Download or read book Young Humphry Davy written by June Z. Fullmer and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on 2000 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humphry Davy's contemporaries bestowed on him their highest honors. Since Davy's death in 1829, each scholarly generation has accrued info. about him & his colleagues. His startling discoveries of the scientifically novel, his isolation & identification of 7 new elements, & his association of electrical properties & chemical behavior coupled with his fame as a lecturer, made him a popular cultural hero. Others saw him as the man who had made agriculture "scientific." Davy's refusal to profit financially from his invention of the miners' safety lamp endeared him to those humanitarians who idealized scientists as members of an altruistic brotherhood. Here is a readable, thoroughly researched biography of Davy's early life. Illus.
Download or read book The Wonders of Science Or Young Humphry Davy written by Henry Mayhew and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Humphry Davy written by David Knight and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-02-05 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An entertaining, accessible biography of Humphry Davy, professional scientist, inventor, and poet.
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Download or read book Researches Chemical and Philosophical Chiefly Concerning Nitrous Oxide written by Sir Humphry Davy and published by . This book was released on 1800 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Wonders of Science Or Young Humphry Davy the Life of a Wonderful Boy written by Henry Mayhew and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VIII. THE WONDERFUL EFFECTS OF HEAT. The effects of heal are manifold. In the first place, an increase of temperature expands or enlarges almost all bodies, while a decrease causes them to contract or become diminished in bulk. Secondly. Heat changes the form of bodies, converting solids into liquids, and liquids into vapours; while cold, on the other hand, condenses vapours into liquids, and causes liquids again to solidify or congeal. Thirdly. Heat causes ignition; that is to say, it changes dark opaque substances to a bright transparent red, rendering them capable of giving out light, when their temperatures are raised to a high degree, and, when increased to the highest point, causing them to become even white in the fire, and then endowing them with the properties of the solar beams, so that their rays have the same power of traversing plates of glass, and of producing chemical changes, even as the rays of the sun itself. Fourthly. Combustion, or the burning of bodies, with the evolution of flame, is another effect of heat. There is also a species of combustion called slow (erema-causis is the chemical term for it), which is unaccompanied with flame--as in the rotting of wood and other organic tissues, the rusting of metals, and even the breathing of animals and ourselves. In each of these processes there is the same combination of a combustible body with the oxygen of the atmosphere--but at a much slower rate--than in the more rapid and energetic forms of combustion; and hence but slight increase of temperature (if any) is discernible, while no flames or luminous gases that are perceptible to our senses are evolved under such conditions. Fifthly. Phosphorescence is likewise produced by heat. During combustion and ignition, ..
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Download or read book Humphry Davy Life Beyond the Lamp written by Raymond Lamont-Brown and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2004-05-13 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in Penzance in 1778, Humphry Davy's scientific reputation grew with his pioneering discoveries of nitrous oxide (laughing gas), sodium, calcium and the invention of the miners' Davy lamp.
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Download or read book The Experimental Self written by Jan Golinski and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-05-11 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What did it mean to be a scientist before the profession itself existed? Jan Golinski finds an answer in the remarkable career of Humphry Davy, the foremost chemist of his day and one of the most distinguished British men of science of the nineteenth century. Originally a country boy from a modest background, Davy was propelled by his scientific accomplishments to a knighthood and the presidency of the Royal Society. An enigmatic figure to his contemporaries, Davy has continued to elude the efforts of biographers to classify him: poet, friend to Coleridge and Wordsworth, author of travel narratives and a book on fishing, chemist and inventor of the miners’ safety lamp. What are we to make of such a man? In The Experimental Self, Golinski argues that Davy’s life is best understood as a prolonged process of self-experimentation. He follows Davy from his youthful enthusiasm for physiological experiment through his self-fashioning as a man of science in a period when the path to a scientific career was not as well-trodden as it is today. What emerges is a portrait of Davy as a creative fashioner of his own identity through a lifelong series of experiments in selfhood.
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