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CRAWFORD, ADAIR. Experiments and Observations on Animal Heat, and the Inflammation of Combustible Bodies... Second Edition, with Very Large

CRAWFORD, ADAIR. Experiments and Observations on Animal Heat, and the Inflammation of Combustible Bodies... Second Edition, with Very Large Additions. 4 engraved plates. [16], 491 pages. 8vo, contemporary tree calf, spine faded and rubbed, front cover detached; contents browned. Early 19th-century bookplate and signature of Samuel Maxwell, M.D. London: J. Johnson, 1788

  • Notes: First published in 1779. Garrison-Morton 591 (original edition, "earliest experiments upon animal calorimetry"); Partington III, 156-57 ("Crawford was the first to determine specific heats of gases").

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