BIB_ID
232727
Accession number
MA 5057
Creator
Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859.
Display Date
[before 1798 May].
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Purchased for The Dannie and Hettie Heineman Collection as the gift of the Heineman Foundation, 2000.
Description
1 item (40 p.) ; 24.3 cm
Notes
Humboldt read this paper before the Paris Academy in May 1798; and a corrected version was published in Annales de Chimie, vol. 28 (1798), pp. 123-80.
Summary
A working manuscript from early in Humboldt's career; an example of the work of proponents of the "new chemistry." Humboldt treats such topics as the composition of air and mentions Lavoisier, Priestley, and others. Humboldt read this paper before the Paris Academy in May 1798. and a corrected version was published in Annales de Chimie, vol. 28 (1798), pp. 123-80.
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