Bulletin des Sciences, par la Societe Philomatique de Paris, Imprimerie de Plassan (in Paris), 1816, serie III no. 3. Bound in paper covered marbled boards with a paper spine, and leather spine label. Condition: The spine shows some wear, and has an old paper call number at bottm, along with chipping at spine ends. THe rest of the book is VG. $450
Joseph Gay-Lussac, "Recherches sur l'Acide prussique", pp 15-21 and “Article III” de l'acide chlorocyanique”, pp 43-45 AND with “des Combinations de l'acide hydrocyanique avec les bases”, pp 53-56; AND with“Sur les combinations de l'azote avec l'oxygene”, pp 98-101. These are smaller , very early, bite-sized chunks of the months-earlier publication of this major paper by Gay-Lussac in Annales de Chimie, ou Recueil de Mémoires concernant la Chemie Tome 95, late 1815. I Gay-Lussac publishes on his discovery of cyanogen and makes the "identification of the cyano radical (as) the first recognized identification of an organic radical".--Parkinson, Breakthroughs, p 261.
Also in this volume:
- Cauchy, "Demonstration d'un theoreme curieux sur les nombres", pp 133-4 (which appeared in the Academie Royalle des Science in July 1816). Cauchy provides a proof in response to a note that appears on p 112 "Propriete curieuse des fractions ordinaires" (appearing without attribution here but a translation of John Farey's "On a Curious Property of Vulgar Fractions that appeared in the Philosophical Magazine just weeks earlier in 1816).
- Humphrey Davy “Sur l'application des gazes ou tissus metalliques aux lampes, pour prevenir les explosions dans les mines de houille...” (extrait par M. Baillet), pp 65-6;
- [Davy] “Resultats d'experiences faites avec la lanterne de surete de M. Davy,” par Baillet”, pp 67-69;
- Davy, “Expose de quelques experiences et de rues nouvelles sur la flamme”, pp 165-166 (these three papers by davy being abstracts of sections from his groundbreaking paper on safety lamps for miners in the Philosophical Transaction in 18167).
- Poisson, “Sur le calcul des variations, relativement aux integrales multiples”, pp 82-86;
- Poisson, “Sur une propriete des equations generales du mouvement”, pp 109-111;
- Poisson, “Memoire sur la variation des constantes arbitraires, dans les questions de mecanique”, pp 140-144;
- Biot, “Nouvelles epreuves sur la vitesse integale avec laquelle l'electricte circule dans divers appareils electromoteurs”, pp 102-104;
- Biot, “Construction d'un colorigrade””, pp 144-152;
- Laplace, “Sur la longeur du pendule a secondes”, pp 170-174;
- Laplace, “Sur la transmission du son a traversles corps solides”, pp 190-196;
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