Sources for Chemical History.

a) Regarding the History itself.

Theatrum chemicum original: "Chemical Theater" (German) by Fr. Rothscholz. Parts 1–3.

Theatrum chemicum original: "Chemical Theater", Vol. I–VI. Argent. original: Strasbourg 1613–1661, large 8vo, edited by Joh. Gottfr. Heilmann. This work is to be highly regarded because of the treatises it contains.

Fr. Rothscholz, Bibliotheca chemica seu collectio auctorum fere omnium, qui de naturae arcanis, re metallica et minerali, nec non de melioratione corporum artificiali scripserunt original: "Chemical Library or collection of almost all authors who have written about the secrets of nature, metallic and mineral matters, and also about the artificial improvement of bodies", Fasc. V, Norimb. original: Nuremberg 1725–1749. Printed 1742, 1735. He was born in 1658 at Herrnstadt in Silesia and was a learned bookseller in Nuremberg. The book is partly an excerpt, partly a continuation of Borellus.

Petri Borelli, Bibliotheca chemica original: "Chemical Library", Paris 1654, 12mo; Heidelbergae original: Heidelberg 1656, 12mo.

Petri Amelungii, Tractatus nobilis primus in quo alchemiae seu chemicae artis antiquissimae, nobilissimae et iucundissimae cum inventio et progressio, obscuratio et instauratio, tum dignitas, necessitas et utilitas demonstratur original: "The first noble treatise in which the invention and progress, obscuration and restoration, as well as the dignity, necessity and utility of the most ancient, most noble and most pleasant art of alchemy or chemistry is demonstrated", Lips. original: Leipzig 1607.

Ol. Borrichii, Conspectus scriptorum chemicorum illustrium original: "Survey of illustrious chemical writers", Hafn. original: Copenhagen 1697, 4to. See Mangeti, Bibliotheca chem., L. I., S. 1., Subs. II., p. 38–54.