Familiar Letters on Chemistry: And Its Relation to Commerce, Physiology, and Agriculture - Couverture souple

Liebig, Justus Freiherr

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1444421050 ISBN 13 : 9781444421057

Editeur : Aeterna, 2026

Synopsis

In Familiar Letters on Chemistry, Justus Freiherr Liebig presents science not as an abstract curiosity, but as a force transforming industry, agriculture, medicine, and daily life. Written in the form of accessible letters, this influential work explains how chemical principles illuminate the materials of the earth, the manufacture of glass, soap, soda, sulphuric acid, and sugar, the nature of gases and crystallisation, and the hidden processes that sustain living bodies. Liebig’s great gift is connection. He shows chemistry at work in commerce, physiology, food, respiration, animal heat, blood, nutrition, soil exhaustion, manure, plant growth, and the restoration of fertility to farmland. The farmer, manufacturer, physician, and educated reader are all invited to see matter in circulation: carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, minerals, and phosphates moving through air, soil, plants, animals, and human industry. Clear, practical, and ambitious, this book captures a nineteenth-century moment when chemistry became essential to modern progress. For readers interested in the history of science, agricultural chemistry, nutrition, industrial processes, and the scientific foundations of everyday life, Liebig offers a landmark account of how invisible substances shape visible civilisation.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Aeterna
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1444421050
• ISBN 13: 9781444421057
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 89
• Éditeur: Gardner John
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