Familiar Letters on Chemistry, and Its Relation to Commerce, Physiology, and Agriculture
LETTER I
The Subject proposed. Materials employed for Chemical Apparatus:-- GLASS--CAOUTCHOUC--CORK--PLATINUM. THE BALANCE. The "Elements" of the Ancients, represent the forms of matter. Lavoisier and his successors. Study of the materials composing the Earth. Synthetic production of Minerals--LAPIS LAZULI. Organic Chemistry.