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Mémoires sur l'Élasticité et la Dilatibilité des Fluides jusqu'aux trés hautes Pressions.
Pais, Masson, 1893. 8vo. Contemp. hcalf. Raised bands, gilt spine. A bit rubbed along edges. Bound with all 6 orig. printed wrappers to the parts. These bound at end. In: ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique"", 6ieme Serie, Tome 29. 576 pp. (Entire volume offered). Amagat's paper: pp. 68-136 a. pp. 505-574. Richly illustrated. (Stamps to verso of titlepage. Internally fine and clean.
First printing of these pioneering papers in high pressure technology, initiating the development of pressure measurement, and performing the first accurate measurements of the properties of high-pressure gases. A unit of number density, 'amagat', was named after him.
Recherches sur la Dilation et la Compressibilité des Gaz.
Paris, G. Masson, 1873. 8vo. Contemp. hcalf, raised bands, gilt spine. Light wear along edges. Small stamps on verso of titlepage. In: ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique"", 4e Series, Tome 29. - 575 pp. and 2 folded engraved plates. (Entire volume offered). Amagat's paper: pp. 246-285. With 9 textillustr. (showing apparatus).
First printing of a pioneer work on gases, their dilution and compressability in relation to pressures and temperatures - it is an expanded version of his doctoral thesis (1872).
