Introduction à l'Étude de la Spectrochimie

Abstract

PROF. URBAIN has written an exceedingly interesting and valuable introduction to spectroscopy treated more especially in relation to chemistry and chemical analysis. He has based this book upon his course of lectures delivered at the Sorbonne, and with undue modesty explains that it is mainly written for those younger chemists who, in their desire to enter a field full of promise, wish rapidly to acquire the fundamental ideas necessary for the theoretical and experimental study of the subject. Prof. Urbain is singularly happy in his preface, wherein he deals with the position of the spectroscope in relation to chemistry. Quite truly he points out the very valuable services that spectroscopy has rendered to chemistry and to astronomy. As for the former, it was a very long time before the subject formed more than a very restricted adjunct to chemical analysis. In truth, spectroscopy now deals with numerous facts which have but a dim connection with chemical analysis, and it deserves to rank as one of the principal branches of physical chemistry along with electrochemistry and thermochemistry.

Introduction à l'Étude de la Spectrochimie.

Par Prof. G. Urbain. Pp. iii + 248 + ix plates. (Paris: A. Hermann & Fils, 1911.) Price 10 francs.