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Glen W. Watson 325p5b
A Brief History of Element Discovery, Synthesis, and Analysis written by Glen W. Watson.It is well known that the number of elements has grown from four in the days of the Greeks to 103 at present, but the change in methods needed for their discovery is not so well known. Up until 1939, only 88 naturally occurring elements had been discovered... f595k
Joseph Black 3i563a
Black's Paper entitled "Experiments upon Magnesia Alba, Quicklime, and some other Alcaline Substances" was read in June 1755, and was first published in "Essays and Observations, Physical and Literary. Read before a Society in Edinburgh, and Published by them," Volume II., Edinburgh, 1756; pp. 157-225. It was subsequently reprinted several times du..
James Clerk Maxwell 643h1u
This eBook includes 5 papers or speeches by James Clerk Maxwell.The contents are: Foramen Centrale Theory of Compound Colours Poinsot's Theory Address to the Mathematical Introductory LectureWhen observing the spectrum formed by looking at a long ve rtical slit through a simple prism, I no..
James Mactear 5h17t
The study of the History of Chemistry as an art, or as a science, is one which possesses peculiar fascination for its votaries. It has been the subject of deep research and much discussion, much has been written upon the subject, and many theories have been broached to for its origin. We have had laid before us by Professor Ferguson, in his..
Isaac Newton 121n6n
Part of the ensuing Discourse about Light was written at the Desire of some Gentlemen of the Royal-Society, in the Year 1675, and then sent to their Secretary, and read at their Meetings, and the rest was added about twelve Years after to complete the Theory; except the third Book, and the last Proposition of the Second, which were since put togeth..
Lucien Poincaré 4yn4a
Author's Preface: During the last ten years so many works have accumulated in the domain of Physics, and so many new theories have been propounded, that those who follow with interest the progress of science, and even some professed scholars, absorbed as they are in their own special studies, find themselves at sea in a confusion more apparent than..
M. M. Pattison Muir 3gy2f
The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry is very interesting in itself. It is also a pregnant example of the contrast between the scientific and the emotional methods of regarding nature; and it irably illustrates the differences between well-grounded, suggestive, hypotheses, and baseless speculations.For thousands of years before me..
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier 6w4jc
Elements of Chemistry, In a New Systematic Order, Containing all the Modern Discoveries. Author's Preface:When I began the following Work, my only object was to extend and explain more fully the Memoir which I read at the public meeting of the Academy of Sciences in the month of April 1787, on the necessity of reforming and completing the Nomenclat..