115665-01
Essai sur le phlogistique, et sur la constitution des acides, traduit de l'Anglois; avec des notes de MM. de Morveau, Lavoisier, de La Place, Monge, Berthollet & de Fourcroy.
Paris, Rue et Hotel Serpente, 1788. - (19,5 x 12 cm). XII, 344 (4) S. Moderner Halblederband.
Einzige französische Ausgabe, "one of Kirwan's most interesting books" (Partington). "The translation was made by Madame Lavoisier, and the book contains important notes by Lavoisier himself attacking this theory" (Duveen). "First published in 1787, the 'Essay' defended the phlogiston theory against the views then being promulgated in France by Lavoisier and his followers. Kirwan identified phlogiston with 'inflammable air' (hydrogen), comparing it with 'fixed air' (carbon dioxide)... He did not deny the observations on which Lavoisier had based his rejection of phlogiston, but believed them to be explicable in terms of the older theory... In the French translation of the 'Essay' (1788), lengthy comments on each section were added by leading 'antiphlogistians' (including Lavoisier); these, translated by William Nicholson, were included, with brief replies by Kirwan, in the second English edition (1789)" (DSB). - Namensstempel auf dem Titel. Stellenweise etwas stockfleckig bzw. gebräunt, sonst gut erhalten. - DSB 7, 387; Partington III, 662; Duveen 324; Ferguson I, 472 (Anm.); Duveen & Klickstein 243 (mit ausführlicher Inhaltsangabe); Cole, 721; Neville I, 729 (Anm.)
Essai sur le phlogistique, et sur la constitution des acides, traduit de l'Anglois; avec des notes de MM. de Morveau, Lavoisier, de La Place, Monge, Berthollet & de Fourcroy.
Paris, Rue et Hotel Serpente, 1788. - (19,5 x 12 cm). XII, 344 (4) S. Moderner Halblederband.
Einzige französische Ausgabe, "one of Kirwan's most interesting books" (Partington). "The translation was made by Madame Lavoisier, and the book contains important notes by Lavoisier himself attacking this theory" (Duveen). "First published in 1787, the 'Essay' defended the phlogiston theory against the views then being promulgated in France by Lavoisier and his followers. Kirwan identified phlogiston with 'inflammable air' (hydrogen), comparing it with 'fixed air' (carbon dioxide)... He did not deny the observations on which Lavoisier had based his rejection of phlogiston, but believed them to be explicable in terms of the older theory... In the French translation of the 'Essay' (1788), lengthy comments on each section were added by leading 'antiphlogistians' (including Lavoisier); these, translated by William Nicholson, were included, with brief replies by Kirwan, in the second English edition (1789)" (DSB). - Namensstempel auf dem Titel. Stellenweise etwas stockfleckig bzw. gebräunt, sonst gut erhalten. - DSB 7, 387; Partington III, 662; Duveen 324; Ferguson I, 472 (Anm.); Duveen & Klickstein 243 (mit ausführlicher Inhaltsangabe); Cole, 721; Neville I, 729 (Anm.)
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