Mémoires sur la chaleur
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Type of record: Book
Title: Mémoires sur la chaleur
Classmark: Anglo-French 4 1790/KIR
Creator(s): Rumford, Benjamin Graf von (1753-1814)
Publisher: Chez F. Didot
Publication city: Paris
Date(s): an XIII-1804
Language: French
Size and medium: lxviii, 166 p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/259338
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991016574489705181
Description
"Précédés d'une notice historique de divers expériences faites par l'auteur sur cet objet dès 1778. Des trois mémoires que contient ce recueil, deux avaient déjà paru dans la Bibliothèque brittanique, trad. par M. Pictet, et l'autre, composé en français, avait été lu par l'auteur à l'Institut, le 25 juin 1804." - Quérard.
Additional description
Bound with one other publication. Volume contents: 1. Kirwan, R.: Estimation de la temperature de différens degrès de latitude, 1790 -- 2. Rumford, B. T.: Mémoires sur la chaleur, 1804
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