Author: Becquerel, [A. C.] and [J. B.] Biot and E. Becquerel
Title: Mémoire sur la phosphorescence produite par la lumière électrique.
Description: Paris, Gide et J. Baudry, 1839. Large 4to (32 x 25 cm). 25 pp. Disbound. = Rare paper on phosphorescence, describing several observations and experiments, consisting of a general introduction, a chapter by Antoine Becquerel (Nobel prize winner Henri Becquerel's grandfather) and the French physicist and mathematician Jean Baptiste Biot (1774-1862) on radiation causing phosphorescence, and one by Edmond Becquerel (Henri's father) on phosphorescence caused by pressure. Published in the Archives du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, first volume. Water stain in the top outer margin, otherwise good.

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