‎STAHL (G.E.)‎
‎Traité du soufre ou remarques surla dispute qui s'est élevée entre les chymistes au sujet du soufre, tant commun, combustible ou volatil, que fixe, etc - Traduit de l'éllemand par le Baron D'HOLBACH -- PREMIERE EDITION FRANCAISE -- BEL EXEMPLAIRE‎

‎P., Didot, 1766, un volume in 12 relié en demi-basane à coins, dos orné de fers dorés, tranches rouges, (4), 392pp.‎

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‎---- PREMIERE EDITION FRANCAISE ---- BEL EXEMPLAIRE ---- "One of the outstanding chemists of the eighteenth century". (Partington II pp. 662/678) ---- "Baron D'HOLBACH translated STAHL's Zûfallige gedanken und nützliche bedencken über den Stret von dem sogennanten sulphure because he felt it was the work which best developed the author's doctrine of the principle of inflammability, or phlogiston. The translator added a preface and an excellent index". (Cole N° 1248) ---- "Stahl was the originator of the phlogiston theory, which dominated chemistry until the end of the eighteenth century. He took the structure of his theory from Becher... Stahl elaborated from Becher's "second earth" a new chemical principle, phlogiston, a substance representing the principle of combustibility that combined with other chemical substances to form compounds... The flaws in the phlogiston theory are obvious and it did not survive the eighteenth century ; however, it served as an important link between the older chemical concepts and the new, an attempt to modify the existing intellectual framework in order to account for new experimental observations". (Cole). ---- DSB XII - Ferguson II 399**4876/ARM2A‎