‎PLATEAU (J.)‎
‎Statique expérimentale et théorie des liquides soumis aux seules forces moléculaires -- EDITION ORIGINALE -- 2 VOLUMES (complete set)‎

‎Paris, Londres, Gand & Leipzig, Gauthier-Villars, Trubner, Clem, 1873, 2 volumes in 8 reliés en demi-basane rouge, dos orné de filets dorés (reliures de l'époque), (petites restaurations dans les marges de titre et de faux-titre au tome, cachets de bibliothèque partiellement grattés dans la marge supérieure des faux-titres), T.1 : (2), 450pp., T.2 : (2), 495pp., figures dans le texte‎

Reference : 7077

‎---- EDITION ORIGINALE ---- RARE ---- "Plateau was one of the best-known belgian scientists of the nineteenth century. He was a successful teacher and was also active in organizing the physics laboratory at the university... Plateau's work on molecular forces was published in a series of memoirs between 1843 and 1868 and again, with some revision, as a book in 1873. In this work he rationalized the arrangement, made corrections, and carried his historical account up to the year 1869. He has introduced new material on the superficial viscosity of liquids, and on the constitution of liquid veins, and made several smaller additions. At the end of volume 2 is a listing of articles which appeared after 1869. Plateau was concerned with the equilibrium of masses of liquid and with the properties of layers of liquids, and of columns of unstable liquids. his exhaustive analysis is illustrated with the results of experiments and with historical accounts of the development of related concepts... During his blindness, Plateau was aided in his work by his son-in-law G. Van der Mensbrugghe". (DSB & Bibliotheca Mechanica p. 256)**7077/M3‎