LIEBIG, JUSTUS - HIS ETHER-THEORY.

Mémoire sur la Constitution de l'Ether et de ses Combinaisons.

Paris, Crochard, 1833. No wrappers. In: "Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago.", 2e Series, Tome 55, Cahier 2. Pp. 113-224 a. 1 folded plate. (Entire issue offered). Liebig's paper: pp. 113-156. Titlepage to volume 55.

First printing of Liebig's importent paper in which he expounds his Ether-theory.

"Shortly afterward Liebig discovered an important new compound which he thought revealed another fatal flaw in Dumas’s theory. Since 1831, when Dobereiner had sent him an “ether-like” fluid obtained from the oxidation of alcohol, Liebig had tried several times to identify the resultant compounds. Dobereiner maintained that the fluid contained an "oxygen ether." In 1833 Liebig found two distinct compounds present. One of them, Dobereiner’s oxygen ether, he examined more thoroughly and renamed acetal."

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