Chemical method : notation, classification and nomenclature / by Auguste Laurent... ; translated by William Odling...

  • Laurent, Auguste, 1807-1853.
Date:
1855
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Credit: Chemical method : notation, classification and nomenclature / by Auguste Laurent... ; translated by William Odling... Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    a great number of substances, up to this time exclusively organic, furnishes us with a certain character for the confirmation or refu- tation of the abstract speculations which we may form concerning the constitution of the bodies into which they enter, whether existing therein naturally, or inti'oduced by art. The application of this character, thus directed, offers a direct and certain means, for the resolution of a multitude of contro- versial questions in relation to rational chemistry, such as those of which Laurent has treated. But its use is as yet but little diffused, although it has always been fruitful for those who have employed it in their researches. J. B. BIOT. Jane \2th, 1854.