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.

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  • 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.
  • Elementa chemiæ. English
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Imprint
London: printed for J. Osborn and T. Longman, at the Ship in Pater-Noster-Row, M.DCC.XXVII. [1727]
Publication year
1727-1727
ESTC No.
N12002
Grub Street ID
2009
Description
xvi,383,[1];160,161-188,161-335,[45]p.,plates ; 4⁰
Note
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.