page_title: Felice Fontana
section_title: Major works
hierarchical_section_title: Felice Fontana / Major works
caption_attribution_description: Title page, volume 2 Rare Books Keywords: Felice Gaspar Ferdinand Fontana
context_page_description: Felice Fontana was an Italian physicist who discovered the water gas shift reaction in 1780. He is also credited with launching modern toxicology and investigating the human eye.
context_section_description: Dei moti dell'iride (Lucca, 1765);
  Nuove osservazioni sopra i globetti rossi del sangue (1766);
  De irritabilitatis legibus... (1767);
  Ricerche fisiche sopra il veleno della vipera (Lucca, 1767);
  Descrizione ed uso di alcuni stromenti per misurare la salubrità dell'aria (Firenze, 1775);
  Ricerche fisiche sopra l'aria fissa (Firenze, 1775);
  Recherches physiques sur la nature de l'air nitreux et de l'air déphlogistiqué (Paris, 1776);
  Traité sur le vénin de la vipere, sur les poisons americains... (Firenze, 1781, 2 voll.);
  Opuscoli scientifici (Firenze, 1783).
  In 1792, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
  He died in Florence.
caption: Traité sur le vénin de la vipere, sur les poisons americains
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