BELL, CHARLES - JOHN DALTON.

On the nervous circle which connects the voluuntary muscle with the brain. Read February 16, 1826. (With Dalton:) On the constitution of the atmosphere. Read February 24, 1826.

(London, W.Nicol, 1826). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1826 - Part II. Pp. 163-173 a. (Dalton:) pp. 174-187.

First appearance of both works as printed together in the "Transactions".
A classic paper by CHARLES BELL on the function of the nervous system, one of the researches in preparation of his famous work "The nervous Systems of the Human Body" from 1830.

In his paper JOHN DALTON takes up themes which had occupied him since his great work from 1793 "Meteorological Observations and Essays" and in his Manchester Papers of 1801, where he established the atomic theory.

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