T. E. Thorpe

The Century Science Series.

PREFACE

CONTENTS

Humphry Davy , POET AND PHILOSOPHER.

CHAPTER I. PENZANCE: 1778 - 1798.

CHAPTER II. THE PNEUMATIC INSTITUTION, BRISTOL, 1798 - 1801.

CHAPTER III. THE PNEUMATIC INSTITUTION, BRISTOL, 1798 (1801) ( continued ).

CHAPTER IV. THE ROYAL INSTITUTION.

CHAPTER V. THE CHEMICAL LABORATORY OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTION.

CHAPTER VI. THE ISOLATION OF THE METALS OF THE ALKALIS.

CHAPTER VII. CHLORINE.

CHAPTER VIII. MARRIAGE KNIGHTHOOD ELEMENTS OF CHEMICAL PHILOSOPHY NITROGEN TRICHLORIDE FLUORINE.

CHAPTER IX. DAVY AND FARADAY IODINE.

CHAPTER X. THE SAFETY LAMP.

CHAPTER XI. DAVY AND THE ROYAL SOCIETY HIS LAST DAYS.

INDEX.

Transcriber's Notes

Transcriber’s Note
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THE CENTURY SCIENCE SERIES
Edited by SIR HENRY E. ROSCOE, D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S.

HUMPHRY DAVY
POET AND PHILOSOPHER