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RIVE, A. (AUGUSTE) DE LA (1801-1873): Coup d'oeil sur l'état actuel de nos connaissances en électricité.
Genève, (1841), in-8vo, 30 p., partiel. non coupé, cachet de bibliot. sur verso du titre et dern. feuille, brochure originale, notice sur la souscription imprimée montée en bas du plat supér. ¶ Extrait des Archives de l'électricité, supplément à la Bibliothèque universelle de Genève. L'auteur fut professeur de physique à l'Académie de Genève. 'On lui doit l'invention de la dorure galvanique. ... Il se livre à de savantes recherches sur la température du sol à des grandes profondeurs, donna une théorie remarquable sur les aurores boréales, inventa plusieurs instruments de physique' (DHBS). Interesting contribution to the history of electricity. 'De La Rive made his scientific reputation and consolidated his power in the Academy roughly in the decade before 1835; for an equal length of time thereafter he was the most important figure in the Genevan scientific community, as least as regards local influence and contemporary fame.During this time he was the most powerful personage in the Academy, the editor of Geneva's leading scientific and cultural journal, and a leader in the conservative party in government. He was knpown as a friend of ampère, Arago, and especially Faraday, with whom he maintained an extensive correspondence, and as the most dogged defender of the purely chemical theory of the pile' (DSB). Please notify before visiting to see a book. Prices are excl. VAT/TVA (only Switzerland) & postage. Poggendorff II/657-659; DSB VIII/35-37; DHBS (sous De La Rive) II/648, Nr. 5.
Offered for CHF 45.00 = appr. US$ 48.07 by: Harteveld Rare Books Ltd. - Book number: 39891