Authority Cited: Boerhaave
Author name and dates: Herman Boerhaave (1668-1738)
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Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: one Boerhaave cite identified in vol. 1 of 1755 Dict. No additional Boerhaave cites were identified as added in the 1773 Dict.]
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
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: one Boerhaave cite identified in vol. 1 of 1755 Dict. No additional Boerhaave cites were identified as added in the 1773 Dict.]
- A new method of chemistry; Including the Theory and Practice of that Art: Laid down on Mechanical Principles, and accommodated to the Uses of Life. The whole making A Clear and Rational System of Chemical Philosophy. To which is prefix'd A Critical History of Chemistry and Chemists, From the Origin of the Art to the present Time. Written by the very Learned H. Boerhaave, Professor of Chemistry, Botany, and Medicine in the University of Leyden, and Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris. Translated from the Printed Edition, Collated with the best Manuscript Copies. By P. Shaw, M.D. and E. Chambers, Gent. With additional Notes and Sculptures, printed for J. Osborn and T. Longman, at the Ship in Pater-Noster-Row, 1727, London, (per Wimsatt, Philosophic Words, p.149, "Johnson's definition of chymistry follows this translation of the surreptitious [unauthorized] 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
- Boerhaave (no work cited) [BKG Note: several indirect cites of Boerhaave as an authority were identified as follows: amber (def., referenced to Trev./Chambers); armenian (ref. to Chambers); evacuate (ref. to Arbuthnot); feed (ref. to Arbuthnot Diet); gall (ref. to Arbuthnot Diet); gold (ref. to Hill on Fossils); weight (ref. to Arbuthnot on Aliments, same quote as feed). Since Arbuthnot published on Diet and Aliments first in 1732, he likely used either the 1727 title above or the 1724 French edition.]