Die Alchemie des Andreas Libavius ein Lehrbuch der Chemie aus dem Jahre 1597

Andreas Libavius

Verlag Chemie, Weinheim, 1964

Near fine. Bound in publisher's cloth. Hardcover. German text. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. xxxvii, 564, 136 p., ill., 24 cm. This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US. 

Andreas Libavius was a German chemist, physician, and alchemist who made important chemical discoveries but is most noted as the author of the first modern chemistry textbook. 

From the library Dr. Owen Hannaway. Hannaway was director of the Center for the History and Philosophy of Science at Johns Hopkins University. He authored numerous books and served as an editor of academic magazines in the history of science. Partial list of publications: Chemists and the Word: The Didactic Origins of Chemistry (1975); Observation, Experiment, and Hypothesis in Modern Physical Science (1985); The Evolution of Technology (1989); Science and the Practice of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century (1994); and The Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages: Their Religious, Institutional and Intellectual Contexts (1996).