34. Davy ( Sir Humphry) The Bakerian Lecture, on some new Phenomena of chemical Changes produced by Electricity, pp.1-44 in Philosophical Transactions, Vol.98 Part I, 1808; with Electro-Chemical Researches, on the Decomposition of the Earths, pp.333-370 in Philosophical Transactions, Vol.98 Part II, 1808, together in the vol. for the year 1808, engraved plates, contemporary half calf, worn, covers detached, 4to .
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“...a brilliant series of papers to the Royal Institution and the Royal Society culminating in the Bakerian Lectures in 1806 and 1807, in which Davy outlined a theory of mass action, forecast the use of electricity in atomic disintegration and announced the isolation by electrolytic methods of two new elements, sodium and potassium” PMM 255, The Electric Current .
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