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Jan Ingen-Housz with his servant Dominique demonstrating the properties of vegetables. Soft-ground etching.

Jan Ingenhousz. Etching by D. Cunego, 1769, after A.L.L.

Who was Ingen Housz, anyway? : a lost genius / by Norman and Elaine Beale.

Echoes of Ingen Housz : the long lost story of the genius who rescued the Habsburgs from smallpox and became the father of photosynthesis / Norman and Elaine Beale.

Jan Ingen-Housz (1730-1799) : some new evidence about his life and work / by P. Smit.

Nouvelles expériences et observations sur divers objets de physique / Par Jean Ingen-Housz.

Expériences sur les végétaux, spécialement sur la propriété qu'ils possèdent à un haut degré, soit d'améliorer l'air quand ils sont au soleil, soit de la corrompre la nuit, ou lorsqu'ils sont a l'ombre; auxquelles on a joint une méthode nouvelle de juger du degré de salubrité de l'atmosphere: / par Jean Ingen-Housz, ... Traduit de l'anglois, par l'auteur.

Jan Ingenhousz, plant physiologist : with a history of the discovery of photosynthesis / by Howard S. Reed.

Observations on smoky chimneys, their causes and cure; with considerations on fuel and stoves / Illustrated with proper figures. By Benjamin Franklin, LL.D.

Experiments upon vegetables, discovering their great power of purifying the common air in the sun-shine, and of injuring it ... at night. To which is joined, a new method of examining the ... salubrity of the atmosphere / [Jan Ingenhousz].

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Ingenhousz, Jan, 1730-1799

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Nouvelles expériences et observations sur divers objets de physique / Par Jean Ingen-Housz.

Jan Ingenhousz, plant physiologist : with a history of the discovery of photosynthesis / by Howard S. Reed.

Observations on smoky chimneys, their causes and cure; with considerations on fuel and stoves / Illustrated with proper figures. By Benjamin Franklin, LL.D.

Experiments upon vegetables, discovering their great power of purifying the common air in the sun-shine, and of injuring it ... at night. To which is joined, a new method of examining the ... salubrity of the atmosphere / [Jan Ingenhousz].