Elements of chemistry, in a new systematic order, containing all the modern discoveries. ... / Translated ... by Robert Kerr.

  • Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent, 1743-1794
Date:
1790
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Credit: Elements of chemistry, in a new systematic order, containing all the modern discoveries. ... / Translated ... by Robert Kerr. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( ' ed. Might it not be thought that works which ‘ treated of the faiences with the utmoft perfpi- ‘ cuity, with great precifion and order, mull be ‘ underftood by every body ? The faft is, thofe ‘ who have never ftudied any thing will under- ‘ {land them better than thofe who have fludied * a great deal, and efpecially than thofe who ‘ have written a great deal. At the end of the fifth chapter, the Abbe de Condillac adds: ‘ But, after all, the fciences ‘ have made progrefs, becaufe philofophers have ‘ applied themfelves with more attention to ob- ‘ ferve, and have communicated to their lan- ‘ guage that precifion and accuracy which they ‘ have employed in their obfervations : In cor- ‘ refling their language they reafon better.’ CON,