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The INTERNET Database of Periodic Tables
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| Year: 1750 | PT id = 1, Type = formulation |
Gellert's "Table Which Shows How Different Bodies Dissolve in One Another"
From Semantic Scholar:
Christlieb Ehregott Gellert (1713-1795) was the first professor of metallurgical chemistry at the Mining Academy in Freiberg on its foundation in 1765. His book Metallurgic Chymistry was first published in German in 1751 as Anfangsgründe der metallurgischen Chemie. The book is a little known work although it is of special importance because it was written towards the end of the Age of Alchemy. It was also the first and last book combining chemistry and metallurgy, a course Gellert was giving at the Academy. His successor Wilhelm Lampadius (1772-1842) separated this course into two sections: one for chemistry and one for metallurgy. The book, therefore, provides a glimpse at a critical period in the history of chemistry and metallurgy, with use of the alchemist symbols and adherence to the phlogiston theory.
- The 1750 German version book is available as a Google Books scan.
- The 1776 English translation, Metallurgic Chymistry in Two Parts, is also available as a Google Books scan.
- We would advise downloading the PDF versions for full quality.
- Note, the table below is from the German scan because (for some reason) it is not included in the scanned English version.
- Click here for a high resolution 4482 × 3096 version of the table.
- The table of symbols, below, is from the English version.
- Many thanks to Alasdair Lawrence who helped with this entry.

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