A manual of elementary chemistry : theoretical and practical / by George Fownes.

  • George Fownes
Date:
1873
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Credit: A manual of elementary chemistry : theoretical and practical / by George Fownes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. The design of the present volume is to offer to the student commencing the subject of Chemistry, in a compact and inexpensive form, an outline of the general principles of that science, and a history of the more important among the very numerous bodies which Chemical Investigations have made known to us. The work has no pretensions to be considered a complete treatise on the subject, but is intended to serve as an introduction to the larger and more comprehensive systematic works in our own language and in those of the Continent; and especially to prepare the student for the perusal of original memoirs, which, in conjunction with practical instruction in the laboratory, can alone afford a real acquaintance with the spirit of research and the resources of Chemical Science. It has been my aim throughout to render the book as practical as possible, by detailing, at as great length as the general plan permitted, many of the working processes of the scientific laboratory, and by exhibiting, by the aid of numerous wood-engravings, the most useful forms of pparatus, with their adjustments and methods of use. As one principal object was the production of a convenient and useful class-book for pupils attending my own lectures,
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