BIOT, Jean-Baptiste, Traité de Physique Expérimentale et Mathématique, 1816
BIOT, Jean-Baptiste.
Traité de Physique Expérimentale et Mathématique.
Paris, Deterville, 1816.
Four volumes 8vo (194x124 mm), (4)-lxvi-538-(1) pages, 1 table and 5 folding plates / (4)-551-(1) pages, 2 tables and 4 folding plates / (4)-516 pages et 6 folding plates / (4)-780-(1) pages, 2 tables and 7 folding plates. binding : Modern quarter calf, gilt flat spines.
First edition.
Jean-Baptiste Biot (1774-1862) was a French physicist, astronomer, and mathematician, a member of the French Academy of Sciences and a professor at the Collège de France and the Faculty of Sciences in Paris. His work was extensive, covering areas such as the polarization of light, birefringence, magnetism, and geodesy. He is particularly known for the Biot-Savart law in electromagnetism.
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