Joseph Fourier, 1768-1830;

Grattan-Guinness, I.

Joseph Fourier, 1768-1830; a survey of his life and work, based on a critical edition of his monograph on the propagation of heat, presented to the Institut de France in 1807 [by] I. Grattan-Guinness, in collaboration with J. R. Ravetz. - Cambridge, MIT Press [1972] - x, 516 p. illus. 27 cm.

Includes Fourier's original unpublished text of 1807 with title: Théorie de la propagation de la chaleur dans les solides. The first separately published version appeared in 1822 under title: Théorie analytique de la chaleur.

Bibliography: p. [491]-502.

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Fourier, Jean Baptiste Joseph, baron, 1768-1830.


Heat.

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