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The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy ...: Salmonia, or ...

The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy ...: Salmonia, or ...

Sir Humphry Davy

Sir Humphry Davy John Davy. DIALOGUE THE THIRD. THE UNKNOWN. THE same persons accompanied me in many journeys by land and water to different parts of the Phlegrwan fields, and we enjoyed in a most delightful season, the ...
Humphry Davy

Humphry Davy

Raymond Lamont-Brown

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.
Humphry Davy: Science and Power

Humphry Davy: Science and Power

David Knight

An entertaining, accessible biography of Humphry Davy, professional scientist, inventor, and poet.
Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research

Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research

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A collection of family papers relating mostly to the West Indies and to (a) Sir William Stapleton, 1st bart. (d. 1686), including his 'Answer ... (d) correspondence , papers, diaries and note-books of Sir Humphry Davy (d. 1829), his brother Dr. John ...
The Chinese

The Chinese

sir John Francis Davis (1st bart.)

sir John Francis Davis (1st bart.) an experiment." And yet this discovery of the metallic base of potash was one result of the investigations of Sir Humphry Davy, whose practical applications of his scientific discoveries to useful and beneficial ...
Psychological inquiries: in a series of essays [signed B.C.B.].

Psychological inquiries: in a series of essays [signed B.C.B.].

Benjamin Collins Brodie (sir, 1st bart.)

Benjamin Collins Brodie (sir, 1st bart.) ... Sir Humphry Davy, when a boy, was placed under a schoolmaster who neglected his duties, and adverting to this subject in a letter addressed to his mother after he was settled in London, he says , ...
Psychological inquiries: in a series of essays [signed B.C.B.].

Psychological inquiries: in a series of essays [signed B.C.B.].

sir Benjamin Collins Brodie (1st bart.)

sir Benjamin Collins Brodie (1st bart.) ... of fact than any of their predecessors in the same department of science ; yet it continued to prevail long after Sir Humphry Davy, in his Elements of Chemical Philosophy, had demonstrated its fallacy.
Salmoni: Or Days of Fly Fishing

Salmoni: Or Days of Fly Fishing

An Angler

In A Series Of Conversations With Some Account Of The Habits Of Fishes Belonging To The Genus Salmo. By An Angler a.k.a. Sir Humphry Davy.
Descriptive essays contributed to the Quarterly review

Descriptive essays contributed to the Quarterly review

Francis Bond Head (sir, 1st bart.)

Francis Bond Head (sir, 1st bart.) ... on reflection, surprising that a gentleman of ready abilities should, in due time, learn to decipher "broad writing" — such as " sromfredevi," for Sir Humphry Davy; "Ner the Wises," for Near Devizes ; " Biley Ilikey ...
The Royal Society: 1875

The Royal Society: 1875

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1836. 1837. 1838. 1839. 1840. 1841. 1842. 1843. William Murdoch. Etienne Louis Malus. William Charles Wells. Sir Humphry Davy. David Brewster. Augustin Jean Fresnel. John Frederic Daniell. Macedonio Melloni. John Dalton. James Ivory.
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London

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Thomas Graham. Rev. Adam Sedgwick. Charles Darwin. Benjamin Count Rumford. John Leslie. William Murdoch. Etienne Louis Malus. William Charles Wells. Sir Humphry Davy. David Brewster. Augustin Jean Fresnel. John Frederic Daniell.
The Life of the Right Honourable Sir Edward Coke, Knt: Lord ...

The Life of the Right Honourable Sir Edward Coke, Knt: Lord ...

Humphry William Woolrych

Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench, Etc Humphry William Woolrych. Master's service. " If Sir Edward Coke continue sick, or keep in," said he, in a letter to Buckingham, " I fear his Majesty's service will languish too in those things which touch ...
Davy Harwood: Davy Harwood Series

Davy Harwood: Davy Harwood Series

Tijan

Being empathic is the least of Davy's problems. She wants to go to college and live a normal life until someone gives her something she doesn't want. Now she has to deal with the supernatural and a prophecy that no one knows about.
Davy: Post-Holocaust Stories

Davy: Post-Holocaust Stories

Edgar Pangborn

Davy is set in the far future of our world, in the fourth century after the collapse of what we describe as the twentieth-century civilisation.
Delphi Complete Works of Sir Thomas Malory (Illustrated):

Delphi Complete Works of Sir Thomas Malory (Illustrated):

Sir Thomas Malory

Sir Thomas Malory. there ever still hermit to his life's end. Then Sir Bors de Ganis, Sir Ector de Maris, Sir Gahalantine, Sir Galihud, Sir Galihodin, Sir Blamore, Sir Bleoberis, Sir Villiars le Valiant, Sir Clarrus of Clermont, all these knights drew ...
Davy the Punk: A Story of Bookies, Toronto the Good, the Mob ...

Davy the Punk: A Story of Bookies, Toronto the Good, the Mob ...

Bob Bossin

My favourite of my father's stories of racetrack chicanery was about Morris Fishman, and I heard it, like so many other of his recollections, on a muggy summer night at Maple Leaf Stadium. Davy and his cronies always gathered in the cheap ...
An account of the interior of Ceylon, and of its ...

An account of the interior of Ceylon, and of its ...

John Davy

With travels in that island John Davy. of the other rivers of Ceylon, especially those of lesser magnitude, are equally liable. The other four rivers, the names of which have been given, are in respect to size of second rate, a circumstance ...
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (Second International ...

The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (Second International ...

Tobias Smollett

International Edition THE EXPEDITION OF HUMPHRY CLINKER - - TO BIAS SIMOLLETT NORT ON CRITICAL E DITION |NOT FOR SALE IN THE UNITED STATES OR GANADA Edited by Evan Gottlieb The Editor EVAN GOTTLIEB is ...

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