Recherches chimiques sur les corps gras d'origine animale
Paris, Levrault, 1823 In-8 de (6), XVI, 484, (2) pages, 3 tableaux et 1 planche, percaline verte légèrement postérieure (dos insolé, mors et coupe frottés). Item #YEG-504
Edition originale d'un des textes fondateurs de la chimie organique "Dès 1811, Chevreul commence ses recherches sur les graisses animales qui vont révolutionner la chimie et pour ainsi dire fonder la chimie organique" (En français dans le texte 237. "Chevreul's Recherches sur les corps gras d'origine animale is a full account of the chemistry of fats. He had revealed the nature of a large and important class of organic substances and had shown that they were composed of a few chemical species which were amenable to analysis and obeyed the same laws of chemical combination followed by the simpler substances in the inorganic realm. The book is a model of complete, exhaustive research in organic chemistry. Few areas of chemistry at this time had been so throughly explored. Although his studies were followed by those of many chemists, who extended the number of fatty acids isolatable from fats and oils, there was no one comparable to Chevreul in this field until Thomas Percy Hilditch, a century later". (DSB III p. 243). "A classic study of animal fats. Chevreul discovered that fats are composed of fatty acids and glycerol" (Garrison and Morton 669) Annotations anciennes au crayons bleus et rouges aux pages 134-136 ; rousseurs éparses sur l'ensemble du volume.
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