Conversations on chemistry : in which the elements of that science are familiarly explained and illustrated by experiments and plates : To which are added, some late discoveries on the subject of the fixed alkalies, by H. Davy, Esq., of the Royal society : A description and plate of the pneumatic cistern of Yale College : And a short account of artificial mineral waters in the United States : With an appendix, consisting of treatises on dyeing, tanning and currying.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marcet, Mrs. (Jane Haldimand), 1769-1858.

Contributor:

Davy, Humphry, Sir, 1778-1829.

Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chemistry.

Genre:

Advertisements -- United States -- New Haven -- 19th century.

Penn Provenance:

Taggart, W. T. (Walter Thomas), 1872-1938 (donor)

Physical Description:

xi, 358, 17 pages, 9 unnumbered pages, 12 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm

Place of Publication:

New Haven : From Sidney's Press For Howe & Deforest, & Increase Cooke & Co., 1814.

Contents:

1. On simple bodies

2. On compound bodies.

Notes:

Published anonymously. Written by Jane Marcet. Cf. Halkett & Laing.

Place of publication identified by Shaw & Shoemaker.

Includes index.

Advertisements on p. [8]-[9] at end.

Cited in:

Shaw & Shoemaker, 32008.

Contains:

Decomposition of the fixed alkalies.

OCLC:

187438320