Familiar Letters on Chemistry is a book written by Justus von Liebig, a German chemist, and published in 1843. The book is a collection of letters written by Liebig to a female friend, in which he explains the principles of chemistry in a simple and easy-to-understand manner. The letters cover a wide range of topics, including the composition of matter, the nature of chemical reactions, and the role of chemistry in everyday life. Liebig uses a conversational style in his writing, making the book accessible to non-scientists ...
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Familiar Letters on Chemistry is a book written by Justus von Liebig, a German chemist, and published in 1843. The book is a collection of letters written by Liebig to a female friend, in which he explains the principles of chemistry in a simple and easy-to-understand manner. The letters cover a wide range of topics, including the composition of matter, the nature of chemical reactions, and the role of chemistry in everyday life. Liebig uses a conversational style in his writing, making the book accessible to non-scientists and students of chemistry alike. The book was highly influential in its time and helped to popularize the study of chemistry. Today, it is considered a classic of scientific literature and a valuable resource for anyone interested in the history of chemistry or the development of scientific communication.Until very recently it was supposed that the physical qualities of bodies, i.e. hardness, colour, density, transparency, and still more their chemical properties, must depend upon the nature of their elements, or upon their composition. It was tacitly received as a principle, that two bodies containing the same elements in the same proportion, must of necessity possess the same properties. We could not imagine an exact identity of composition giving rise to two bodies entirely different in their sensible appearance and chemical relations.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.
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