LAVOISIER, (ANTOINE-LAURENT) & PIERRE-SIMON DE LAPLACE. - RESPIRATION & COMBUSTION.

Von dem Verbrennen und Athemholen. (IV Stück von "Über die Wärme")

Helmstädt und Leipzig, J.G. Müllerschen Budhhandlung, 1787. Small 8vo. Orig. printed blue wrappers. In: "Chemische Annalen...von Lorenz Crell", 1787, 2. Bd., 7. Stück. Pp. 1-95 (the entire issue (Stúck 7) offered). Lavoisier & La place's paper: pp. 62-94.

First appearance in German of the fourth part of of the classic joint paper "Mémoir sur la Chaleur", published 1783, which contains the section on combustion and respiration.

"Few collaborations in the history of science can equal, for the eminence of the two participants, that between the coryphaeus of the Chemical Revolution, Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier, and his collegue in the Royal Academy of Science, the mathematical physicist, Pierre-Simon de Laplace. We remember this collaboration chiefly, if not solely, for the famous investigatuon on Calorimetry, which resulted in one of the aknowledged classics of science, the joint "Mémoir sur la Chaleur", pulished in the Histoire et Mémoires of the Academy of Sciences in 1784."(Henry Guerlac).

Order-nr.: 44791