Account of a Series of Experiments, shewing the Effects of Compression in modifying the Action...
Five engraved plates & tables in the text. 1 p.l., iii, 115 pp. Large 4to, modern calf-backed marbled boards (minor foxing, faintest dampstaining to outer margins in second half of book). [Edinburgh: 1805].
First separate printing, later published in the Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. “This important memoir, which made the author the founder of experimental geology, contains his classic experiments undertaken in support of the Huttonian Theory.”–Sotheran, Vol. II, 8816.
“Hall followed experimental methods; he selected different varieties of ancient basalt and lavas from Vesuvius and Etna, reduced them to a molten state, and allowed them to... More