I carne upon this collection oGBP lec- tures in chemistry by Henric Theophil Scheffer delivered in about 1750, edited by Torbern Bergman and published in Swed- ish in 1775, when I was spending a sab- batical leave in Uppsala. Sweden. in 1977, gathering material for my biography oGBP Bergman (Coronado Press, 1985). I have written a chapter about "ScheGBPGBPer's Lec- tures" in my Bergman biography. I refer the reader to this biography for further discussion. Bergman says in his "Foreword" to "ScheGBPGBPer"s Lectures" that he designed this collection GBPo~ use by "those like me who teach chemistry". So this is one oGBP the first, iGBP not the first, textbooks de- signed to be used in classes in chemistry. That phrase. "one oGBP the first. iGBP not the GBPirst". is so typical oGBP Bergman's work in many fields. Bergman is considered to be the father oGBP quantitative chemical analysis, physical chemistry, modern chem- ical nomenclature, the concept oGBP equival- ent weights. and the electromotive series.
