DALTON, John (1766-1844). Meteorological Observations and Essays. London: for W. Richardson, J. Phillips, and W. Pennington, 1793.
8o (225 x 142 mm). A few in-text diagrams. 19th-century blue publisher's cloth, hand-lettered spine label, uncut. Provenance: Haskell F. Norman (bookplate; his sale Christie's New York, 15 June 1998, lot 398).
FIRST EDITION of the author's first book. It includes his observations on evaporation, including his novel theory that diffusion of water vapor in the atmosphere was not a chemical process. The appendix contains what is now known as "Dalton's Law" of partial pressures: that in a mixture of gases, every gas acts as an independent entity. VERY FINE. Wheeler Gift 582; Norman 574.
DALTON, John (1766-1844). Meteorological Observations and Essays. London: for W. Richardson, J. Phillips, and W. Pennington, 1793.
8o (225 x 142 mm). A few in-text diagrams. 19th-century blue publisher's cloth, hand-lettered spine label, uncut. Provenance: Haskell F. Norman (bookplate; his sale Christie's New York, 15 June 1998, lot 398).
FIRST EDITION of the author's first book. It includes his observations on evaporation, including his novel theory that diffusion of water vapor in the atmosphere was not a chemical process. The appendix contains what is now known as "Dalton's Law" of partial pressures: that in a mixture of gases, every gas acts as an independent entity. VERY FINE. Wheeler Gift 582; Norman 574.
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