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CHEMISTRY,

IN A

NEW SYSTEMATIC ORDER,

CONTAINING ALL THE

MODERN DISCOVERIES.

ILLUSTRATED WITH THIRTEEN COPPERPLATES.

BY MR LA VOISIER,

Member of the Academy of Sciences, Royal Society of Me-
dicine, and Agricultural Society of Paris, of the Royal
Society of London, and Philofophical Societies
of Orleans, Bologna, Bafil, Philadelphia,
Haerlem, Manchelter, &c. &c.

TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH,

BY ROBERT KERR, F.R. & A.SS.E.
Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, and Surgeon
to the Orphan Hospital of Edinburgh,

EDINBURGH:

PRINTED FOR WILLIAM CREECH, AND SOLD IN

LONDON BY G. G. AND J. J. ROBINSONS.

MDCCX C.

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HE very high character of Mr Lavoifier as a chemical philofopher, and the great revolution which, in the opinion of many excellent chemists, he has effected in the theory of chemistry, has long made it much defired to have a connected account of his discoveries, and of the new theory he has founded upon the modern experiments written by himself. This is now accomplished by the publication of his Elements of Chemistry; therefore no excuse can be at all neceffary for giving the following work to the public in an English drefs; and the only hesitation of the Tranflator is with regard to his own abilities for the task. He is most ready to confefs, that his knowledge of the compofition of language fit for publication is far inferior