Resultados de búsqueda: a system of chemistry de thomson thomas 1773 1852

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Edinburgh:: Printed for Bell and Bradfute . . . , 1802., 1802. 4 volumes. 8vo. xvi, 503, [1]; viii, 514, [2]; vii, [1], 528; vii, 570, [2] pp. Half-titles, 4 engraved plates, errata; scattered light foxing or spotting, though a well preserved copy. Contemporary half crimson calf, flat spines with gilt bands, blue paper sides, blue sprinkled edges. Bookplate of John Thomas Brooks. Very good, really a choice set. FIRST EDITION. "Thomson's System was the first extensive treatise on chemistry written in Great Britain," [Cole]. / "Thomson . . . studied chemistry under Joseph Black, who recommended that he later be appointed lecturer in chemistry at Glasgow University. Thomson became first Regius Professor there in 1818. Published when he was only twenty-eight, this work was written during the time when he was a private lecturer at Edinburgh University. It became is best known and most popular book." [Neville] "As the first systematic treatise of a non-elementary kind to break the French monopoly of such… Leer más