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Item #6520 [Drop title:] De Saturni luna observatio nona [sic]. The Hague: [Adriaan Vlacq], 5...

[Drop title:] De Saturni luna observatio nona [sic]. The Hague: [Adriaan Vlacq], 5 March 1656. [Bound as issued with:] BOREL, Pierre. De vero telescopii inventore, cum brevi omnium conspiciliorum historia. The Hague: Adriaan Vlacq, 1655-56. [And with:] Observationum microcospicarum centuria. The Hague: Adriaan Vlacq, 1656.

The Hague: Adriaan Vlacq, 1655-1656. First edition, very rare and an exceptionally fine copy. The work is comprised of three related parts: Huygens’ discovery of Saturn’s rings and its moon Titan; Borel’s history of the telescope; and his discoveries with the microscope, the first to appear in book form. “In..... More
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Item #6498 Horologium oscillatorium, sive de motu pendulorum ad horologia aptato demonstrationes...

Horologium oscillatorium, sive de motu pendulorum ad horologia aptato demonstrationes geometricae.

Paris: François Muguet, 1673. First edition, a very fine copy, of one of the greatest books in the history of science — the birth of modern dynamics. The Horologium oscillatorium, sive de motu pendulorum ad horologia aptato demonstrationes geometricae is, in Joella Yoder’s phrase, a superb tapestry woven from the..... More
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Item #5928 Traité de la lumière. Ou sont expliquées les causes de ce qui luy arrive dans la...

Traité de la lumière. Ou sont expliquées les causes de ce qui luy arrive dans la reflexion, & dans le refraction, et particulièrement, dans l’étrange refraction du cristal d’Islande … Avec un discours de la cause de la pesanteur.

Leiden: Pieter van der Aa, 1690. First edition, first issue, and an extremely rare large-paper presentation copy inscribed by Huygens to Pierre-Daniel Huet, of the Traité de la lumière, the classical formulation of the wave theory of light and one of the foundational books of modern physics. Huygens had developed..... More
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Item #6599 Exercitationum Mathematicarum libri quinque. ... Quibus accedit Christiani Hugenii...

Exercitationum Mathematicarum libri quinque. ... Quibus accedit Christiani Hugenii tractatus de ratiociniis in aleae ludo. [I: Propositionum Arithmeticarum et Geometricarum centuria; II: Constructio Problematum simplicium geometricorum; III: Apollonii Pergaei loca plana restituta IV: Organica conicarum Sectionum in plano descriptio; V: Sectiones miscellaneae triginta; Quibus accedit: Tractatus de ratiociniis in aleae ludo Christianus Hugenius].

Leiden: Elzevir, 1657. First edition of Huygens' De ratiociniis in aleae ludo, the first printed treatise on probability. “Having heard in Paris about Pascal’s work in probability problems, Huygens (1629-95) himself took up their study in 1656. This resulted in the Tractatus de ratiociniis …, a treatise that remained the..... More
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