ELLER, (JOHANN THEODOR).

Essai sur L'origine et la Generation des Metaux.

(Berlin, Haude et Spener, 1749). 4to. No wrappers, as issued in "Memoires de L'Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles Lettres" tome IX, pp. 1-50.

First printing of Elle's small history of chemistry, in which he gives an historical review of chemical theories from the Greek period, with special emphasis on the viewa of Becher and Stahl and the theory of phlogiston.
Eller held the highest positions in Prussia, professor of anatomy, dean to the Collegium Medico-Chirurgicum, director of the Berlin Academy of Sciences and physician-in-ordinary to Frederick the Great. Together with Georg Ernst Stahl he was responsible for laying the foundation for all subsequent developments in medical services in Prussia. (Partington II:pp. 716-17).

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