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Title: A synopsis of the chemical characters adapted to the new nomenclature by Messrs. Hassenfratz and Adet, systematically arranged by W. Jackson, practical chemist
Identifier(s): text:310; APSimg6530; Goodman Number: 131; 973 C683 No. 353
Description: Antoine Lavoisier's anti-phlogiston theory required a new chemical nomenclature to facilitate its dissemination and further development. He therefore collaborated with several French chemists to produce Méthode de nomenclature chimique (1787), a work which had appended to it two papers by Jean-Henri Hassenfratz and Pierre-Auguste Adet giving symbols for the new chemistry. William Jackson assembled the charts of symbols from the English translation of Méthode by John St. John and published the above broadside, dedicated to John C. Lettsom, a London physician. Lettsom gave this copy to the American Philosophical Society in 1800. Ill.: table of chemical characters.; For the explanation which accompanied this broadside, see Goodman #132.
Creator: Jackson, William
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Chemistry; Chemistry; Symbols
Date: 1799

Title: The substance of the two memoirs on the new characters to be used in chemistry, to elucidate the systematical synopsis arranged by W. Jackson
Identifier(s): text:360; APSimg6531; Goodman Number: 132; 973 C683 No. 356
Description: According to the text this work was extracted by Jackson from the "Register of the Royal Academy of Sciences" and published to accompany his synopsis (see Goodman #131). The two original memoirs by Adet and Hassenfratz were summarized and reviewed by Antoine Lavoisier, Claude-Louis Berthollet, and Antoine-François de Fourcroy in June 1787.
Creator: Jackson, William
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Chemistry; Chemistry; Symbols
Date: 1799