Sir Humphrey Davy
SIR HUMPHREY DAVY (Chimiste) [sic]... / Dessine d’apres le Portrait original peint par T. Philips, et Grave par Ambroise Tardieu [Paris 1824] platemark [20.2]x12.2cm., image 10.3x7.7cm. oval. Plate from: Iconographie universelle / A. Tardieu. - Paris, 1823-1824. - Portrait, Davy, Sir Humphrey 1778-1829. Creative Commons.
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Davy, Sir Humphrey. Researches, Chemical and Philosophical; Chiefly Concerning Nitrous Oxide, or Dephlogisticated Nitrous Air, and Its Respiration. 1800.
Davy’s philosophical researches include testimonials from Southey and Coleridge regarding the effects of “the dephlogisticated nitrous gas of Dr. Priestly” on human respiration.