Nicolas Lémery

Lémery, Nicolas (nēkôläˈ lāmərēˈ) [key], 1645–1715, French chemist. He was a pharmacist and lecturer in Paris and was the author of a standard textbook in chemistry (1675) and of a treatise on antimony (1707).

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