''Tyrocinium Chymicum''
was a published set of chemistry lecture notes started by
Jean Beguin Jean Beguin (1550–1620) was an iatrochemist noted for his 1610 '' Tyrocinium Chymicum'' (Begin Chemistry), which many consider to be one of the first chemistry textbooks. In the 1615 edition of his textbook, Beguin made the first-ever chemical e ...
in 1610 in Paris, France. It has been cited as the first
chemistry
Chemistry is the scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter. It is a physical science within the natural sciences that studies the chemical elements that make up matter and chemical compound, compounds made of atoms, molecules a ...
textbook (as opposed to that for
alchemy
Alchemy (from the Arabic word , ) is an ancient branch of natural philosophy, a philosophical and protoscientific tradition that was historically practised in China, India, the Muslim world, and Europe. In its Western form, alchemy is first ...
). Many of the preparations were pharmaceutical in nature.
References
External links
Antonio Clericuzio, Chemical Textbooks in the Seventeenth Century
1610 books
History of chemistry
Chemistry books
1610 in science
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