1779 1ed Sigaud La Fond Physics Experiments Science Air Chemistry Discoveries

1779 1^ed Sigaud La Fond Physics Experiments Science Air Chemistry Discoveries

 

A rare first edition physics book that includes discoveries of carbon dioxide and hydrogen combustion.

 

Sigaud de la Fond was an 18^th-century professor of physics who is most-remembered for discovering that hydrogen combustion produces water. This book “Experiments on Different Kinds of Air” is a supplement to his earlier work “Elements of Physics”. The illustrations in this work show physics laboratories, tools, and experimentation. La Fond writes, in this book, that carbon dioxide is produced by animal respiration and microbial fermentation – something that hadn’t been discovered to this point.

 

Item number: #911

Price: $499

 

LA FOND, M. Sigaud de

 

Essai sur différentes especes d’air qu’on désigne sous le nom d’air fixe : pour servir de suite & de supplément aux élémens de physique du même auteur

 

Paris : P. Fr. Gueffier, 1779. First edition.

 

Details:

• Collation complete with all pages: [8], [xvi], 400
  • 5 illustrated folding plates
• Binding: Leather; tight and secure
• References: Poggendorff II, 927; Cole 1213; Hoefer 53, 966; Duveen 550
  • References marking Fond and Macquer working together to discover the flammable air
• Language: French
• Size: ~8in X 5in (20cm x 13cm)

 

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