Rerum chymicarum epistolica forma ad philosophos et medicos quosdam in Germania excellentes descriptarum liber primus, : in quo tum rerum quarundam naturalium continentur explicationes ingeniosæ; tum chymiæ disciplina pyronomica, sceuastica & vocabularia cum quibusdam inter arcana habitis declarantur fideliter. / Authore Andrea Libauio.
- Libavius, Andreas, -1616.
- Date:
- 1595
- Books
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Rervm chymicarvm epistolica forma ad philosophos et medicos qvosdam in Germania excellentes descriptarum liber primus
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Francofurti : Excudebat Ioannes Saurius, impensis Petri Kopffij, 1595.
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2 volumes (32 unnumbered pages, 300 pages, 4 unnumbered pages; 32 unnumbered pages, 615 pages, 1 unnumbered page) ; 8vo.
References note
Duveen, D.I. Alchemica et chemica, p. 355.
Notes
Signatures: *⁸-2*⁸A-T⁸ (T8 blank); dagger⁸-2 dagger⁸ (2 dagger8 blank) a-z⁸Aa-Pp⁸Qq⁴.
Vol. 2 has title: Rerum chymicarum epistolica forma ad medicos præstantes Germaniæ conscriptarum liber secundus. Continens operationes chymicas artificum præceptis, naturæ documentis & experientia declaratas, additis de physicis quibusdam & aurificio problematis iucundis.
Errata to vol.1 (p. [301]) repeats the Koppf device from the t.p. (enlarged).
Colophon at end of vol. 2 dated: Cal. Iunij, anno 1595.
A third volume was published in 1599--Cf. Dictionary of scientific biography, VIII, p. 309-312.
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