[16], 768 pp. Frontis. copper-engraved portrait of Lemery; seven copper-engraved plates of chemical apparatus and one folding plate depicting chemical symbols. 7¾x4¾" period calf, raised bands. Seventh Edition, revised & corrected (First Edition with folding plate). This is the first edition to include the folding plate illustrating chemical symbols, as well as to list the "Virtues of the Remeies" described and an index of chemical and pharmaceutical terms. From Thorndike VIII, "In the seventh edition of 1690, among other novelties was a mercurial panacea sublimated twelve times and then infused in spirits of wine for a fortnite, and an account of the intense heat produced by a mixture of equal parts of sulphur and iron filings reduced to a paste with water. Lemery believed a similar fermentation on a larger scale was responsible for volcanoes, tornadoes and thunderbolts." Nicolas Lemery (1645-1715), French chemist, born in Rouen and trained as an apothecary. He instituted a course of lectures at Paris; out of those lectures grew his Cours de Chymie. It ran through more than a dozen editions in his lifetime; the last to appear was in 1756.
[16], 768 pp. Frontis. copper-engraved portrait of Lemery; seven copper-engraved plates of chemical apparatus and one folding plate depicting chemical symbols. 7¾x4¾" period calf, raised bands. Seventh Edition, revised & corrected (First Edition with folding plate). This is the first edition to include the folding plate illustrating chemical symbols, as well as to list the "Virtues of the Remeies" described and an index of chemical and pharmaceutical terms. From Thorndike VIII, "In the seventh edition of 1690, among other novelties was a mercurial panacea sublimated twelve times and then infused in spirits of wine for a fortnite, and an account of the intense heat produced by a mixture of equal parts of sulphur and iron filings reduced to a paste with water. Lemery believed a similar fermentation on a larger scale was responsible for volcanoes, tornadoes and thunderbolts." Nicolas Lemery (1645-1715), French chemist, born in Rouen and trained as an apothecary. He instituted a course of lectures at Paris; out of those lectures grew his Cours de Chymie. It ran through more than a dozen editions in his lifetime; the last to appear was in 1756.
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