Author: Ernst von Meyer

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-06-26

Total Pages: 724

ISBN-13: 9781330406588

Excerpt from A History of Chemistry: From Earliest Times to the Present Day; Being Also an Introduction to the Study of the Science Nearly five decades have passed by since Hermann Kopp's classical Geschichte tier Chemie1 began to appear, and it is now fifteen years since this was followed by the same indefatigable author's Entvnckdung der Chemie in der neueren Zeit. The publication of these comprehensive works, in conjunction with which Heifer's Histoire de la Chimic must be named, and the further descriptions of the growth of chemistry within particular periods given both by Kopp himself and by other writers, might lead one to suppose that there was no pressing need for further work in the same direction at the present time. This point can, the author thinks, be best discussed by his making a few remarks here with respect to the aim and plan of the present volume. In this History of Chemistry the attempt has been made to describe within short compass the development of chemical knowledge, and especially of the general doctrines of chemistry which have thus been gradually evolved, from their earliest beginnings up to the present day. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.