Note 38 — Chapter X · THE WONDERFUL EFFECTS OF HEAT—(concluded).

The above is Dr. Davy’s account of his brother’s first chemical studies: “Such was the commencement of Humphry Davy’s career of original research,” he adds, “which in a few years, by a succession of discoveries, accomplished more in relation to change of theory and extension of science than, in the most ardent and ambitious moments of youth, he could either have hoped to effect or imagined possible.”