INDEX
- 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