Item #130984 ESSAYS OF JEAN REY, Doctor of Medicine. Jean Rey.

ESSAYS OF JEAN REY, Doctor of Medicine.

On an enquiry into the cause wherefore tin and lead increase in weight on calcination (1630). Pp. 54+[2](advertisements), 2f text figures; printed stiff paper wrappers, a trifle foxed, edges and backstrip lightly faded, the lower wrapper slightly silverfished; edges of leaves lightly foxed; Alembic Club, Edinburgh, 1904. Alembic Club Reprints - No. 11. *'First published in pamphlet form at Bazas in 1630, and reprinted, along with notes and various letters bearing on the subject, at Paris in 1777. In these Essays Rey attributed the increase in weight of tin and other metals on calcination to the action of the air, thus to some extent anticipating the work of Lavoisier a century and a half later' [Preface]. Item #130984

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