KEIR, James.

Versuche und Beobachtungen über die Auflösung der Metalle in Säuren und ihre Niederschlagungen nebst einer Nachricht von einem neuen zusammengesetzten sauren Auflösungsmittel, zum Gebrauch bey einigen technischen Operationen, zur Scheidung der Metalle...

Aus dem Englischen übersetzt von Ludewig Lentin. 40 pp. Small 8vo, modern boards. Göttingen: J.C. Dieterich, 1791. First edition in German and very rare; this is a translation of Keir's paper in the Phil. Trans. (1790) entitled "Experiments and Observations on the Dissolution of Metals in Acids; and Their Precipitations; With an Account of a New Compound Acid Menstruum, Useful in Some Technical Operations of Parting Metals." "This paper contains suggestions which probably contributed to the discovery of the electro-plate process."­D.N.B., X, p. 1202. Keir (1735-1820), "a pioneer industrial chemist...developed the first commercially successful process for making synthetic alkali and did much to disseminate chemical knowledge."­D.S.B., VII, p. 277. He was a member of the Lunar Society (other members included Erasmus Darwin, Matthew Boulton, Josiah Wedgewood, James Watt, and Joseph Priestley). The translator was Augustin Gottfried Ludwig Lentin (1764-1823), an instructor at the University of Göttingen and inspector of saltworks at Sülbeck. He wrote several other chemical and metallurgical works including one on the famous copper mine in the Parys Mountain on the Welsh island of Angelsea. He constructed a large metallurgical furnace at Rammelsberg. Fine copy. Ferguson, I, p. 453.

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