Mayow

Bohm, Walter. John Mayow and his contemporaries. Ambix 11. 

Guerlac, Henry. John Mayow and the aerial nitre. CIHS 7 332-349. 

Guerlac, Henry. The poets aerial nitre studies in the chemistry of John Mayow,... 

John Mayow [1640-1679], fhttp // www.crvstalinks.com/mavow.html]. 

Now, it is evident that if Mayow s answer was a true description of the process of calcination, or combustion, it should be possible to separate the calcined substance into two different things, one of which would be the thing which was calcined, and the other... 

This proof was not forthcoming until about a century after the publication of Mayow s work. The experiments which furnished the proof were rendered possible by a notable discovery made on the 1st of August 1774, by the celebrated Joseph Priestley. 

Everard ML, Bara A, Kurian M, EUiott TM, Ducharme F, Mayowe V. Anticholinergic drugs for wheeze in children under the age of two years. Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2005. 

In 1717 Louis Lemery stated that saltpeter was usually obtained from tile earth and refuse piles near old lime-plastered walls and in stables and churchyards. To explain its origin, John Mayow postulated the existence of a hypothetical saltpeter m the atmosphere. When Mariotte exposed to the air of an upper room some saltpeter earth (earth from which all the saltpeter had previously been leached out), however, he was unable to prepare even a gram of saltpeter. When he placed the same earth in the cellar, it soon became covered with salt-petei. Lemery placed three earthen vessels containing respectively lime, potassium carbonate, and leached saltpeter earth on pedestals, and exposed them to the moist air of a dark cellar whose walls and floor were covered widi saltpeter. Even after two years, however, he found not a trace of saltpeter in any of the three vessels. By frequently moistening the contents with animal substances, however, he soon prepared a considerable quantity of it (42). 

John Mayow, 1641-1679, English chemist and physician, who died quite young. Famous for his early researches on combustion and respiration His theory of combustion was described in his tract entitled "De Sale Nitro et Spirito Nitro-aereo in 1674 ( 48). 

Since Max Speter (27,41) mentioned that John Mayow in his Trac-tatus Quinque anticipated Lavoisier (28) in die belief that all acids contain oxygen, it is interesting to know that Dr. Rudierford also made the same error. A note by John Robison in his edition of Black s Lectures on the Elements of Chemistry reads as follows ... 

Mayow s Tractatus Quinque was published in 1674, Dr. Rutherford s communication was read in 1775, and Lavoisier s statement that oxygen is an essential constituent of all acids is contained in a paper read on November 23, 1779. 

Speteh, Max, John Mayow und das Schiclcsal seiner Lehren, Chem.-Ztg.,... 

Birth of Dr. John Mayow in London. Author of an early theory of combustion. 

Magnus, Albertus, 14 Marsden, Ernest, 39 Maxwell, James Clerk, 103 Mayow, John, 19 Mendeleev, Dmitri, 63, 64, 65 Meyer, Julius Lothar, 63 MUlikan, Robert Andrew, 37 MitscherUch, Edhardt, 205 Molina, Mario, 265, 266 Morehead, James T, 304 Morton, WiUiam T. I, 209 Moseley, Henry, 64 MuUer, Paul, 282, 283 MuUis, Kary B., 236... 

The latter half of the seventeenth century is marked by the activity of a considerable number of able investigators and writers on chemistry, notable among whom are Nicolas Le Febre (or Le Febure), ( -1674) Christopher Glaser (died about 1670-1673) Eobert Boyle (1627-1691) Thomas Willis (1621-1675) Johann Kunkel (1630-1702) Johann J. Becher (1635-1682) John Mayow (1645-1679) Nicolas Lemery (1645-1715) and Wilhelm Homberg (1652-1715). All these men contributed to the increase of knowledge of the facts of chemistry by their researches and publications, which appeared from about 1660 to the close of the century. 

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