Image: Fourier in his coat of prefect
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Description: Depiction of Joseph Fourier by artist Claude Gautherot. The painting depicts Fourier at age 34 when he was appointed prefect of Isère, with the attributes of his office: the coat, the hat and the sword. Behind him, Plato and Cicero mark his taste for the classical humanities; he is holding Newton's Principia, open to one of the figures that support the demonstration of the elliptical motion of the planets from the law of universal attraction.
Title: Fourier, dans son habit de préfet
Credit: Fourier... c'est Fou! De la Révolution française à la révolution numérique
Author: Attributed to Pierre-Claude Gautherot
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