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CHEMISTRY.
THE CHEMISTRY OF THE ARTS, on the basis of Gray's
Operative Chemist, being an Exhibition of the Arts and
Manufactures dependent on Chemical Principles, with
numerous Engravings, by ARTHUR L. PORTER, M. D.
late Professor of Chemistry, &c. in the University of Vermont.
In 8vo. With numerous Plates.
The popular and valuable English work of Mr. Gray, which forms the
groundwork of the present volume, was published in London in 1829, and
designed to exhibit a systematic and practical view of the numerous Arts and
Manufactures which involve the application of Chemical Science. The author
himself, a skilful, manufacturing, as well as an able, scientific chemist,
enjoying the multiplied advantages afforded by the metropolis of the greatest
manufacturing nation on earth, was eminently qualified for so arduous an
undertaking, and the popularity of the work in England, as well as its
intrinsic merits, attest the fidelity and success with which it has been executed.
In the work now offered to the American public, the practical
character of the Operative Chemist has been preserved, and much extended
by the addition of a great variety of original matter, by numerous corrections
of the original text, and the adaptation of the whole to the state
and wants of the Arts and Manufactures of the United States. Among the
most considerable additions will be found full and extended treatises on the
Bleaching of Cotton and Linen, on the various branches of Calico Printing,
on the Manufacture of the Chloride of Lime, or Bleaching Powder, and
numerous Staple Articles used in the Arts of Dying, Calico Printing, and
various other processes of Manufacture, such as the Salts of Tin, Lead,
Manganese, and Antimony; the most recent Improvements on the Manufacture
of the Muriatic, Nitric, and Sulphuric Acids, the Chromates of
Potash, the latest information on the comparative Value of Different Varieties
of Fuel, on the Construction of Stoves, Fire-Places, and Stoving
Rooms, on the Ventilation of Apartments, &c. &c. The leading object has
been to improve and extend the practical character of the Operative Chemist,
and to supply, as the publishers flatter themselves, a deficiency which
is felt by every artist and manufacturer, whose processes involve the principles
of chemical science, the want of a Systematic Work which should
embody the most recent improvements in the chemical arts and manufactures,
whether derived from the researches of scientific men, or the experiments
and observations of the operative manufacturer and artisans
themselves.
CHEMICAL MANIPULATION. Instruction to Students on
the Methods of performing Experiments of Demonstration
or Research, with accuracy and success. By MICHAEL
FARADAY, F. R. S. First American, from the second
London edition, with Additions by J. K. MITCHELL, M.D.
“After a very careful perusal of this work, we strenuously recommend it, as
containing the most complete and excellent instructions for conducting chemical
experiments. There are few persons, however great their experience, who may
not gain information in many important particulars; and for ourselves, we beg
most unequivocally to acknowledge that we have acquired many new and important
hints on subjects of even every-day occurrence.”
—Philosophical Mag.
“A work hitherto exceedingly wanted in the laboratory, equally useful to the
proficient and to the student, and eminently creditable to the industry and skill
of the author, and to the school whence it emanates.”
—Journal of Science and
Arts.
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