Discours de réception
Year of Conception: 1765
Year of Writing: January 1765
Year of Publication: 1765/1767
Subject: Physics, Philosophy
Publication: Discours de réception de M. Lambert comme membre de l'académie. Mémoires de l'Académie royale des sciences de Berlin, année 1765/1767, 506–514.(1)
Description:
Lambert's inaugural oration at the
Berlin Academy. He promises to devote his forces mostly to the study of
experimental physics (especially pyrometry), and then develops a view
of how the four classes of the academy (mathematics, experimental
physics, history and belles-lettres) are connected to each other.
Reviews: ADB 1768, 230(6)