Excerpt from A New System of Chemical Philosophy, Vol. 1 Various essays Of his were read before the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester, chiefly on heat and elastic fluids, and were published in the 5th Volume Of their Memoirs, in 1802. The new views which these essays deve loped, were considered both curious and important. The essays were re-published in several Philosophical Journals, and soon after translated into French and German, and cir culated abroad through the medium of the foreign Journals. The author was not remiss in prosecuting his researches, in which he was considerably assisted by the application of principles derived from the above essays. In 1803, he was gradually led to those primary Laws, which seem to Obtain in regard to heat, and to Chemical combinations, and which it is the Object Of the present work to exhibit and elucidate. A brief outline of them was first publicly given the ensuing winter in a course of Lectures on Natural Philosophy, at the Royal Institution in London, and was left for publication in the Journals Of the Institution but he is not informed whether that was done. The author has ever since been occasionally urged by several of his philosophical friends to lose no time in communicating the results Of his enquiries to the public, alleging, that the interests of science, and his own reputation, might suffer by delay. In the spring Of 1807. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.