Author:Humphry Davy

Humphry Davy
(1778–1829)

Humphry Davy

Works

• The Collected Works of Humphry Davy (external scan) (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
• "Some Experiments and Observations on the Colours used in Painting by the Ancients" in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, 2 (1815), pp. 11–13
• "Some Experiments on a Solid Compound of Iodine and Oxygen, and on its Chemical Agencies" in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, 2 (1815), pp. 19–20
• "On the Action of Acids on the Salts usually called Hyperoxymuriates, and on the Gases produced from them" in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, 2 (1815), pp. 20–21
• Salmonia, or Days of Flyfishing (1840) (start transcription)

Works about Davy

• "Davy, Humphry," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Davy, Sir Humphry," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Sketch of Sir Humphry Davy" in Popular Science Monthly, 14 (April 1879)
• Obituary (1830) Google Book
• Journal of a Tour made in the years 1828, 1829, through Styria, Carniola, and Italy, whilst accompanying the late Sir Humphry Davy by J.J. Tobin (1832) (external scan)
• Humphry Davy, Poet and Philosopher by Thomas Edward Thorpe, New York: Macmillan, 1896 Google Book
• "Davy" in Biographies of Scientific Men by Arthur Bower Griffiths (1912)

External links

• Archival material relating to Humphry Davy listed at the UK National Register of Archives