SALUCE, GRAFEN von (GIUSEPPE ANGELO, COUNT OF SALUZZO).

Betrachtungen über die flüssige elastische Materie welche aus dem Schiesspulver erzeugt wird. Aus dem Schriften dieser Akademie übersetzt.

Berlin, Haude und Spenerschen Buchhandlung, 1769. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on top of spine. Stamps on title-page. (4),234 pp. Internally clean.

Saluze thought that the 'elastic fluid' (= fixed air) evolved by gunpowder was atmospheric air, although he pointed out that it would not support combustion or respiration. Saluzzo was president for the Academy of Science in Turin
Partington III, p. 127. - Poggendorff I, 744.

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