Statique Expérimentale et Théorique des Liquides Soumis aux Seules Forces Moléculaires. Vol. I-II

Description:

First edition. Rare. Text French. This work comprises of 11 papers published between 1843 and 1868 in the Mémoires de l'Académie de Belgique, under the title, "Recherches expérimentales et théoretiques sur les figures d'equilibre d'un masse liquide sans pesanteur". The present book is one of the most important works on surface tension, the standard historical reference on the geometric structure of a liquid foam.

Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau (1801-1883) was a Belgian physicist and mathematician.

Condition

2 vols, roy. 8vo, cont. half morroco, marbled endpapers, rubbed/scuffed. With bookplate of the Herbert Lister Bowman Library, Laboratory of Mineralogy, University of Oxford. Bowman (1874-1942) was Waynflete Professor of Mineralogy and Crystallography. Also, with the book-plate of James Walker (Christ Church) (1857-1929), demonstrator in the Clarendon Laboratory, Vice-President of the Physical Society.