Conversations on Chemistry: In Which the Elements of That Science Are Familiarly Explained and Illustrated by Experiments, and Sixteen Copperplate Engravings... - Couverture souple
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Chemistry, the author, herself a woman, conceives that some explanation may be required ;and she feels it the more necessary to apologise for the present undertaking, as her knowledge of the subject is but recent, and as she can have no real claims to the title of chemist. On attending for the first time experimental lectures, the author found it almost impossible to derive any clear or satisfactory information from the rapid demonstrations which are usually, and perhaps necessarily, crowded into popular discourses of this kind. But frequent opportunities having afterwards occurred of conversing with a friend on the subject of chemistry, and of repeating a variety of experiments, she became better acquainted with the principles of that science, and began to feel highly interested in its pursuit. It was then that she perceived, in attending the excellent lectures delivered at the Royal I nstitution, by the present Professor of Chemistry, the great advantage which her previous knowledge of the subject, slight as it was, gave her over others who had not enjoyed the same means of private instruction. Every fact or experiment attracted her attention, and served to explain some theory to which she was not a total stranger ;and she had the gratification to find that the numerous and elegant illustrations, for which that school is so much distinguished, seldom failed to produce on her mind the effect for which they were intended. Hence it was natural to infer, that familiar conversation was; In studies of this kind, a most useful auxiliary source of information ;and more especially to the female sex, whose education is seldom calculated to prepare their minds for abstract ideas, or scientific language. A s, however, there are but few women who have access to this mode of instruction ;and as the author was not acquainted with any book that could prove a substitute fo
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