| BAUDRIMONT (A.) |
Introduction à l'étude de la chimie par la théorie atomique P., Colas, 1833; . P., Colas, 1833; in 8, (4), 208pp., rel. romantique demi-basane noire, dos orné d'un fers doré. Edition originale - DSB I pp. 517/518. Exemplaire malheureusement incomplet de 6 feuillets (pp. 147 à 158) de cet ouvrage fort rare. A.E. Baudrimont, (1806/1880), was at first a pharmacist in Paris and physician in Valenciennes, préparateur in chemistry in the Collège de France and assistant professor in the medical faculty, professor of chemistry in Bordeaux... He foreshadowed the unitary theory... He also claimed to have anticipated the theory of types, the idea of which he had held from 1835 but first promulgated as a system of classification in a thesis presented to the Faculty of medicine in 1838... He had a theory of geometrical forms of atoms like Ampère's. He suggested that there are two allotropic forms of iron. In a memoir on the structure of bodies, he distinguished atomes, méricules, mérules, mérons, molécules et particles... In his text-book Baudrimont discussed atoms, molecular types, the composition of salts, Persoz' atomic weights, Avogadro's hypothesis, electrochemical theories, including his own view that electricity is molecular motion, the type theory, unitary formulae and the molecular theory. He mentions Jean Rey, William Higgins and Javary who thought that oxygen was the powder of projection and suitably employed, would some day reproduce the prodigies of alchemy... . (Partington IV pp. 393/395)
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