Volume 1

Physical and chemical essays / translated from the original Latin of Sir Torbern Bergman ... by Edmund Cullen ... To which are added notes and illustrations by the translator.

  • Bergman, Torbern, 1735-1784.
Date:
1784-1791
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Credit: Physical and chemical essays / translated from the original Latin of Sir Torbern Bergman ... by Edmund Cullen ... To which are added notes and illustrations by the translator. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    An Appendix is accordingly fubjoined to each volume, which, though by no means necelTary to the accomplifhed and experi- enced chemift, will, it is hoped, prove conliderably ufeful to the general run of readers, and thofe who are but moderately fkilled in the knowledge of the chemical principles and art. Mr. Bergman, in his experiments, has employed the Swedilh thermometer: and it has not been thought expedient to re- \ duce the temperatures, fo afeertained, to Fahrenheit’s fcale in the body of the work, becaufe the degrees upon the Swedifh ther- mometer are not reducible to integral num- bers upon that of Fahrenheit; but, for the accommodation of fuch as chufe to com- pare them, a plate is inferted, containing the Swedifli and the French thermometers, together with that of Fahrenheit, which is at prefent univerfally employed in Eng- land. The Swedifh meafures being alfo fo ad- jufted that they are not reducible exactly to 2