FIRST PRINTING OF ANY PART OF "THE ANALYTICAL THEORY OF HEAT"

FOURIER, (JEAN BAPTISTE JOSEPH).

Théorie de la chaleur. (Extrait).

Paris, Crochard, 1816.

8vo. In contemporary half calf. Spine with gilt lettering. In: "Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago." Sweries 2, tome 3. (Entire volume offered). 448 pp. and 3 engraved plates. Library stamps to verso of title-page and verso of plates. Fourier's paper: pp. 350-375. A few scattered brownspots.


First appearance in print of any part of Fourier's landmark work "Théorie Analytique de la Chaleur" which was published in 1822. The 2 large memoirs (of 1811) out of which - together with the offered memoir - grew his landmark work were only published in 1824 and 1826.

The volume contains also original papers by LAPLACE, GAY-LUSSAC, MAGENDIE, PRONY, HUMBOLDT, BIOT etc.etc.


"In 1816 Fourier published a paper (the paper offered) announcing the imminent appearance of a book on both the mathematical and the physical aspects of heat (Fourie 1816); but six years were to pass before a book was published, and it covered only the mathematical sides. In the 'preliminary discourse' he stated that its writing and printing had taken a long time (p. xvii)." (Grattan-Guiness "Landmark Writings in Western Mathematics 1640-1940", p.356).

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DKK 6.500,00