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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1831. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XII. Sir Humphry Davy suggests a chemical method for unrolling the ancient Papyri.--He is encouraged by the Government to proceed to Naples for that purpose.--He embarks at Dover.--His experiments on the Rhine, the Danube, the Raab, the Save, the Ironzo, the Po, and the Tiber, in order to explain the formation of mists on rivers and lakes.--His arrival and reception at Naples.--He visits the excavations at Herculaneum.--He concludes that it was overwhelmed by sand and ashes, but had never been exposed to burning matter.--He commences his attempt of unrolling the Papyri.--His failure.--He complains of the persons at the head of the department in the Museum.--He analyses the waters of the baths of Lucca.--His return to England.-- Death of Sir Joseph Banks.--He is elected President of the Royal Society.--Some remarks on that event.--He visits Penzance.--Is honoured by a public dinner.--Electro-magnetic discoveries of Oersted extended by Davy.--He examines Electrical Phenomena in vacuo.--The results of his experiments questioned.--He enquires into the state of the water, and aeriform matter in the cavities of crystals.--The interesting results of his enquiry confirm the views of the Plutonists. Our history now proceeds to exhibit Sir Humphry Davy in quite a new field of enquiry;--engaged in investigating, amidst the ruins of Herculaneum, the nature and effects of the volcanic eruption which overwhelmed that city in the reign of Titus; and in attempting, by the resources of modern science, to unfold and to render legible the mouldering archives which have been recovered from its excavations, and deposited in the Museum at Naples. Having witnessed the unsuccessful attempts of Dr. Sickler to unroll some of the Herculaneum manuscripts, it occurred to him that a...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781150405600
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 224
  • Spine Width: 12 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1150405600
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 408 gr


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