DE LUC, Introduction à la physique terrestre, 1803

DELUC, Jean-André.

Introduction a la physique terrestre par les fluides expansibles, précédée de deux mémoires sur la nouvelle théorie chymique.

Paris, Vve Nyon, 1803.

Two volumes 8vo (216x140 mm), (4)-xvi-462-(2 bl.) pages / (4)-560 pages. Many tables included in pagination (8 folding). binding : Original blind wrappers. Cover worn, spine splitting.

First edition.
Full margin copy, as issue.

Jean-André de Luc (1727-1817) was a Genevan physicist and geologist who worked on expansible fluids and hygrometry. A member of the Royal Society of London, he was known for his work on atmospheric physics and the measurement of altitude. This work is a study of terrestrial physics through the prism of gases and fluids, focusing on atmospheric phenomena.
Deluc strenuously opposed the new chemical theory associated with Lavoisier and in this work attempted to show "that meteorological phenomena strongly militate against it and in general that the hypothesis of the composition of water (the fundamental point in the theory) has maintained itself only by numerous other hypotheses which are in contradiction with known facts." (D.S.B.).

references: Cole [359: "notable for the two long memoirs in T I (pp 1-306) criticizing the new chemistry. The composition of water and the nature of gases are discussed. The second memoir examines some of Fourcroy's opinions."], DSB [IV p.29 ], Jonathan A. Hill [cat 137, n.29].

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