A System of Chemistry, Vol. 1 of 5 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from A System of Chemistry, Vol. 1 of 5 The general attention which is at present paid to Chemistry in Britain cannot escape the most superficial observer. The sale of three large Editions of a Work so extensive as the present, within a year after the publication of each, is a decisive proof that the votaries of the science are numerous and daily increasing. Indeed, it possesses such attractive charms, and sheds so beneficial an influence over the arts and manufactures, that to be welcomed and cultivated it requires only to be known: and if we consider the number of eminent chemists at present in the British Empire, we cannot but indulge the most flattering hopes of the future progress of the science. Some years ago it was affirmed in a continental journal, and a chemist of eminence attached his name to the assertion, that Britain possessed scarcely a scientific chemist. The remark was prefixed to an account of a set of experiments on a subject of importance. In this account many interesting facts and observations are stated as new, though they had been almost all anticipated three years before by Dr Wollaston. The experiments of the British chemist must have been unknown to the continental philosopher, as he observes with regard to them the most profound silence, yet they had appeared in the Philosophical Transactions, the most celebrated work in England, or even in Europe. 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.