‘Eloge historique de M. le Marquis de Laplace’ in Mémoires de l’Académie royale des Sciences de l’Institut de France, vol. 10, pp. lxxxi-cii.
Book Description
First edition. 4to. pp. vii, ccxviii, 628; 5 folding plates relating to other articles in this volume; occasional spotting or browning, else very good in the original printed wrappers, which are a little frayed to extremities.
Dealer Notes
Fourier’s ‘éloge’ for Lagrange comes at the close of his overview of the mathematical work of the Académie. This volume also includes Fourier’s article ‘Remarques générales sur l’application des principes de l’Analyse algébrique aux équations transcendantes’, Siméon Denis Poisson’s ‘Mémoire sur le mouvemente de deux fluides élastiques superposés’ and Augustin-Louis Cauchy’s ‘Mémoire sur la théorie de la lumière’.
Author
[Laplace, Pierre Simon.] Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier.
Date
1831
Binding
Original printed wrappers.
Publisher
Paris: Firmin Didot Frères
Condition
See description
Pages
pp. vii, ccxviii, 628
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