The Emporium of Arts & Sciences: New Series, Vols. I and II

by [PHYSICAL SCIENCES - PERIODICALS] COOPER, Thomas

$650 · Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books

First edition

Philadelphia: Kimber & Richardson, 1813. First Edition. Complete first and second volumes of the New Series, edited by the Anglo-American chemist Thomas Cooper. Though not a particularly brilliant scientist, Cooper's "greatest service to science was undoubtedly the dissemination of information" (Dictionary of Scientific Biography III, p. 400). The present collection..... More

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