Abstract of 'Researches on magnetism and on certain allied subjects', including a supposed new imponderable / By Baron von Reichenbach. Translated and abridged from the German by William Gregory.

  • Carl Reichenbach
Date:
1846
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Credit: Abstract of 'Researches on magnetism and on certain allied subjects', including a supposed new imponderable / By Baron von Reichenbach. Translated and abridged from the German by William Gregory. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. The 53d volume of the “ Annalen der Chemie und Phar- ' macie,” conducted by Baron Liebig and Professor Wöhler, a journal standing in the highest rank of chemical periodicals (the last number of which volume appeared in Germany about the end of April or beginning of May 1845), was ac¬ companied by a supplement of great extent, reaching to 270 pages of the Annalen. The supplement appeared in two parts, of which the first reached Edinburgh in May or June, the second in July. It was entirely devoted to a minute ac¬ count of “ Researches on Magnetism and certain allied sub¬ jects,” by Baron von Reichenbach. The name of the author was well known to chemists, in consequence of his laborious and successful researches on the tar of wood and of coal, which filled the scientific journals for several years, and made us acquainted with creosote, parraffine, eupion, and many other new and interesting com¬ pounds discovered by him in tar. Baron von Reichenbach’s character, as an experimenter, has always stood particularly high, for minute accuracy and untiring perseverance ; and it was not possible for any ex¬ periments or discoveries to be presented to the scientific world by one more entitled to its confidence in every point of view. The translator read Baron von Reichenbach’s memoir with that interest which a long and familiar acquaintance with his former researches naturally inspired ; but soon found that his present subject possessed a much higher a
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