DUPRÉ, ATHANASE.

Theorie Mécanique de La Chaleur. (Partie experimentale en commune avec M. Paul Dupré).

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1869. Later full cloth. VIII,484 pp. Textillustrations. A faint waterstain at htitle and titlepage. A few scattered brownspots. This copy has belonged to James Dewar, Jacksonian professor of natural philosophy, Cambridge, 1875-1923 and Fullerian professor of Chemistry, Royal Institution - he invented cordite and the work bears his name.

First edition of Dupré's importent textbook. - "He made importent contributions to the dissemination in France of the newly discovered principles of thermodynamics in nearly forty communications to the Academy...and in a successful advanced textbook "Theorie mécanique de la chaleur" (Robert Fox in DSB IV:258).

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