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PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS: IV FRIGORIFIC EXPERIMENTS ON THE MECHANICAL EXPANSION OF AIR Erasmus Darwin 1788 Unbound Pages Near Fine
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London, Royal Society of London, not dated, c. 1788. 10 pp. Loose article pages. Near Fine overall.
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IV. Frigorific experiments on the mechanical expansion of air, explaining the cause of the great degree of cold on the summits of high mountains, the sudden condensation of aerial Vapour, and of the perpetual mutability of atmospheric Heat. By Erasmus Darwin, M.D. F.R.S.; communicated by the Right Honorable Charles Greville, F.R.S.
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Read to the Royal Society on December 13, 1787. Printed in 1788.
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