Hare

1840 · ref. 76247 — Philadelphia: J. G. Auner 1840 1843. Fourth Edition with Amendments and Additions. stated. Hardcover. Fair. Also a Letter on the Berzelian Nomenclature with the Reply of Berzelius; with some Subsequent Remarks and Suggestions by the Author Approximately 30 pages. And an Effort to Refute the Arguments advanced in favor of the Existence of Compound Radicals like Cyanogen in the Amphide Salts approximately 60 pages; with a subjoined Statement of those Arguments as advanced in Kane's Elements approximately. Part I 370 pagesPart II vi 371-605 1 xx pages 8 pages. Bound with is A Brief Exposition of the Science of Mechanical Electricity or Electricity Proper" subsidiary to the Course of Chemical Instruction in the University of Pennsylvania with Engravings and descriptions oft the Apparatus employed. The first edition was published in 1828. Covers especially corners are worn. Spine chipped. Some page discoloration. Some pages have top edge staining. Some foxing. Some pages have small pieces missing. Illustrations. Index. Some marks and writing on pages noted. Robert Hare January 17 1781 - May 15 1858 was an early American chemist. Hare was born in Philadelphia Pennsylvania on January 17 1781. He developed and experimented with the oxy-hydrogen blowpipe with Edward Daniel Clarke of Oxford shortly after 1800. He was a professor at the University of Pennsylvania between 1810 and 1812 and between 1818 and 1847. By the 1820s Hare had developed the "galvanic deflagrator" a type of voltaic battery having large plates used for producing rapid and powerful combustion. He was elected an Associate Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1824. J. G. Auner hardcover