Gay-Lussac, Joseph Louis (1778-1850)

  • Gay-Lussac, Joseph Louis, 1778-1850
Date:
1804
Reference:
MS.2489
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Description

Rapport sur un alembic ambulant présenté à la Société d'Encouragement par M. Bordier. Author's holograph MS.

Publication/Creation

1804

Physical description

1 volume 8 ll. (first bl.). 4to. 211/2 × 17 cm. Unbound.

Acquisition note

Purchased 1930.

Biographical note

Bordier is described on the first page; of him Gay-Lussac says: 'M. Bordier possède à Versoix un grand établissement dans lequel il fabrique de l'eau de vie de cérises'. He may perhaps be Isaac Ami Bordier [1768-1835], entered in Godet's 'Dictionnaire historique et biographique de la Suisse', Vol. II.

Notes

His invention is mentioned in J. Dujardin's 'Recherches sur l'art de la distillation', Paris, 1900, p. 175: but here he is named as 'Bordier-Marcet'.

Finding aids

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).

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  • 66365