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Friends Bibliophiles goodnight,

In previous posts, I mentioned two French scientific journals: Journal of learned men and the Memoirs of the Academy of Sciences in Paris. The first English scientific journal titled "Philosophical Transactions. It reflects the work of the Royal Society of London, the equivalent of our Academy of Sciences in Paris. The first volume appeared in 1665. Among the first authors found much about Isaac Newton, the first memory New theory about light and color is published in 1672.

Until 1731 only a few excerpts were translated into French scientific journals. The physicist Francis de Bremont then the doctor Pierre Demours undertook to complete the translation of volumes from 1731. Translations ceased in 1744. All of these translations is in the form of seven volumes in-4. Patiently, I managed to complete a series.

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London

Paris, Piget and Le Breton, David Elder, Le Breton, Durand. 1741, 1741, 1740, 1740, 1738, 1738, 1757, 1759, 1757, 1757, 1760, 1758, 1760.

Year 1731: frontispiece, X, 304 pp - Year 1732: VIII, 323 pp, 16 pl.

Year 1733: frontispiece, viii, 280 pp - Year 1734: VII, 340, 16 pp, 1 map watercolor, 11 pl.

Year 1735: frontispiece, (6) pp, pp III-VI, 192 pp - Year 1736: (2), VIII, 302, 15 pp, 13 pl.

Years 1737 and 1738: LX, 539 pp, 12 pl.

Year 1739: (4), VIII, 214, (1) pp, 5 pl - Year 1740: VIII, 279 pp, 8 pl.

Year 1741: XII, 359, (1) pp, 12 pl - Year 1742: (7) pp, pp IV-XII, 310, (1) pp, 9 pl.

Year 1743: (4) pp, pp V-XII, 377 (1) pp, 18 pl - Year 1744: (4), X, 343, (1) pp, 8 pl.

is found these volumes in the early work of members of the Royal Society on electricity. Gray distinguished between conductors and insulators and discovered the phenomenon of influence. Desaguliers class into two bodies, the bodies electrifiable friction and those not electrifiable he called wrongly "drivers, not drivers." The second volume is full of colored folding map of "places where the lengths of the seconds pendulum were observed.

The many boards are very thin.

In 1739, Bremont published a table of the Philosophical Transactions for the years 1665 to 1735.

Paris, Piget. 1739.

1 volume in-4; frontispiece, (10), 296 pp. - (2), VI, pp, pp 3-461, (3), LXXIV, (2) pp

Between 1789 and 1791 , Jacques Gibelin (1744-1828), Doctor medicine, undertook the translation and editing of the most important articles of the first 75 volumes of the Philosophical Transactions. Volumes 1 and 2 contain the natural history (volcanoes, earthquakes, natural wonders, extraordinary events, fossils, fossils, zoology. Volumes 3 and 4 contain experimental physics by Mr Reynier. Volume 5 contains the chemistry Mr. Pinel. Volume 6 contains the physical anatomy and animal by Mr. Pinel. Volume 7 contains medicine and surgery by Mr Pinel. Volumes 8 and 9 contain the Materia Medica and Pharmacy by MM. Wilmet and Bosquillon. Volume 10 contains mixtures, observations, travel AL Millin de Grandmaison. Volume 11 contains antiques and fine art by Mr. Millin de Grandmaison. Volume 12 contains antiques, fine art, inventions and machines. Volumes 13 and 14 contain botany.

Compendium of Philosophical Transactions ... experimental physics.

Paris, Buisson. 1790.

1 volume in-8, (4), 468 pp, 4 pl. - (4), 472 pp, 4 pl.

This volume, consisting two volumes, is the fourth part of the collection. It contains all of experimental physics. The selection of articles is due to Jean Louis Antoine Regnier (1762-1824).

Compendium of Philosophical Transactions ... chemistry. animal anatomy and physics.

Paris, Buisson. 1791-1790.

1 volume in-8, (4), XVI, 514 pp. - (5) pp, pp VI XX, 476 pp, 1 pl.