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BILLETDOUX (Raphaële).
De l'air.
Paris Albin Michel 2001 1 vol. broché iIn-8, broché, 245 pp. Edition originale de ce roman qui relate le coup de foudre d'une femme mariée pour un homme croisé sur un marché où elle fait ses courses. Un des 25 exemplaires numérotés sur vélin bouffant de Salzer, seul tirage en grand papier. En parfait état.
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5 book(s) with the same title
"AMONTONS, (GUILLAUME). - THE INVENTION OF THE AIR PRESSURE THERMOMETER.
Reference : 44385
(1704)
Discours sur quelques proprietez de l'air, & le moyen d'en connoître la temperature dans tous les climats de la terre.
(Paris, Jean Boudot, 1704). 4to. Without wrappers. Extracted from ""Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences. Année 1702"". Pp. 155-174 a. textillustrations.
First appearance of this paper in which Amontons describes his invention, construction and function of his air thermomer. He thus improves on Gallileo's design by using air pressure instead of volume. The paper is the earliest study in this field, and Amontions concludes ""that unequal masses of air under equal weights invcrease equally the force of their spring for equal degrees of heat"" Fifteen years later Gay-lussac performed the same experiments with better technique and results - the Gay-Lussac laws.The paper ""contains Amontons' account of the first thermometer with which temperature was measured by the pressure of air.""(Magie ""A Source book in Physics"", pp. 128 ff.).""His first scientific production was a Hygrometer in 1687....The other was an air thermometer independent of the atmospheric pressure. Air occupied the top of one of the branches of a U-shaped tube, and by its dilation it pushed down one of the mercury columns so that the other end ofthe branch formed a barometric chamber.""(DSB I, p. 138 a).Parkinson ""Breakthroughs"", 1702 M).
Account of a new Kind of inflammable Air or Gass, which can be made in a Moment without Apparatus, and is fit for Explosion as other inflammable Gasses in use for that Purpose" together with a new Theory of Gun-Powder. Read March 25, 1779.
(London, J. Nichols, 1779). 4to. Extract from ""Philosophical Transactions, of the Royal Society of London."" Vol. 69, Year 1779 - Part II. Pp. 376-418 and 1 folded engraved plate, showing apparatus (air pistols etc.).
First printing of Ingenhouz's memoir in which he shows a new way to make inflammable air. - Ingenhouz is most widely known for his discovery of photosynthesis which he published in the same year as the offered paper (1779).""An interesting paper written from the point of view of a phlogistonist and dealing with the forces of explosions of air or oxygen and ether vapour. Contains frequent references to Priestly and also to Lavoisier, Cavendish, Fontana.""(Duveen, p. 305).""In 1779, Jan Ingenhouz, also reported new ways of making inflammable airs. He had learnt the first method from John Cuthberson and Hendrik Aeneae on a visit to Amsterdam in 1777...When he returned to London, he tried to find simpler ways of generating the air so that it could be used as a substitute for inflammable air from metals in Volta's inflammable air pistol. He devised a way of volatising ether (Diethyl ether) for this purpose, but he thought that these to airs were the same.""(Leslie Tomary).
Observations on different Kinds of Air. By Joseph Priestley, LL.D.F.R.S. (+) An Account of further Discoveries in Air (+) Observations on Respiration, and the Use of the Blood (+) Experiments relating to Phlogiston, and the seeming Conversion of Wate... - [PMM 217 - THE DISCOVERY OF OXYGEN]
London, Lockyer Davis, 1772, 1775, 1776 & 1783. 4to. In recent marbled paper wrappers. Extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"". Including title-page of volume. Most leaves reinforced in margin. Light offsetting from folded plates as usual. Plate depicting the full telescope with professional repair to lower right corner. Pp. (4), 147-264, 383-394, 225-248, 397-434.
First edition of Priestley's landmark paper on pneumatic chemistry. In this present work, which marked an new epoch in the history of chemistry, he announced the discovery of hydrochloric acid and nitric oxide, as well as the discovery that plants restored air that had been vitiated by combustion, putrefaction, and respiration. Priestley's 'contribution to the knowledge of gases were crucial. He improved the technique for studying them by collecting them over mercury instead of water, so that many more gases could be observed.His many chemical discoveries contributed to the ""chemical revolution""' (PMM)""The paper here, for which the Royal Society awarded Priestley the Copley medal announced the discovery of hydrochloric acid and nitric oxide and the use of the latter in measuring the purity of air, which led through the work of Cavendish, Fontana and others to exact eudiometry. Priestley also observed that plants consume carbon dioxide and gave out oxygen, thereby purifying air which has been vitiated by combustion, respiration and putrefaction, and that this action takes place only under daylight."" (Printing and the Mind of Man No. 217).""In this paper he also announced two new gases that he had obtained - nitrous oxide and carbonic oxide"" these won him the Royal Society's Copley medal. Two years later his experiments in heating red oxide of mercury produced ""dephlogisticated air"" which was announced in 1775 and identified by Lavoisier as oxygen."" (Dibner Heralds of Science No. 40).The work contains a proposal to saturate water with carbonic acid under either atmospheric or increased pressure, which led to the creation of the mineral-water industry.The Centenary of the discovery of oxygen was celebrated at Priestley's American home at Northumberland, Pennsylvania, and was followed in 1876 by the foundation of the American Chemical Society. (PMM). PMM 217. Honeyman No. 2535 - Barchas 1718. Dibner 40 Norman 1749
"HALES, (STEPHEN). - FOUNDING A NEW SCIENCE, PLANT PHYSIOLOGY.
Reference : 46839
(1735)
La Statiqie des Vegetaux, et L'Analyse de L'Air. Experiences nouvelles Lûes à la Societé Royale de Londres. Ouvrage traduit de l'Anglois, par M. De Buffon.
A Paris, Debure, 1735. 4to. Contemp. full calf, 5 raised bands, richly gilt spine. Titlelabel gone. XVIII,(8),408,(2) pp. and 20 engraved plates (on 10 folded sheets). A wide-margined copy, clean and fine, printed on good paper.
First French edition - ""Vegetable Staticks"", 1727 - of this milestone work in plant physiology, being the first complete account of the physiology of plants, including the reaction with air and the movement of the sap. Hale's also here introduced a new method of gas collection and the work greatly influenced the subsequent develpment in chemistry and contributed to the discovery of many of the most impirtent medical gases. This importent French translation by Buffon which has the famous ""Préface du traductcur,"" in which Buffon praises the experimental method, and includes Hales’s appendix of 1733, was very influential.""Hale's many experiments with gases led him to demonstrate the dependence of plants on air, that plants inspire and give off ""air"". He measured the volume of waterabsorbed and evaporated in plants and studied the movements of the sap in plants. By weighing a grown potted plant and also the loss in soil in which it grew, hales proved that something material was absorbed by the plant from the air. With the use of a manometeer (pressure gauge) he traced the blood pressure and velocity in the veins and arteries of animals.""(Dibner in ""herald of Science"", no. 26).Parkinson ""Breakthroughs"", 1727 B - Milestones of Science:91 (Engl. ed.) - Dibner: No 26 (Engl. ed.). - Horblitt 45 a (Engl. ed.).- PMM: 189 a (Engl. ed.).
Mémoire et Expériences sur L'Air Fixe qui se dégage de la Biere en fermentation. (+) Addition...Experiences qui paroissent démontrer que l'air fixe, & l'acide marin volatil, n'ont aucunes qualités communes, & que cet acide marin volatil, a toute...
(Paris, Moutard, Panckoucke, 1780). 4to. Extract from ""Mémoires fe Mathematique et de Physique, Présentés à l'Academie des Sciences par divers Savans"", Tome IX. Pp. 521-550 + pp. 551-562. Clean and fine.
First printing of Chaulne's memoir on carbon dioxyde to which Cavendish referred ""The Duc de Chaulnes, in a paper communicated in December 1775, described experiments on fixed air made 1771-73, including its acid reaction and the formation of a crystaline salt (potassium bicarbonate) by the action of fixed air on solutions of potassium carbonate and hydroxide."" (Partington III, p. 317).
