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Scienza - Elettricità - Volta, Alessandro
Collection of the works of the knight Count Alessandro Volta Patrizio Comasco, 1816
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€ 750 - 900
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Florence, Guglielmo Piatti, 1816. In 8 °. 5 parts in 3 vols. Portrait of the author in the front door engraved by Raffaello Morghen in the first vol, with 7 tables folded out of the text, bearded specimen with numerous intact files, light browning, sporadic blooms, small tear without loss in the inner margin of the 2 plates. to the III vol., coeval binding in canvas, author and title in manuscripts in paper insert on the spine, slight defects. traces of paper ex libris in I vol. of the counterplate. & nbsp;
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First edition, rare of the Works. & nbsp; Italian scientist of extraordinary prestige and international fame, Alessandro Volta (Como 1745-Como 1827) is mainly remembered for his discoveries in the field of electricity. Even today, in honor of its revolutionary innovations, its name is linked to the unit of measurement of the electrical potential difference, volts. Studies on electricity gave him the right reputation and the invention of the battery brought about a radical change in science. An excellent experimenter, he also successfully dealt with the chemical and physical properties of gases and was the discoverer of methane gas
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