Correspondence of the Late James Watt On His Discovery of the Theory of the Comp
Correspondence of the Late James Watt On His Discovery of the Theory of the Comp
James Watt
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" Such was, then, the experience of MM. Meusnier and Lavoisier, who, it will not be denied, had the best means of ascertaining the im- pression really made on the scientific world by those experiments, which, to their own minds, had brought conviction of the truth of the theory of the composi- tion of water. And in that Memoir, read as late as the 21st of April 1784, when the conclusions of Watt, and the able reasoning of Lavoisier in his first paper, and of Cavendish, and the confirmatory obse...rvations of La Place, and Meusnier, and Monge, had all be- come well known, those two distinguished philoso- phers thus found it needful to begin anew their ar- gument, by that positive and particular statement of the opposition which was made to the theory, or at * Memoires de 1' Academic for 1781, printed in 1784. BY THE EDITOR. XC1 least of the difficulties which, with some, stood in the way of its reception. In the same year, Mr. Kirwan appears to have thought that he ventured far in admitting himself to be " nearly convinced, " that, when the two gases are fired, " water is really produced.
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