FOOTNOTES:
[4] The translation is taken from Thomson's "History of Chemistry."
[5] Nevertheless, in other places Lavoisier most readily acknowledges the merits of Priestley.
[6] A similar method of reasoning was employed so far back as the tenth century: thus, in an Anglo-Saxon "Manual of Astronomy" we read, "There is no corporeal thing which has not in it the four elements, that is, air and fire, earth and water.... Take a stick and rub it on something, it becomes hot directly with the fire which lurks in it; burn one end, then goeth the moisture out at the other end with the smoke."
