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SCHERER, JOHANN BaPTISTE AnDREAS VON. [COTlt'd.] 



Versuch einer neuen Nomenclatur fiir deutsche Chymisten. Wien, 

 1792. pp. [xx]-2oS-[xvi], 8vo. Two folding tables. 



A modification of Lavoisier's nomenclature adapted to the German, and sub- 

 stantially preserved till the present day. Alphabetized under the French 



Scheurer-Kestner. 



Nicolas Leblanc et la soude artificielle (Conference de la Society 

 Chimique de Paris). Paris, 1885. 8vo. 



Schiendl, C. 



* Geschichte der Photographic. Mit den Bildnissen der Erfinder und 



Griinder der Photographic und einer Abbildung der ersten Photo- 

 graphic. Wien, Pest, Leipzig, 1891. pp. vii-380. 8vo. 



SCHLEIDEN, M. J. 



Das Salz. Seine Geschichte, Symbolik und Bedeutung im Menschen- 

 leben. Leipzig, 1875. 8vo. 

 Cf. Ratton, J. J. L. 



SCHLOTTMANN. 



Kritische Geschichte der Theorien des Galvanismus. Breslau, 1856. 



Schmidt, D. P. H. 



Etymologischer chemischer Nomenclator der neuesten einfachen und 

 daraus zusammengesetzten Stoffe, nebst Erklarung einiger andern 

 chemisch-physicalischen Benennungen. Lemgo. 1839. 8vo. 



Schmidt, Ludwig von. 



Systematische Darstellung (etc.). See Meyer, Johann Rudolph, junior. 



SCHMiEDER, Karl Christoph. 



* Geschichte der Alchemic. Halle, 1832. pp. x-613, 8vo. 



In this History of Alchemy the author, Director of a High School in Cassel, 

 endeavors to establish by historic proofs the reality of the transmutation 

 of metals. He recognizes two distinct sciences, chemistry and alchemy, 

 and claims they existed independently of each other from the earliest 

 ages. Alchemy, he states, has a threefold dogma : I. It is possible to 

 prepare by true art perfect gold from substances which contain no gold. 

 II. The same is true of silver. III. This artificial preparation is a 

 wonderful medicine, panacea of life. 



Starting with this statement, he investigates the authenticity of the his- 

 toric records of transmutation, and, sparing no pains in deciphering 

 musty manuscripts' of a former age, he concludes that we must acknowl- 

 edge the reality of the transmutation of metals. He confesses that 

 impostors abounded, but he claims five persons as true adepts and 



