Essays in historical chemistry
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Type of record: Book
Title: Essays in historical chemistry
Classmark: Early Science 3 1902/THO
Creator(s): Thorpe, T E (1845-1925)
Publisher: Macmillan and co., Limited; The Macmillan company
Publication city: London : New York
Date(s): 1902
Language: English
Size and medium: xii, 582 p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/248847
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991015779169705181
Description
First edition published 1894.
Mainly lectures and addresses which have already appeared in print but are here altered and corrected where necessary.
Contents: Robert Boyle -- Joseph Priestly -- Carl Wilhelm Scheele -- Henry Cavendish -- James Watt -- Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier -- Priestley, Cavendish, Lavoisier, and La révolution chimique -- Michael Faraday -- Thomas Graham. -- Friedrich Wöhler -- Jean Baptiste André Dumas -- Hermann Kopp -- Victor Meyer -- Dmitri Ivanowitsh Mendeleeff -- Stanislas Cannizzaro -- The rise and development of synthetical chemistry -- On the progress of chemistry in Great Britain and Ireland during the nineteenth century -- On the development of the chemical arts during the reign of Queen Victoria.
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