A syllabus, of chemical and philosophical enquiries, composed for the use of the noblemen and gentlemen who have subscribed to the proposals made, for the advancement of natural knowledge, / by B. Higgins, M.D.

  • Higgins, Bry. (Bryan), 1737?-1820.
Date:
[1775?]
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Credit: A syllabus, of chemical and philosophical enquiries, composed for the use of the noblemen and gentlemen who have subscribed to the proposals made, for the advancement of natural knowledge, / by B. Higgins, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    19/78 (page 17)
    ( l?'-} already recited, are to be fubj&ds of- future confideration. Of the Element of water* Of diftilled rain, river, fpring, and mi¬ neral waters, and their impregnations. The experiments of Boyle, Borrichius, Wallerius, Leidenfroft, Margraaff, Eller, and Lavoifier, confidered, and the conclu- five experiments repeated; together with new experiments, proving water to be' an elementary matter incapable of decompo- fition *, that the pretended converfion of water to earth is an erroneous notion, and that there is but one aqueous element. Obfervations and experiments, perfuading that the pureft known Hate of the watery element, is that of ice,' and that ice be¬ comes fluid by, the interposition of fire, or aerial, or acid, or other matters, demon- ftrable one or more in all fluid water* and expelled or drawn away in freez¬ ing- .. Yarious phenomina of freezing natural and artificial, exhibited and explained. • e Obfervations and experiments, fhewing, that the indeftructible immntable atoms of water do attradl each other ; fhewing further C 2 - the'