A new method of chemistry : Including the Theory and Practice of that Art: Laid down on Mechanical Principles, and accommodated to the Uses of Life. The whole making A Clear and Rational System of Chemical Philosophy. To which is prefix'd A Critical History of Chemistry and Chemists, From the Origin of the Art to the present Time. Written by the very Learned H. Boerhaave, Professor of Chemistry, Botany, and Medicine in the University of Leyden, and Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris. Translated from the Printed Edition, Collated with the best Manuscript Copies. By P. Shaw, M.D. and E. Chambers, Gent. With additional Notes and Sculptures.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boerhaave, Herman, 1668-1738.

Standardized Title:

Elementa chemiæ. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chemistry--Early works to 1800.

Chemistry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi,383,[1]160,161-188,161-335,[45]p.,plates )

Other Title:

New method of chemistry

Place of Publication:

London : printed for J. Osborn and T. Longman, at the Ship in Pater-Noster-Row, M.DCC.XXVII. [1727]

Notes:

Part II, here wrongly described as part III, has separate pagination and register.

The first page numbers 161-188 of Part II are enclosed in square brackets.

Some copies of this edition were apparently issued without the index.

Reproduction of original from Countway Library of Medicine.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, N12002.

OCLC:

642116673