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LEMERY, Cours de Chymie, 1703

Photo LEMERY, Nicolas. 

LEMERY, Nicolas. 

Cours de Chymie. 

Lyon, Claude Rey, 1703.

8vo (189x117 mm), (16)-836-(2) pages and 1 folding plates. 7 full page illustration in text.  binding : Contemporary full calf, gilt spine in six compartments. Cap worn. Binding rubbed. 

Photo LEMERY, Nicolas. 

French chemist, Nicolas LEMERY was born at Rouen on the 17th of November 1645. After learning pharmacy in his native town he became a pupil of C. Glaser's in Paris, and then went to Montpellier, where he began to lecture on chemistry. He next established a pharmacy in Paris, still continuing his lectures. Lemery did not concern himself much with theoretical speculations, but holding chemistry to be a demonstrative science, confined himself to the straightforward exposition of facts and experiments. In consequence, his lecture-room was thronged with people of all sorts, anxious to hear a man who shunned the barren obscurities of the alchemists, and did not regard the quest of the philosopher's stone and the elixir of life as the sole end of his science. Of his Cours de chymie (1675) he lived to see 13 editions, and for a century it maintained its reputation as a standard work.

Price : 250 €

Photo LEMERY, Nicolas. 
Photo LEMERY, Nicolas. 
Photo LEMERY, Nicolas. 
Photo LEMERY, Nicolas. 
Photo LEMERY, Nicolas. 
Photo LEMERY, Nicolas. 
Photo LEMERY, Nicolas. 
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