Letters. 1796-1805.

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Letters. 1796-1805.

Eleven A.L., most signed, to Marcet ; in French.

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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,...

La Rive, Charles-Gaspard de, 1770-1834

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