Volume 1

The chemical works of Caspar Neumann ... / abridged and methodized. With large additions, containing the later discoveries and improvements made in chemistry and the arts depending thereon by William Lewis.

  • Neumann, Caspar, 1683-1737.
Date:
1773
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The chemical works of Caspar Neumann ... / abridged and methodized. With large additions, containing the later discoveries and improvements made in chemistry and the arts depending thereon by William Lewis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ~ 8 —• ib. CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME. The new articles are diftinguifhed by Afterifks.* PART I. Chemical Hiftory of the Mineral Kingdom. SECTION I. Earths and Stones. CLASS I. Crystalline Stones. Page Flint — — 3 Cryftat _ Sand — — 5 ♦Gems —. CLASS IL Calcareous Earths and Stones. Chalk — — 11 Limeftone — — 20 Ofteocolla —• — 17 Quicklime — .— 21 C L A S S III. (jypseous Earths and Stones. Lapis Specularis — — 26 Selenites — — ib. ♦Gypfum Striatum — 27 Bolognian Stone — — 28 ♦Petuntfe •— — ib. C L A S S IV. Argillaceous Earths and Stones. ♦Clays — — —- 30 ♦Steatites — — 38 Boles — — — ib. Lapis nephriticus ♦Loams — —- 32 ♦Qrchres —• ♦Kaolin — — ■— 27 ♦Aluminous earth Tripoli — —“36 C L A S S V. Talky Earths or Stones. Venice Talk — — 40 Amianthus — Solar Talk — — 43 ♦Black Lead *— Anomalous Earths and Stones. —- .— 44 Magnefia — ib. — 116 — 285 — ib. “ 3i 294 SECT. Pumice