CRAWFORD, ADAIR. Experiments and Observations on Animal Heat, and the Inflammation of Combustible Bodies . . . Second Edition, with Very Large Additions. 4 engraved plates. [16], 491 pages. 8vo, contemporary tree calf, spine faded and rubbed, front cover detached; contents browned. Early 19th-century bookplate and signature of Samuel Maxwell, M.D. London: J. Johnson, 1788
First published in 1779. Garrison-Morton 591 (original edition, "earliest experiments upon animal calorimetry"); Partington III, 156-57 ("Crawford was the first to determine specific heats of gases").
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