This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification: ++++ Letters On Modern Agriculture: Edited By John Blyth. With Addenda By A Practical Agriculturist. Embracing Valuable Suggestions, Adapted To The Wants Of American Farmers Justus von Liebig John Wiley, 1859

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfectionssuch as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed worksworldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification: ++++ Chemistry In Its Applications To Agriculture And Physiology: Edited From The Manuscript Of The Author By Lyon Playfair. From The Last London Edition, Much Improved Justus von Liebig J. M. Campbell, 1843

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: OEIGIN OF CHEMISTRY. LETTER III. It is not easy to form an idea of the extent of chemical knowledge at the present day without casting a glance back to past ages. The history of science fills a page in the history of the human mind; and there is no department of science, the history of which is more interesting and instructive, in reference both to its origin and to its development, than chemistry. The received belief of the recent origin of that science is an error, originating in accidental circumstances. Chemistry is one of the very oldest of the sciences. The same spirit which, towards the close of the last century, aroused in a highly civilised nation the insane endeavour to annihilate the monuments of its history and of its glory, ?which raised altars to the Goddess of Reason, and introduced a new calendar; ? that spirit gave rise also to a festival in which Madame Lavoisier, robed as a priestess, committed to the flames on an altar, while a solemn requiem was chanted, the phlogistic system of chemistry. At that period, the chemists of France associated themselves for the purpose of changing all the names and symbols which had been employed up to that time to designate chemical compounds, and to represent chemical processes. A new nomenclature was introduced, which, in the train of a new system, complete in itself, soon secured for itself a universal reception. This, then, was the origin of the apparently wide gulf separating modern from ancient chemistry. The history of every important discovery, of every separate observation, made up to the time of Lavoisier, in anypart of Europe, was then blotted out; while new names and altered views tore asunder all connection with the past. To many, the knowledge we now possess appears to be only the inheritance of the French...

Francis Bacon (1561-1626) war ein englischer Philosoph und ein wichtiger Wegbereiter der wissenschaftlichen Empiriearbeit. Er war der Ansicht, dass die wahre Erkenntnis nur durch Beobachtung und die direkte Sinneswahrnehmung zu erreichen sei; ein Ansatzpunkt, der bis heute in der Natur- und Kulturwissenschaft eine grosse Bedeutung hat. Das vorliegende Werk aus dem Jahre 1863 behandelt neben der Beschreibung des wissenschaftlichen Verdienstes Bacons auch eine kurze Biografie des bedeutenden Staatsmannes