Chemical experiments and opinions. Extracted from a work published in the last century / [John Mayow].

  • John Mayow
Date:
1790
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Credit: Chemical experiments and opinions. Extracted from a work published in the last century / [John Mayow]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( iv) ftitutions, the laws of the Medes and Perfians.. At laft, however, I had the good fortune to meet with a copy in private hands, and to be permitted to carry it away with me, and to keep. it as long as I fhould defire. And now, as I again turned over the leaves, and mufed at leifure over their extraordinary contents, my former fentiments, thofe fentiments by which I was firft led to think of introducing to you modern philofophers, an ELDER BROTHER {carce more refpectable than unknown,. were renewed with undiminifhed force; and an additional circumftance gave frefh ftrength to my purpofe. For in the mean time I had not failed to talk to others: as to you, and in perhaps full ftronger terms. I had even ventured publicly to beftow upon an author, of whom hardly any body had heard, commendations thought ftrongly to favour of extrava- gance andenthufiafm. They, however, had the ee of fpreading a little the | knowledge
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