Volume 1 — INDEX
Reading edition
Æneas Garæus, 35
Agricola, Georg, 66
Aidoneous, god of earth, 22
Albertus Magnus, 40, 47
Alchemy, 28
and astrology, 36
its character, 39
Alkahest, 51
Anastatius the Sinaite, 35
Anaxagoras, 26
Anaximenes, 21
Aqua regia, 39
Arabian learning, influence on Western Europe, 25
Archæus, 59
Argentarium, 10
Argentum vivum, 11
Aristotle, his doctrine of “elements”, 23
his character as a man of science, 24
Arnoldus Villanovanus (Arnaud de Villeneuve), 42, 47, 48, 51
Arvidson, 155
Arrenichon, 13
Ars Transmutatoria, 46
Artephius, 49
Astrology and alchemy, 36
Atoms, ancient theories of, 26
Atramentum, 14
Aurichalcum, 9
Auri pigmentum (orpiment), 13
Averroes, 25, 38
Avicenna, 38
Avogadro, 181
Bacon, Roger, 40, 41
Bacon, Lord, 55
Baldwin’s phosphorus, 80
Bartoletti, Fabrizio, 155
Basil Valentine, 43, 47, 49, 156
Bathurst, Ralph, 74
Becher, John Joachim, 81, 156
Benther, David, alchemist, 53
Bergman, 94, 107, 124, 158, 160
Berigard de Pisa, 48
Berthollet, Claude-Louis, 116 et seq., 156, 160, 164
Berthelot, 37
Berzelius, Jöns Jakob, 133, 156, 159, 160, 164
Black, Joseph, 98 et seq., 171
Bochart, 4
Boerhaave, 3–20, 35, 42, 49, 51, 106
his life and work, 84 et seq.
Bolim, 160
Borri, 53
Botryitis, 12
Bouillon-Lagrange, 158
Boullay, 162, 167
Boyle, Robert 20, 72 et seq., 107, 113, 155, 157, 159, 175, 177
Bragadino, alchemist, 53
Brooke Taylor, 171
Brugnatelli, 158, 161
Cadmia, 12
Cœruleum, 12
Caligula, 34
Carbunculus, 48
Cardan, 110
Cavendish, 94, 102 et seq., 107, 171
Caventou, 162
Cerium, its discovery, 121
Cerussa, 10
usta, 12
Chalcantum (copper sulphate), 12
Charles, 178
Chalybes, smelters of iron, 11
Chemistry of the ancients, 1
Chenevix, 157
Chevreul, 54, 162
Chlorine, discovery of, 107
Chromium, discovery of, 120
Chrysocolla, 12
Cinnabar, use as pigment, 13
Clouet, 180
Clytemius, John, 54
Cobalt, discovered by Brandt, 107
Combining proportion, 129
Conservation of matter, 113
Conringius, Hermann, 51
Copper, Egyptian, 8
Roman, 9
Cordus Valerius, 69
Crawford, 107, 172
Croll, Oswald, 65
Cronstedt, 107
Cyanogen, discovery of, 151
Dalton, 125 et seq., 178, 181
Davy, 29, 141
Dee, John, 53
Delambre, 116
Demokritos, 26
De Re Metallica, 66
Derosne, 157
Dickinson, 50
Diodorus Siculus, 7
Dioscorides, 156, 160
Döbereiner, 155, 162, 167
Dorn, 60
Duchesne, 61
Duhamel, 98, 157
Dumas, 162, 167, 168, 181
Dulong, 158, 173, 174
Dyeing by the Egyptians, 14
Egypt, birthplace of chemistry, 1
Electrum, 8
Elementa Chemia, 87
“Elements,” Aristotelian, qualities of, 23
Elephantinum, 14
Elixir, 32
Eller, 94
Empedokles, 23
Erastius, Thomas, 51
Equivalent, 129
Fæx vini, 137
Fischer, G. E., 124
Flos æris, 12
Fourcroy, 112, 118, 155, 158, 161, 162
Frankland, 168
Gahn, 108
Gas sylvestre, 63
Gay Lussac, 150, 155, 161, 164, 167, 178, 181
Geber, 36
theory of metals, 37, 156
Generation of metals, 33
Geoffroy, 106
Gerhardt, 168
Glass, known to the ancients, 15
Glauber, Johann Rudolf, 68
Glucinum, its discovery, 120
Gmelin, L. 161
Gold, extraction by ancients, 7
Goulard, 157
Gomes, 161
Göttling, 156
Graham, Thomas, 178
Gresham College, 74
Gualdo, 49
Guyton de Morveau, 112, 160
Hæmatinon, 15
Hales, Stephen, 89
“Harmonics,” Paracelsian, 61
Hauy, 176
Hellot, 108
Helmont, John Baptist van, 63
Helvetius, 48
Hennel, 155
Henry, 181
Herakleitos, 21
Here, god of air, 22
Hermbstädt, 158
Hermes Trismegistus, 4, 33
“Hermes of Germany, the”, 52
Hoffmann, 106
Homberg, William, 84
Houton-Labillardière, 158
Howard, 161
Hyalos, use of, for kindling fire, 15
Hydrargyrum, 11
Iatro-chemistry, 57
Ink of the ancients, 14
Ingenhousz, 21
Invisible College, the, 74
Iron, use of, by the ancients, 10
Irvine, 172
Isaac of Holland, 49
Isomerism, 165
Isomorphism, discovery of, 176
“Kalid,” his philosopher’s stone, 48
Key of Wisdom, 53
Kircher, 51
Kirchhoff, 162
Kirwan, 113
Klaproth, 120, 160
Klettenberg, Hector de, 54
Kopp, 181
Krohnemann, William de, 53
Kunkel, John, 51, 79
Laboratorium Chymicum, 80
Lac Virginis, 157
Lagrange, 116
Laplace, 172
Latent heat, 99, 172
Lauraquais, 155
Laurent, 168
Lavoisier, 20, 22, 109
antiphlogistic theory, 112, 116, 156, 164, 166, 173
Law of Dulong and Petit, 173, 174
Law of electrolytic action, 153
Lead, known to the ancients, 10
Leblanc, 108
Lehmann, 159
Lemery, Nicolas, 83, 154, 156
Leo Africanus, 36
Leukippos, 26
Libavius, Andreas (Libau), 62, 155, 157
Lieber, Thomas, 65
Liebig, 155, 156, 159, 164, 167
Löwiz, 156
Lucretius, 26, 27
Lully, Raymund, 41, 47, 49
Macquer, 98
Magistery, grand, 48
small, 48
Magnesia alba, nature of, 107
Manganese, discovery of, 107
Marggraf, 95, 107, 108, 157
Marie Ziglerin burnt, 53
Martian preparations, 37
Marriotte, 178
Maternus, Julius Firmicus, 35
Mayerne, Turquet de, 65
Mayow, John, 82 et seq.
Medicine and Astrology, 58
Melinum, 13–14
Menethes Sibonita, 3
“Mercury,” as “element”, 31
Mercury, receipt for fixing, 50
Metallurgy of the ancients, 7
Metals of the phlogistians, 104
Minderer, Raymond, 157
Minium, 12
Mitscherlich, 159, 175, 176, 177
Molybdena, 12
Monge, 180
Monro, Donald, 159
Mordants, Egyptian, 15
Mundamus, 43
Mynsicht, Adrian van, 65, 158
Narcotine, 161
Natron, used as a detergent, 16
Natterer, 180
Nestis, god of water, 22
Neumann, 94, 175
New System of Chemical Philosophy, Dalton’s, 129
Nickel, discovery of, 107
Nitrogen, discovery of, 107
Northmore, 180
Œrugo, 12
Oil of wine, 155
Okeanos, 19
Oleus Borrichius, 33
Olimpiodorus, 35
Onychitis, 12
Operinus, 60
Ostracitis, 12
Oxides, metallic, used by ancients to colour glass 15
Oxygen, its discovery, 105
influence of, on chemistry, 105
Palissy, Bernard, 67
Paracelsus, 40, 48, 57
Paratonium, 13
Pelletier, 162
Peligot, 162
Peripatetic philosophy, influence on science, 24
Petit, Alexis Therese, 173, 175
Pherekides, 21
Philosophia Orientalis, 38
Philosopher’s Stone, 32, 46, 49
Philosophical egg, 33
Phlogistonism, 95 et seq.
Phosphorus, discovery of, 80, 107
Placitis, 12
Platinum, discovery of, 107
Plato’s doctrine of “elements”, 23
Pliny, 156
Plumbum album, 10
nigrum, 10
Pope John XXII., alchemist, 46
Porret, 160
Pott, 94, 95, 159
Price, James of Guildford, 54
Priestley, Joseph, 20, 22
his life and work, 99 et seq.
Proust, Joseph Louis, 121
Purple of Cassius, 81
Purpurissum, 13
Quintessence of philosophers, 32
Raquetaillade, Jean de, 43
Realgar, 13
Reaumur, 108
Rey, 110
Rhazes, 38
Richter, Jeremiah Benjamin, 124
Ripley, George, 43
Robiquet, 161, 167
Roebuck, 108
Romé de L’Isle, 176
Rose, Gustav, 177
Rosenkreutz, Christian, 55
Rouelle, 94, 106, 159
Royal Society, foundation of, 74
Rubrica, 13
Rupecissa, Johannes de, 43
Saccharum plumbi quintessentiale, 157
Sala, Angelus, 65
Sal Armoniacum, 44
Sal Duplicatum, 81
Sal mirabile, 68
Sandarach, 13
Saturnine solutions, 37
Savary, 155
Sceptical Chemist, The, 70
Scheele, 96 et seq., 107, 155, 158, 159, 160, 166
Schroeder, 181
Scoria æris, 12
Sefström, 135
Seguin, 159
Seignette, Peter, 157
Selenium, its discovery, 135
Sennert, Daniel, 65
Sertürner, 161
Severinus, 61
Silver, known to the ancients, 7
Sinopis, 13
Soap, manufacture by Gauls, 15
Specific heat, discovery of, 99
Spiritus igno-aëreus, 82
Stahl, George Ernst, 92, 156
Stannum, 10
Statical Essays of Hales, 89
Statique Chimique, 117
Stephanus, 35
Stibium, 13
Stimmi, 13
Strontia, discovery of, 107
Suidas, 34
“Sulphur,” as “element”, 31
Sulzbach, 110
Sun worship, 22
Sylvius, Francis de le Boë, 64
Syncellus, 35
Tachenius, 69
Tartarus, doctrine of, 59, 157
Tellurium, discovery of, 121
Terra pinguis of Becher, 92
Tertiarium, 10
Tertullian, 19
Thales of Miletus, 19
Thénard, 152, 164
Theophrastus, 156
The Tincture, 32
Thilorier, 180
Thomson, Thomas, 129
Thorium, its discovery, 135
Thurneysser, Leonard, 53, 60
Tin, known to the Egyptians, 9
Transmutation, 28, 30
Trommsdorff, 157
Tubal Cain (Tuval-Cain), 7
Turquet de Mayerne, 158
Tyrian purple, 14
Valentine, Basil, 43, 47, 49, 156
Van Helmont, 20, 48, 63
Vasa murrhina, 15
Vauquelin, 119, 155, 158, 161, 162
Verdigris, 56
Vincent de Beauvais, 50
Von Ittner, 160
Wallis, John, 74
Ward, Seth, 74
“White” gold, 7
Wilcke, 172
Willis, Thomas, 64, 74
Wöhler, 161, 163, 167
Wollaston, 144, 176
Woodward, 160
Wray, 159
Wren, Christopher, 74
Zacharias, Daniel, 49
Zozimus the Panopolite, 4