Elements of Chemistry Including the Recent Discoveries and Doctrines of the Science.
Philadelphia: Thomas Cowperthwait & Co., 1840. xvi, 666 pp. +errata [1]. Sm. 8vo. Full leather-covered boards with banded spine and gold lettering. Sixth American edition. With Notes and Emendations by Franklin Bache. Boards rubbed, darkened, a few small stains, 1 number from year published torn on lower edge of title; free-front endpaper missing, scrape to pastedown, hinges tight, scattered foxing, rare occasional penciled marginalia, very faint dampstain to the gutter of a few leaves of index; overall still a good solid copy of an important text. Protected in clear archival jacket. Item #12741
Edward Turner (1796-1837) was a strong proponent of the Prout-Thompson multiple weight hypothesis that atomic weights were integral multiples of the atomic weight of hydrogen. In 1825, five years after turning to chemistry, he wrote an essay stressing the hypothetical character of Dalton's atomism compared to the laws of chemical combination -not an uncommon belief- and this became the basis for his distinguished and up-to-date textbook, "Elements of Chemistry" (Edinburgh, 1827), one of the best of the nineteenth century texts. New editions came in 1828, 1831, 1833, and 1834, the fifth, on which this, the sixth American edition is based, it being the last edition not derived from posthumous editing by Leibig, Gregory, or W. C. Turner, Edward's brother.
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