Title: Rapport Sur Les Progres de la Theorie de la Chaleur Par M.P. Desains. (Recueil de Rapports Sur L'Etat Des Lettres Et Les Progres Des Sciences En France).
Description: Paris: L'Imprimerie Imperiale, 1868. 1868. - Octavo, 10-1/2 inches high by 7-1/8 inches wide. Modern black cloth titled in gilt on the spine. [iv] & 114 pages. There is foxing to the first and last few pages. Very good.
First edition.
The French physicist Paul-Quentin Desains (1817-1885) distinguished himself at the Lycee Louis-le-Grand in Paris by taking first prize in physics. He made the acquaintance of La Provostaye while attending the Ecole Normale. Accepting a professorship at Caen in 1839, he returned to Paris in 1841 and went on to succeed La Provostaye at the Lycee Condorcet. Desains made many observations on terrestrial magnetism and made significant contributions to physics through his researches on radiant heat which he conducted with La Provostaye. Concluding that radiant heat was similar to light in that it was a disturbance set up in what was then referred to as the ether and was propagated in all directions by transverse waves. Very good .
Keywords: SCIENCE; PHYSICS; RADIANT HEAT; RAPPORT SUR LES PROGRES DE LA THEORIE DE LA CHALEUR; NINETEENTH CENTURY; 19TH CENTURY; PAUL-QUENTIN DESAINS; RECUEIL DE RAPPORTS SUR L'ETAT DES LETTRES ET LES PROGRES DES SCIENCES EN FRANCE; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION.
- Book number: 96811
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