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DR. VENABLE'S “History of Chemistry “is a second edition of a book that appeared in 1894. A history of chemistry which contains no illustrations or diagrams, and in which formulae are used only in the few passages where their historical development is under consideration, must be subject to serious limitations and in the nature of things cannot be much more than a sketch. It is not quite clear to the reviewer what"type of reader will be attracted by such a sketch; but i it is likely that the well-read student of chemistry will| find some interest in this brief outline, and may be led i by it to follow up the history of his science in some volume in which more details are given.
History of Chemistry.
Dr.
F. P.
Venable
By. Pp. vii + 169. (London and Sydney: D. C. Heath and Co., 1922.) 5s. net.
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History of Chemistry. Nature 111, 392 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/111392d0
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