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Exposition raisonnée de la théorie de l'électricité et du magnétisme, D'après les principes de M. Æpinus, des Académies Royale des Sciences, Professeur Émérite de l'Université. Par M. L Abbe Hauy, De l Academie Royal des Sciences, Professeur Emirates de L Universite, Chez la Veuve Desaint, A Paris, 1787, First Edition. 235 pp plus four plates, full leather, 8 x 5.25 , 8vo. In fair condition. Binding moderately worn with scuffing to extremities. Corners rubbed to cardboard. Joints quite tender, cracked and flaking. Top and bottom compartments of spine are lacking with binding exposed. Rear board afflicted with peeling and red rot. Ex-library plate of The Caldwell Collection of Knox College found on front paste-down. Old hand marginalia on second fly. All edges of text-block painted green. Light toning throughout textblock with minor instances of foxing. Folding plates in good working order, plate one afflicted with age staining, darkened. Binding intact. Please see photos. René Just Haüy (1743 1822) was a French priest and mineralogist, commonly styled the Abbé Haüy after he was made an honorary canon of Notre Dame. Due to his innovative work on crystal structure and his four-volume Traité de Minéralogie (1801), he is often referred to as the "Father of Modern Crystallography". During the French Revolution he also helped to establish the metric system. Haüy is also known for his observations on pyroelectricity. He detected pyroelectricity in calamine, an oxide of zinc, as early as 1785. He studied pyroelectricity in a number of other minerals including tourmaline and related them to crystalline structure. He showed that electricity in tourmaline was strongest at the poles of the crystal and became imperceptible at the middle.Haüy published a book on electricity and magnetism, Exposition raisonné de la théorie de l'électricité et du magnétisme, d'après les principes d'Æpinus, in 1787. Provenance of: Edward Caldwell (1861-1949), editor and president of McGraw-Hill, was an enthusiastic collector of rare maps and books. First Edition! RAREF1787HMOL - 05/23 FORN-SHELF-0467-BB-2410-HKREV218.
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