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

  • Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent, 1743-1794.
Date:
1790
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Credit: Elements of chemistry, in a new systematic order, containing all the modern discoveries. Illustrated with thirteen copperplates / by Mr Lavoisier. ... Translated from the French, by Robert Kerr. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the objed by which it is to be gratified. In this manner, from a feries of fenfations, obfer- vations, and analyfes, a fucceflive train of ideas arifes, fo linked together, that an attentive ob- ferver may trace back to a certain point the order and connexion of the whole fum of hu- man knowledge. When we begin the ftudy of any fcience, we are in a fituation, refpeding that fcience, fimi- lar to that of children ; and the courfe by which we have to advance is precifely the fame which Nature follows in the formation of their ideas. In a child, the idea is merely an effedt produced by a fenfation; and, in the fame manner, in commencing the ftudy of a phyfical fcience, we ought to form no idea but what is a necelfary confequence, and immediate effeft, of an expe- riment or obfervation. Befides, he that enters upon the career of fcience, is in a lefs advanta- geous fituation than a child who is acquiring his firft ideas. To the child. Nature gives va- rious means of rectifying any miftakes he may commit refpeding the falutary or hurtful quali- ties of the objeds which furround him. On e- very occafion his judgments are corrected by i5xperiencej want and pain are the necelfary con-