THE bicentenary of the birth of the Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele, whose recently published manuscripts were reviewed in our columns on November 7, falls on December 19. His birthplace was ...

Preface.--Biographical sketch.--Scheele's achievements.--Pictures pertaining to Scheele's life history (p. 19-56)--Time table of Scheele's experiments as reported by himself in his letters and notes ...

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Citric acid is an important natural compound that has been known since the late 18th century. The pioneering Swedish–German chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele isolated it from lemon juice in 1784. It has ...

Translations of parts of author's Chemische abhandlung von der luft und dem feuer, Upsala und Leipzig, 1777. Part 1 by Joseph Priestley is Alembic club reprint, no. 7. Reprint of the 1901 ed.

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