Experiments and observations relating to the analysis of atmospherical air; also, farther experiments relating to the generation of air from water. Read before the American Philosophical Society, Feb. 5 and 19, 1796 ... To which are added, considerations on the doctrine of phlogiston, and the decomposition of water / [Joseph Priestley].

  • Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804
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1796
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Credit: Experiments and observations relating to the analysis of atmospherical air; also, farther experiments relating to the generation of air from water. Read before the American Philosophical Society, Feb. 5 and 19, 1796 ... To which are added, considerations on the doctrine of phlogiston, and the decomposition of water / [Joseph Priestley]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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