Nicolas Lefèvre (chemist)

Nicolas Lefèvre , chemistry teacher with the Botanical garden of Paris.

It had been made a certain reputation as well by its lessons as by a treaty on its art, when, in 1664, Charles II called it in England and the direction of a pharmacy entrusted to him which it had established in the Palais Saint-James. Estimated of this monarch and considered scientists, Lefèvre was named member of the royal Société of London, and died in 1674.

One said that, large admiror of Paracelse, it claimed to have discovered, like him, a secrecy to return or maintain all the strength of youth in a advanced age, and that it had given communication of it to Pierre Bayle. At all events of this assertion, it was a skilful chemist, and people of art rent the exactitude with which it describes the operations and gives an account of their results. It indicates also the means of recognizing the fraud in the pharmaceutical preparations. Its work, looked like one of best shortened processes then of use, obtained a great success and was translated into several languages.

It is entitled theoretical and practical Chimie , Paris, 1660, 1669, 1674, in-12; Leyde, 1699, 2 vol. in-12; English transl., London, 1664, 1670, in-8°; ibid, 1740, in-4°; German transl., Nuremberg, 1672, 1685, in-8°; Latin transl., Besancon, 1737, in-4°.

Lenglel-Dufresnoy gave one of them 5th French edition increased considerably by Dumoustier, under the title of Cours of chemistry , Paris, 1751, vol. in-12, with fig.

Nicolas Lefèvre also published the Religion of the doctor , $the Hague, 1688, in-12. It is the French translation, according to the Latin version, of the English work of Thomas Browne.

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