‎BERZELIUS (J.J.)‎
‎Traité de chimie minérale, végétale et animale -- BEL EXEMPLAIRE -- 6 VOLUMES (complete set)‎

‎P., Firmin Didot, 1845/1850, 6 VOLUMES in 8 reliés en demi-chagrin vert (reliures de l'époque), T.1 : (2), 2pp., 849pp., 2 PLANCHES, T.2 : (2), 760pp., 1 PLANCHE, T.3 : (2), 621pp., T.4 : (2), 615pp., T.5 : (2), 688pp., T.6 : (2), 906pp. + 1 PORTRAIT DE BERZELIUS INSERE EN FRONTISPICE, DANS CET EXEMPLAIRE, AU TOME 1‎

Reference : 53100

‎---- BEL EXEMPLAIRE ---- Deuxième édition française traduite avec l'assentiment de l'auteur par MM. ESSLINGER et HOEFER sur la cinquième édition que publie M. Berzélius à Dresde et à Leipzig ---- "En raison des additions nombreuses qui ont été faites par l'auteur, particulièrement dans la chimie organique, CETTE DERNIERE EDITION DIFFERE ENTIEREMENT DES EDITIONS PRECEDENTES ET PEUT EN QUELQUE SORTE ETRE REGARDEE COMME UN OUVRAGE NOUVEAU. (Préface) ---- "Personne plus que BERZELIUS n'avait le droit de publier un traité de chimie, lui qui pouvait en exposer toutes les parties d'après les résultats de son expérience personnelle. C'EST DANS CETTE EDITION QUE BERZELIUS A RESUME TOUTE SA VIE DE SAVANT". (HOEFER) ---- "THE MOST AUTORITATIVE CHEMICHAL TEXT OF ITS DAYS". (DSB) ---- "BERZELIUS' most active and productive years were those in which chemistry was beginning to show the full effects of Lavoisier's revolution. The fundamental tools which he created were extremely influential in determining the direction in which the science developed. His achievements were many and varied, and at first glance they seem rather unrelated to each other. Upon closer examination we find an underlying unity of thought and a logical interconnection and development of this thought in most of his work... The tremendous influence which BERZELIUS exerted on the chemist of his time came not only from his experimental discoveries and his theoretical interpretations. His voluminous writings were circulated everywhere in the chemical world. He reported his own disvoeries in the various editions of his textbook and he surveyed the whole progress of chemistry in his annual reports which were read everywhere... By the force of his personality, by the skill of his laboratory techniques, and by his power to collect, synthesize and publicize the chemistry of his day, he exerted an influence on his own time which is still reflected in chemistry more than a century after his death...". (DSB II pp. 90/96) ---- Partington IV pp. 142/176**53100(531)/O4+527/CAV.E1.FI+532/CAV.Guil.26+533/O6AR‎