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Joseph HOËné-WRONSKI (1776-1853) Polish-born mathematician, engineer, philosopher and mystic. 2 manuscripts with autograph additions and corrections, Document sur l'urgente réforme des chemins de fer et de toute la locomotion terrestre, Paris juin 1847, followed by Suite de l'affaire concernant la Réforme scientifique de la locomotion, [Paris avril? 1848]; 134-50 pages in-fol. (p.45-46 missing, printer's marks, a few large leaves a little frayed at top, some soiling). Curious manuscripts on railway reform and the mathematical laws of locomotion, following a series of memoirs and letters addressed in 1843 and 1844 to the Commission des Ponts et Chaussées and the Minister of Public Works. The Document sur l'urgente réforme des chemins de fer warns against "the dangerous universal drive towards the expensive construction of railroads", and "the barbarity of railroads" whose tracks denature the earth's surface. He recalls his previous appeals to public authorities, and draws up tables estimating the reduction in draft that would be obtained by replacing ordinary wheels with "a new locomotive machine, which I call wheel-accomplished"... He invokes the support of Victor Considerant, and strongly regrets the "scientific incompetence of that learned body" that is the Académie des Sciences... Page 87 begins an Overview of the scientific reform of terrestrial locomotion...La Suite de l'affaire concernant la Réforme scientifique de la locomotion gives exchanges with Villiers du Terrage, rapporteur of the Commission des Ponts et Chaussées, and the Minister of Public Works Alexandre Marie (September 1847-April 1848), referring to the railway disaster at Fampoux [July 1846] and its legal consequences, etc... An autograph note of instructions to the printer is enclosed.

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Joseph HOËné-WRONSKI (1776-1853) Polish-born mathematician, engineer, philosopher and mystic. 2 manuscripts with autograph additions and corrections, Document sur l'urgente réforme des chemins de fer et de toute la locomotion terrestre, Paris juin 1847, followed by Suite de l'affaire concernant la Réforme scientifique de la locomotion, [Paris avril? 1848]; 134-50 pages in-fol. (p.45-46 missing, printer's marks, a few large leaves a little frayed at top, some soiling). Curious manuscripts on railway reform and the mathematical laws of locomotion, following a series of memoirs and letters addressed in 1843 and 1844 to the Commission des Ponts et Chaussées and the Minister of Public Works. The Document sur l'urgente réforme des chemins de fer warns against "the dangerous universal drive towards the expensive construction of railroads", and "the barbarity of railroads" whose tracks denature the earth's surface. He recalls his previous appeals to public authorities, and draws up tables estimating the reduction in draft that would be obtained by replacing ordinary wheels with "a new locomotive machine, which I call wheel-accomplished"... He invokes the support of Victor Considerant, and strongly regrets the "scientific incompetence of that learned body" that is the Académie des Sciences... Page 87 begins an Overview of the scientific reform of terrestrial locomotion...La Suite de l'affaire concernant la Réforme scientifique de la locomotion gives exchanges with Villiers du Terrage, rapporteur of the Commission des Ponts et Chaussées, and the Minister of Public Works Alexandre Marie (September 1847-April 1848), referring to the railway disaster at Fampoux [July 1846] and its legal consequences, etc... An autograph note of instructions to the printer is enclosed.

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Joseph HOËné-WRONSKI. Autograph manuscript signed, to Monsieur F. Arago, member of the provisional government and Minister of the Navy, April 8 [1848], plus copy with autograph addition; 15 pages in-fol. each. Petition for the reprinting of his Résolution générale des équations algébriques de tous les degrés, preceded by the Manifeste historique concernant l'actuelle réforme du savoir humain (Firmin Didot, 1847) and the publication of his Réforme de la philosophie. Wronski recalls his own military and scientific services to France, and his gratitude to the country of which he had become a citizen. But, still a victim of the Académie des Sciences, he demanded to be able to produce the definitive works concerning the reform of human knowledge on which the good of humanity depends, and in particular, his mathematical works. He offered the Minister of the Navy "the rigorous theory of the tides and its immediate practical application in all parts of our globe", according to his Prolegomena of Messianism (1843), then asked for national rewards for his work on railroads and his rectification of the metric system, in order to continue printing in France the second volume of the Reform of Human Knowledge, "namely, the Reform of Philosophy, in which [...] all the great problems of humanity are finally resolved. [...] I still bequeath to France half of this great work, which is already in print; and I pray to God that a man will soon be found to complete it, in order to accomplish the public good"... 2 autograph manuscripts are enclosed, Notice (3 pages and a quarter), and Nullité propre des insultes faites par les journaux, lors même qu'elles sont produites au nom de l'Académie des sciences de Paris (1p.).

Joseph HOËné-WRONSKI. 2 manuscripts with autograph additions and corrections, and autograph notes for the printer, the second with autograph dedication and preface, Part Two. Réforme des Mathématiques, comme prototype de la réforme générale des sciences et de la philosophie, [1847], and Réforme de la Philosophie, au Bureau du Messianisme, [1847]-May 1848; 290 fol. pages, and 89 fol. pages, 18 of which entirely autograph. Manuscripts for Messianisme, ou Réforme absolue du savoir humain, which Wronski had begun publishing in 1847 (3 vols., Firmin-Didot frères), and of which the part devoted to the reform of philosophy seems to have remained unpublished. Let's quote the introductory pages, in the author's own handwriting: "In its practical result, establishing the peremptory constitution of the moral world, the present Reform of Philosophy is dedicated to the Heads of the three great European nationalities, viz: - To His Majesty the Emperor of Russia and King of Poland, as providential Protector of the messianic destiny of the Slavic Nations [...]. To Their Majesties the Emperor of Austria and the King of Prussia, as reciprocal Guarantors of the religious destiny of the Germanic Nations [...]. To the spirits of Emperor Napoleon, as Revealer of the political destiny of the Roman Nations, and principally of the high political destiny of France", and in place of Louis-Philippe, "Political Moderator": the "Heads of the French Government, as Executors of the high political destiny of France, and generally of the political destiny of the Roman Nations"... He then summarizes some principles of his philosophy of politics, as set out in the Prolegomena of Messianism, and in particular his "political trinomy", the three fundamental laws of any "system of realities": "1° - The supreme law [...], the universal principle of truth", i.e., in politics, the "Fulfillment of justice by fixing the final goal of morality"; "2° - The universal Problem [...], this universal problem forms, in every branch of human knowledge, the fulfillment of creation by man", i.e., the fulfillment of legislative, executive, directive and judicial action "with a view to the final identity of Government and Commons"; "3e - The teleological contest [...invisible and providential basis, which serves to establish harmony in this system of realities, [...this teleological contest forms, in each branch of human knowledge, the crown of creation, the sublime work of the Creator's intelligence, which alone would suffice, in the absence of any manifestation of His absolute spontaneity, to unveil and attest His holy existence, that is, the rationality of creation", i.e., the "political harmony that must be achieved by the governing power to bring about man's gradual transition from morality to messianity"... Etc. Finally, he presents his "Program of Absolute Truths, for philosophical associations", which "will inevitably be able to save mankind"...