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Brown, R. (1827). A Brief Account of Microscopical Observations. (Reprinted in Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal 358-837 (July-September 1828)). 

At about the same time, Dr. Andrew Fyfe (1792-1861) of Edinburgh detected iodine in several species of Fucus, in a species of conferva, and in the common sponge of the shops, and published a paper on it in the Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (10S). After serving as assistant to Professor Hope, he gave private lectures on chemistry and pharmacy at Edinburgh. From 1844 until his death in 1861 he occupied die chair of chemistry at die University of Aberdeen (109). 

Edin. N. Phil. J. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Edinburgh. 

Lindsay, Lauder. 1859. On the Action of Hard Waters upon Lead. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal 9 245-258 10 8-25. 

On the "chemical philosophy" of the Paracelsian tradition, see Allen G. Debus, The Chemical Philosophy Paracelsian Science andMedicine in the 16th and 17th Centuries, 2 vols. (New York Science History Publications, 1977). Also see Arthur Donovan, Philosophical Chemistry in the Scottish Enlightenment The Doctrines and Discoveries of William Cullen and Joseph Black (Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press, 1975). 

Antoine Lavoisier, Elements of Chemistry [1789], trans. Robert Kerr (Edinburgh William Creech, 1790 Dover reprint ed., 1965) xixxx, xxvi. And see, Antoine Fourcroy, Philosophic chimique. J. A. Deluc notes that Fourcroy s "chemical philosophy" is better understood to mean the "new chemistry" of Lavoisier. See Deluc,... 

Thackray, A. (1970). Atoms and Poiners. An Essaj on Newtonian Matter-Theorj and the Development of Chemistry. London 119, 184 Donovan, A.L. (1975). Philosophical Chemistry in the Scottish Enlightenment. The Discoveries of William Cullen and Joseph Black. Edinburgh 31 Schofield, R.E. (1970b). Me-chanicism and Materialism. British Natural Philosophy in an Age of Eeason. New Jersey 211-212, 145 Shapiro, A.E. (1993). Fits, Passion and Paroxysms. Physics, Method, and Chemistry and Newton s Theories of Coloured Bodies and Fits of Easy Reflection. Cambridge 224. 

The Theological and Philosophical Works of Hermes Trismegistus, Christian Neo-Platonist. Translation, preface, and annotations by John David Chambers (Edinburgh, 1882 reissued Ann Arbor, 1967, and New York, 1975). 

H. Gahn, in Medical and Philosophical Commentaries by a Society in Edinburgh, ed. Duncan, Edinburgh, 1783, vii, 438 (BM 48. b. 1) magnesia nigra is reducible to a new semi-metal and that the marmor metallicum, or heavy spar, is a compound of vitriolic acid and a new species of earth, whose attraction to the vitriolic acid is very great. Both these have been made by my brother. ... 

W. R. Grove On a New Voltaic Combination of Gases by Platinum, The London and Edinburgh Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science, Philos. Mag. 14 (1839) 127. 

The power of Dalton s theory was appreciated by Thomas Thomson, of the Edinburgh and then Glasgow medical schools, who highlighted it in the third edition (1807) of his famous textbook, A System of Chemistry and who then did experiments to confirm that combination really did take place in the simple ratios Dalton had predicted. He convinced William Hyde Wollaston, one of the most eminent analysts of his day (known as The Pope because he was believed infallible) whose analyses of the various oxalates, published with Thomson s in the Royal Society s Philosophical Transactions (1808), confirmed Dalton s laws of chemical composition. Meanwhile, Thomson s book was translated into French and finally, Dalton himself published his theory in his New System of Chemical Philosophy, part 1 of which appeared in Manchester in 1808. Most of the volume is concerned with heat and the atomic theory occupies only the last few pages. We might have been able to follow his thinking more closely if the Lit Phil had not been bombed in World War II, and most of its records destroyed. 

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