THE VOLTAIC PILE INVESTIGATED. - FOUNDATION OF ELECTROCHEMISTRY.

Collection of 10 papers relatiing to Volta's construction of the Voltaic Pile and its chemical and physical effects.

Halle, Rengerschen Buchhandlung, 1801. Contemp. hcalf., Raised bands, gilt spine. Slightly rubbed. "Annalen der Physik. Herausgegeben von Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert", Bd. 8. (8),504 pp. a. 6 folded engraved plates, showing various set ups of the pile (Böchmann, Davy, Arnim etc.). Small stamps on verso of titlepage. Some leaves with a faint dampstain in righ margins, but clean and fine.

In 1800 Volta published his famous paper "On the Electricity excited by the mere Contact of Conducting Substances of different Kinds" in the Philosophical Transactions. In the paper he described his famous "Pile", the first primary battery and the real foundation of electrochemistry. The pile completely revolutionized the theory and practice of electricity and immediately inspired a series of new electrolytic experiments, many of which is recorded here in the volume offerd.
The volume contains a series of importent experiments with the pile:

HUMPHREY DAVY "Bemerkungen und Versuche über Oxydirung des Zinks...Ursach der Wirksamheit galvanischer Batterieen..." (first German edition of three papers from Nicholson's Journal). Pp. 1-21. And "Beobachtungen über die Gaserzeugung in den einzelnen Ketten galvanischer Batterien", pp. 300-315 (also from Nicholson's Journal).
P.L. SIMON "Beschreibung eienr neuen galvanisch-chemischen Vorrichtung und ...merkwürd. Versuche...", pp. 22-36.
G.R. TREVIRANUS "Ueber den Euinfluss ...Galvanismus auf die thierische Reichbarkeit.", pp. 44-68.
C.W. BÖCKMANN "Versuche und beobachtungen über die Wirkungen der galvanischen Electricität durch Volta's Säule., pp. 137-162. He here revised Volta's use of the terminal plates in the pile and showing the true form of the pile.
L.A. von ARNIM "Bemerkungen über Volta's Säule", pp. 163-196, 257-284.
ERMAN "ueber die electroskopischen Phánomene der Voltaischen Säule", pp. 197-215.
W. GRUNER "Einige merkwürdige Versuche mit Volta's Säule.", pp. 216-227.
C.H. PFAFF "Bemerkungen über dieselben Versuche", pp. 228-232.
EINHOF "Versuche über die Wirksamkeit verschiedener Metalle mit Säuren in ihrer Verbindung zu Voltaischen Säule", pp. 316-322.
J.W. RITTER "Versuche und Bemerkungen über den Galvanismus der Voltaischen Batterie. Dritter Brief", pp. 385-473. He here proves that the poles of the pile were electrified.

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