The Chemist Or Reporter Of Chemical Discoveries And Improvements

Author : Charles Watt
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330329184
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (291 download)

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Download or read book The Chemist, Vol. 1 written by Charles Watt and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-16 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Chemist, Vol. 1: Or, Reporter of Chemical Discoveries and Improvements, and Protector of the Rights of the Chemist and Chemical Manufacturer We have now completed the first volume of Tim Chemist, and terminated our labors for the year. We shall take a brief survey of the progress which the work has made, and of the advancement of the several branches of science, of which it is the record. That it has shared the usual fate of all works of the kind - that it has roused the envy of rival journals - and that it has been the subject of futile attempts to injure it, mid retard its acquirement of public estimation-is no more than might be expected. The Chemist, however, has had more than these to struggle with and to defeat: worthlessness, knavery, pitiable ignorance, and deception in parties who should have assisted us in our undertaking, but who took upon themselves that which they have left us to perform; together with the feeble efforts of contemporary malignity. Such means as have been adopted for the purpose of crushing our work, had they conic from ordinary sources, would have excited no wonder; but when it is stated that the engine of our attempted destruction was a Magazine of Philosophy - it may cause some surprise. In the first of these cases, we had an easy alternative, that of adding, to the labor and responsibility of editing, the whole expenses of the journal from the commencement to the present time, which we cheerfully undertook, from the firmest conviction of the ultimate success of our labors; and with every hope of rendering it, from time to time, still more deserving of public favor. In the latter case added to our most ineffable contempt, so far from succumbing, as doubtless it was hoped we should have done, to the unworthy stratagems of our opponents, we were only the more resolved to exert all our endeavours to render every number of the work still more perfect. Our triumph has been most complete; and The Chemist has now arrived at a sale, far exceeding our most sanguine anticipations; and we have received, we hope not undeservedly, the most unqualified approbation of men of science, and the more enlightened journals, which is far from being the ordinary lot of works of this nature; and it has established itself - "Per varios casus, per tot discrimina rerum." The want of a journal expressly devoted to Chemistry, Chemical Manufactures and Pharmacy, has long been felt; there is not one which can be considered as at all adapted for the chemical reader. There arc, it is true, some few miscellaneous works, containing articles in various sciences and arts, and one or two others, composed of dull and heavy subjects of abstruse calculation, written expressly for those journals, and which seem as if they were intended to gratify the inclination of their authors for displaying their profundity, and to limit the number of their readers. These works form no record of chemical science, which should consist of all that occurs within the period of publication. It was to supply this deficiency that The Chemist has been established, and every pains has been taken to keep it in the closest conformity with its object. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.