Copy 1, Volume 1
Experiments and observations on different kinds of air / By Joseph Priestley.
- Joseph Priestley
- Date:
- 1775-1784
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Experiments and observations on different kinds of air / By Joseph Priestley. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![y I S E C T I O N IT. An account of the apparatus with which the fol¬ lowing experiments were made, RAther than defcribe at large the manner in which every particular experiment that I lliall have occafion to recite was made, which would both be very tedious, and require an un- iiecefTary multiplicity of drawings, I think it more advifeable to giye, at one view, an ac¬ count of all my' a])paratus and inflruments, or at lead of every thing that can require a defeription, and of all the different operations 'ahd proceffes in which I employ them. It will be feen that my apparatus for experi¬ ments on air is, in fa6t, nothing more than the apparatus of Dr. Hales, Dr. Brownrigg, and Mr. Cavendifh, diverfified, and made a little more fimple. Yet notwithilanding the fimpli- city of this apparatus, and' the eafe with which all the operations are condudled, I would not have any perfon, who is altogether without experience, to imagine th^t he fhall be able to fele6l any of the following experiments, and immediately perform it, without difficulty or • ' ‘ blunder-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30532401_0001_0046.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
