Dissertationes on select subjects in chemistry and medicine / [Martin Wall].

  • Wall, Martin, 1747-1824.
Date:
1783
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    if it be thereby demonftrated, that the Chemifts adopted the hieroglyphic mode of writing from the Aftrono- mers, it follows that Alchemy was not known, as’fome have pretended, in the earlieft ages, nor till long after Aftronomy was advanced to a confi- derable degree of perfedion. Scaliger, and after him the Prefi- dent de Goguet have flightly touched upon the invention of the aftrono- mical charadiers. In fome points of the explanation my lyftem coincides with their obfervations, and may ap- pear to have been borrowed from them: but long before 1 knew, that they had faid any thing upon this fubjed, my own theory had been formed ; and it was only in confequence of my re- fearches in thefe authors, to render this trad more fit for the public eye, that I difeovered their anticipation of a part of my plan. I firfl: gave a flight view of this fyf- tem in my chemical Icdures, and af- terwards enlarged and extended it, as