One thousand processes in manufactures and experiments in chemistry / [Colin Mackenzie].

  • Colin Mackenzie
Date:
1825
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Credit: One thousand processes in manufactures and experiments in chemistry / [Colin Mackenzie]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. Aware that no work is more liable to general criticism, than one which affects to treat of the modus opercmdi, adopted in the several Arts and Manufactures dependent on Chemical Science ; the Author, at the commencement, perceived that a strict adherence to the accounts, and opinions, even of the most approved Chemical writers, would be far from satisfactory to himself; and would, in many cases, prove delusive to his readers. He likewise foresaw, that, although a general reader might, without farther enquiry, acknowledge, or allow as true, every process and fact comprehended in the following multitudinous assemblage;—some, who should honour his la¬ bours by a perusal, might be more fastidious ; and, by calling in question the truth of a few particular facts, processes, or opinions ; might be apt to pass sentence of condemnation upon the whole. These considerations, conjoined with an ardent desire, which he himself had, of becoming practically acquainted with several of the Chemi¬ cal Arts, induced him, on many occasions, to seek for information, at its ultimately genuine source; viz. the workshop of the Artisan. The facts thus collected, and others already known, have been blended together : and the Author, in the belief that he has advanced nothing but what is strictly correct, trusts, that as a whole, they will prove useful, not only to the Chemical Student, but also to the Manufacturer, and to the Political Econo¬ mist.
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