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Excerpt from Most Important Errors in Chemistry, Electricity, and Magnetism, Pointed Out and Refuted: And the Phenomena of Electricity, and the Polarity of the Magnetic Needle, Accounted for and Explained
Notwithstanding the eulogium passed upon Sir Humphry Davy by his admirable biographer, Dr. Paris, if we except the Safety Lampf' we do not ap pear to be so much indebted to his labours as is generally imagined; nor has chemistry been left by him at all in a satisfactory state. He is said to have overthrown the theory of combustion of Lavoisier, and to have proved that oxygen is not the principle of acidity; but what has be substituted in their place? Instead of light and heat being properties of oxygengwhich that substance parts with or deve lopes at the time of its union with a combustible body, (according to the French chemist), Davy tells us that light and heat are the mere effects of motion.
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