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  • Chimico esame degli esperimenti del sig. Gottling : professore a Jena, sopra la luce del fosforo di Kunkel osservata nell'aria commune, ed in diversi fluidi aeriformi permanenti, nella qual occasione si esaminano altri fosfori posti dentro ai medesimi fluidi, e si cerca se la luce solare guastiil gaz ossigeno, siccome pretende questo chimico / del cittadino Lazzaro Spallanzani ..
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Chimico esame degli esperimenti del sig. Gottling : professore a Jena, sopra la luce del fosforo di Kunkel osservata nell'aria commune, ed in diversi fluidi aeriformi permanenti, nella qual occasione si esaminano altri fosfori posti dentro ai medesimi fluidi, e si cerca se la luce solare guastiil gaz ossigeno, siccome pretende questo chimico / del cittadino Lazzaro Spallanzani ..

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Signatures: pi² A-K⁸ L⁶.
Also available online.
SCNHRB copy 39088000247478 has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries Adopt-a-Book, Gift of Brandon Heck in honor of: Nikki & Rick Heck
SCNHRB copy is enclosed in a yellow archival box with bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries...Preservation supported by the Smithsonian Women's Committee.
Typescript translation of chapter 8 by F.A. McDermott and 3 other brief articles from Italian journals bound in at end.
Stamped on t.p.: National Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Jul 27 1915.
Paper cover bound in; stamped in front: F.A.McD. Washington D.C.
Elecresource
Data Source
Smithsonian Libraries
Date
1796
Call number
QC478 .S73 1796
QC478.S73 1796
Author
Spallanzani, Lazzaro 1729-1799
Göttling, J. F. A (Johann Friedrich August) 1755-1809
former owner
McDermott, F. A (Frank Alexander) 1885- DSI
Type
Electronic resources
Physical description
[4], 171, [1] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. (8vo.)
Topic
Phospherescense
Bioluminescense
Record ID
siris_sil_259035
Usage
CC0
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