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‘Mémoire sur la théorie analytique de la chaleur’ and ‘Mémoire sur l’équilebre et le mouvement des corps élastiques’. Two articles in Mémoires de l’Académie des Sciences de l’Institut de France, vol. 8, pp. 580-622 & 357-570/623-7 (Addition).



Book Description
First edition. 4to. pp. [viii], ccxlviii, 627; 4 folding plates relating to other articles in this volume; occasional spotting or browning, else very good in the original printed wrappers, which are somewhat frayed to extremities with a little loss.
Dealer Notes
Two important contributions by two of the foremost theorists of the day. Fourier’s treatise Théorie analytique de la chaleur appeared in 1822, but he published several further papers on the subject, including this present paper which appeared only a year before his death in 1830. Poisson produced a series of works in which he developped the basic equations of elastic theory, to which his ‘Mémoire’ is a contribution. This volume also contains articles by Cauchy, Fourier’s overview of the mathematical work of the Académie, and his ‘Éloge historique de M. Charles’ i.e. Jacques-Alexandre-César Charles, the balloonist and inventor.
Author
Fourier, Jean-Baptiste Joseph; Poisson, Siméon Denis; et al.
Date
1829
Binding
Original printed wrappers.
Publisher
Paris: Gauthier-Villars
Condition
See description
Pages
[viii], ccxlviii, 627
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