Traité de la chaleur, et de ses applications aux arts et aux manufactures.
Paris, Mahler, 1828.
Two volumes 8vo (193x122 mm), xii-400-(2)-4 pages / (4)-532 pages (plates are missing). binding : Contemporary quarter sheep, flat spine. Binding slightly rubbed. Paper with some foxings.
First edition. Peclet will lend his name to the "Peclet number", a dimensionless number used in heat transfer and mass transfer, which represents the ratio of transfer by forced convection and transport by diffusion (heat or mass).