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Ifk^ory^ naturatphifofophy and mathematics, which he applied 

 tohrs favourite fcicnce. He introdiiccd mathematical accuracy 

 intochcmiftry, and, by his example, induced others to call ia 

 the aid of calculation to give more prcciiTon to their refults. 

 Analylis enabled him to examine the component parts of 

 bodies, and by fuhjefting thefe parts to calculation he could 

 determine the quantities with more accuracy and truth. 



To him is modern chemrflry indebted for many of thofc 

 himfnous fafts which fcrve to fupportit; and it may be 

 aflferted, without taking from the merit of thofe who cfta- 

 bhftied the new fyftem^, that the fpirit of accuracy and pa* 

 ticnt inve-ftigation, intnxiuccd in a great meafure by Berg- 

 man,, has teiidcd not a little to give folidity and beauty to the 

 cdi flee, 



riis w^ritings are all diftinguifTicd by great order, pcrfpi- 

 eiiity, and n^atnefs of language. The mofl: celebrated of the 

 learned focietres in Europe; thofe of London, Stockholm, 

 and Gottingen j the Academies of Dijon and Turin, the 

 Medical Society at Paris, the Society of the Searchers into 

 Katnre at Berlin, and the Imperial Academy of the Searchers 

 into Nature, alfchofe him a membcrof their different bodies. 

 He was made a member alfo of the Academy Oif Montpclher 

 after he ?iad gained the doiaUle prize, fax a {>aper on the di- 

 fiinguifhing marks of thofe kinds of earth which are mo{l 

 iifefu!. in agriculture. The Royal" Academy of Sciences at 

 P^ns, which admitted only eight foreign members, made 

 chok:^ of Bergman to be one of that number. The Royal 

 itrademy of Berlin invited him to that city in 1776; ahcf 

 €fh his declining this offer, the king of Sweden, who foon 

 after his- coronation in 1772 had railed him to be one of the 

 ifft twent}'-eight knights of the order of Vafa, made a con- 

 fiderable addition to his income. The ftndents of the pro- 

 t'ince- of Finland caufed a medal, often ducats value, to be 

 £i^Tc^ a? a teftimony of their cfteem and refpe^l for his ta- 

 lcnts-> on the one fide of whirh was a good likcne's of him, 

 with the infcriptiorir Torb^ Bergman Patr'uc Decus, ac 

 Dccas JEzn'. on the reverfe, Ephoro egregio Natio Fennica^ 

 ifzV I Man M.DCC.LXXXiv. 



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