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"AMONTONS, (GUILLAUME).
Experiences sur la Rarefaction de L'Air.
(Paris, Jean Boudot, 1706). 4to. Without wrappers. Extracted from ""Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences. Année 1705"". Pp. 119-124.
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First appearance of an important paper on the way to determinate absolute zero temperature. Amontons reports here on some phenomena he had observed while studying the proper way to calibrate his own air thermometer.
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Paris, Fuchs, AN XI (1802). Extract from ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago."" tome 45. Titlepage to vol. 45. Pp. 103-107. Some even browning to titlepage.
First French edition of ""Experiments And observations on the heat and cold produced by the mechanical condensation and rarefication of air"" 1802. It is Daltons 4th paper and the first paper as secretary of the Royal Society. It ""Contained the understated but importent result that the temperature of air compressed to one-half its volume is raised 50 Degr.F'""(Smyth No. 28)..
