Preliminary Notice 303

APPENDIX.

(A.) Brief Notice of some other interesting Results
of the Researches of Laplace which have not
been mentioned in the Text 368

(B.) The Mécanique Céleste 372


JOSEPH FOURIER.

Preliminary Notice 374

Birth of Fourier.--His Youth 377

Memoir on the Resolution of Numerical Equations 380

Part played by Fourier in our Revolution.--His Entrance
into the Corps of Professors of the Normal School and
the Polytechnic School.--Expedition to Egypt 384

Fourier Prefect of L'Isère 405

Mathematical Theory of Heat 408

Central Heat of the Terrestrial Globe 419