"Beccher, ...after having studied with minute attention, the operations of , and the phænomena of the kingdom, formed the bold idea of explaining the whole system of the earth by the mutual agency and changes of a few elements. And by supposing the existence of a vitrifiable, a metallic, and an inflammable earth, he attempted to account for the various productions of rocks, crystalline bodies, and metallic veins, assuming a continued interchange of principles between the atmosphere, the ocean, and the solid surface of the globe, and considering the operations of nature as all capable of being imitated by art."
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Humphry Davy, Historical View of the Progress of Chemistry (1812) Introduction to The Elements of Chemical Philosophy pp. 29.
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