Notes:
"Illustrated with thirteen copperplates."
"One of the great milestones in the history of chemical literature. By common consent modern chemistry begins with this work, 'which finally freed the science from its phlogiston chains and formed the starting point of its modern progress. It may be said to have done almost as much for chemistry as Newton's Principia did for physics' (Zeitlinger). Lavoisier used the balance to demonstrate the weight of matter at every chemical change, defined the terms element and compound, explained combustion and the rusting of metals as a chemical combination with oxygen, and through his concept of the conservation of matter developed methods of chemical analysis. The book contains the first list of twenty-three chemical elements and their compounds"--Neville, II, p. 21.
Neville, II, p. 24
Cole, 782
Duveen & Klickstein, 163
Plate 10 photographed January 2012 for possible inclusion in the 2011 Corning Museum of Glass Annual report, 2011 Notable acquisitions and the 2012 Journal of Glass Studies.
Plates show various chemical glassware of the time period.
Contents:
Pt. 1. Of the formation and decomposition of aëriform fluids, of the combustion of simple bodies, and the formation of acids --
Pt. 2. Of the combinations of acids with salifiable bases, and of the formation of neutral salts --
Pt. 3. Description of the instruments and operations of chemistry.
