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Title: Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air

Author: Joseph Priestley

Release Date: August 19, 2009 [EBook #29734]

Language: English

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EXPERIMENTS AND OBSERVATIONS ON DIFFERENT KINDS OF AIR.

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Quamobrem, si qua est erga Creatorem humilitas, si qua operum
ejus reverentia et magnificatio, si qua charitas in homines, si
erga necessitates et aerumnas humanas relevandas studium, si
quis amor veritatis in naturalibus, et odium tenebrarum, et
intellectus purificandi desiderium; orandi sunt homines iterum
atque iterum, ut, missis philosophiis istis volaticis et
preposteris, quae theses hypothesibus anterposuerunt, et
experientiam captivam duxerunt, atque de operibus dei
triumpharunt, summisse, et cum veneratione quadam, ad volumen
creaturarum evolvendum accedant; atque in eo moram faciant,
meditentur, et ab opinionibus abluti et mundi, caste et integre
versentur.----In interpretatione ejus eruenda nulli operae
parcant, sed strenue procedant, persistant, immoriantur.

LORD BACON IN INSTAURATIONE MAGNA.

EXPERIMENTS

AND

OBSERVATIONS

ON DIFFERENT KINDS OF

AIR.

By JOSEPH PRIESTLEY, LL.D. F.R.S.

The SECOND EDITION Corrected.

Fert animus Causas tantarum expromere rerum;
Immensumque aperitur opus.

LUCAN

LONDON:

Printed for J. JOHNSON, No. 72, in St. Paul's Church-Yard.

MDCCLXXV.

TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
THE EARL OF SHELBURNE,
THIS TREATISE IS
WITH THE GREATEST GRATITUDE
AND RESPECT,
INSCRIBED,
BY HIS LORDSHIP's
MOST OBLIGED,
AND OBEDIENT
HUMBLE SERVANT,
J. PRIESTLEY.

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