An account of some experiments on mercury, silver and gold : made at Guildford in May, 1782, in the laboratory of James Price. To which is prefixed an abridgement of Boyle's account of a degradation of gold.

  • Price, James, 1752-1783.
Date:
1782
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Credit: An account of some experiments on mercury, silver and gold : made at Guildford in May, 1782, in the laboratory of James Price. To which is prefixed an abridgement of Boyle's account of a degradation of gold. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INTRODUCTION. AF R E QU ENT perufal of ancient chemical writers, and an early attachment to the metallurgic branches of Chemiftry, inclined the author of the enfuing narrative to believe that the wonders related in books at prefent little read, though frequently exaggerated, had at leaft fome foundation. The phenomena which he continually met with in the purfuit of his experimental enquiries contributed greatly to ftrengthen this opinion : He found alfo, that fome difcoveries fuppofed to be modern, were really recorded in very ancient writers; but in terms fo obfeure, that the faft muft rather be applied to explain the defeription, than the defcriptioii to illuftrate the faft. If The portions of the Spagyric Philofophers refpeding metals, feemed to be very ealily reconciled with the noti¬ ons of more modern chemifts. That their inflammable principle in modern language, or their fulphur in that of the ancients, is the fame in all, is now univerfally allowed. a That