Authority Cited: Boerhaave
Author name and dates: Herman Boerhaave (1668-1738)
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Author name and dates: Herman Boerhaave (1668-1738)
BKG Bio-tweet: Dutch physician, founder of clinical hospital teaching; botanist; chemist; SJ cites definition for chymistry, tr. By P. Shaw
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- New Method of Chemistry; Bibliographical information: HERMANN BOERHAAVE. A New Method of Chemistry . . .Written by the Very Learned H. Boerhaave . . . Translated . . . by P[eter] Shaw, M.D. and E[phraim] Chambers, London, 1727 (per Wimsatt, Philosophic Words, p.149, "Johnson's definition of chymistry follows this translation of the surreptitious Institutiones et Experimenta Chemiae, 1724, rather than the translation by Timothy Dallowe, 1735, or that by Peter Shaw, 1741, of Boerhaave's authorized Elementa Chemiae, 1732."; chymistry
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