Humphry Davy’s Researches, Chemical and Philosophical (1800) reports the nitrous oxide investigations that made him famous at twenty-one: the gas’s chemistry, and the astonishing self-experiments in which Davy, Coleridge and Southey breathed it and recorded the effects — including the anaesthetic potential medicine ignored for forty years.
Romantic science at its most literal and most vivid. Download the free EPUB.