A Short Account of Experiments and Instruments, depending in the Relations of Air to Heat and Moisture. SYDNEY ROSS'S COPY OF LESLIE ON AIR, HEAT AND MOISTURE

8vo., First Edition, with engraved plate of instruments; strongly bound in twentieth-century navy cloth, backstrip with printed paper label, patterned endpapers, a remarkably bright, clean, crisp copy. With the bookplate of Dr. Sydney Ross (Rensselaer Polytechnic, NY) on front paste-down. The plate (by Grant) depicts 10 views of Leslie's instruments used in the various experiments. Sir John Leslie (1766-1832), mathematician and physicist, gave the first modern account of capillary action (1802), and succeeded in freezing water using an air-pump in 1810 - the first artificial production of ice. Professor Sydney Ross (1915-2013), chemist and bibliophile, was Emeritus Professor of Colloid Chemistry at Rensselauer, and author of Nineteenth-Century Attitudes: Men of Science. VERY SCARCE.