Dictionary of chemistry : containing the principles and modern theories of the science, with its application to the arts, manufactures, and medicine : for the use of seminaries of learning and private students / translated from Le dictionnaire de chimie, approuvé par Vauquelin, including the most recent discoveries and doctrines of the science ; with additions and notes by Almira H. Lincoln.

  • Vauquelin, Louis Nicolas, 1763-1829.
Date:
1830
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Credit: Dictionary of chemistry : containing the principles and modern theories of the science, with its application to the arts, manufactures, and medicine : for the use of seminaries of learning and private students / translated from Le dictionnaire de chimie, approuvé par Vauquelin, including the most recent discoveries and doctrines of the science ; with additions and notes by Almira H. Lincoln. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    to demand further investigation than our limits al- lowed. We do not however suppose that our Dictionary alone will be sufficient to those who would penetrate the depths of chemical science J- no science, nor lan- guage, can be acquired by the aid of a dictionary alone; the alphabetical order of such a work is op- posed to methodical investigation ; but a dictionary seems indispensable as an appendage to elementary works, facilitating the progress of the pupil, by ena- bling him, at one glance, to see the properties of the substance whose history he is studying. With respect to such persons as do not wish the la- bour of close and methodical investigation, portable scientific dictionaries must be to them a vade mecum ; to them it is not an object to arrive by degrees to the knowledge of a particular substance or combination ; they wish to see at one view a complete history of its essential properties. With elementary works this end cannot be obtained ; the most methodical, transport a reader, who searches for the history of any one sub- stance, to many different parts of the work : suppose, for instance, a metal treated of; its extraction, its phy- sical and chemical properties, its various combinations, the preparations of which it makes a part, all these circumstances become subjects of different sections, and the reader must compass the whole work in order