AMAGAT, E.-H. (EMILE HILAIRE).

Mémoires sur l'Élasticité et la Dilatibilité des Fluides jusqu'aux trés hautes Pressions.

Pais, Masson, 1893. 8vo. Contemp. hcalf. Raised bands, gilt spine. A bit rubbed along edges. Bound with all 6 orig. printed wrappers to the parts. These bound at end. In: "Annales de Chimie et de Physique", 6ieme Serie, Tome 29. 576 pp. (Entire volume offered). Amagat's paper: pp. 68-136 a. pp. 505-574. Richly illustrated. (Stamps to verso of titlepage. Internally fine and clean.

First printing of these pioneering papers in high pressure technology, initiating the development of pressure measurement, and performing the first accurate measurements of the properties of high-pressure gases. A unit of number density, 'amagat', was named after him.

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