Volume 2

Bibliotheca chemica : a catalogue of the alchemical, chemical and pharmaceutical books in the collection of the late James Young of Kelly and Durris ... / by John Ferguson.

Andersonian Library

Date:: 1906

Credit: Bibliotheca chemica : a catalogue of the alchemical, chemical and pharmaceutical books in the collection of the late James Young of Kelly and Durris ... / by John Ferguson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$LAMARCK—LA METHERIE LAMARCK (Jean Baptiste). Contmiied. Lus a la premiere classe de I’Institut National, dans ses seances ordinaires. Par J.-B. Lamarck, membre de Tlnstitut. A Paris, Chez I’Auteur, au Museum d’histoire naturelle. An V. de la Republique (i797, vieux style.) 8° Pp. 410 [2]. 10 Tables. The work of which the above is a continuation is entitled : Refutation de la thiorie p}ieumatiqiie ou la nouvelle doctrine des chimistes modernes, Paris, 1796, 8°. Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monnet, che- valier de Lamarck, was born at Bazentin, D6p. dela Somme, i April, 1744. He rose to be keeper of the Herbaria, and from 1792 Professor of Zoology at the Museum of Natural History'. He was a member of the Old Academy and subsequently of the Institute. For the last 17 years of his life he was blind as the result of the smallpox. He died at Paris, 18 Dec., 1829. Though the work by which he is best knotvn was connected with botany and zoology, he wrote also on physics and meteorology. Biographic Universelle, no date, xxiii. p. 9. Biographic Medicate, Paris, Panckoucke (1820- 25), V. pp. 483-489. Qu^rard, La France littiraire, 1830, iv. p. 472. Nouvelle Biographic Generate, 1862, xxix. col. SS- Poggendorff, Biographisch-hterarisches Hand- worterhuch, 1863, i. col. 1353. LAMBSPRINGK. De Lapide Philosophico Libellus. See BARNAUD (NICOLAUS), Triga Chemica, 1599, p. ii. See THEATRUM CHEMICUM, 1659, lii. See MUSEUM HERMETICUM, 1749, p. Nothing seems definitely known about this alchemical poet. As he is styded in the title ' nobilis' and ‘ der edle,' Maier is of opinion that he was of noble birth, but Schmieder conjectures that he may have belonged to the Benedictine Abbey of Lammspring, near Hildesheim, so called because the Lamm, a streamlet, has its source within the abbey garden. 1 have not been able to confirm this view. Still less evidence does he give for his surmise that because his allegorical figures Maier, Sy7?ibola Ajirece Metises, 1617, p. 272. Van der Linden, De Scriptis Medicis libri duo, 1637, p. 325- Borel, Bibliotheca Chimica, 1654, p. 132. Mercklin, Lindenius renovatus, 16S6, p. 730. Borrichius, Conspectus Scriptorum Chemicorum, 1697, p. 29, No. xxxxii. Keren Happuch . . . oder Teutsches Fegfeuer der Scheide-Kunst, 1702, p. 66. Manget, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Medicorum, 1731, H. i. p. 8. Lenglet Dufresnoy, Histoire de la Philosophic Hermetique, 1742, iii. pp. 39, 47, 53. LA METHERIE (Jean Claude de). See OBSERVATIONS Stir la Physique, La M^therie was born at Clayette, in the Depart- ment Macomiais, 4 Sept., 1743. He took the degree of M.D., but did not practise, and devoted himself to the study of science. In 1811 he was appointed Professor of Natural History at the College de France, at Paris. He wrote largely on physics, geology, mineralogy', &c., and edited Biographic Universelle, no date, xxviii. p. 122. Biographic Medicals, Paris, Panckoucke (1820- 25), vi. p. 263. p. 765. lyi- resemble those of Flamel, the author pursued his studies in Paris. Maier recapitulates briefly the subjects of the pictures, and rather commends the author, but Borrichius thinks he has buried the secret, and Fictuld says that it is almost impossible for the ignorant to get even a little light from it. His tract was printed in Latin in the earlier editions of the Musesum Hermeticum, 1625, 1678, p. 337, and in German in Dyas Chymica Tripartita, 1625, p. 83. Fictuld, Frobier-Stein, 1753, Th. i. p. 103. Baumer, Bibliotheca Chemica, 1782, p. 66. Semler, Unparteiische Samtungen zur Historic der Rosenkreuzer, 1786, p. 39. Fuchs, Repertorium der chemischen Litteraiur, 1806-08, p. 94. Schmieder, Geschichte der Alchemic, 1832, p. 229. L'0.6xzL^\.\c.,Bibliothbque Ouvaroff,Sciences Secrltcs, 1870, Nos. 981-2. Kopp, Die Alchemic, 1886, ii. pp. 311, 318. &C. the journal above mentioned, first with Rozier, 1785-1794, then by himself till his death, when it was taken up by Blainville and cai'ried on to T. .xevi. 1823. In it he printed many' of his papers, and gave yearly reports on the progress of science. He died at Paris, i July, 1817. Nouvelle Biographic Generate, 1862, xxix. col. 209. Poggendorff, Biographisch-literarisches Hand-$