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1845. (London, Richard and John E. Taylor, 1845). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1845 - Part I. Pp. 155-177, 1 textillustr. Clean and fine. First appearance of an importent paper in chemistry in which Faraday takes up a renewed analysis his great discoveries from 1823 in relation to his liquefaction of gases under pressure and the relation to temperatures. Faraday did pioneer work on liquifaction of gases.

London: The Royal Society, 1845. 1st Edition. BOUND 1st EDITION OF AN IMPRESSIVE COMPILATION OF 1845 PAPERS, among them significant papers by JW Herschel, Michael Faraday, W.R. Grove, and Carlo Matteucci. HERSCHEL'S PAPERS present "the 'modern' milestone for observing fluorescence" (Heinrichs, Milestones, Nature RMCB, 2009). In them he notes "that a quinine solution, although itself colorless and transparent, exhibits a ‘vivid and beautiful celestial blue color' when illuminated and observed under certain incidences of sunlight"; Renz, Fluoresence, Cytometry, 2013). "This is the first reported observation of fluorescence" and it has been "particularly important to the future of science (Molecular Expressions, FSU; Renz). "Herschel recognized the presence of an unusual phenomenon which could not be explained by the scientific knowledge of the time. To this day, the fluorescence of quinine remains one of the most used and most beautiful examples of fluorescence" (Lakowicz, Fluoresence, 2). He… Read More

London, from the Philosophical Transactions, printed by R. & J.E.Taylor, 1845.. 1845 - Part 1, PRESENTATION TO TOP OF TITLE PAGE: "REV. DR. ROBINSON (?) FROM THE AUTHOR". 4to, approximately 300 x 230 mm, 11¾ x 9 inches, 2 small text illustrations, pages: title page, 155-177, [1 - blank], bound in pale grey wrappers. Wrappers dusty and lightly stained, spine worn with loss of paper, old ink notes to top cover, vertical crease to covers and text, edges of covers showing slight wear and handling, otherwise a very good copy. See: Hook & Norman, The Haskell F. Norman Library of Science & Medicine, Volume 1, page 279, No. 760. "Virtually all of Faraday's contributions to electricity and magnetism were published in this series of papers in Philosophical Transactions. Faraday presented individual offprints from the series, as well as various collections of offprints, before the publication of the papers in book form"; Dictionary of Scientific Biography, Volume iv, pages 527-540. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS… Read More