AMONTONS, (GUILLAUME). - IMPROVING THE BAROMETER.

De la Hauteur du Mercure dans les Barometres. (+) Suite des Remarques sur la hauteur du mercure....(+) Suite des remarques...(+) Suite des Remarques...(4 Parts).

(Paris, Jean Boudot, 1706). 4to. Without wrappers. Extracted from "Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences. Année 1705". Pp. 229-232, 232-234, 234-236 a. 267-272.

First apperance of one of Amontons last papers on the barometer. He develops, after having noted that barometers are affected by heat as well as by the weight of the atmosphere, his mercury barometer.

Order-nr.: 45174