Chymical lectures: in which almost all the operations of chymistry are reduced to their true principles, and the laws of nature. Read in the Museum at Oxford, 1704 / By John Freind. Englished by J.M. To which is added, an appendix, containing the account given of this book in the Lipsick Acts, together with the author's remarks thereon.

  • John Freind
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1737
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Credit: Chymical lectures: in which almost all the operations of chymistry are reduced to their true principles, and the laws of nature. Read in the Museum at Oxford, 1704 / By John Freind. Englished by J.M. To which is added, an appendix, containing the account given of this book in the Lipsick Acts, together with the author's remarks thereon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    f H8 ] If I have explain’d this Subject, fo as to make it underftood, I have my Aim. For I thought that thefe Operations of Chymijlry might be better illud rated by a Plain and Simple Explication, than with all that Pomp and medley of Things, which Chymifts fo much abound with. Nor do I imagine, you ex¬ pert to be made Adepts, but rather defire to underftand the Realon of Chymical Operations, and to learn of what ufe thefe Inquiries may be to you. And that you may attain this, no other Princi¬ ples will better ferve your purpofe, than what we have here made ufe of, which are found, not only to be moft agreeable to Nature, but the moft plain and eafy to apprehend. In thefe you find fuch a thorough Agreement and Connexion, that if they were not really true, you your felves muft confefs, they could never
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