Volume 1

Experiments upon vegetables, discovering their great power of purifying the common air in the sun-shine, and of injuring it ... at night. To which is joined, a new method of examining the ... salubrity of the atmosphere / [Jan Ingenhousz].

  • Jan Ingenhousz
Date:
1779
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Credit: Experiments upon vegetables, discovering their great power of purifying the common air in the sun-shine, and of injuring it ... at night. To which is joined, a new method of examining the ... salubrity of the atmosphere / [Jan Ingenhousz]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    XXUl ] to —dth- of the two airs employed in the experiment. The difcovery of Dr. Prieftley, that plants thrive better in foul air than in common and in dephlogifti- cated air, and that plants have a power of correcting bad air, has thrown a new and important light upon the arrangement of this world. It fhews, even to a demonftration, that the vegetable kingdom is fub- l'ervient to the animal; and, vice verjd, that the air, fpoiled and ren¬ dered noxious to animals by their breathing in it, ferves to plants as a kind of nourifhment. But in what manner this faculty of the plants is excited remained ftill unknown. There was even fome doubt left in the mind of many philofophers, whether the fails related by Dr. Prieftley were not owing to fome b 4 par-
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