‎Chimie‎

‎"DULONG, (PIERRE) & (ALEXIS) PETIT.‎

‎Recherches sur les lois de dilation des solides, des liquides et des fluides élastiques, et sur la mesure exacte des temperatures.‎

‎(Paris, Crochard), 1816. Without wrappers. In ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique"", Tome II, 2. Series, Cahier Juillet 1816. Pp. (217-) 328. Entire issue offered). The paper of Dulong & Petit: pp. 240-263. 5 leaves with a stamp in upper right corner. Some scattered brownspots.‎

‎First apperance of this, their (first) joint paper, which initiated the recheches leading to the the ""Law of Dulong and Petit"", the connection between atomic weight and atomic heat.""In 1815 Dulong’s famous collaboration with the mathematical physicist Alexis Thérèse Petit began"" it produced three important memoirs on heat (of which this is the first). The best-known part of this work is the statement of the law of constant atomic heats that bears their names, .... They began with the fundamental problem of measuring quantities of heat, which involved a critical analysis of thermometric scales. In 1804-1805 Gay-Lussac had carried out a comparison of mercury and air thermometers between 0°C. and 100°C. Dulong and Petit extended the range of comparison up to 300°C. and found an increasing discrepancy between the two scales at higher temperatures."" (DSB).‎

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‎HESS, (GERMAIN HENRY). - HESS' S LAW.‎

‎Recherches thermo-chimique" (Extrait du Bulletin scientifique publié par l'Academie imperiale des Sciences de Saint-Petersbourg, tome VII)‎

‎Paris, Fortin, Masson et Cie, 1840. Contemp. hcloth. Gilt lettering to spine. In ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique"", 2me Series - Tome 75. 447,(1) pp. a. 1 plate. (Entire volume offered). Hess's paper: pp. 80-103. The first and last leaves somewhat brownspotted.‎

‎First edition in French of Hess' first fundamental law in thermodynamic: ""the law of heat formation"" (1840), anticipating a specific example of the ""LAW OF THE CONSERVATION OF ENERGY"", 2 years before Julius Robert Mayer elucidated the more general principle in 1842 - claiming that ""the heat developed in chemical change is constant, whether the change occurs directly or indirectly in several stages""Germain Henri Hess is noted today for two fundamental principles of thermochemistry: the law of constant summation of heat (known simply as Hess's law) and the law of thermoneutrality. These discoveries were remarkable in that they were postulated without any supporting theoretical framework and took place in a field of study almost totally neglected by his contemporaries. Hess's law is of immense practical importance and is used to this day to determine heats of reaction when their direct measurements are difficult or impossible. (Chemistry Encyclopedia).""Numerous men, notably Lavoisier and Laplace had measured the heats evolved in various reactions, but thermochemistry received its first importent advance at the hands ofgermain Henri Hess, who showed that the heat evolved in a reaction is the same regardless of whether the reaction is carried out directly or in a number of steps. This generalization, known now as ""Hess's Law"", makes possible the calculation of heats for many reactions where direct measurement are impracticable.""(Leicester & Klickstein, A Source Book..., p329.""The thermochemical work of Hess was continued extensively in the second half of the nineteenth century through the studies of Thomsen and Berthelot. Both Berthelot’s principle of maximum work and the thermodynamic theories of affinity which came to prevail were clearly foreshadowed in the work of Hess. In addition to his internationally known research in thermochemistry, Hess was very influential in the development of chemistry in Russia. His text Osnovania chistoy khimii (Fundamentals of Pure Chemistry) went through seven editions and did much to establish the chemical nomenclature of the Russian language. He was always interested in technological questions, and many of his students later contributed to Russia’s industrial development."" (DSB).Parkinson ""Breakthroughs"", 1840 C. - Leicester & Klickstein, A Source Book, p 329.‎

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‎"DAGUERRE, LOUIS J.M. - (ARAGO, FRANCOIS). - THE FIRST DESCRIPTION OF THE PRODUCTION OF DAGUERREOTYPES.‎

‎Le Daguerréotype.(Analyse de la communication faite à l'Academie par M. Arago).‎

‎Paris, Crochard et Comp., 1839. Contemp. hcloth. Gilt lettering to spine. In 'Annales de Chimie et de Physique', 2e series, Volume 71. (4),445,(3) pp. (Entire volume offered). Arago's paper: pp. 313-340. The first and last leaves with some browning. A few scattered brownspots.‎

‎First printing of probably the first (in the Juillet issue of Annales) official announcement of Daguerre's invention of the photographic process. The paper offered here preceeded the official report in Comptes Rendues which was published at the end of 1839 (in the July-December issue). The first report of on the discovery was presented to the Royal Academy on January 7, 1839 and delivered in full on August 19, 1839 (and printed in the July-Dec. issue of Comptes Rendues). The paper also preceeded Daguerre's own publication of 1839 ""Historique et description du daguerréotypie...""In 1839 Arago took a personal interest in announcing and popularizing the inventions of Niepce and Daguerre, who were awarded government pensions as a result of Arago’s recognition of their inventions’ potential significance.""In 1829 Daguerre went into partnership with Niepce, who had managed to produce images by the action of light some three years earlier but had failed to make the process really practical. Daguerre carried on and began to use copper plates on which silver salts were deposited. ight was made to focus upon that and an image was formed. The light portions of the image darkened the salts, while the shadowy portions left them unaffected. The unchanged salt was dissolved away by sodium thiosulfate (a process that had been suggested by John Herschel and a permanent image of sorts was left behind.""(Asimov).‎

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‎LAURENT, AUGUSTE. - A TURNING POINT IN CHEMISTRY.‎

‎Note sur le radical de l'acide chlorophénisique" par M. laurent. (Renvoi (rejected) à la commission précédemment nommée).‎

‎(Paris, Bachelier), 1836. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome 3, Séance Lundi 7 Novembre. Pp. (523-) 558. (Entire issue offered). Laurent's paper: pp. 552-553.‎

‎First apperance in print of Laurent's announcement of his fundamental discovery, rejected at first by the Academy, in which he ""converted Dumas' theory into a real theory of substitution by making the importent addition that when a compound undergoes chlorination, the chlorine takes the place , and, as it were, plays the part of the hydrogen, which is removed."" (Findlay).Laurent demomstrates that a chlorine atom can be substituted for a hydrogen atom in a chemical with little change in properties. As this refutes the prevailing concept, his work is rejected by the chemical community at first. (Bunch 1836 C).‎

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‎"DALTON, JOHN. - PAWING THE WAY FOR THE ATOMIC THEORY.‎

‎Bemerkungen für und wider Dalton's neue Theorie über die beschaffenheit gemischter Gasarten, über seine Vorstellung, wie Gas im Wasser vorhanden ist, und über die Frage: ob gasarten unter einander und zum Wasser chemisch verwandt sind, oder nicht. b...‎

‎Halle, Rengerschen Buchhandlung, 1805. Contemp. hcalf. Spine gilt, raised bands, a few scratches to spine. In: ""Annalen der Physik. Herausgegeben von Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert"", Bd. 21. (8),496 pp. and 5 engraved plates. (Entire volume offered). Stamp to verso of titlepage and verso of plates. Internally clean and fine. The papers by Dalton, Gough, Henry: pp. 377-436. And pp. 458-461.‎

‎First German editions of these importent papers on Dalton's theory of gases. The year ""1804 was notable chiefly for controversy over the mixed gases theory and particularly over its denial of weak chemical affinity forces. Continuing criticism of the theory - and the failure of particle weight studies to provide the hoped-for clinching evidence - caused Dalton to revise his ideas on mixed gases during the course of 1805."" (DSB)Smyth ""John Dalton. A Bibliography"", Nos 33, 34, 35 a. 42.‎

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‎"BERZELIUS, JÖNS JACOB. - THE INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGE OF CHEMISTRY INTRODUCED.‎

‎Experiments on the Nature of Azote, of Hydrogen, and of Ammonia, and upon the Degrees of Oxidation of which Azote is susceptible.‎

‎London, Robert Baldwin, 1813. 8vo. Contemp. hcalf. Marbled boards. Spine lacks and boards loose. In: ""Annals of Philosophy"" or Magazine of Chemistry, Mineralogy, Mechanics... By Thomas Thomson"". Vol. II. - VIII,480 pp. a. 7 plates. (Entire volume offered). Berzelius' paper: pp. 276-284, 357-368. Some browning and brownspots to plates.‎

‎First printing of this milestone papers in the history of chemistry, where Berzelius introduced his famous chemical symbolism (the offered paper is the first on the subject - Leicester & Klickstein calls it the ""Preliminary note) whereby an element is generally represented by the first letter of its Latin name, or, in the event of elements having the same first letter, by the first two letters. Even though his atomic symbols were introduced in 1813 (see the note on p. 359), it was quite a few years before Berzelius's symbols were adopted by the chemistry community. But once accepted, they became the new international language of chemistry. Berzelius ""contributed more to the development of the atomic theory and to the setting up of accurate values of the atomic weights than did any other worker of the time. Of his contributions, moreover, to the development of the atomic theory and the advancement of chemical science, not the least valuable was the introduction of a chemical symbolism which, with slight modification, is in use at the present day. By giving his symbols a quantitative meaning - the symbol of an element representing one atomic proportion by weight - it was possible ""to show briefly and clearly the number of elementary atoms in each compound and, after the determination of their relative weights, present the results of each analysis in a simple and easely retained manner"". This symbolism was speedily adopted on the Continent but, in England, only after some considerable time.""(Findlay ""A Hundred Years of Chemistry"", p. 14.).Parkinson ""Breakthroughs"", 1813 C. - Leicester & Klickstein ""A Source Book in Chemistry"", p. 258 ff. - Holmberg 1813:28 a.‎

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‎"BERZELIUS, J. (JÖNS JACOB). - INTRODUCING CATALYSIS AND CATALYTIC FORCE, A NEW CHEMICAL POWER.‎

‎Quelques Idées sur une nouvelle Force agissant dans les Combinaisons des Corps Organiques.‎

‎Paris, Crochard, 1836. Berzelius's paper: pp. 146-151. Some browning to the first and last leaves. Some scattered brownspots.‎

‎First French edition of this importent paper in the history of chemistry in which Berzelius advanced the concept of 'Catalysis', and described inorganic reactions by way of metals and the biological reactions by enzymes. The paper on Catalysis was first published in his ""Årsberättelse"" (Annual Survey) in 1835. - Axel Holmberg 1836:14. - Partington IV, pp. 263-64""This is a new force in inorganic and organic nature, bringing into being chemical activity, and more widely distributed than has hitherto been thought, the naure of which is completely concealed. If I all it a new force it is not my meaning that it is independent of the electrochemical relations of matter, but on the contrary I can only assume that it is a special kind of manifestation of these. So long as its nature and relations are unknown it will be convenient to considerit a new force, and to give it a name.""(Berzelius).Parkinson ""Breakthroughs"", 1836 C.The issue contains furthermore two importent papers by the founder of modern organic cemeistry, Auguste Laurent ""Sur l'Acide Naphtalique et ses Combinaisons"", pp. 113-125 and ""Théorie des Combinaisons Organiques"", pp. 125-151. And Avogadr: ""Nouvelles recherches sur le Pouvoir Neutralisant de quelques Corps Simples. (Extrait). Pp. 419-432.Laurent: A founder of modern organic chemistry, Laurent was one of the most important chemists of the nineteenth century.‎

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‎"PASTEUR, LOUIS. - DISCOVERY OF ""MOLECULAR ASSYMETRY""‎

‎Recherches sur les relations qui peuvent exister entre la forme cristalline, la composition chimique et le sens de la polarisation rotatoire. (+) Note sur la Cristallisation du soufre. (Memoir on the relation that can exist between crystalline form an...‎

‎Paris, Victor Masson, 1848 a. 1851. 8vo. 2 contemp. hcalf, raised bands, gilt spine. Light wear along edges. Small stamps on verso of titlepages and on verso of 1 plate. In ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique"", 3me Series - Tome XXIV and XXXI. (6),512 pp. and 2 plates + 512 pp. a. 4 plates.(2 entire volumes offered). Pasteur's papers: pp. 442-459 a. pp. 459-460, 1 double-page folded engraved plate + pp. 67-102 a. 1 plate. Some scattered brownspots to first part of the first volume, not affecting P's papers.‎

‎First full exposition of Pasteur's momentous and revolutionary discovery of ""molecular assymetry"" and founding the science of Polarimetry.The discovery was first announced by Pasteur in may 1848 by the printing of the preliminary report of only 4 short pages, in order to establish priority. The announcement - 4 pages - was published in Comptes rendus hebdomadaires de l’Académie des Sciences, Paris, Seance of May 15, 1848, 26 (21), 535-538 (Published on May 1848).""In 1848....Pasteur studied the crystals of tartrates (one of the substances that exhibited the now-clockwise, now-counterclockwise effect) under the microscope and found that the crystals were mirror images of the others. The two crystals resembled each other as a right-hand glove resembles a left-hand glove....This was a revolutionary discovery and it took some courage to announce it. A few years before, the well-known chemist Mitscherlich had studies the same tartrate crystals and declared them all to be identical. Pasteur was only a twenty-sic-year-old unknown. neverthelless he announced his findings and went before Biot to repeat the separation ofthe crystals before the eyes of the aged authority in the field. Biot was convinced and Pasteur received the Rumford medal of the Royal Society for his work....Pasteur had thus founded the science of polarimetry in which the measurements of the manner in which the plane of polarized light was twisted could be used to help to determine the structure of organic substance, to follow various chemical reactions, and so on.""(Asimov). Leicester & Klickstein ""A Source Book of Chemistry"", p. 374-379).‎

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‎"GRAHAM, THOMAS. - COINING THE WORD ""DIALYSIS"".‎

‎The Bakerian Lecture. - On Osmotic Force. Received June 15, - Read June 15, 1854.‎

‎(London, Richard Taylor and William Francis, 1854). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1854, Vol. 144 - Part I. Pp. 177-228, 3 fine textillustrations in woodcut. Clean and fine.‎

‎First appearance of this importent paper in which Graham coins the word ""dialysis"" denoting the passage by diffusion of dissolved substances as a function of their concentration and molecular mass. In this way he further explained 'exomosis'.""Thomas Graham (1805-1869) studies diffusion in gases and solutions and discovers and names the phenomenon now known as the osmotic force. He finds that certain substances (i.e. glue) pass more slowly through membranes than others (i.e. common salt). He calls the former colloids and the latter crystalloids and introduces the notion of dialysis to describe these observations. The beginning of his famous lecture ""On osmotic force"" with illustrations is shown on the right.""(From Anders Gedeon ""Science and Technology in Medicine"", p. 244, where part of the first page and the illustrations from the offered paper, are shown).Garrison & Morton: 686 (""Investigation on osmotic force"" provided importent information for the physiologists"").‎

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‎"PASTEUR, LOUIS. - ANNOUNCING THE DISCOVERY OF ""MOLECULAR ASSYMETRY""‎

‎Mémoire sur la relation qui peut exister entre la forme cristalline et la composition chimique, et sur la cause de la polarisation rotatoire"" (Extrait). (Séance du Lundi 22 Mai 1848).‎

‎(Paris, Bachelier), 1848. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome 26, No 21. Pp. (529-) 548. (Entire issue offered). Pasteur's paper: pp. 535-538. Clean and fine.‎

‎First appearance of the announcement of Pasteur's momentous and revolutionary discovery of ""molecular assymetry"" and founding the science of Polarimetry.The discovery was first announced by Pasteur in may 1848 by the printing of the preliminary report of only 4 short pages, in order to establish priority (the paper offered). A more full exposition was published the same year in ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique"", 3me Series - Tome XXIV.""In 1848....Pasteur studied the crystals of tartrates (one of the substances that exhibited the now-clockwise, now-counterclockwise effect) under the microscope and found that the xcrystasls were mirror images of the others. The two crystals resemmbled each other as a right-hand glove resembles a left-hand glove....This was a revolutionary discovery and it took some courage to announce it. A few years before, the well-known chemist Mitscherlich had studies the same tartrate crystals and declared them all to be identical. Pasteur was only a twenty-sic-year-old unknown. neverthelless he announced his findings and went before Biot to repeat the separation ofthe crystals before the eyes of the aged authority in the field. Biot was convinced and Pasteur received the Rumford medal of the Royal Society for his work....Pasteur had thus founded the science of polarimetry in which the measurements of the manner in which the plane of polarized light was twisted could be used to help to determine the structure of organic substance, to follow various chemical reactions, and so on.""(Asimov). Leicester & Klickstein ""A Source Book of Chemistry"", p. 374-379).‎

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‎"ARAGO, FRANCOIS - LOUIS DAGUERRE. - FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE PRODUCTION OF DAGUERROTYPES.‎

‎Fixation des images qui se forment au foyer d'une chambre obscure. (Seance du Lundi 7 Janvier 1839).‎

‎Paris, Bachelier, 1839. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome VIII No. 1. Pp. 1-36. (Entire issue offered with htitles and titlepages to volume 8). Arago's paper: Pp. 4-7. Light toning to halftitle. Stamps to title-page (one punched in lower margin). Fine and clan.‎

‎First printing of the first announcement and description of the production of Daguerreotypes made by Arago to the French Academy on January 7, 1839. The first complete report was printed on August 19, 1839. The presentation by Arago preceeded Daguerre's own publication ""Historique de description des procédés du daguerreotype et du diorama"", (1839).""Arago, himself a chemist and a member of the Chamber of Deputies, made a brief pronouncement on Daguerre's proces in the Chamber on 7 January 1839 (the paper offered). and in the following August printed the full text of his report thereon made to a joint sesion of the Chambers of Deputies and the Academy of Sciences.""(PMM: 318 (Note to).‎

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‎"AVOGADRO, (AMEDEO). -‎

‎Ideen über die Acidität und die Alkalität, in Beziehung auf die neuen Entdeckungen Davy's. Von A. Avogadro... frei bearbeitet von Gilbert.‎

‎Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1810. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine with gilt lettering. Spine slightly rubbed. In: ""Annalen der Physik und der Physikalischen Chemie. Hrsg. Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert"", Bd. 34 (= Neue Folge Bd. 4). (12),486 pp. a. 6 engraved plates. Avogadro's paper: pp. 64-75. Internally clean and fine.‎

‎First German version of an importent early paper, the first by Avogadro wholly devoted to chemistry. The original paper, in French, appeared under the title ""Idées sur l’acidité et l’alcalinité"" in 1809.""Avogadro published his first article dealing only with chemistry in 1809. This memoir, on acids and alkalies, is interesting for several reasons. In the first place it illustrates his abiding concern with chemical affinity and incidentally the great influence exerted on him by Berthollet. Second, in the opening paragraph, which criticizes the oxygen theory of acidity, it illustrates his radical approach to post-Lavoisier chemistry. He postulated a relative scale of acidity in which oxygen and sulfur were placed toward the acid end of the scale, neutral substances in the middle, and hydrogen at the alkali end. A significant feature of this scale was that it was continuous. Avogadro would not allow any absolute distinctions. He was not, for example, prepared to agree with Berzelius that oxygen was absolutely electronegative. Davy, in 1807, had suggested a connection between acidity and alkalinity and electricity"" Avogadro developed this idea. Another feature of Avogadro’s interests found in this memoir is the subject of nomenclature. He was to give more detailed attention to this in the 1840’s. (DSB).The volume contains many other importent paper e.g. William Herscel ""Beobactungen über die Gestalt des Saturns"", La Place ""bemerkungen über den Ring des saturns, in beziehung auf die widersprechenden Beobachtungen Herschel's und Schröter's über denselben"", Georg Simon Klügel ""Angabe eines möglichst vollkommenden achromatischen Doppel-Objectivs... achromatischer Fernröhre"" with further 2 papers on the same by Klügel.‎

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‎"PASTEUR, LOUIS. - A LANDMARK PAPER IN ORGANIC CHEMISTRY.‎

‎Mémoire sur les acides aspartique et malique.‎

‎(Paris, Bachelier, 1851). 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome 33, No 8. Pp. (217-) 252 (entire issue offered). Pasteur's paper: pp. 217-221. Clean and fine.‎

‎First printing of this landmark paper in which Pasteur discloses his discovery of the optical activity of amino acids.""The optical activity of amino acids accurring in nature was discovered by pasteur (1851, the paper offered), who reported in a paper, which followed the publication of his work on tartaric acid, that asparagine and the aspartic acid derived from it rotate polarized light to the left and right, respectively.""(Advanced Protein Chemistry, Vol. IV).‎

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‎"PROUT, WILLIAM. - COINING THE WORD ""MERORGANIZED""‎

‎Sur la Composiion des Substances alimentaires simples, etc.‎

‎Paris, Crochard, 1827. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt lettering on spine. In: ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago."", 2 Séries, Tome 36.. Entire volume offered. 448 pp. a. 1 folded engraved plate. Prout's paper: pp. 366-378. Some scattered brownspots.‎

‎First French edition (simultaneously with the English original ""On the ultimate composition of simple alimentary substances"".."") of this milestone paper, containing the first scientific classifilassification of foodstuffs as carbonhydrates, fats, proteins, and water.""The brilliant demonstration in 1824 that the gastric juices of animals contains hydrochloric acid appeared incredible to many of Prout's contemporaries. Yet in 1827 (in the paper offered) they readily adopted his classification of foodstuffs into water, saccharinous (carbonhydrates), oleagineous (fats), and albuminous (proteins). Although Prout promised detailled analyses of the three organic aliments, only those of the saccharinous class were published by him. As a vitalist, Prout maintained that organized bodies (which were composed from organic substances) contained ""independent existing vital principles.""Under the influence of these teleological agents, the four aliments were transformed into blood and tissues. Prout termed the process of digestion and blood formation ""primary assimilation."" ""Secondary assimilation"" (Liebig's ""metamorphosis of tissues"") included both the process of tissue formmation from blood and the destruction and removal of unwanted parts from the animal system. The absorption and removal of water from processed aliments were the principal chemical features of chylification and sanguification, respectively. Organization of processed aliments could not occur, however, without the presence and admixture of minute amounts of water or of elements other than carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen. In 1827 Prout coined the word (in the paper offered) ""merorganized"" to denote the isomerism and vitalization of organic substances by the presence of these incidental materials.""(DSB XI, p. 173). Parkinson ""Breakthroughs"" 1827 C.The volume contains an importent pioneer-investigation on piezo-electricity by ANTOINE CÉSAR BECQUEREL ""De quelques Phénoménes électriques produits pa la pression et le clivage des cristaux"", pp. 265-271.‎

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‎"AVOGADRO, (AMEDEO).‎

‎Mémoire sur les Chaleurs spécifiques des corps solides et liquides.‎

‎Paris, Crochard, 1833. No wrappers. In: ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago."", tome 55, Cahier 1. Pp. - 112 pp. (The entire issue offered with halftitle and title-page to vol. 55). Avogadro's paper: pp. 80-111. Scattered brownspots.‎

‎In 1819 Dulong and Petit announced that there was a simple relationship between specific heats and atomic weights. Although they suggested that their law might be extended to compounds, it was F. E. Neumann who, in 1831, first applied the law practically to solid compounds. Avogadro, who began his research in this field in 1833 (in the paper offered), ivestigated both liquids and solids.He decided that the formula of a compound in the liquid or solid state could not be the same as that in the gaseous state. He therefore introduced the arbitrary division of molecules and considered, for example, that a molecule of water or ice contained only a quarter as many atoms as one of steam.(DSB).Also with Eilhard Mitscherlich ""Sur le Rapport de la Densité des gaz à leur poids atomiques"", pp. 5-41, textillustr. and his ""Sur la Benzine et les Acides des Huiles et de Stároptes"", pp. 41-59.‎

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‎"PLANCK, MAX.‎

‎Absolute Entropie und chemische Konstante.‎

‎Leizig, Barth, 1921. 8vo. In full black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In ""Annalen der Physik"", Vol. 66, 1921. Entire volume offered. Library labels pasted on to front free end papers, stamp to title page. Otherwise fine and clean. Pp. 365-372. [Entire volume: 564, VII pp].‎

‎First printing of Planck's paper on entropie and chemical constant.‎

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‎"DAVY, HUMPHRY - THE DISCOVERY OF POTASSIUM AND SODIUM (FRENCH VERSION).‎

‎Recherches ëlectrochimiques sur la décomposition des terres, avec des observations sur les métaux obtenus des terres alcalines, et sur un amalgame produit avec l'ammoniaque. Tireeis des Transactions philosophiques, et traduites par M. C.A. Prieur. (+)...‎

‎Paris, Mad. Ve Barnard, 1809. Contemp. hcalf. Spine gilt. Wear to top of spine. A few scratches to binding. Small stamps on verso of titlepage.In: ""Annales de Chimie, ou Recueil de Mémoires concernant la Chemie"" Tome 70. 336 pp. (Entire volume offered). Davy's paper: pp. 189-254.‎

‎First edition in French (the first English 1808) of this importent historical paper in chemistry, in which Davy shows that electricity is capable of decomposing some alkalies, isolating two new substances and discovering potassium and sodium. Neville in his Historical Chemical Library vol. I, p.340, writes about this paper ""ONE OF THE GREAT CLASSIC RESEARCHES IN CHEMISTRY, in which Davy announced in this, his second Bakterian lecture, the isloation of metallic potassium and sodium by the electrolytic decomposition of their fused oxides.""""He (Davy) began his own electrical experiments...The results were spectacular. On October 6, 1807, the current passing through molten potash liberated a metal, which Davy called potassium. The little globules of shining metal tore the water molecule apart as it eagerly recombined with oxygen and the liberated hydrogen burst into lavender flame. Davy danced about in a delirium of joy. A week later he isolated sodium from soda.""(Asimow). The paper offered here describes these discoveries.""Humphry Davy was one of the most brilliant chemists of the early nineteenth century. His early study of nitrous oxide brought him his first reputation, but his later and most importent investigations were devoted to electrochemistry. Following Galvani's experiments and the discovery of the voltaic pile, interest in galvanic electricity had become widespread. The first electrolysis by means of the pile was carried out in 1800 by Nicholson and Carisle, who obtained oxygen and hydrogen from water. Davy began to examine the chemical effects of electricity in 1800, and his numerous discoveries were presented in his Bakerian lecture to the Royal Society on November 20, 1806. (A Source Book in Chemistry p. 243).‎

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‎GULDBERG, C.M. et P. WAAGE.‎

‎Études sur les Affinités Chimiques. Programme de l'Université pour le Ier semestre 1867.‎

‎Christiania, Brøgger & Christie, 1867. Large 4to. Orig. full maroon cloth. Richly blindtooled on covers. A gilt medaillon on frontcover. A bit faded. Spine with some small cracks. All edges gilt. Equipped as a gift-copy. (2),74 pp., 18 plates. Clean and fine.‎

‎First edition edition of the large French version of this pioneer work on the law of mass action, the discovery that the direction taken by a chemical reaction is dependent not merely on the mass of the various components of the reaction, but upon the concentration, that is, upon the mass present in a given volume. Since the pamphlet was published in Norwegian (1863), it escaped the notice of most chemists. It became translated into French (the item offered) and it still made no impression. By the then Van't Hoff had described this law partially, but the priority of Guldberg and Waage was however recognized when Gibb's work became known. It could then be seen, that the law of mass action followed naturally from the basic principles of chemical thermodynamics.‎

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‎"TYNDALL, JOHN.‎

‎Spontaneous Generation I (+) Spontaneous Generation II (+) A Combat with an Infective Atmosphere. - [THE FINAL REJECTION OF ""SPONTANEOUS GENERATION""]‎

‎8vo. In contemporary black half cloth with gilt lettering to spine. in ""Popular Science monthly"", no 8. Extremities with light wear, otherwise fine. [Entire volume: Pp. 641-778, 128, 641-777, 386-648].‎

‎First printing of Tyndall's famous two-paper series on Spontaneous Generation. The idea was that certain forms such as fleas could arise from inanimate matter such as dust, or that maggots could arise from dead flesh. This idea had been the dominating though for two millenniums until Pasteur in 1859 and Tyndall with the present publication finally laid this theory to rest. ""One might think, then, that the question of spontaneous generation had to be resolved before germ theory could triumphed. It comes as a surprise to discover that germ theory triumphed while the issue of spontaneous generation was still subject to a lively debate. The whole question was only finally solved resolved in 1877, when John Tyndall showed that the outcome of experiments on sealed and heated environments, or on heated environments containing only heated air, depended not on the honesty and good faith, or technical competence and skill, of the experimenter, but on where he happened to conduct the experiment.Since Tyndall, and only since Tyndall, spontaneous generation experiments can be made to work reliably - but Pasteur and Lister had already brought about a revolution in medicine by claiming (mistakenly as it happens) that spontaneous generation had already been disproved."" (Wootton, Bad Medicine).‎

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‎CHAPTAL, J.A.‎

‎Chemien anvendt paa Kunster og Næringsdrift. En Oversættelse, gjennemseet og forsynet med Anmærkninger ved H.C. Ørsted. Første Deel (alt som udkom).‎

‎Kjøbenhavn, Andreas Seidelin, 1820. Samtidigt hldrbd. Rygforgyldning. Forgyldt skindtitel. Papirsetiket øverst på ryg. Stempler på titelbladet. (2),LXVI,(6),553,(1) pp. samt 10 store foldede kobberstukne plancher. Nogle få blade i forordet lidt brunplettede, ellers ren.‎

‎Første danske udgave, her med Ørsteds kommentarer og anmærkninger.- Bibl. Danica II,148.‎

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‎SALUCE, GRAFEN von (GIUSEPPE ANGELO, COUNT OF SALUZZO).‎

‎Betrachtungen über die flüssige elastische Materie welche aus dem Schiesspulver erzeugt wird. Aus dem Schriften dieser Akademie übersetzt.‎

‎Berlin, Haude und Spenerschen Buchhandlung, 1769. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on top of spine. Stamps on title-page. (4),234 pp. Internally clean.‎

‎Saluze thought that the 'elastic fluid' (= fixed air) evolved by gunpowder was atmospheric air, although he pointed out that it would not support combustion or respiration. Saluzzo was president for the Academy of Science in TurinPartington III, p. 127. - Poggendorff I, 744.‎

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‎"THENARD, L.-J. (LOUIS JACQUES).‎

‎Traité de Chimie élémentaire, théorique et pratique. Troisième Édition, revue et corrigée. 4 Vols.‎

‎Paris, Crochard, 1821. Clothbacked with blank wrappers. Ca. 2.700 pp., 3 folded tables and 33 engraved plates. Some scattered brownspots. Lower right corners on the first leaves in volume 4 with a dampstain.‎

‎Third edition of Thenard's classic and influential text-book. ""Thenard was the author of a large and important chemistry textbook that went through six editions and was translated into German, Italian, and Spanish (the section on analysis was translated into English). Through this book he helped restore France to its traditional role as supplier of chemistry textbooks to the rest of the world"" his only serious rival was the British chemist Thomas Thomson, who during the first two decades of the nineteenth century produced successive editions of his own textbook."" (DSB).‎

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‎DAM, H.‎

‎Cholesterinstoffwechsel in Hühnereiern und Hühnchen. [In: Biochemische Zeitschrift: 215]. - [THE DISCOVERY OF VITAMIN K]‎

‎Berlin, 1929. 8vo. Entire volumes 215 and 216 of Biochemische Zeitschrift, bound in one half cloth binding with gilt lettering to spine.Library stamp to first 4 leaves. Traces after paper label to upper part of front board. Hindges a bit weak. Internally fine and clean. Pp. (475)-492. [Entire volumes: V,(1), 500 pp. + IV, 500 pp].‎

‎First printing of the documentation of the discovery of the dietary anti-haemorrhiagic factor, Vitamin K. The Danish biochemist and physiologist Henrik Dam (1895-1976) was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1943 for joint work with Edward Doisy work in discovering vitamin K and its role in human physiology. Dam's key experiment involved feeding a cholesterol-free diet to chickens. It was thus that he in 1929 investigated the role of cholesterol, by feeding the chickens a cholesterol-depleted diet. After several weeks, the animals developed hemorrhages and started bleeding uncontrollably. The bleeding could not be stopped with purified cholesterol alone - a second compound had to be added to the food. Dam isolated this dietary substance needed for blood clotting, namely that which is now known as the coagulation vitamin or vitamin K. The new vitamin received the letter K because the initial discoveries were reported (here) in the German journal Biochemische Zeitschrift, in which it was designated as Koagulationsvitamin (Vitamin of Coagulation).G&M: 1062.‎

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‎HASSENFRATZ, (JEAN HENRI).‎

‎Traité théorique et pratique de L'Art de calciner la Pierre calcaire et de fabriquer toutes Sortes de Mortiers, Cimens, Bétons, etc., soit a Bras D'Hommes, soit a L'Aide de Machines. Avec onze Planches en taille-douce.‎

‎Paris, Carilian-Goeury, 1825. 4to. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spine. Stamps on foot of title-page. Engraved frontispiece (portrait of Hassenfratz). XVI,425,(1) pp. and 11 folded engraved plates. On verso of half-title signed by the publisher.‎

‎First edition. - Poggendorff I, 1030.‎

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‎MEYER, MORITZ.‎

‎Handbuch der Technologie für Artillerie=Officiere.‎

‎Berlin, Posen und Hamburg, Mittler, 1835. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spine. Stamps on title-page. VIII,218 pp. A few scattered brownspots.‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 52138