Keywords: Kenelm Digby 1667 Discours sur la vegetation des plantes.jpg en Discours sur la vegetation des plantes / fait par le chevalier Digby le 23 janvier 1660 en presence de messieurs de l'Academie royale d'Angleterre où il montre la methode qu'il faut tenir pour bien cultiver la physique ensemble l'utilité de plusieurs experiences tres-curieuses sur ce sujet A Paris Chez la veuve Moet 1667 Usually singled out for his work on the powder of sympathy or weapon salve cure Digby had wide interests in chemical and natural philosophical matters His experiments on the growth of plants showed that nitre promoted plant growth This finding entered into the very productive work of English scholars working on nitro-aerial particles a very interesting forerunner of the discovery of oxygen This is the French translation of his A Discourse Concerning the Vegetation of Plants London 1661 1667 engraving Institution Chemical Heritage Foundation object history exhibition history credit line http //www chemheritage org/ Chemical Heritage Foundation accession number http //othmerlib chemheritage org/record b1065957~S6 QK41 D54313 1667 Roy G Neville Historical Chemical Library http //www chemheritage org/ Chemical Heritage Foundation Image downloaded with permission from the Chemical Heritage Foundation as part of the Wikipedian in Residence initiative CHF-cooperation PD-old-100 Images from the Chemical Heritage Foundation Alchemy books |