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PASTEUR, Louis (1822-1895). Mmoire sur les corpuscules organiss qui existent dans l'atmosphere. Examen de la doctrine des gnrations spontanes. Offprint from Annales de chimie et de physique, 3rd series, 64 (1862). Paris: Mallet-Bachelier, 1862.
8o (225 x 140 mm). (Some light browning.) 2 folding engraved plates by Dulos. Quarter red morocco, gilt-lettered spine, marbled boards, original blue printed wrappers bound in, uncut and partially unopened. Provenance: Lon Oll-Laprune, philosopher and colleague of the author's at the cole Normale (presentation inscription on the front wrapper "A M. Oll-Laprune hommage de l'auteur L. Pasteur").
FIRST EDITION, offprint issue. A rare presentation copy of Pasteur's longest and most important paper on airborne micro-organisms; the downfall of the theory of spontaneous generation. Pasteur used a heating process, the earliest form of pasteurization, in "further experiments which demonstrated beyond dispute that fermentation is caused by the action of minute living organisms, and that if these organisms are excluded or killed fermentation does not occur" (PMM). The paper first appeared in Annales des sciences naturelles, Zoologie, 4th series (1861), from which no offprints are known. Garrison-Morton 2475 (first appearance); PMM 336c; Norman 1654.
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FIRST EDITION, offprint issue. A rare presentation copy of Pasteur's longest and most important paper on airborne micro-organisms; the downfall of the theory of spontaneous generation. Pasteur used a heating process, the earliest form of pasteurization, in "further experiments which demonstrated beyond dispute that fermentation is caused by the action of minute living organisms, and that if these organisms are excluded or killed fermentation does not occur" (PMM). The paper first appeared in Annales des sciences naturelles, Zoologie, 4th series (1861), from which no offprints are known. Garrison-Morton 2475 (first appearance); PMM 336c; Norman 1654.