chymistry
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Boerhaave lost none of his hours, but, when he had attained one science, attempted another; he added physick to divinity, chymistry to the mathematicks, and anatomy to botany.
From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 06 Reviews, Political Tracts, and Lives of Eminent Persons by Johnson, Samuel
The schools of Salamanca, Toledo, and other Saracenic cities were famous throughout Europe for eminence in medicine, chymistry, astronomy, and mathematics.
From The Superstitions of Witchcraft by Williams, Howard
At noon to the Coffee-house, were with Dr. Allen some good discourse about physick and chymistry.
From The Diary of Samuel Pepys by Braybrooke, Richard Griffin, Baron
Nothing is more boasted by the admirers of chymistry, than that they can, by artificial heats and digestion, imitate the productions of nature.
From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 06 Reviews, Political Tracts, and Lives of Eminent Persons by Johnson, Samuel
Poor chymistry, had she not had such glorious objects in view!
From The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 by Walpole, Horace
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