Gabriel Lamé - Cours de physique de l’école
Gabriel Lamé - Cours de physique de l’école polytechnique - Théorie physique de la chaleur - Bachelier, Paris, - Half leather binding - Back adorned with a romantic arabesque, golden label - 552 p - 12 x 20.5 cmThis book deals with the general property of the body and the physical theory of heat. Lamé, teaching physics at the École Polytechnique, deals with the generality of the physical body (porosity, inertia,...) and gravity (definition, laws of motion, specific gravities). The following chapters deal with temperatures and resulting expansion of their use. Finally, the author addressed in this volume 1 (of 2) radiant heat, the balance of temperature and the laws of cooling, and finally properties of vapours. These chapters are richly illustrated with 9 fold-out plates comprising nearly 200 figures.Book in good condition - fresh text - some foxing non harmful to the reading - top crown slightly damaged - dented corners - collector book, indicated by a stampThe pictures are part of the description Read More