An account of the life and writings of Herman Boerhaave, doctor of philosophy and medicine; professor of the theory, and practice of physic ... in the university of Leyden ... / By Wm. Burton, M.D. In two parts. With an appendix. [Anon].

  • Burton, William
Date:
1746
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Credit: An account of the life and writings of Herman Boerhaave, doctor of philosophy and medicine; professor of the theory, and practice of physic ... in the university of Leyden ... / By Wm. Burton, M.D. In two parts. With an appendix. [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Sect. III.] X)r H.BOERHAAVE, inflead of having reafon to complain of any defedls, have obferved, that many exprefs treatifes upon the various fubjefts he dif- cuffed, appear after him fo fuperficial, as fcarcely to merit their perufal. It was his manner to lead perfons to thofe fubjedls of converfation they were beft acquainted with, whence he derived fuch inflruftion, that feveral expert artificers were fuprized at his having penetrated further into their own art than themfelves •, for the lowefi: mechanic arts furnifli a vaft number of uncommon and furprizing experiments well worthy a philofopher’s attention 5 fome were the invention of ingenious, but un¬ known authors; others accidentally ftum- bled upon by the meaneft artificers, who never dreamt of philofophy, nor any thing elfe but their own immediate advantage; yet thefe contribute as materially to the compofing a natural hiftory, as archives to civil hiftory, and are juftly ftiled the anec¬ dotes of nature, which alone are prefera¬ ble to any fyftems of philofophy formed without »
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