Note 1 — MORAL and POLITICAL PARADOXES.
John Brett translation
The translator thinks, as he has not translated that Discourse, it will not be amiss to insert here the Author’s sentiment on this subject. In the Essay or Discourse referred to, after reciting the arguments that have been used to prove the invention came from China, and the claims that have been made on the behalf of a variety of people, to their being the inventors; he gives it as his opinion, that Bertoldus Schuvart, a German Franciscan friar, and an eminent chemist, was the man who invented it, or at least was the person who, brought the invention to perfection.