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The Scottish Enlightenment Library

Experiments upon Magnesia Alba, Quicklime, and other Alcaline Substances

Joseph Black (1728–1799)

In preparation · announced for 2027

The doctoral work in which fixed air was weighed and chemistry became quantitative, with the Edinburgh lecture notes on latent heat.

Reference: SSSP PROG-BLACK-MAGN
Series: The Scottish Enlightenment Library
Author: Joseph Black (1728–1799)
First published: 1756
Announced for: 2027

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Adam Smith · In preparation
Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary
David Hume · In preparation
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Adam Ferguson · In preparation
Theory of the Earth
James Hutton · In preparation