75/2181 [Chemistry]. Lémery, N. Cours de Chymie contenant la manière de faire les opérations Qui sont en usage dans la Médecine, par une Méthode facile. Avec des raisonnemens Sur chaque Opération (...). Ed. Th. Baron d'Henouville. Paris, J.-Th. Herissant, 1756, new rev. and enl. ed., (6),XXIII,(1),945p., 9 fold. engr. plates (incl. 2 tables), 1 ill. by B. AUDRAN, contemp. gilt calf w. mor. letterpiece, 4to.

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= Ferchl p.307; Duveen p.347; Ferguson II, p.22; Vandewiele p.112; Bibl. Walleriana 5697; Wellcome III, p.486 (all listing other eds.). DSB VIII, p.172ff: "Lémery's teaching and textbook on chemistry, the Cours de chymie, owed their success to his clear and entertaining presentation of chemistry in corpuscular-mechanist terms. His adoption of mechanical modes of explanation brought the French chemical teaching tradition out of its earlier Paracelsian-Helmontian inheritance into the mainstream of contemporary Cartesian natural philosophy (...)". The first edition of this often reprinted and translated work was published in Paris in 1675.