A treatise on the nature and properties of air, and other permanently elastic fluids : to which is prefixed an introduction to chymistry. London : printed for the author, 1781
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PDF [1]Front cover
PDF [7]Title page
PDF [9]To Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. President of the Royal Society [...].
PDF [11]Preface.
PDF IX [15]Table of contents
PDF 1Part I. An introduction to chymistry.
PDF 1 [19]Chap. I. Of chimistry in general.
PDF 8 [26]Chap. II. Of air, water, earth, and fire.
PDF 22 [40]Chap. III. Of acids.
PDF 31 [49]Chap. IV. Of alkalies.
PDF 36 [54]Chap. V. Of salts.
PDF 45 [63]Chap. VI. Of earths.
PDF 50 [68]Chap. VII. Of inflammable minerals.
PDF 58 [76]Chap. VIII. Of metals.
PDF 95 [113]Chap. IX. Of semi-metals.
PDF 110 [128]Chap. X. Of vegetable and animal substances.
PDF 120 [138]Chap. XI. Of fermentation.
PDF 130 [148]Chap. XII. Description of chymical laboratory, and of chymical operations.
PDF 139 [157]Chap. XIII. Containing various chymical processes.
PDF 157Part II. Containing the principal properties of elastic fluids, and the description of the apparatus necessary to make experiments on that subject.
PDF 157 [175][Introduction.]
PDF 161 [179]Chap. I. Of hydrostatics.
PDF 182 [200]Chap. II. A view of the pressure of fluids actually existing in nature.
PDF 210 [228]Chap. III. Containing some effects of condensed and rarefied air, and a summary view of the different states of the atmospherical air in various parts of the world.
PDF 248 [266]Chap. IV. Of the various sorts of permanently elastic fluids.
PDF 287 [305]Chap. V. Containing the description and the use of the apparatus principally necessary to make experiments relative to the nature and properties of permanently elastic fluids.
PDF 344 [362]Chap. VI. The author's method of determining the degree of purity of air, and of measuring the quantity or permanently elastic fluid contained in an inverted glass vessel, filled partly with it and partly with water, or other fluid.
PDF 360 [379]Chap. VII. Practical rules concerning the use of the apparatus, and the performing of experiments.
PDF 367Part III. Of the nature and properties of air, and other permanently elastic fluids.
PDF 367 [386][Introduction.]
PDF 368 [387]Chap. I. Of the nature and properties of air.
PDF 508 [527]Chap. II. Of dephlogisticated air.
PDF 575 [594]Chap. III. Of fixed air, or calcareous gas.
PDF 645 [664]Chap. IV. Of inflammable air.
PDF 682 [701]Chap. V. Of nitrous air.
PDF 723 [742]Chap. VI. Of marine acid air.
PDF 732 [751]Chap. VII. Of the vitriolic acid air, and of the sparry or fluor acid air.
PDF 747 [766]Chap. VIII. Of nitrous acid air, or vapour.
PDF 758 [777]Chap. IX. Of alkaline air.
PDF 766 [785]Chap. X. Containing the description of some other permanently elastic fluids, various promiscuous particulars, and the properties of charcoal.
PDF 781Part IV. Containing the uses, theory, and various other particulars relating to, some experiments of the author on the subject of fluids permanently elastic.
PDF 781 [800][Introduction.]
PDF 782 [801]Chap. I. Of the elastic fluids of mineral waters.
PDF 787 [806]Chap. II. Of fulminating substances.
PDF 797 [816]Chap. III. Adavantages derived from the subject of permanently elastic fluids.
PDF 801 [820]Chap. IV. Conjectures relating to the theory of fluids permanently elastic, and the constitution of the atmosphere.
PDF 810 [829]Chap. V. Experiments on gun-powder.
PDF 816 [835]Chap. VI. Experiments and observations relating to inflammable and fixed air.
PDF 823 [842]Chap. VII. Experiments and observations on plants.
PDF 827 [846]Chap. VIII. Promiscuous experiments.
PDF 830 [849]Additions and alterations.
PDF [855]Errata.
PDF [856]The index.
PDF [864][Plates I - III.]
PDF [871]Back cover