MENDELÉEFF, D. (MENDELÉEV, MENDELEYEV, MENDELÉEFF) & N. KAIANDER.

Du coefficient de dilatation de l'air sous la pression atmosphérique. Note. (Extrait).

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1876. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences", Tome 82, No 8. Pp. (429-) 467. Mendelejeff & Kaiander's paper: pp. 450-454. Clean and fine.

First printing of one of the papers which marks the beginning of Mendeléeff's aeronautical recherches to which he turned after his discovery of the periodic table. These researches were stimulated by his interest in the gas-laws of Boyle-Mariotte and Gay-Lussac and aimed at establishing the ontology of the ether.

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