- 1Translators’ Preface
- 2Lives — Distinguished Scientific Men — The History of My Youth — An…
- 3Bailly — Biography Read at the Public Sitting of the Academy of Sci…
- 4Infancy of Bailly — His Youth — His Literary Essays — His Mathemati…
- 5Bailly Becomes the Pupil of Lacaille — He Is Associated With Him in…
- 6Bailly a Member of the Academy of Sciences — His Researches on Jupi…
- 7Bailly’s Literary Works — His Biographies of Charles V — Of Leibnit…
- 8Debates Relative to the Post of Perpetual Secretary of the Academy…
- 9History of Astronomy — Letters on the Atlantis of Plato and on the…
- 10First Interview of Bailly With Franklin — His Entrance Into the Fre…
- 11Report on Animal Magnetism
- 12Election of Bailly Into the Academy of Inscriptions
- 13Report on the Hospitals
- 14Report on the Slaughter-Houses
- 15Biographies of Cook and of Gresset
- 16Bailly Becomes Mayor of Paris — Scarcity — Marat Declares Himself I…
- 17A Glance at the Posthumous Memoir of Bailly
- 18Examination of Bailly’s Administration as Mayor
- 19The King’s Flight — Events on the Champ de Mars
- 20Bailly Quits the Mayoralty the 12th of November, 1791 — The Eschevi…
- 21Portrait of Bailly — His Wife
- 22Herschel
- 23Chronological Table of the Memoirs of William Herschel
- 24Improvements in the Means of Observation
- 25Labours in Sidereal Astronomy
- 26Labours Relative to the Solar System
- 27Optical Labours
- 28Laplace
- 29Appendix
- 30(B.)
- 31Joseph Fourier
- 32Birth of Fourier — His Youth
- 33Memoir on the Resolution of Numerical Equations
- 34Fourier Prefect of L’Isère
- 35Mathematical Theory of Heat
- 36Central Heat of the Terrestrial Globe
- 37Entrance of Fourier Into the Academy of Sciences — His Election to…
- 38Character of Fourier — His Death
Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men
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