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Seit ISO Jahren reizen die wissenschaftliche Leistung und die aussergewoehnliche Persoenlichkeit Humphry Davys im englischen Sprachraum wissenschaftliche Schriftsteller immer wieder zu bio- graphischen Darstellungen. Anhand der so zahlreichen Davy- Biographien…
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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John Ayrton Paris
The official biography of the eminent chemist and inventor Sir Humphry Davy (1778-1829), first published in 1831.
This book provides a comprehensive examination of the life of Sir Humphry Davy, a renowned scientist, and inventor. Paris explores Davy's scientific discoveries in the fields of chemistry, physics, and…
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Thomas Edward Thorpe, Sir
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to…
Thomas Edward Thorpe
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…
T E Thorpe
Humphry Davy - Poet and Philosopher is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1896. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research…
Humphry Davy - Poet and philosopher is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1896. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research…
Sir Humphry Davy (1778-1829) was an influential chemist, inventor, and public lecturer recognised as one of the first professional scientists. These volumes, first published in 1831, contain his official biography…
David Knight (University of Durham)
A biography of Humphry Davy, professional scientist, inventor, and poet.
Edward Everett Hale
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the "public…
Due to the very old age and scarcity of this book, many of the pages may be hard to read due to the blurring of the original text, possible missing…
John Davy
This biography tells the life story of Sir Humphry Davy, a prominent 19th-century chemist and inventor. The book covers his childhood, education, and career, as well as his personal relationships…
Sir Humphry Davy
Sir Humphry Davy was a renowned chemist and one of the most influential scientific minds of the 19th century. This collection of his works includes his agricultural lectures, in which…
June Z Fullmer
Davy was a leading and controversial member of the international scientific community. His publications received all the publicity available to an early nineteenth-century scholar. For that reason the history of…
Humphry Davy, John Davy
This is the first collected edition of the letters of Humphry Davy (1778-1829). It contains fully annotated transcriptions of Davy's correspondence (much previously unpublished) with many thinkers, writers, and scientists…
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Sir Humphry Davy (1778-1829) was a hugely influential chemist, inventor, and public lecturer who is recognised as one of the first professional scientists. This 1836 memoir by his brother John…
Humphry Davy
Salmonia - Or, Days of fly fishing. With some accounts of the habits of fishes belonging to the genus Salmo is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of…
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the…
A scientific study of the chemical elements of the alkalies and earths.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base…
Published posthumously in 1830, this collection of poetry, autobiographical sketches, descriptions of dreams, philosophical musings on the afterlife and, in the view of one contemporary review, ‘some [matter] almost bordering…
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either…
Self-taught chemist and inventor Sir Humphry Davy (1778-1829) is best known for devising a lamp which allowed miners to work safely in the presence of flammable gases. The invention, which…
Written for the philosophical angler, this delightful apologia for fly fishing first appeared in 1828. It takes the form of a fictional conversation between friends, and explores all aspects of…
