‎BECQUEREL (A.C.)‎
‎Traité de physique considérée dans ses rapports avec la chimie et les sciences naturelles -- EDITION ORIGINALE -- BON EXEMPLAIRE -- 2 VOLUMES (COMPLETE SET)‎

‎P., Didot, 1842/1844, 2 VOLUMES in 8 reliés en demi-chagrin vert (reliures de l'époque), (quelques rousseurs), T.1 : (2), 6pp., 544pp.,(1), 6 PLANCHES DEPLIANTES numérotées 1 à 6, T. 2 : (2), 651pp., (1pp.), 7 PLANCHES DEPLIANTES numérotées 7 à 13, SOIT 13 PLANCHES DEPLIANTES‎

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‎---- EDITION ORIGINALE ---- BON EXEMPLAIRE ---- "Becquerel was elected to the Académie des Sciences in 1829. He was awarded the Copley Medal of the Royal Society of London in 1837 and when the chair of physics at the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle was founded in 1838, became its first occupant. In 1813 he married A.C. Darlui and became the founder of a dynasty of distinguished scientists. His son Alexandre Edmond succeeded him at the Museum and his grandson Antoine Henri was the discoverer of radioactivity... Of perhaps greater interest was Becquerel's work on the voltaic cell. In the early decades of the nineteenth century, it was not clear whether the production of electricity in the cell was due to the mere contact of dissimilar bodies, or whether it depended upon a chemical reaction. The principle of conservation of energy had not yet been clearly enunciated, but Becquerel believed that there was a close relationship between electricity on the one hand and heat, light and chemical forces on the other...". (DSB I pp. 557/558) - Partington IV pp. 130/132 ---- Introduction historique - De la structure des corps - De l'électricité - De la chaleur - De la production de la chaleur dans les corps organisés vivants - De la lumière - De l'électro-chimie (description et emploi des appareils, des oxydes, sulfures, chlorures et autres composés métalliques, Des effets électro-chimiques produits dans les corps et les substances organiques sous l'influence des courants) - Action de la lumière sur les corps - Intervention des forces physiques dans les phénomènes physiologiques**327/M3‎