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Links from presentation in the Division of the History of Chemistry at the 234th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, August 19, 2007.

The exhibit, "From Alchemy to Chemistry: 500 Years of Rare and Interesting Books," was co-curated by Tina Chrzastowski, Vera Mainz, and Gregory Girolami. The list of exhibited items is shown below. About two thirds of these items are now available in full on the internet in one or another edition. Links are shown after each available item.

  1. BRUNSCHWIG, HIERONYMUS (1450 - c. 1512). Liber de arte distillandi; Das buch der rechten kunst zu distillieren. Strassburg: 1500.
  2. GEBER [Jabir Ibn Hayyan]. Alchemiae Gebri. Bern, 1545.
  3. FLAMEL, NICOLAS (1330 - 1417). His Exposition of the Hieroglyphical Figures - His Secret Booke of the Blessed Stone called the Philosopher's. London, 1624.
  4. PARACELSUS, THEOPHRASTUS PHILIPPUS AUREOLUS BOMBASTUS VON HOHENHEIM (1493 - 1541). Operum Medico-Chimicaorum. 3 vols. Geneva, 1605.
  5. LIBAVIUS, ANDREAS (ca. 1560 - 1616). Alchemia Andreae Libavii. Frankfurt, 1597.
  6. AGRICOLA, GEORG (1494 - 1555). De Re Metallica. Basel, 1556.
  7. BOYLE, ROBERT (1627 - 1691). The Sceptical Chymist: or Chymico-Physical Doubts & Paradoxes. London, 1680.
  8. LEMERY, NICOLAS (1645 - 1715). A Course of Chymistry Containing an easie Method of Preparing those Chymical Medicines Which are Used in Physik. London, 1698.
  9. STAHL, GEORG (1659 - 1734). Opusculum Chymico-Physico-Medicum. Nuremberg, 1715.
  10. MACQUER, PIERRE (1718 - 1784). Dictionnaire de chymie, contenant la théorie & pratique de cette science . . 2 vols. Paris, 1766.
  11. BERGMAN, TORBERN (1735 - 1784). Opuscula Physica et Chemica. 6 vols. Uppsala, 1780.
  12. PRIESTLEY, JOSEPH (1733 - 1804). Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air. 3 vols. London, 1775.
  13. SCHEELE, CARL WILHELM (1742 - 1786). Chemical Observations and Experiments on Air and Fire. Uppsala & Leipzig, 1780. Chemische Abhandlung von der Luft und dem Feuer. Nebst einem Vorbericht von Torbern Bergman. Upsala & Leipzig, 1777.
  14. KIRWAN, RICHARD (1733 - 1812). An Essay on Phlogiston, and the Constitution of Acids. London, 1787.
  15. DE MORVEAU, GUYTON (1737 - 1816); LAVOISIER, ANTOINE LAURENT (1743 - 1794); BERTHOLLET, CLAUDE LOUIS (1748 - 1822); DE FOURCROY, ANTOINE FRANCOIS (1755 - 1809). Méthode de Nomenclature Chimique. Paris, 1787.
  16. LAVOISIER, ANTOINE LAURENT (1743 - 1794). Traité élémentaire de chimie, présenté dans un ordre nouveau et d'après les découvertes modernes. 2 vols. Paris, 1789.
  17. DALTON, JOHN (1766 - 1844). A New System of Chemical Philosophy. 3 vols. Manchester, 1808, 1810, 1827.
  18. MARCET, JANE (1769 - 1858). Conversations on Chemistry. 2nd American Edition. Hartford, Conn., 1809.
  19. VOLTA, ALESSANDRO (1745 - 1827) [CONFIGLIACHI, PIETRO (1777 - 1844)]. L'identità del Fluido Elettrico. 1814.
  20. DAVY, HUMPHRY (1778 - 1829). Elements of Chemical Philosophy. London, 1812.
  21. BERZELIUS, JÖNS JACOB (1779 - 1848). Essai sur la Theorie des Proportions Chimiques. Paris, 1819.
  22. LIEBIG, JUSTUS VON (1803 - 1873). Die Organische Chemie in ihre Anwendung auf Agricultur und Physiologie. Braunschweig, 1840.
  23. FRANKLAND, SIR EDWARD (1825 - 1899). Experimental Researches in Pure, Applied, and Physical Chemistry. London, 1877.
  24. GERHARDT, CHARLES (1816 - 1856). Traité de Chimie Organique. 4 vols. Paris & Leipzig, 1853 - 1856.
  25. YOUMANS, EDWARD LIVINGSTON (1821 - 1887). Chemical Atlas; or, the Chemistry of Familiar Objects: Exhibiting the General Principles of the Science in a Series of Beautifully Colored Diagrams, and Accompanied by Explanatory Essays, Embracing the Latest View of the Subjects Illustrated. New York, 1857.
  26. BUNSEN, ROBERT (1811 - 1899). Gasometrische Methoden. Braunschweig, 1857.
  27. CANNIZZARO, STANISLAO (1826 - 1910). Sunto di un Corso. Pisa, 1858.
  28. BROWN, ALEXANDER CRUM (1838 - 1922). J. Chem. Soc. 1865, 18, 230-245. London, 1865.
  29. KEKULÉ VON STRADONITZ, [FRIEDRICH] AUGUST (1829 - 1896). Chemie der Benzolderivate oder der Aromatischen Substanzen. 3 vols. Erlangen (vol. 1) and Stuttgart (vols. 2-3), 1867-1887.
  30. MENDELEEV, DMITRI IVANOVICH (1834 - 1907). Z. Chem. 1869, 12, 405, WITH Osnovy Khimii, St. Petersburg, 1869.
  31. VAN DER WAALS, JOHANNES DIDERIK (1837 - 1923). Over de Continuiteit van den Gas- en Vloeistoftoestand. Leiden, 1873.
  32. WERNER, ALFRED (1866 - 1919). Neuere Anschauungen auf dem Gebiete der Anorganischen Chemie. Braunschweig, 1905.
  33. CURIE, MARIE (1867 - 1934). Traité de Radioactivité. Paris, 1910.
  34. RUTHERFORD, ERNEST (1871 - 1937). Radioactivity. Cambridge, 1904.
  35. ASTON, FRANCIS WILLIAM (1877 - 1945). Isotopes. London, 1922.
  36. PAULING, LINUS (1901 - 1994), HAYWARD, ROGER. The Architecture of Molecules. San Francisco and London, 1964.
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