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/ˈkɪ.mə.stɹi/ · noun
(historical) Early Modern chemistry, as proto-scientific and not fully distinct from alchemy..
But the sixteenth century was a time of particular interest in chymistry. The idea of chymistry meant many things to many people of the period, and it is very dangerous to generalize. Chymistry was both theory and practice, involving both an account of at least a part of the natural world and an application of that understanding to the practical problems of transforming base metals into gold and silver.
The Hill Kieuchin, near to Hanyang, has its name from nine Virgins that were Siſters, and lived always Maids upon this Hill ſtudying Chymiſtry.
Mr Mackenzie's usefull and important Volume, which applies all the modern Discoveries in CHYMISTRY to the Arts of Life, and to the various branches of Manufacture, accompanied by numerous engravings and wood-cuts, is now on SALE at the shops of all the booksellers in the United Kingdom
In describing this class of substances, it is not my design to treat of their chymical mode of action. This investigation forms one of the most interesting parts of the chymistry of agriculture: but it is not essential to that practical knowledge of the subject which will suffice for the common purposes of the farmer. The remarks to be made, therefore, on the mode of action of these bodies, will be of a very general nature.
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Chymistry means (historical) Early Modern chemistry, as proto-scientific and not fully distinct from alchemy..
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But the sixteenth century was a time of particular interest in chymistry. The idea of chymistry meant many things to many people of the period, and it is very dangerous to generalize. Chymistry was both theory and practice, involving both an account of at least a part of the natural world and an application of that understanding to the practical problems of transforming base metals into gold and silver.
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