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APPENDIX. 



LIST OF THE PRINCIPAL WORKS THAT HAVE 

 CONTRIBUTED TO OUR, PRESENT KNOWLEDGE 

 OF PHOSPHORESCENCE. 



FABBICIO (Jer6me) $ Aquapendente. On the Phosphorescence 

 of Flesh, in Opera Omnia. Edition published at Leipsic in 

 1687. 



BAKTHOLIN (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 (HaffniEe) ; and to the latter 

 has been added the treatise of Gesner, entitled De Raris et 

 Admirandis Herbis quce Noctu Lucent. 



LICETUS. Fortunii Liceti Litheosphorus, sive de Lapide Bono- 

 niensi. (Utini, 1640.) Account of the Discovery of the Bo- 

 logna Stone. 



POTIEB (Pierre). Pharmacopoeia Spagyrica, ii. 27, in Opera 

 (Frankfort, 1698.) Description of the method formerly em- 

 ployed for preparing Solar Phosphorus from the Bologna 

 Stone. 



MAKGaKAF. Chymische Serif ten, vol. ii. New Method for pre- 

 paring Solar Phosphorus. 



BOYLE (Robert). On the Phosphorescence of the Diamond, 

 Adamas Lucens, tyc. (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. 



