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Élémens de Chimie
Author: Chaptal, Jean Antoine Claude
Title: Élémens de Chimie
Publication: Montpellier: De l Imprimeries de Jean-François Picot, 1790
Edition: 1st Edition
Description: Hardcover. INTRODUCED NITROGEN TO THE WORLD. In 1790, Chaptal published the scientific treatise, Elements of Chemistry which introduced the term "nitrogen". 8vo, 3 volumes, First Edition. I: Endpapers, blank leaf, xcvj, 259 pp, blk leaf; II: Endpapers, blk leaf, 443 pp, blk leaf; III: Endpapers, blk leaf, 460 pp., blk leaf. Cont. full calf, spines richly gilt. Boards all have considerable abrasion. Lower 1 of spine Vol. II missing. Pages xcvii-cx missing (never bound in?). Signature of contemp. owner verso of first blank in each volume (Martin Mollensis, January 1811). Internally very crisp and white pages (VG internally). Neville I (p 261): The first edition is rare and is not in the British Library or Bibliothèque Nationale . Offenbacher (Cat 37): very rare . Montpellier true first edition (Paris edition later in 1790). Jean-Antoine Chaptal, comte de Chanteloup was a French chemist, physician, agronomist, industrialist, statesman, educator and philanthropist. Chaptal was involved in early industrialization in France under Napoleon and during the Bourbon Restoration. He was a founder and the first president of the Society for the Encouragement of National Industry. He was an organizer of industrial expositions held in Paris. He compiled a study surveying the condition and needs of French industry in the early 1800s. Chaptal published practical essays on the uses of chemistry. He was an industrial producer of hydrochloric, nitric and sulfuric acids, and was sought after as a technical consultant for the manufacture of gunpowder. Chaptal published works which drew on Antoine Lavoisier's theoretical chemistry to make advances in wine-making. Chaptal promoted adding sugar to increase the final alcohol content of wines, now referred to as "chaptalization". haptal's popular chemistry textbook of general principles, adopts Lavoisier's oxygen theory and proposes the name azote be changed to nitrogene. Chaptal did make some original contributions to pure chemistry and was one of the greatest chemical manufacturers of his age, always ready to apply the lessons of the chemistry laboratory to the factory. "Chaptal wrote as an industrialist with great practical experience, whose concern with the fundamental understanding of nature was subordinate to his interest in controlling chemical reactions. Chaptal's voice was an important and influential one in advocating the introduction of science into the old craft procedures" (DSB). Jean-Antoine Chaptal, count of Chanteloup, born June 5, 1756, in Nojaret and died July 29, 1832 in Paris, was a French chemist, doctor and politician. In 1798, Chaptal was elected a member of the prestigious Chemistry Section of the Institut de France. He became president of the section in 1802 soon after Napoleon appointed him Minister of Interior (6 November 1800). Chaptal was a key figure in the early industrialization in France under Napoleon and during the Bourbon Restoration. He was a founder and first president in 1801 of the important Society for the Encouragement of National Industry and a key organizer of industrial expositions held in Paris in 1801 and subsequent years. Very Good / No Jacket.
Seller ID: EBS100228
Subject: Chemistry
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