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Conversations on Chemistry; In Which the Elements of That Science Are Familiarly Explained and Illustrated by Experiments: From the 5th and Latest English Ed., REV., Corr., and Considerably Enl.: To Which Are Added, Notes and

Conversations on Chemistry; In Which the Elements of That Science Are Familiarly Explained and Illustrated by Experiments: From the 5th and Latest English Ed., REV., Corr., and Considerably Enl.: To Which Are Added, Notes and


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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CONVERSATIONS CHEMISTRY, CONVERSATION I. ON TUB GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF CHEMISTRY. Mrs. B. AS you have now acquired some elementary notions of Natural Philosophy, I am going to propose to you another branch of science, to which 1 am particularly anxious that you should devote a share of your attention. This is Chemistry, which is so closely connected with Natural Philosophy, that the study of the one must be incomplete without some knowledge of the other; for, it is obvious, that we can derive but a very imperfect idea of bodies from the study of the general laws by which they are governed, if we remain totally ignorant of their intimate nature. Caroline. To confess the truth, Mrs. B, I am not disposed to form a very favourable idea of chemistry, nor do'l expect to derive much entertainment from it. I prefer the sciences which exhibit nature on a grand scale, to those that are confined to the minutise of petty details. Can the studies which we have lately pursued, the general properties of matter, or the revolutions of the heavenly bodies, be compared to the mixing up of a few insignificant drugs? I grant, however, there may be entertaining experiments in chemistry, and should not dislike to try some of them: the distilling, for instance of lavender, or rose water Mrs. B. I rather imagine, my dear Caroline, that your want of taste for chemistry proceeds from the very limited idea you entertain of its object. You confine the chemist's laboratory to the narrow precincts of the apothecary's and perfumer's shops, whilst it is subservient to an immense variety of other useful purposes. Besides, my dear, chemistry is bj no means confined to works of art. Nature also has her laboratory, which is the universe, and there she is incessantly employed in chemical operati...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217700726
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 130
  • Spine Width: 7 mm
  • Weight: 245 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0217700721
  • Publisher Date: 12 Oct 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: From the 5th and Latest English Ed., REV., Corr., and Considerably Enl.: To Which Are Added, Notes and
  • Width: 189 mm


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