Letters. 1801-1825.

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Letters. 1801-1825.

Six A.L.S., three (all 1801, Paris) to Dr. Marcet, including one about officially replicating Volta's experiment ; in French.

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Volta, Alessandro, 1745-1827

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Italian physicist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Pavia, to J. Ambrosius Barth, bookseller in Leipzig, 1801 May 18. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270585767 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Pavia, to Luigi Catenazzi in Como, 1818 Apr. 6. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270585771 ...

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,...

Pictet, Marc-Auguste, 1752-1825

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Dibner, Bern.

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