Johannis Maurici Hoffmanni ... Acta laboratorii chemici Altdorfini, chemiæ fundamenta, operationes præcipuas & tentamina curiosa, ratione & experientia suffulta, complectentia, Norimberga, 1719
The text, dated 1719, describes the activity of a chemical laboratory, specifically that of the city of Altdorf.
The author, Johannes Mauricius Hoffmann, personal physician of Frederick Wilhem I of Hohenzollern, after his studies in Padua, in 1664 he returned to his hometown where he held the Chair of Chemistry and, after the death of his father Moritz, discoverer of the pancreatic duct, also that of Botany.
In this exhibit, in the opening pages, there is an interesting historical preface handwritten by Ugo Schiff.