French mathematician and physicist (1768 – 1830)

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Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Fourier. Lithograph by J. Boilly, 1823 [?].

French savants huddled together at the top of a column, while a band of Bedouin Arabs set fire to it below; exaggerating the troubled experience of the 'Commission des Sciences et des Arts' during Napoleon's invasion of Egypt. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1799.

Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Fourier. Line engraving by A.F.B. Geille after J. Boilly.

Joseph Fourier : the man and the physicist / by John Herivel.

Joseph Fourier, 1768-1830 : créateur de la physique-mathématique / par Jean Dhombres et Jean-Bernard Robert.

Joseph Fourier, 1768-1830 : a survey of his life and work, based on a critical edition of his monograph on the propagation of heat, presented to the Institut de France in 1807 / I. Grattan-Guinness, in collaboration with J.R. Ravetz.

Recherches statistiques sur la ville de Paris et le département de la Seine; recueil de tableaux dressés et réunis d'aprés les ordres de monsieur le comte de Chabrol, conseiller d'état, préfet du département.

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Joseph Fourier

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Joseph Fourier, 1768-1830 : a survey of his life and work, based on a critical edition of his monograph on the propagation of heat, presented to the Institut de France in 1807 / I. Grattan-Guinness, in collaboration with J.R. Ravetz.

Recherches statistiques sur la ville de Paris et le département de la Seine; recueil de tableaux dressés et réunis d'aprés les ordres de monsieur le comte de Chabrol, conseiller d'état, préfet du département.