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Excerpt from Elements of Chemistry: Including the Applications of the Science in the Arts
The Elements of Chemistry, of which a second edition is now pre sented, attained, on its first appearance, an immediate and deserved repu tation. The copious selection of facts from all reliable sources, and their judicious arrangement, render it a safe guide for the beginner, while the clear exposition of theoretical points, and frequent references to special treatises, make it a valuable assistant for the more advanced student.
From this high character the present edition will in no way detract. The great changes which the science of Chemistry has undergone during the interval, have rendered necessary a complete revision of the work, and this has been most thoroughly accomplished by the author. Many portions will therefore be found essentially altered, thereby increasing greatly the'size of the work, while the series of illustrations -has been entirely changed in style, and nearly doubled in number.
Under these circumstances but little has been left for the editor. Owing, 'however, to the appearance of the London edition in parts, some years have elapsed since the first portions were published, and he has therefore found occasion to introduce the more recent investigations and discoveries in some subjects, as well as to correct, such inaccuracies or misprints as had escaped the author's attention, and to make a few addi tional references. Such matter as he has thus introduced has been en closed in brackets, with his initials appended.
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