Author: PROUT, WILLIAM F.R.S.
Title: Chemistry, Meteorology and the Function of Digestion considered with reference to Natural Theology.
Description: 1834, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First edn, London, William Pickering,1834. 8vo, xxiv, [iv], 564p, 1p table. Folding coloured map. Bridgewater Treatise VIII. Slight wear, VG in contemporary half-calf, marbled boards & endpapers. Spine in compartments with two red labels. DNB: Prout was one of the pioneers of physiological chemistry, & discovered hydrochloric acid in the stomach. The view that atomic weights of elements are multiples of that of hydrogen is known as 'Prout's Law'. Very Good.

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