An introductory lecture to a course of chemistry : read at the Laboratory in Oxford, on February 7, 1797 / [Robert Bourne].

  • Robert Bourne
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1797
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Credit: An introductory lecture to a course of chemistry : read at the Laboratory in Oxford, on February 7, 1797 / [Robert Bourne]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( » ] ing, but are now defirous of extending their views over the fields of fcience. It is to Gentlemen of this laft dcfcription that I fliall chiefly addrefs myfelf. I fliall endeavour to deliver the elementary parts of Chemiftry in as familiar a manner as poffible ; to avoid the minutire of chemical controverfy; in fliort, to make the accefs to the fcience as eafy as may be. This plan, whilfl: it is beft cal¬ culated for the greater part of my Audience, may not be altogether without it’s ufe to thofe who are already Chemifts. The elements of a fcience are to that fcience, what Grammar is to Language : and if great Scholars have confelTed, that they have read their Grammar over and over again with profit, the good Chemifl: may, perhaps, reap fome advantage from an elementary Courfe of Ledlures. He may condefeend to be reminded, where he cannot be informed. I wifh to have it underftood, that I fliall not, becaufe I am a Phyfician, dwell too much upon pharmaceutical Chemiftry. I do not, on the one hand, refign the privilege of no¬ ticing
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