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| Author | Title | Edition | Format | Price | Puborg |
| Rey, Jean, ca. 1852-ca.1645 | 1630: Enquiry into the Cause wherefore Tin & Lead Increase in Weight on Calcination | 1630/1895 | Html | Free | LeMoyne |
| Bacon, Francis (Sir) | 1630: Novum Organum [excerpts; "on the nature of heat"] | 1620/ | Html | Free | LeMoyne |
| Briggs, Henry | 1631: Trigonometria Britannica [tr./annotated Ian Bruce] | 1631 | Html | Free | MacTutorMath |
| Torricelli, Evangelista, 1608-1657 | 1644: Letter to Michelangelo Ricci concerning the Barometer | 1644 | html | Free | LeMoyne |
| Helmont, Jan Baptist van, 1579-1644 | 1648: Ortus medicinae ["3 short excerpts from the border of alchemy & chemistry"] | 1648/62/64 | Html | Free | LeMoyne |
| Culpeper, Nicholas | 1652: The English Physitian: or an Astrologo-Physical Discourse of the Vulgar Herbs of This Nation [illus.] | 1652 Lond | Html | Free | YaleU-Med |
| Zonca, Vittorio | 1656: Novo teatro di machine et edificii per uarie et sicure operationi: Co le loro figure tagliate i | 1656 Padoua | Graphic | Free | CornellU |
| Huygens, Christiaan | 1659: Systema Saturnium [The System of Saturn] (Intro Ronald Brashear] | 1659/1999 | Facsimile | Free | Smithsonian |
| Boyle, Robert | 1661: The Sceptical Chymist [facsimile] | 1661 | Graphic | Free | UPa |
| Boyle, Robert | 1661: The Sceptical Chymist [excerpts; "dialogue concerning the nature & number of the elements"] | 1661 | Html | Free | LeMoyne |
| Bockler, George andreas | 1661: Theatrum Machinarum Novum: Neu-vermehrter Schauplatz der mechanischen Kunsten, handelt von alle | 1661 Nurnbg | Graphic | Free | CornellU |
| Boyle, Robert | 1662: Boyle's law (A Defence of the Doctrine Touching the Spring & Weight of the Air) | 1662 | Graphic | Free | ChemTeam |
| Gregory, James | 1663: Optica Promota ["theory of the 1st reflecting telescope & elliptic & hyperbolic lenses & mirrors from a | 1663 | Free | CenturyMaths | |
| Hooke, Robert 1635-1703 | 1667: Micrographia: or some physiological descriptions of minute bodies made by magnifying glasses with observ | 1667 2dLond | Graphic | Free | UWiscMadison |
| Boyle, Robert | 1672: Tracts Written...Containing New Experiments, Touching the Relation Between Flame & Air. & About Explosio | 1672 | Html | Free | LeMoyne |
| Mayow, John, 1640-1679 | 1674: First Treatise: On Sal Nitrum & Nitro-Aerial Spirit [on air: nurtures flame & supports respiration"](frm | 1674 | Html | Free | LeMoyne |
| Roemer, Olaf (Ole), 1644-1710 | 1677: A Demonstration concerning the Motion of Light,...from Paris (Phil Trans Royal Soc) [speed of light] | 1677 | Html Graphic | Free | ChemTeam |
| Willis, Thomas, 1621-75 | 1691: Plain & easie method for preserving (by God's blessing) those that are well from the infection of the pl | 1691 Lond | Html Graphic | Free | YaleU-Med |
| Stahl, Georg Ernst, 1660-1734 | 1697: [extract from] Zymotechnia fundamentalis... ["3 passages from the father of phlogiston"] | 1697 | Html | Free | LeMoyne |
| Newton, Isaac (Sir) 1642-1727 | 1704: Opticks: or, A treatise of the reflextions, refractions, inflexions and colours of light. Also two treat | 1704 Lond. | Graphic | Free | CMU-Posner |
| Newton, Isaac (Sir) 1642-1727 | 1704: Query 31 of Opticks | 1704 | Html | Free | LeMoyne |
| Halley, Edmond, 1656-1742 | 1705: Astronomiae cometicae synopsis / autore Edmundo Halleio ... | 1705] Oxfor | Graphic | Free | CMU-Posner |
| Dumas, Jean-Baptiste-Andre | 1724: Experimenta circa gradum caloris liquorum nonnullorum ebullientium instituta ["several liquids to boil a | 1724 | Html | Free | LeMoyne |
| Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691 | 1727: Systeme d'un medecin anglois sur la cause de toutes les especes de maladies: [ave?]c les surprenantes co | 1727 Paris | Graphic | Free | Harvard: |
| Henry, Joseph, 1797-1878 | 1732: On the Production of Currents & Sparks of Electricity from Magnetism | 1732 | Graphic fasc | Free | AmerInstPhys |
| 1737: Critical Dissertation on the Mandrake of the Antients | 1737 | Html Graphic | Free | YaleU-Med | |
| Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 | 1749: Experiments & Observations on Electricity: Letter IV to Peter Collinson | 1749 | Free | ChemTeam | |
| Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 | 1749: Experiments & Observations on Electricity: Letter IV to Peter Collinson | 1759 | Graphic fasc | Free | AmerInstPhys |
| Black, Joseph | 1756: Experiments upon Magnesia Alba, Quick-Lime, & some other Alkaline Substances ["carbonates & their releas | 1756 | Html | Free | LeMoyne |
| Boscovich, Roger Joseph, S.J. | 1763: A Theory of Natural Philosophy (tr. J.M. Chils) ["theory of point-like atoms"; excerpt] | 1763/1922 | Html | Free | ChemTeam |
| Macquer, Pierre, 1718-1784 | 1766: [Excerpts] Dictionary of Chemistry (tr. 1777, J. Kier) ["on aggregation (akin to modern atoms & molecul | 1766 | Html | Free | LeMoyne |
| Morveau, Louis Bernard Guyton de, 1737-1 | 1772: Excerpt] Dissertation sur le phlogistique ["argues nothing absurd about weight of phlogiston"] | 1772 | html | Free | LeMoyne |
| Priestly, Joseph | 1772: On Making Carbonated Water | 1772 | Html | Free | ChemTeam |
| Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 | 1774: Letter to Joseph Priestly ["on marsh gas"] | 1774 | Html | Free | LeMoyne |
| Scheele, Carl William, 1742-1786 | 1774: On Manganese and its Properties ["prepares and describes chlorine"; excerpt] | 1774 | Html | Free | LeMoyne |
| Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent, 1743-1794 | 1775-78 Memoir on the Nature of the Principle which Combines with Metals During Calcination...(Acad des Scien | 1775-78 | Html | Free | LeMoyne |
| Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent, 1743-1794 | 1775-7: Memoir on Combustion in General [explanation of combustion] | 1775pub1777 | Html | Free | LeMoyne |
| Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804 | 1775: Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air (v.2, sec 3) ["on dephlogisticated air"] | 1775 | Html | Free | LeMoyne |
| Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent, 1743-1794 | 1775: Memoir on the Nature of the Principle which Combines with Metals During Calcination...[composition of at | 1775 | Html | Free | ChemTeam |
| Scheele, Carl William, 1742-1786 | 1777: Chemical Treatise on Air & Fire [excerpt; "recognition that air is not a single substance"] | 1777 | Html | Free | LeMoyne |
| Priestley, Joseph | 1777: Disquisitions Relating to Matter & Spirit | 1777 | Graphic | Free | UPa |
| Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent, 1743-1794 | 1777: Experiments on the Respiration of Animals & on the Changes which happen to air in its passage [scrolldn] | 1777 | Html | Free | ChemTeam |
| Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent, 1743-1794 | 1783: Report...on the nature of water...not...an element but that it is susceptible of decomposition & recompo | 1783 | Html | Free | LeMoyne |
| Watt, James, 1736-1819 | 1784: Thoughts on the Constituent Parts of Water & of Dephlogisticated Air...["on water"] | 1784 | html | Free | LeMoyne |
| Cavendish, Henry | 1785: Experiments on air ["on the "phlogisticated" part of the atmosphere"] | 1785 | html | Free | LeMoyne |
| Bertholet, Claude-Louis, et. al. | 1787: A Dictionary of the New Chymical Nomenclature (frm Method of Chymical Nomenclature) | 1887 | Html | Free | LeMoyne |
| Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804 | 1789: Objections to the Experiments...relating to the Principle of Acidity, Composition of Water, & Phlogiston | 1789 | Html | Free | LeMoyne |
| Watson, Richard, 1737-1816 | 1789: Of Fire, Sulphur, & Phlogiston ["on the properties of phlogiston"] | 1789 | html | Free | LeMoyne |
| Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent, 1743-1794 | 1789: Preface to "Elements of Chemistry" | 1789 | Html | Free | LeMoyne |
| Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent, 1743-1794 | 1789: Table of Elements [frm: "Elements of Chemistry"] | 1789 | Html | Free | LeMoyne |
| Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent, 1743-1794 | 1790: [selections on] caloric & on states of matter from Elements of Chemistry | 1790 | Html | Free | LeMoyne |
| Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804 | 1796: Considerations on the Doctrine of Phlogiston and the Decomposition of Water | 1796 | Html | Free | LeMoyne |
| Reil, Johann Christian, 1759-1813 | 1796: On the Vital Force [excerpt] | 1796 | Html | Free | LeMoyne |
| Malthus, Thomas Robert, 1766-1834 | 1798: An Essay on the Principle of Population [no figures] | 1798 | Free | ElecScholarlyP | |
| Thomson, Benjamin (Count Rumford) | 1798: Heat is a Form of Motion: An Experiment in Boring Cannon (Philos Trans) | 1798 | html | Free | ChemTeam |
| Jenner, Edward, 1749-1823 | 1798: Inquiry Into the Causes & Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae, Or Cow-Pox [Vaccination against Smallpox] | 1798 | Html | Free | Bartleby |
| Davy, Humphry (Sir) 1778-1829 | 1799: An Essay on Heat, Light, & the Combinations of Light [head & friction; excerpts] | 1799 | Html | Free | LeMoyne |
| Ingenhousz, Jan, 1730-1799 | 1799: Experiments upon Vegetables, Discovering Their great Power of purifying the Common Air in the Sun-shine | 1799 | Html | Free | LeMoyne |
| Jenner, Edward, 1749-1823 | 1799: Further Observations on the Variolae Vaccinae, or Cow-Pox [smallpox] | 1799 | Html | Free | Bartleby |
| Proust, Joseph-Louis, 1754-1826 | 1799: Researches on Copper ["on definite proportions of copper carbonate"] | 1799 | Html | Free | LeMoyne |
| Jenner, Edward, 1749-1823 | 1800: A Continuation of Facts & Observations Relative to the Variolae Vaccinae, or Cow-Pox [smallpox] | 1800 | Html | Free | Bartleby |
| Volta, Alessandro | 1800: On the Electricity excited by the mere Contact of conducting Substances of different Kinds (Philos Mag) | 1800 | html | Free | ChemTeam |
| Dalton, John, 1766-1844 | 1802: Experimental Enquiry into the Proportion of the Several Gases or Elastic Fluids, Constituting the Atmosp | 1805 (pub) | html | Free | LeMoyne |
| Gay-Lussac, Joseph-Louis | 1802: The Expansion of Gases by Heat | 1802 | Html | Free | LeMoyne |
| Black, Joseph | 1803: Lectures on the Elements of Chemistry [posthumous; "specific & latent heat"] | 1803 | Html | Free | LeMoyne |
| Dalton, John, 1766-1844 | 1803: On the Absorption of Gases by Water & Other Liquids (read 1803) ["1st table of atomic weights"] | 1805 | html | Free | LeMoyne |
| Proust, Joseph-Louis, 1754-1826 | 1806: Sur les mines de cobalt, nickel et autres [" reserves the word compound for materials with definite prop | 1806 | Html | Free | LeMoyne |
| Thomson, Thomas | 1807: [Extracts from] Thomson's System of Chemistry (frm Sys of Chemistry) ["1st public exp of Dalton's views] | 1807 | html | Free | ChemTeam |
| Dalton, John, 1766-1844 | 1808-1: A New System of Chemical Philosophy [excerpts; "on heat and matter"] | 1808 | html | Free | LeMoyne |
| Dalton, John, 1766-1844 | 1808-2: A New System of Chemical Philosophy [excerpts; "on atomic hypothesis"] | 1808 | html | Free | LeMoyne |
| Thomson, Thomas | 1808: On Oxalic Acid (Philos Trans Royal Soc.) | 1808 | html | Free | ChemTeam |
| Davy, Humphry (Sir) 1778-1829 | 1808: On Some New Phenomena of Chemical Changes Produced by Electricity...(Philos Trans Royal Soc) [discv of s | 1808 | html | Free | ChemTeam |
| Wollaston, William Hyde | 1808: On Super-acid & Sub-acid Salts ["relevant to law of multiple proportions & atomic hypothesis"] | 1808 | html | Free | ChemTeam |
| Gay-Lussac, Joseph-Louis | 1809: Memoir on the Combination of Gaseous Substances with Each Other | 1809 | Html | Free | LeMoyne |
| Gay-Lussac, Joseph-Louis & Louis Jacques | 1809: On the nature & the properties of muriatic acid & of oxygenated muriatic acid [ie, chlorine] | 1809 | Html | Free | LeMoyne |