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SHORTLY after Lavoisier had presented an account of his researches on calcination to the Academy of Sciences, the French chemist Bayen discovered in the Bibliotheque royale a small volume dated 1630, in which the discoveries and views of Lavoisier were seen to be anticipated by nearly a century and a half. This volume was the “Essays de Jean Rey sur la Recerche de la cause pour laquelle l'Estain et le Plomb augmentent de poids quand on les calcine,” of which a translation in English was published some years ago under the auspices of the Alembic Club (1895). By a curious coincidence, the title of Lavoisier's memoir, “Sur la calcination de l'etain dans les vaisseaux fermes et sur la cause de l'augmentation de poids quacquiert ce metal pendant cette operation,” was almost identical with that of Rey's essa}?s; an 1 it is remarkable that the study of the behaviour of the same metal, tin, when calcined, led both chemists to arrive at a correct interpretation of the nature of combustion.
Essais de Jean Rey. 1630.
Édition nouvelle avec commentaire par Maurice Petit. Pp. xxvii+191. (Paris: A. Hermann, 1907.) Price 7 francs.
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D., W. Essais de Jean Rey 1630. Nature 78, 219 (1908). https://doi.org/10.1038/078219a0
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