"RUMFORD, GRAFEN von (BENJAMIN THOMPSON). - WEAKENING THE CALORIC THEORY OF HEAT.
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(1799)
(Halle, Rengerschen Buchhandlung, 1799). Without wrappers. In ""Annalen der Physik. Herausgegeben von Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert"", Bd. 1 Viertes Stück und Bd. 2, Drittes Stück. (The entire issues offered). Pp. 379-518 a. 2 folded engravd plates + pp. 249-368 a. 2 folded engraved plates. Rumford's papers: pp. 436-463 a. pp. 249-286.
First German editions of Rumford's central essays on heat flows in liquids, describing his DISCOVERY OF THE CONVECTION OF HEAT and his experiments that led to his theory of the CONVECTION CURRENTS IN THE OCEAN. The papers appeared originally in the Philosophical Transactions in 1798.