A Short Account of Experiments and Instruments, depending in the Relations of Air to Heat and Moisture
LESLIE, John
SYDNEY ROSS'S COPY OF LESLIE ON AIR, HEAT AND MOISTURE
Published: William Blackwood [and others] Edinburgh and London, 1813
Stock code: 51327
Price: £700.00
8vo., First Edition, with engraved plate of instruments; strongly bound in twentieth-century navy cloth, backstrip with printed paper label, patterned endpapers, a remarkably bright, clean, crisp copy.
With the bookplate of Dr. Sydney Ross (Rensselaer Polytechnic, NY) on front paste-down. The plate (by Grant) depicts 10 views of Leslie's instruments used in the various experiments. Sir John Leslie (1766-1832), mathematician and physicist, gave the first modern account of capillary action (1802), and succeeded in freezing water using an air-pump in 1810 - the first artificial production of ice. Professor Sydney Ross (1915-2013), chemist and bibliophile, was Emeritus Professor of Colloid Chemistry at Rensselauer, and author of Nineteenth-Century Attitudes: Men of Science. VERY SCARCE.