A New Method of Chemistry
- Kind
- Book
- Date
- 2010-08-06
- Publisher
- Gale ECCO, Print Editions
- Retrieved
- Jan 18, 2012
- ISBN
- q4_DcQAACA
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Chemistry is a Science of Pure Experimentation
For chemistry is no science form'd à priori; 'tis no production of the human mind, framed by reasoning and deduction: it took its rise from a number of experiments casually made, without any expectation of what follow'd; and was only reduced into an art or system, by collecting and comparing the effects of such…
War Must Rely on Chemistry
It were indeed to be wish'd that our art had been less ingenious, in contriving means destructive to mankind; we mean those instruments of war, which were unknown to the ancients, and have made such havoc among the moderns. But as men have always been bent on seeking each other's destruction by continual wars; and as…