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JEAN BAPTISTE JOSEPH FOURIER (1768-1830)
Théorie analytique de la chaleur. Paris: Firmin Didot, 1822. 4° (272 x 215 mm). Half-title. 2 engraved plates. Cancels as per Norman with the addition of 64.4. (Title head and tail strengthened on verso, light spotting, occasional paper flaw in deckle-edges.) Original paper wrappers, printed paper label on spine, MOST QUIRES UNOPENED, UNCUT RETAINING DECKLES (spine and extremities worn, covers loose but holding, lower cover strengthened on verso at head and tail, back endpaper renewed). Provenance: A.M. Menshutkin (book-label) -- Russian bookseller (small stamps on rear endpaper).
FIRST EDITION. A LARGE-PAPER COPY, IN THE ORIGINAL WRAPPERS OF THE FIRST MATHEMATICAL STUDY OF HEAT DIFFUSION, in which Fourier showed that the phenomenon was subject to simple, observable physical constants, and could be expressed mathematically. While Galileo and Newton had revolutionized the study of nature by discerning mathematical laws in the movement of solids and fluids, this approach had not been satisfactorily applied to the study of heat before Fourier. His work had major repercussions for the development of both physics and pure mathematics: first, he extended the range of rational mechanics beyond the fields defined in Newton's Principia, establishing an essential branch of modern physics. Secondly, his invention of powerful mathematical tools for the solution of equations 'raised problems in mathematical analysis that motivated much of the leading work in that field for the rest of the century and beyond' (DSB). From the collection of A.M. Menshutkin, probably the father of Nikolai Aleksandrovich Menshutkin, the great Russian chemist, and co-founder of Russian Physical-Chemical Society. Dibner Heralds 154; En français dans le texte 232; Norman 824; Sparrow Milestones 68.
Théorie analytique de la chaleur. Paris: Firmin Didot, 1822. 4° (272 x 215 mm). Half-title. 2 engraved plates. Cancels as per Norman with the addition of 64.4. (Title head and tail strengthened on verso, light spotting, occasional paper flaw in deckle-edges.) Original paper wrappers, printed paper label on spine, MOST QUIRES UNOPENED, UNCUT RETAINING DECKLES (spine and extremities worn, covers loose but holding, lower cover strengthened on verso at head and tail, back endpaper renewed). Provenance: A.M. Menshutkin (book-label) -- Russian bookseller (small stamps on rear endpaper).
FIRST EDITION. A LARGE-PAPER COPY, IN THE ORIGINAL WRAPPERS OF THE FIRST MATHEMATICAL STUDY OF HEAT DIFFUSION, in which Fourier showed that the phenomenon was subject to simple, observable physical constants, and could be expressed mathematically. While Galileo and Newton had revolutionized the study of nature by discerning mathematical laws in the movement of solids and fluids, this approach had not been satisfactorily applied to the study of heat before Fourier. His work had major repercussions for the development of both physics and pure mathematics: first, he extended the range of rational mechanics beyond the fields defined in Newton's Principia, establishing an essential branch of modern physics. Secondly, his invention of powerful mathematical tools for the solution of equations 'raised problems in mathematical analysis that motivated much of the leading work in that field for the rest of the century and beyond' (DSB). From the collection of A.M. Menshutkin, probably the father of Nikolai Aleksandrovich Menshutkin, the great Russian chemist, and co-founder of Russian Physical-Chemical Society. Dibner Heralds 154; En français dans le texte 232; Norman 824; Sparrow Milestones 68.
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