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Credit: Remarks on Mr. Robert Dossie's Institutes of experimental chemistry. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Remarks on Mr. Robert Dossie's Institutes of experimental chemistry. Source: Wellcome Collection.
![[ *7 ] he has creduloufly copied the mofl abfurdfalfties: That he has fir ft invented an hypothejis, and then invented fddts to verify it : That^ in regard to many faBsy he is notorioufly mijlakeny perhaps from that volatility of thought, which prevents his diflinguifhing betwixt the vigorous fallies of imagination and demonflrative reafon- in&' ! The contemptuous vanity of thi? wri¬ ter break? forth equally in his other per¬ formances $ and his ether performance , (reckoning the Elaboratory and Handmaid to be iuch) are equally contemptible with the prefent. I fhould have fent you fome animadverfions upon them as they made their appearance, if I had not thought yourfeives to be more equal to the tafk. For though much of them is too abfurd for ferious criticifm, it is finely of impor¬ tance to point out fome of the material errors, to prevent the inexperienced reader from being milled by them into unfuccefs- ful and expenfive fchemes , or from being difgufled with chemifhy itfelf, from find- * Vol. i. Page 228, 264, 279, 490, (s’c. cfc. D ' ing](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30785923_0019.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
