Abstract
MISS FREUND is to be congratulated on having written a very interesting book. It is true that her subject-matter is to be found in many other quarters; she has really written a historical treatise on what is generally called stoichiometry; but having chosen as her title βThe Study of Chemical Composition,β she has left herself, so to speak, unfettered, and has been able to write somewhat more discursively than if she had compiled a treatise. Indeed, in the preface to the work she confesses:β
The Study of Chemical Composition: an Account of its Method and Historical Development.
By Ida Freund. Pp. xvi + 650. (Cambridge: The University Press.)
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R., W. The Study of Chemical Composition: an Account of its Method and Historical Development . Nature 73, 74β75 (1905). https://doi.org/10.1038/073074a0
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