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THIS treatise, which is a translation of the third and amplified Italian edition, is divided into three parts, devoted respectively to general, non-metallic, and metallic chemistry. So far as English readers are concerned, it is open to doubt whether the general part (pp. 1–125) represents, in any sense, an improvement on the treatment of the subject to be found in standard works on historical and physical chemistry. In some cases, the views of the author are not such as would meet with unqualified acceptance by all chemists, and in these cases the translator has added emendatory notes, many of which occur in this general section (e.g. pp. 25, 49, 50). In the paragraphs devoted to the history of chemistry the author discusses, in some detail, the development of chemical arts among the ancient civilisations of the world. He holds that the Chinese in particular were adepts in these matters, and had actually anticipated Priestley and Lavoisier in arriving at a knowledge of oxygen and the composition of water.
Treatise on General and Industrial Inorganic Chemistry.
Dr. Ettore Molinari. Third revised and amplified Italian edition. Translated by Dr. Ernest Feilmann. Pp. xvi + 704. (London: J. and A. Churchill, 1912.) Price 21s. net.
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M., G. Treatise on General and Industrial Inorganic Chemistry . Nature 90, 509 (1913). https://doi.org/10.1038/090509a0
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