Elements of chemistry in which the recent discoveries in the science are included and its doctrines familiarly explained : y John Lee Comstock.

  • Comstock, J. L. (John Lee), 1789-1858.
Date:
1852
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    PREFACE. It is hardly necessary for the author of the following volume to make any excuses for its publication, since, not- withstanding the multiplicity of books on the same sub- ject, there seems to be none, which are exactly adapted to the object for which this is principally designed. The Conversations on Chemistry, and the works of Parke and Joyce, besides the interlocutory form in which they are written, are objectionable, in not containing the recent dis- coveries and improvements in the science ; and the volume of Dr. Turner, though free from these objections, is too large for the use of schools and academies.. In this volume, it has been the intention of the author, not only to avoid these objections, but, at the same time, to explain the elements and doctrines of the science in suffi- cient detail, to give a competent knowledge of its several parts, and in such language as can be understood by those who will but read the book attentively, and pursue the subject in course. It appears to the writer, that in teaching Chemistry to youth, its elementary parts have not been sufficiently in