Law and Theory in Chemistry

Abstract

THE object of this book is to help fairly advanced students “to recapitulate and co-ordinate the more important principles of chemistry before proceeding to more detailed and advanced works.” The book makes no claim to be regarded as a text-book; it is intended to be read along with the text-book, which it is meant to supplement,especially in those parts of the subject that are sometimes overlooked, but are needed, in the opinion of the author, for “a liberal understanding of the science,” and in some of those parts that are thought to present especial difficulties. In his preface, the author says that “the seven chapters are really short and independent essays on the subjects of which they severally treat”; he also adds that “the attempt has been made to indicate, with due appreciation of perspective, the trend of modern research in its relation to the science as a whole.”

Law and Theory in Chemistry: a Companion Book for Students.

By Douglas Carnegie Pp. vi. 222. (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1894.)