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Pere Grapí: Inspiring air: a history of air-related science

Wilmington and Malaga, Vernon Press, 2019, xxx + 352 pp, $69 £52 €58

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  1. See Erich Weidenhammer, Air, Disease, and Improvement in Eighteenth-Century Britain: Sir John Pringle (1707—1782), Ph.D. dissertation, University of Toronto, 2014.

  2. See Lesley Tomory, Progressive Enlightenment: The Origins of the Gaslight Industry, 1780—1820, Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press, 2012, the finest study we have of scaling up from the laboratory to industrial dimensions.

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Levere, T.H. Pere Grapí: Inspiring air: a history of air-related science. Found Chem 22, 131–133 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10698-019-09351-6

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