Modern theories of chemistry / by Lothar Meyer ; translated from the German (5th edition) by Phillips Bedson and W. Carleton.

  • Lothar Meyer
Date:
1888
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Credit: Modern theories of chemistry / by Lothar Meyer ; translated from the German (5th edition) by Phillips Bedson and W. Carleton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    TEANSLATOI^S' PEEFACE. In undertaking this translation we have been actuated by a desire to make Lothar Meyer's ' Moderne Theorien der Chemie' as accessible to the English student of chemistry as it is to his contemporary in Germany. The original has already passed through four editions; and if testimony were needed as to the esteem in which this book is held, it can sm-ely be found in the fact that no sooner had the fourth edition been completed than a fifth was demanded. The character of the work is such that we felt convinced that duty demanded we should make our translation as far as possible a reproduction of the original, and with this convic- tion we have throughout adhered closely to the text. Our original mtention had been to publish a translation of the fourth edition, and the greater portion of the work had already been completed when the appearance of the fifth edition required a revision of the first two parts and a retranslation of the third. These facts, together with other circumstances, have combined to delay the publication. The scope of the work is sufficiently explained in the Author's Preface to the Fourth Edition, a translation of which will be found on p. vii. We have not deemed it necessary to publish also the brief preface to the fifth, in which the author has simply stated the conditions which led to the rapid suc- cession of these editions, and has noted the points in which the fifth differs from its immediate predecessor. These are as
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