Davy Humphry John (114 results)

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Condition: Very Good. 6 pages, illustrated. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: A4 Size. Category: History Today; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

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Condition: New. Poetry, autobiography and philosophical musings on the universe from the last months of an illustrious scientist's life, published in 1830. Editor(s): Davy, John. Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Physical Sciences. Num Pages: 298 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BM; HP; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 380. . 2013. Paperback. . . . .…

Fourth Edition. Good library copy only in contemporary half red leather over red buckram boards, now dust-toned. Corners slightly bumped. Spine mostly lacking, with sewing remaining secure. Text block shows light dust-dulling and foxing throughout, chiefly to the margins, and minor library marks. Despite faults, a strong and internally well-preserved example. Physical description; xvi pages, 1 leaf, 305 pages ; 17 cm. Notes; Edited by John Davy. Subjects; Fly fishing. Salmon fishing. Fishing, England. Angling literature. 1 Kg. …

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Fourth Edition. Good library copy only in contemporary half red leather over red buckram boards, now dust-toned. Corners slightly bumped. Spine mostly lacking, with sewing remaining secure. Text block shows light dust-dulling and foxing throughout, chiefly to the margins, and minor library marks. Despite faults, a strong and internally well-preserved example. Physical description; xvi pages, 1 leaf, 305 pages ; 17 cm. Notes; Edited by John Davy. Subjects; Fly fishing. Salmon fishing. Fishing, England. Angling literature. 1 Kg. …

Condition: New. Poetry, autobiography and philosophical musings on the universe from the last months of an illustrious scientist's life, published in 1830. Editor(s): Davy, John. Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Physical Sciences. Num Pages: 298 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BM; HP; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 380. . 2013. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…

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Paperback. Condition: New. Print on Demand. This fascinating book is a collection of letters, journal entries, and other writings by Sir Humphrey Davy, one of the most renowned scientists of the early 19th century. These writings offer a unique glimpse into Davy's life and work, shedding light on his groundbreaking discoveries in chemistry, his pioneering use of scientific methods, and his influential contributions to the development of modern science. Through the author's exploration of Davy's personal and professional life, this book not only celebrates his scientific genius but also delves into the broader cultural and intellectual landscape of his time. It is an essential read for anyone interested in the history of science, the life of a scientific pioneer, and the enduring legacy of one of the greatest minds of his era. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item.…

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Arguably the first celebrity scientist, and the epitome of the 'Romantic' natural philosopher, Sir Humphry Davy (1778-1829) was a brilliant lecturer whose popularising of science made him famous. He pioneered electrochemistry, befriended the Romantic poets, invented a safety lamp for miners and even wrote on angling (see On the Safety Lamp and Salmonia, also reissued in this series). Described as 'the last words of a dying Plato', Consolations in Travel was published posthumously in 1830. It is an intriguing mixture of poetry, autobiographical sketches, descriptions of dreams, philosophical musings on the afterlife and, in the view of one contemporary review, 'some [matter] which sober reason must dissent as extravagant, and almost bordering on the absurd'. Here, in his final months, Davy turns to the eternal, believing that through science all the questions of the universe could be answered. It remains a poignant and controversial postscript to an illustrious life.…

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Condition: Sehr gut. The Fourth Edition. Large Octavo. X, (1), 403 pages with 10 fold-out plates, showing experiments in Botany and Agricultural Chemistry like Thomas Andrew Knight's Water Wheel, which applied Gravity to Seedlings. Hardcover / The original book-block was recently bound in a stunning new half - leather with marbled-paper-covered boards, bound to style of an early 19th-century binding with a new spine-label. Excellent condition. Plates included in this work: Plate I - Shows the Gravitation Experiment by Thomas Andrew Knight: Shows two Gravitation-Wheels with vertically and horizontally fixed seeds Plate II - Shows Experiments by Ambroise Marie François Joseph Palisot, Baron de Beauvois and Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel: Shows Palisot de Beauvois - Experiment on lime-tree, Maple and Lilac as well as Mirbel's idea of the simple porous tube Plate III - Plate IV - Plate V These plates all show an Experiment with an Elm Branch, an Oak Branch and the Branch of an Ash Tree Plate VI - "represents part of a leaf of a vine magnified and cut, so as to exhibit the tracheae" Plate VII - shows three figures: a. "Figure 12 represents the common lily with corolla and anthers and pistil" b. "Figure 13 represents the garden bean with cotyledons and plume and radicle" c. "Figure 14 shows an apparatus "to make correct experiments on the decomposition of vegetable substances by heat" Plate VIII - shows Figure 15: "represents the different parts of this Apparatus" Plate IX - shows Figure 16: "Large folding Plate which gives "a general idea of the appearance and arrangement of Rocks and Veins [Sediments]" [Davy taks here alsoa about the different Rock and Sediment-structures of Granite at Mount Sorrel in Leicestershire, compares it to Mountains in Cumberland, mentions Scotland and Ireland and the most common Rock structures there. For Ireland he mentions the Mountains of Morne in County Down and the Mountains of Donegal, County Mayo and Galway, those of Wicklow and thos of Kerry. He also mentions the coloured marble found near Killarney and white Marble found on the wetsern coast of Donegal. Limestone in Dublin, Sligo, Roscommon and Leitrim are mentioned. Plate X - shows a large growing Experiment under Glass Sir Humphry Davy, 1st Baronet, FRS, MRIA, FGS (17 December 1778 29 May 1829) was a British chemist and inventor who invented the Davy lamp and a very early form of arc lamp. He is also remembered for isolating, by using electricity, several elements for the first time: potassium and sodium in 1807 and calcium, strontium, barium, magnesium and boron the following year, as well as for discovering the elemental nature of chlorine and iodine. Davy also studied the forces involved in these separations, inventing the new field of electrochemistry. Davy is also credited to have been the first to discover clathrate hydrates in his lab. In 1799 he experimented with nitrous oxide and was astonished at how it made him laugh, so he nicknamed it "laughing gas" and wrote about its potential anaesthetic properties in relieving pain during surgery. Davy was a baronet, President of the Royal Society (PRS), Member of the Royal Irish Academy (MRIA), Fellow of the Geological Society (FGS), and a member of the American Philosophical Society (elected 1810). Berzelius called Davy's 1806 Bakerian Lecture On Some Chemical Agencies of Electricity "one of the best memoirs which has ever enriched the theory of chemistry." Davy seriously injured himself in a laboratory accident with nitrogen trichloride. French chemist Pierre Louis Dulong had first prepared this compound in 1811, and had lost two fingers and an eye in two separate explosions with it. In a letter to John Children, on 16 November 1812, Davy wrote: "It must be used with great caution. It is not safe to experiment upon a globule larger than a pin's head. I have been severely wounded by a piece scarcely bigger. My sight, however, I am informed, will not be injured". Davy's accident induced him to hire Michael Faraday as a co-worker, particularly for assistance with handwriting and record keeping. He had recovered from his injuries by April 1813. Davy's passion for fly-fishing earned him the informal title "the father of modern fly-fishing", and his book Salmonia is often considered to be "the fly-fisherman bible.…

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293 pp including index, marbled edges and end-papers, b&w engraved plates and illustrations, pencil marks in margins, top right-hand corner of title page clipped, else very good copy in brown, full calf binding with gilt decorations and raised bands on spine. . Important early work by a pioneer British Scientist, and the saver of many lives with his later invention of the coal- miners safety-lamp.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 8 volume set (lacking v.8). Bound in red cloth. Gilt lettering. Hardcover. Good bindings and covers. Shelf wear. Clean, unmarked pages. Contents: v.1. Memoirs of his life; v.2. Early miscellaneous papers; v.3. Researches, chiefly concerning nitrous oxide; v.4. Elements of chemical philosophy; v.5. Bakerian lectures, and miscellaneous papers from 1806 to 1815; v.6. Miscellaneous papers and researches; v.7. Discourses delivered before the Royal Society, and Agricultural lectures, pt. 1; v.9. Salmonia, and Consolation in travel. This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US. Sir Humphry Davy as an English chemist who discovered several chemical elements (including sodium and potassium) and compounds, invented the miner's safety lamp, and became one of the greatest exponents of the scientific method. From the library Dr. Owen Hannaway. Hannaway was director of the Center for the History and Philosophy of Science at Johns Hopkins University. He authored numerous books and served as an editor of academic magazines in the history of science. Partial list of publications: Chemists and the Word: The Didactic Origins of Chemistry (1975); Observation, Experiment, and Hypothesis in Modern Physical Science (1985); The Evolution of Technology (1989); Science and the Practice of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century (1994); and The Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages: Their Religious, Institutional and Intellectual Contexts (1996). …

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Facsimile edition. Facsimile edition of the 1839 edition. 9 volume set, complete. A Fine set. 8vo. 3885 pp., illustrated. Bound in dark blue cloth with titles on orange fields on the spine. A Fine set, still in the publisher's shrinkwrap, and the publisher's cardboard shipping box. Please note: This large heavy set will require additional postage for expedited and international shipping (only). Volume 1: Memoirs of the Life of Sir Humphry Davy. 2. Early Miscellaneous Paper from 1799 to 1805. 3. Researches, Chemical and Philosophical, chiefly concerning Nitrous Oxide. 4. Elements of Chemical Philosophy. 5. Bakerian Lectures andMiscellaneous Paper from 1806 to 1815. 6. Miscellaneous Papers and Researches from 1815 to 1826. 7. Discourses Delivered Before the Royal Society. 8. Elements of Agricultural Chemistry. 9. Salmonia, or, Days of Fly-Fishing.…