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DALTON, John (1766-1844). Meteorological Observations and Essays. London: for W. Richardson, J. Phillips, and W. Pennington, 1793.
8o (225 x 142 mm). 19th-century blue publisher's cloth, hand-lettered spine label, uncut.
FIRST EDITION of the author's first book. It includes his observations on evaporation, including his novel theory that diffustion of water vapour in the atmosphere was not a chemical process. The appendix contains what is now known as "Dalton's Law" of partial pressures: that in a mixture of gases, every gas acts as an independent entity. VERY FINE. Wheeler Gift 582; Norman 574.
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FIRST EDITION of the author's first book. It includes his observations on evaporation, including his novel theory that diffustion of water vapour in the atmosphere was not a chemical process. The appendix contains what is now known as "Dalton's Law" of partial pressures: that in a mixture of gases, every gas acts as an independent entity. VERY FINE. Wheeler Gift 582; Norman 574.