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THE services that Prof. Ostwald has rendered to physical science during the last quarter of a century are so numerous and so valuable that his writings cannot fail to exert considerable influence. In working out and extending the theories of van 't Hoff and Arrhenius he played a leading part in laying the foundations of physical chemistry; and in applying these principles to the consideration of the problems of analytical chemistry, he has effected a complete revolution in the methods of approaching that subject. In 1894 he published the first edition of the “Wissenschaftliche Grundlagen,” and thus furnished us with scientific explanations of much that up till that time had been little more than mere empiricism; analytical processes were interpreted by him in the light of the theory of solutions and the ionic hypothesis, and thus new life was infused into a branch of science that had become almost moribund.
Die wissenschaftlichen Grundlagen der analytischen Chemie elementar dargestellt.
Von W. Ostwald. Dritte Auflage. Pp. xi + 221. (Leipzig: Engelmann, 1901.) Price M. 7.
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Die wissenschaftlichen Grundlagen der analytischen Chemie elementar dargestellt . Nature 64, 5 (1901). https://doi.org/10.1038/064005a0
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