MENDELÉEFF, D. (MENDELÉEV, MENDELEYEV, MENDELÉEFF).

Sur la température des couches élevées de l'atmosphère. (Premiere-) Deuxième Note. (2 papers).

(Paris, Gauthier-Villars), 1875. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences", Tome 81, No 23 a. 24. Pp. (1065-) 1222. (2 entire issues offered). Mendeleev's paper: pp. 1094-1096 a. 1182-1186. Clean and fine.

First printing of a paper which marks the beginning of Mendeléeff's aeronautical recherches to which he turned after his discovery of the periodic table, giving a general form to his experiments on the temperature of the upper layers of the atmosphere.

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