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Thomas Henry
(9 Sep 1734 - 18 Jun 1816)
Welsh apothecary , active in Manchester scientific circles, who translated Lavoisier's Opuscles, and manufactured and sold calcined magnesia for medicinal purposes.
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Science Quotes by Thomas Henry (1)
The sciences of Natural History and Botany require so much time to be devoted to them that. however pleasing, they may be justly considered as improper objects for the man of business to pursue scientifically, so as to enter into the exact arrangement and classification of the different bodies of the animal, vegetable, and mineral kingdoms. But reading and personal observation will supply him with ample matter for reflection and admiration.
— Thomas Henry
'On the Advantages of Literature and Philosophy in general and especially on the consistency of Literary and Philosophical with Commercial Pursuits. (3 Oct 1781) as quoted in R. Angus Smith A centenary of Science in Manchester (1883), 79.
