Spring course of lectures on chemistry / by Professor MacNeven.

  • MacNeven, William James, 1763-1841.
Date:
[1814?]
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Credit: Spring course of lectures on chemistry / by Professor MacNeven. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    V UNIVERSITY OP THE STATE OF NEW-YORK. Spring Course of Lectures on Chemistry, by professor mac xevejv. J. HE desire of obtaining some knowledge of Chemis- try is now so prevalent among persons of good educa- tion in this City, as to call for a Spring-Course of Lec- tures on the principles of that Science, in order to convenience many, whose health or avocations will not permit them to attend one during the winter. On this account, and in compliance likewise with a wish which has been expressed to him by several en- lightened individuals engaged in the education of youth, the subscriber will, early in April, commence a se- ries of Lectures and experiments on select subjects in Chemistry, and continue them thrice a week, until about the usual time of retiring, for the summer season, to the country. In its present state of exactness, Chemistry may be used to form the mind to close and accurate reasoning as successfully as mathematics, and far more usefully, as well as agreeably, to the generality of students. Its language and laws are less remote from the business of common life ; every change of bodies by which their properties are altered is Chemical, and yet, if unin- formed of the principles of the science, we live, like strangers, among the most familiar, as well as the most interesting phenomena, of the material world. But Chemistry requires to be studied in a laborato- ry : that of the College of Physicians in New-York is a model of good arrangement and elegance. Mere verbal explanations, or the bare reading of all the cir- cumstances of a chemical process, would probably oh-