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Description of a Glass Apparatus

1777réf. 56912'MILESTONE IN THE EARLY LITERATURE OF GAS ANALYSIS' first edition tall 8vo. 2 title ii editor's 'advertisement' v-viii 471pp frontispiece plate advertisement leaf a cancel . bound after PRIESTLEY Joseph A Familiar Introduction to the Study of Electricity. The Third Edition.London: Printed for J. Johnson tall 8vo. 4 half-title & title 5-85 3 advt.pp. 5 plates 4 folding The two items bound together in contemporary calf spine paneled by gilt highlighted raised bands russet morocco title label the first plate in the Priestley cropped by the binder at the fold and thus missing the right-hand half else a nice copy. Very neat contemporary signature on title "Edw. Roche". Magalhaes: ESTC t74551 Dictionary Scientific Biography Vol. 9 p.5-6The leaf following the title page pages i-ii is a cancel: 'Advertisement of the editor relating to the use of the simple glass machines for making mineral waters'. The pagination picks up a p.v and the book is complete thus. Magellan Aveiro Portugal 1722- 1790 took to science while an Augustinian monk in Coimbra but he later left the order and moved to England and later Protestantism. Although he "produced no scientific work of serious consequence . He is known for his a wide circle of scientific acquaintances and for acting as an intermediary in disseminating new information. . He was a fellow of the Royal Society and a member of several European academies of science. . He wrote more about scientific instruments than about any other subject" D.S.B. This book is the first edition of "an important milestone in the early literature of gas analysis. . an account of his researches on gases addressed to his friend Joseph Priestley. The glass apparatus for impregnating water with fixed air carbon dioxide is described in detail. Newly improved by 'Mr. Parker' the apparatus was superior to that used by Priestley and described by him in 1772. Carbon dioxide was prepared by dissolving marble calcium carbonate in dilute sulphuric acid. Magellan also describes three new types of eudiometer he had designed; these and the apparatus for making carbonated waters are illustrated in the frontispiece" Neville II p.125. Further editions followed in 1779 and 1783.Priestley: ESTC t35302 Crook Priestly Bibliography S/473 To illustrate this work Priestly used plates nos. 2367 and 8 from his The History and present state of electricity and "it was not thought necessary to change the numbers of them" preface. Printed for W. Parker .. and sold by J. Johnson .. and W. Brown hardcover

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DE MAGELLAN, JEAN HYACINTHE (Joao Jacinto de Magalhaes).:Biblio.com

COLLECTION DE DIFFERENS TRAITES SUR DES INSTRUMENS D'ASTRONOMIE PHYSIQUE &c. Contenant I. La Description & l'Usage des Nouveaux Instrumens Circulaires a Reflection. II. Des Quadrants Astronomiques Mobiles.

réf. 51370A Londres W. Richardson 1780. TITLE CONTINUED: III. Des Nouveaux Barometres Portables et de ceux a grande Echelle &c. IV. Un Essai sur le Feu Elementaire & sur la Chaleur des Corps avec la Description des Nouveaux Thermometres. V. Sur les Collections d'Instrumens d'Astronomie de Geodesie de Physique &c ordonnees par la Cour d'Espagne. VI. Sur le Nouveau Remede de Mr. Mudge pour la Toux. 1780 text in French 4to approximately 260 x 205 mm 10¼ x 8 inches 3 folding engraved plates as required with the first unnumbered and the others numbered V and VI as in all copies 1 illustration in the text pages: 2 218 5 22-86 5 88-164 i.e.166 7166-192 5194-258 some errors of pagination but the text follows on collated and guaranteed complete separate dated title pages for each tract some of which had been issued separately pagination with breaks and register continuous at the end are bound 2 mathematical articles in English by Francis Maseres taken from Philosophical Transactions of 1778 and 1780. Bound in modern quarter calf over marbled sides raised bands with blind rules and gilt lettered morocco label new endpapers. Tiny pale red library stamp on title page repeated 8 times within plus a larger black ink stamp of the Inner Temple Library on the lower margin of last page of the English section at the rear not affecting text title page very slightly chipped at upper and fore-edge pale age-browning to margins of a few pages 4 pages heavily browned and fore-edges a little brittle occasional slight foxing mostly to margins small light brown stain to 1 upper margin small closed tear to another repaired neatly small chip to fore-edge of 2 folding plates loss to margin only small closed tears to a few pages due to being brittle but not affecting text. A good tight copy of a scarce work. A reissue with its own collective title page of Part 2 of the two-part collection with the same title and the imprint: A Paris & Londres 1775-80. Part I contained information on the construction and use of sextant and octants and was not reissued. Usually known by the French version of his name J. H. de Magellan 1723-1790 descended from the explorer Ferdinand Magellan was a Portuguese scientist whose work focused primarily on scientific instruments. He is credited with introducing English scientific instruments and the work of Joseph Priestley to the scientific community in France. After travels throughout Europe he settled in England in 1764 to pursue his scientific studies. He was elected a member of the Royal Society 1774 and was also a member of the Imperial Academy of Science in St. Petersburg and of the Royal Academy of Madrid. As an instrument maker and designer supplying the governments of Europe he proposed changes and improvements to astronomical and nautical observation instruments such as the quarters of a circle English sextants and octants in the reflection circle in the sextant and in the pendulum clock. As far as meteorological instruments are concerned he put forward improvements in barometers thermometers and presented a meteorographer. As regards physical instruments worthy of mention are his improvements to Atwoods machines and to the precision scale very important for the advances of chemistry. In Traite V in our book he deals with astronomic clocks and watches marine compasses protection against lightning and the theodolite. The final Traite is actually an extract from a letter from Magellan to a doctor friend in Paris describing the construction and use of a new inhaler or respirateur invented by a fellow member of the Royal Society the physician John Mudge and believed to cure infallibly catarrhal coughs. See: Henry Sotheran Bibliotheca Chemico-Mathematica Volume 2 page 559 No. 11272; Dictionary of Scientific Biography Vol IX page 5. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST. A Londres, W. Richardson, 1780. hardcover

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