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A System of Chemistry, in Four Volumes [ FIFTH EDITIONS ] by Thomson, Thomas, 1773-1852 - 1817

by Thomson, Thomas, 1773-1852

A System of Chemistry, in Four Volumes  [ FIFTH EDITIONS ] by Thomson, Thomas, 1773-1852 - 1817

A System of Chemistry, in Four Volumes [ FIFTH EDITIONS ]

by Thomson, Thomas, 1773-1852

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London: Baldwin, Craddock and Joy, 1817. Thomas Thomson (12 April 1773 - 2 July 1852) was a British chemist and mineralogist whose writings contributed to the early spread of Dalton's atomic theory. His scientific accomplishments include the invention of the saccharometer[citation needed] and he gave silicon its current name. He served as president of the Philosophical Society of Glasgow. The Fifht Edition: 4 v. : ill. ; 22 cm. p. xii, 567, in text figures; viii, 700; p. vii, tables/figures 618; p. viii, 684, Index. Extremely, tight, clean copies, bound in quarter leather and boards. Neat ink inscription 1821 to ffep of Vol I. . Hard Cover. Very Good+. 8vo.
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  • Date Published 1817
  • Keywords Chemistry Thomson, Thomas, 1773-1852.
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Edinburgh: London.: Adam and Charles Black: Longman, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1843. First Edition . Half-Leather. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. VG, 1st ed, 1843. A valuable contribution to the important division of chemical knowledge of which it treats. In c1900 half calf over blue marbled boards, small paper tear, some blind tooling, corners & edges very lightly bumped & worn. Spine, attractive decorative gilt tooling & titles, raised bands, edges rubbed. Internally, [3], (iv-ix), [1], [1], 2-702 pp, grey endpapers, text block edges sprinkled red, no inscriptions, printed by John Stark, Old Assembly Close, Edinburgh, numerous illustrations within text, occasional light spotting. 1st and only edition. (Allibone 2404) Thomson, chemist, whose outstanding pedagogic feature of his professorship was his emphasis on the laboratory teaching of practical chemistry. In autumn 1818 he extracted from the university a laboratory, and thus became the… Read More
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Edinburgh:: Printed for Bell and Bradfute . . . , 1802., 1802. 4 volumes. 8vo. xvi, 503, [1]; viii, 514, [2]; vii, [1], 528; vii, 570, [2] pp. Half-titles, 4 engraved plates, errata; scattered light foxing or spotting, though a well preserved copy. Contemporary half crimson calf, flat spines with gilt bands, blue paper sides, blue sprinkled edges. Bookplate of John Thomas Brooks. Very good, really a choice set. FIRST EDITION. "Thomson's System was the first extensive treatise on chemistry written in Great Britain," [Cole]. / "Thomson . . . studied chemistry under Joseph Black, who recommended that he later be appointed lecturer in chemistry at Glasgow University. Thomson became first Regius Professor there in 1818. Published when he was only twenty-eight, this work was written during the time when he was a private lecturer at Edinburgh University. It became is best known and most popular book." [Neville] "As the first systematic treatise of a non-elementary kind to break the French monopoly of such… Read More
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