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- Only about seventy years ago was chemistry, like a grain of seed from a ripe fruit, separated from the other physical sciences. With Black, Cavendish…
- But it must not be forgotten that ... glass and porcelain were manufactured, stuffs dyed and metals separated from their ores by mere empirical processes…
- What struck me most in England was the perception that only those works which have a practical tendency awake attention and command respect, while the…
- A fact acquires its true and full value only through the idea which is developed from it.
- Since the discovery of oxygen the civilised world has undergone a revolution in manners and customs. The knowledge of the composition of the atmosphere, of…
- From one sublime genius-NEWTON-more light has proceeded than the labour of a thousand years preceding had been able to produce.
- We may fairly judge of the commercial prosperity of a country from the amount of sulphuric acid it consumes.
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