 | William Laxton - 1841 - 534 pages
...local magnetic attraction of ships, important problems on chance, and a multitude of other subjects. His wellknown treatise on mechanics is incomparably...applications. Poisson was not a philosopher who courted tee credit of propounding original views which did not arise naturally ont of the immediate subjects... | |
 | 1841 - 646 pages
...in the Philosophical Magazine for the present year. [LE & U. Phil. Mag. vol. xvii. p. 338.] lished during the last thirty years of his life, made this...researches ; and he was more disposed to extend and perfect the application of known methods of analysis to important physical problems, than to indulge... | |
 | 1841 - 1316 pages
...in the Philosophical Magazine for the present year. [LE & D. Phil. Mag. vol. xvii. p. 338.] lished during the last thirty years of his life, made this...researches ; and he was more disposed to extend and perfect the application of known methods of analysis to important physical problems, than to indulge... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1843 - 538 pages
...inequalities only, and that they were consequently incapable of indefinite increase or dimituition. It was reserved to Poisson to demonstrate a priori...researches ; and he was more disposed to extend and perfect the application of known methods of analysis to important physical problems, than to indulge... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1843 - 552 pages
...incomparably superior to every similar publication in the clear and decided exposition of principles aixl methods, and in the happy and luminous combination...researches ; and he was more disposed to extend and perfect the application of known methods of analysis to important physical problems, than to indulge... | |
 | 1841 - 414 pages
...nttraction of ships, important problems on chance and a multitude of other subbjecls. His swell known treatise on mechanics is incomparably superior- to...exposition of principles and methods, and in the happy, luminous combination of the most general theories with their particular and most instructive applications.... | |
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They comprehend the theory of waves and of the vibrations of elastic substances, the laws of the distribution of electricity and magnetism, the propagation of heat, the theory of capillary attraction, the attraction of spheroids, the local magnetic attraction... 