FOURIER (Jean-Baptiste Joseph).

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FOURIER (Jean-Baptiste Joseph).
- [ Fish (Simeon Denis) ] "Memory on the Propagation of Heat in Solid Bodies". In: Nouveau bulletin des sciences, par la Société philomathique, mars 1808, n°6, pp. 112-116. Paris, March 1808. Plaquette in-4, bradel cartonnage de papier marbré, pièce de titre en long au dos (Modern binding). In French in the text, n°232. - Dibner, n°154. - Cajori, p. 282. First presentation of the theory of heat, one of the great physical and mathematical discoveries of the 19th century. The Author [Fourier] of this Memoir proposed to subject the theory of heat to mathematical analysis, and to verify, by experiment, the results of the calculation (p. 112). It is in this important article that we find for the first time the equation of heat that allowed Joseph Fourier (1768-1830) to describe the physical phenomenon of thermal conduction. In 1807, he completed an impressive manuscript entitled Theory of Heat Propagation in Solids, took it to Paris, introduced it to his colleagues Biot and Poisson whom he had known at the École polytechnique, and presented it to the First Class of the Institut national des sciences et des arts on December 21. Lagrange, Laplace, Monge and Lacroix are appointed as rapporteurs. Silence. A summary account of his work appears in March 1808, signed P. (Fish). Mésestimation, incomprehension, it is a real failure for Fourier (Jean-Pierre Kahane, "Le Retour de Fourier", speech to the Académie des Sciences, 2005). Fourier will continue and develop his work on the subject. In 1822, he presented them definitively in his major work: Théorie analytique de la chaleur.
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