Philosophical empiricism : containing remarks on a charge of plagiarism respecting Dr. H----s, interspersed with various observations relating to different kinds of air / by Joseph Priestley.

  • Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804.
Date:
1775
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Credit: Philosophical empiricism : containing remarks on a charge of plagiarism respecting Dr. H----s, interspersed with various observations relating to different kinds of air / by Joseph Priestley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tunity of vindicating myfelf, before he had publilhed my accufation to others. I am, Sir, Your very humble fervant Shelburne-houfe, Nov. 30,1775. J* Priestley. The next day I received the following an- fwer from Dr. Brocklefby, and on Dec. tjie 3d, that which follows from Dr. H——s„ Dear Sir, The experiments which I law you inftitute at Shelburne-houfe appeared fo nearly the fame with a greater variety of fuch as I had feen in three courfes of chemiftry given by Dr. H—- —s, that, in juft ice to my abfent friend, I was urged, poffibly, to violate the laws of hofpitality, by declaring in the in- ftant, that none of the divers experiments you was then pleafed to exhibit were novel to me, except one concerning the Swedifh fluor. Whether your difcoveries were prior to thofe of Dr. H——s I mud leave to the determi¬ nation of others, it being, at this diftance of time, not eafy for me to afcertain to whom the priority of thefe claims belongs. B 4 When-