Chemistry: Emergence without Mystification
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 March 2022
Extract
In my last talk I introduced you to the system of the sciences and then went on to chat about the first of the natural series of the sciences, namely physics. To-night I shall discuss the other partner of the pair which could be called “the physical sciences”, namely chemistry.
Of both of these sciences, physics and chemistry, it may be said that they are preeminently the study of matter-in-motion. Of both it may be said that the methods of study in the laboratory have a strong resemblance.
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A condensation of a popular lecture delivered at Cooper Union, New York, on Jan. 14, 1940.
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