A translation of the table of chemical nomenclature / proposed by De Guyton, formerly De Morveau, Lavoisier, Bertholet, and De Fourcroy ; with additions and alterations ; to which are prefixed an explanation of the terms, and some observations on the new system of chemistry.

  • Guyton de Morveau, Louis-Bernard, 1737-1816.
Date:
1794
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Credit: A translation of the table of chemical nomenclature / proposed by De Guyton, formerly De Morveau, Lavoisier, Bertholet, and De Fourcroy ; with additions and alterations ; to which are prefixed an explanation of the terms, and some observations on the new system of chemistry. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ >0 3 Suecica in 1785 have availed themfelves of Bergman’s Nomenclature to fignify the composition of many fubftances. A more extenfive and a better acquaintance with the chemical properties of matter which have occasioned improvements in its language, have alfo occafioned a new manner of reafoning in che- miftry. The experiments of Wilcke, Irwin, Black, and Crawford, (Slowing that that fubftance or quality which produces the fenfation of heat may exift in moll bodies in a Bate of combination, or ana- logous to combination, without producing the fenfation of heat,) and the experiments principally of CavendiSh and Prieftley, and perhaps of Mayow and Hales, (Showing that different fpecies of rare, elaftic, arid, for the moft part, invifible fluids may very often by combination ferve to compofe denfe folids) furnished the fadts which fuggefted to Lavoifier explanations of phenomena hitherto referred to the hypothetical principle, Phlogifton. To thofe who reafoned according to Lavoifier’s principles, the former language of chemiftry was doubly improper, becaufe the import of many of the words was according to the Phlogiftic hypothefis, and, as hath been already faid, the words did not import the moft effen- tial properties of the things intended to be Signified. To a perfon who has feen the change of Phofphorus and Sulphur into the Acid ftate by their combination with Oxygen, and the reproduction of Phofphorus and Sulphur by feparating Oxygen from Sulphuric and Phofphoric Acids, how abfurd and erroneous mult appear the words dephlogifticated Phofphorus and Sulphur, and phlogifticated Phof- phorus and Sulphur, ufed to fignify thefe changes: and how juft and Significant of the caufe of thefe changes are the words oxygenated Phofphorus and Sulphur, and def-oxygenated phofphoric and ful- phuric Acids. The new principles of reafoning propofed by Lavoifier of courfe