The Analytical Theory of Heat … Translated, with Notes, by Alexander Freeman.

508 Pages·1878·50.28 MB·English

by  Jean Baptiste Joseph (1768-1830). FOURIER

THE
ANALYTICAL THEORY OF HEAT
JOSEPH FOURIER
TRANSLATED, WITH NOTES,
,
BY
ALEXANDER FREEMAN,
M.A.,
FELLOW OF ST JOHNS COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE.
EDITED FOR THE SYNDICS OF THE UNIVERSITY PRESS.
CDambntrge :
AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS.
LONDON CAMBRIDGE WAREHOUSE, PATERNOSTER ROW.
: 17,
CAMBRIDGE: DEIGHTON, BELL, AND CO.
LEIPZIG: F. A. BROCKHAUS.
1878
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PRINTED BY C. J. CLAY, M.A.,
AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS.
PREFACE.
IN preparing this version in English of Fouriers
celebrated treatise on Heat, the translator has followed
faithfully the French original. He has, however, ap
pended brief foot-notes, in which will be found references
to other writings of Fourier and modern authors on
the subject : these are distinguished by the initials A. F.
The notes marked R. L. E. are taken from me
pencil
moranda on the margin of a copy of the work that
formerly belonged to the late Robert Leslie Ellis,
Fellow of Trinity College, and is now in the possession
of St Johns College. It was the translators hope to
have been able to prefix to this treatise a Memoir
of Fouriers life with some account of his writings ;
unforeseen circumstances have however prevented its
completion in time to appear with the present work.
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