Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science, Vol. 35: January-June, 1868
Phlogiston was not a new creation possessing other names, and endued with ill-defined and varying functions, it had been conspicuous in many physical systems. The, chief merit of Becher and Stah] was that they extended its functions 1n one direction, and conferred upon them a definitiveness which they had hitherto lacked. The theory of phlogiston was not the result of a sudden development, it did not owe its existence to an intellectual exploit, but it arose by a process of evolution, and by a gradual modus of development.
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