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 / 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
Date:
1712
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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 / 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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    , [ *98 ] conftantly obferv’d in the World ; and therefore it is the bufinefs of a true Philolopher, firft to difcover by Experiments the Properties of Bodies; and then, when they are once certainly eftablifh’d, to fhew clearly and diftinbtly, what Effects naturally flow from them. ’Tis hard to conceive, there can be any Objection of conlequence, againft this way of proceeding in our Phi- lofophical Inquiries. If the Prin¬ ciples or Aflumptions be founded upon Experiments and Obfervati- ons; if the Premifes be allow’d, and there be no Inferences made againfl: the Rules of Logick, the Coriclufion muft be certain: And whatever Appearances are ex¬ plain’d this way, muft be allow’d Advancements in the Dilcovery of Natural Knowledge. And lo I prelume the Principle of AttraSU- on, for any thing which the Editors ■. have
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