Fontana,  born  at  Turin,  24  Dec. ,  1753,  died  at     on  Osmunda  regalis.     See  Mtmoires  of  the  Turin
Turin,  23  July,  1791.     He  wrote  a  chemical  paper     Academy,  1790-91,  v.  p.  93.
FONTINA  (JOHANNES  VON  DER).
Die  Fontina  der  Liebhaber  der  hohen  Wissenschaft.
See  VIER  niitzliche  Chymische  Tractat  vom  Stein  der  Weisen,  1612,  sig.  Aij  recto.
See  also  JEAN   DE   LA   FONTAINE.
FORBERGER  (GEORG).
See  ZACHAIRE  (DENIS),  Von  der  natiirlichen  Philosophia,  1609,  1773.
Georg    Forberger  was    born    at    Meissen,   and  Secretis  Antimonii  from  German  into  Latin,  Basil,

towards  the  close  of  the  sixteenth  century  lived  at  1575,    8°,    as   vyell   as   historical   works    by   Paolo

Basel.     He  was   an  adherent  of  Paracelsus,    and  Giovio  and  Guicciardini.
translated   Alexander    von    Suchten's    Tractat  de


Mercklin,  Lindenius  renovatus,  1686,  p.  816.
Reimmann,  Einleitung  in  die  Historiam  liter-
ariam  derer  Teutschen,  1713,  vi.  p.  578.
Mangel,  Bibliotheca  Scriptorum  Medicomm,
1731,  I.  ii.  p.  302.
Kestner,  Medicinisches  Gelehrten-Lexicon,  1740,
p.  306.
Jocher,  Allgemeines  Gelehrten-Lexicon ,  1750,
ii.  col.  670.
Beytrag  sur  Geschichte  der  hohern  Chemie,i7%$,
p.  510.
Schmieder,  Geschichte  der  Alchemie,  1832,  p.
276.
Ladrague,  Bibliotheque  Onvaroff,  Sciences
Secretes,  1870,  Nos.  930-933.
FORMOSUS.
See  TRAUME  des  griechischen  Philosophus  Aristobulus,  1762.
FORSTER  (JOHANN  REINHOLD).
See  SCHEELE  (CARL  W1LHELM),  Chemical  Observations  and  Experiments  on  Fire,
1780.
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