Volume 1

Observations and experiments for investigating the chymical history of the tepid springs of Buxton : together with an account of some newly-discovered, or little known properties of substances relating to several branches of chymistry, and animal and vegetable life; to which are prefixed, a chronological relation of the use of Buxton-water ... intended for the improvement of natural science and the art of physic; in two volumes / by George Pearson.

  • Pearson, George, 1751-1828.
Date:
1784
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Credit: Observations and experiments for investigating the chymical history of the tepid springs of Buxton : together with an account of some newly-discovered, or little known properties of substances relating to several branches of chymistry, and animal and vegetable life; to which are prefixed, a chronological relation of the use of Buxton-water ... intended for the improvement of natural science and the art of physic; in two volumes / by George Pearson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ ] It would not be confident with the Plan of this Publication to defcribe particularly the Manner of performing Experiments on per- manent Vapours, together with the Principles of thefe Experiments. Therefore, for the right underftanding of many Parts of thefe Volumes, I muft refer thofe Readers who are not converfant with the Subjecl of permanent Vapours, as Air, and other Subftances in this Form, to perufe attentively the Introduce tions to Dr. Priefleys Jive Volumes of Experi- ments and Obfervations on different Kinds of Air, and Mr. Cavallos Freatife on the Nature and Properties of Air, and other permanently elafic Fluids ; likewife the Explanation of the Plate in A Freatife on the various Kinds of permanently elafic Fluids, or Gafes, 2d Edi- tion, 1779 » and the other Authors referred to whofe Inftruments I have employed. I fhall only juft obferve, for the Sake of afford- ing a general Id ea to thofe who want an Ex- planation of this Subject, that when a per- manent Vapour is transferred, ox poured from one Veftel, as a Phial, Jar, or Beer-Glafs, into another Veftel, it muft be conceived that two Veffeis ftand inverted, one filled with,