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This nine-volume collection brings together the major writings of the pioneering chemist, Sir Humphrey Davy (1778-1829). Davy was responsible for many major discoveries in electrochemistry (a term he coined), discovering the elements sodium and potassium and in 1815 he invented the miner's safety lamp, the Davy lamp. Volume 1 of the "Works" contains Davy's "Researcher, Chemical and Philosophical, Chiefly concerning Nitrous Oxide", a work which secured his reputation as a chemist. It contains innovative research carried out at Thomas Beddoes's Medical Pneumatic Institution in Bristol, including the discovery that pure nitrous oxide (laughing gas) could be safely inhaled, a practice that become fashionable in the literary and scientific world. This discovery and others brought both Davy and the Pneumatic Institution into prominence. Other volumes gather Davy's "Bakerian Lectures" (volume 5) and other miscellaneous papers which illustrate his great talent both as a lecturer and as a great chemist. His lectures were so popular that during his time at the Royal Institution and the Royal Society he could boast an audience of around 1000. The works collected here reflect Davy's science which was fuelled by questions about life, matter, God, thought and immortality. As one of the leading promoters of the scientific method this set should be a valuable asset to scholars of chemistry and historians of science.
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This nine-volume collection brings together the major writings of the pioneering chemist, Sir Humphrey Davy (1778-1829). Davy was responsible for many major discoveries in electrochemistry (a term he coined), discovering the elements sodium and potassium and in 1815 he invented the miner's safety lamp, the Davy lamp. Volume 1 of the "Works" contains Davy's "Researcher, Chemical and Philosophical, Chiefly concerning Nitrous Oxide", a work which secured his reputation as a chemist. It contains innovative research carried out at Thomas Beddoes's Medical Pneumatic Institution in Bristol, including the discovery that pure nitrous oxide (laughing gas) could be safely inhaled, a practice that become fashionable in the literary and scientific world. This discovery and others brought both Davy and the Pneumatic Institution into prominence. Other volumes gather Davy's "Bakerian Lectures" (volume 5) and other miscellaneous papers which illustrate his great talent both as a lecturer and as a great chemist. His lectures were so popular that during his time at the Royal Institution and the Royal Society he could boast an audience of around 1000. The works collected here reflect Davy's science which was fuelled by questions about life, matter, God, thought and immortality. As one of the leading promoters of the scientific method this set should be a valuable asset to scholars of chemistry and historians of science.
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The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy. Edited by his brother, John Davy [1839-40]. With an introduction by David Knight. 9 Vols.
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Bristol & Sterling (Va.): Thoemmes Press, 2001., 2001
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Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Original edition (published in 1839-40), reprinted in facsimile. Original cloth. Fine. "This long out-of-print nine-volume collection brings together the major writings of the pioneering chemist Sir Humphry Davy (1778 1829). Davy was responsible for many major discoveries in electrochemistry (a term he coined), discovering the elements sodium and potassium, and is perhaps best known for his invention in 1815 of the miner's safety lamp, the Davy lamp. Davy's career, from obscurity in Cornwall to international celebrity in science, pure and applied, astonished contemporaries. A friend of Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott, he seemed a Romantic genius showing how electrical forces underlay chemistry. Antoine Lavoisier (1743 94) had refounded chemistry as a static science of weights: Davy made it dynamic. After discovering laughing gas at Thomas Beddoes's Medical Pneumatic Institution in Bristol, he was invited to London where he proved himself a great lecturer, a star, drawing large and fashionable audiences to the Royal Institution, in competition with London's other attractions. . The works collected here reflect Davy's science which was fuelled by questions about life, matter, God, thought and immortality. Volume 1 contains Davy's Researches, Chemical and Philosophical, Chiefly Concerning Nitrous Oxide, the work which secured his reputation as an outstanding chemist. Other volumes gather his Bakerian Lectures (volume 5), and miscellaneous papers (volumes 2 and 6), which illustrate his remarkable talent both as a lecturer and as a chemist. From these Works we are able to acquire an extraordinarily full picture of the astonishing career of one of the leading promoters of the scientific method" (Thoemmes Web site). Contents: Volume 1, Introduction by David Knight (6pp); Memoirs of the Life of Sir Humphry DavyBy his brother, John Davy (1839) 475pp. Volume 2: Early Miscellaneous Papers, from 1799 to 1805 (1839) xii, 466pp, 1 plate; Volume 3: Researches, Chemical and Philosophical, Chiefly concerning Nitrous Oxide (1839) xvi, 343pp; Volume 4: Elements of Chemical Philosophy (1840) xx, 376pp, 13 plates; Volume 5: Bakerian Lectures and Miscellaneous Papers from 1806 to 1815 (1840) xv, 527pp, 6 plates; Volume 6: Miscellaneous Papers and Researchesfrom 1815 to 1826 (1840) xi, 364pp, 12 plates; Volume 7: Discourses delivered before the Royal Society: Elements of Agricultural Chemistry, Part 1 (1840) xii, 391pp, 10 plates; Volume 8: Elements of Agricultural Chemistry, Part 2 Miscellaneous Lectures, etc. (1840) viii, 365pp; Volume 9: Salmonia, or, Days of Fly-Fishing, Consolation in Travel, Or, The Last Days of a Philosopher (1840) xi, 388pp, 4 plates. N° de réf. du vendeur 11189
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