A Brief Account Of Microscopical Observations Made In The Months Of June July And August 1827 On The

by Robert Brown

$12,500 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

Edinburgh; London: Adam Black; Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, 1828-1929. First journal printing, in original never-bound sheets, of Robert Brown’s description of the molecular phenomenon later known as “Brownian motion,” one of the most important discoveries of the nineteenth century. It formed the basis for kinetic theory of gases and served as proof of the existence of atoms

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