Recherches Sur l'intégration des équations différentielles, partielles, et sur les vibrations des surfaces. Lu le prairial an 8 (1800).

(Paris, Baudouin, AN XI (1803)). 4to. Without wrappers. Uncut. Extracted from ""Mémoires de L'Institut National des Sciences et Arts"", Tome Quatrieme. Pp. 21-112. Fine and clean, unopened.

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First printing of one of Biot's earliest work, and one of his major mathematical paper.. Biot is well known for his discoveries in connection with polarized light.An importent chemical paper in organic chemistry accompanies Biot's paper: Fourcroy et Vauquelin,""Mémoire Sur l'analyse des calculs urinaires humains, et sur les divers matériaux qui les forment"". Pp. 112-150.