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THE nature and aims of this work are clearly stated by the author in his practice. He writes:ββThe present lectures were delivered at the University of California during the summer of 1904. I have for a long time wished to give a coherent account of the development of theories in general chemistry. This seemed to me the more desirable because the latest extensions of this science are often, both by followers and opponents, regarded as something wholly new and quite independent of the progress in the past. Many seem to hold the opinion that the new developments are the more to be admired, the less dependent they are on the older chemical theories. In my opinion, nothing could be less correct. It is just the circumstance that the new theoretical discoveries have developed organically from the old generally accepted ideas, that is to me their most promising feature.β
Theories of Chemistry.
Being Lectures Delivered at the University of California in Berkeley. By Svante Arrhenius. Edited by T. Slater Price. Pp. xii + 212. (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1907.) Price 5s. 6d. net.
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Theories of Chemistry . Nature 76, 198 (1907). https://doi.org/10.1038/076198b0
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