Abstract
This article provides a detailed, accurate overview of the private, and first public courses of chymistry in Paris. After contextualising the lectures of Beguin, I discuss the teaching of Étienne de Clave. This leads to Italy where his brother, Jacques, himself a chymist and physician, became the first in Italy to receive the official title of professor of chymistry. I explore new documents concerning Étienne de Clave’s chymical teaching, and then focus on the courses at the Jardin Royal under both Guy de La Brosse and William Davisson, along with further private courses in Paris between 1630 and 1650. Beginnning with those of Davisson before he was appointed professor of chymistry at the Royal Garden – a title even La Brosse did not receive – I proceed thereafter with the examination of the courses of Barlet and Le Febvre.
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