Syllabus of a Complete Course of Lectures on Chemistry Including Its Application to the Arts, Agriculture, and Mining Prepared for the Use of the Seminary, Addiscombe Classic Reprint

Excerpt from Syllabus of a Complete Course of Lectures on Chemistry: Including Its Application to the Arts, Agriculture, and Mining; Prepared for the Use of the Gentlemen Cadets at the Honorable East India Company's Military Seminary, Addiscombe

Tiie following Syllabus is intended to present to the Student a sketch of the Science of Chemistry, and its application to the Arts, Mining, and Agriculture. It includes a methodical arrangement of the laws of the science, as well as those collateral branches of know ledge which are essential to the study of Chemistry; together with systematic lists of all those substances which are of practical importance.

The arrangement, which I have adopted, differs Slightly from those usually followed, inasmuch as orga nic chemistry, in place of forming a distinct head, is brought in after carbon; by so doing, a good deal of inconvenience and repetition is avoided; the various allied compounds being thus brought together, and classed under their proper heads, in place of being part amongst the organic, and part amongst. The in organic compounds.

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