Item #29222 Essais sur L'Hygrometrie. Horace-Benedict de Saussure.
Essais sur L'Hygrometrie
Essais sur L'Hygrometrie

Essais sur L'Hygrometrie.

Neuchatel, Switzerland: Samuel Fauche, 1783. Hardcover. First Edition. xxiv, 367 pp. 2 Plates. 4to. Red past paper covers with brown leather spine. Blind embossed tilting and rules to spine. Scuffing and wear overall. Two paltes at rear illustrating text and apparatus, first plate folding. Blue silk ribbon page marker still present. Text in French. Very Good.
Volume explains Horace Bénédict de Saussure's (1740-1799) development of the hygrometer that used a hair as the humidity and pressure indicator. Important work in early scientific apparatus.
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