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.
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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. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Also known as

Lecons elementaires d'histoire naturelle et de chimie
Elémens d'histoire naturelle et de chimie
Fourcroy's chemistry

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London : Elliot, Charles, -1790, 1790.

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3 volumes ; 22 cm

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Includes table
Originally published in 1782 as 'Leçons élémentaires d'histoire naturelle et de chimie'; later French edition were published as 'Elémens d'histoire naturelle et de chimie'
Translated by: William Nicholson

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