Abstract
THE “noticeable gaps” which so many books are “intended to fill” are often discernible only to the authors. However, the absence of any book in the English language which deals adequately with the early history of chemistry will have been brought home very forcibly to all those whose business or inclination has led them to inquire into the available literature on this subject. It is therefore with genuine pleasure that we welcome the late Prof. Stillman's thoughtful and scholarly treatise-a pleasure that is, alas, tinged with regret at the author's death just before the book was published.
The Story of Early Chemistry.
By Prof. John Maxson Stillman. Pp. xiii + 566. (New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., 1924.) 18s. net.
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HOLMYARD, E. The Story of Early Chemistry . Nature 115, 489 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/115489a0
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