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:

Tyler, Lucius (autograph, 1813)

Physical Description:

xi, 358, 17 pages, 7 unnumbered pages, 12 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm

Place of Publication:

New Haven [Conn.] : From Sidney's press, for Increase Cooke & Co., 1813.

Contents:

1. On simple bodies

2. On compound bodies.

Notes:

Includes index.

Advertisements on p. [7] at end.

Cited in:

Shaw & Shoemaker 29047.

Contains:

Decomposition of the fixed alkalies.

OCLC:

187438323