Nitre aerial

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,... 

Guerlac, Henry. Newton on the Continent. Ithaca (NY) Cornell Univ P, 1981. 2921 Hall, Alfred Rupert Isaac Newton and the aerial nitre. Notes Rees Roy Soc 52, no. 1 (22 Jan 1998) 51-61. rhttp //www.journals. 

Debus, Allen George. The Paracelsian aerial nitre. Isis 55, no. 1 (1964) 43-61. 

Allen G. Debus, The Paracelsian Aerial Niter, Isis 55,1964,43-61 Robert G. Frank Jr., Harvey and the Oxford Physiologists (University of California Press, 1980), 117-128 A. Rupert Hall, Isaac Newton and the Aerial Nitre, Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London 52, 1998, 51-61. 

Hall, A. Rupert. Isaac Newton and the Aerial Nitre. Notes and Records 52, 1998, 51-61. 

Bohn, De Ignis, paragraphs 19-21. On Mayow s aerial-niter, see Henry Guerlac, John Mayow and the Aerial Nitres Studies in the Chemistry of John Mayow -1, 332-49 in A clcs du Septieme Congres International d Histoire des Sciences (Jerusalem, 1953) Robert G. Frank, Jr., Haney and the Oxford Physiologists A Study of Scientific Ideas and Social Interaction (Berkeley, CA University of California Press, 1980), 224-74. 

W. Hewson, E eriments on the Blood, Phil. Trans., 1770, lx, 368-413 (373) repr. in lus Experimental Inquiries Part the First. Being a Second Edition of an Inquiry into the Properties of the Blood, 1772, 10 The Works of William Hewson, ed. G. Gulliver, 1846, 11 (the note says perhaps Mayow s nitro-aerial spirit may be here confounded with nitre ). 

A strenuous advocate of the view that spirit of nitre was the active principle in the blood, in Tractatus Quinque, Mayow claimed that animal spirits consisted mainly of nitro-aerial particles, i.e., very rareified, elastic and agile particles, which, combined with salino-sulphurous particles contained in blood, gave origin to muscular motion. 

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