Experiments on air / by Henry Cavendish, Esq. ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cavendish, Henry, 1731-1810.

Contributor:

Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cavendish, Henry, 1731-1810. Experiments on air.

Cavendish, Henry.

Water--Composition.

Water.

Nitric acid.

Phlogiston.

Physical Description:

5 volumes : illustrations ; 23 cm (8vo)

Place of Publication:

[London,]: [Sold by Lockyer Davis, and Peter Elmsly, printers to the Royal Society.], [1784-1785]

Contents:

[v. 1] Experiments on air. / By Henry Cavendish, Esq. ...

[v. 2] Remarks on Mr. Cavendish's Experiments on air. : In a letter from Richard Kirwan, Esq. ... to Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. ...

[v. 3] Answer to Mr. Kirwan's Remarks upon the experiments on air. / By Henry Cavendish, Esq. ...

[v. 4] Reply to Mr. Cavendish's Answer. / By Richard Kirwan, Esq. ...

[v. 5] Experiments on air. / By Henry Cavendish, Esq. ...

Notes:

Title from caption of first article.

Extracted from: Philosophical transactions, / of the Royal Society of London. Vol. LXXIV.-LXXV. London, : Sold by Lockyer Davis, and Peter Elmsly, ... , [1784-1785]

Vol. [1]-[4]: p. 119-180; v. [5]: p. 372-384, [1] folded leaf of plates; vols. numbered XIII-XVI, XXIII.

Cited in:

Burndy. Science, 42.

Yale. Cushing, C140.

Contains:

Kirwan, Richard, 1733-1812. Reply to Mr. Cavendish's Answer. 1784.

Kirwan, Richard, 1733-1812. Remarks on Mr. Cavendish's Experiments on air ... 1784.

Cavendish, Henry, 1731-1810. Answer to Mr. Kirwan's Remarks upon the experiments on air. 1784.

Remarks upon Mr. Cavendish's Experiments on air.

Answer to Mr. Kirwan's Remarks upon the experiments on air.

Reply to Mr. Cavendish's Answer.

OCLC:

81559859