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Le Opere di Alessandro Volta. Edizione Nazionale. En 7 Volumes.
Milano, Ulrico Hoepli. Editore-Libraio della Real Casa, 1918 - 1929, in-4to, différents portraits en frontispice de l’auteur. illustrations, qqs rousseurs, ca. 500 p. par volume, pages non rognées, en général un exellent exemplaire, cartonnage original illustré.(brochure originale). Pte déchirure en bas de la couverture du premier volume sinon bel ensemble.
First edition of the complete works of Volta, in seven volumes. The great edition of Volta's work and letters. Image disp.
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On the Electricity Excited by the Mere Contact of Conducting Substances of Different Kinds. - [""A NEW ERA IN ELECTRICITY"" - PMM 225]
London, W. Bulmer & Co. for Peter Elmsley, 1800. 4to. In recent marbled paper wrappers. Extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"", volume 90, part II. Including title-page of volume. Leaves reinforced in margin. Light offsetting from folding plate as usual. Plate trimmed with loss of right margin. (4), 403-431 pp. + folded plate.
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First edition of ""the first announcement of the voltaic 'pile,' or electric battery"" (Grolier/Horblit). It was a breakthrough in physics, and led to the development of electrotechnology and is today regarded as being one of the major milestones in the history of science. ""The voltaic pile revolutionized the theory and practice of electricity, so that within one hundred years of Volta's invention, more progress was made than in the two thousand four hundred years between the tentative experience of Thales and the publication of Volta's letter addressed to Sir Joseph Banks, President of the Royal Society ... The indispensability and ubiquity of electricity, in one form or another, in western civilization today emphasize sharply the fact that before 1800 human environment and existence were closer to life in ancient Egypt than to our own. Volta's invention is one of the earliest and most important causes of the change"" (PMM).""The paper, in French, was sent by Volta to his friend Cavallo in London for communication to the Royal Society. In it Volta describes the pile of alternating dissimilar metals (silver and zinc) which, when moist, generated a flow of constant-current electricity. With this new force water was decomposed, metal was electro-deposited, the electro-magnet was created and the electrical age was begun.""(Dibner Heralds of Science, no. 60).Horblit 37b Norman 2164 PMM 255Sparrow 168Dibner 60Barchas 2092
Sur le retour périodique des orages, et sur le vent très-froid et extraordinairment sec qui se fait sentir plusieurs heures aprés ceux qui sont accompagnés de gréle. Lettre de Volta au professeur Configliachi. Traduit par M. Billy.
(Paris, Crochard, 1817). No wrappers. Extract from: Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago."", Series 2, Tome 4. Pp. 245-259.
First apearance in French of Volta's paper dealing with meteorological phenomena, the causes of storms, hailstorms etc. Volta’s interest in meteorology began already in 1752 where he dealt with electricity in the atmosphere.
Ital. Physiker.
O.O., (um 1790). Kupferstich (ovales Brustbild) von u. nach Giovita Garavaglia. Bildgrösse: 27 x 21 cm. Blattgrösse: 34,5 x 25 cm.
Leicht angestaubt. Mit Wasserfleck in oberer Ecke (ausserhalb des Plattenrandes).
Ital. Physiker.
O.O., (ca. 1800). Kupferstich (ovales Brustbild) in Punktiermanier. Bildgrösse: 19 x 14 cm. Blattgrösse: 22 x 15,5 cm.
Angestaubt, mit mehreren althinterlegten kl. Randeinrissen u. 1 althinterlegten 1 cm Einriss.
