SECTION III. — HISTORY. I3I 



Leeds, Albert R. 



The Lines of Discovery in the History of Ozone. In Chem. News,, 

 xli, 138 (1880). 



Cf. in Section I, Leeds, A. R. 



Leemans, C. 



*Papyri graeci musei antiquarii publici Lugduni-Batavi. Regis augus- 

 tissimi jussu edidit, interpretationem Latinam, 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 (Laeoratorium). 



See Kolbe, Hermann. 



Lemoine, Georges. 



Les progres de la chimie dans les dix dernieres annees (1868-1878). 

 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, Svo. 



Lenglet du Fresnoy, Nicole. 



. *Histoire de la philosophic hermetique. Accompagnee d'un catalogue 

 raisonne des ecrivains de cette science. Avec le veritable Phila- 

 lethe, revu sur les originaux. Paris, 1742. 3 vols., i2mo. Vol. 

 I, pp. xxiii-506 ; vol. II, pp. xxxii-i 20-360 ; 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, 1 996 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 Frencli and 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 arc interesting and sometimes amusing. This 

 bibliography is the best published to that date. For a review of the 

 work see Michault, J. B. 



