Berard 1789 (2 results)

Couverture rigide. Condition: Bon. Edition originale. un volume in8 , reliure demi basane de l' époque , ( 14,3 x 22,3 cm), dos lisse orné , faux nerfs , 516 pages . Nom manuscrit sur la page de titre ( propriétaire ) , rares rousseurs éparses . Édition originale .exposition complète des principes de l' École Vitaliste de Montpellier dont les plus illustres représentants furent Bordeu et Barthez . TOME I seul paru .

Title : Extrait des Annales de Chimie, fevrier 1813. 8vo. [4], 115, [1] pp. Half-title, 2 folding engraved plates. Modern navy-blue cloth (no embellishments!). Fine. Rare. [121] "The same year [1811], Berard's experiments with Francois-Etienne de La Roche won the prize [1812] of the First Class of the University [Paris Academy of Science], for determining the specific heat of gases using a copper calorimeter." / Francois-Etienne de La Roche (or Delaroche) was a Genevan physician, naturalist, chemist, botanist and ichthyologist. "De La Roche became infected with typhus bacteria and died in 1813, only just aged 32, during the same epidemic that his father also succumbed to." / Jacques Etienne Berard was a French naturalist, chemist and physicist. He was the first professor of toxicology at Montpellier. He was a pioneer in chemical engineering, including pharmaceuticals, and was managing director of La Paille, the manufacturing site that had been founded by Chaptal in 1782.