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Sir Richard Phillips
(13 Dec 1767 - 2 Apr 1840)
publisher and author who edited the Philosophical Magazine, among others to which he contributed. His fortune came from publishing textbooks, children's books and pocket-size compendia. He was knighted while Sheriff of London.
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Science Quotes by Sir Richard Phillips (1 quote)
I must confess the language of symbols is to me
A Babylonish dialect
Which learned chemists much affect;
It is a party-coloured dress
Of patch'd and piebald languages:
'T is English cut on Greek and Latin,
Like fustian heretofore on satin.
A Babylonish dialect
Which learned chemists much affect;
It is a party-coloured dress
Of patch'd and piebald languages:
'T is English cut on Greek and Latin,
Like fustian heretofore on satin.
— Sir Richard Phillips
'Additional Observations on the Use of Chemical Symbols', Philosophical Magazine, Third series (1834), 4, 251. Cited in Timothy L. Alborn, 'Negotiating Notation: Chemical Symbols and British Society, 1831-1835', Annals of Science (1989), 46, 437.