ACCOUNT OF BOOKS. Itt 



ACCOUNT OF BOOKS OF SCIENCE. 



A Syllabus of a Courfe of LeSlurcs on Chcmiftrf, delivered at 

 the Royal. Inflitution of Great Britain. By Mr. Davy. 90 

 pages, 8vo. Cadell, London. — On Thurfdays and Saturdays at 

 two, and on Thurfdays at eight o'clock, P.M. The morning 

 lectures are read on general chemiftry, and the evening lec- 

 tures on the connection of chemiflry with the arts. 



The prefent courfe is divided into three parts. Part I. Davy's chemical 

 The chemiftry of ponderable fubftances ; under fix divisions. Je & ares * 

 I. Of the chemical powers, and the modes of their applica- 

 tion. 2. Of undecompounded fubftances, or fimple prin 

 ciples. 3. Of bodies compofed of two iimple fubftances. 



4. Of bodies compofed of more than two fimple fubftances. 



5. Of fubftances compofed of different compound bodies, or 

 of compound bodies and fimple bodies. 6. Of the general 

 phenomena of chemical action. Part II. The chemiftry of 

 imponderable fubftances; under four divifions. 1. Of heat 

 or caloric. 2. Of light. 3. Of the electrical influence. 

 4. Of galvanifm. Part III. The chemiftry of the arts; 

 under eight divifions. 1. Of agriculture. 2. Of tanning. 

 3. Of bleaching. 4. Of dyeing. 5. Of metallurgy. 6. Of 

 the manufactory of glafs and porcelain. 7. Of the preparation 

 of food and drink. 8. Of the management of heat and light 

 artificially produced. 



It is unneceflary to make any general remarks on the 

 benefits derived to fcience from correct and fufficiently exten- 

 sive outlines of facts and doctrines publifhed from time to time 

 by their active cultivators. The prefent work mult prove 

 eminently ufeful to the pupils of the lecturer, and will add 

 to his reputation by its perfpicuity and order. * In the rapid 

 progrefs of experimental difcovery, even thofe learned men 

 who attend to the general ftate of natural philofophy, without 

 clofely following its minuter variations, to-ill be efTentially 

 ferved by clear notices of the prefent ftate of one of its chief 

 departments. 



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