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Hace 4 días · Sir Humphry Davy, English chemist who discovered several chemical elements (including sodium, potassium, calcium, and barium) and compounds, invented the miner’s safety lamp, and became one of the greatest exponents of the scientific method. Learn more about Davy’s life in this article.
- Frederick William Gibbs
The Davy Notebooks Project has been digitising and transcribing 83 volumes of diaries written by the influential 19th-century chemist Humphry Davy. Over five years, thousands of volunteers ...
16 de may. de 2024 · Celsius nació el 27 de noviembre de 1701 en Upsala, al noroeste de Estocolmo, en el seno de una familia de astrónomos y matemáticos, lo que tuvo gran influencia desde temprana edad. Su abuelo paterno, Magnus Celsius, fue profesor de matemáticas, que hizo grandes aportes en la simplificación del alfabeto rúnico.
8 de may. de 2024 · Abstract. During the first decade of the nineteenth century, it was (almost) universally acknowledged that Humphry Davy's lectures at the Royal Institution on chemistry, electro-chemistry and geology, among other subjects, were by far the most attractive scientific spectacle in London.
In the paper, Home calls upon the expertise of the chemist, inventor, poet and soon-to-be president of the Royal Society, Humphry Davy, reflecting his perceived authority on the origins ...
8 de may. de 2024 · Coleridge visiting on 24 November, found that Davy had taken to his bed, and told Dorothy Wordsworth (1771–1855) that he would sit with him that evening. 210 According to Edmund Davy, he and the housekeeper, Hannah Greenwood, watched over Davy on alternate nights. 211 On 7 December Davy was able to write to his mother, copying out the thrice daily report of his physicians from the previous ...
Davy was a complicated man with wide-ranging interests – undoubtedly a brilliant chemist and populariser of science. He was also a moderniser in many ways. He was a proponent of education for ...
