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91 - Chemistry - Glauber, Johann Rudolph. *Furni novi philosophici* or *Description of a Newly Invented Art of Distillation: Including Spirits, Oils, Flowers, and Other Similar Vegetable, Animal, and Mineral Medicaments*. 5 parts and Annotationes to Part 5 in 1 volume. With 3 (of 4) woodcut plates (1 of which is folded) and 7 woodcuts in the text (2 of which are full-page). Amsterdam 1650. 16 x 10 cm. Contemporary parchment with handwritten title on the spine (slightly stained).
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Chemistry - Glauber, Johann Rudolph. *Furni novi philosophici* or *Description of a Newly Invented Art of Distillation: Including Spirits, Oils, Flowers, and Other Similar Vegetable, Animal, and Mineral Medicaments*. 5 parts and Annotationes to Part 5 in 1 volume. With 3 (of 4) woodcut plates (1 of which is folded) and 7 woodcuts in the text (2 of which are full-page). Amsterdam 1650. 16 x 10 cm. Contemporary parchment with handwritten title on the spine (slightly stained). Dünnhaupt 7.I.3 - VD17 12:644384Z - Gugel, pp. 54ff. - Second edition of the expanded revised version of his major work on chemistry. - “The influence of this very book on Boyle, Lémery, and Kunckel is unmistakable.” The book contains Glauber’s discoveries regarding mineral acids, sodium sulfate, chlorine compounds, nitrates and sulfates, benzene, phenol, chloroethyl, alkaloids, and much more. Glauber presents all these findings based on the instructions for building the four ‘philosophical’ furnaces … In the fifth part and the appendices, he describes various laboratory instruments, techniques, and procedures that he invented.” (Gugel). - “This is Glauber’s most important book, upon which his fame as a chemist rests.” (Duveen). - It was written during his first stay in Amsterdam from 1646 to 1649. This edition includes the “Annotationes” for the first time. - A missing plate in Part 2 has been supplemented in the facsimile. - Traces of moisture in the lower margin in places; the title of Part 1 has been supplemented in the lower quarter, resulting in the loss of the imprint. *
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