An Outline of the Sciences of Heat and Electricity (Classic Reprint)

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Tun work, which I here lay before the Public, constitutes an abridgement of the Lectures on Heat and Electricity, which I annually deliver in the College of Glasgow, as a necessary introduction to the elements of Chemistry; and which con stitute about a third part of my usual course. Many of the students have been in the habit of applying to me to point out to them a work in the English language in which they could find the different topics which I am in the habit of dis cussing and illustrating. But [found myself at a loss for any work exactly suited to the objects in view. We have many excellent books on Heat; but few or none of them embrace all the tepics, which the present state of chemistry renders it necessary for me to introduce into my Lectures. I was there fore under the necessity of mentioning a variety of books, some more, and some less easily accessible, and which, there. Fore, it was not always in the power of the students to procure when they wanted them.

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