Sir Humphry Davy's Published Works

by June Z. Fullmer

Sir Humphry Davy (1778-1829) was a leading and controversial member of the international scientific community. Davy's publications received all the publicity available to an early nineteenth-century scholar. For that reason the history of his publications is of interest not only for what it reveals of Davy but for what it tells about the fate of scientific news during this period.

For more than a century it was assumed that the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674331346
• ISBN13: 9780674331341
• Release Date: February 1969
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"