Chapter II: The Beginnings of Modern Chemistry

(1) For a complete account of the controversy called the "Water
Controversy," see The Life of the Hon. Henry Cavendish, by George
Wilson, M.D., F.R.S.E. London, 1850.

(2) Henry Cavendish, in Phil. Trans. for 1784, P. 119.

(3) Lives of the Philosophers of the Time of George III., by Henry, Lord
Brougham, F.R.S., p. 106. London, 1855.

(4) Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air, by Joseph
Priestley (3 vols.). Birmingham, 790, vol. II, pp. 103-107.

(5) Lectures on Experimental Philosophy, by Joseph Priestley, lecture
IV., pp. 18, ig. J. Johnson, London, 1794.

(6) Translated from Scheele's Om Brunsten, eller Magnesia, och dess
Egenakaper. Stockholm, 1774, and published as Alembic Club Reprints, No.
13, 1897, p. 6.

(7) According to some writers this was discovered by Berzelius.

(8) Histoire de la Chimie, par Ferdinand Hoefer. Paris, 1869, Vol. CL,
p. 289.

(9) Elements of Chemistry, by Anton Laurent Lavoisier, translated by
Robert Kerr, p. 8. London and Edinburgh, 1790.

(10) Ibid., pp. 414-416.