Familiar Letters on Chemistry, and Its Relation to Commerce, Physiology, and Agriculture
Familiar Letters on Chemistry, and Its Relation to Commerce, Physiology, and Agriculture

Author: Freiherr von Justus Liebig

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2019-12-05

Total Pages: 121

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According to the author, this book aimed to explain the basics of chemistry and underline the merits of this science in the development philosophy of life, physiology, and agriculture. The material is presented in the form of 16 letters touching upon the most various topics like the manufacture of soda from culinary salt to explaining how food is digested into essential chemical elements. The epistolary form of presentation was typical of the author of this book, Justus von Liebig, a prominent chemist who expressed most of his scientific reflection in letters to other scientists.