The sceptical chymist
Subtitle: or Chymico-physical doubts & paradoxes, touching the spagyrist's principles commonly call'd hypostatical, as they are wont to be propos'd and defended by the generality of alchymists. Whereunto is praemis'd part of another discourse relating to the same subject ...
Publisher: Printed by J. Cadwell for J. Crooke
Published: 1661
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 442
Subjects: Chemistry; Early works to 1800
Notes: Second title leaf inserted after sig. D1 (p. 34): The sceptical chymist: or Chymico-physical doubts & paradoxes, touching the experiments whereby vulgar spagyrists are wont to endeavour to evince their salt, sulphur and mercury, to be the true principles of things ...

Wing B4021; Fulton 33.

Numerous errors in paging.

"Errata": p. 441-442.

The 1st prelim. leaf is an alternate title-page with variant sub-title and without Boyle's name as the author; it is conjugate with the t.-p., and in this copy the two leaves occur together; in most copies, the first leaf is cut away and inserted after p. 34.
Table of contents: title: A præface introductory to the following treatise; title: Physiological considerations touching the experiments wont to be employed to evince either the IV peripatetic elements, or the III chymical principles of mixt bodies; title: The sceptical chymist.