'Science made clear to the Meanest Capacities even those of Women and Children.'" - Nicolson Voyages to the Moon pp. 58-9. Fontenelle's book "became a seminal influence on proto science fiction . This is one of the earliest works ever written popularizing science notably astronomy for the layman which it does by wittily presenting its speculations -- many about the possibility of life on other worlds -- in the form of conversations after dinner between the author and a marquise." - Clute and Nicholls eds The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction 1993 p. 437. "A great stimulant to utopian speculations and science fiction." - Gibson and Patrick "Utopias and Dystopias 1500-1750" in Gibson St. Thomas More: A Preliminary Bibliography 1961 683. See Ley Rockets Missiles and Space Travel 1951 pp. 22-4 and Ley Rockets Missiles and Men in Space 1968 pp. 21-2 for a good summary of the book. Bleiler Science-Fiction: The Early Years p. 853. Howgego Encyclopedia of Exploration: Invented and Apocryphal Narratives of Travel F16. Negley Utopian Literature: A Bibliography 371. Versins EncyclopÃ©die de l'Utopie des Voyages Extraordinaires et de la Science Fiction pp. 341-42. NCBEL II 1513. An early important and scarce edition of this classic work. A lovely copy. Enclosed in a custom quarter leather rounded back clamshell box. #160304 Printed for A. Bettesworth unknown books

L. W. Currey, Inc. · États-Unis2 500,00 $US≈ 2 115,25 €

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