‎ROUELLE (Guillaume-François)‎
‎Précis du cours de pharmacie de Mr ROUELLE de l'Académie des sciences -- EDITION ORIGINALE -- BEL EXEMPLAIRE‎

‎slnd (circa 1750), un volume in 4 relié en pleine basane, dos orné de fers dorés, tranches rouges (reliure de l'époque), (habile restauration à une coiffe), 211pp., (1pp., (1)‎

Reference : 4571

‎---- EDITION ORIGINALE du cours de pharmacie de Guillaume-François Rouelle rédigé par un de ces élèves ---- RARE ---- BEL EXEMPLAIRE d'une belle écriture à l'encre brune, très lisible ---- LES COURS DE G.F. ROUELLE NE FURENT JAMAIS PUBLIES. ON NE CONNAÎT QUE QUELQUES COPIES MANUSCRITES DE CE COURS :"THERE ARE FEW MANUSCRIPTS OF THE PHARMACY LECTURES". (DSB XI) ---- "Rouelle himself published little and seems to have left no manuscripts... The content of his lectures is known solely in the manuscript versions left by his students. His lectures announced some original discoveries, often first made known by his pupils. His more distinguished pupils included Lavoisier, Desmarest, Macquer, Venel, d'Arcet and Bayen ; As impressive is the list of nonscientists known to have attended his lectures : Diderot, d'Holbach, Jean-Jacqaues Rousseau, Malesherbes and Turgot". (DSB XI pp. 563/564 & Partington III p. 73) ---- "About 1730, G.F. Rouelle went to Paris and became apprenticed to an obscure german pharmacist named J.G. Spitzley. By 1740 he was giving lectures on chemistry and pharmacy in the Place Maubert and he soon attracted the attention of Buffon who, in 1742, appointed him to the post of demonstrator in chemistry at the Jardin. In 1746 Rouelle moved his laboratory to the rue Jacob where he taught private courses for the rest of his active career. Once admitted to the Company of Apothecaries of Paris in 1750, he added a pharmacy shop to his laboratory... A brilliant and flamboyant lecturer and a vivid popularizer, Rouelle filled his lecture hall at the Jardin du Roi with a mixed audience of students, young apothecaries, society folk and such well-known men of letters as Diderot, Rousseau and the economist Turgot. Besides Lavoisier, the leading french chemist of at least two generations were introduced to the subject by Rouelle. Lavoisier almost certainly followed the course Rouelle taught in his apothecary shop on the rue Jacob... Among Rouelle's innovations was his lectures with modifications, of the phlogiston theory of Stahl and the conclusion put forth by the english physiologist Hales that air can be a chemical constituent of matter. These two ideas became part of Rouelle's own synthesis, the fundamental tenet of which was that earth, air, fire (phlogiston) and water all serve as both chemical elements and physical instruments that assist in the process of chemical change...". (DSB XI pp. 562/564 & VIII p. 68)**4571/ARM3‎