DALTON, JOHN.

Versuche über Wärme Kälte, die bei mechanischer Verdichtung und Verdünnung der Luft entstehen. (+) Ueber die Kraft der Flüssigkeiten, Wärme zu leiten, in Beziehung auf des Grafen vonRumford siebenten Essay. (+) Ueber den absoluten Nullpunkt der Wärme und verwandte Betrachtungen. (+) Versuche über die Ausdehnung des Wasser's durch Wärme. (4 Papers).

Halle, Rengerschen Buchhandlung, 1803. Contemp. hcalf., Raised bands, gilt spine. Slightly rubbed. "Annalen der Physik. Herausgegeben von Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert", Bd. 14. (8),512 pp. and 5 engraved plates. Small stamps on verso of titlepage and verso of plates. (Entire volume offered). Titlepage slightly brownspotted. A few scatterd brownspots. Dalton's papers: pp. 101-111, pp. 184-198, pp. 287-292 a. pp. 293-96.

First appearance in German of 4 importent early papers by Dalton (issued in English 1799, 1800 a.1803) - dealing with heat circulation (criticizing Rumford) and with air, its relations to temperature and pressures, announcing the importent observation, that the temperature of air compressed to one-half its volume is raised to 50 degrees Fahrenhait.

"Three papers that Dalton read to the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society in 1799 and 1800 (in which year he became the Society's secretary) show how much the question of water vapor continued to exercise him. In the first paper he discusse the balance in nature between rain, dew, river-water runoff, and evaporation. In the course of this discussion, he provided the earliest definition of the dew point. Then followed two competent, but more pedestrian, papers on heat, in which his firm belief in a fluid of heat is well-displayed and his complete acceptance of the particular caloric theory of William Irvine an Adair Crawford is apparent."(DSB III, p.541). - Smyth No. 27, 28 a. 31 (German version).

The volume contains otrher notable papers by Olbers "Ueber die vom Himmel gefallnen Steinen", Thomas Thomson (2 papers on the subject of "heat of fluids"), Alex. Volta, Faujas-Saint-Fond etc.

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