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2007
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Multidisciplinarias (Ciencias Sociales) Peru Coquette Joseph Mercurio Peruano Lavoisier Antoine Humboldt Alexander vSujets proches
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Claudio Bifano et al., « The first publication of the new chemistry in America in Mercurio Peruano (1792) by Joseph Coquette », Interciencia, ID : 10670/1.xff84g
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"Joseph Coquette, first director of the non-university scholarlylearning center, Limas Mining Tribunal in Peru, published(1792) a text on chemistry in the Peruvian journal MercurioPeruano: Principles of Physical Chemistry ., which wasthe first text published in America on the new chemistry, as itappeared five years before Lavoisiers book of 1789 was printedin Spanish in Mexico, in 1797. It was complemented by Aboutthe need to perfect and reform the Nomenclature in Chemistry .in 1793. In addition he published Didactic dissertationon Mining .., also in 1792. The present essay examines in extensoPrinciples of Physical Chemistry ., and comments onthe others. Some scholars and institutions of advanced learningin the New Continent are also mentioned. Mercurio Peruanois looked upon in more detail, after Alexander von Humboldtdeemed it so important that he donated the 12 volume collectionto the Berlin Library of King Frederick William III."