‎PARIS (J.A.) -- DAVY Humphry‎
‎THE LIFE OF SIR HUMPHRY DAVY, late president of the Royal Society, foreign associate of the Royal Institute of France -- EDITION ORIGINALE DE FORMAT IN 4‎

‎London, Colburn, 1831, un fort volume grand in 4 relié en demi-soie noire, dos orné de filets dorés (reliure moderne), 1 PORTRAIT DE Humphry DAVY, 15pp., 548pp., 1 planche dépliante hors texte représentant une note manuscrite de Humphry DAVY‎

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‎---- EDITION ORIGINALE DE FORMAT IN 4 ---- BEL EXEMPLAIRE ---- RARE FIRST EDITION IN QUARTO FORMAT ---- "At the age of fifteen DAVY was apprenticed to an apothecary surgeon and two years later began to teach himself chemistry. Around that time he met James Watt's son, Gregory, with whom he conducted a correspondence. He was appointed professor of chemistry at the Royal Institution in 1802 and spent most of his career there. He was elected to the Royal Society in 1803 and was its president from 1820 to 1827. His first researches were into the nature of heat, which he believed to be motion, at the same time believing light to be a form of matter". (Roberts & Trent) ---- - DSB III pp. 598/604 - Partington III**15710/1571/O6AR‎