Fisica de’ Corpi Ponderabili ossia Trattato della Costituzione Generale de’ Corpi del Cavaliere

by Amadeo Avogadro

$35,000 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

Turin: Stamperia Reale, 1837-41. First edition of one of the great rarities of chemistry, and especially rare in the original printed wrappers as here. This monumental work is the only large-scale publication of Avogadro 1776-1856 , famous for his eponymous hypothesis 1811 that equal volumes of all gases at the same pressure and temperature contain the same number of molecules. “Avogadro also wrote a large book

• Binding: Wrappers

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