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Tuesday, October 11, 2005

Sur un nouveau moyen de produire de la chaleur et de la lumiere

I found Gay-Lussac's critique of Morey's work! I figured that if the editorial comment in the journal where I first found the article, which mentioned Gay-Lussac, was useful, editorial comments in other journals would also be useful. According to the Royal Society Catalogue of Scientific Papers, three of Morey's six articles were published elsewhere. Dartmouth only has one of these three other sources, the Edinburgh Philosophical Journal (the other two are Journal für Chemie und Physik and The Technical Repository). So, after getting the 1819 volume of this journal out of storage, I found a note about 2/3 of a page long including:

"M. Gay Lussac, in a note in the Annales de Chimie et de Physique, tom. x, p. 124, has examined the theory of this [Morey's] process, and is of the opinion that no advantage can be gained from it."

The wording made me fear that perhaps Gay-Lussac was commenting just on a, perhaps general, process and not on Morey in particular. However, I hurried back to my room where I had volume 10 of Annales de Chimie et de Physique and I found that page 124 is the start of a 3 page long comment that includes Morey's name twice. Now I just need to find out what it says...

1 Comments:

Dad said...

Now I just need to find out what it says...

Well, the title says "On a new method for producing heat and light"

If you can get it scanned and email it to us, Mom can translate it, or maybe even me.

10:57 PM  

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