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Eighteenth Century famed discoverer of latent heat and Co2, Professor Joseph Black lecture notes, circa 1766, and likely written by one of his students. Notes are headed: ''Notes from a Course of Lectures on Chemestry By Doctor Black / Lecture 97'', and comprise of Lectures 97 to 125, opening: ''We shall now proceed to the Metals possessed of Ductility...'' Pages run 183 numbered leaves with index, though numbers 105 and 106 have been removed. With contemporary quarter-calf marbled boards, spine stamped ''Chemistry Vol. 3''. Boards have some wear and lower cover is torn. Very good condition.
Discoverer of Carbon Dioxide, Joseph Black Lecture Notes -- With Numerous Mathematical Equations and Illustrations -- ''...We shall now proceed to the Metals possessed of Ductility...''
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