'Air and Fire' (1782) by Scheele. Title page of the 1782 edition of the book 'Chemische abhandlung von luft und feuer' by Swedish Pomeranian chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele (1742-1786). This book was first published in 1777, with the English edition of 1780 titled 'Chemical Observation and Experiments on Air and Fire'. Scheele discovered several new chemical elements and compounds, but was unlucky in that his contemporaries often published their findings before him. In the 1770s he discovered the gaseous elements chlorine and oxygen, with the discovery of oxygen published in this book. Priestley and Lavoisier published their findings on oxygen before Scheele. Living and working in Swedish Pomerania (on the Baltic coast in what is now Germany and Poland), Scheele spoke and published in German. Also named here are his co-authors Torbern Bergman and Johann Gottfried Leonhardi. | |
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