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So we may expect that Chemistry
will |in like a manner| be [enlightened] & that
in this [xxx] mature age of
Society as the age of the
World approaches to maturity that
This great branch of Knowledge |Philosophy| xx
will not |want| then of sagacity &
a Galileo , a Copernicus
Kepler or a Newton
Genius similar to Copernicus | Copernicus |
|Galileo| Kepler & Newton to give to
it the [xxxxx xxxx] of grand discoveries principly principly
it order & laws. -
- The highest intellectual powers
are required for the discovery
of principles (& in the physical
Sciences there must be for this
a long preparation & a full
time - (To the ancients,
generalization came before
Knowledge -, Whilst they
were yet Children they imagined
that they were then. - before

GalileoGalilei

Italian astronomer, physicist, and engineer.

NicolausCopernicus

Polish mathematician and astronomer who proposed the theory of that the universe was heliocentric.

JohannesKepler

German mathematician, astonomer and natural philosopher who established a precise theory of planetary motion through his three laws.

IsaacNewton

Prominent English natural philosopher and mathematician greatly admired by Davy who once under the influence of several litres of nitrous oxide wrote in his notebook 'Davy & Newton' in one inch letters. FRSL.