Papers. 1803-1825.

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Papers. 1803-1825.

Nine A.L.S. to various correspondents including Ampère, and Phillips, 2 holograph poems, a holograph scrap, a D.S. addressed to Hutton, and a portrait.

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Smithsonian Institution. Libraries

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Ampére, André-Marie, 1775-1836

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Epithet: electrician British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000923.0x0002f4 French scientist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Paris, to Monsieur Bredin in Lyon, le 29 floreal [ca. 19 May, no year]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270131692 From the description of Official transcripts signed : Paris, 1807 Nov. 20. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270132659 French mathematici...

Hutton, Charles, 1737-1823

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Charles Hutton (1737-1823) was the son of a colliery labourer. He opened a mathematical school at Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1760, and became Professor of Mathematics at the Woolwich Academy from 1773 to 1807. During this period, he also acted as editor of the Ladies Diary , 1773-1818. Hutton was a Fellow of the Royal Society, 1774, became the Copley medallist in 1778, and acted as its foreign secretary in 1779. Amongst other work, Hutton calculated the mean density of the earth in 1778. Publication...

Davy, Humphry, Sir, 1778-1829

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English physician and natural philosopher. From the description of Papers, 1817-1829. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 35007362 Epithet: natural philosopher British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000497.0x00030a English chemist. From the description of Letter, 1810 May 22, to John MacMurray. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122644626 From the description of Autograph lette...

Phillips, William, 1775-1828

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Dibner, Bern.

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Marcet, Alexander, 1770-1822

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Humphry Davy (1778–1829, APS 1810) was a British chemist and pioneer in the field of electrochemistry. He was a major figure in the reformed chemistry movement initiated by the French scientist Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1794, APS 1775). Davy was the son of an impoverished Cornish woodcarver. As a youth, he was apprenticed to an apothecary-surgeon with whom he pursued a regimen of self-study that included theology, philosophy, poetics, several languages, as well as,...