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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M.DCC.XXVII. [1727]