Note 41 — APPENDIX, NO. 1.
Reading edition
See the translation of Scheele by Dr. John Reinhold Forster 1780 p. XIII.
In p. 437 of v. 5 of the analytical review of Hopson’s Chemistry, before Dr. Beddoes’s account of Mayow in 1790 the latter is stated as the author of discoveries that might have given rise to the present system of pneumatic Chemistry.