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A HISTORY OF CHEMISTRY. 



By Dr. HUGO BAUER, 



Royal Technical Institute, Stuttgart. 



Translated by R. V. STANFORD, B.Sc. Lond., 



Priestley Research Scholar in the University of Birmingha;m. 



Crown 8vo. 3s. 6d. net. 



In the course of the historical development of chemistry there 

 have occurred definite periods completely dominated by some one 

 leading idea, and, as will be seen from the contents, it is upon these 

 periods that the arrangement of this book is based. 



CONTENTS.— Part I.— I. The Chemistry of the Ancients (to the fourth 

 century, a.d.) ; II. The Period of Alchemy (from the fourth to the sixteenth 

 centuries) ; III. The Period of latrochemistry (sixteenth and seventeenth cen- 

 turies) ; IV. The Period of Phlogistic Chemistry (1700 to 1774). 



Part II. — I. The Period of Lavoisier ; II. The Period of the Development of 

 Organic Chemistry ; III. The Chemistry of the Present Day. Index. 



BOOKS RECENTLY PUBLISHED. 



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Durins tbe 'Kussosjapanesc Mar. 

 By Lieut.-General Sir IAN HAMILTON, K.C.B. 



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LETTERS FROM THE FAR EAST, 



By Sir CHARLES ELIOT, K.C.M.G., 



Author of 'Turkey in Europe,' 'The East Africa Protectorate,' etc. 



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SOME PROBLEMS OF EXISTENCE. 



By NORMAN PEARSON. 

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