Humphry Davy, Poet and Philosopher

by T. E. Thorpe

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CONTENTS

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CHAPTER	PAGE
I.—Penzance: 1778–1798	[9]
II.—The Pneumatic Institution, Bristol: 1798–1801	[26]
III.—The Pneumatic Institution, Bristol: 1798–1801 (continued)	[54]
IV.—The Royal Institution	[66]
V.—The Chemical Laboratory of the Royal Institution	[90]
VI.—The Isolation of the Metals of the Alkalis	[110]
VII.—Chlorine	[134]
VIII.—Marriage—Knighthood—“Elements of Chemical Philosophy”—Nitrogen Trichloride—Fluorine	[155]
IX.—Davy and Faraday—Iodine	[173]
X.—The Safety Lamp	[192]
XI.—Davy and the Royal Society—His Last Days	[213]

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Humphry Davy,
POET AND PHILOSOPHER.

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CHAPTER I.
PENZANCE: 1778–1798.