Physical and chemical essays.
By: Tr. from the original Latin of Sir Tobern Bergman ... by Edmund Cullen ... To which are added notes and illustrations by the translator.
Contributors: Cullen, Edmund, tr.; Beddoes, Thomas, 1760-1808.
Publisher: Printed for J. Murray; [etc., etc.]
Published: 1788
Place of publication: London
Language: eng; lat
Subjects: Chemistry -- Phlogiston.; Mineralogy.; Water -- Analysis.
Notes: Additional notes signed: B [i.e. Thomas Beddoes]
"Of the investigation of truth": v.l, p. xxi.
Another volume of essays was published in 1791 with title: Essays, physical and chemical...
Table of contents: title: I. I. Of the aerial acid.  II. Of the analysis of waters.  III. On the waters of Upsal.  IV. On the acidulous spring in the parish of Denmark.  V. Of sea-water.  VI. Of the artificial preparation of cold medicated waters.  VII. Of the artificial preparation of hot medicated waters.  VIII. Of the acid of sugar.  IX. Of the preparation of alum.  X. Of antimoniated tartar.  XI. Of magnesia.; title: II. XII. Of the forms of crystals, particularly those of the spathaceous kind.  XIII. Of siliceous earth.  XIV. Of the hydrophanous stone.  XV. Of the earth of gems.  XVI. The earth of the turmalin stone.  XVII. Of the fulminating calx of gold.  XVIII. Of platina.  XIX. Of the white ores of iron.  XX. Of nickel.  XXI. Of arsenic.  XXII. Of the ores of zinc.  XXIII. Of metallic precipitates.  XXIV. Of the art of assaying in the humid way.  XXV. Of the blow-pipe; and its use in the examination of bodies, particularly minerals.