CONTENTS. 



INTRODUCTION. 



Origin of Chemistry Egypt Arabia China Glass- 

 blowers in Egypt Europe Dreams of the Alchemists- 

 Transmutation of Metals Juggling Tricks Elixir of Life 

 Universal Solvent- Birth-time of Scientific Chemistry 

 Progress of the Science Cavendish Watt Davy 

 Dalton" Faraday Liebig Prout Present Importance 

 of the Science Knowledge of the Chemistry of Nature 

 limited p. 1 



PART I.-THE EARTH. 



CHAPTER I. 



THE IXOBGANIC CHEMISTBY OF NATURE. 



Common and Philosophical Observation The Scene What 

 is an Element ? Gases Fluids Solids Remarkable 

 Arrangement in Nature Laughing Gas Economy of 

 Creation Imperfection of our Knowledge Oxygen- Hy- 

 drogen Nitrogen Carbon Iron rusting Why ? Che- 

 mical Affinity Composition of a Dew Drop Chemical 

 Laws The First Oxygenated Water The Second The 

 Third The Fourth Importance and Influence of these 

 Laws This is not all LIGHT Prismatic Spectrum 

 Composition of a Sunbeam Influence of Sunlight Light 

 and Colours HEAT Operation of, in Nature Flowers 

 ACTINISM Chemistry of Sunlight "Nature's sweet Re- 

 storer " Daguerreotype Talbotype Magnetic Registers 

 ELECTRICITY, necessary in Operations of Nature Use 

 and Importance to Man Electric Telegraph Electric 

 Clock Magnetism Gravity Whether Modifications of 

 one Principle ? p. 21 



