Abstract
THIS is an interesting little book, which may be read with profit by the layman and with pleasure by the enterprising student of chemistry; so far as we are aware, it has no exact counterpart in English. It is very successful in affording within a modest compass a very readable general account of the nature| and scope of modern chemistry, of the problems which the chemist has to face, and of his methods of attacking them in the laboratory. In tracing the historical development of chemistry, the author rightly insists that “rien ne pouvait ensuite mieux preciser le caractere de cette science que l'étude de son développement historique, de l'évolution des idées directrices et de la description de l'enrichisse-ment progressif des connaissances humaines.”
La chimie d'hier et d'aujourd'hui.
Par Dr. A. Kirrmann. Pp. vii + 148. (Paris: Gauthier-Villars et Cie, 1928.) 15 francs.
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R., J. [Book Reviews]. Nature 123, 407–408 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/123407b0
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