Observations on combustion & acidification : with a new theory of those processes, founded on the conjunction of the phlogistic and antiphlogistic doctrines / by John Redman Coxe, M.D.

  • Coxe, John Redman, 1773-1864.
Date:
1811
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Credit: Observations on combustion & acidification : with a new theory of those processes, founded on the conjunction of the phlogistic and antiphlogistic doctrines / by John Redman Coxe, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I should perhaps have acted with more pru- dence had I withheld this,essay from the public eye ; but as the chief part of it formed the sub- stance of a lecture to the Chemical class, it was not to be expected that the opinions maintained would be long uncontradicted: and having in conversation, found I had been misunderstood by some; that the facts on which I rested my opinions were not sufficiently explained in the short compass of a lecture ; and being urged by others to give them an opportunity of seeing it more in detail; I considered upon the whole, it would be best to publish it, even in an imperfect state; for such I must re- gard it, since I have not had leisure seriously to compare it with the facts and principles of the numerous writers on chemistry: and had 1 waited till I was free from other avoca- tions, I might have reserved it to a distant pe- riod. I was however anxious that the doctrines might be elucidated, or their inadequacy shewn, through the judgment of others, which an inti- mate acquaintance with the facts and theories of +his captivating science, will so readily enable