Book Description

First edition. 4to. pp. vii, ccxviii, 628; 5 folding plates relating to other articles in this volume; occasional spotting or browning, else very good in the original printed wrappers, which are a little frayed to extremities.
Dealer Notes
Fourier’s ‘éloge’ for Lagrange comes at the close of his overview of the mathematical work of the Académie. This volume also includes Fourier’s article ‘Remarques générales sur l’application des principes de l’Analyse algébrique aux équations transcendantes’, Siméon Denis Poisson’s ‘Mémoire sur le mouvemente de deux fluides élastiques superposés’ and Augustin-Louis Cauchy’s ‘Mémoire sur la théorie de la lumière’.
Author [Laplace, Pierre Simon.] Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier.
Date 1831
Binding Original printed wrappers.
Publisher Paris: Firmin Didot Frères
Condition See description
Pages pp. vii, ccxviii, 628

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