‎DAVY Humphry - Jean-Baptiste Van MONS :‎
‎Élémens de philosophie chimique par M. Le Chevalier Homfrede (Humphry) Davy...traduit de L'Anglais par J.B. van Mons. Volume I (...Volume II) (2 vols).‎

‎"10. Paris, Chez J.E.G. Du Four... et à Amsterdam chez le même libraire (imprimé à Bruxelles chez De Mailly), 1813-1816, 2 vols in-8°, xxxii + 644 pp + (2)nn pp + (2)(bl) + xii line-engraved plates ; (4)nn pp + lvi pp + 770 pp + (2)(table). Bound in uniform modern boards. Leather label on spines. French translation by Jean Baptiste van Mons (1765 - 1842) of Davy's '' Elements of Chemical Philosophy'' which appeared in one part only in 1812. Van Mons became at the restart in 1797 one of the editors of the '' Annales de Chimie'' together with Fourcroy , de Pelletier , de Vauquelin, Prieur a.o.. In 1801 he started in Brussels a similar publication called ''Journal de Chimie et de Physique''. During the period 1780 - 1820, revolutionary advances were made in chemistry. He was at the forefront in collecting data to expand chemical knowledge and was in contact with most of the important European scientists; Brugnatelli, Buchholtz, Traumdorff , Oersted..., also with Volta of whom he published the invention of the battery 2 years before the Royal Society of London. The original text of Davy is nearly doubled here with the commentaries of Van Mons. Volume II contains as introduction a very readable history of chemistry (56 pp) signed A.D.T. Rare, not in KUL library (where Van Mons was a professor)."‎

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