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The analytical theory of heat

Fourier, Jean Baptiste Joseph, baron, 1768-1830 · 1878 · Cambridge [Eng.] : University Press · 10 pictures

Alexander Freeman's 1878 Cambridge University Press English translation of Fourier's 1822 treatise on heat conduction, issued for British mathematicians and physicists. The plates here are letterpress mathematical display equations — stacked nested radicals, negative exponentials, Greek psi functions and series expansions — usable as specimens of nineteenth-century scientific typesetting, or as abstract line-and-symbol texture.

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