General Repertory of Mineralogical, Mining, and Salt Works Literature

§. 8.

Asbestos and Amianth.

1. Sim. Frid. Frenzel, Dissertation on Amianth and the lamps to be prepared from it, respondent Matthius. Wittenberg. 1668. 4to. 4 sheets.
2. Joan. Ciampinus on the incombustible flax or the stone Amianth and its method of spinning. Rome. 1691. 4to. 4 sheets.
Is also printed in: Fr. Ern. Brückmann's Itinerant Epistles. Cent. II. p. 635 ff.
3. Franc. Ern. Brückmann, curious natural history of the stone ἀσβέστου asbestos and its preparations, namely paper, flax, linen, and incombustible wicks. Braunschweig. 1727. 4to. 6 sheets.
4. Franc. Ern. Brückmann, selected theses from the curious natural history of the stone ἀσβέστου asbestos. Braunschweig. 1727. 4to. 1 sheet.
5. Martin Frobenius Ledermüller’s physical-microscopic treatise on asbestos, amianth, and some related fossils. Nuremberg. 1775. large 4to. 2 sheets and 6 illuminated copperplates. (B. 683.)
Beckmann's Library VI. p. 596: a superfluous work.
b) Physical and microscopic treatise on asbestos, amianth, stone-flax, or earth-flax, and some other fossils related to it, by Mr. Ledermüller; translated by Mr. Houttuyn. Nuremberg. 1776. large 4to. with 6 illuminated copperplates.
6. Torbern Bergman, Dissertation on Asbestine Earth, respondent Robsahm. Uppsala. 1782. 4to. 2 sheets.
Crell's Chemical Discovery XI. p. 323.