Heads of lectures on a course of experimental philosophy, particularly including chemistry, delivered at the new college in Hackney / by Joseph Priestley.

  • Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804.
Date:
Printed for Wm. Jones, no. 86, Dame-Street, and J. Rice, no. 2, College-Green,
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Heads of lectures on a course of experimental philosophy, particularly including chemistry, delivered at the new college in Hackney / by Joseph Priestley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

    39/252
    as EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPIiY, L-EC TURE I. The IntroduMion. JL HE obje(5]: of experimental philofophf is the knowledge of nature in general, or more flridly, that of the properties of natural fubflances, and of the changes of thofe properties in different circumflan- ces. This knowledge can only be at- tained by experiment^ or ohfervation -, as that clay is capable of becoming hard by means of fire, and thcx^eby being made into bricks, and that by the fame means limeflone can be converted into B quick-