LESLIE, Sir John. An Experimental Inquiry into the Nature and Propagation of Heat . London: J. Mawman; Edinburgh: Bell & Bradfute, 1804. 8 o. 9 plates, 5 folding (some light foxing). Contemporary gilt-panelled calf, spine gilt, black morocco spine label (front cover detached, a little worn). FIRST EDITION. Leslie's most important work, and an important voice in the 19th-century debate over whether heat was a form of matter or a mode of motion. The author "established several fundamental laws of heat radiation: that the emissivity and absorptivity for any surface are equal, that the emissivity of a surface increases with the decrease of reflectivity, and that the intensity of heat radiated froma surface is proportional to the sine of the angle of rays to the surface" (DSB). For 25 years before the publication of this major work, Leslie had supported himself as science tutor to Thomas Wedgewood, son of the Etruria potter Josiah, to whom this work is dedicated. In 1805, Leslie became Professor of Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh, and was knighted in 1832 for his work.
LESLIE, Sir John. An Experimental Inquiry into the Nature and Propagation of Heat . London: J. Mawman; Edinburgh: Bell & Bradfute, 1804. 8 o. 9 plates, 5 folding (some light foxing). Contemporary gilt-panelled calf, spine gilt, black morocco spine label (front cover detached, a little worn). FIRST EDITION. Leslie's most important work, and an important voice in the 19th-century debate over whether heat was a form of matter or a mode of motion. The author "established several fundamental laws of heat radiation: that the emissivity and absorptivity for any surface are equal, that the emissivity of a surface increases with the decrease of reflectivity, and that the intensity of heat radiated froma surface is proportional to the sine of the angle of rays to the surface" (DSB). For 25 years before the publication of this major work, Leslie had supported himself as science tutor to Thomas Wedgewood, son of the Etruria potter Josiah, to whom this work is dedicated. In 1805, Leslie became Professor of Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh, and was knighted in 1832 for his work.
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