SECTION III. — HISTORY. I3I

Leeds, Albert R.
The Lines of Discovery in the History of Ozone. In Chem. News., xli, 138 (1880).
Cf. hi Section /, Leeds, A. R.
Leemans, C.
*Papyri graeci musei antiquarii pubiici Lugduni-Batavi. Regis augus- tissimi jussu edidit, interpretationem Latinara, adnotationem, indices et tabulas addidit. Tomus 11. Lugduni-Batavorum, 1885. pp. viii-310, 4to. Tab. IV.
Contains the text of several earliest alchemical treatises. See Berthelot and Ruelle.
Leipzig (Laboratorium).
See Kolbe, Hermann.
Lemoine, Georges.
Les progres de la chimie dans les dix dernieres anndes (i 868-1878). Congres bibliographique international tenu a Paris du i" au 4 Juillet, 1878, sous les auspices de la Societe bibliographique. Extrait du compte-rendu des travaux. Paris, 1879. pp. 22, 8vo.
Lenglet du Fresnoy, Nicole.
*Histoire de la philosophic herm^tique. Accompagnee d'un catalogue raisonne des ecrivains de cette science. Avec le veritable Phila- Ifethe, revii sur les originaux. Paris, 1742. 3 vols., i2mo. Vol. I, pp. xxiii-506 ; vol. II, pp. xxxii- 120-360 ; vol. iii, pp. xxii-432.
The author of this exceedingly curious work was an Abbe of some distinction as a litterateur. He was born in 1674, and died in 1755. While appar- ently accepting the truth of the legends relating to the great antiquity of alchemy, and narrating accounts of veritable transmutations at consid- erable length, he at the same time exposes the frauds practised by the adepts, and quotes entire the celebrated essay of Geoffroy : "Des Supercheries concernant la Pierre Philosophale," which rang the death- knell of the Hermetic Art. The first volume of Du Fresnoy's work contains only historical matter, concluding with a "Chronologic des plus celebres auteurs de la philosophic hermetique." In this chronology, which begins with " Hermes, 1996 B.C.," he includes Moses, Cleopatra, and Caligula, Adepts being marked by an asterisk. The second volume continues the history, and includes the " Introitus apertus ad occlusum regis palatium "of Philalethes, entire, both in French n;. I in Latin. The third volume is wholly devoted to bibliography ; the classification is convenient and supplemented by an alphabetical index of authors. Lenglet's comments are interesting and sometimes amusing. This bibliography is the best published to that date. For a review of the work see Michault, J. B.
132 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CHEMISTRY.
Lense, Josua.
Disputatio medico-chymica prima de ortu et progressu chymiae. Lug- duni-Batavorum, 1702. pp. i2-[ii], 4to.
Lenz, Johann Christopher.
Sammlung meikwiirdiger Begebenheiten unterschiedlicher Adepten und ihrer philosophischen Tinctur ; nebst der Geschichte Nicolaus Flamelli. Hildesheim, 1780. 8vo.
Lequin, Roux, Michaud, Riche et d'a.
Exposition universelle internationale de 1889 a Paris. Rapport sur les produits chimiques et pharmaceutiques. Paris, 1891. 8vo.
Lewinstein, Gustav.
*Die Alchemie und die Alchemisten. Sammlung gemeinverstandlicher wissenschaftlicher Vortrage berausgegeben von Rud. Virchovv und Fr. V. Holtzendorff. V. Serie, Heft 113. Berlin, 1870. pp. 36,
Lewis, William.
Historie der Farben. Aus dem Englischen iibersetzt von johann Heinrich Ziegler. Zurich, 1766. 8vo.
L.EWIS, William.
Historie des Goldes [etc.]. See in Section V,
Libavius, Andreas.
iJepz ;^pi;(5'o;roz770'fciL>5' dissertatio, in qua conferuntur inter se argumenta eorum, qui de transmutatione metallorum, hydrargyri in argentum et aurum, aut omnino in aurum, inter se contendunt. Jenas, 1591. 4to.
LiBES, A.
*Histoire philosophique des progres de la physique. Paris, 1810. 3 vols., 8vo.
A philosophical work. Vol. i treats of the period ending with Gilbert ; li of Boyle, Huyghens and Cassini ; in of Franklin, Saussure and Coulomb. Each volume is well indexed. Bibliography and biography are subordinate.
LiBRI, GUILLAUME.
* Histoire des sciences math^matiques en Italie depuis la renaissance des lettres jusqu' a la fin du dix-septieme siecle. Paris, 1838-41. 4 vols., 8vo,
A learned work based on original documents, extracts from which are given in the Notes in each volume.