1615 ⟶ First Chemical Equation Published in Tyrocinium Chymicum
Jean Beguin publishes the Tyrocinium Chymicum, an early chem...
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🧪 Libavius Publishes *Alchemia*
Andreas Libavius publishes Alchemia, a prototype chemistry textbook.⟶
ChemistryLibaviusTextbookAlchemyScientific LiteratureEarly ChemistryRenaissance
Germany🧪 First Chemical Equation Published in Tyrocinium Chymicum
Jean Beguin publishes the Tyrocinium Chymicum, an early chemistry textbook, and in it draws the first-ever chemical equation.⟶
ChemistryChemical EquationBeguinChemical NotationEarly Modern PeriodTextbookStoichiometry
France📚 Antoine Lavoisier Publishes Traité Élémentaire de Chimie
Antoine Lavoisier publishes Traité Élémentaire de Chimie, the first modern chemistry textbook. It is a complete survey of (at that time) modern chemistry, including the first concise definition of the law of conservation of mass, and thus also represents the founding of the discipline of stoichiometry or quantitative chemical analysis.⟶
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France🧪 Berzelius Introduces Modern Chemical Notation
Jöns Jakob Berzelius publishes Lärbok i Kemien in which he proposes modern chemical symbols and notation, and of the concept of relative atomic weight.⟶
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