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Mémoire sur la chaleur. Lû à'Académie royale des sciences, le 28 juin 1783. Par Mrs. Lavoisier et de La Place.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks Am 1781 Bid (b.w.) Af.404.2 (Franklin)
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent, 1743-1794 2457
- Language:
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Heat--73546.
- Heat.
- Combustion--70145.
- Combustion.
- Physics--Early works to 1800.
- Physics.
- 1783.
- Local Subjects:
- 1783.
- Physical Description:
- 56 p. 2 plates. 28 cm. (4to)
- Place of Publication:
- [Paris, De l'Imprimerie royale, 1783]
- Notes:
- Appeared also in Mémoires de l'Académie royale des sciences, 1780 (published in 1784) p. 355-408. (Duveen-Klickstein, 55).
- Signatures: [A]-G[superscript 4].
- Local Notes:
- 2 fold. plates.
- HSP in LCP.
- Benjamin Franklin's copy.
- Bound with Biddle, Oration, q.v.; item 2 in volume. Modern half sheep over contemporary marbled boards; bound with other items. MS table of contents on flyleaf in William Temple Franklin's hand; inscription on title: For Doctor Benjam[in . . . ], shaved; and long notes and minor corrections in the author's hand; purchased from Dufief, 1801- 03, by Col. William Duane; sold by him in 1822 to the Athenaeum of Philadelphia (3); sold in turn by it, 22 December 1855, to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
- Retrospective conversion record: RLIN.
- Cited in:
- Duveen & Klickstein. Lavoisier, 221.
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