Trattato di Chimica Inorganica Generale e Applicato all' Industria

Abstract

DURING the greater part of last century the progress of science in Italy was retarded by the political troubles of the country; even after the nation had achieved its independence and unity, scientific education was hampered by ecclesiastical controversies and by the poverty of the newly created Government. Taxation has always fallen heavily on the Italian people, and the industry and energy of the north have been taxed unduly owing to the poverty and thriftlessness of the south. In spite of these disadvantages, Italy gave to science in the last century many names which will long be remembered in its history. In particular, the hypothesis of Count Avogadro, enunciated in 1811, forms the basis of the whole of the modern development of chemistry; for nearly fifty years, however, its importance was overlooked, and it was the peculiar merit of another Italian, Cannizzaro, by reviving it, to establish a new epoch in the development of chemical science and to introduce order where all was confused and contradictory.

Trattato di Chimica Inorganica Generale e Applicato all' Industria.

By Dr. E. Molinari. Pp. xxii + 693. (Milan: Ulrico Hoepli, 1905.) Price 12.50 lire.