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"AMONTONS, (GUILLAUME). - THE INVENTION OF THE AIR PRESSURE THERMOMETER.
Reference : 44385
(1704)
Discours sur quelques proprietez de l'air, & le moyen d'en connoître la temperature dans tous les climats de la terre.
(Paris, Jean Boudot, 1704). 4to. Without wrappers. Extracted from ""Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences. Année 1702"". Pp. 155-174 a. textillustrations.
First appearance of this paper in which Amontons describes his invention, construction and function of his air thermomer. He thus improves on Gallileo's design by using air pressure instead of volume. The paper is the earliest study in this field, and Amontions concludes ""that unequal masses of air under equal weights invcrease equally the force of their spring for equal degrees of heat"" Fifteen years later Gay-lussac performed the same experiments with better technique and results - the Gay-Lussac laws.The paper ""contains Amontons' account of the first thermometer with which temperature was measured by the pressure of air.""(Magie ""A Source book in Physics"", pp. 128 ff.).""His first scientific production was a Hygrometer in 1687....The other was an air thermometer independent of the atmospheric pressure. Air occupied the top of one of the branches of a U-shaped tube, and by its dilation it pushed down one of the mercury columns so that the other end ofthe branch formed a barometric chamber.""(DSB I, p. 138 a).Parkinson ""Breakthroughs"", 1702 M).
"AMONTONS, (GUILLAUME). - THE INVENTION OF THE THERMIC MOTOR.
Reference : 44388
(1702)
Moyen de substituer Commodement L'Action du Feu, a la Force des Hommes et des Chevaux pour mouvoir les Machines.
(Paris, Jean Boudot, 1702). 4to. Without wrappers. Extracted from ""Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences. Année 1699"". Pp. 112-126 and 1 engraved plate. (showing the ""Moulin a Feu"" Textillustrations.
First apperance of this classic paper in which Amontons decribes his invention of a thermic motor.""As early as 1699 Amontons proposed a thermic motor: a machine using hot air and external combustion with direct rotation. The experiments carried on in connection with this machine led him to note that ordinary air going from the temperature of ice to that of boiling water increases in volume by about one third.""(DSB I, p. 139).Together with L'HOPITAL ""Methode Facil pour trouver un Solide Rond qui étant mû dans un Fluide en repos paralellement..."" 1699/1702. Pp. 107-112
Que les Experiences sur lesquelles on se fonde pour prouver que les liquides se condensens & se refroidissent d'abord avant que se dilater à l'approche de la chaleur, ne le prouvent point, & que cette condensation apparante est purement l'effet de ...
(Paris, Jean Boudot, 1706). 4to. Without wrappers. Extracted from ""Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences. Année 1705"". Pp. 75-80 a. 2 textillustrations.
First apperance of one of Amontons' last papers in which he further studies the effects and relations of air temperature to pressure, evaporation and freezing. Out of this he gained a vision of an absolute zero, reached when gases could contract no more.
"AMONTONS, (GUILLAUME). - ESTABLISHING THE LAW OF PROPORTIONALITY AND THE BASIC CONCEPT OF FRICTION.
Reference : 44387
(1702)
De la Resistance cause'e dans les Machines, tant par les frottemens des parties qui les composent, que par la roideur des Cordes qu'on y employe, & la maniere de calculer l'un & l'autre.
(Paris, Jean Boudot, 1702). 4to. Without wrappers. Extracted from ""Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences. Année 1699"". Pp. 206-227 a. 5 large engraved plates (tables). Textillustrations. Last leaf with a small paperloss in inner margin
First appearance of a milestone paper on the friction loss of energy in machines, hereby establishing the basic concepts of friction.""In the same year (1699) Amontons produced the first known study on the question of losses caused by friction in machines. He then established the las of proportionality between friction an the mutual pressure of the bodies in contact."" (DSB I, p. 138).
De la Hauteur du Mercure dans les Barometres. (+) Suite des Remarques sur la hauteur du mercure....(+) Suite des remarques...(+) Suite des Remarques...(4 Parts).
(Paris, Jean Boudot, 1706). 4to. Without wrappers. Extracted from ""Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences. Année 1705"". Pp. 229-232, 232-234, 234-236 a. 267-272.
First apperance of one of Amontons last papers on the barometer. He develops, after having noted that barometers are affected by heat as well as by the weight of the atmosphere, his mercury barometer.
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.
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.
Experiences sur les dissolutions & sur les fermentation froides de M. Geoffroy, réiterées dans les Vaves de l'Observatoire.
(Paris, Jean Boudot, 1706). 4to. Without wrappers. Extracted from ""Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences. Année 1705"". Pp. 83-87.
First printing.
