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INGENHOUSZ (Jan). Expériences sur les végétaux, spécialement sur la Propriété qu'ils possèdent à un haut degré, soit d'améliorer l'Air quand ils sont au soleil, soit de la corrompre la nuit, ou lorsqu'ils sont à l'ombre ; auxquelles on a joint une Méthode nouvelle de juger du degré de salubrité de l'Atmosphère. Translated from English by the Author. Paris, P. Fr. Didot le jeune, 1780. In-8, marbled basane, ornate ribbed spine, red marbled title page, red edges (period binding). Rubbed and worn. One folding engraved plate. Handwritten note on verso of title "Cambodor[?] 1804 - sauvé de l'expoliation révolutionaire".

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INGENHOUSZ (Jan). Expériences sur les végétaux, spécialement sur la Propriété qu'ils possèdent à un haut degré, soit d'améliorer l'Air quand ils sont au soleil, soit de la corrompre la nuit, ou lorsqu'ils sont à l'ombre ; auxquelles on a joint une Méthode nouvelle de juger du degré de salubrité de l'Atmosphère. Translated from English by the Author. Paris, P. Fr. Didot le jeune, 1780. In-8, marbled basane, ornate ribbed spine, red marbled title page, red edges (period binding). Rubbed and worn. One folding engraved plate. Handwritten note on verso of title "Cambodor[?] 1804 - sauvé de l'expoliation révolutionaire".

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INGENHOUSZ (Jan). Nouvelles expériences et observations sur divers objets de physique. Paris, Théophile Barrois, 1785. In-8, brown basane, ornate spine, red edges (period binding). Numerous restorations to binding (headbands, spines and corners). 4 folding plates in fine. Good condition inside. A British physician and botanist of Dutch origin, Jan Ingenhousz (or Ingen-Housz, 1730-1799) was introduced to the sciences by the physician Sir John Pringle (1707-1782, President of the Royal Society and physician to the King), whom he followed to London, where he met Joseph Priestley (1733-1804) and Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790). He became an early advocate of variolization (vaccination against smallpox). In 1768, he travelled to Vienna to vaccinate the family of Empress Maria Theresa of Austria (1717-1780), where he remained for over ten years. In 1779, after Priestley's discovery of oxygen, Ingenhousz turned his attention to plants and discovered the role of light in photosynthesis. In 1780, he published his Experiments on Plants. In 1778, on July 9, he read before the Assembly of the Royal Society of London, his new method of obtaining light in the field by means of a very small bottle charged with electricity, a description which corresponds to the future electric light bulb. In 1785 and 1788, Jan Ingenhousz took part in the debate on electroculture. He was also the author of a famous experiment on the thermal conductivity of metals (1789). He was the first to use glass plates in electrostatic machines.