[11] Dissertation, ut supra, p. 27.
[12] Hist. Ind. Sc. Book i. chap. i.
[13] Novum Organum, Aph. 75.
[14] Supra, book iii. ch. vii. § 4.
[15] It is hardly needful to remark that nothing is here intended to be said against the possibility at some future period of making gold; by first discovering it to be a compound, and putting together its different elements or ingredients. But this is a totally different idea from that of the seekers of the grand arcanum.
[16] Pharmacologia, pp. 43-5.
[17] Vol. i. chap. 8.
[18] Nov. Org., Aph. 46.
[19] Playfair's Dissertation, sect. 4.
[20] Nov. Org. Renov., p. 61.