Category: History - Early Modern (c. 1450-1750)
The portions of Scheele's "Chemical Treatise on Air and Fire" here reproduced in English are intended to form a companion volume to No. 7 of the Club Reprints, which contains Priestley's account of his discovery of oxygen. Not only have the claims of Scheele to the independent...
+39. Sixth Experiment.+--I precipitated with alkali of tartar a solution of gold which was made with _aqua regia_; I reduced in the foregoing manner the washed and dried calx of...
2. Chapter 2The experiments seem to prove that the transference of phlogiston to the air does not always diminish its bulk, which, however, the experiments mentioned in Sec.Sec. 8.16 shew d...
1. Chapter 1The portions of Scheele's "Chemical Treatise on Air and Fire" here reproduced in English are intended to form a companion volume to No. 7 of the Club Reprints, which contains Pr...
4. Chapter 4I filled a bladder with the air which one obtains from iron filings and vitriolic acid (Sec. 30, _c._), and respired it in the manner previously described (Sec. 84). I was only...