The rudiments of chemistry. Illustrated by experiments, and copper-plate engravings of chemical apparatus / by Samuel Parkes.

  • Samuel Parkes
Date:
1822
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    teehism, this work is alsodivided into Thirteen Chapters; and it lias been the Author’s en- deavour to draw up the whole in such lan- guage as might be easily comprehended by any capacity. The principal chemical facts are here print- ed in a larger type, and numbered progres- sively. These should be considered ns axioms to lie treasured up in the mind of die student, as a foundation for the superstructure of ail his future chemical attainments ; they should therefore be read first without any attention to the smaller type; for, as one position frequently arises as it were from others that precede it, the connexion of the whole will be more rea- dily perceived by this method, anti the tacts remembered with more certainty. All the illustrations and experiments are given in a smaller letter, which distinguishes these sufficiently from the axioms. They are printed immediately under the respective ax- ioms which they sene to elucidate; and, being thus connected, the rationale of each example will be at once understood by the student. This part of the plan is the most striking fea- ture peculiar to this book, in which it tliflers essentially from the Chemical Catechism,
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