SECTION III. — HISTORY. 12$ 



Kernot, F. 



Storia delle farmacia e dei farmacisti appo i principali popoli del mondo. 

 Napoli, 1 87 1. 8vo. 



KlELMEYER. 



Die Entwickelung der Farberei, Bleicherei, Druckerei. In Dingler's 

 polytechn. Journal, vol. 234, p. d-i,. 



KiNGZE-rr, Ch. Th. 



History of the Alkali Trade. See in Section V, Kingzett, Ch. Th. 



KiRCHER, AtHANASIUS. 



De origine alchymiae ; also De lapide philosophorum. In Mundus 

 subterraneus, vol. 11, liber xi, sectio i and 2. Amsterodami, 1665. 

 Folio. 



Athanasius Kircher, a celebrated historian, philosopher, mathematician and 

 physical philosopher, was born at Fulda in 1601, and died at Rome in 

 1680. He filled the chairs of philosophy and oriental languages in the 

 College of Wurtzburg and in ♦he Jesuits' College at Avignon. He was 

 afterwards professor of mathematics in the Jesuits' College at Rome. 

 Kircher was a man of " wide and varied, but ill-digested erudition, and 

 a most voluminous writer." Although credulous to an absurd de- 

 gree, in the dissertation " De origine alchymise " he violently attacks 

 the alchemists and their pretended transmutations of the baser metals 

 into gold. It is reprinted in Mangetus' Bibliotheca chemica curiosa, 

 together with replies to his attacks by Clauder and by Blauenstein. 

 Lenglet du Fresnoy says Kircher wrote against alchemy because he was un- 

 successful in his attempts at transmutation, 



KiRCHMAIER, GeORG CaSPAR. 



Dissertatione de metallorum metamorphosi. Wittenberg, 1693. 4to. 



The author thinks Adam was the first to use iron and other metals for in- 

 dustrial and economic purposes, to which opinion we have no objections 

 based on evidence. 



KiTAiBEL, Paul. 



Ueber seinen Antheil an der Entdeckung des Tellurs. I?i Gehlen's J. 

 Vol. I (1803). 



Klaproth. J. 



Sur les connoissances chimiques des Chinois dans le 8e siecle. In St. 

 Petersburg Acad. Sci. Memoires. Vol. 11, 1810. 



Klausenburg (Laboratorium). 

 See Fabinyi, R. 



Kleinert, E. 



Dissertatio chemica de J. B. Richteri doctrina. Vratislaviae, 185 1. 8vo. 



