Elements of natural history and chemistry / By M. Fourcroy ... Translated from the last Paris edition, 1789, being the third ... With an alphabetical comparative view of the ancient and modern names of chemical substances, with all the tables, and a complete index. To which is prefixed by the translator, a preface, containing strictures on the history and present state of chemistry; with observations on the positions, facts, and arguments, urged for and against the antiphlogistic theory, and the new nomenclature, by Messrs Lavoisier, Priestley, Kirwan, Keir, Sage, &c.
- Fourcroy, Antoine-François de, comte, 1755-1809.
- Date:
- 1790
- Books
About this work
Publication/Creation
London : Printed for C. Elliot and T. Kay; and C. Elliot, Edinburgh, 1790.
Physical description
3 volumes : [10] folded tables ; (8vo)
References note
ESTC T140570
Notes
Translated by William Nicholson.
Copy 1. Supplier/Donor: Med. Soc. Lond. This book was formerly part of the collection of the Medical Society of London, which was deposited for safekeeping in the Wellcome Library in 1964. It was eventually purchased by the Wellcome Trust in 1984, with assistance from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and other charities.
Subjects
Holdings
- Complete set
Where to find it
Vol. 1
Location Status Access Closed storesEPB/B/62445.v1Vol. 2
Location Status Access Closed storesEPB/B/62445.v2Vol. 3
Location Status Access Closed storesEPB/B/62445.v3