Le vray et methodique cours de la physique resolutive, vulgairement dite chimie. Representé par Figures generales & particulieres. pour connoistre la theotechnie ergocosmique, C’est à dire, L’Art de D

by Annibal Barlet

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Caillet, 730 ; Dorbon 214 ; Ferguson I, 72; cf. Duveen, p. 44, Cole, 41, Neville, p. 77, Wellcome, II, 101, et Krivatsy, 708 (manque le frontispice grav , compl t en fac-simil ) pour la seconde dition. dition originale. Elle est richement illustr e de 36 gravures sur bois pleine page dans le texte du plus haut int r t : elles repr sentent les diff rents fourneaux, cornues et alambics utilis s, des all gories des plan tes, et l auteur entour de ses l ves dans son grand laboratoire Paris, o il donnait ses cours. L un des ouvrages les plus int ressants et les plus documentaires dans ce genre (Caillet). Written to accompany Barlet s lectures given in his laboratory in Paris. Many woodcuts show a chemist identified as Hermes (i.e. Barlet) and assistants conducting experiments before several auditors, including perhaps John Evelyn, who took a course of these lectures in 1646, and the Aberdeen physician Mathew Mackaile, who attended others. The first part is mystical and illustrated by obscure plates. The second part is practical and is devoted to the preparation of pharmaceutical chemicals and processes, e.g. calcination, dissolution, sublimation, and digestion. Instructions are given for distilling alcohol and for testing mineral waters using plant extracts (Neville). Bon exemplaire lav et replac dans sa reliure dont le dos a t refait.

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