Rural chemistry: an elementary introduction to the study of the science in its relation to agriculture / By Edward Solly.

  • Solly, Edward, 1819-1886.
Date:
1843
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Credit: Rural chemistry: an elementary introduction to the study of the science in its relation to agriculture / By Edward Solly. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INTRODUCTION. No branch of knowledge has made more rapid pro¬ gress during the last hundred years than chemistry. From being merely a confused collection of marvellous facts and incomprehensible phenomena, it has become a definite and methodical science : no longer mysterious and full of uncertainty, but based on clear and simple laws, the knowledge of which at once gives us the key to a great number of natural changes and phenomena, which without it would be quite unintelligible. Chemistry is intimately connected with all other sciences, for it embraces the study of the various forms and conditions of matter, their nature, properties, and the changes which, either from natural or artificial causes, they undergo. The study of chemistry is of the greatest importance in relation to the arts of life, which all depend, more or less, on chemical principles. Hence, a knowledge of this science enables us more