. The quarterly journal of science. FLINT & QUARTZITE IMPLEMENTS . 18GC.] ( Gl ) VIII. HOFMANN AND MODERN CHEMISTRY. Introduction to Modern Ohemistrt/, Experimental and Theoretical;emhodying Twelve Lectures delivered in the Royal College ofChemistry, London. By W. A. Hofmaim, LLD., , &c. There is no more interesting study, and certainly none moreinstructive, than the inquiry into the progress of that knowledgewhich is acquired by the aids of science. To mark, where it is pos-sible, the first gleam of a trath, to watch the flutterings of humanthought around the little light, and to follow
. The quarterly journal of science. FLINT & QUARTZITE IMPLEMENTS . 18GC.] ( Gl ) VIII. HOFMANN AND MODERN CHEMISTRY. Introduction to Modern Ohemistrt/, Experimental and Theoretical;emhodying Twelve Lectures delivered in the Royal College ofChemistry, London. By W. A. Hofmaim, LLD., , &c. There is no more interesting study, and certainly none moreinstructive, than the inquiry into the progress of that knowledgewhich is acquired by the aids of science. To mark, where it is pos-sible, the first gleam of a trath, to watch the flutterings of humanthought around the little light, and to follow patiently its slow andgradual development, until man seizes it aright and chains it to dohis bidding, is always a dehghtful exercise for the well-constitutedmind. We learn in contemplating the history of scientific discovery,that the search after Truth demands a large amount of labour con-tuiuously apphed. A fact may be known for ages, and remain abarren fact because man fails to interpret it correctly. The Greeks,for exam
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