Attempt at an Overview of Chemical Literature and its Branches

On Borax by H. C. Rennewald. Ibid. 1745. 4to.

On volatile alkaline salts by G. I. Schiefferdecker. Halle 1750.

On amber by I. Baumer. Ibid. 1750. In Actis Acad. N. C. Vol. II. there are the following chemical treatises by him: such as page 318, Curious preparation of neutral salts; page 319, Solution of Mars iron by alkali via the dry way.

Alexius Pedemontanus. Born into a noble family in Piedmont, he belongs among the Latin-barbarians; he wrote the following book only in his 85th year. See Bayle, Dictionary, Art. Alexius, page 159. Linden renov. page 28. Seven books of secrets by Joh. Iac. Wecker, translated from Italian into Latin, and augmented with many secrets, and more diligently corrected. Added is the eighth book on artificial wine by the same Wecker. Basel, at the shop of Peter Pernan, Venice 1557, 1563. 8vo. Ibid., published by the same, 1568, in 8vo. Ibid., published by Lud. Koenig, 1613. 8vo.

Friedr. Carl Achard, Chemical-Physical Writings. Berlin 1780. large 8vo, together with some tables.

Arcet, Memoir on the action of an equal, violent, and continuous fire, for several days, on a large number of earths, stones, and metallic limes, Paris 1769. 8vo. Ibid. 1771. 8vo.

Arnold. On the dissolution of solid bodies by liquids, Franconian Collection, page 517—527.

Basilius Valentinus was a true genius in chemistry, whose footsteps the moderns have followed all too little, and whose observations on