This theory [the oxygen theory] is not as I have heard it described, that of the French chemists, it is mine (elle est la mienne); it is a property which I claim from my contemporaries and from posterity.
Mémoires de Chimie (1805), Vol. 2, 87, trans. M. P. Crosland
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