Discours Preliminaire

Wurtz, A. Dictionnaire de Chimie Pure etAppliquee. Discours Preliminaire. Histoire des Doctrines Chimiques Depuis Lavoisier Jusqu a Nos Jours, Librairie Hachette et Cie. Paris, 1873. Footnote on page Ixxi "It is fair to remember that M. Couper developed analogous ideas without having knowledge of the proposals that had been set out by M. Kekule, that have had such a large influence on the recent development of organic chemistry." Butlerow, A.. Ann. Chem. Pharm. 1859,110, 51. 

Fontenelle, Bernard le Bovier de. Eloges des academiciens avec Vhistoire de Vacademie royale des sciences en M. DC. XCIX. Avec un Discours preliminaire sur Vutilite des Mathematiques, 2 vols. (La Haye Isaac vander Kloot, 1740). Fourcroy, Antoine-Fran ois de. Legons elementaires d Histoire naturelle et de Chimie (Paris rue et hotel Serpente, 1782). 

Le Tourneur, Les Nuits d Young (Paris 1769), Discours preliminaire quoted in Laurence B. West, La theorie de la traduction au XVIIIeme Sicclc , Revue, de littera-ture comparee, 1932, 333-55 (p. 333). 

See Guyton de Morveau et al. [1787] p. 28 [...] les corps simples, c est-ll-dire ceux qui n ont pu jusqu apresent 8tre decomposes As to Lavoisier, see ibid. p. 17 and also the famous passage on the notion element in the Discours preliminaire of his Traite Umentaire de Chimie Lavoisier [1789] p. XVllf. and Lavoisier [1965] p. XXIV. 

Bayen s writings were collected by his nephew Malatret and published with a discours preliminaire and Parmentier s eloge of Bayen to the Royal Society of Medicine in Paris. Shortly before Bayen s death he and Parmentier were described in a pamphlet as old men, full of the prejudices of the old regime . On the reorganisation of the Academy of Sciences, Bayen became a member of the Institut Nationale. 

Discours Preliminaire. Histoire des Doctrines Chimiques depuis Lavoisier jusqu nos jours (1868), in his Dictionnaire de Chimie (t.p. dated 1869), i, first page tr. H. Watts, A History of Chemical Theory from the Age of Lavoisier to the Present Time, 1869, who says (p. 2io) the statement requires some qualification . 

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