Elements of chemistry : in a new systematic order, containing all the modern discoveries. Illustrated with thirteen copperplates / translated by R. Kerr.

  • Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent, 1743-1794.
Date:
1793
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Credit: Elements of chemistry : in a new systematic order, containing all the modern discoveries. Illustrated with thirteen copperplates / translated by R. Kerr. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    # When we publifhed our efiuy on the Nomen- clature of Chemiltry, we were reproached for having changed the language which was fpoken by our mailers, which they ftamped wTith their authority, and have handed down to us. But lhofe w ho reproach us on this account, have for- gotten that Bergman $nd Macquer urged us to make this reformation. In a letter which the learned ProfelTor of Upfal, M. Bergman, wrote, a fliort time before he died, to M. de Morveau, he bids him /pare no improper names ; thofe who are learned, will always he learned, and thofe who are ignorant will thus learn fooner. There is an objection to this work, which is per- haps better founded ; that 1 have given no account of the opinion of thofe who have gone before me, and have only Hated my own opi- nion without examining that of others. By this I have been prevented from doing that juftice to my aflbciates, and more efpecially to foreign che- mills, which 1 willied to render them. But I befeech the reader to conlider, that, if I had fil- led an elementary work with a multitude of quo- tations, if I had allowed myfelf to enter into long difiertations on the hifiory of the fcience, and the works of thofe who have ftudied it, I mult