Historical View of the Progress of Chemistry Quotes
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“Klaproth discovered uranium in 1789.”
“Bodies which are similar to each other should always be classed together; and there is a presumption that their composition is analogous.”
“The knowledge of one elastic fluid different from air, immediately led to the enquiry whether there might not be others.”
“Complexity almost always belongs to the early epochs of every science; and the grandest results are usually obtained by the most simple means.”
“This historical sketch has no pretensions to originality. It is compiled from the best authors, and from the Introduction to Sir H. Davy's Elements of Chemical Philosophy.”
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• Elements of Chemical Philosophy (1812) Part 1, Volume 1.”
“From the first discovery of the production of metals from rude ores, to the knowledge of the bleaching liquor, chemistry has been continually subservient to cultivation and improvement.”
“Germany still continued the great school of practical chemistry, and at this period it gained an ascendancy of no mean character over the rest of Europe in the philosophy of the science.”
“[Priestley's] hypotheses were usually founded upon a few loose analogies; but he changed them with facility; and being framed without much effort, they were relinquished with little regret.”
“New investigations were instituted with respect to all the productions of nature, and the immense variety of substances in the mineral, vegetable, and animal kingdom, submitted to chemical experiments.”
“The more the phaenomena of the universe are studied, the more distinct their connection appears, the more simple their causes, the more magnificent their design, and the more wonderful the wisdom and power of their Author.”
“[Johann Friedrich von] Meyer attempted to shew that limestones became caustic, not by the emission of elastic matter, but by combining with a peculiar substance in the fire; but the loss of weight was perfectly inconsistent with this view...”
“Cerium was discovered in 1804, by Hissinger and Berzelius.”
“In combination certain bodies form regular solids; and '''all the varieties of crystalline aggregrates have been resolved by the genius of Haüy into a few primary forms.”
“A great part of the phaenomena of chemistry may be already submitted to calculation; and there is great reason to believe, that at no very distant period the whole science will be capable of elucidation by mathematical principles.”