Excerpt from Conversations on Chemistry: In Which the Elements of That Science Are Familiarly Explained and Illustrated by Experiments and Plates
Hence it was natural to infer. That familiar conversation was in studies of this kind, a most useful auxiliary source of information 1 and more especially to the female sex. Whose education is tide-s calculated to prepare their minds for abstract ideas, or scientific language.
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Jane Marcet (1769-1858) was born in London and educated at home in the fields of mathematics, astronomy, and philosophy. She married Alexander Marcet and came in contact with numerous professional scientists. She went on to write books in an astonishing range of areas including chemistry, botany, economics, and religion.
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