AMPÈRE, ANDRÉ-MARIE. - DEMONSTRATING THE BOYLE-MARIOTTE LAW OR AMPÈRES GAS LAW.

Démonstration de la relation découverte par Mariotte, entre les volumes des gaz et les pressions qu'ils supportent à une même température. Lu a l'Institut, le 24 janvier 1814.

Paris, Crochard, 1815. Contemp. hcalf. Spine gilt. Slightly rubbed. A few scratches to binding. Wear to top of spine. Small stamps on verso of titlepage.In: "Annales de Chimie, ou Recueil de Mémoires concernant la Chemie" Tome 94. 336 pp. a. 1 plate (the plate in facs., not belonging to Ampere's paper). Ampere's paper: pp. Some scattered brownspots.

First appearance of Amperes second paper on molecular physics.

"The noumenal aspect of chemistry fascinated Ampère. Although his derivation of Avogadro’s law came three years after Avogadro had enunciated it, the law is known today in France as the Avogadro-Ampère law. This was Ampère’s first excursion into molecular physics, and was followed almost immediately by a second. In 1815 he published a paper demonstrating the relation between Mariotte’s (Boyle’s) law and volumes and pressures of gases at the same temperature. The paper is of some interest as a pioneer effort, along with Laplac’s great papers on capillarity, in the application of Mathematical analysis to the molecular realm."(DSB).

The volume contains 3 importent papers by Jean-Baptiste Biot on polarisation of light and Berzelius "Experiences pour déterminer les proportions définies, dans lequelles les élémens de la nature organique sont combinés" + "Suite..." 1-2, pp. 5-33, pp. 170-190 a. pp. 296-232

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