Chymista Scepticus Vel Dubia Et Paradoxa Chymico Physica Circa Spagyricorum Principa Vulgo

by Robert Boyle

$16,500 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

Rotterdam; A. Leers; London: excudebat J.C. veniuntque sic apud J. Crooke, 1662. First Latin edition, published one year after the first English edition, of this milestone in the history of chemistry. “His most important work where he set down his corpuscular theory of the constitution of matter, which finally freed chemistry from the restrictions of the Greek concept of the four elements, and was the forerunner

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