Volume 2

Chemical essays / by R. Watson.

  • Watson, Richard, 1737-1816.
Date:
1793-1796
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Chemical essays / by R. Watson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    116/384 (page 106)
    rallty. of philofophers, acquiefce ib the opinion of Boyle. After allj it rnay be obferved, that we are inquiring into the caufe of a phenomenon, which it may be faid had no fecondary caufe at all. It is taken for granted in this difquifition,. that the water which covered the- globe in its chaotic (late, .vvas not impregnated with fait as at prefent, but quite freQinow this is an opi- nion concerning a matter of faft, which can never be proved either way ; and furely we extend our fpe- culations very far, when we attempt to explain a phenomenon, primeval to, or coeval with, the formation of the earth. Bernardino Gomefius about two hundred years ago, publiflied an in- genious’ * Gomef. de Sale, 1. i. c; 24.-