An Elementary Treatise on Chemistry, Comprising the Most Important Facts of the Science with Tables of Decomposition, on a New Plan; To Which is Added an Appendix Giving an Account of the Latest Discoveries
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Small JPG1200 x 1829px — 276 KBLarge JPG2880 x 4389px — 1.5 MBFull-sized JPG3519 x 5363px — 2.2 MBOriginal fileTIFF — 3519 x 5363px — 54.0 MBThe first and only edition of a textbook written by Charles Sylvester (1774–1828), an English chemist and civil engineer who specialized in the study of galvanization. The work contains a system of chemical symbolism which may be based upon the preceding work of Jean Henri Hassenfratz (1755-1827) and Pierre-Auguste Adet (1763-1834), A New System of Chymical Characters, Adapted to the Nomenclature (1787). Symbols and nomenclature for the elements then known, as well as over four hundred compounds, and tables of chemical decompositions are included. Digitized content is limited to the Tables of Symbols of Simple and Compound Bodies.
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Sylvester, Charles. An Elementary Treatise on Chemistry, Comprising the Most Important Facts of the Science with Tables of Decomposition, on a New Plan; To Which Is Added an Appendix Giving an Account of the Latest Discoveries. Liverpool, England: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809. https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/vrv2lvw.
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