THE
HISTORY
OF
CHEMISTRY.
BY
THOMAS THOMSON, M. D.
F.R.S. L. & E.; F.L.S.; F.G.S., &c.
REGIUS PROFESSOR OF CHEMISTRY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW.
IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOL. II.
LONDON:
HENRY COLBURN AND RICHARD BENTLEY,
NEW BURLINGTON STREET.
1831.
C. WHITING, BEAUFORT HOUSE, STRAND.
CONTENTS
OF
THE SECOND VOLUME.
CHAPTER I.
Page
Of the foundation and progress of scientific chemistry in Great Britain1
CHAPTER II.
Of the progress of philosophical chemistry in Sweden26
CHAPTER III.
Progress of scientific chemistry in France75
CHAPTER IV.
Progress of analytical chemistry190
CHAPTER V.
Of electro-chemistry251
CHAPTER VI.
Of the atomic theory277
CHAPTER VII.
Of the present state of chemistry309
HISTORY OF CHEMISTRY.
CHAPTER I.
OF THE FOUNDATION AND PROGRESS OF SCIENTIFICCHEMISTRY IN GREAT BRITAIN.
While Mr. Cavendish was extending thebounds of pneumatic chemistry, with the cautionand precision of a Newton, Dr. Priestley, who hadentered on the same career, was proceeding with adegree of rapidity quite unexampled; while from hishappy talents and inventive faculties, he contributedno less essentially to the progress of thescience, and certainly more than any other Britishchemist to its popularity.
Joseph Priestley was born in 1733, at Fieldhead,about six miles from Leeds in Yorkshire. His father,Jonas Priestley, was a maker and dresser of woollencloth, and his mother, the only child of JosephSwift a farmer in the neighbourhood. Dr. Priestleywas the eldest child; and, his mother havingchildren very fast, he was soon committed to thecare of his maternal grandfather. He lost hismother when he was only six years of age, and wassoon after taken home by his father and sent to2school in th                        
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