Traité élémentaire de chimie, tome 1 : Présenté dans un ordre nouveau et d'après les découvertes modernes; avec Figures

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent, 1743-1794

Language:

French

Physical Description:

1 online resource : multiple file formats

Place of Publication:

Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg,

Summary:

"Traité élémentaire de chimie, tome 1" by Antoine Laurent Lavoisier is a scientific publication written in the late 18th century. This work serves as a foundational text in modern chemistry, presenting the principles of the science according to recent discoveries and advocating for a refined nomenclature. The book addresses the essential concepts of chemistry, including the formation and interaction of matter and the principles underlying chemical reactions. The opening of the work provides a discourse on Lavoisier's intent and method. He explains that his goal is to enhance the chemical nomenclature, as he believes that clear language is vital for conveying scientific ideas. Lavoisier emphasizes the relationship between language, ideas, and the facts of chemistry, arguing that each must be developed in a coherent manner to facilitate understanding. He also discusses the importance of proceeding from known concepts to unknown ones in scientific education, thereby establishing the key themes of logical progression and experiential learning that guide the subsequent content of the treatise. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Produced by Claudine Corbasson and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Notes:

Reading ease score: 68.3 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read.

Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trait%C3%A9_%C3%89l%C3%A9mentaire_de_Chimie Wikipedia page about this book: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trait%C3%A9_%C3%A9l%C3%A9mentaire_de_chimie

Release date is 2016-07-03