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LONDON:

SAVILL AND EDWARDS, PRINTERS,

CHANDOS STREET.

TILDEN LIBRARY

1895

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CHAPTER I.-DISCOVERY OF LAWS OF ELECTRIC PHENOMENA.

CHAPTER II.-THE PROGRESS OF ELECTRICAL THEORY.

CHAPTER I.-DISCOVERY OF LAWS OF MAGNETIC PHENOMENA.

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CHAPTER II.-RECEPTION AND CONFIRMATION OF THE DIS-

COVERY OF VOLTAIC ELECTRICITY.

CHAPTER III.-DISCOVERY OF THE LAWS OF THE MUTUAL

ATTRACTION AND REPULSION OF VOLTAIC CURRENTS.-

AMPÈRE..

CHAPTER IV.-DISCOVERY OF ELECTRO-MAGNETIC ACTION.

OERSTED.

CHAPTER V.-DISCOVERY OF THE LAWS OF ELECTRO-

MAGNETIC ACTION. . .

CHAPTER VI.-THEORY OF ELECTRODYNAMICAL ACTION.

CHAPTER VIII.-DISCOVERY OF THE LAWS OF MAGNETO-

ELECTRIC INDUCTION.-FARADAY.

CHAPTER IX.-TRANSITION TO CHEMICAL SCIENCE.

THE ANALYTICAL SCIENCE.

BOOK XIV.

HISTORY OF CHEMISTRY.

CHAPTER I.-IMPROVEMENT OF THE NOTION OF CHEMICAL

ANALYSIS, AND RECOGNITION OF IT AS THE SPAGIRIC

ART.

CHAPTER II.-DOCTRINE OF ACID AND ALKALI.-SYLVIUS.

CHAPTER III.-DOCTRINE OF ELECTIVE ATTRACTIONS.-

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GEOFFROY. BERGMAN.

CHAPTER IV.-DOCTRINE OF ACIDIFICATION AND COMBUS-

TION. PHLOGISTIC THEORY.

Publication of the Theory by Beccher and Stahl

Reception and Application of the Theory

CHAPTER V.-CHTESTAT -

CHAPTER VL-BROCK OF TEX The one-

Sect. 1. Prelade to the Thery —he Fulain

Sect. 2. Reception and Confmacın of the er

Sect. 1. Prelude to the Anime The min Puizawa

Sect. 2. Reception and Confrmacia f de Lame Ter
Bett. 3. The Therry of Times-fre

Sect. 3. Consequences of Faraday's Duermene

Sect. 4 Beceptio of the Eetv-mama Tier:

Sect. 2. Of Mineralogy as the Analytic-canicatory bees 154

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CRYSTALLOGRAPHY.

CHAPTER I.-PRELUDE TO THE EPOCH OF DE LISLE AND

HAUY.

CHAPTER II.-EPOCH OF ROME DE LISLE AND HAUY.—

ESTABLISHMENT OF THE FIXITY OF CRYSTALLINE

ANGLES, AND THE SIMPLICITY OF THE LAWS OF DE-

RIVATION.

CHAPTER III-RECEPTION AND CORRECTIONS OF THE HAUÏAN

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY.

CHAPTER IV.-ESTABLISHMENT OF THE

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SYSTEMS OF CRYSTALLIZATION.-WEISS AND MOHS.

CHAPTER V.-RECEPTION AND CONFIRMATION OF THE DIS-

TINCTION OF SYSTEMS OF CRYSTALLIZATION.

Diffusion of the Distinction of Systems

Confirmation of the Distinction of Systems by the Optical

Properties of Minerals.-Brewster .

CHAPTER VI.-CORRECTION OF THE LAW OF THE SAME

ANGLE FOR THE SAME SUBSTANCE.

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CHAPTER VII.-ATTEMPTS TO ESTABLISH THE FIXITY OF

OTHER PHYSICAL PROPERTIES.-WERNER.

SYSTEMATIC MINERALOGY.

CHAPTER IX.-ATTEMPTS AT THE REFORM OF MINERALO-

GICAL SYSTEMS. SEPARATION OF THE CHEMICAL AND

NATURAL HISTORY METHODS.

Sect. 1. Natural History System of Mohs

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Sect. 2. Chemical System of Berzelius and others

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