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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    wefhould be continually rendering more fmooth, and from winch we muft endeavour to remove every obftacle which can occafion delay. The fciences, from their own nature, prefent a fuffi- cient number of difficulties, though we add not thofe which are foreign. But, befides this, che- mins will eafily perceive, that, in the firft part of my work, I make very little ufe of any expe- riments but thofe which were made by myfelf. If at any time I hâve adopted, without acknow- îedgment, the experiments or the opinions of M. Berthollet, M. Fourcroy, M. de la Place, M. Monge, or, in general, of any of thofe whofe prin- ciples are the famé with my own, it is owing to this circumftance, that frequent intercourfe, and the habit of communicating our ideas, our obfer- vations, and our ways of thinking, to each other, has eftablifhed between us a fort of community of opinions, in which it is often difficult for eve- ry one to know his own. Thefe remarks on the order which I thought myfelf obliged to follow in the arrangement of proofs and ideas, are to be applied only to the firft part of this work. It is the only one which contains the general fum of the doctrine I hâve adopted, and to which I wilhed to give a form çompletely elementary. c 3 The