Rouelle, Guillaume François (1703-1770)

Chimie: Règne végétal, règne animal. A student's notes of lectures, but not complete. By the same hand as, and in uniform binding, with Rouelle's 'Matière médicale externe'. [MS. No. 4280]. Produced in Paris.

c. 1760

1 volume 148 ll. (last 4 bl.). 8vo. 17 × 12 cm. Original quarter-calf binding. Written on the rectos only.

Purchased 1928.

Rouelle was one of the most famous French chemists of the 18th cent. and numbered Lavoisier among his pupils for the lectures of 1763/1764. He was appointed Démonstrateur royal au Jardin du Roy in 1742 and held this post until 1768. His lectures were never published in his lifetime, but exist in different forms in various MSS. [Cf. Partington (J. R.) 'History of Chemistry', Vol. II, 1962, pp. 73.]

Copy photographs of the section entitled "Des matieres colorantes que fournit le regne animal," are held by Wellcome Images at L0063355-58

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).