Authority Cited: Shaw
Author name and dates: Peter Shaw (1694-1763)
BKG Bio-tweet: Physician to George II on journeys to Hanover; prolific, inexact author; SJ cites as tr. of Boerhaave in etym.-chymistry
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: one Shaw cite (unattributed translation quote) in 1755 Dict. vol. 1. No additional Shaw cites were identified as added in the 1773 Dict.]
Author name and dates: Peter Shaw (1694-1763)
BKG Bio-tweet: Physician to George II on journeys to Hanover; prolific, inexact author; SJ cites as tr. of Boerhaave in etym.-chymistry
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: one Shaw cite (unattributed translation quote) in 1755 Dict. vol. 1. No additional Shaw 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. And a copious index to the Whole, 1727, London: printed for J. Osborn and T. Longman, at the Ship in Pater Noster-Row; chymistry (p.51, first sentence of Part II, Theory of Chemistry. Dict.: "An art whereby sensible bodies contained in vessels, or capable of being contained therein, are so changed, by means of certain instruments, and principally fire, that their several powers and virtues are thereby discovered, with a view to philosophy, or medicine. Boerhaave.")