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"FOURIER, (JEAN BAPTISTE JOSEPH). - THE GREENHOUSE - EFFECT.
Résumé théorique des Propriétés de la chaleur rayonnante.
(Paris, Crochard, 1824). Without wrappers. In: ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago."", tome 27, Cahier 3. Pp. 225-336. (Entire issue offered). Fourier's paper: pp. 236-281.
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First printing of this importent paper dealing with the ""Green-House-Effect"". It is the second paper from 1824 in which Fourier investigates the connection between the temperature of the earth and radiation. Fourier's analysis in these two papers is widely recognized as the first proposal of what is now known as the greenhouse effect theory.In the 1820s Fourier calculated that an object the size of the Earth and at its distance from the Sun should be considerably colder than the planet actually is if warmed only by the effects of incoming solar radiation. He examined various possible sources of the additional observed heat in articles published in 1824 (the paper offered is the second of the papers published 1824) and 1827. While he ultimately suggested that interstellar radiation might be responsible for a large portion of the additional warmth, Fourier's consideration of the possibility that the Earth's atmosphere might act as an insulator of some kind is widely recognized as the first proposal of what is now known as the greenhouse effect theory.
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"FOURIER, (JEAN BAPTISTE JOSEPH). - TOWARDS THE ANALYTICAL THEORY OF HEAT - FIRST GERMAN EDITION.
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Zusammenstellung der Eigenschaften der strahlenden Wärme. (Résumé théorique des Propriétés de la chaleur rayonnante).
Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1824. Without wrappers as issued in ""Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg.von Poggendorff"", Bd. 2, Jahrgang 1824, Zwölftes Stück. Pp. 345-448 (entire issue offered). Fourier's paper: pp. 359-402.
First German edition (in the same year as the French "" Résumé théorique des Propriétés de la chaleur rayonnante"") of this importent paper which gives an analytical account of surface-emissions and absorption based on the principle of equilibrium of temperature, forecasting the more elaborated theories which he published in his famous work ""La Therorie analytique de la chaleur. 1822"". His analytical mathematical method, that any continous function can be represented as a sum of sine and cosine curves, is here applied to physical problems f.i. his treatment of the warming (and cooling) of the earth and terrestrial temperatures. The theory of terrestrial temperatures played a central role in Fourier's mathematical physics.
