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STAHL, Georg Ernst (1660-1734). Fundamenta chymiae dogmaticae & experimentalis... Nurmberg: J.E. Adelbulner for W. Mauritz, 1723.
4o (206 x 160 mm). Title printed in red and black. Contemporary vellum (upper spine end with calf repair).
FIRST EDITION. Influenced by Becher, who had stated air, earth, and water to be the three elementary principles, Stahl was the originator of the phlogiston theory, which dominated chemistry until the end of the 18th-century. Duveen, p. 560; Partington II, pp. 662-678; Norman 2005.
4o (206 x 160 mm). Title printed in red and black. Contemporary vellum (upper spine end with calf repair).
FIRST EDITION. Influenced by Becher, who had stated air, earth, and water to be the three elementary principles, Stahl was the originator of the phlogiston theory, which dominated chemistry until the end of the 18th-century. Duveen, p. 560; Partington II, pp. 662-678; Norman 2005.