Volume 1

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

  • Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent, 1743-1794.
Date:
1802
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Credit: Elements of chemistry, in a new systematic order, containing all the modern discoveries. ... / by Mr. Lavoisier. Translated from the French by Robert Kerr. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    felf : He was not only thoroughly conver- fant in the difcoveries of other philofophers, having, with infinité pains, repeated ail their important experiments, and fo varied moft of them, as to bring their refults into a much clearer view, but was himfelf the author of many important difcoveries. The hifto- ry, therefore, of thefe difcoveries, and their proper arrangement, for conveying an ex- act idea of the new theory which he had deduced from them, could not, certainly, hâve been given to the world fo well, or with fo much propriety, by any other per- fon. Tliis great defideratum, in the hiftory and fcience of chemiftry, was accompliflied in the year 1789, by the publication at Paris of thefe Eléments of Chemiftry by Mr Lavoi- fier j and a copy of that excellent work ha- ving foon after fallen accidentally into the hands of the Tranfiator, he was eager ta give it to the public in Englifh. He has received infinité fatisfadlion from the fa- vourable réception experienced by his fîrft attempt to merit tbe favour of the public \ and whatever hefitation he may hâve ori- ginally felt, on a firfl: appearance, even in the