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APPENDIX. 
LIST OF THE PRINCIPAL WORKS THAT HAVE 
CONTRIBUTED TO OUR PRESENT KNOWLEDGE 
OF PHOSPHORESCENCE. 
Fasricio (Jéréme) d’ Aquapendente. On the Phosphorescence 
of Flesh, in Opera Omnia. Edition published at Leipsic in 
1687. 
Barron (Thomas). De Luce Hominum et Brutorum. Pub- 
lished at Leyden in 1647. But two other editions were pub- 
lished in 1663 and 1669, in 8vo (Haffniz) ; and to the latter 
has been added the treatise of Gesner, entitled De Raris et 
Admirandis Herbis que Noctu Lucent. 
Licetus. Fortuaw Liceti Litheosphorus, sive de Lapide Bono- 
niensi. (Utini, 1640.) Account of the Discovery of the Bo- 
logna Stone. 
Portier (Pierre). Pharmacopeia Spagyrica, ii. 27, in Opera 
(Frankfort, 1698.) Description of the method formerly em- 
ployed for preparing Solar Phosphorus from the Bologna 
Stone. 
Marcerar. Chymische Scriften, vol. ii. New Method for pre- 
paring Solar Phosphorus. 
Boye (Robert). On the Phosphorescence of the Diamond, 
Adamas Lucens, §e. (Lond. 1663.) ‘ Experiments concerning 
the relation of air and light in shining wood and fish:” Phi- 
losophical Transactions, 1668. ‘ Observations on shining 
flesh :” Phil. Trans., 1672. ‘Account of the new element 
Phosphorus :” Phil. Trans., 1680. 
