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.
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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.

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    THE PREFACE. ^iTUATED^ as I happily am^ in the neighbourhood of die New College at Hackney^ an inftitution that docs honour to the DiiTenters, an iniiitution open to all perfons without diilinclion *, and connedted as I arn by friendinip with the tutors, I was glad to give it e^ery •aiTirtance in ray power; and therefore undertook to read the Le5iures on Hif- lory and Gene?'al Policy which I had compofcd when I was tutor at Warring- ton, and alfo to give anotlier courfe on the fubjecl of Experimental Pbilofophy, With this view I drew up the followino- H.^ads of Leclures; and, to fave the iludents the trouble of tranfciibing * One- f^entlcman of the Roman Catholic perfuafion, an.] fcveril o/ the Church of Eiigljnd, aic uow in tbc College. A 2 them/