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- Hardcover
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Seller: Emerald Booksellers, New York, NY, U.S.A.Emerald Booksellers
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Condition: Used - Very good
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This text presents chemistry in a systematic lecture note format, making it useful for both self-study and teaching purposes. This book remains valuable as a historical document, illustrating the pedagogical approaches, theoretical knowledge, and practical applications of chemistry of the late 19th century. The book contributed to the training of American chemists, many of whom would later advance the fields of industrial chemistry, pharmaceuticals, and materials science and was one of the main textbooks of the time (alongside those of Remsen, Roscoe, and Lassar-Cohn). Thin octavo in publisher's brown cloth, blind-stamped on covers, gilt stamped on spine, some small marks and slight abrasion on rear cover. 1 blank + 3 leaves + 95) 6-98 pp + 1 blank + errata slip Condition VG. Peter Austen worked with Prof. Hofmann in Berlin and received his Ph.D. in Zurich. Instructor at Dartmouth (1876), Professor at Rutgers (1877) before becoming president of Union Paint Co. (Newark, NJ). He taught his niece Alice Austen (1866-1952) how to develop photographs. She lived in poverty and her photographic plates were finally discovered and achieved recognition in 1950. The Alice Austen House Museum is located in Staten Island, NY.…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- Chemical Lecture Notes
- Author
- Austen, Peter Townsend
- Publisher
- New York: John Wiley & Sons
- Publication year
- 1888
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Edition
- 1st Edition.
- Seller catalogs
- Chemistry
Emerald Booksellers
New York, NY, U.S.A.
AbeBooks seller since January 21, 2025
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