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LIVRE A L’ETAT DE NEUF. EXPEDIE SOUS 3 JOURS OUVRES. NUMERO DE SUIVI COMMUNIQUE AVANT ENVOI, EMBALLAGE RENFORCE. EAN:9782246837961
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Paris chez P. Fr. Didot le jeune 1780. In-8 (20X12,5 cm), LXVIII-333 pages-3 pages n. chiffrées, une planche dépliante de 16 figures gravées. Basane époque, coiffe inférieure, coupes et coins usés; petit manque au plat supérieur. Sans la pièce de titre. Bon état intérieur. (XVI)- (300gr.)
Traduction de l'anglais par l'auteur lui-même de cet ouvrage capital traitant de la photosynthèse.
Paris, Chez Théophile Barrois le jeune, Libraire, quai des Augustins, n°18, Seconde édition. Deux volumes in-8, plein-veau, dos à cinq nerfs ornés de fleurons, pièce de titre en maroquin rouge, pièce de tomaison en maroquin vert.
Jan Ingenhousz est un médecin et botaniste britannique d'origine néerlandaise, né le 8 décembre 1730 et mort le 7 septembre 1799. Dans Expériences sur les végétaux, et à la suite des travaux de Priestley sur l'oxygène, il découvre le rôle de la lumière dans la photosynthèse.Belle édition de cet ouvrage botanique important.
INGEN-HOUSZ (INGENHOUSZ), JOHN. - DISCOVERY OF PHOTOSYNTHESIS - THE CLASSIC OF ECOLOGY.
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Paris, Théophile Barrois, 1780. 8vo. Fine cont. full mottled calf, richly gilt spine and gilt titlelabel in red leather. Edges gilt. LXVIII,333,(3) pp. and 1 folded engraved plate (showing his experimental apparatus). Light browning to margins of title-page, otherwise clean and with broad margins. A fine copy.
First French edition of perhaps the most important work in plant physiology. It is in this work that Ingen-Housz for the first time expounds the ideas and experiments that lead to his discovery of Photosynthesis in plant life, and as such it is of fundamental importance in the economy of living things. ""His Experiments upon vegetables was published in the autumn of 1779 and was at once recognized as a very important advance. In brief he showed, that oxygen evolution by plant is absolutely dependent on light and that it only occurs from those parts which are green...The proof that light and green tissues are both essential for oxygen production finally cleared up the apparent contradictions and variable results of earlier experiments. Priestly was ""much pleased"" with Ingen-Housz's experiments and pointed immediately to the salient facts that he had established."" (A.G. Morton: History of Botanical Science. p. 332.). Dibner: Heralds of Science No. 29. - Garrison & Morton No. 103. - Horblit No. 55. (All the English edition of 1779).
P., Barrois, 1780, un volume in 8 relié en demi-basane, dos orné de fers et filets dorés (reliure de l'époque), 68pp., 333pp., (1pp.), (1), 1 PLANCHE DEPLIANTE
---- PREMIERE EDITION FRANCAISE TRADUITE PAR INGEN-HOUSZ lui-même ---- BEL EXEMPLAIRE ---- "A DISCOVERY OF FUNDAMENTAL IMPORTANCE IN THE ECONOMY OF THE WORLD OF LIVING THINGS". (Garrison) ---- "Ingen-Housz showed that the green parts of plants, when exposed to light, fix the free carbon dioxide of the atmosphere, but that in darkness plants have no such power. Thus he proved that animal life is dependent ultimately on plant life, a discovery of fundamental importance in the economy of the world of living things". (Garrison N° 103 & 145.52 1st english ed.) ---- Dibner N° 29 & Horblit N° 55 1st english ed**7931/A1
P., Barrois, 1787/1789, 2 volumes in 8 reliés en demi-basane à coins, dos ornés de filets dorés (reliures de l'époque), (petit accroc à une coiffe, quelques rousseurs), T.1 : 112pp., 384pp., (1), 1 PLANCHE DÉPLIANTE, T.2 : (2), 56pp., 509pp., (1pp.), (1)
---- Deuxième édition française REVUE et AUGMENTEE ---- "Inghen-Housz'further studies on plant assimilation and respiration" ---- "Ingen-Housz showed that the green parts of plants, when exposed to light, fix the free carbon dioxide of the atmosphere, but that in darkness plants have no such power. Thus he proved that animal life is dependent ultimately on plant life, a discovery of fundamental importance in the economy of the world of living things". (Garrison N° 103 & 145.52 1st english ed.) ---- Norman N° 1142 : "The second volume contains the results of Ingen-Housz's further studies on plant assimilitation and respiration, which led him to believe that plants and animals are mutually supportive, the animals consuming oxygen and producting carbon dioxide, and the plants doing exactly the reverse. The volume also contains Ingen-Housz's rebuttals to the criticisms of Priestley and Senebier, who disputed his claim to the discovery of photosynthesis and plant respiration" ---- Dibner N° 29 & Horblit N° 55 1st english ed**2758/A2